The war came faster than Li Lan expected, and the flames of war instantly lit up the night sky of the South Atlantic.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, NATO's Atlantic Combined Fleet sounded the combat alarm, and a large number of fighters, five aircraft carriers, and a large number of carrier-based planes were lifted off one after another under the indicator lights.

The early warning planes in the sky also began to distinguish the enemy situation, providing a large number of enemy planes for each carrier-based aircraft that took to the air.

The Somali Navy's carrier-based early warning planes also immediately captured the signals of a large number of enemy planes that had taken off into the air, and this news was also summed up on the Atlantic Fleet for the first time, and Lynch immediately issued the order for the carrier-based planes to take off to meet the enemy.

Piercing battle sirens echoed across both fleets, and a large number of red signal lights began to flash on the fleets.

At the same time, on the destroyers on the periphery of the two sides, which were only 300 kilometers away from the enemy ships, as the battle alarm sounded, the soldiers of the combat service center turned on the fire control radar and phased array radar for the first time.

With the help of early warning aircraft, quickly lock on the position of the enemy's warship.

However, there is no way to carry anti-ship missiles in the vertical launch installation of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers of the United States, and in addition to cruise missiles and anti-aircraft missiles, whaling forks and Harpoon anti-ship missiles cannot be installed on the vertical launch systems of destroyers.

However, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers were also equipped with eight anti-ship missiles, and at the moment when the battle alarm was raised, all the warships turned their rudders and faced the enemy ships laterally.

During the launch of the carrier-based aircraft, side-mounted anti-ship missiles were launched almost at the same time.

As soon as the missile left the launcher, it whistled with a strong fire and flew towards the enemy ship three hundred kilometers away.

At the same time, in the vertical launch system of the Aegis ship. After receiving the signal of the enemy's missile attack, it immediately counterattacked.

The lids of the vertical launch system in the stern and bow of the ship were suddenly lifted. The missile inside directly broke through the moisture-proof protective layer under air pressure, and then rested in the direction of the warhead in the air of about ten meters from the warship. The next second the missile engine ignites.

The second missile was immediately lifted into the air and ignited in the same direction, and in just one minute, six cold-launched anti-ship missiles had disappeared into the dark sea.

However, the attack did not end there, and after a short break, the second launch began again, again with six more anti-ship missiles under the air-cooled launcher. Ejected from the vertical launch device, it flew towards a distant target.

Aegis ships perform more air defense missions, but in routine missions, they also carry twenty-four supersonic anti-ship missiles, as well as twenty-four supersonic cruise missiles, and then forty-eight area anti-aircraft missiles and a large number of close-in defense weapon systems.

At the same time, the peripheral destroyers on the NATO side also fired a total of dozens of anti-ship missiles at the Atlantic Fleet, including many models, including French ones. There are also British ones.

These destroyers launched an anti-ship missile attack on the Somali fleet at the first time.

However, the NATO anti-ship missiles installed on these destroyers do not have supersonic anti-ship missiles. At most, the speed is subsonic anti-ship missiles.

With a launch time of only a dozen seconds, Somalia's anti-ship missiles naturally run faster.

The fleets of both sides were not even in the mood to say hello. I did it directly, and the whole process was very tacit. It seems that they have been waiting for a long time.

How many years of confrontation and grievances, from now on. It's all going to be solved together.

In the history of human warfare, the Third World War broke out in this way. Because at this point, there is no longer any possibility of salvation.

Air defense sirens are already sounding over both fleets, and the fighters are faster than the speed of anti-ship missiles.

At this moment, in the waters of the central South Atlantic, the warplanes patrolling the two sides have already fired a round of missiles.

The carrier-based aircraft in charge of patrolling the NATO Joint Fleet changed to an engagement mode at the hour, and the active phased array radar was aimed at the Somali Navy's carrier-based aircraft for the first time.

The first battle between the two sides began here, when three squadrons of lightning carrier-based aircraft, which had been premeditated, fired missiles at the Apollo carrier-based aircraft that were giving early warning over their own fleet.

The pilots of the Red Alert carrier-based aircraft also reacted very quickly, and they had already received an order that a war might start at any time, and they were already ready to counterattack.

