The interception of ballistic missiles by Daoguohang is the skill of the strategic defense systems of various countries, and the Gongchuan juice cruise missile can be regarded as a worldwide problem. [No pop-up novel network]

Compared with intercepting ballistic missiles, the biggest problem in intercepting cruise missiles is not in interception, but in the present.

Comparatively speaking, cruise missiles are far inferior to ballistic missiles in other respects, except that they are more stealthy, that is, difficult to detect. The excellent concealment, that is, low detectability, of the forward march has given the cruise missile a place and it will shine on the battlefield. Of course, cruise missiles are not static, but are constantly evolving with technology.

If we divide it according to the flight degree, until the beginning of this century, the "cruise" missiles were still dominated by subtones, such as the American "Tomahawk" series, the Russian "Tomahawk" series and the Russian "Tomahawk" series because they are very similar to the "Tomahawk", so they are nicknamed "Tomahawksky", Europe's "Storm Shadow", and so on. Without exception, these subtone cruise missiles have adopted the method of flying close to the ground to avoid the enemy's air defense radar and achieve the purpose of penetrating the defense.

The technology of the end of the century and the beginning of the century. It's not that it's impossible to manufacture sound cruise missiles, but that sound cruise missiles have relatively serious performance defects. For example, in the era of the knife century, the former Soviet Union developed a flight degree of up to Qiao Mach and a range of more than the old

"Shipwrecked. Anti-ship missiles, and installed them on many large warships, including the aircraft carrier "Kuznetsov" and the "Kirov"-class nuclear-powered cruisers "Peter the Great" and "Glorious"-class cruisers, becoming the nemesis of American aircraft carriers. The problem is that this kind of projectile mass is equivalent to the mouth of the "Tomahawk" type, and carrying a kilogram warhead is equivalent to a "Tomahawk". type! The maximum range of an 8 times anti-ship missile is only a kilometer, just a "Tomahawk." type, it is difficult to take on the heavy responsibility of ground attack. If you want to increase its range to a thousand kilometers, you need to increase the shooting quality above the spider, which is more than the heart. Increasing the mass of the shot will not only keep the mass production price high, but also make the equipment extremely difficult. For example, the American "Ticonderoga." Class cruisers can carry up to the most, the sword "Tomahawk" is halved and the configuration can also carry the lead, and the "Glorious" class cruisers with the same displacement can only carry the old one and the improved version can only carry four. If a missile is so large that it is difficult for a warship to carry it, it will not have much actual combat value. Correspondingly, the long-range cruise, missiles of the Soviet Union at that time, that is, were called "Tomahawksky". It is also a subtone cruise missile, and it does not have the ability to fly sound, so it has been able to achieve a strategic target in range without greatly increasing its launch mass.

Bringing cruise missiles into the age of sound. It is the ever-changing science and technology.

Around the end of the old era and the beginning of the power era, with the arrival of a new round of technological revolution represented by the electric power revolution, many advanced technologies with the significance of the Ge era came out one after another, and with practical value, cruise missiles entered a period of high development.

In just a few years, with the exception of the United States, which took the lead in moving towards the "high-pitched" era. Russia, which has already made achievements in the field of music, Europe, which has actively contributed to the overall influence of the people, and the republics that have started the electric revolution, have all challenged the United States in the field of "treble".

This is the beginning of the "degree race" in the field of cruise missiles. Also based on degrees, the "treble" era can be divided into several stages, that is, the entry stage with a maximum flight of Mach 6 to 8, the initial stage of the maximum flight through the old Mach, the mature stage of the maximum flight through the old Mach, and the ultimate stage when the maximum flight reaches the Mach force.

