Chapter 486: Eagle Strike
"Report to the general, the electronic jammers of the Ming army are jamming our AWACS aircraft."
A staff officer interrupted Major General Howard's meeting and said, the latter, who was studying countermeasures with a group of pilots, raised his head with a gloomy face, and the staff officer quickly found out the location of their AWACS aircraft on the map, Major General Howard sneered and said: "These cowards, they have a little bit of ability!" Order all electronic warfare aircraft to take off and see who interferes with whom! ”
This kind of invisible battle is obviously the best way for the two sides to fight, and firing at each other will trigger a direct war between the two sides, and there is no such danger in the invisible electromagnetic wave battle.
Six EA3 electronic warfare planes were immediately raised from the Saratoga hangar, although the 37-ton Air Samurai was like a joke as an attack aircraft, even if it did its job in the design of throwing a nuclear bomb, in the current situation it would be a food for anti-aircraft missiles. But its sheer size made it an excellent choice for carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft, and six massive EA3s, with the help of catapults and booster rockets, quickly took off from the deck and flew to their AWACS positions under the escort of Crusader warriors, where they used their high-power jammers to confront the Ming army's electronic jammers.
However, Rear Admiral Howard did not know that at this time, eight albatross missile boats had bypassed the US destroyer fleet that was heading towards them under the cover of electronic jammers.
The latter's radar did not detect these small ships sailing 50 kilometers away, and their radar could not bypass the limit of the curvature of the earth, not to mention the 400-ton missile boats, even the 4,000-ton destroyers at such a distance were difficult for them to detect, and the E1 carrier-based early warning aircraft that was originally hovering near the Saratoga could act as their eyes. But two large jammers flew from Djibouti. It was very easy to make the radar screen of the US AWACS aircraft turn into a blank expanse.
Soon. Eight albatross passing by the destroyer appeared a hundred kilometers away from the Saratoga.
"Targeted!"
"Targeted!"
……
The commander of this formation immediately sounded a series of shouts on the radio, and the radar image of the Saratoga transmitted by the Hawkeye early warning aircraft through the data link was quickly entered into the seeker computer of the Eagle Strike missile, and at the same time, each boat calculated the flight path of the missile according to the coordinates of the two sides, and after completing the locking of the target, the commander of the formation shouted: "Two per ship, launch!" ”
On the eight albatross missile boats lined up on the sea, the YJ-2 missiles in their tail launch tubes instantly flew out with blazing flames. With an upwardly sloping wake track, it hit the target in the blue sea and blue sky, and soon disappeared from the field of vision of the officers and men of the boats. At this time, eight other missiles were also launched from the Albatross-class missile boats at the same time, and the 16 missiles were constantly closing the distance between them and the Saratoga at an altitude of less than 30 meters above the sea surface and under the guidance of the inertial navigation system at a speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour.
And nothing is known about this on the Saratoga.
Their early warning aircraft have lost their role under the electromagnetic interference of the Ming army, and the six EA3 electronic warfare planes are fighting against the Ming army's jamming planes with all their might, but the latter's huge size of more than 100 tons allows this land-based electronic jammer modified by this passenger plane to carry more and more powerful equipment and have an advantage in this kind of confrontation. Until now, the EA3 has not been able to remove their electromagnetic interference from the E1 AWACS.
Similarly, the E1 early warning aircraft, whose radar screen is still white, is unlikely to detect the Eagle Strike missile flying at high speed on the sea surface.
Until six minutes later.
"Oh my God. What the hell is that? ”
A pilot on a crusader patrolling the Saratoga who inadvertently looked down at the surface of the sea suddenly let out an exclamation.
On the sparkling sea below him, a silvery-white point of light was passing at high speed, and then two more appeared, and before he could see what it was, five points of light appeared in the field of vision in succession, and he swooped down without hesitation, and as the altitude decreased, the slender cylindrical X-shaped winged object on the sea surface was clearly visible.
The moment he saw this, the pilot broke out in a cold sweat.
"Ming anti-ship missiles, fast, Ming anti-ship missiles, thirty kilometers away!"
He screamed in horror over the radio.
"You're dazzled, aren't you? We don't have anything on our radar. ”
The Saratoga answer was quickly heard on the radio.
"Damn, they're just below me, they're flying against the surface of the sea, not as high as our deck! Oh my God, how many exactly did they launch? ”
The pilot shouted without hesitation.
