Chapter 447 Pacific Fleet

"In fact, it seems that the best way now is to secretly support the Iranian border troops and let them besiege and eliminate this paratrooper unit." Vice President Walter said: "However, at this point, it is absolutely impossible for the Iranians to trust us anymore."

After all this talk, there is actually no solution. Theoretically, there are two options: either the United States uses its own force, or it relies on Iran's own force.

But now, neither is reliable. America’s own military force can easily trigger a world war, while Iran’s own military force is too weak!

Carter has not spoken a word. Now, his presidential campaign with Reagan is at its most critical stage. Due to many embarrassing actions since he took office, his approval rating is quite low. If nothing unexpected happens, Carter will definitely not be able to run for re-election. If he launches a massive action at this time, it may give him extra points in the election, but as the president of the United States, he must consider the interests of the United States. Now facing the new situation in Iran, how should he act to better meet the interests of the United States?

He was in deep thought, watching the discussion of the think tanks in front of him, but his mind was blank. In the past few years, he seemed to have never made the right choice!

If we want the Iranians to resist the Soviet invasion on their own, we should support the Iranians and get in touch with them.

Oh, those Iranians in Europe! Thinking of this, Carter had an idea. He said to General Stan, the director of the CIA: "Stan, how is the task of finding those Iranians in Europe who want to return to Iran and organizing their teams going?"

The United States is putting pressure on Western Europe to allow those Iranians to stay on their land and improve their attitude towards them. This is naturally the United States's intention.

The intention is to plot the future situation in Iran! Having an army composed of Iranians is much better than the Americans taking direct action.

"We have only recruited more than 50 people so far, and it is difficult to organize enough manpower." Admiral Stan said.

In fact, these people were all selected in the Soviet base. Although these guys are stupid, they know what to say and what not to say. They will never reveal anything about being controlled by the Soviets to the United States, otherwise, they will be asking for trouble.

In other words, these guys were not willing to go to war in the first place. They were just idle and wanted to fish in troubled waters in the local area to make a little money. They just wanted to get along. So, they were asked to pick up guns and return to Iran to fight? You are kidding. People will die in war!

"If these Iranians want to resume their original lives, do they still need to rely on us Americans? They should muster up the courage themselves!" Carter was very depressed.

"However, we did find some warriors from the old dynasty in Iran, and they are not satisfied with the current regime."

After HMN came to power, he began a major purge of the military. Of course, many old soldiers were dissatisfied. Now, as the war progresses, these old soldiers have taken up arms again and serve as cannon fodder for the new government. Some of them have rebellious intentions in their hearts.

"Contact these people, we need them!" said President Carter.

"Mr. President, the threat we face is not just the Soviet airborne troops now." Admiral Stan continued, "Just two months ago, the Soviet Far East Pacific Fleet formed a double aircraft carrier battle group and went south for training. It also stopped at a base in Vietnam for resupply."

The Soviet Pacific Fleet now has two aircraft carriers, the Kiev and the Minsk! Although their aircraft carriers are far inferior to those of the United States, at best, the combat effectiveness of two Kiev-class aircraft carriers is only comparable to that of a Kitty Hawk, but the combat effectiveness of the Soviet aircraft carrier formation is still quite strong!

Therefore, after the Soviet Union's double aircraft carrier formation was dispatched, the United States has been paying close attention. This formation set out from the Far East, and after replenishing in Vietnam, it crossed the Strait of Malacca and entered the Indian Ocean.

At that time, the United States was greatly relieved, thinking that the Soviets were going to go deep into the Pacific Ocean and challenge the United States' hegemony in the Pacific. Now that they have entered the Indian Ocean, the United States can relax. The Soviets claimed at the time that they wanted to have a military exchange with the Indian Navy.

Now, when Admiral Stan presented this information, everyone's heart twitched. Damn, the Soviets had been preparing for this for a long time!

In fact, the battle group consisting of the two aircraft carriers was not visiting India at all. They must have circled in the Indian Ocean and then headed straight for the Arabian Sea!

Their mission, naturally, is to support the paratroopers and provide them with air superiority!

"Have you found the whereabouts of the Soviet aircraft carrier formation?" Carter's tone was a little hurried: "We must not let them get close to the Gulf of Oman!"

Although an aircraft carrier is huge and the dozens of warships in its fleet are even larger, they are just like a fallen leaf in the vast ocean.

"No, but our satellite is adjusting its orbit. When it passes over the Arabian Sea, we will search carefully and must find the Soviet aircraft carrier formation!" said Admiral Stan.

Seventy percent of the earth is covered by sea water. Whoever controls the ocean controls the world!

In the east, a red sun slowly rose, and the entire sea surface turned red.

Two huge aircraft carriers were sailing in the Arabian Sea. The sun shone on the decks, reflecting the silver-glittering carrier-based aircraft above.

Kiev and Minsk, the largest warships in the Soviet sea! These two aircraft carriers, a behemoth, are a huge offensive force!

When the Minsk was manufactured, it already had an angled take-off deck that could take off and land the MiG-23K. After the Minsk entered service in the Pacific Fleet, the Kiev also underwent a deck surgery in accordance with Minsk's plan.

However, this operation was not performed at the Black Sea Shipyard as it would have wasted too much time going back and forth. Instead, this major operation was completed at the Nagasaki Shipyard under Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on the island country.

The angled deck was cut off and replaced with a leap deck, the rear deck was strengthened to meet the impact force during landing, and optical landing aids were installed. It took almost half a year for the aircraft carrier to be modified in the Nagasaki Shipyard. After that, after the arrival of the matching MiG-23K carrier-based aircraft, it took more than a year to run in.

So far, these two aircraft carriers have been able to exert sufficient combat power! Although the number of carrier-based aircraft is insufficient due to the large number of missiles carried, each aircraft carrier is equipped with twenty MiG-23Ks and four helicopters, which can be regarded as a powerful offensive force!

In addition to protecting the aircraft carrier formation, this force can also support its own airborne troops appearing in Sistan Province!

At the same time, apart from the two aircraft carriers, the other warships in the fleet are also powerful enough.