Compared with the subtone era, the biggest difference in the "treble" era is that with the increase in degree, the flight height ratio of the missile is also increasing, and the improvement is very obvious. For example, the maximum flight altitude of the high-factor cruise missile in the entry-level is generally controlled at about 1,000 kilometers, while the maximum flight altitude of the high-factor cruise missile in the ultimate stage is more than 1,000 meters, and some are even close to 4,000 meters. The reason for the increasing height is very simple; The fast flight degree will cause the friction between the missile body and the air to produce huge heat, and there is even a danger of burning the missile, so the only way to continuously increase the flight altitude is to continuously increase the flight altitude. Only by leaving the dense atmosphere can the heat generated by air friction be effectively reduced. More importantly, in the face of various new detection systems, the increasing degree of influence of reducing the flight altitude on improving the penetration rate has become the main means to increase the survival probability of missiles in the process of penetrating defenses and to improve the breakthrough of the enemy's air defense system.

It may be argued that a cruise missile flying at an altitude of 1,000 meters and at the magnitude of Mach has deviated from the route of the cruise missile, that is, it is no longer concealed.

In fact, the concealment of the Tweeter cruise missile is still excellent compared to ballistic missiles.

It must be admitted that in the tactical sphere, it is really difficult for a tweeted cruise missile to make a difference. Even in some special circumstances, the treble cruise missile still has an irreplaceable role, such as when attacking a large aircraft carrier battle group, the tweeted cruise missile is still one of the most effective ammunition. However, in the vast majority of the time, the treble cruise missile has withdrawn from the tactical stage, for example, in the Middle East war, the proportion of the ammunition consumed by the republican team is less than 3 thousandths, and the proportion of the ammunition consumed by the US team is less than 1 percent, which is far lower than the tactical ammunition such as long-range artillery shells and gliding bombs. Of course, Yi Xunshu is not the same as the body clam, and the many factors that are used to paint the tactical use of the cruise missile are not high. The lack of euphemism is one of them, and relatively speaking, the high price is the main reason.

In the strategic field, price is naturally not a big issue.

It can be said that even if the price of a hypersound cruise missile is much higher than that of other tactical ammunition, it is much cheaper than a strategic ballistic missile, and if calculated according to the price of the system, it will definitely be even cheaper. Exactly. In the great wave of the complete destruction of nuclear weapons, several nuclear powers have not only not allowed their strategic bombers to retire ahead of schedule, but have instead enhanced the value of their existence by developing and improving high-pitched cruise missiles.

In this wave, Russia is not doing badly.

As early as the beginning of the decade, in order to resist the economic crisis and the Great Depression caused by severe overproduction. Russia has increased its investment in armaments, including several military equipment projects related to treble cruise missiles, and the final code name is an old O, and the project on the basis of improvement has won the favor of the Russian Navy and Air Force, and once entered the engineering stage, if not the quality is serious, and the weight reduction design effect is weak. I am afraid that Russia will become the third country after the United States and the Republic to develop and produce high-pitched cruise missiles by the end of the year. For the Russian military industry, in addition to the regret brought by the failure of the first four times, it is more about experience. It is on this basis that the Russian Air Force at the end of the decade proposed performance indicators for the next generation of cruise missiles. And it is clearly required to develop completely new, rather than improve on the original product. After the arduous efforts of the old year, around the end of the weak years, the Chanlingli tweeter cruise missile, led by the Russian Ruby Design Bureau and jointly participated by several design bureaus such as Lazuli, was successfully developed, and won the mass production order of the Air Force, becoming the standard weapon of the new generation of Concorus strategic bombers. Russia also became the fourth country after France to master the technology of developing and producing hypersound cruise missiles. After this. Under the active promotion of the Russian Air Force, the Ruby Design Bureau has successively launched a variety of improved models such as Siwang and others, as well as new missiles such as Siyijin and Sishenkou, among which the Siyidou that came out in the year of Binian is the latest generation of Russian high-pitched cruise missiles, and its maximum flight degree has reached. Mach. This is also the latest standard equipment of Russian strategic bombers.

At this time, the strategic defense system of the Celestial Forces of the Republic was confronted with Komata Chiichiro-type treble cruise missiles launched by dozens of Russian strategic bombers from the airspace.

