Chapter 974: The Arsenal Ship Strikes Might
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"Now announce the latest news of the war situation, early this morning, the federal forces organized the largest counteroffensive since the outbreak of the war, a total of 600 sorties of fighters and more than 100 sorties of bombers, dispatched 220,000 ground troops, and finally at 7 o'clock this morning, the NATO coalition forces in Egypt, surrounded up, the battle is not over yet, but our federal guard and Egyptian friendly forces have taken the initiative in this battle, and the current battle is mainly concentrated in the ...... around the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt. For further war situations, this station will follow up and report as soon as possible, and then please see the battle footage sent back by the front-line reporters......"
At 7 a.m. on the Somali Morning News, the news channel of Somali Federal Television, immediately reported on the fighting that took place last night.
After a night of fighting, although all the sentry guns were destroyed by the NATO coalition forces, the wounds inflicted on the coalition forces were extremely heavy.
As a result, the coalition forces were unable to organize an effective defense, let alone a counteroffensive, for these few hours.
At the same time, the Red Guard also carried out high-intensity electromagnetic interference in the skies over Egypt, so that the command structure of the coalition forces fell into a stage of paralysis from time to time.
The troops advancing on all fronts mastered the rhythm of the war very quickly, and they had already been severely damaged by the sudden sentry artillery, and they were completely unable to resist the offensive on all fronts.
Until this moment, all the coalition soldiers could not have imagined. The only explanation they could think of as to why there were so many automatic rapid-fire guns hiding around them was. This is a pawn that has long been ambushed by the Somali Federation and the Egyptian leadership.
Otherwise the appearance of these twin rapid-fire guns simply cannot be explained. But when exactly these rapid-fire guns hidden deep under the surface were secretly built is still a big question.
For this reason, the intelligence services of all NATO countries have been mobilized, and every intelligence organization has received a very strict order to investigate the matter.
This failure can be said to be unexpected, but the same thing cannot happen again next time, and it must be investigated in its entirety. How many secret automatic turrets like this were built and where are they distributed?
Regardless of whether NATO's various intelligence services can obtain accurate information, when Sisi heard this war report, although he was also extremely puzzled, he also stubbornly declared that this was a secret defensive weapon built by Egypt and Somalia in the past.
Sisi is not stupid, he has to say this no matter what point of departure. Otherwise, the outside world will not believe it, and it will not be able to account for Somalia. Although he is also very puzzled, when exactly did the Somalis build these weapons in their own country.
When he said this question to Li Lan, Li Lan just smiled slightly. Ambiguously said: "What is difficult for me, let alone secretly building these defensive weapons, I am still in the depths of the desert of your country." A large air force military base was built and optical reflective instruments were used. Turned this airbase into an inconspicuous sand dune in the desert, until now. The airbase is constantly being expanded. β
Ceci was stunned for a moment, then could only nod in shock and close his mouth.
Everyone else can build military facilities in their own country, but as the supreme leader of Egypt, he doesn't know it, do you need to blame others? If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for your lack of ability.
So he chose to shut up, who knows what else he didn't know, in short, he was very hurt.
However, this emotion quickly disappeared, and the reason why he chose Li Lan was nothing more than that Li Lan was often able to do amazing things, and the more powerful the Somali Federation, the more relieved he became.
At this moment, on the battlefield in Egypt, the battle between the two sides has entered the follow-up stage, and the soldiers in the Egyptian theater of the NATO coalition have not received any supplies for six or seven hours.
The remaining 100,000 troops have also begun to face the crisis of running out of ammunition at this moment, and there is no shortage of food, but the attack of the outpost artillery has caused them to lose heavy ammunition in logistics.
After several hours of high-intensity fighting, each soldier ran out of ammunition, and what was even more frustrating was that they could not get ammunition from the corpses, although the weapons of the Somali troops also used 5.56 mm caliber bullets, but the caliber of the cartridge casings was different, and they could not be used at all.
And the fallen comrades did not have many bullets to use. Coupled with the fact that the offensive of the Somali army is as fierce as ever, without the support of ammunition, they simply cannot stop the flood of offensives.
Especially those individual heavy weapons, the fire team of a combat squad can only carry a maximum of four shells, and this is the amount carried under the exoskeleton armor, as soon as the four shells are finished, the fire team can only be reduced to ordinary infantry.
And the ammunition on those armored vehicles and main battle tanks is also limited, and after a few hours, how many more ground combat equipment are still fully loaded?
The sky is full of Somali fighter jets, and the coalition helicopters will be attacked head-on as soon as they appear.
The NATO Air Force, which has been replaced by the coalition forces, is still struggling with Somali fighters to compete for air supremacy in the southeastern waters of the Mediterranean.
Even the J-20 produced from the tank factory of the sub-base has been tested on the battlefield to test the effect of the equipment, and on the NATO side, in addition to the huge number of fourth-generation fighters, there are really not many fifth-generation fighters.