On the sea below him, the second wave of Eagle Strike missiles also appeared, and the sixteen missiles were speeding up in a blue sky, not too far apart, and the high-speed flight close to the sea surface made them look like they had a majestic momentum, and in the poignant accompaniment of the air defense sirens of the US fleet more than 20 kilometers away, they crashed into the Saratoga anchored in the sea without hesitation.
By this time, the Saratoga was in chaos, and all the sailors, including the four escort cruisers, rushed to their posts, ready to meet the approaching enemy.
But until this time, not a single radar on all the battleships had detected the target.
The radar cannot detect the target, which means that all missiles have become decorations, not to mention those brass knights who shoot exaggerated heights, and even beagles who specialize in low-altitude defense are not capable of hitting targets in such situations.
The only weapon that works now is artillery.
"Bastard, what the hell is going on? Are our radars all broken? ”
Major General Howard, who rushed into the command cabin from the conference room, roared angrily, of course their radar was not broken, but at this time all the YJM missiles had entered the end of the attack, and the flight altitude had dropped again, in the clutter of the sea, not to mention the radar of this era, even in another twenty years, it would be difficult to search for missiles flying at an altitude of less than three meters.
"They're flying against the waves! I could even see them sweeping over the waves. ”
The pilot of the Crusader replied in horror that he was trying to aim at one of the missiles and shoot it down on the surface of the sea with a cannon, and his airborne radar could not distinguish the latter from the clutter of the waves, so he could only aim at the attack by visual means, but this thing was too small, three meters in length and 0.7 meters in diameter, to put it bluntly, it was slightly larger than a bomb, but it was thinner than a bomb, and it was very difficult to shoot it down with an aerial gun with experience.
As for the Sidewinder missile he carried, it had to be launched from the tail of the target, and he did not have the ability to fly to a height of three meters above the sea to take aim.
"Quick, order the Chicago to come forward!"
Just as the pilot was firing at the missile in vain, Major General Howard also thought of a response, and he shouted without hesitation.
The heavy cruiser Chicago, south of the Saratoga, stepped forward to block the incoming attack with its own body, and just as it was two-thirds of the way to the latter, the first YJM appeared on the horizon in the distance.
"Fire!"
The same shout sounded on almost all US warships, from 127 mm to 20 mm, all anti-aircraft artillery was fired at full power in an instant, and dense tracer fire lines converged towards this missile at the same time.
Suddenly, a huge fire exploded on the sea in the distance.
The American sailors on each ship immediately cheered, but the next second their cheers stopped abruptly, because at the same time, two missiles drilled out of the smoke, and in just a few seconds, more missiles appeared in their field of vision one after another. The American soldiers were shooting like crazy with all the weapons at their disposal, even the small-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns joined in the fire, and the heavy cruiser Chicago sailed desperately at full speed, using its two-hundred-meter-long body and relatively strong armor to complete its tragic and sacred mission.
But just then, one of the missiles in front suddenly began to climb and soon rose above the Chicago mainmast.
"Radar finds target!"
An officer next to Major General Howard shouted in surprise.
"Turn on the jamming, it's shining at us with radar!"
Major General Howard yelled.
All of the high-power jamming devices on the Saratoga were rapidly activated, and at the same time, the jamming chaff was desperately firing outward.
However, it was too late, in this Eagle Strike missile, the small radar quickly irradiated the Saratoga, the radar image was instantly generated and the image stored in the computer was compared to determine the target, and almost at the same time the passive infrared seeker also issued a command, and the next moment under the dual guidance of the two modes, the computer controlled the missile and plunged headlong, just at the moment when a Beagle missile on the Canberra in the distance took off, it penetrated the fire net shot by the Saratoga and crashed headlong into the towering island of the giant aircraft carrier.
As if deliberately ironic, the location of the impact was right in the middle of that huge 60's.
The heavy missile coupled with the high speed of the dive, easily smashed through the outer armor, and the missile that was still spewing flames instantly drilled in, and after entering the distance of less than a body, the mixed charge of more than eighty kilograms of black suoj gold and thermite inside was immediately detonated, and the huge explosion power turned the 60 into countless outward splinters, like cannonballs, and smashed several Skyhawks parked below into pieces, and then the ignited kerosene turned into a skyrocket.
"These bastards!"
In the command module, which was not injured, in the violent vibration of the explosion, Major General Howard clutched a handrail beside him and said indignantly in a deafening loud noise.
And at this moment, in the sky outside, more than a dozen YJM missiles also began their final dive. (To be continued.) )
PS: Two chapters today, two chapters tomorrow, there are relatives who are married