Chapter 930: The USS Virat Aircraft Carrier Battle Group is destroyed
On the calm surface of the Arabian Sea, around the huge Virat aircraft carrier battle group, but a few kilometers away on the sea, suddenly a series of bubbles were used, and a four-meter-long missile suddenly flew over the sea, and the tail engine ignited at the same time, and the strong tail flame and air flow formed a huge white smoke spraying on the sea surface.
Immediately after that, another missile drilled out from the same place, with the same ignition action, and the two missiles were successively strung into the air at a distance of 100 meters, and then rapidly descended in height at an angle until they were only five or six meters above the sea surface, and then rushed towards the center of the fleet at full speed.
Eight missile underwater missile launch positions and 16 missiles caused the three Burke ships on the periphery of the Indian Navy to sound the anti-missile combat alarm for the first time.
At the same time, the Indian anti-submarine helicopter in the sky rushed to the sea area where the missile was launched as soon as possible, and a large number of sonar buoys were thrown on the surrounding sea surfaces.
The Burke-class destroyers located at three 60-degree angles of the aircraft carrier fleet group, the phased array radars locked on the incoming missiles one after another, and the standard-3 missiles in the bow of the ship burst into a strong fire in the launch canister, and the huge thrust pushed the standard-3 missiles out of the launch canister, and the altitude was lowered dozens of meters above the warship, flying towards the incoming missiles.
The phalanx system in front of the ship and above the hangar was already shaky at the anti-ship missiles attacking from a distance.
The Indian sailors on the three Burke ships, almost every palm was soaked with sweat, especially the radar soldiers, staring at the radar screen in front of them.
When you see that your interceptor missile is about to encounter an incoming missile. Every Indian sailor in the combat center held his breath for almost every Indian sailor.
At the same time, on the surface of the sea. The V-2FJ supersonic anti-ship missile, which is raising waves above the sea, is gradually accelerating, and the intercepting Standard-3 is under the direction of the phased array radar. Already straight for the missiles.
Just when the two sides were about to collide together, the anti-ship missile, which had almost reached subsonic speed, seemed to turn on afterburner in an instant, and the sonic boom exploded on the sea surface, and the speed of the supersonic anti-ship missile instantly climbed to Mach 1.5, and this speed continues to increase.
As if it was just a blink of an eye, the missile had already passed through the outer defensive circle formed by the Burke ship, and the powerful firepower network of the phalanx could only hit his tail. Because the speed of the missiles is increasing all the time. Even phased array radars have little time to lock on to low-altitude missiles whose speed is still on the climb.
However, three of the sixteen missiles were intercepted, and tragically, a Burke, located thirty nautical miles southwest of Virat, was directly hit in the bow by a supersonic anti-ship missile accelerating to Mach 1.8.
With the powerful impact of the missile, the bow of the Burke ship directly punched a huge depression, and the missile drilled straight into the bow of the warship. A huge explosion was caused, and at the same time the bow missile vertical launcher was detonated, and in just a few seconds, a huge explosion was first heard. This was followed by an even bigger explosion.
The entire bow of the Burke was lifted out of the sea by the impact of the explosion to the position of the bridge. The bow of the ship was completely disconnected, and soon the Burke was raised high in the stern. Slowly sinking.
The other two Burke ships, although they were not destroyed, did not intercept the missiles either. Fourteen more anti-ship missiles flew towards the center of the carrier.
There is no protection at all, except for three of India's own Talwa-class frigates.
As for the fighters, they have no anti-missile capability at all, and the incoming missile alarm has already been transmitted to the aircraft carrier Virat, and the two-way supply work was urgently ended at the first time, but it will also take a few minutes.
Moreover, we must not panic, because the three warships, which are only twenty or thirty meters close, and the speed of fifteen knots, as long as the helmsman's hands shake slightly, it may become a huge tragedy of the collision of the three warships.
The Indian Navy, which has been used as an aircraft carrier for decades, naturally knows this very well, and it only takes a short time for dozens of nautical miles of anti-ship missiles that have climbed to twice the speed of sound, and it is absolutely too late to slowly loosen the three warships.
