Chapter 644: How Many Years Have You Been Hurting Your Muscles and Bones?
Not far from the core of the U.S. imperialist fleet, there was a burning Perry-class frigate, and farther away near the British fleet, the huge explosion was even more terrifying.
However, the current US imperialists don't have the heart to care about what happened to the British Niuniu, and there are more than a dozen 801 missiles in front of them that have broken through the two-layer defense circle of the Sea Sparrow and Perry-level meat shields, and the power of this thing has been fully demonstrated when the Perry-class explosion just now.
So how can the two current aircraft carriers avoid being hit?
Several cruisers also used their bodies to block the front of the aircraft carrier needlessly, and they also had their own phalanx close defense system, and in the face of these incoming anti-ship missiles, it was more direct that a dense barrage was fired out.
Even if the 801 missiles flying at high subsonic speeds are defended by seven or eight phalanxes, at least half of the missiles will be blown up in the air by volleys, and there are only five missiles left that actually enter the inner layer.
Now it's okay, all the means of the US imperialism have been exhausted, and the multi-layered defense means are still directly penetrating the entire defense system under the saturation attack, and the target of these missiles is the aircraft carrier in the distance, but now between the aircraft carrier and the missile are the Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Spruance-class destroyers, these guys are all 7,000, or even tens of thousands of tons.
Counting up, the United States has already deployed two aircraft carriers in place in the waters of the Persian Gulf at this time, and one is walking slowly on the road, but this is definitely a lot. The two aircraft carriers are the USS Midway and the USS Assaulter, both of which are conventionally powered old ships that have been in service for decades by the US imperialists.
But even so. It will be very difficult for the C-801 to sink these two warships, and they will need to break through the almost airtight meat shield before they can do so. Flanked by the Midway were a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, the USS Bunker Hill, and a Spruance-class cruiser, the USS Briscoe. Of the last five missiles, three were aimed at the USS Midway.
Not to mention the rest, I heard three explosions in almost two seconds before and after, and I knew that someone must have been shot, and if I looked closely, it was really true.
It must be admitted that the large tonnage of the warship is advantageous, and the carrying line can carry all three missiles, the heroic destroyer DD-977 Brisco resisted two 802 missiles in the explosion, and the other was caught by the more powerful Bunker Hill.
After all, Briscoe is a 7,000-ton destroyer, no longer a 4,000-ton frigate like the previous Perry-class. So after resisting two missiles, it was still strong and strong, although the bow and stern of the ship were each shot, but it didn't seem to be lucky enough to blow up any important weapons, oil depots and the like.
The 7,000-ton Brisco resisted two missiles, and the 10,000-ton Bunker Hill seemed to have no reason to be sunk.
American imperialism has always been a typical example of being rich and handsome. Especially in the navy, it is famous for pretending, starting from Spruance is a high bridge, which is built with a high sea view, of course. This reason became the need to install a large shield on all sides in order to install a large shield on all sides, so the bridge was built so high.
High has the benefit of being high. Nature also has downsides, which is not. The only 801 to hit the Bunker Hill hit the warship's bridge headlong, and it was easy and pleasant to hit the bridge from the side. After the explosion, the entire bridge was destroyed.
There is the command center of the Aegis system, the most important of the entire warship, and there are expensive two-sided shields here, and the damage caused after hitting is not small at all, but fortunately, this warship is not a superstructure made of aluminum alloy, and after being hit, it was not burned to the end like the Type 42 destroyer in the Falklands naval battle.
The Bunker Hill, which has so many excellent designs, will certainly not sink the warship after eating a single missile, but there is nothing wrong with counting it as a serious injury.
Woohoo, this is a cruiser that was only in service in 87 years, and in less than 4 years, it has to be said that it will be pulled back to the shipyard for overhaul, and judging from the current damage situation, I am afraid that it is indispensable to directly replace the bridge module as a whole, which is really tragic enough.
The two meat shields here lived up to expectations, carrying all three missiles down, and the other Raider was not so lucky, its meat shield didn't seem to be very competent, and one of the two missiles that flew over flew over from the front deck of the meat shield, hitting the hull of the Raider, while the other flew along the same path, but it hit the MK45-0 127mm naval gun installed on the bow deck quite strongly, and an explosion knocked off the turret of this gun, and then there was no follow-up.
