Post by shark on Apr 12, 2012 0:26:26 GMT
figured I'd get around to doing this while I have some time. I'll be giving a fictional naval battle between force X and force Y. The year is 1975, X is invading a coastal city held by Y. X has significantly greater funds, firepower, and tech, so it'll be an asymmetrical battle, much like that between an owned nation and an unowned nation.
Force X begins the invasion at midnight with by securing the bay outside the city. X sends in 40 small boats with AA capabilities, 20 destroyers, 2 battleships and a carrier holding a mix of air superiority jets and ground attack jets. The small boats spread out to protect from enemy fighters, and the destroyers spread out and move forward to engage enemy ships. The battleships will hang back and use their superior primary armament to bombard the city.
Y's navy consists of a WWII era battleship and a handful of destroyers. They will be supplemented by 45 ageing prop-driven fighters. The battleship immediately engages the enemy battleships, and the destroyers move forward to stop the enemy destroyers from advancing. fighters fly out to perform strafing runs against enemy ships.
Battleship Y is destroyed quickly. Recent advances in metallurgy give X's battleships superior destructive potential, and the greater amount of guns between two ships doom battleship Y. One of X's battleships is severely damaged, however, as a shot from battleship Y strikes it's bow. While the battleship's strong armour prevents fatal damage, it will need to be repaired before it is battle-worthy and leaves the battle.
Y's destroyers fare better than their battleship. by grouping together, they are able to sink 11 of the spread out destroyers by co-ordinating their cannon fire, losing only 2 of their own. Unfortunately, by this time battleship Y has been destroyed, and the remaining Battleship X turns it's main cannons on the destroyers of force Y. While it is improbable to score a direct hit on a relatively small boat at this range, the area effect sinks a Y destroyer. The closing in of enemy destroyers coupled with the destruction caused by the battleship force Y destroyers to disperse. They are quickly sunk by pursuing X forces.
X's small boats manage to avoid this chaos, and attack approaching Y fighters. They are fairly successful, as the enemy fighters are flying low to exploit the ground effect. however, the large cannons on the prop fighters damage 5 small boats enough that 30 fighters are able to escape the reach of the X ships.
hearing about the presence of enemy fighters, X air superiority fighters fly out to meet them. Because of their advanced jet engines, the jet fighters quickly catch up to the Y fighters. However, in part because X's pilots are unused to fighting slow, maneuverable prop fighters. they overshoot their targets, and Force Y is able to cut down 7 enemy planes with their autocannons. Y fighters also fire a barrage from their rocket pods against their foe, but the unguided rockets only coincidentally take down 1 jet fighter. X fighter's swing back around, and do another run at the slow Y fighters. This time, they take down 14 of the prop-driven fighters. By this time, the fighters have reached the remaining battleship. Y fighters do significant damage to the deck of battleship X, but are ultimately destroyed by a combination of AA fire from the battleship and fire from the X fighters.
Force X won this battle not because of superior strategy, but because of greater numbers and better tech. Because most poor nations are able to field much greater armies than navies or airforces, it is likely that Force X would suffer great losses on the ground, once they enter the city. As it is, they have already lost much more than a wealthy nation would deem acceptable for such a battle.
(I kind of messed the format up, I put a lot of the explanation paragraph in the battle paragraphs.)
Force X begins the invasion at midnight with by securing the bay outside the city. X sends in 40 small boats with AA capabilities, 20 destroyers, 2 battleships and a carrier holding a mix of air superiority jets and ground attack jets. The small boats spread out to protect from enemy fighters, and the destroyers spread out and move forward to engage enemy ships. The battleships will hang back and use their superior primary armament to bombard the city.
Y's navy consists of a WWII era battleship and a handful of destroyers. They will be supplemented by 45 ageing prop-driven fighters. The battleship immediately engages the enemy battleships, and the destroyers move forward to stop the enemy destroyers from advancing. fighters fly out to perform strafing runs against enemy ships.
Battleship Y is destroyed quickly. Recent advances in metallurgy give X's battleships superior destructive potential, and the greater amount of guns between two ships doom battleship Y. One of X's battleships is severely damaged, however, as a shot from battleship Y strikes it's bow. While the battleship's strong armour prevents fatal damage, it will need to be repaired before it is battle-worthy and leaves the battle.
Y's destroyers fare better than their battleship. by grouping together, they are able to sink 11 of the spread out destroyers by co-ordinating their cannon fire, losing only 2 of their own. Unfortunately, by this time battleship Y has been destroyed, and the remaining Battleship X turns it's main cannons on the destroyers of force Y. While it is improbable to score a direct hit on a relatively small boat at this range, the area effect sinks a Y destroyer. The closing in of enemy destroyers coupled with the destruction caused by the battleship force Y destroyers to disperse. They are quickly sunk by pursuing X forces.
X's small boats manage to avoid this chaos, and attack approaching Y fighters. They are fairly successful, as the enemy fighters are flying low to exploit the ground effect. however, the large cannons on the prop fighters damage 5 small boats enough that 30 fighters are able to escape the reach of the X ships.
hearing about the presence of enemy fighters, X air superiority fighters fly out to meet them. Because of their advanced jet engines, the jet fighters quickly catch up to the Y fighters. However, in part because X's pilots are unused to fighting slow, maneuverable prop fighters. they overshoot their targets, and Force Y is able to cut down 7 enemy planes with their autocannons. Y fighters also fire a barrage from their rocket pods against their foe, but the unguided rockets only coincidentally take down 1 jet fighter. X fighter's swing back around, and do another run at the slow Y fighters. This time, they take down 14 of the prop-driven fighters. By this time, the fighters have reached the remaining battleship. Y fighters do significant damage to the deck of battleship X, but are ultimately destroyed by a combination of AA fire from the battleship and fire from the X fighters.
Force X won this battle not because of superior strategy, but because of greater numbers and better tech. Because most poor nations are able to field much greater armies than navies or airforces, it is likely that Force X would suffer great losses on the ground, once they enter the city. As it is, they have already lost much more than a wealthy nation would deem acceptable for such a battle.
(I kind of messed the format up, I put a lot of the explanation paragraph in the battle paragraphs.)
