Chapter 1028: Serpentine Maneuver
Obviously, these lights on the fishing boats on the sea are used to adjust the course of the aircraft for the pilot. In fact, this backward method is of little use, and its symbolism is more than practical, and it is more to give the pilots who fly in the long dark night a psychological comfort: you can go home safely.
By this time, Rear Admiral Cartier had taken over the direct command of the fleet.
The chief of staff, Bayerden, disappointed the officers and men too much, and before the war, he talked about it and looked like he was in a good place, but as soon as the battle broke out, he immediately coaxed, except for shouting and shouting.
Cartier calmly ordered: "The frigate Lafayette immediately leaves the queue at high speed and moves in the direction of the enemy's missile attack! You must give the entire fleet as much warning distance as possible, fire all the fire on the short-range defense, and you must stop all the missiles flying towards the task force! The other ships of the task force immediately prepare for air defense, and at the same time reduce the speed of the fleet's advance, but the power remains the same, and they are ready to maneuver at any time." In addition, I would like to ask the Navy Command to order nearby ships to move closer to me and help salvage my overboard crew!"
It has to be said that Major General Cartier was a very cautious and calm commander.
His current order was the best thing he could do. Although it may not be useful for him to order the frigate Lafayette to go at high speed to meet the missile, at this time he can only use this frigate as cannon fodder. Because the corvette is the fastest, it has quite a few anti-aircraft machine guns on it, capable of forming a network of fire against missiles that are already close to it. Moreover, its departure can help the officers and men of the fleet to provide a good psychological comfort, so that the officers and soldiers behind them know that there are people in front of them to protect them.
Some of the officers and men on the frigate Lafayette were in different mentalities, and some officers and men knew that their warship was going to die, but they had this consciousness and were also mentally prepared for this.
At most, they smiled bitterly, cursed a stupid superior in their hearts, cursed the chief of staff Bayerden for not dying well, and then carried out their duties conscientiously and responsibly.
Some officers and men do not have such a good mentality, nor do they have such a high consciousness: Nima, they are all soldiers, why should we be held responsible for the mistakes of our commanders? Why should we be damned, and why should we help you block bullets in the front?
Some people scolded, some people slacked work, and some refused to carry out orders......
Of course, there were many officers and soldiers who were simply frightened, just staring blankly at the dark night sky, not knowing what to do, trembling all over their bodies, and speaking incoherently......
The commanders on the frigate island were not so unbearable, and most of their officers and men still performed their jobs.
Under the shroud of darkness, the people on the ship island did not feel that the frigate was currently moving at high speed, and they could only know that the warship was sailing at high speed by seeing the relevant data from the instrument and display screen.
In the radar room, the radar crew kept a close eye on the screen, constantly reporting the various parameters of the 20 anti-ship missiles flying straight into the sky: altitude, azimuth, speed......
There were also quite a few officers and men on the machine gun positions on both sides of the warship who were on alert with their guns, their eyes staring at the dark and dreary night sky, staring at the direction of the incoming missiles, and ready to fire bullets at any time, although they could not see anything now, and their hearts were extremely nervous, and the index finger holding the trigger not only trembled, but sometimes they had to withdraw their index finger from the trigger guard, for fear that they would accidentally press the trigger and cause early fire. As for the sirens that rang through the sky, they had turned a deaf ear.
They were nervous, and the officers and men in the radar room were even more nervous. Due to the continuous work, the eyes of these radar soldiers were already a little tired, but they held on so hard that they did not dare to blink their eyelids, and not only reported the parameters of the anti-ship missile: "...... , at a distance of 45 kilometers, at a speed of 900 kilometers, with an azimuth of 34 and an altitude of 2,500 meters...... , no, they are diving, one thousand three, one thousand two, one thousand, eight hundred, six hundred, four hundred...... Report, missiles disappear!"
Missiles were lost on the radar screen!
When the radar caught the missile just now, it was when the missile was climbing and preparing for the final acceleration dive, and the time was only a few seconds. Now they have swooped down from a high point and entered the blind spot of radar scanning and flew close to the sea, so the radar soldiers naturally could not see it.
However, no one in the warship suspected that the missile did not rush over, especially the officers who knew the characteristics of the anti-ship missile were even more pale and drenched in cold sweat at this time, and their faces were full of fear and surprise: the anti-ship missile has entered the final supersonic serpentine stage!
Neither anti-aircraft missiles nor anti-aircraft machine guns will be able to shoot it down, unless a real barrage is formed on the side of the warship.
But how easy is it to really form a barrage? Not to mention the need for a large number of bullets, where are there so many anti-aircraft machine guns and high-speed small-caliber guns? Where are there so many soldiers to operate?
In their opinion, the only way is to silently pray to God, hoping that these missiles will miss their targets, or pass by the warship, and if they can't do it, they will simply hit their own bodies, so that they can become minced meat at the moment of the missile's explosion, and they can die without pain.
The most unfortunate thing for those on the warship is not death, but being grilled by the flames of the warship, watching their limbs burn like torches but not dying for a while, they can only wail in pain and in vain. At that time, I really hoped that someone would shoot me in the head to end the unbearable pain and fear quickly.
Unlike the officers who knew how to do it, the officers and men who were on the sides of the board were much calmer.
"Look!" suddenly shouted one of the soldiers, "Tunia's missiles are coming!"
The voice was like an order, and these officers and men quickly aimed their anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns at the direction of the incoming missiles, and meticulously poured bullets.
The tail flame of the FJ-881 missile was very conspicuous in the dark night sky, and the soldier who was the first to see the missile with the naked eye and shouted stopped firing at this time, staring blankly at the floating Grim Reaper: it would be right and left, and it would be up and down, and it was impossible to predict its position.
As the light of the missile's tail flame gradually increased, the soldier's pupils became more and more dilated!
Because the missiles fly too low, and the deck of the warship is far higher than the flight altitude of the missiles, and at the same time, the role of anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns is for air defense, and its elevation angle is designed to be at least five degrees or more.
If a soldier wants to hit a missile flying close to the sea, he must remove the anti-aircraft machine gun or small-caliber anti-aircraft gun from the base and place them on the outer edge of the deck.
But how can it be done in a short time, and even if it is done for a while, how can machine guns and anti-aircraft guns be fixed?
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