Some people may say that the best way to intercept ballistic missiles is to intercept the missile, not the warhead, and then the best way to intercept a cruise missile is to deal with a bomber, not a missile. Prior to this, the kinetic interception satellites of the Space Forces of the Republic had already attacked the missile vehicles of the Russian army. Why not use the same method against the strategic bombers of the Russian army? In any case, no matter how fast the bomber flies, it can't compare to the kinetic missile.

There is nothing wrong with the first half of this view. It would be great if you could shoot down the bomber.

The problem is that the latter half has little chance of being realized. There is only one point, that is, whether kinetic missiles can hit high-flying strategic bombers.

At the time of attacking the missile vehicle on the ground. Kinetic missiles did not directly concentrate the launch vehicle. Instead, the destructive effect of the explosion on the ground is used to destroy a nearby missile vehicle. Kinetic missiles fly about 100 times from launch to landing. In such a short period of time, the missile vehicle with a maximum degree of less than one kilometer per hour can travel along the highway at most, so only a few kinetic missiles are needed to cover the area where the vehicle is located and ensure the destruction of the vehicle.

In the same time, a strategic bomber with a cruise flight degree of more than Mach 4 can fly hundreds of kilometers, while a kinetic missile is not loaded with explosives, and the kinetic energy will only be released when it lands or hits the target, so in order to hit a bomber in flight, at least tens of thousands of missiles are needed for all-round coverage.

Some people may say that kinetic missiles should be equipped with guidance systems.

Leaving aside for the moment whether the open guidance system will not be interfered with, after entering the dense atmosphere. Kinetic missiles with a flight degree of up to thousands of kilometers per second will produce high temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees Celsius when they rub against the air, and none of the known materials can withstand such high temperatures, so it is impossible to install a detection window on the missile, and the guidance system cannot obtain external information, and guidance is impossible. It is precisely for this reason that all kinetic missiles used to attack surface targets and suspended targets in the atmosphere have only the simplest inertial guidance system, and no precision guidance system.

In addition to the difficulty of the attack, it is also difficult to accurately track high-flying bombers from outer space.

It can be said that the only way to shoot down a Russian strategic bomber is to get out of the heavy air supremacy fighter and attack under the guidance of early warning aircraft and ground-based long-range radar.

There is no doubt that strategic bombers do not patrol near the border line, and Russia does not lack strategic depth.

For example, in this attack, the distance between the four missile airspace and the border of the Republic was more than one kilometer. With such a large distance, even if the air supremacy fighter has sufficient range, it will be difficult to break through the Russian air defense network and complete the attack under heavy obstruction. Besides, Russian strategic bombers are not without pilots, and when they encounter a threat, they will definitely turn to escape and will not give the enemy's fighters a chance to get closer.

The important thing is that the inability to accurately track the bombers does not mean that the bombers cannot be detected, nor does it mean that it is impossible to grasp whether the bombers are in the Umbrella Island, and the two alert radars deployed in the northwest and northeast regions of the Republic can monitor Russia's Siberia and the Far East and make a general positioning of the bombers on patrol in the air. What's more, as long as a Russian bomber fires a missile, the long-range warning radar can detect the resulting electromagnetic field disturbance and thus raise the alarm.

In addition to long-range warning radars, there are also strategic early warnings in space that are specifically designed to detect cruise missiles

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All in all, as soon as a Russian strategic bomber fires a cruise missile, the strategic early warning system of the Republican Space Forces will sound the alarm.

Of course, it is a little easier to intercept a missile than a bomber.

After the Russian bombers fired missiles, interceptor satellites located over Siberia and the Far East entered operational status, and all interceptor satellites equipped with high-energy lasers automatically attacked the detected high-risk targets after receiving orders.

The problem is, there are interceptions. Naturally, there are anti-interception means. Compared with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles do not have a degree advantage, and they cannot abandon the active aircraft in advance. Relatively speaking, the only advantage of cruise missiles is that they can be supported by a loading platform, that is, a strategic bomber. Anyway. Cruise missiles are ammunition, not weapon platforms, and their autonomy is very limited, and if they rely entirely on the cruise missile's own penetration capability, it will definitely break through the defense network of the republic, and it is unlikely that they will even enter the territorial airspace of the republic.