After the early warning system sent out the signal that it was locked by the radar, all the pilots of the Apollo carrier-based aircraft tacitly turned on the active phased array radar, and immediately locked on the lightning carrier-based aircraft that opened the concealment magazine and was ready to launch missiles.

The twelve Apollo carrier-based planes of the two squadrons did not counterattack at the first time, but immediately dispersed, and the air combat team composed of the main engine and wingmen launched a counterattack in an orderly manner after they dispersed.

After the pilots of the Apollo carrier-based aircraft closed their eyes and launched the missile, when they opened their eyes, the medium-range air-to-air missile launched by the lightning carrier-based aircraft had already arrived not far from them.

"The altitude of the enemy plane is 4,000, and the altitude of the whole team is adjusted to 5,000 meters."

As if they had already been discussed, at the same time, the twelve Apollo carrier-based planes of the six squads all turned on the afterburner, and the originally calm fighter engines suddenly roared like beasts.

Each Apollo fighter shook violently in the air at the same time, and on the wings and behind the fuselage, a sonic boom cloud instantly formed, and all the Apollo fighters entered supersonic cruise in an instant.

Approaching NATO's lightning carrier-based aircraft, the medium-range air-to-air missiles flying in were also very fast, but each Apollo carrier-based aircraft was rapidly climbing at a speed of more than Mach 2, and when the missiles wanted to modify their course to catch up, the Apollo fighters had already departed from the direction of the missile's pursuit.

However, the missiles launched by the Apollo fighters were also avoided by the Lightning carrier-based aircraft that were also prepared.

However, the Apollo fighter that was approaching at high speed still made the other party a little flustered, it was already dozens of kilometers apart, and at the speed of Mach 2, although the other party could not be seen in the night sky, it vaguely caught the radar signal and was telling the pilot of every lightning fighter that the other party was already very close to him.

"The Somali enemy aircraft is at an altitude of five thousand meters and has a bearing of 011. Quantity six, speed two Mach ......"

At this time, the Hawkeye AWACS aircraft behind him also sent detailed information to the Lightning fighter.

Forthwith. The lightning carrier-based aircraft group began to pounce on the enemy aircraft in batches. Close combat missiles are already in a state of readiness for launch.

However, at this time, the Lightning carrier-based aircraft, which had not yet entered supersonic speed, seemed to be preparing to meet the enemy aircraft at leisure.

Every NATO pilot looked at the radar signal on the integrated screen very intently, and his fingers were already tightly on the missile launch button.

As soon as the radar catches the opponent, the missile will be launched immediately.

Those who wait will always have a harvest, and under the nervous waiting process, more than ten seconds seem to have passed more than ten years. A strong radar signal appears on the integrated screen display of each Lightning carrier-based aircraft.

At this time, the Apollo carrier-based aircraft was only ten kilometers away from them, and the strong radar signal was the signal that the radar captured the moment the stealth magazine was opened.

In the next second, the missile was thrown out of the magazine of the Apollo carrier-based aircraft, and the NATO pilots on the Lightning carrier-based aircraft also locked onto the local fighters, and the close-range combat bombs were also launched.

At the moment, neither side had time to see if the attack was successful, because of the opposing missiles. In the blink of an eye, it's almost in front of you.

The lightning carrier-based aircraft, which can change the vent, performed the Cobra maneuver for the first time, and the nose of the aircraft was suddenly raised. Large swaths of decoy shells were released in the air.

And just like that, the missile passed through their tail and was detonated under a decoy bomb.

But before the pilots of NATO carrier-based aircraft felt proud, the warning signal of the radar did not disappear. Instead, it became more hurried.

In the next second, in the sky, six fireworks bloomed gorgeously. Six Lightning carrier-based aircraft, which were destroyed by missiles almost at the same time. Burning wreckage. With flakes of fire in the sky, it staggered and fell towards the sea.

Time goes back twenty seconds ago. The Apollo carrier-based aircraft of the six squadrons, all the wingmen flew in front, and dozens of meters behind the wingmen were the main engine with the same flight angle and flight altitude.

