Chapter 1018: The Cold Wind (I)
Chapter 1018 Cold Wind (I)
After the remaining 85 anti-ship missiles that entered the Mach 4 sprint speed, the last round of sea sparrows also released wildly, the speed of sea sparrows is average, but there are a lot of them, there are four in one launch unit, and after the first round of anti-ship missiles are launched, all missile destroyers, frigates, including the aircraft carrier themselves know that there is only one round of sea sparrows left, so everyone is crazy to fill the missile launch unit with sea sparrows.
When the anti-ship missile entered the sprint speed of Mach 4, the sea sparrow also began to launch violently, and more than 300 sea sparrows filled the radar screen with dense bright spots almost instantly, and at the same time, the fleet's phalanx short-range defense system also began to fire at the reverse of the missile attack, because the remaining time was too short, and it would be too late to fire when the missile came.
You can only fire in advance and do your best to obey the fate of heaven! The reserve of bombs of the Phalanx system, which is up to 4,000 rounds per minute, is only 989 rounds, and it can only be fired for less than 20 seconds at most, but there is a distance of 30 kilometers left, and at the speed of Mach 4 of the anti-ship missile, it is less than 30 seconds.
At this moment, the commander of the US military at the headquarters has leaned directly on the back of his chair, and everything that can be done has been done now, and the rest can only depend on the results, although from the beginning to the present, when the entire fleet is arranging the air defense formation, it is also carrying out the movement of retreating, but how far can the fleet run in a few minutes? I can only do anything possible.
However, although its maximum speed was only Mach 2.5, because it was enough cheats and had very few targets, the interception effect was still good, probably destroying 37 missiles. Of the 85 anti-ship missiles, now there are only 48 left, and the effect of the phalanx is almost negligible, not a single one has been swept down.
"Plug it up!" The captains of the more than a dozen destroyers of the two aircraft carrier battle groups had red eyes, and they shouted loudly, and the engines of the Burke-class missile destroyers blocking the periphery instantly let out a violent groan, and the powerful engines were almost one hundred and two percent of the output power, and the fleet, which was already moving at high speed, in such a situation, these destroyers almost ran at an ultra-high speed of nearly 40 knots!
All the destroyers went straight to the route where the missiles flew and blocked them directly! There is no precedent for the sinking of aircraft carriers from the end of World War II in the United States to the present! But if you put these forty-odd anti-ship missiles in it! Not too much. Only three heavy anti-ship missiles with a charge of up to 700 kg can directly inflict heavy damage on the aircraft carrier!
So the captains of these destroyers are almost all red-eyed, and they would rather use their hulls to block missiles themselves than let them hit the aircraft carriers! But the radars of Russian anti-ship missiles are all up-to-date, and they are equipped with the ability to identify the fleet, and they will search for valuable targets to attack at the first time. All the missiles have already begun to climb, but now the destroyer is still about 2,000 meters away from the carrier formation. Not yet the distance at which the missile climbs. Immediately, most of the missiles, with their powerful overloads, directly bypassed the destroyers blocking in front and rushed towards the aircraft carrier.
Because in the "eyes" of these missiles, the size and shape of the aircraft carrier are more valuable targets in the first attack sequence, and the destroyer can only be regarded as a later target, but there are still missiles that have not crossed the defense line of the missile destroyer, Jason? The Dunham Ali Burke-class missile destroyer was the luckiest and most unlucky! Because it intercepted three deadly missiles for its own carrier. Let the later aircraft carrier USS Washington dodge the fatal blow! But it itself was simultaneously hit directly by three anti-ship missiles with a charge of 700 kg in the part of the waterline.
Three missiles drilled into Jason almost no more than three seconds before and after? The waterline part of the Dunhan, accompanied by a terrifying explosion, directly penetrated the outer armor and entered the inside, and the terrifying energy erupted in the narrow space, and the terrifying energy of the explosion of a total of 2 tons of explosives directly tore the Burke-class missile destroyer with a cost of up to $1.8 billion from about two-thirds of the hull into two!
Intense firelight. The black-red fireball formed by the huge explosion reflected almost half of the sky, becoming a huge pillar of fire on the sea! At this moment, all the countries in the world that observed this scene directly lost their voices! For the first time since World War II, the United States has lost its own ships, and it was sunk directly by the enemy!