The fleet commander immediately ordered to take emergency measures to disconnect the two supply ships and let the aircraft carriers run at full strength as soon as possible.
The three Talwa-class frigates were ordered to release the interference cloud burst group to interfere with the incoming missiles as much as possible to buy time for the aircraft carrier to speed up.
The idea is very good, but the truth is extremely tragic, just when the commander of the Indian aircraft carrier fleet has just given the order, the huge phased array radars on the four sides of the aircraft carrier suddenly issued a warning.
"Report, radar detects a super-fast thing coming at a speed of nearly twenty horses......"
The radar officer's report had not yet been finished, Mach had not yet spoken, and everyone on the Virat aircraft carrier only heard a loud sound that was enough to burst their eardrums, and at the same time they felt that the entire aircraft carrier trembled violently like a sheep's madness, and thousands of Indian Navy officers and men, at that moment, all of them were violently shocked by the ship, and hit the steel objects of the warship around them, and countless people broke their hands and feet for a while, and some of them even broke their heads.
On the ship island, the tempered glass that could have resisted the machine gun was also shattered, and everyone inside was also staggered, and when they struggled to get up one by one, they were already blue and swollen.
At this time, they also saw that on the front deck of the aircraft carrier, a huge hole appeared, and the heavy deck was not only penetrated, but even pulled out a funnel with a diameter of several meters around it.
The two steam catapults next to them were snorting with blazing steam, and many of the planes and equipment on the deck even fell into the sea, and many people fell with them.
"It's an electromagnetic railgun, damn it, a large Somali electromagnetic ......"
The commander of the Indian fleet, as soon as he got up, roared in great annoyance, but his tragedy was far from coming, and the second electromagnetic cannon shell cut a white air friction mark on the sea surface, and hit the middle of the ship island very simply. The entire island was almost sunken and twisted.
The cannon went on fire again. Just two seemingly light shots will turn an aircraft carrier with a total value of tens of billions of dollars. Almost scrap metal.
Speed and power, dozens of kilograms of superalloy tungsten steel, even if it is a behemoth like an aircraft carrier, it will hurt the muscles and bones, just a shell that pierces the deck, and does not penetrate the entire warship, it is already very polite.
As for the Indian sailors above, they were really tragic, and many people were shocked to death alive. Almost everyone was injured.
The sudden scene startled the other warships around the entire Virat, and the huge crashing sound was heard for several nautical miles, and then they could only watch the mountain-like aircraft carrier jump a few times on the sea.
Immediately after that, the aircraft carrier, which was crooked, directly loaded the two supply ships next to it, making a harsh metal friction sound, and the three large warships lost control, and they were entangled together.
However. Time did not allow them to watch the excitement from the sidelines, because more than a dozen anti-ship missiles had already arrived at their side.
The Palm Tree integrated air defense system began to carry out the final salvage, and even the naval guns were used, but there were too many missiles. And these missiles were aimed not only at the aircraft carrier, but also at the three frigates.
The cloud of interference released by the jamming missiles filled the sea, but the missiles still found their targets. The middle of the two Talva-class frigates was shot at the same time, and the powerful impact force flattened the entire warship a lot. The huge explosion blew a hole several meters wide on the side of the ship on the other side, and the head and tail of the ship began to bend and upturn. The manic waters are as turbulent as the hull of a ship.
Although another Talva-class frigate escaped a catastrophe, it was like this, and the Indian sailors above also looked at the new pride of the Indian Navy with great tragedy, and the scene of the more than 80,000-ton Virat aircraft carrier being hit by seven or eight supersonic anti-ship missiles at the same time.
Previously, under the blow of the giant artillery, although the aircraft carrier was heavily damaged, it could still control and drive, as long as it could drive back, it could still be repaired.
However, eight or nine supersonic missiles hit the aircraft carrier one after another, and the heavy aircraft carrier was quickly engulfed in flames, and the sailors of the aircraft carrier, who had already been injured, simply did not have time to deal with the fire that burned after the explosion.
At the same time, the two supply ships entangled with the aircraft carrier were also taken care of by anti-ship missiles, and the supply ships did not have the thick armor of the aircraft carrier, and were even more vulnerable than ordinary warships.
