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now the very object of the weaponry.
Perhaps most telling of all was the naval production which was allowing China
and the CAS to project their rapidly developing power. The transformation of
COCSO and now the Korean, Japanese and other commercial shipbuilding
operations throughout Asia was allowing for the manufacture of naval vessels
and their weaponry at astonishing rates. Beijing class carriers were sliding
off the ways now at a rate of two every three months. The newer, big-deck
carriers like the Sun Tsu upon which the Admiral now stood, were coming out at
the rate of one every four months. The Amphibious Assault and Tactical
Assault vessels were both being produced now at a rate of one every month, and
the newer class destroyers, including the Haizhou class, were being produced
at a rate that exceeded one a month, usually three every two months.
As impressive as those figures were regarding the production rate of the
vessels themselves, the key to the CAS and the GIR success remained the
production rate and the innovation of the LRASD weaponry, and now the newer
KS-3 anti-ballistic missiles and ta shih detectors for acquiring and targeting
America's stealth aircraft. All of the Admiral's major combatants carried the
LRASD, Killer Whales. Several of the newer ships, including both Mao class
carriers, two of the new Haizhou destroyers and two of his
Tactical assault vessels had been equipped with the latest KS-3 missiles and
the ta shih system before they departed on this mission. The Admiral was
hoping that the additional protection afforded by these systems would be
enough to counter what he was sure would be massive American air attacks aimed
at thwarting his mission and destroying his command.
But, as innovative and important as these last two systems were (the ABM
missiles and the anti-stealth systems), the largest single contributor to the
current and ongoing success in this war remained the
LRASD weaponry. In that regard, Admiral Yao Hsu had met Admiral Lu Pham on
numerous occasions.
Although Lu Pham, in keeping with his Vietnamese heritage, was a slight man,
there was an intensity in his eyes that could not be missed or ignored. Yao
knew that the success that China and her allies had experienced must be
credited to that man's genius. Nothing else that the Admiral could think of,
and he had spent many long months and years contemplating it, would have
allowed his nation's forces to meet and turn back the prowess of the U.S. Navy
as they had done thus far.
"It's amazing that Pham and his comrades at COSTIND are keeping out in front
of the Americans,"
thought the Admiral as he considered the technological battle that had been
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raging over those very weapons. Particularly as he considered the new variant
that his vessels carried on this mission that even now allowed him to know
much more about his enemy than he could otherwise have known. The
reconnaissance variant that was coated in sonar absorbing material, dove
deeper than any other LRASD
or American submarine available. It carried advanced ELF and VLF technology
for communications and
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traded all of its rocket fuel for conventional fuel to enhance its range and
loitering capabilities. Several of these devices were already out around
Midway Island, communicating the size and disposition of
American warships in the area back to the Admiral as they found them.
"No, it is little wonder that Lu Pham and COSTIND stay ahead of the Americans.
We have planned and prepared for these events for many years, even decades &
and the Americans have only in the last two years recognized their
vulnerability & and they are having a difficult time coming to terms with it,"
surmised the Admiral as he finally walked down into the CIC towards the knot
of officers which included the Captain of the Sun Tsu.
"Perhaps they will come to terms with it, and with us, after we take Midway
Island from them and after the other, even more ambitious goals of
Hung-Lu-Dong are realized further to the north."
June 13, 2008, 16:18 local time
GIR 1stArmy Group
65 Kilometers South of Kharkov
The Russian Federation
General Talabari reviewed in his mind the current planning and operations for
the 1stand 3rdGIR army groups in Europe. This group, now numbering close to
one million men, would continue moving north towards Kharkov and eventually
Moscow. That movement would ultimately form a great pincer in conjunction with
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