But this is only the beginning, up to 48 anti-ship missiles are absolutely impossible to cause only such a small result, the current aircraft carrier battle group is like a virgin who has been torn the last bit of fig leaf! There is no defense at all, so I can only let these evil wolves drive straight in!
At this moment, these anti-ship missiles have no way to be guided by early warning aircraft, and they are all relying on the radar on the missiles to search for targets on their own, and some are attracted by the aircraft carriers in accordance with the set procedures, while others directly search for the nearest targets and start attacking.
Violent explosions began to sound on more than 5 missile destroyers at the same time, and the violent firelight formed a line on the sea surface in the night sky, and the two unlucky Perry-class missile frigates were hit by two anti-ship missiles at the same time, in front of large anti-ship missiles, the size of these frigates of less than 5,000 tons is simply a tragedy!
If Jason? Hank also because of the captain's order in advance, many sailors are ready to abandon the ship, and although it was directly blown into two, but because of the relatively large size, coupled with the anti-sinking design of the hull, it sank in nearly an hour, then these two Perry-class missile frigates will be a complete tragedy! The hull, which was only more than 4,000 tons, was hit by an anti-ship missile with a charge of up to 700 kg, and the anti-ship missile plunged directly into the interior of the frigate, exploding inside it, and the terrifying aftermath of the explosion exerted unparalleled destructive power in the confined space!
Then the frigate's fuel oil, boilers, and internal ammunition were almost all detonated at the same time, and after the first huge fireball erupted on the two frigates, it took almost less than 20 seconds for the terrifying explosion to be detonated at sea like two small nuclear bombs! The two frigates were blown into countless pieces almost instantly! In just ten minutes, there was a direct silence, and except for a few sailors on the deck who were thrown into the sea due to the terrifying shock wave and escaped death, all the other sailors sank directly to the bottom of the sea with the two frigates!
And the two frigates were completely detonated by the terrifying waves and whirlpools that almost hit one of their nearby ones by an anti-ship missile, but the Burke-class missile destroyer that managed to maintain its shape was dragged into the water! The Burke-class missile destroyer was hit by a shock wave caused by the explosion of two frigates, and the entire hull capsized almost 20 degrees! However, in the end, he relied on the internal sailors who were not afraid of death, repaired the damaged pipe, and injected water to re-maintain the balance!
But this is not the most terrifying, the most terrifying thing is that aside from the missiles attracted by other ships, a total of more than 18 missiles crossed the outer defense line and headed for the Washington and Lincoln inside, of which the Washington was attacked by 10 missiles, and the Lincoln was attacked by 8 missiles!
The Washington was lucky, although it was attacked by nearly 10 missiles, but two of the anti-ship missiles may have been concentrated on the Washington because of radar and other problems, but in the process of diving, they directly crossed the deck of the Washington, just scraped the deck, and then rushed into the sea water next to it and detonated!
The terrifying energy of the explosion of two anti-ship missiles in the nearby sea water caused even an aircraft carrier with a hull of 100,000 tons to tilt more than 12 degrees! But it was this 12-degree tilt that saved the life of the USS Washington! There were four anti-ship missiles that went to the waterline of the USS Washington! But as the four anti-ship missiles swooped down towards the waterline, the USS Washington's tilt and drastic traverse of more than 10 meters caused the flight deck above to directly intercept three of the missiles.
Although the three missiles directly hit the flight deck and directly tore the deck, rushed into the hangar and exploded violently, they dodged the deadliest attack, and only one anti-ship missile successfully exploded violently at the waterline position of the Washington, directly tearing a huge hole of more than 2 meters, and the sea water almost swarmed in!
And the other four missiles hit the aft deck of the Washington, detonating several fighters on the deck directly into the sea! And the other three, two hit the center of the deck, one went to the conning tower, the conning tower hit the thickest part of the armor, although it led to the death of more than a dozen sailors, but it did not hurt much, and the two missiles that hit the middle of the deck directly destroyed the two steam catapults inside! And blow up the hangar to the ground!
But even so, the USS Washington aircraft carrier was not too fatally damaged by 10 anti-ship missiles! Of course, not far in front of the USS Washington, Jason, who blocked three deadly missile attacks with his own body? The Hank is indispensable! (To be continued......)
PS: The aircraft carriers are all out of luck! The monthly pass is not yet available!!!!