When the wingman fired the missile, the main unit also fired the missile.

The wingman launches the V-IGD close-range combat missile, while the main engine fires the V-2GD close-range combat missile.

The performance and number of these two missiles are almost the same, and there is no improvement, but the engine and shape of the missiles have been treated, and the engine nozzles of the missiles have been treated with fire, and the command emits a faint starlight in the dark night.

The appearance has also been treated with stealth, and the attack is very stealthy.

At first, the Blitzkrieg only detected the V-1GD running in front, but did not immediately detect the V-2GD following closely behind, and as a result, the pilots of the Lightning carrier-based aircraft, who had just thought that they had escaped the missile attack, took their lives with the second missile at the moment when they just relaxed.

In fact, NATO pilots can't be blamed for being lax, because whether it is the lightning-based phased array radar or the early warning aircraft in the distance, they only found six incoming targets, and did not find two targets that overlapped.

This led to the tragedy of the loss of six carrier-based aircraft in an instant.

The Apollo carrier-based aircraft, which succeeded in the first attack, did not have much advantage at this moment, because the two squadrons that followed by the opponent had already arrived on the battlefield, and the form of the scene directly became twelve against twenty-four.

And at this moment, the carrier-based aircraft of the fleet also began to assemble over the aircraft carrier, and soon a new attack would be launched.

At the same time, the destroyers of both sides also intercepted incoming anti-ship missiles.

The image of the missile rising into the air quickly played out on the destroyers of both sides, and the Phalanx air defense systems were all in operation.

Compared with the reaction speed of the Indian Navy at the beginning, the reaction speed of NATO naval soldiers is much faster.

The two groups of missiles staggered close to the surface of the sea, and when the supersonic anti-ship missiles on the Somali side entered the 80-kilometer range of the Ali Burke-class destroyer, the Standard-3 missiles were immediately lifted into the air.

The Standard-3 anti-aircraft missile, which was ignited directly from the vertical launcher, reacted extremely quickly, and at the moment after liftoff, it flew towards the direction of the anti-ship missile flying in the distance, and the angle and altitude of the flight were constantly adjusted.

However, it is not so easy to intercept these ultra-low-flying anti-ship missiles.

Because the standard series of missiles is more for intercepting air targets, the effect of intercepting ultra-low-altitude targets has always been to be tested.

Naturally, the number of external announcements cannot be fully trusted. Because of these standard three tables, it's still very good.

At a time when the V-2FJ supersonic anti-ship missile approached to the perimeter destroyer not only but kilometers. It was intercepted by the standard thirty points accurately.

However, this is also because of the calm Indian Ocean at the moment. There is not much wind and waves, otherwise the active search radar will have intermittent tracking capabilities for ultra-low-flying anti-ship missiles under the interference of waves.

It is difficult to very standard indicate the interception of missiles and angles, so the Standard-3 can only be said to be of great help to the weather.

On the other side, the four Aegis ships faced a large number of missiles, but every Red Alert Navy soldier in the ship's combat service center. It was also very decisive to intercept it.

The threat program of the searched incoming target is divided, and then the threat program of the fundamental target is carried out, and the six most threatening targets are locked onto by the missile.

The next second the missile was launched at the command of the commander of the weapon, and ten seconds later, the second wave of interceptor missiles rose into the air again in turn.

At this moment, the anti-ship missiles launched by the NATO fleet have come to a place only 50 kilometers away from the Aegis ships.

But in the next second. On the originally calm sea, a huge wave of hundreds of meters long suddenly set off, and a large amount of seawater flew up to the sea surface of more than ten meters, and then quickly fell back to the sea.

A few seconds later. A large number of floats tumbled out of the rough waves, apparently beneath this stretch of water. Submarines from both sides are also beginning to engage in combat.

I don't know which side has already been gained. The waves brought by such a violent explosion were definitely the destruction of one of the submarines of one of the parties. That's what caused such a huge reaction.

However, the surface ships of both sides simply did not have time to pay attention to the underwater battle.

Four Aegis ships fired twelve V-2FK missiles one after another, and finally intercepted most of the incoming anti-ship missiles.

