Damn the World, Ride a Submarine - Chapter 98



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Episode 98 – Dawn

I received notification that the personnel organization of the America-class amphibious assault ship delivered from the US military had been completed.

It has already departed from the U.S. Naval Base in Guam, and it has been reported that a number of U.S. Navy officers and operators will be on board to provide insufficient orientation and training, and that education and training will be conducted during the move.

The name of the ship was chosen as Tawi Tawiship. It follows the tradition of our Navy.

Our Navy has been naming its amphibious assault ships after islands. (Dokdo ship, Marado ship)

Admiral Son I-il (Vice President) was appointed commander of the OSS fleet. The Tawi-Tawi became the flagship. And the newly recruited Colonel Bae Heung-shin became the captain of the Tawi Tawi.

Even during the voyage, the aircraft carrier was built with OSL and Hanwha Ocean under Vice President Jin Min-gyu of the home country.

It became a project in which all large domestic shipbuilders, including Samsung Heavy Industries, participated.

After several discussions and meetings, OSS’s aircraft carrier specifications were decided.

Basically, it follows the specifications of the Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier, but some strategic and tactical requirements were added.

The first was the addition of combat capabilities that could reduce dependence on escort flyers.

Even if the number of aircraft on board was slightly lowered, anti-submarine and anti-ship capabilities were added. She has the displacement and armament of a supercarrier aircraft carrier combined with two Aegis destroyers.

Additionally, the number of crew members and aviation personnel was significantly reduced through the active introduction of automation.

The total construction cost was $40 billion (about 52 trillion won), more than three times that of the Gerald R. Ford class.

Displacement was also 25,000 tons more. She was the world’s largest aircraft carrier, larger than the United States.

Although the United States shared major core technologies, including construction and commissioning. They said it would take at least 3 years.

The basic specifications of the OSS aircraft carrier were as follows.

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Overall length: overall 362.9m / waterline 327.2m

Overall width: flight deck 81.05 m / waterline 42.88 m

Total height: 77.7m / waterline 12.35m

Full load displacement: 135,000 tons

power :

Nuclear Propulsion –

4 steam turbines for power generation, 4 turbines for propulsion

Nuclear Reactor –

Pressurized water type OK650V3 4 units (50 years of use)

propel :

Propeller shaft 4-axis propulsion – thrust force 280mw

Maximum speed: 31 knots

Crew:

Aircraft carrier operation 2,200 people / aviation personnel 1,300 people

This device: 4 EMALS catapults

Landing device: 3 AAG landing restraint devices

Aircraft elevator: 3

Radar and Sonar:

Possesses air defense and anti-submarine capabilities comparable to those of King Jeongjo the Great

Self-armed:

VLS (Vertical Missile Launch Tube) – 128 cells (located on the bridge side protrusion, avoiding the flight deck)

ESSM surface-to-air missiles – 4 8-barrel Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles

RIM-116 RAM (short-range surface-to-air missile) – 21×4 units

Torpedoes:

16 21-inch heavy torpedo tubes – Tiger Shark

Unmanned torpedo boats: 16 Marine Specters (7 heavy torpedoes)

Aircraft:

Fighter – model not yet determined

(KF21N or F/A-18E/A Super Hornet)

Early Warning – E-2D Hawkeye

Aerial refueling tanker –

Unmanned shipborne aerial refueling aircraft (MQ-25 UCAAS)

Transport aircraft – C2 Greyhound

Anti-submarine helicopter – MH-60R Seahawk

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The reason I asked Director Kim Wan-jun to build a runway at OP5 in Kiribati was because I gave OSS-ART a new mission.

It was a project to transform existing fighter jets into drones. The idea was for the pilot to control the fighter jet on the ground or from a remote control cockpit on a ship.

To this end, the OSS-ART budget was increased to 100 trillion won.

The pilot’s survivability and lack of burden on gravity acceleration not only bring out the fighter’s maximum performance.

Even with a single-seat airplane, you can achieve the same operating convenience as a two-seat airplane. We will be able to carry out more bold operations.

In addition, if there is no loss of human resources, it is of course possible to increase the number of fighter sorties.

The fighter itself could be used as a final cruising weapon. – Retired fighter jets can be used as suicide drones. –

The new task posed to OSS-ART (OSS Military Technology Research Institute) was somewhat controversial even among researchers.

Everyone agreed that if successful, it would be of sufficient military and economic value as well as a tactical advantage.

It was hoped that it could be actively used in aviation decoy (deception) tactics. For this purpose, a model of the pilot was placed in the fighter cockpit.

First, several FA-50 light attack aircraft were sent to Kiribati for research.

Additionally, he was instructed to develop a method and payload for launching missiles from the rear of a fighter jet.

It seemed like it would be a tactically meaningful development if the fighter could be unmanned and operated by a separate armament officer along with the pilot.

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The OSS attack submarine Wolf 1, the Lee Hoi-young, and the ARK decided to go around Africa and pass through the Strait of Gibraltar.

Wolf 1 had passed through Madagascar, South Africa, and around the Cape of Good Hope before entering the South Atlantic.

If a submarine were to pass through the Suez Canal, it would have to pass through the water rather than submerge due to various safety issues.

There was also the problem of power exposure.

In the case of the ARK, it will inevitably receive attention from the world media. If that happens, it will not only make Russia nervous.

It was tantamount to informing Russia of OSS’s involvement in the Severodvinsk bombing.

Until now, Russia believed that the ARK had been taken over by the Ukrainian SBU.

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The OSS fleet was divided into two and headed toward the Black Sea.