Because the supply ship needs to save the weight of the ship and increase the load capacity, plus the supply ship that is being replenished, it can almost be called an ammunition depot and an oil depot, just two anti-ship missiles, which caused a huge disaster.
The two supply ships that sandwiched the aircraft carrier in the middle were detonated one after another, and thick smoke billowed up, accompanied by dense explosions, and the Virat had to suffer this three damages.
The attack was far from over, and the two superalloy tungsten steel entity shells came again, mercilessly mending the Virat, which was supposed to be the building about to collapse, and the pillar collapsed under the attack, and the Virat aircraft carrier began to tilt.
At the same time, in the north-south direction of the USS Viratt aircraft carrier battle group, multiple batches of aircraft groups are rapidly approaching the positive.
Over the southern seas, 12 Apollo Navy carrier-based air supremacy fighters belonging to the 3rd Carrier-based Air Wing of the Somali Navy are approaching from the sea at ultra-low altitudes.
After the Virat became the second heavy artillery attack, twelve warplanes had already flown over the Burke, which had been sunk by an anti-ship missile, and the pilots on board still had time to wave at the Indian sailors who were floating on the sea.
Behind these twelve carrier-based aircraft, there were also twelve carrier-based aircraft as the second batch, and in the position of this sunken Burke, two groups of fighters separated, one headed towards the aircraft carrier, and the other divided into two teams, flying towards the two surviving Burke.
At this time, the two Burke ships did not go to the rescue of the aircraft carrier in the first place, but found the Typhoon-class AIP submarine that launched the anti-ship missile attack, and it was time to start preparing for a counterattack.
These Apollo fighters felt it, receiving the decommissioned Burke ships from the United States, and the Indian Navy did not find these stealth fighters that were quietly approaching at all, until the missiles they launched took out the helicopters that were performing the submarine positioning work gorgeously, and the air defense alarm was sounded on the two Burke ships.
However, the phased array radar only captured the signal of the moment the missile was launched for a short time, and when the signal disappeared, it could not be found again, but the 360-degree high-definition camera device on the top of the ship's bridge found the distant approaching fighter.
It's just that at this time, it was too late, because the fighters began to launch missiles again, and this time, the six Apollo battles were very tacitly aimed at the Burke ship on the sea.
What is it like to be surrounded by six anti-ship missiles? I believe that at that moment, the more than 100 Indian officers and men on board the ship will have a very profound experience.
It's just that they can only report in front of tens of thousands of gods in India with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience it.
Three minutes later, six Apollo carrier-based aircraft shook their tails over the Burke, which was in a lot of silence, and flew towards the position of the aircraft carrier Virat.
On the other hand, the other six Apollo carrier-based aircraft have also completed their mission, and the pleasure of destroying these Indian Navy, which is holding second-hand American goods, is not strong.
And at this moment, around the Virat, more than two dozen Super Hornets are still in the sky and have been entangled with twelve Apollo carrier-based aircraft, but this is another one-sided battle.
Because whether it is from the pilot's combat quality or the performance of the aircraft, the gap between the two sides is very huge.
And the pilots on the Indian side, there is no morale at all, the fleet is destroyed, and they can't even go home.
On the other hand, the Somali Navy's carrier-based aircraft are carrying a strong force in order to take out the last struggling enemy, and their morale is like a rainbow.
Moreover, in this battle, the carrier-based aircraft of the Pakistan Navy also dispatched a large group, all fifth-generation Black Hawk carrier-based aircraft.
In just a few minutes, more than 20 Indian carrier-based planes lost the ability to resist, and many Indian pilots even gave up their struggle after seeing the missiles they were chasing, directly pulled up their escape parasols, and allowed the fighters to lose control and be destroyed by the missiles.
In the end, there was only one Tarawa-class frigate left, and I watched as the hordes of warplanes fired a large number of missiles at the Virat, and then watched as its own aircraft carrier slowly sank before my eyes.
The defenseless Tarawa-class was eventually sent to the bottom of the sea by two anti-ship missiles, and all the surface combat forces of the Indian aircraft carrier battle group Wirat were wiped out.
When the Indian Air Force rushed from the mainland, there was nothing but floating debris and not a single warship of their own. (To be continued......)