The bandwidth of the high-frequency and VHF radio stations used to communicate with strategic submarines is very small, and it takes several minutes to receive a message of only a few dozen characters, so after the Russian president issued the order for a strategic counterattack, it was not the Russian strategic submarine hiding under the Arctic ice cap that took the lead in counterattacking, but the land-based missiles that narrowly escaped the catastrophe and the strategic bombers that roamed in the air. 【Reading.com】

Around the time of Moscow, that is, the time of the Republic, the 7th Battalion of the Strategic Rocket Regiment of the Russian Army, deployed in the western part of the Urals, carrying the first strategic ballistic missiles, drove out of the lower depot and spread out on the spot at the nearest firing point. The pre-firing preparations took only two minutes, and without precise positioning, the hoe launched three "Ma ICBMs" in turn, and the targets of the three missiles were Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou of the Republic, that is, the three most populous megacities.

First of all, we have to admit that this missile vehicle was very lucky.

In accordance with the establishment system of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces. A battalion should have a shooting car, that is, a platoon, a platoon, a battalion has a platoon. Prior to this, the battalion immediately carried out an emergency mobilization after receiving the strategic alert order, and six missile vehicles in good condition left the cave as quickly as possible. And precise positioning is carried out on the way. It is conceivable that when the precision strike of the Celestial Army of the Republic came, none of these six shooting vehicles were spared, and all of them were destroyed, and although there were no malignant explosions in the violent explosion, they all caused serious radioactive contamination. Fortunately, the road mobility of the missile vehicles was not too slow, and at the time of the attack, the six missile vehicles were more than 1 kilometers away from the battalion headquarters bunkers, and did not pose a threat to the battalion headquarters. What is even more fortunate is that the Celestial Army of the Republic did not have a depot to strike at the Russian missile launch vehicle, so the porridge shooting vehicle that could not enter the alert state in time because of the failure was spared.

Secondly, it must be admitted that the commander of the 7th battalion did not make any mistakes.

After receiving the order for a strategic counterattack, the battalion commander named Sergei immediately gave the order to counterattack to the remaining platoon in accordance with the time priority procedure. The so-called time-first procedure is to launch missiles in the shortest possible time, regardless of whether the missiles can hit the target or not. Of course, in this case, the missile attack will definitely be on large cities, industrial centers, military bases, and other surface targets. Instead of a reinforced point target, the requirements for accuracy are not very high, and when attacking a megacity like Shanghai, even if it deviates by thousands of meters, it will not have much impact on the attack result. It can be said that with the situation at that time, the kinetic interception satellites of the Republic Space Army were still over Russia, and the kinetic ammunition only needed 2 minutes to complete the attack, if the hoe vehicle was precisely positioned. As a result, its whereabouts are exposed, because the ascent flight phase of a ballistic missile lasts for tens of seconds, so even if the missile can be launched before the kinetic ammunition falls, it may not be able to make the missile fly over the Republic, and it may even cause the missile that has just been lifted into the air to fall due to a malfunction, and the consequences will certainly be unimaginable.

Of course, no matter how lucky or resourceful, as soon as the 3 missiles were lifted into the air, the Celestial Army of the Republic sounded the alarm.

Long before the advent of the strategic defense system, strategic alert satellites were developed, and they are an indispensable weapon for nuclear powers. To put it simply, a strategic alert satellite is a wide-area reconnaissance satellite specially designed to monitor the enemy's mainland, and is generally equipped with three different types of cameras: visible, infrared, and ultraviolet. That is, passive detectors that work separately in these three bands, as long as the enemy's missiles are lifted into the air. The radiation signal generated by the missile's tail flame can be detected immediately and the alarm can be sounded. Of course. Modern strategic alert satellites also have positioning functions, and are linked to the strategic defense system through satellite data, that is, when the alarm is issued, the location information of the target has been sent to the strategic defense system. In this way, there is no need for human control at all, and the central computer of the strategic defense system will automatically control the interceptor satellites over the missile launch area to intercept the missiles that are lifted into the air and the warheads that are projected by the missiles.

That's exactly what it is, about a second after the 3 missiles are lifted into the air. Just. Leave the troposphere and enter the stratosphere. The high-energy laser broke through the sky and landed on the warheads of three missiles. To be exact. It was the warheads of the three missiles that were enveloped and quickly moved towards the fuel compartment under the warheads.

As the laser beam shines on the fuel tank. The first one to take off in the air "Mom immediately exploded in the air." Turning into a dazzling ball of fire, the flaming shell fell into the vast Siberian plain after the blinding light dissipated. The problem was that the interception came a little too late, and the other two missiles completed the separation of the body and bomb before the laser beam shone on the fuel tank, and under the action of the explosion bolt, the body of the projectile before the fuel was used up and the warhead was actively separated from the warhead tightly wrapped by the heat barrier.

Although the laser beam is also quickly adjusted. Caught up with the projectile, which had actually slowed down its ascent, and burned through the shell of the projectile, causing the remaining fuel inside to explode. However, at this time, the projectile body and the warhead were already separated by hundreds of meters, and the degree difference between the two reached thousands of kilometers per second, so the shock wave generated by the explosion of the projectile did not have an impact on the high-rise warhead. On the contrary, it interfered with the interceptor satellite, and lost the warhead that was making a reorbit flight.