What is the Raider? As the third ship of the first type of aircraft carrier designed by the United States after the war, the Forrestal class, numbered CV-61 conventionally powered aircraft carrier, has a full load displacement of 80,000 tons, and has already taken the prototype of the American supercarrier.
The missile hit the floating part of the middle of the hull, but because the angle of the floating part was too large, it actually gave a ricochet effect, and the missile changed its trajectory in this way. Fortunately, this supercarrier is an aircraft carrier after all, and the hull is really quite large, even if there are some ricochets, but in the end it still hits the aircraft carrier, but this time it hits directly below the waterline, and the huge hole looks quite exciting.
Seawater began to pour into the hull of the ship non-stop, but the damage management operation of this US imperialist warship is indeed worthy of being the first in the world, and the water inlet compartment was sealed at the first time, so there was no subsequent collateral damage to the entire warship, and even this guy continued to act on his own power, and the speed was not slow at all.
It can be seen that this is the final harvest of this saturation attack, at least the US imperialists have borne it with not too much loss. Although the damage to the entire fleet is not small, it is just a drop in the bucket for others.
Just when I thought that the effect of this operation against US imperialism would be like this. In the distance, the bow of the Brisco, which had been hit by two missiles, came out with a screeching sound of grinding and tearing between the steel, starting from the hole in the bow of the missile. Huge cracks began to widen.
Looking horrified at the widening crack in the bow of the ship, everyone knew that this was the rhythm of the hull being torn in two, and after a few minutes of rapid personnel transfer, the last connection between the bow and the hull was also torn, and then, everyone watched as the bow slowly sank into the water.
But to tell the truth, the Spraus-class destroyer is absolutely excellent in carrying and sinking, with the bow torn in two and the stern flooded. It was still so hung and did not sink, but quietly lost power and floated on the surface of the Persian Gulf Sea.
This has to be reminiscent of the last real Yàn ship of the U.S. Digov, that guy is also a Spruance-class destroyer, and after being decommissioned, it was used as a real Yàn ship to verify the anti-sinking technology, and the situation at that time was even worse than now, but it was also floating on the water for a long time before it finally sank.
Well, now the U.S. imperialists definitely don't need to sink the Goff anymore to do the real thing, and the current Briscoe is the most typical actual combat verification of the excellent sinking resistance of the U.S. imperialist warships. If the US imperialists were smarter and the US Propaganda Department was not suddenly possessed by rabbits, then it would not have been able to seize the opportunity to trumpet the excellent anti-sinking properties of its warships. The best of the best
The most hated statistics of the losses of the US imperialists on the entire battlefield: first, a cutting-edge cruiser was seriously damaged, a destroyer was almost no longer necessary to be treated, and two Perry-class frigates were also put in. It is considered to be the largest damage to the US imperialist navy after World War II, and it can be seen that there is a good show this time.
And the same. The British cattle on the other side were also very lucky, and now only an explosion was heard. I don't know what warship was blown up, but the fleet sent by Britain this time should be of the same configuration as the expedition to Argentina eight years ago, with 42 destroyers and Type 22 frigates still being the main force of air defense, and Invincible-class aircraft carriers doing some miscellaneous tasks.
So is it really the hard Type 42 that has been blown up this time? If this is the case, the reputation of this Type 42 will really be ruined, and even the reputation of the British Navy will be trampled in the toilet.
Looking at the British Navy here, it is really like a dead parent, the Type 42 destroyers and Type 22 frigates on the sea are all floating on the sea unscathed, but no one can be happy, there is a last burning giant ship in the center of the small circle surrounded by these warships.
The so-called main warship of the Royal Navy in active service refers to the invincible-class aircraft carrier that has just completed the construction of the last ship, a total of three of which have been built, and the Invincible was lucky to be put into service in 80 years, and two years later just formed a combat capability on a bullish expedition, and finally returned home in triumph.
