Chapter 903: Fireworks
"The 15th destroyer squadron is finished......"
Three general-purpose destroyers and two minesweeper anti-submarine destroyers, the Arleigh Burke-class and the Perry-class are among the lead ships of the US Navy. The Aegis system equipped with it is simply blown into the sky in terms of publicity, and those who don't know think that the US Navy is equipped with the energy shield defense equipment of the Zenith Star.
However, in fact, the Aegis system is equipped with only four SPG62 guidance radars, and the Ticonderoga class can track 16 targets, while the Arleigh Burke class can track 12 targets, and the Perry class only has point defense capabilities.
That is, the Aegis system is capable of intercepting up to 16 targets in one launch, and any more fire channels in the same combat area will not be enough. Generally, high-throw ballistic anti-ship and anti-radiation missiles have a speed of more than Mach 3, most of the cruise missiles at low altitude and sea-skimming are Mach 0.8, and the rocket engine can reach more than Mach 2, that is to say, the entire attack process is about three minutes.
These three minutes can be used to do a simple math problem, and it is known that the range of the Standard 2 is 74 kilometers and the speed is Mach 3. An oncoming Mach 3 high-throw ballistic anti-ship anti-radiation missile, after several repeated opposing encounters, will enter the interception near bound of Standard 2?
The answer is three times. The Aegis system has three interception processes available under the threat of high-speed anti-radiation missiles.
The three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers of the 15th destroyer squadron guided 12 missiles at a time, and 36 missiles three times. Even if the hit rate of Standard 2 is 100%, it is only 36 missiles intercepted - this is not counting the entire interception process may be less than a minute, and in the case of the enemy's leniency, it can be considered that three general-purpose destroyers are carrying out interception missions at the same time.
USS Curtis Wilbur, the smoke from the vertical launch unit on the bow deck has just been blown away by the sea breeze. The ship's air defense sirens were ringing non-stop, but all of a sudden, the flashing red lights began to freeze, and the piercing sirens had been lifted.
By the rules of the exercise, this meant that the Curtis Wilbur had lost its combat capability. After assessment, if it were a real battlefield, it would have been blown into thousands of holes by a cluster of anti-ship missiles.
The problem, however, is that the ship is actually intact. After suddenly relieving themselves from the tense state of fighting, many people have not yet recovered from their senses. Others, on the other hand, had already begun to run out of the cabin.
"Look, over there!"
In the 15th destroyer squadron, sailors ran out of the cabin, leaning on the railing or taking off their military caps to look up.
In the blue sky, there seemed to be a ruler at this time, and white draft lines were drawn on it. The endpoints of these lines are not so fast, and some are slowly climbing from the edge of the sky to the sky.
But then, the tails of these "endpoints" once again lit up with a bright yellow fire, not dazzling, and even a little warm. With the light of these fires, the speed of the endpoints suddenly began to increase, and then the tail rudder shook slightly, and it changed the course of the direct flight, and began to "fall" diagonally towards the sea.
A Japanese captain who was interning on an American warship couldn't help but think of a poem that was not so appropriate to the occasion when he saw this scene.
"The east wind blooms thousands of trees at night, and it blows down, and the stars are like rain!"
It is indeed like rain, and the men at sea have not seen storms and storms, but they still tremble from the bottom of their hearts when they really face such a scene.
"Impact Alert, Collision Posture, Impact Alarm, Collision Posture!"
In the face of the surging rain of missiles, some people even couldn't help but lie on the ground and howl and shout. Although intellectually knew that this was just a drill, even among those who were still standing, there was no one who did not feel a wave of weakness in their legs.
The phalanx system on the five destroyers began to strafe wildly, and tracer bullets seemed to be spread all over the sea, but it was like a sieve trying to catch the rain, which was simply a drop in the bucket. The fire of the destroyer's main guns and the sea sparrows of the point defense is simply connected.
Some seemingly brave sailors rushed to the machine gun positions on the side of the ship, roaring and maneuvering the M2 old godmother to shoot blindly into the sky.
All of a sudden, these five destroyers simply turned into five firepower hedgehogs, using all the ship's weapons.
One incoming missile after another exploded under the frenzied firepower. But the incoming missiles seemed endless, and the overwhelming offensive turned all efforts into a ridiculous death throes.
The firing elevation angle of the phalanx has been raised to the maximum, but the more it is at this stage, the more its firing cannot catch up with the missile.
Finally, after many obstacles, a missile is about to complete its mission. The speed of the dive attack makes it almost impossible to catch with the naked eye, and for most people, it is likely that they will not be aware of the moment it hits.
But this is only a drill after all.
Less than a kilometer away from the Curtis Wilbur, a missile that was not hit suddenly turned into a sea of fire.
