Chapter 44 Missiles and Shells
The footage of Haihongqi 9 hitting the Russian ship was transmitted by the Kunming ship to other ships at the same time. After seeing this, the officers and men on the other ships were also in high spirits, but the two missiles were both fired by the Kunming, which made the officers and men on the other ships also have some itching, hoping that it would be their turn to launch the missiles next.
On the Xiangyang ship, which first received the order from the headquarters, the officers and men were excited, and the captain Xie Fuzhan waved his fist twice excitedly, and then immediately ordered the ship's water guidance department to immediately prepare to launch the YJ-83 anti-ship missile.
Because the launch of the missile is guided by the Kunming ship, it can save the Xiangyang ship a lot of effort, and it only needs to connect the ballistic data transmitted by the Kunming ship into the missile launch system of the ship, and the tracking and guidance after the launch are actually completed by the Kunming ship, and it is completely ignored after launch.
Therefore, with Xie Fuzhan's order, dense smoke and flames erupted from the quadruple oblique arm missile launch box at the rear of the Xiangyang ship, and a YJ-83 anti-ship missile came out of the box, flew forward against the sea surface, and disappeared into the night after a while. Subsequently, the Kunming guided the Huaihua ship and launched an Eagle Strike 83 anti-ship missile.
The YJ-83 anti-ship missile is subsonic, has a slow flight speed, and flies over the sea, so when it entered the Dagukou wharf area, it was discovered by many soldiers of the coalition forces. Although they still didn't understand what kind of weapon it was, the soldiers of the coalition army knew that this was by no means a good thing, and many soldiers shouted: "Here it is, here it is, here it is, the fire-breathing shells are here again." ”
Listening only to the two sounds of "boom, boom", the two YJ-83 anti-ship missiles hit their respective targets one after another, and this time they all hit the side of the two Russian ships.
The warhead of the YJ-83 anti-ship missile is a semi-armor-piercing and semi-high-explosive type, although the difference between the armor-piercing projectile and the armor-piercing projectile is one word, but they are two completely different types of ammunition, the armor-piercing projectile mainly relies on the propellant to push out the barrel at high speed, and the kinetic energy of the projectile penetrates the armor and destroys the target's shell. It is characterized by high muzzle velocity, large direct firing distance and high shooting accuracy. The armor-piercing bullet is the abbreviation of the hollow-charge armor-piercing projectile, the front end of the projectile is a cavity, and the rear part is filled with high-intensity and high-power explosives. The explosive is hollow funnel-shaped, equipped with copper or other materials with good toughness and large specific gravity, and forms a high-speed shaped metal jet to ablate the target armor when exploding, with extremely high specific kinetic energy, and penetrates the armor by the armor-piercing flow, steel armor metal fragments, etc., to kill the crew and target in the armor with high kinetic energy. The semi-armor-piercing and semi-high-explosive warhead combines the strengths of two types of warheads, with the armor-piercing warhead penetrating the armored target, and then the high-explosive warhead exploding in the armor.
The side armor of the Russian is thin, so after the YJ-83 anti-ship missile hit the Russian, it immediately penetrated into the hull, and then immediately produced a huge explosion, a 12,000-ton giant ship, was actually washed up four or five meters high by the huge explosion, and then fell deep into the sea, the stirred up waves almost submerged the ship's side, and on the side was blown open a large gap more than ten meters wide, all the way to below the waterline, and dozens of Russian soldiers in the cabin near the explosion were all blown up to flesh and blood, fragmented, and at the same time a large amount of seawater frantically poured into the hull。
Although another YJ-83 anti-ship missile also hit the side of the Sisoy, the waterline armor as thick as 400 mm played an excellent protective role, and the armor-piercing warhead failed to penetrate the heavy armor. The soldiers and crews of the two Russian ships immediately began to repair the pipe damage, desperately plugging the leakage and draining the water, hoping to save the warship.