The battle did not end there, and the interceptor satellites equipped with high-energy excitators followed suit. The second type of interceptor satellite in a higher orbit. That is, the interceptor satellite, which is equipped with 10 wide-beam weapons, immediately received information from the central computer and launched an interception operation in advance. As the two warheads left the interference zone caused by the explosion of the projectile, two beams of high-energy neutral particles with a force of up to 10,000 kilometers per second were fired from the Otter interceptor satellite at an altitude of about 10,000 kilometers above the ground.

After being irradiated by the particle beam, the warhead with a slightly higher trajectory only held on to the silent particle beam, and completely vaporized with the insulation layer on the surface of the warhead. The enormous heat generated by the friction with extremely thin air during high flight immediately ignited the flammable material inside the warhead, and finally detonated the attitude control rocket motor and the re-entry plus the high-energy fuel in the rocket engine, in a violent explosion. The warhead of the guided missile, which carried a 10,000-ton nuclear warhead, turned into a meteor over the city of Omsk in Siberia, Russia, and the wreckage of the warhead fell on Russian territory.

The warhead, which flew at a lower altitude, was not affected much, except for some damage to the thermal insulation layer under the irradiation of the particle beam. Although theoretically speaking, when this warhead re-enters the dense atmosphere due to the damage of the thermal insulation layer, it will definitely be burned out, and the delicate nuclear warhead inside will also be destroyed, the national strategic defense system of the Republic has not let go of this missile warhead, which also carries a 10,000-ton nuclear warhead.

After the last warhead was out of the range of the particle beam, two kinetic interceptor missiles equipped with self-guidance systems had already been launched from the kinetic interceptor satellite in low-earth orbit and were catching up with the missile warhead that was still flying towards the largest city of the Republic at a rate of more than one kilometer per second. Because it was a tangential pursuit, the relative degree between the missile warhead and the interceptor missile was about every kilometer, and the entire pursuit lasted only a few seconds. That is, the missile warhead was overtaken by an interceptor missile as soon as it reached the sky over the capital of the Altai Territory, Barnaul, and was hit by two interceptor missiles in succession, which were shot down before it entered the descent trajectory.

At this point, the whole, the interception is over. From the time the missile was launched to the time when the warhead was all shot down, it took less than 2 minutes before and after. On the surface, this extremely short battle can be regarded as a thrilling and undangered, but in essence, the prerequisite for being able to achieve "thrilling and undangerous" is a large amount of effort in the early stage, or a huge investment of tens of billions of yuan, as well as the hard work of tens of thousands of republican scientific researchers in decades.

Decades of work are embodied in this short period of time.

In essence, this interception battle is certainly much more dangerous than it seems.

It must be admitted that Russia started to develop the missile at the beginning of the decade, completed its design at the end of the blade era, and began mass production and equip its troops at the beginning of the illusory era, and is known as the world's last strategic ballistic missile, which is indeed a strategic weapon with advanced performance and a huge threat.

First. Mom used a solid rocket motive. That's why "Mom can leave the relatively dangerous troposphere in seconds after shooting". And it leaves the dense atmosphere twice as much as previous ballistic missiles. The biggest benefit of shortening the flight time of the missile in the dense atmosphere is to increase the survival probability of the missile. To know. If the missile is intercepted in the dense atmosphere, not to mention whether it will pose a threat to the mainland, as long as the slightest damage is done, the fuel tank of the missile can explode. The first downed missile. That is, the missile fired at the capital of the republic, which is still the nominal capital of the republic, is because the attack distance is the closest. The latest launch did not leave the dense atmosphere before the interception began, and the missile body was covered by a laser beam before it was separated from the warhead, and not only did it lose the opportunity to leave the atmosphere. It also polluted tens of thousands of square kilometers of the area below.

Of course, just the combustion of a solid rocket motive is nothing, only the selection of the right trajectory, the performance of the system, can be regarded as a truly excellent ballistic missile.

This is another of my strengths, that is, when attacking different targets, you can automatically choose the most suitable trajectory according to the distance of the target. To be self-guided, in the past, ballistic missiles only had a fixed trajectory, and attacking different targets was determined by the time of throwing the warhead. It can well be imagined. Missiles with fixed ballistics are certainly more vulnerable to interception.

Not to mention anything else, when using a fixed trajectory. The ballistic altitude must be determined by the maximum range, because the height of the trajectory determines the distance, and in the case of the maximum range, the ballistic altitude is naturally the highest. In other words, the missile has a relatively long flight time and needs to fly in outer space, which is tantamount to giving the opponent's interception system an excellent opportunity to strike. The flexible selection of the trajectory not only makes the flight path of the missile more difficult to calculate. It can also greatly shorten the flight time and shorten the flight distance in outer space, thereby greatly improving the survivability of the missile.

It is important to mention the attenuating effect of particle beam weapons in the atmosphere.

