Chapter 468: Arrival of the American Aircraft Carrier

The Iranians, who originally had little combat effectiveness, suddenly became powerful and could fight fiercely with the Soviet Union's elite paratroopers. Moreover, the weapons in their hands suddenly increased, and now they even had field artillery and anti-aircraft missiles!

Needless to say, it must be the Americans behind this! Cut off the Americans' black hands and buy the airborne troops another day!

To this end, the Soviet Union dispatched a strategic bomber force of four regiments to carry out a heavy bombing on the border between Iran and Pakistan! After that, even if the Americans wanted to use the various mountain roads on the border to shuttle back and forth between Iran and Pakistan, it would be impossible. Those ubiquitous mines would teach the Americans how to behave!

When the bombing was completed, Molenko's troops also received reinforcements, the Marines from the Minsk!

As huge aircraft carriers, Kiev and Minsk have enough space to accommodate more people, so there is a 500-man Marine Corps on each of the two aircraft carriers! This Marine Corps is to perform various special missions. Now, knowing that the airborne troops are fighting fiercely, the aircraft carrier's helicopters have transported hundreds of Marine Corps to build a solid defense line with the airborne troops!

After the bomber unit completed the bombing mission, the fighting on the ground subsided temporarily. This Soviet formation had frightened the local Iranians. If they dared to counterattack the Soviet army, the price would be extremely heavy!

At this time, the confrontation is still going on in the vast Arabian Sea.

Two MiG-23K carrier-based aircraft were flying over the sea 300 kilometers around the aircraft carrier, scanning the surrounding sea surface with multi-functional pulse Doppler radar.

Half an hour ago, the reconnaissance satellite once again discovered the trace of the US aircraft carrier formation. A powerful formation composed of two US aircraft carriers was approaching the Soviet aircraft carrier formation!

Since there were no carrier-based early warning aircraft, they could only deploy the precious MiG-23K carrier-based aircraft to continuously search the surrounding areas. These were already carrier-based aircraft equipped with air superiority capabilities and possessed unrivaled air combat capabilities. Even when facing Tomcat fighters, they could give it a try!

Now, it depends on how brave the Americans are. If the Americans really plan to have a naval battle, the Navy of the Red Empire will definitely not be afraid!

Kiev, Minsk, Kirov class, these large warships all carry anti-ship missiles with a range of more than 500 kilometers, which are tailor-made for the nemesis of American aircraft carriers! If the Americans dare to launch an attack, their anti-ship missiles will fly over like a rain of arrows!

Soon, pilot Christophe discovered some obvious targets on his radar screen, three hundred kilometers away!

For air search, to detect targets the size of fighter jets, the search range of this radar will not exceed 150 kilometers. However, for detecting large ships on the sea, the distance will be much farther!

The American aircraft carrier formation is only 600 kilometers away from our own aircraft carrier formation! At this distance, the carrier-based aircraft of both sides can launch the first round of attacks!

Following Christoph's report, the atmosphere in the aircraft carrier formation suddenly became tense, and the entire formation quickly turned into an air defense formation, with the almighty Kirov-class in the front, the Sovremenny-class on both sides, and the Dreadnought-class and other destroyers and frigates on the inside, protecting the two aircraft carriers in the center. All air defense missiles were ready to be launched at any time.

Although not as famous as the professional Aegis destroyers of the United States, the Soviet Union's air defense missiles are not inferior in performance! Although there are fewer firepower channels, after all, the saturation attack tactics were used by the Soviet Union to attack the United States. The United States does not have so many long-range anti-ship missiles. Once the Americans attack, it must be carrier-based aircraft! The long-range missiles on the Kirov class have a range sufficient to attack American carrier-based aircraft!

At the end of the formation, a lone submarine was sailing. There was a hole in the bow of the submarine, with sea water swirling there. In the bathtub on top of the bridge in the middle were several soldiers wearing Soviet naval uniforms!

Nonsense, the Americans are dreaming. Warships represent the sovereignty of a country, but submarines definitely do not! The attitude of the Soviet Navy towards this submarine that was sneaking around in its own cruising waters was, of course, to completely conquer it!

Just after the submarine surfaced, two Ka-27 helicopters carrying Marines flew over the submarine and then descended by ropes.

The Americans were dumbfounded. Resist? Don't be ridiculous. Although they have guns, the Soviets have cannons! If they resist at this time, the Soviets only need to fire a few torpedoes to sink their submarines to the bottom of the sea!

Submarines are underwater ghosts, but on the surface, they are nothing!

So, Johnson and others could only watch the Soviets come down. The reason for these Soviets was very simple. They came to help them! So, with the "help" of the Soviets, the submarine was completely controlled by the Soviets. Fortunately, the Soviets did not tie up the Americans, which was already a preferential treatment for them. They were concentrated in the rear power compartment. Even if they wanted to do something, they had to think about their lives. Once the reactor leaked, nuclear radiation was no joke.

With air defense deployed, the two huge water formations were gradually approaching, and when they were approaching to within 500 kilometers, the US aircraft carrier formation stopped its dangerous behavior of approaching.

"The Soviet aircraft carrier formation has a total of more than thirty long-range anti-ship missiles. It would be very dangerous if we get within 500 kilometers." Captain Colonel Hilton said on the Independence aircraft carrier.

(Historically, the United States has two Independence aircraft carriers. One was used in World War II and was used as a target ship for nuclear bomb experiments after the war. The other was the last ship of the Forrestal class that was not started until 1955.)

Just a few months ago, the Independence, Nimitz and Kitty Hawk all conducted military operations here and launched air strikes against the Iranians. After the battle, the Kitty Hawk returned to the Far East, and the Independence and Nimitz also planned to return to their original bases, but they were urgently recalled halfway and hurried to the Arabian Sea at the highest speed.

However, even though they have arrived, the commander on the scene is at a loss as to how to act. Even the White House has not issued any clear orders!

The collision of steel on the sea could lead to a large-scale war at any time! We must be careful and restrained, and at the same time, we must not damage the reputation of the US Navy!