The remaining missiles, under the Vulcan dense system, were also destroyed on the sea, and the only Harpoon anti-ship missile, which was only a few hundred meters away from the Aegis ship, also plunged into the sea under the cloud burst interference cloud.

And whether it is in the air, on the water, or even on the bottom of the sea, the course of the battle only takes place within three minutes of the official outbreak of war.

Then comes the real battle.

All sneak attack tactics are ineffective for both sides.

This outbreak of naval warfare is a war of encirclement and annihilation, both sides are in the clear, what means of attack, what kind of reaction they make, in the eyes of both sides, is not a secret at all.

At this moment, the fleets of both sides have increased their speed to more than 30 knots, a large number of carrier-based aircraft have begun to take off quickly under the headwind, and anti-submarine helicopters have begun to search for submarines in their respective fleet areas.

At this time, no matter whose submarine it is, once it enters the warning range of the fleet, it will be attacked.

Even if it is its own submarine, it will be the target of attack, because this is the iron rule.

Even if the Typhoon-class attack nuclear submarine of the Somali Atlantic Fleet enters the waters below the Atlantic Fleet, it will become the target of the fleet's anti-submarine forces for the first time.

The same is true on the other side, even if the Seawolf-class attack nuclear submarine enters its own defense circle, it will be killed as soon as possible.

The battlefield of submarines naturally becomes more dangerous, because they not only have to prevent the other side from breaking through their own defense lines, but also keep a reasonable distance between themselves and their own fleet at all times, so as not to become the target of attack.

At this moment, on the command ship of NATO's Combined Atlantic Fleet, the four-star Admiral of the US Navy, Robert . Gates sits at the command center, and by his side, a large number of NATO staff officers are gathering together to analyze the results of the battle, always ensure the grasp of the real-time state of the war, and then make tactical modifications according to these states.

Gates, on the other hand, was in control, and three minutes after the attack was launched, the battle damage was passed for the first time.

"According to the report from the front, during the three-minute attack, our side intercepted 24 anti-ship missiles launched by the enemy, but the 48 anti-ship missiles launched by us were also intercepted by the other side.

In terms of the air force, six lightning fighters of the 13th Carrier-based Aircraft Wing and five lightning fighters of the 10th Carrier-based Aircraft Wing were destroyed by enemy aircraft, and only three pilots escaped along the way, and we destroyed three Apollo carrier-based planes of the other side, and all the pilots of the opposing side successfully parachuted, and now the surviving pilots are all in the sea area where the carrier-based aircraft of the two sides are fighting, and the destroyers in front have sent helicopters to the rescue.

Underwater, it has been established that a submarine was destroyed, but it is not possible to confirm which side of the submarine was destroyed, and it is impossible to see the signs of wreckage and floating debris at sea at night. ”

"The attack is too slow, and this speed is simply a crime." Gates looked unhappy, under the absolute superiority, the battle loss rate of carrier-based aircraft actually reached 11 to 3, which he could not accept.

Another staff officer reported: "At present, the second batch of carrier-based aircraft of the five carrier-based aircraft wings, with a total of 36 lightning fighters, has formed an encirclement formation, and it is expected that in 12 minutes, the second group of carrier-based aircraft will exchange fire with the enemy's second group of carrier-based aircraft." ”

Gates still shook his head and ordered: "It's still too slow, the soldiers are fast, order the destroyer formation at the front of each aircraft carrier battle group to immediately advance fifty nautical miles, cooperate with the air force, and eliminate the opponent's living air force." ”

"In addition, immediately order the commanders of the five aircraft carrier battle groups to immediately take off the carrier-based drones, all of them to fly at ultra-low altitudes, and break through the opponent's fleet defense circle, I want to smash the opponent's defense network in one fell swoop, and strive for the best chance for the general attack of the large force."

"Order the other defensive ships to immediately disperse according to the combat formation, and at the same time squeeze into the middle, compress the opponent's two aircraft carrier battle groups alive in a fixed space, and absolutely not let the other side break out, even if it is to put a bayonet on the warship, it must intercept the other side." (To be continued......)