Being in a first-level combat deployment state for a long time, and confronting a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier as giant as a hundred thousand tons at close range, the nerves of the officers and soldiers were in a highly tense state.
After the USS Unfit aircraft carrier strike group confirmed its evacuation to Guam, Li Hai lowered the combat deployment level and reasonably arranged personnel shifts and rest. With a serious lack of sleep time, he followed Chang Haizhou's persuasion and handed over the command of the ship to Chang Haizhou.
Haizhou, he went to the kitchen to make some breakfast and then have a good sleep.
He didn't forget Zhuang Xiaoying, an old friend, and asked the kitchen to prepare two portions.
While we were eating, Chang Haizhou came over and sat down across the dining table. He handed over a message across the dining table and said in a deep voice, "There are new orders."
Li Hai stopped chewing and took the message and read it suspiciously.
The latest order from the theater joint command requires ship No. 53 to go to Musha Reef to receive supplies and accept new tasks at any time.
This year is the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. Li Hai thought that the Spring Festival combat readiness patrol could end early and the comrades could celebrate the Lantern Festival after returning to Hong Kong. Now it seems that this wish has been dashed.
Musha Reef was originally called Forgotten Reef. After the Musa Naval Air Station was established on the reef, the name was immediately changed to Musha Reef. It is said to be a reef. In fact, after the reclamation of the sea by nature in the past few years, it has grown into a
A small island with a land area of 2 square kilometers.
It is actually an airport that grew up on the reef platform. The main reason is that the airport occupies a large area. The reef platform area of Musha Reef is as high as 13 square kilometers. However, because only a little bit of coral reef emerges from the water in certain seasons all year round.
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After gaining land area, the Musa Naval Air Station was established, and a port with a simple supply function was also built to provide supplies to passing Chinese warships and also have humanitarian rescue functions.
The No. 53 ship was most short of fuel and food, which happened to be within the supply range of Musa Port, so the theater joint commander ordered them to go to Musa Port to receive supplies.
Li Hai returned the message to Chang Haizhou and said, "Execute the order and ask the political commissar to do a good job in the ideological work of the comrades."
"The political commissar has already started working on it." Chang Haizhou said with a smile, "Comrades, there is nothing wrong with your mood. Our ship is used to accepting various temporary tasks."
Li Hai couldn't help but laugh, "Probably because of this, the theater joint command will let the New Youth 03 return and let us continue to carry out the mission."
"Suludong and the others have been outside for six months," Chang Haizhou said.
Li Hai was stunned, "It's my villain's heart that judges the gentleman's belly."
Chang Haizhou introduced, "I just learned that Suludong and the others originally went to sea in a formation of two ships. Do you still remember the new youth without a string number that we met when we left the port?"
Li Hai's eyes immediately appeared in front of Li Hai's eyes, the new youth class of the Wuxian, whose stern was seriously damaged, "Remember, of course I remember."
Chang Haizhou said, "Suludong and the others went to sea with that ship. The Wuxian was damaged by something, so the Suludong ship had to escort them back. On the way, they received orders to perform maritime rights protection tasks in the Nansha waters.
, and then when we needed support again, the Sulu East ship rushed to the waters of Dolan Island without stopping...and kept running for half a year."
Li Haidun felt ashamed and blamed himself.
"Don't take it personally." Chang Haizhou said.
Li Hai said, "I really think that my superiors have left all the hard work to our No. 53 ship. My thinking is too superficial."
"In the final analysis, the force is still tight, and there are simply not enough ships. The scope of our Third Fleet's jurisdiction and the tasks it undertakes are the largest and heaviest. We can only squeeze the combat capabilities of the existing ships." Chang Haizhou sighed and said.
Li Hai said, "Mr. Chang, go and re-plan the route. In addition... say hello to Sulu Dong. I owe you the big seafood first. When we return to Hong Kong, he will make arrangements."
"Hahaha, okay, I'll tell him." Chang Haizhou smiled and got up and went to the bridge.
Previously, Li Hai and Su Ludong had a bet on who could last longer. Originally, the two ship formations returned to port, and the matter was a tie. Now, New Youth 03 continues to return to port, while ship No. 53 continues to perform its mission. Naturally, ship No. 53 wins.
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Suludong has reserved this seafood dinner for 200 people.
After finishing breakfast, Li Hai brought the dinner plate over.
Zhuang Xiaoying blinked and looked at Li Hai. Li Hai felt a little frightened by the sight, as if he had done something wrong.
"You must know what the mission is, right?" Zhuang Xiaoying asked.
Li Hai was stunned and shook his head slightly, "I really don't know. You, your on-ship interview mission is over, so you should return with New Youth 03."
"The interview with Captain Su and the others is over, but not with you yet. I won't go back." Zhuang Xiaoying ate the buns, shook her head and said, "What kind of mission do you think it will be?"
Li Hai still shook his head, "There's no way to guess."
