Bering Strait: This is the Future of War by FX Holden

Author:FX Holden [Holden, FX]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2018-11-01T07:00:00+00:00

Yevgeny Bondarev had a broad smile on his face as he stood in his own operations room, eyes running over reports of the morning’s operations and bomb damage assessments. Around him, his staff were going about the business of destroying the US armed forces’ ability to respond to the planned landing in Nome.

He had been ordered to achieve air supremacy, not just air superiority. Air superiority meant temporary control of the airspace over an operations area. Supremacy meant the effective destruction of the enemy’s ability to oppose the operations of friendly forces. The Russian commanders were not dreamers, they knew Lukin’s 3rd Air and Air Defense Forces Command could not defeat the entire US Army, Navy and Air Force once it had been completely mobilized. But it had to establish dominance of the air for the duration of the invasion and that meant creating an effective air-front over Alaska all the way to the Canadian border so that any attempt by the US to penetrate Alaskan airspace resulted in the complete destruction of American aircraft in the combat area.

The airfield denial operations against the two major US Air Force bases in Alaska had been a spectacular success, with the first wave of missiles being intercepted but performing their task of overwhelming the American defensive systems so that the second wave of mine laying cluster munition armed warheads would be able to penetrate. Russia had learned through many wars that blowing holes in enemy airfields was a pointless exercise, because even a twenty-foot crater blown in a concrete runway by a deep penetrator bomb could be filled in a matter of hours and overlaid with metal mesh patches so that flight operations could quickly resume.

So the Bra-Mos III missiles that had made it through the defensive perimeter of Elmendorf Richardson and Eielson air bases had streaked across the airfield scattering thousands of area-denial anti-personnel and anti-vehicle mines. Within seconds each airfield was littered with 5.5lb RDX explosive armed proximity-triggered submunitions. Once the mines were scattered, the missiles buried themselves in their terminal targets - usually hangars, radars and control and command facilities. It might only take a few hours to fill a crater or get a new mobile command center up and running, but it would take days to clear all of the unexploded mines at the two air bases.

He had lost none of his Su-57s or Okhotniks, but all six Backfire bombers had been quickly shot down. That had been expected and their pilots and crews had been volunteers, knowing the mission would likely result in their deaths. Bondarev wasn’t sentimental, but the sacrifice of such men in the service of their nation stirred his blood. He would use their example to encourage his own men to do their utmost.

With no US carrier task force within range, that meant that unless Canada allowed the US to base its aircraft out of British Columbia, America had to fly its combat aircraft from airfields in Oregon, Washington State and Idaho, and ten

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