Nippon Readies the Fleets
August 16, 2022

The helicopter carriers of the Nippon Maritime Forces have undergone full conversion--no longer staging grounds for rotorcraft, they now serve their true purpose: launching jet fighters into the Pacific skies. Their decks now carry a formidable loadout--2nd and 4th generation Anti-Surface Warfare aircraft and versatile 3rd generation multirole fighters.

The Nippon fleet currently has 5 carriers, 2 missile cruisers, 32 destroyers, 37 frigates, and 13 corvettes. Approximately 24 ships come from purchases with the U.S. Naval Command headquartered in Alaska.

The ships are split into six fleets, five of which will be patrolling the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea. The sixth and largest fleet, comprised of the bulk of the Nippon surface fleet, will act as the strike force, to pursue the main Shina fleet(s) as they appear and are spotted by the smaller patrol fleets.

Meanwhile, the submarine fleets will carry out convoy raiding operations in the aforementioned seas, to strike at any Shina troop transports that are spotted.

Every landing craft sunk delays an invasion. Every convoy destroyed chips away at the enemy’s momentum.

The seas are vast. The fleets are preparing. War looms.