Although almost all the aviation industry in Europe is producing the F-35 licensed by the United States at full speed, it will definitely not be able to meet the needs of the current war in a short period of time.
To this end, NATO has deployed all fifth-generation fighters in Europe, all of which have been sent to the battlefield, as well as many drones. But the outcome of the air battle still did not change.
Want to rely on the numerical superiority of fourth-generation fighters. It is absolutely impossible to break through the defense line of the fifth-generation fighters, and it will only cause a lot of losses to the fourth-generation fighters.
The F-22 and F-15 had a record of more than 100 in that year. But I still remember vividly, in the face of the absolute superiority of the fifth-generation fighters, the fourth-generation fighters can only line up to die.
But even if the F-35 arrives on the battlefield, it will not be difficult to seize air superiority, and the Somali Federation has three fifth-generation fighters with independent property rights, and if you add the carrier-based version, there are six.
And these three fifth-generation fighters, the Apollo fighter and the Black Hawk fighter, are all highly efficient air supremacy fighters. The Invader's fifth-generation fighter is a multi-role fighter with more missions on ground-to-sea strikes.
It can also be seen from here that Somalia attaches great importance to highly efficient air supremacy fighters, and fifth-generation fighters that pursue absolute air superiority naturally strive for excellence in air superiority.
Although the fifth-generation fighters of the United States have also undergone a large number of upgrades over the years, it is still difficult to gain the upper hand with the same number.
It is precisely because the United States recognizes this that it has authorized the production of Lightning fighters to various European airlines, and the United States is responsible for the installation of electronic systems. This made it possible to speed up the production of fighters.
It will also greatly spread the cost of war, and production efficiency will become more efficient. There is only one goal in doing this, which is to use all the aviation production capacity within NATO. Produce a large number of fifth-generation fighters as soon as possible, and then seize air supremacy on the battlefield of the future.
Right now. Large-scale production continues, aviation groups of various countries. The orders received can be lined up for five or six years later, with a large number of production lines and assembly plants. They are also in the midst of rapid expansion, and NATO countries have also ushered in the most tense employment period.
However, for the current war, this large-scale air force construction work has not brought any beneficial results to the war.
At present, the southeastern waters of the Mediterranean Sea are still under the control of the Somali Air Force, and Li Lan is the first to build a large number of ground-based radars along the Egyptian coast to expand the defense network of the base to the Mediterranean coastal line.
These radar networks can even monitor the airspace off the coast of Italy, and if any European fighter movement occurs, it will be detected in advance.
Within ten hours of the Somali Federation's general offensive on all fronts, NATO finally couldn't help it.
Two arsenal ships, cruising around Italian waters, finally received the order to attack.
The arsenal ships that received the order immediately sounded a combat warning, all NATO satellites in the sky were in operation, and four early warning planes even approached the southern part of the Mediterranean Sea to carry out large-scale reconnaissance work on ground targets in Egypt.
In the air, after the space guidance work was in place, the two semi-submerged arsenal ships under the surface finally began to show their super attack power.
The 700 launchers on the whole ship of the division lifted the launch hatches at the same time, and in the next second, one missile after another rose into the air like a dense rocket launcher.
The use of thermal launch arsenal gives full play to the advantages of high thermal launch efficiency.
In a short period of 15 minutes, all 700 supersonic cruise missiles were launched, and 1,400 supersonic cruise missiles on the two arsenal ships flew at ultra-low altitudes as soon as they took off.
On the entire sea, you can hear the whistling sound of missiles, the dense missiles are more like locusts transiting, dense streamers, maybe a little beautiful, but each streamer represents death.
The arsenal ship represents an extreme of military development, and it can be said that the arsenal ship itself does not have too strong means of defense, but has only one function, which is to burst out with super-saturated strike capabilities in a short time.
This is a purely extreme attack weapon, which must rely on a powerful guidance system, because the arsenal ships themselves cannot guide missiles, let alone anti-submarine and air defense capabilities.
It is necessary to have a complete anti-aircraft and anti-submarine warship on the side, otherwise the survivability is almost zero.
The reason why the United States has restarted its arsenal ships is to use the most extreme means of attack to break the defensive circle of Somalia.
The United States cannot forget that when it attacked Somalia, under conventional thinking, it thought that the Tomahawk cruise missile would be enough to destroy everything that Li Lan had at the beginning.
But as a result, more than a thousand tomahawks went down, but Bagua City was still in good condition, and there was no loss at all.
While this shocked the whole world, it also made the United States realize the strong defense of its opponents this time.
It is precisely because it was unable to break through Somalia's defensive ring in one fell swoop and strike at Somalia's war capability. That's why the Four-Nation Coalition had to give up the war in the end.
It was from that time that the already aborted arsenal ship program. was re-enabled.