The submarine fleet, including the ARK, was circling South Africa and dividing the middle of the South Atlantic.

Other ships and the hospital ship OSS Mercy were entering the Red Sea and passing through the Suez Canal one after another.

Director Jeong Si-woon was instructed to commission an additional hospital ship, OSS Mercy2, with enhanced nursing and rest functions.

I received a reply that it would take time because of the need to supply medical personnel rather than ships.

I asked Hanwha Ocean CEO Han Gyu-dong to spread the new concept. He decided to build two nuclear-powered supply ships with the same specifications as the ESB. She is a 100,000-ton nuclear-powered logistics support ship.

The world’s largest logistics support ship was the Taiga class 39,000 tons, the same as ship number 9. She was an aircraft carrier-sized supply ship.

These two nuclear-powered supply ships could transport seven years’ worth of food and other supplies for the entire OSS, excluding oil.

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As the OSS submarine fleet passed the South Atlantic, passed the equator, and entered the North Atlantic, operational plans for the summer offensive in Ukraine began to emerge.

The main thrust of the entire operation was to operate simultaneously in the North, East, South and Black Sea, giving Russia and Belarus no time to reorganize their front lines.

Ukraine and NATO forces, led by the United States, were planning a major summer offensive on all fronts.

The great offensive consisted of three frontal forces.

** Northern Army – Belarusian border area including Chernobyl and Chernihiv (NATO, Polish Army, Northern Division of Ukraine)

** Eastern Army – Russian border areas including Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhia (US Army and Eastern Ukraine Corps)

** Southern Army – Kherson and parts of Zaporizh and Melitopol, Crimea and the Black Sea (OSS and Southern Ukrainian Division)

The strategy seemed to be to have three armies launch an offensive at the same time to prevent Russia’s rapid response force from responding.

One of the main reasons for launching an offensive on all fronts at once seemed to be to prevent Russia from making an extreme decision (nuclear weapons).

The areas covered by the Southern Army, the OSS and Ukraine joint forces, in the summer offensive were as follows.

It was part of Kherson and Zaporizh in Ukraine, as well as Melitopol and the Crimean Peninsula.

The operational name of the Southern Army’s summer offensive was Dawn.

The tactical doctrine and operational outline of the Kherson restoration operation negotiated with the Southern Army Corps of Ukraine were summarized as follows.

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0. U.S. Navy’s air supremacy and lead deception bombing – Zaporizhia, Melitopol, Novakahovaka

1. OSS’s drone brigade’s 30 Bayraktars and 10 MQ-9 Reapers provide 24-hour aerial reconnaissance and frontline support – (launched on land and sea)

2-1. Reconnaissance and coordinate acquisition of the strike origin of Ukrainian special forces, observation battalion, and OSS special mission.

2-2. Destruction of Russian tanks and artillery power – OSS Bayraktar, MQ-9 Reaper. / Russian armored forces that bypassed or broke through the front line were neutralized with OSS’ bow anti-tank missiles.

2-3. OSS Artillery Brigade Cheonmu 2 Bombardment (130mm, 200mm, 400mm rockets and missiles) – 30~60km rear. / Russian air power that broke through the air defense network is defended with Shingung surface-to-air missiles.

3-1. OSS Artillery Brigade 96 120mm self-propelled mortars (+24 fire control vehicles) capable of firing up to 8 artillery shells per minute – 10km rear. / Suppression bombardment: 4,000 rounds fired for 5 minutes.

3-2. Targeted bombing by 500 Revolver 860 attack drones (equipped with 8 60mm mortars) of the OSS Drone Regiment – Day and night precision bombing using thermal imaging cameras and night vision – 12km behind.

3-3. Attack inside enemy trenches and tunnels with 300 reconnaissance suicide drones of the OSS Drone Regiment – 3kg of explosives used with remote fuzes to enter the trenches and tunnels and detonate – 12km behind.

4-1. Advance of the Ukrainian Armored Regiment – ​​overcoming trenches and removing obstacles.

4-2. Occupation of the enemy trench area by the Ukrainian infantry division. / AS21 Redback armored vehicle for troop transport support and cover of the OSS mechanized brigade.

5-1. Securing a base for the OSS mechanized brigade to advance.

5-2. Advancement and deployment of the OSS Artillery Brigade. High-impact 120mm self-propelled mortar, Cheonmu multiple rocket launcher.

5-3. OSS Drone Brigade advances – escorted by the 2nd Mechanized Brigade Regiment. / Bayraktar TB-3 and MQ-9 are supported at this base

6-1. When the front line is stabilized, the OSS engineer and supply regiment advances – establishes a forward base. – 3rd Mechanized Brigade Regiment (to Armiansk)

*** Upon the recovery of Zaporizhia and Melitopol by the US and Right Allied forces and the OSS fleet’s control of the Black Sea ***

7-1. Southern Ukrainian forces advance to Armyansk, Crimea – ground support from the OSS fleet.

7-2. After breaking through the Kherson front, the OSS drone brigade preemptively eliminated the threat – enemy tanks and anti-tank weapons.

8-1. The Ukrainian armored brigade advanced deep into the Crimean peninsula through a blitzkrieg.

** Bombing of the Crimean Bridge by the OSS fleet – both ends of Tuzla Island, Russia and the Crimean Peninsula were blown up beyond repair. / Timing adjusted according to frontline situation

** OSS mechanized brigade, OSS drone regiment and artillery brigade escort and support of tactical vulnerable areas – Redback armored vehicles, special purpose battalion, combat battalion

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The first large-scale regular battle since the creation of OSS was waiting.

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black sea fleet