Much of its wreckage was still thrown onto the battleship by inertia, and some screws and copper wires even hit the phased array radar on its side.
The sound of crackling resounded on the hull of the Curtis Wilbur like the rain hitting plantains on a summer night.
This time, it was really as if the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer had an energy shield, and one after another missiles "crashed" into the protective shield a kilometer away, and then turned into a sea of fire.
No, the entire 15th destroyer detachment was shrouded in this "protective shield" from being swallowed up by the incoming sea of missiles.
This seemed to be a reassuring sight, but it made the sailors of the Seventh Fleet even more chilled. Number Seven
Because they know that they don't have any "protective shields". These missiles, if in a real war, will definitely leave them dead without a place to bury.
The reason why they are still alive is only because the Chinese have not torn their skins.
This grand fireworks should be regarded as Ah Zhong's brother's support for his former idol.
After all, everyone grows up at a time.
The group of people who shouted at Van Vliet for wasting firepower back then now smashed hundreds of Rolls-Royces in one go without blinking.
The navies of the Seventh Fleet were already prepared to prevent the impact, but at this time, looking at the fireworks in the sky, they were a little unable to come back to their senses. It's spectacular, it's beautiful, but it's scary.
But for them, it's more of a relief. Whatever the outcome, the exercise is over for them.
From the battle sequence of the exercises, the 15th destroyer detachment has completely disappeared.
The north gate of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier formation has finally been completely opened to the Chinese aircraft fleet! At this time, most of the carrier-based aircraft wing of the Kitty Hawk has been stumped by the mission, and there is not much time left for Robert Nut.
The two regiments of the 1st Navy Division flanked the 51 Falcon Squadron in front and rear, the six fighters on the front line of the Sunset Squadron became blind and deaf under the threat of anti-radiation missiles, and the two attack squadrons of the 27 Attack Squadron were pulled to the sides, not to mention that the 27 Squadron mounted according to the anti-ship could not take up the air defense alert mission.
"I want the Eagle F-18 squadron to mount it with air superiority and take off immediately!"
Robert Nat's reaction was not unresponsive, but Captain Dolan next to him stood up at this time and shook his head slightly.
"Sir, the Kitty Hawk can no longer catapult the plane. He had already urgently catapulted thirty planes into the air during his previous operations. If you want to continue the ejection, you have to wait for it to fill the steam storage tank. ”
Robert Nat was stunned for a moment, gritted his teeth, and punched the chart table hard.
"Let the 27 Strike Squadron come back, they still have at least the Sparrows to use, and the F-14 of the four Sunset Squadrons escorting them!
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Robert Nat wanted to withdraw the two hands that had hit the man and close his open door. But we Chinese have an old saying, the hand is two doors, all rely on the leg to hit people!"
"Let the empty division and the white swan play, no need to hide and tuck!"
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The 27 Squadron received an order from Robert Nat, and the Seventh Fleet quickly began to adjust its deployment. The detachments that were originally in the south and east wanted to return to help at this time, and they could only pin their hopes on the Royal Hammer squadron that had already been released.
"Shoot the anti-ship missiles out and return to the waters of the 15th destroyer squadron to prepare for a possible air raid by the Chinese." ”
"You must hold out until the Kitty Hawk re-replenishes the ejection pressure, and the safety of the whole fleet is on you!"
"Understood, Royal Hammer Squadron, launch anti-ship missiles, and then turn back to the front line of Jeju Island!"
The helpless Royal Hammer Squadron had no choice but to throw out all its main weapons, Harpoon anti-ship missiles, at a non-threatening distance, and then urgently approached Jeju Island with afterburner.
These F-18s don't have to worry about the range, even if there is no fuel, they can turn right and land at the air base of the US military stationed in South Korea.
"Base, this is Hawkeye!"
Before the Royal Hammer squadron arrived at the position, a group of dense green dots suddenly appeared on Hawkeye's radar display.
The flat-headed eighth master, who was originally grinding foreign workers with the Sunset Squadron, retired after fighting the anti-radiation bomb he brought, went out and turned left and returned to the airport in Shandong to land.
The Sunset Squadron, which thought it could breathe a sigh of relief, suddenly found that a batch of high-speed threat signals suddenly appeared at low altitudes on their left and right sides.
These threat signals of low-altitude and high-speed approach obviously took advantage of the Shandong Peninsula and the land of Samcheon and Haeju in North Korea to cover the breakthrough of the defense by low-altitude terrain, and took advantage of the negligence of the radar shutdown during the confrontation between the Sunsetr Squadron and the flat-headed eight masters, and went around to a favorable position.
This kind of work is not capable of the second-generation aircraft, it must be the third-generation aircraft of the Chinese!
In the cockpit of the Sunset Squadron's F-14D, the radar lock alarm sound is frantically sounding at this time.