In response to this situation, the Russian Air Force has developed a very creative countermeasure device: the virtual imager.

Of course, this is not a patent of the Russian Air Force. The republic has similar equipment with the US Air Force.

To put it simply, the "virtual imager" is a kind of equipment specially used to deceive and intercept satellites, and the working principle is very simple, that is, the laser projector in the bomber and the towing pod is used to create more than virtual three-dimensional images around the bomber, so that those interceptor satellites that rely on visible light, infrared and ultraviolet rays to detect cruise missiles will be regarded as cruise missiles, so as to waste time on these worthless virtual images, so that the real cruise missiles can get a chance to penetrate the defense. It can be seen from this that the virtual imager cannot guarantee that cruise missiles can penetrate 100 percent of the defense, but it only greatly increases the penetration rate.

It is precisely like this, when the interception begins, the interception satellites of the Celestial Army of the Republic have to face not multiple targets, but multiple targets!

Arguably, this is the biggest trouble in intercepting cruise missiles.

Not to mention that interceptor satellites are all controlled by computers, even if they are controlled by humans, it is difficult to distinguish between real cruise missiles.

In the absence of any other way, the only way is to attack all the "targets" in turn, whether real or not.

The problem is that if you want to attack all targets in the usual way, you have to concentrate on intercepting all the satellites. In fact, even if the republic goes to full-scale war with Russia, the national strategic defense system will not put all its forces on Russia's side, and will not even transfer the main intercepting forces.

In other words, with conventional interception methods, it is simply impossible to do a one-pot end.

Of course, until the system is adjusted, the poison-blocking satellites over Siberia and the Far East are still fulfilling their mission without any hints. In accordance with the procedure for dealing with cruise missiles, the detected targets are sequentially illuminated with high-energy lasers. Because there are a large number of false targets. So interceptor satellites do not repeat their irradiation on targets that are not destroyed. This is the biggest difference between intercepting cruise missiles and intercepting ballistic missiles.

At this time, the redundant statistical program in the national strategic defense system came into play.

To put it more bluntly, the central computer of the strategic defense system will calculate the interception efficiency at any time and predict whether it can intercept all targets in time; if it is not possible to intercept all targets in time, and the number of remaining targets exceeds the maximum interception capacity of other interception systems, the central computer will adjust the interception tactics, such as activating an interception system specially designed to deal with cruise missiles.

In fact, after about a few minutes, it was determined that there were nearly 1% more targets, and the targets were not shot down, and the central computer of the national strategic defense system came up with the result of "interception failure", and after concluding that other interception systems could not intercept so many targets at once, the emergency mechanism was activated and the interception tactics began to be adjusted. Of course. These are done by computer automation. No human intervention is required. In fact, the entire calculation took less than a second, and with the degree of human reactivity, it is simply impossible to make an accurate judgment in such a short time.

As the central computer gave the command, the interceptor satellites over low-earth orbit stopped fighting almost simultaneously.

At this time, on a huge artificial satellite in geosynchronous orbit above the equator at east longitude, the memory alloy excited by the current is rapidly expanding and expanding, and dozens of small robots are stretching along the skeleton. Dozens of huge pieces of flexible reflective cloth were pulled up, and a huge mirror was eventually formed.

On the land of more than 30,000 kilometers below, a military base in the Taihang Mountains suddenly became lively.

In the blink of an eye, a pillar of light, even more dazzling than a nuclear explosion, rose from the ground, rushed towards the huge mirror at a rate of 10,000 kilometers per second, and then turned back at the same degree, landing on the ground thousands of kilometers away from the base. As the mirror slowly rotates, so does the light spot on the ground.

I'm afraid no one would have thought that the Republic Heavenly Army still has this kind of world-destroying weapon in its hands!