The XH cruise missile has so far only been installed on two new ships, namely the 053 and the 054, which was named by the South China Sea Fleet not long after delivery.

No. 053 had a test launch a few months ago, and this time, of course, it was No. 054's turn to light the image.

The vertical launch system in the bow of the ship was turned on, the launch order was issued, and Xu Ziling could see through the glass window of the command center a flash of fire on the deck of No. 054, less than a kilometer away on their right, and then a white missile shot up into the sky with a tongue of flame.

After the missile is launched, there are generally three steps: climbing, cruising, and hitting the target.

Although there was a clear video picture on the big screen in the command center, Xu Ziling, Tang Jiannian and others all stood in front of the glass window and looked directly at it with the naked eye.

After flying for a certain distance, the missile began to accelerate, and when it reached an altitude of 200 meters, it then tilted down to adjust the altitude until it was five meters above sea level, and the missile body erupted at a supersonic speed of up to Mach 1.5 and began to cruise.

During the cruise, the computer inside the missile can control the direction of the missile's flight according to the information fed back from the satellite, and there is no need to worry about hitting a fishing boat or an island.

"I've found a problem." Captain Zhang immediately said to Xu Ziling, "This missile doesn't seem to have any traces of flight. ”

Xu Ziling understood that the flight trace he was referring to was the white smoke that ejected from the tail of the missile when it flew.

In a sense, the presence of this flight trail is not conducive to missiles, especially like large and medium-sized missiles, when they are initially launched, there is a slow flight process, although this process is very short, but it is the time when it is most vulnerable, and it is also very agreeable to receive an attack.

Again, such a flight trajectory is easy to spot.

The reason for this phenomenon is that the gas emitted by the missile's rocket engine when it burns has a chemical reaction with the air, and Xu Ziling wondered when he was a child that he couldn't eliminate these traces when he watched TV, because in his opinion, without this flight trajectory, it is definitely good for the missile to hide.

Therefore, when he was working on the XH cruise missile, he paid special attention to the technology in this area, and only then did he figure out that although this problem has a lot to do with air and temperature, the main problem is still the problem of rocket fuel.

The solution to this problem was not available in the Lion's optimization system at that time, and it took him and the Lion more than half a month to get such a new type of low-temperature solid fuel.

"Oh, this is a new type of solid fuel that is emitted after combustion and the air comes into contact with it, and only produces a transparent air stream instead of white smoke, which reduces infrared detection and reduces visual effect."

Xu Ziling's explanation was relatively simple and not very detailed, but for Captain Zhang, it was enough.

After listening to it, he had an objective impression, and sighed in his heart that Xu Ziling was able to come up with such a subsection, and he was a little admired, but now is not the occasion to talk about this, he nodded, didn't say more, and turned his gaze to the big screen.

The latest "Tomahawk" dispatched by the people of the United States, although this missile is famous, but after many improvements, it is still a subsonic cruise missile, and it still does not exceed Mach 1 in terms of cruising speed, but fortunately, Xu Ziling They are relatively generous, and they did not choose a target too far away for them, and the distance of more than 600 kilometers will take more than half an hour.

Both sides launched at the same time, and both sides waited for the results, although the cruise missile entered the attack coordinates before it was launched, and no one needed to watch it at all, but Xu Ziling and them stood in front of the big screen one by one, watching the flight attitude of the missile in the picture.

Ten minutes, twenty minutes...... Time passed little by little, seeing that XH was less than fifty kilometers away from the target, everyone was still staring intently at the big screen, because Xu Ziling was using the remote control program to remotely control the missile to climb them, S-type snake maneuver evasion and several other maneuvering demonstrations that are difficult to see on ordinary missiles, so that they didn't feel bored at all.

......Just as the missile was getting closer and closer to the target, the phone in the command center rang, which stunned everyone.

Because most of the communications in the room are fleet communications and internal communications, they have a general communication system, and the telephone, which is completely only used when contacting superiors, will actually ring at this time, what's the matter?

Could it be that because of the results of the previous matter, Xu Ziling was beaten up.

Tang Jiannian probably also had this idea, looked at Captain Zhang, ran to the telephone first, picked it up and connected it.

"Yes...... Be...... Understand, promise to complete the task. ”

I don't know what Lu Dao said on the phone, anyway, I saw that Tang Jiannian's expression was very excited, and he was very imposing when he spoke.