The picture of the results of the battle was transmitted back to the Kunming ship, Xiao Jianjun nodded, and said: "In the end, it is a battleship, that is, it has rough skin and thick flesh, and its survivability is not ordinarily strong, this is only a battleship of just over 10,000 tons, if it is replaced by a large battleship of 50,000 or 60,000 tons in the future, such as the Bismarck, Yamato, and Iowa, it is estimated that the YJ-83 can only give them an itch." ”
Qin Zheng said: "Don't say that battleships like Bismarck, Yamato, and Iowa are the armor of dreadnoughts, and I'm afraid it's not something that the Eagle Strike 83 can penetrate, you must know that the current armor is only forged armor, and in a few years, it will be replaced with high-strength armor with carburizing and hardening on the surface." ”
Xia Bohai said: "It will take five or six years for the dreadnoughts to come out, and as for the Bismarck, Yamato, and Iowa, it will take forty or fifty years, and by then we may have been able to build a new Kunming ship, so let's care about the battle in front of us first." ”
Qin Zheng said: "I see that the Sisoi has been hit by two missiles, even if it is unsinkable, there is only half a life left, and it is estimated that there is not much combat power left, we can try to capture the Sisoi, this is a battleship, if it can be captured and used by us, it is still quite useful to us." ”
Xiao Jianjun said: "Although the Sisoi has been heavily damaged, there is no sign of sinking now, and the artillery has not suffered losses, the Sisoi is equipped with a 305 mm caliber gun, no matter which warship we take, as long as we take a shot, I'm afraid there is only half a life left, so we can't take it lightly." ”
Xia Bohai also nodded and said, " Yes, even ten Sisoi can't withstand the loss of any of our warships, so we must sink Sisoi to ensure the safety of our fleet, as for the capture of Sissoi, I don't think there is no other way, we will sink Sisoi first, and then salvage and repair it, in fact, not only Sisoi, but also other warships, now all warships are parked at the dock, the water depth is not deep, and the difficulty of waterlogging is not great, although it is a little troublesome, but this is the safest way. ”
Xiao Jianjun said: "This is a solution, then launch another Haihongqi 9 missile." ”
A third Haihongqi 9 missile fell from the sky, this time hitting the front of the rear main gun of the battleship Sisoi, and the missile exploded deep into the deck, spreading to the ammunition depot below the turret, causing a large explosion in the compartment of the Sisoi. The rear main gun was thrown into the sky by a fierce explosion, and finally fell into the sea, and the entire aft deck was almost blown beyond recognition.
Although the hull of the Sisoi was not blown through, many armor on the side of the hull were cracked and seeped, although the crew worked hard to drain and repair, but there were too many places to seep water, and the quality of the Russian Navy was not high, and another important reason was that all the Russian soldiers killed in the first battle of Hejiawan Village came from the Sisoi, and the coalition forces were organized to attack Hejiawan Village, and more than 100 people were transferred from the Sisoi, and the whole ship was reduced by more than one-fifth of the personnel.
As a result, the speed of displacement could not keep up with the speed of water intake, and the water in the hull became more and more accumulated, and the Sisoi was sinking little by little. At this time, the armored cruiser of the Russians on the side had already tilted to the bottom of the seat, but the water depth of the dock was indeed not deep, so the Russians did not completely sink to the bottom, and most of the deck was sunk into the sea.
After the third Haihongqi-9 missile hit the target, the headquarters went through seven or eight minutes of splitting the picture transmitted by the drone, and it was determined that the Sisoi had basically lost its combat effectiveness and there was no need to launch the fourth missile. So Xia Bohai gave the order and ordered all ships to advance side by side to a position about ten kilometers away from the dock and shell the ships anchored at the pier. He also ordered the Changbaishan ship to prepare for a landing operation.
About 20 minutes later, the fleet entered the artillery attack range, and Xia Bohai first ordered the Kunming ship to turn on the phased array radar to monitor the sea and air operations, and at the same time ordered the Yueyang and Sanya ships to be on alert.
Because entering the distance of 10 kilometers means also entering the range of the coalition artillery, and now the coalition ships have a total of more than 20 naval guns with a caliber of more than 200 mm, although the two largest warships, the Sisoy and the Russian, have basically lost their combat effectiveness, but there are about 15 naval guns with a caliber of more than 200 millimeters, which are the British armored cruiser Orlando, The armored cruiser Alola was each equipped with a twin 234 mm gun, and the German Lufthansa and Hertha were each equipped with two single 210 mm guns.
The Kunming is known as the "China Aegis" II generation, which corresponds to the Arleigh Burke II-class missile destroyer equipped with the "Aegis" system in the United States, and actually means "the Chinese version of the Aegis destroyer."
The word "shield" does not refer to the super armor protection of the warship, but refers to the fact that the warship is equipped with a powerful phased array radar, which can monitor the flying targets in the airspace of the area in all directions without dead ends, and it is mainly based on defending against missiles, and is also equipped with powerful machine calculations and data links, which can identify dozens or even more missile targets at the same time, and guide the air defense missiles of other warships on the ship and in the fleet to carry out defensive operations, which is equivalent to giving the warship an invisible protective shield.
Moreover, compared with the old passive phased array radar used by the US "Aegis" destroyer, because the Kunming is the latest warship and is equipped with a new active phased array radar that is more advanced and more powerful, there is a generation gap between the two in terms of pure technology. It's just that the US "Aegis" destroyers have rich experience in actual combat, while the Kunming has not yet undergone actual combat tests.
However, in this time and space, the Kunming ship finally got the opportunity to show its skills, and at this time turned on the phased array radar, which was actually monitoring the shells as missiles.
Pay attention to the official QQ public account "17K Novel Network" (ID: love17k), read the latest chapters first, and grasp the latest information at any time