Chapter 70: The Sinking of the Freighter
"After the Raptor is equipped with this high-tech weapon, it can be said that it is invincible in the face of enemy air targets, and has become a veritable air supremacy." Hugh sighed at Louis. "In the future, I am afraid that only traditional artillery and large-caliber weapons that do not use any electronic equipment will be able to subdue it."
Aerial area ******
The pilot of the Raptor T03, looking at the cruise missiles that fell into the sea and raised a splash, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he immediately clenched the flight control stick in his hand: "Comrades-in-arms, are they capable of this?" Rush down and destroy them! ”
The three Raptor fighters continued to dive downward, the chain guns on their arms fired one after another, and the raindrop-like incendiary bombs collided on the destroyer's iron armor and ejected them, turning into sparks that ignited the deck, and the pirates on the deck began to panic, most of the pirates saw the opponent's almost invincible posture, and without saying a word, it was important to escape, and the lifebuoy mounted on the side of the ship was put on the body, and jumped over the guardrail in depth.
A pirate was unwilling to accept the end of defeat, so he picked up the RPG7 rocket launcher on his shoulder and shot it at the enemy plane in the air, not believing that there was nothing he could do with it.
The rocket dragged a long burst of fire, and before it could get close to the body of the Raptor, it was destroyed by the dense fire net of the M230 chain gun, and a barrage of fireworks bloomed in the air.
Soon, two warplanes, Raptor fighters, landed on the pirate destroyer, which had been turned into a sea of fire, shooting the remnants of the pirate resistance.
Another Raptor fighter flew to the left side of the pirate destroyer, hovering on the sea level, pulling out the thermal knife behind it, with the help of the power of nuclear energy, the temperature of the blade rose suddenly, turning into a bright light, the Raptor clenched the handle in his hand, and stabbed the blade accurately and steadily towards the position of the cabin, rotating the blade, and opened a long opening on the iron armor of the destroyer, and with a turn of the blade, a huge hole appeared in the hull, and the sea water on the side quickly poured into the cabin.
"I always had a bad feeling that after the Corsair, we would be the next target." Louis felt the same concern.
"Katyusha and Olivia. The fire control mode of the first and last phalanx was restored from locking on to the enemy's destroyer missile launcher to locking on to a high-speed moving target within 500 meters. Defend against 3 U.S. Raptor fighters. Hugh informed his teammates through his watch.
"I have set it up, in the current situation, the destroyer is no longer able to protect itself, and it cannot pose a danger to us, on the contrary, those Raptor fighters have become our henchmen." Katyusha's familiar voice came from the watch, and it seemed that the hero saw something the same thing.
"Give me a minute, I'll switch to fire control mode and wait for it to come to the door on its own." Olivia responded.
At the beginning, the four pirate assault boats that rushed towards the freighter, the pirates on it were looking back at the sudden changes in the air in amazement, but they didn't realize that due to the change of fire control mode, they had entered the prevention and control range of the Phalanx, and the four Phalanx cannons suddenly burst into a loud fire, and the dense shells were like flowing water, ejecting from the chamber of the Gatling cannon and falling into the sea below.
The poor pirates on the assault boat fell under the rain of bullets, and the large-caliber bullets hit them like watermelons, and for a time the flesh and blood were blurred, and the severed limbs were scattered everywhere, and the air was filled with dense blood mist.
The roar of the Phalanx cannons apparently alarmed the three Raptor fighters on top of the pirate destroyer, whose hull had already been poked a big hole, and it was only a matter of time before it sank to the bottom of the sea.
The Raptors abandoned the pirate members who were on fire and fled for their lives, and the warships that the pirates used to raid their homes. They seemed to be communicating something with each other as they began to quickly rise into the air, and after a moment of hesitation, they swooped in the direction of the stern of the freighter, and one of the Raptor fighters once again flashed its electromagnetic interference cannon.
"Beware of their electromagnetic cannons, if unfortunately hit by artillery fire, it will cause the computer's circuit board to fail, because the fire control mode of the phalanx is only automatic, there is no manual one, the cannon means complete paralysis, everyone pay attention to safety and dodge in time." Hugh saw the menacing Raptor battle formation ahead, and urgently contacted Katyusha and Olivia through his watch.
The Raptor fighter with the electromagnetic jamming cannon aimed at the No. 4 Phalanx at the stern of the ship and opened fire, which was the area that Olivia was responsible for, and seeing that the artillery fire was about to hit his own phalanx, Olivia hurriedly ran towards the container on the rear deck to avoid the attack of the electromagnetic cannon.
After the No. 4 Phalanx was hit by the enemy's electromagnetic interference cannon, the cannon body stopped automatically locking on to the enemy aircraft, and the Gatling cannon on it also drooped weakly and was completely paralyzed.
The hull of this freighter was too long, and the four phalanxes were all deployed in the same straight line on the right side of the hull, due to the angle, the No. 1 and No. 2 phalanx in the bow and the middle of the hull naturally could not effectively attack the three enemy planes flying towards the stern, and they could only rely on the No. 3 phalanx near the stern to fight alone.
Two of the three Raptor fighters in the air pulled out their thermal knives from their backs and flew towards the cabins on the left and right sides of the stern with a stabbing attack, intending to repeat the old trick and open two large holes in the hull to let the sea water pour in, and completely bury the freighter in the sea.
Another Raptor fighter raised the M203 chain gun in its hand and fired at the No. 3 Array, trying to cover the actions of its teammates, and our No. 3 Phalanx was naturally not to be outdone, firing at it with heavy artillery fire.
Since the front of the Phalanx turret is surrounded by a thick steel armor shield, forming a 270-degree protective wall, unless it encounters an attack of artillery fire of more than 105 mm caliber, it can be completely penetrated, and the weapon firepower in the hands of the Raptor fighter is obviously smaller, and shooting on this layer of armor only causes a series of piercing bullet impact noises.
In the face of the fierce firepower of the dense array, the fuselage of this enemy aircraft quickly appeared in many depressions, and the large-caliber bullets shot at it, almost hitting its body in the air and retreating, the other party was unwilling to risk being destroyed and confronted the enemy, so he made a turn in the air, and fled quickly towards the rear with wisps of smoke from the tail.
Before it could fly far, it exploded in the air with a "boom", and the wreckage of the body fell into the sea one after another, making a splash of water, which caused cheers and cheers from the crowd watching the battle on the deck of the freighter.
The other two Birds of Prey took advantage of the cover and sacrifice of their teammates to quickly move to the position where the stern met the sea, and the sound of metal cutting and bubbling into the cabin could be heard from the bottom of the hull.
After completing the sabotage operation, the two Raptor fighters immediately turned around under the hull, in order to avoid the locking of the Phalanx, almost close to the sea level towards the distance, and quickly rose into the air after breaking out of the effective range of the Phalanx, the pilot of one of the fighters controlled the Raptor, defiantly raised his middle finger in the direction of the ship, and then left together in the distance.