"Agreed!" As soon as the phone hung up, he said to everyone.

"Really?" Xu Ziling has always been good at imagining, just now I was still thinking about whether there was a result, but I didn't expect that there would really be a result, and he was immediately happy, and said: "Fortunately, it was so many minutes earlier, if it was a few minutes late, this missile would have landed." ”

After saying that, regardless of the reaction of others, he immediately contacted the people above No. 054 and gave the order to change the coordinates of the attack.

The coordinates changed, the missile automatically changed course, and a group of people looked at the satellite screen, laughing, all with red faces, and looking excited, without discussing what the above was going to do at this time.

It's thrilling enough, two minutes late, the missile has already landed, and at that time it's impossible to think of coquettishness.

But since there is such a decision, the process is not important, and of course there is no need to pursue it.

Talking and laughing, looking forward to the reaction of the Mi people, a few minutes later, the Tomahawk, which had flown 600 kilometers, finally hit the target, and immediately after, the Mi people sent the relevant data, and their frontal precision strike has been completed. In addition to the large screen in the command center, the small display screen is of course indispensable, and Xu Ziling will certainly not let go of the missiles that monitor the Mi people, so before the Mi people contacted them, Tang Jiannian and others saw the real-time satellite screen of the Tomahawk hitting the target on the screen.

The report of the Chinese people was sent, and they didn't have the desire to read it, and they didn't ask the staff to print it out, so they just threw it in the computer.

A group of people ridiculed the reaction of the Mi people, ten minutes later, Tang Jiannian contacted the Mi people, and said happily that they lost, and at the same time told the Mi people that there was a problem with their missile, and after half an hour of flight, they lost contact with the satellite, although the missile did not carry a lethal warhead, but it may collide with a fishing boat or other target, hoping that the Mi army can use satellites to find it, or remind the ships in this area of 15 degrees to 20 degrees north latitude and 120 ° to 130 degrees in Tokyo. Because the lost cruise missile has a range of 3,500 kilometers and a cruising speed of Mach 1.5, although there is no warhead, if a ship encounters a missile flying at such a high speed, it will have unexpected consequences.

When the people of the United States heard this, they were dumbfounded.

They don't worry about the fishing boats in this sea area, because this is not their country, and the only people fishing in this sea area are those Filipinos, even if they hit ten ships and how many people die, they don't care, but they think of their Guam military base, which is exactly at this distance, what if they fly to the Guam base?

Although the missile does not carry a warhead lethality warhead, it also carries a drill warhead with dye, and if it hits a target such as a person or radar, it will also bring death and equipment damage under high-speed impact.

What's more, Guam is not just a military base, but also the most densely populated island. If you fall into a crowd, it is very simple to die seven or eight or ten people.

But the people of the Celestial Empire lost control, and morally they pushed the responsibility away, and if there was really a fatality, who would be responsible for this responsibility?

And what is even more terrifying is that a ship-based cruise missile with a range of up to 3,500 kilometers and a supersonic flight speed of Mach 1.5 represents? Any Celestial Empire ship equipped with this cruise missile can hit the Guam military base in the South Pacific Ocean as long as it is more than 100 kilometers away from the headquarters of the South China Sea Fleet.

When did the people of the Celestial Empire have such high-end weapons?

This is a ship-based cruise missile, not a land-based cruise missile.

If it is a land-based missile, they can still figure it out, but a ship-based missile is really a shock to them, a ship-based missile, based on the size of the ship's hull, the missile cannot be too large, but on this limit, the cruise missile can still achieve an effective range of 3,500 kilometers, what kind of data is this?

The people of the United States think they can't do it either.

They won this competition, but what is the use of this victory.

Before, because they hadn't received news from the Celestial Empire, they were secretly proud, thinking that they should have pulled back a game this time, but this kind of pride was just ten minutes old, and the news they got made them fall into the ice valley.

The interception method of cruise missiles generally adopts a phalanx, which can reach a flight speed of Mach 1.5, and the general phalanx is basically useless, because when the missile is discovered, the reaction speed of the ground interception unit is basically difficult to react.

With such a supersonic cruise missile, coupled with a fighter plane that was discovered less than 20 kilometers closely, the blow to the people of the United States can be imagined.

Thinking of such a possibility, as the commander of this exercise, I shuddered.