However, the slow Tomahawk cruise missile can no longer meet the needs of rapid penetration, so that the arsenal ship can exert more powerful attack power. The United States has also upgraded the Tomahawk missile and developed a second-generation Tomahawk missile with supersonic low-altitude penetration capability. The range has also been increased to 3,000 kilometers, in order to be able to directly hit the missile to Bagua City from the safety of the Mediterranean.
This type of missile has also become the main weapon of the arsenal ships, and the two arsenal ships that went to the Mediterranean Sea this time did not carry any anti-ship or anti-aircraft missiles, and all of the 700 vertically launched magazines were Tomahawk supersonic cruise missiles.
The total cost of 1,400 supersonic Tomahawk missiles alone reached $1.4 billion. Throwing out $1.4 billion at one time is enough for the United States, as long as it can break through Somalia's defense network, even $14 billion.
The dense missile group, all of which flew close to the sea at a speed of Mach 1.5, entered Egypt in just a few dozen minutes.
Some of the missiles went straight to the battlefield. The remaining missiles flew directly through Egypt's vast North African desert and continued to fly in the direction of the northeast corner of Africa.
At the same time, such a dense number of missile launches. Naturally, it was impossible to conceal the detection of satellites, and from the moment these missiles were launched from the arsenal ships with a flash of fire, the base issued a warning.
Forthwith. Violent air defense sirens sounded in every city throughout the Somali Federation.
"A large number of missiles are detected, please evacuate everyone to the nearest bomb shelter as soon as possible. Maintain order and prohibit scrambling. Warning, this is not a drill, warning, this is not a drill......"
Warnings sounded on the emergency radio in every city, and every citizen of the Somali Federation immediately put down their work and rushed to the nearest air-raid shelter.
In each school, all classes were suspended, and all the students, organized by the teacher, marched in a line to the nearest bomb shelter.
Factories, office buildings, public places, everyone stopped what they were doing. On the streets, the police and garrison began to take to the streets to maintain order. Guide the crowd to a bomb shelter to escape the disaster.
At the same time, under the first-level air defense emergency plan that has been activated, a large number of defensive weapons are rising from under the ground in the eyes of every Somali citizen who goes to the bomb shelter.
In gardens, parks, streets, roads, and courtyards, anti-aircraft weapons slowly appeared.
This kind of picture has appeared once before, and this time no one was surprised, only a strong sense of curiosity.
And for the first time, many people know that there are so many defensive weapons hidden around their lives.
At this moment, the entire Somali Federation is full of missile launchers or enhanced versions of anti-aircraft guns rising up to the sky, and every Guangling Pagoda is also in operation.
On the hundred-meter-high Guangling Tower, the hexagonal prism began to rotate, and the six mirrors began to emit a faint light.
The first-level air defense emergency plan is a defense plan set by Li Lan at the base, and once this plan is activated, all air defense weapons in the entire federal territory will be activated at the same time under the emergency broadcast, and all weapons will be put into a state of readiness.
All counterattacks and attacks will be coordinated under the command of the base, and any attack that enters the absolute alert field of the base can be controlled by the base to intercept the nearest defensive weapon.
The base's anti-aircraft weapons formed a five-line interception network.
The first interception network is satellite laser interception, which mainly intercepts hypersonic missiles and ballistic missiles that have entered the space flight stage.
The second is the interception of regional air defense missiles, which can intercept ballistic missiles that break through the first interception network and re-enter the atmosphere as far as possible. This layer of defense ring refers not only to those regional air defense missiles placed in the Federation, but also to any regional air defense missile units subordinate to the Red Alert Force.
The third defense circle is the Guangling Tower, as the third defense circle, it can also be said to be the most critical one, all the Guangling Towers throughout the entire federation will form the densest interception network, intercepting attack weapons that can break through the first and second defenses. The interception range radius is from one hundred kilometers to six kilometers, and ultra-low-altitude targets can also be intercepted.
The fourth line of defense is the anti-aircraft gun, the enhanced version of the anti-aircraft gun, whose shells can quickly form the densest barrage in the air of six thousand meters, synchronous short-range laser weapons, and also very important ultra-low-altitude defensive weapons, double insurance.
The last defensive ring is the Getter cannon, the two-seat 30 mm twelve-barreled Vulcan cannon of the Getter cannon, which can form the densest barrage, the interception range covers low altitude to horizontal plane, and the dense firepower can destroy any incoming conventional weapon.
If there were weapons that could break through these five lines of defense in a row, Li Lan could only use the Iron Curtain device to protect the entire Bagua City. But the Iron Curtain cannot be opened at any time, and the opening time is also very limited.
It's just that it is definitely not an easy thing to break through these five defense circles, even if it is a super-saturated blow, it is not very easy to break through these five defense lines.
However, the missiles that came this time are not so easy to deal with, and ultra-low-flying supersonic cruise missiles, if you want to intercept such missiles, it is a very difficult task for any country.
No country can ensure a very high interception rate when it comes to intercepting ballistic missiles and ultra-low-altitude high-speed cruise missiles, and Li Lan cannot guarantee 100 percent interception.
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