At the same time, at the sea of ​​Lakdevo in northern Maldives, a KJ-200S early warning aircraft and a Y-8F anti-submarine aircraft patrolled hundreds of kilometers of the sky and ocean in front of them under the escort of a J-18 squadron. 100 nautical miles behind it, two 7,000-ton 052D destroyers cut through the waves, forming a 40-nautical-mile queue. These two large destroyers that have undergone nuclear power and air defense combat systems transformation, not only is the Chinese ASUS air defense system fully searching for every move within 100 nautical miles of the air and sea, but the latest and improved sea shark integrated anti-submarine system has also been opened.

The powerful sea shark integrated anti-submarine system consisting of HLS-50 ship shell sonar, HLR-3 towed array sonar and 20 nautical miles of Z-9 carrier-based anti-submarine helicopters in front can feed suspicious situations in the range of 70 nautical miles far and near to the host of the sea shark integrated anti-submarine system.

The base matrix of the HLS-50 ship shell active/passive sonar is a circular column with a diameter of up to 5 meters and a height of 1.8 meters. There are 8 layers on this base matrix for 576 transducers. Active or passive methods can be used to detect suspicious noise targets on the seabed. When using active full power mode to search, the effective detection range can reach 35 nautical miles. In this case, most underwater targets with a speed of more than 5 nautical miles per hour will not escape its detection and provide attack guidance for anti-submarine torpedoes or anti-submarine missiles. It is the most important anti-submarine device of the People's Liberation Army's 052 series destroyers.

The HLR-3 drag array passive sonar is the main long-range submarine target search device currently in service in the People's Liberation Army. It uses a 2,000-meter special towing streamer. The rear end is a passive array sonar system with a length of up to 250 meters. It is equipped with a new intelligent sea noise analysis engine to effectively detect the distance in the deep sea at a maximum of 70 nautical miles.

In this way, the preamble anti-submarine area formed by these two 052D destroyers will form a maximum area of ​​140 nautical miles in front and back and 180 nautical miles in about. In this area, if the Indian army's Kilo-class submarine or squid-class submarine dares to come out to move in this area, it will soon become a target for torpedoes.

Following these two 052D destroyers moving under the sea are two 039G new Song-class diesel-electric nuclear submarines. They are the main force in fighting against the Kilo-class or Squid-class submarines that may lurk on the seabed by the Indian army.

50 nautical miles behind these two destroyers, two 054B missile frigates were guided, and the two aircraft carriers in the middle were arranged in two rows at a distance of 5 nautical miles, while the 081-class amphibious landing ship, a 100,000-ton roll-ro-cargo ship and two large supply ships.

Four 0,000-ton class 052E destroyers and four 039G new Song-class submarines are protected on both sides of the aircraft carrier queue, two 054B missile frigates and two 097 Qin-class nuclear submarines behind.

The entire fleet has very tight air and sea surface protection. In addition, four ships have sailed in secret in advance to detect the 041B Yuan-class nuclear-powered attack submarines that must pass through the throat navigation path of the special-mixed fleet in advance. This is basically the most powerful special-mixed fleet with the People's Liberation Army's current protection power.

However, looking at the blue waves in the distance, Major General Xue Chenguang, the commander-in-chief of the fleet, was still unable to relax. He had received satellite information from the headquarters. The main force of the US Fifth Fleet was sailing eastward from the Gulf of Oman. Its purpose was unknown.

Judging from satellite image analysis, the two major aircraft carrier battle groups formed by the Eisenhower and Truman, 12 Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers and the Ali Burke-class missile destroyer were all dispatched. In addition to the battleships for amphibious landing operations, the main forces of the Fifth Fleet's maritime operations have been concentrated. Although there is no information on the eight Los Angeles-class offensive nuclear submarines of the US Fifth Fleet, Xue Chenguang believes that they must be sailing towards their fleet underwater.

Compared with the Indian army's eastern naval fleet, the US Fifth Fleet is the real opponent of the PLA's special mixed fleet. Ah San's broken ships have never been seen by Xue Chenguang. With Ah San's weak industrial manufacturing foundation, no matter how powerful they boast on weekdays, their strength will not exceed the limitations of their actual industrial foundation.

If the PLA hadn’t had the rapid progress in recent years, the gap between the PLA Navy and the A-San Navy was not so big. However, Duke emerged from nowhere. Whether it was the industrial foundation such as basic raw materials and processing machine tools, or the cutting-edge software and hardware technologies such as core electronic equipment and combat systems, they would not have been the scene of the past, and they had truly entered the world’s top level.

Xue Chenguang only needs to look down at the equipment in the command module of the "Shanghai" aircraft carrier. Most of these things were unimaginable a few years ago. All anti-submarine and air defense information detected by various detection equipment of the entire fleet was transformed into a clear and easy-to-understand representation on the combat map through the extremely powerful G3 super small aircraft cluster system on the ship. The green area represents a sea area that has been detected and judged as safe, while the yellow area is a sea area that has not been effectively detected.

What is shocking is that this combat map is still a three-dimensional map, which is completely incomparable to the original combat command system.

This system faces the huge detection data transmitted by various detection equipment of the entire fleet. After comprehensive analysis and intelligent judgment, the results can be displayed on this three-dimensional combat map in less than a second.

If a dangerous target is found, the system will immediately mark its three-dimensional coordinates and automatically guide the most suitable attack combat unit in the fleet to prepare for the attack.

Compared with the Indian army's warships that were at most only at the level of the 1980s and 1990s, the PLA's special mixed fleet certainly has the ability to destroy.

But the problem now is that the US military's dual aircraft carrier combat group also has similar combat capabilities, and their sea combat firepower units are more powerful.

If Xue Chenguang also owns two aircraft carriers such as the Shanghai and 10 052E missile destroyers to form a dual aircraft carrier battle group, Xue Chenguang is not afraid of a head-on battle with the US military.

But now it only has 4 052E missile destroyers, which is because the foundation was too thin in the past. Even if it has been fully constructed in recent years, the speed of manufacturing will not keep up with the demand.

Xue Chenguang sighed, turned around and was about to say something to Chief of Staff Tang Deen on the same side. Suddenly, the command center issued a sharp alarm!
Chapter completed!