As for the follow-up excellence, the Royal Ark was forced to be hard, and after it was built, it could only be without any record in the body, until the start of the Gulf War, the Royal Ark came to the Persian Gulf battlefield, ready to mix some military merits with the large army, but what I didn't expect was that the military merits were not mixed, and the missiles were not less.
What is the anti-air defense capability of the British naval fleet? The Type 42 frigate has proven itself "excellent" in the Falklands Naval Battle, but fortunately, it did not use medium and long-range air defense systems this time, and it was the short-range air defense and anti-missile systems that played the greatest role, but it is a pity that the British Type 42 and 22 warships were really not good in close defense operations.
The Type 22 Seawolf missile is a short-range point defense anti-aircraft missile that looks a little better, but it is much weaker than the Sea Sparrow of the US imperialists, and the short-range machine gun air defense weapons are even far behind, basically the same level as the Republic Navy, except that the British use 20 machine guns and the Republic use 23 machine guns.
As for the big killer weapon like the Phalanx, only the last batch of Type 22 was equipped with the Dutch Goalkeeper Close Defense System, which is quite good, but the problem is that only two of the four Type 22 ships in the last batch came this time, and there are only two close defense systems in total.
In the face of a medium-saturation attack of 24 801 missiles, such a chilling close defense system can be regarded as using a lot of effort to intercept six missiles, and the British Navy does not have the same rules as the United States, requiring frigates and destroyers to rush to the side of the aircraft carrier to carry the line at a critical moment.
In the eyes of the British Empire, everyone is equal, and there is certainly no distinction between high and low ships, so why should I sacrifice myself to carry the line for you? In addition, the full row of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal is only an aircraft carrier of more than 2 tons, it is not a supercarrier of the US imperialists, and it is not too expensive to say that it is not too expensive than these destroyers, so naturally it cannot enjoy this treatment.
In this way, all 18 801 missiles beckoned to the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, the size of the 20,000-ton aircraft carrier is actually not small, and there are really few missiles that missed the target in the end, and the crackling explosion sound is like frying beans in the belly of the aircraft carrier
Therefore, there is now only one bridge mast visible at the end of the aircraft carrier, and there are some flammable materials swaying in the wind on the sea, and it must be as miserable as it can be.
This time, the Battle of Babylon in Iraq was an absolute great gain, not only did it break the golden body of the US imperialists, but also carried the British Invincible-class aircraft carrier that made great efforts in the Falklands naval battle, but I don't know how the bulls in Britain will react after hearing this good news.
You must know that although the US Navy has suffered a lot of losses, if you really want to say it, these losses are just a drop in the bucket compared to the huge fleet of the US imperialists, but the loss of the main aircraft carrier that took 85 years to enter service is absolutely traumatic to the British Navy.
The two Perry-class are gone, the 4,000-ton small warship is exhausted in the eyes of the US imperialists, and the Brisco is also an old warship for at least ten years, and it is scrapped to avoid the cost of mid-term overhaul, anyway, the Burke-class will start mass production soon, and it is normal for the Spruance class to withdraw from the stage of history, the only thing that hurts a little is the cruiser Bunker Hill, this guy needs to overhaul and replace the entire module.
As for the injured Raider aircraft carrier this time, I am afraid that the US imperialists will not even bother to repair it after it is brought back to the mainland this time, this 56-year-old army has been in service for too long, even the last US imperialist let this warship be decommissioned in 93 years after carrying out the Gulf War mission, so this time the US imperialists waved their hands and said: We will not repair this aircraft carrier, let's retire it directly!
Of course, there is also a possibility that the US imperialists will have to continue to pull back the aircraft carrier to repair this time, after all, even the Midway can serve until the 90s, there is no reason for the Midway's posterior Raider to be decommissioned like this, at least now it is the beginning of 91, the Red Soviet Union has not yet collapsed, and the huge threat still exists.
Therefore, it is still possible for the US imperialists to drag this aircraft carrier back to repair it and continue to serve, after all, this is just a damaged compartment, and it is still bearable to repair it, but it is a big deal to wait until the aircraft carrier is repaired The Soviet Union has just collapsed, and then the aircraft carrier will be decommissioned in a few years, anyway, the US imperialists are rich and generous.
(To be continued.) )