"Oh, in short, you have to tell me what you can say as soon as possible, and I will make an interview outline." Zhuang Xiaoying said.
"That's no problem. I'll let the publicity team contact you." Li Hai agreed, "Since you want to continue to accompany the ship, you should have a good rest."
After leaving the captain's room, Li Hai went to the sailor cabin, found an empty bed and lay down to sleep.
Before joining the Surface Ship Force, Li Hai always had a problem that he couldn't figure out.
From the perspective of firepower intensity, the gap between the later-built 053-class guided missile frigates and the 054A is not big. The most obvious difference is that the 054A has enhanced air defense combat capabilities. Even with the use of a vertical launch system, the air combat capabilities are better than those using the Haihongqi-
The improved 053 of 7 has been improved by more than one level.
But that's all.
Of course, the ship's electrical system is completely new, which is what the title means.
However, from the perspective of anti-ship combat capabilities, the gap between the two is not big. Even in terms of naval gun firepower, the No. 53 ship is more powerful than the 054A.
However, it is generally believed that the comprehensive combat capabilities of the 054A are an era ahead of this class of guided missile frigates represented by the No. 53 ship.
Li Hai thought it was a bit exaggerated.
Until the end of the Spring Festival combat readiness patrol mission, Li Hai realized firsthand where the biggest gap was.
In the crew’s working and living space!
That’s habitability!
He has not seen the interior of 054A, but learned from Zhuang Xiaoying that each crew member of 054 has his own independent bunk, post space and other living facilities and environment. It can be said that it is more than one generation more advanced than the 53rd ship.
The 056-class light frigates used offshore are even more exaggerated. The per capita living area is actually the largest among the active ships in the military!
It is no exaggeration to say that habitability is directly related to combat effectiveness.
After this mission, Li Hai had a particularly profound understanding of this.
As one of the core departments of the ship, the officers and soldiers in the engine room only have three bunks and can only be divided into three shifts for rest. Even Wang Fugui does not have an independent bunk. Moreover, the bunks in the sailor room are on three floors.
The space is small and can only accommodate one person lying down, making it difficult to turn over.
Another example is the aspect of living support. Due to the original design, several subsequent modifications allocated space and tonnage to the combat area, so that the living space became smaller and smaller. There was only one in the entire ship that was less than six square meters.
The sailor activity room and sailor restaurant can only accommodate forty people dining at the same time...
As the captain, Li Hai could only find a bunk in the sailor cabin to rest after giving up the captain's cabin. This was not seen on other ships because there were several independent cabins for the captain's use.
Sleeping well and eating well is a guarantee of combat effectiveness, especially for ships that need to float on the vast sea for a long time.
The 054A has a larger tonnage and fewer crew members. The per capita living area is far more than that of the No. 53 ship. There are five sailor activity rooms on the ship, which are all available in different categories. There is no difference between life on the ship and life at the port base.
Big difference.
Li Hai deeply realized that making ships bigger is not only to carry more combat systems, but also to further improve the living environment of sailors. From a combat perspective, larger tonnage means longer self-sustainability.
Longer self-sustainability means higher on-duty rate, which is closely related to attendance rate.
The Misfit is in trouble because they were attacked by an unknown pneumonia and did not have enough pilots, ground crew, etc. who could work normally. No matter how many carrier-based fighter jets they had, they were just decorations.
A better living environment will definitely bring better sanitary conditions!
Thinking of these miscellaneous things, Li Hai slowly fell asleep. The nerves that had been tense for a week suddenly relaxed, and he entered deep sleep very quickly.
So when Zhang Huo and the two soldiers who were on leave returned to the sailor cabin, they were shocked to see the captain sleeping on the bunk where ordinary sailors slept. The three of them stood there holding their breath and looked at Li Hai, and their moods suddenly changed.
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Zhang Huo slowly remembered that since entering the first-level combat deployment, the captain has been in command. In the past few days, the captain has only been confused on the camp bed in the bridge a few times, and no matter how bad people like him are, they still get it every day.
A minimum of five hours of sleep is guaranteed.
"Why is the captain sleeping here?" a soldier asked in a low voice.
Zhang Huo made a silent gesture and said in a lowered voice, "The captain gave up the cabin to Reporter Zhuang."
"Then he can go to Lieutenant Commander's place to rest. It's very uncomfortable to sleep here." The soldier felt a little distressed.
The soldiers all know that without the captain, it is hard to say what would happen to their group of people and this ship.
The history of the People's Navy has never seen a frigate fight against an aircraft carrier strike group alone. Before that, it had repelled a 10,000-ton cruiser and two nuclear submarines, and then scared away two Anzac-class frigates...
As witnesses and executors of this series of achievements, they now recall it as if they were in a dream.
"Come on, follow me back to the gun position. At this time, you can't relax any more." Zhang Huo whispered, and asked the two soldiers to slowly back away from the sailor cabin and return to the main gun position.