Chapter 1565: Meteor Shower

The construction of aircraft carriers is very time-consuming, and the design stage will take a long time to carry out, and various factors must be fully taken into account.

After all, it was crossing the river by feeling the stones.

After the design is completed, it needs to be manufactured, starting from cutting the steel plate, fabricating the hull, installing the boiler, engine, and finally launching and outfitting, which is also time-consuming.

The United States has already put the aircraft carrier construction line on the basis of mass manufacturing, and now, the aircraft carrier Essex has entered the finishing works.

There are countless people busy on it, and small cars go in and out of the outfitting dock, transporting all kinds of outfitting goods.

"Up, up, up!" A shipwright shouted, looking at a vehicle transporting goods, driving up the deck and driving all the way to the side of the ship island, loaded with small parts.

"Quick, move up there." The boatman shouted, looking at the box on top, the top of which was the wooden steering wheel, one of the most important parts of any ship.

He moved off the steering wheel, and was about to carry it when he sensed something was wrong.

In the dark sky in the distance, it seemed to become shining, what was that?

One point after another is coming in the direction of them at high speed!

"Look, it's a meteor shower!" Suddenly, the boatman next to him shouted, and everyone found out.

Meteor, hurry up and make a wish! I made a wish that I could go to supper with Jenny after work.

Those meteors were still splashing down towards this side at a fairly high speed, and by this time, the boatmen had already noticed that something was abnormal.

Meteors, which are stones from outer space, will rub violently against the atmosphere when they enter the atmosphere, and when they burn, they form beautiful meteors.

Generally speaking, most of the stones will burn up in the atmosphere, so they are just beautiful meteors, and there will be no other situations, however, there are also a small number of incomplete burns, which will fall down and become meteorites.

The earth is too vast, so most of the meteorites will be fine when they fall, on the contrary, they will bring some extraterrestrial ores and the like, enriching people's research.

However, if it hits someone's head, then you can only blame who is unlucky, and those who are not stoned to death can buy lottery tickets.

Now, the violent meteor shower is coming down, and the boatmen are already feeling bad.

The enlistment was not burned in the slightest, but continued to fall this way.

It seems that this meteor shower is going to fall in the shipyard?

By this time, he had already screamed in his heart, and at the same time leaned back until he reached the side of the ship.

Once there is an accident, jump into the seawater, yes, it is diving, no matter what it is, when it reaches the water, it will quickly reduce the speed due to the increase in resistance, and finally stop, and the sea water is the safest.

At this time, the shining meteor had already flown to the surface of the sea three kilometers away from them, and exploded at an altitude of about five hundred meters above the sea surface.

"Boom!" The fierce firelight lit up the dark night sky, and in an instant, everyone was stunned.

What a meteor, this is not a meteor at all, this is a bomb, a bomb flying from outer space!

Yes, these are the missiles launched by Germany, when it re-enters the atmosphere, the surface of the warhead and the air are rubbing violently, turning into a lovely meteor, relying on high-temperature thermal insulation materials, the internal warhead is still intact, it is counting down, and there is only a short time before the final mission.

Despite the development of the latest air-floating gyroscope, and the use of computers to calculate the trajectory, even then it had a considerable circumferential error of three kilometers from the target.

If it is carried with a nuclear warhead, it goes without saying that an error of three kilometers or ten kilometers is not a problem, but now, three kilometers is enough to cause the failure of the attack.

The first warhead exploded on the surface of the sea, and it only turned into a brilliant fireworks bomb in the night sky, and then the sound was heard, irritating everyone's eardrums.

The boatmen froze, they knew they were in trouble.

Before there was time to react, the second meteor had already flown over.

"Boom!" The first missile was deflected to the open sea, while the second missile, deflected inland, and it exploded just right over a warehouse inside the shipyard.

With the violent explosion, like a goddess scattering flowers, countless small ball-like things fell from it, and when it came into contact with the ground, a second explosion occurred in an instant.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The power of each small ball explosion is not great, but more than a dozen small balls exploded together, and the top of the warehouse was blown open in an instant, and the remaining small balls fell into the warehouse, and there were continuous explosions inside.

"Boom, boom!"

The biggest disadvantage of ballistic missiles is their poor accuracy, so in order to destroy the industrial base of the Americans on a large scale, the best way is to use submunitions.

When the warhead explodes, hundreds of small balls fall down, causing the entire base to explode everywhere, destroying everything here, at the same time, some of them will not be able to explode because of the fuse problem, these unexploded balls are the most terrible, it will always lurk in the base, bringing terrible death to the follow-up personnel, it is more deadly, when the submunitions are used, the covered area will become a no-man's land, at least before the American sappers spend months completely removing all the balls, They can't get to work.

Half of the 20 missiles fired this time belonged to this type of warhead, and the other half belonged to high-explosive warheads.

One warhead after another fell from the sky, and the originally beautiful meteor became the current god of death, and everyone present was stunned.

They stayed on the deck of the aircraft carrier, looking at the sky, and at this time, although their hearts were full of fear, they had no way back, and they did not know where to hide.

"No!" A shipwright shouted, his eyes sharpening to catch a falling warhead, and rushed straight to the oil depot on the dock a kilometer away, where the large and towering oil tanks that stood bare and stored hundreds of tons of heavy marine fuel oil for the trial of the newly built ships.

"Boom!" With a violent explosion, the oil tank was suddenly detonated, and then, the flames burned and splashed down, these are viscous heavy oil, usually not easy to burn, but once burned, it is difficult to extinguish!

Their eyes were full of horror, and at this moment, they suddenly felt a ringing in their ears, which was the increase in air pressure caused by the compression of the air on their side.

A terrible warhead, flying towards the aircraft carrier, it is in flight, and the air in front of it is violently compressed!