Chapter 1472: The Nail of the Indian Ocean

In the middle of the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia Island is the southernmost coral island of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the British Indian Ocean Territories, with a population of more than 3,000 people. The whole island is a V-shaped circular island that opens to the north.

The island covers an area of ​​nearly 30 square kilometers and is less than 2,000 kilometers away from the South Asian subcontinent. It is located at the confluence of several sea transportation lines between the Cape of Good Hope, Singapore, the Red Sea, and Australia. The location of sea transportation is very important.

During World War II, the island served as a British air base and an important port of call for the Navy.

In the 1970s, the United Kingdom and the United States reached an agreement, and the United States leased the island. Since then, it has become the most important air base and naval supply station for the US Air Force and Navy in the Indian Ocean. It is an important part of the global military base of the US military. It has a very large arsenal and a modern advanced communication center.

It played an important role in the Gulf War, Afghanistan War, and Iraq War, including the current Iran War, and the Iraq-Syria Federation War.

The more than 3,000-meter runway on the island has taken off large bombers and transport planes many times to support the war, and it can also take off carrier-based aircraft to supplement the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier.

In the 1970s, after the United States took over here, it carried out various modernizations. It not only became one of the important medium-distance stations for the US military's global communications, but also was able to dock nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. It is also possible to repair docked warships.

It fully meets the needs of supporting the US aircraft carrier battle group, amphibious landing operations and all activities of strategic bombers in the Indian Ocean.

From the Iran War to every previous war in the Middle East, the U.S. military's stratofortress bombers took off from here to bomb the warring countries.

Originally, when the U.S. military planned to launch an air strike against the Iraqi-Syrian Federation, the force of the last wave of air strikes was the 24 B-52 Stratofortress bombers stationed here.

In fact, before launching a war against Iran, the U.S. military had prepared reserves of all weapons and equipment for use against Iran in this military base in the Indian Ocean a few years ago.

The most important of these are the US military's well-known "bunker smasher" smart bombs. These smart bombs are sent to Iran through a large bomber nose, ready to destroy tens of thousands of important targets in Iran within a few hours at any time.

In the previous Iran war, the US military did use this air force base. Combined with dozens of stratofortress bombers in the base, this military operation to crush Iran's war capabilities was achieved, completely destroying a large number of important military and industrial facilities of Iran's ISIS, Lange, and Life Guards.

However, the biggest function of this military base is to control the Indian Ocean.

This is the unsinkable super aircraft carrier of the U.S. military in the Indian Ocean. On an island of 300,000 square kilometers, various military facilities are incomparably perfect. Any battlefield in the Indian Ocean.

But from the geographical location of this island, it is 4,500 kilometers away from the Persian Gulf, 3,500 kilometers away from the east coast of Africa, 5,000 kilometers away from Australia, 2,000 kilometers away from India, and 3,500 kilometers away from Indonesia. hundred kilometers.

The island is usually equipped with a large number of tankers to ensure that all fighter jets stationed here can fly directly from all nearby US military bases to the base on the island.

At the same time, the U.S. military has stationed 3,000 troops on the island for a long time, including 1,500 civilian personnel and 1,700 military personnel, most of whom are maintenance personnel and officers and soldiers of the navy and air force.

This island is also an important relay station for the US military to project power to Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

There are several large transport ships on the island, and generally more than a dozen warships of various types are stationed on the island, which can support the delivery of large tank forces, armored vehicle forces, ammunition, fuel, parts, and even field mobile hospitals.

Moreover, the five large transport ships on the island each carry enough supplies to meet all the consumption needs of the Marine Corps for nearly 30 days of fighting in any place.

In fact, Britain has more than 2,300 islands in the Indian Ocean, and this island is the real core of these islands.

For the Navy of the Red Police Corps, the degree of threat of Diego Garcia Island is not inferior to that of the NATO Indian Ocean Combined Fleet.

Because of the existence of this island, the combat range of the Red Police Navy has been severely limited. Under normal circumstances, it cannot even approach the island within a thousand kilometers.

Coupled with the presence of NATO forces on the east coast of Africa and the military presence of Australia, the activities of the Red Police Navy in the Indian Ocean have become difficult.

It is equivalent to being tightly restricted under the control of NATO in all directions.

This is also one of the reasons why Cai Ruichen has always felt that the Red Police Navy is very difficult in the Indian Ocean.

It's not that the Red Police Navy is not strong, but that the position guarded by Diego Garcia Island is too deadly for the Red Police Corps Navy.

The most important thing is that U.S. submarines can rely on this island for activities, and the threat to the fleet is extremely deadly.

At this moment, the number of U.S. troops on Diego Garcia Island has increased from the original 3,000 to 5,000 due to the war, and a Marine Corps with a reinforced battalion size is stationed among them.

At the port, there are transport ships coming to load and unload supplies at any time, providing the necessary military support for all military operations of the US military in the Middle East.

What the Red Police Corps still doesn't know is that in fact, the highest command of NATO's Indian Ocean is not in the fleet, but on the island of Diego Garcia.

The three-star Admiral Powell of the US Navy and the French Admiral Daisy jointly commanded all actions of the fleet.

He is also responsible for all logistical arrangements of the fleet and air force, and also commands all US submarines in the entire Indian Ocean to fight.

The 24-hour war with the Iraqi-Syrian Federation shamed the U.S. military and the entire NATO, and the Indian Ocean Fleet lost more than a dozen capital ships. For the two commanders, it was simply a nightmare.

Although the Pentagon and NATO headquarters did not do anything to them, they have begun to be strict in their words. They must require the navy to make a breakthrough, use all the superior resources in the Indian Ocean, and give the Iraqi-Syrian Federation a little bit of color to wash away NATO. shame.

The goal of washing away the shame is naturally the dual aircraft carrier battle group of the Iraqi-Syrian Federation in the Indian Ocean.

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