It is well known from an energy point of view. Lasers are pure energy weapons, that is, the high-energy laser beam itself does not have a mass, to be precise, a stationary mass, and completely relies on the energy carried by photons to destroy the target. Particle beam weapons are quasi-energy weapons, that is, high-energy laser beams that are actually some of the most powerful laser beams that fly at the same level as a few hearts, have mass, and can destroy targets with elementary particles and earthly energy. It is precisely in this way that in the atmosphere, particle beam weapons are far more attenuated than laser weapons, even neutral particle beam weapons. The reason is simple. High-flying elementary particles collide with gas molecules in the atmosphere. This changes direction or dissipates completely, affecting other elementary particles in the vicinity, greatly weakening the energy of the particle beam.

It is precisely for this reason that particle beam weapons are only suitable for use in outer space.

This is also the reason why the warhead with a high trajectory and flying to Guangzhou was destroyed by a particle beam, while the warhead with a lower trajectory and flying to Shanghai lost only some thermal insulation coating. Of course, the key is still for 48, which has a maximum range of 1,000 kilometers, when attacking Shanghai, which is a kilometer away, and Guangzhou, which is a kilometer away. There is no need to use a higher flight trajectory at all, and it is even possible to use a lower trajectory, that is, to control the ballistic altitude below a kilometer, so that the warhead always flies at the top of the dense atmosphere, abandon the active aircraft in advance, and let the warhead rely on the additional thrust provided by the re-entry and rocket motor to extend the range at the end of the flight, so as to achieve the purpose of improving the survivability of the warhead. Without this technology, the warhead that flew to Shanghai would have been shot down by a particle beam weapon.

From these two rounds of interception, it can be seen that laser weapons and particle beam weapons are definitely not omnipotent.

In the case of laser weapons, due to the refraction and emission phenomena in the atmosphere, they can only attack targets within a certain area directly below. As long as the attack angle is beyond the design system, not only will the attack efficiency be greatly reduced, but it may even make the attack completely fail. For particle beam weapons. The biggest problem is the dissipative effect of the atmosphere on particle beams, which makes it difficult to use in the atmosphere.

It is precisely for this reason that at a time when energy weapons are in vogue, one-third of the interception tasks in the national strategic defense system of the Republic are still undertaken by kinetic weapons, that is, kinetic interceptor missiles with a flight degree of up to kilometers per second, and these missiles build the last line of defense of the space-based interception system.

For interceptor missiles, the most important thing is whether they can intercept the target before it enters the descent trajectory.

The reason is simple, if the target warhead enters the descent trajectory, the flight will soon exceed 8 kilometers per second, and it will soon enter the atmosphere, and most importantly, at this time the warhead will definitely be over the Republic itself, and even if the interception is successful, fragments of the warhead with strong radioactivity will fall on the land of the Republic. Or even fall inside the city, so that the interception loses its due value.

As a result, after the first interception of the particle beam weapon fails, the space-based interception system will launch an interceptor missile.

While it is likely to waste valuable interceptor missiles, it is nothing to let nuclear warheads fall on the territory of the Republic of China.

This interception speaks volumes about this problem.

If the interceptor missile is fired later. The last missing warhead will enter the territory of the Republic. Even if it were possible to shoot it down, fragments of warheads would be scattered on the land of the republic, with incalculable consequences.

Judging by the analysis above. The interception of these three missiles and warheads can basically be described as perfect.

You must know that if the warhead enters the mid-flight trajectory, that is, after completing the initial stage of addition and ballistic adjustment, its warhead will automatically enter combat mode, in addition to activating the attitude control motive and carrying out orbital maneuvers, it will also successively spill enough decoy warheads to fake the real one, causing a greater burden on the interception system, at least so that the national strategic defense system of the Republic has to waste more combat power.

What is even more fortunate is that those Russian missile vehicles that survived precision strategic strikes are not on a large scale.

Nearly minutes after intercepting the first three missiles, the surviving missile vehicle fired the "First Strategic Ballistic Missile" in accordance with the president's counterattack order. The Shan firing followed the standard procedure, i.e., precise positioning was carried out before the missile was launched, and as a result, the missile had just lifted off. The kinetic warhead of the precision strike fell, and all the missiles flew in ashes in the violent explosion

Extinguish.

In addition, the missile was fired in accordance with the emergency procedure. There is no precise positioning, and all of them are aimed at the megacities of the republic. Of course, the outcome of this missile is similar, because the national strategic defense system of Republic Re can intercept thousands of targets at a time, so even if the interception satellites are enabled without being in orbit, it can be relatively easy to intercept the missiles, and the counterattack of the Russian strategic rocket forces will not succeed.

In fact, even if there is no space-based interception system against many old strategic ballistic missiles, it can be captured by relying only on air-based and ground-based interception systems. You must know that many years ago, the air-based laser interception system of the Republic successfully intercepted India's ballistic missiles in the Indian War. If you push it further, in the Japanese war before the blade. The Republic's air-based and sea-based interception systems have also successfully intercepted Japanese ballistic missiles.

Realistically speaking, what really poses a threat to the republic are those dozens of Russian strategic bombers!