Chapter 1263: Trident Launch
As a powerful Ohio-class submarine, it carries 24 "Trident" missiles, which are all-solid split-guided missiles, each missile can have 7 to 12 warheads, and if you count 8 warheads, 1 Ohio-class submarine can carry 192 nuclear warheads, which can theoretically attack 192 targets. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info In this way, as long as 1 Ohio-class submarine can send the entire territory of a medium-sized country back to the Stone Age in half an hour, it can completely paralyze a large country!
But now, in front of the space laser cannon overhead, how many American ballistic missiles will work, it is unknown! When the Soviets occupied Alaska, as a result, the ballistic missile positions in Alaska did not play any role!
However, submarine-launched missiles still have advantages, otherwise, the nuclear submarines of the Soviets would not have sniped the Ohio-class of the United States all over the world!
This once again reflects the role of the aircraft carrier, what does the aircraft carrier do? A very important task is to escort underwater nuclear submarines! For example, is the purpose of China's Liaoning aircraft carrier to carry carrier-based aircraft to attack a country or region and seize air supremacy?
No! The Liaoning's more important role is to cruise in the South China Sea, so that it can cover the strategic missile nuclear submarine cruising in the South China Sea, so that this kind of nuclear submarine can calmly launch nuclear bombs!
At the beginning, when the Soviet Union was building the Moscow class, and even the Kiev class, it was this mission!
In the past, the United States did not seem to have an urgent demand for this, because the United States held the world's sea power! But now, everything is different!
The American aircraft carrier can no longer leave the port, and in the face of the supersonic anti-ship missiles in the sky of the Soviets, as long as they leave the port, it will definitely be the end of destruction!
If the aircraft carrier cannot leave the port, it will not be able to escort the nuclear submarine, so the Soviet nuclear submarines began to strangle their missile nuclear submarines in an all-round way!
Only this Ohio-class ship ran out, and if it fired all its missiles at the USSR, it would still bring some trouble to the USSR, but now, they are going to shoot missiles at their own country, to Area 51?
Why is that?
However, the correctness of the command cannot be doubted, and, after a few seconds of contemplation, the captain Alexander finally gave the order: "In accordance with the order of the Pentagon, change the data on the target of the nuclear bomb and prepare to enter the countdown to launch." ā
In the Trident nuclear bomb, information on various targets of the Soviets has been stored in advance, from distant Moscow to the nearest Far East, data on various strategic targets, but there is no United States own.
Only a madman would drop a nuclear bomb on the head of his own country, right? However, the order was correct, and this can only be said that Area 51 is facing a serious challenge, and the Soviets must have landed on Area 51! In order to ensure that the secrets of Area 51 are not leaked, the superiors have no choice but to take this measure! This brutal measure is the only solution!
Change the target data! In the huge nuclear submarine, the submariners are operating quickly according to the requirements, launching, and entering the countdown program!
If it is launched at a known target, the preparation time will be less than ten minutes, and at the same time, the nuclear bomb will be launched at a rate of one per minute, and it will only take half an hour to drop all the missiles, and now, it will take an additional few minutes to re-inject the target data.
The sophisticated inertial navigation system is also positioning the submarine itself, determining the launch and launching elements, and the captain and deputy captain put the key into the launch pad, and everything is being prepared in a tense and orderly manner.
"Raise the periscope!" Alexander stood in front of the periscope, put his eyes on it, and suddenly, he was overjoyed.
At this time, there is a thick layer of fog on the sea!
The laser cannon of the Soviets looks awesome, but in fact, there are shortcomings, this thing is more affected by the climate, because, especially in the fog, the attenuation of the laser is quite powerful! This also means that this launch of our own side is guaranteed!
In later generations, in that kind of national haze weather, it was hazy everywhere, and if a war broke out at such a time, all laser-guided weapons of the United States would not be able to use them!
At this time, it is only twenty meters from the surface of the sea, which is the optimal launch depth of the Trident missile.
The speed of the submarine, only about 2 knots, everything, is already ready!
Behind the conning tower, the lid of the launch canister on top of the 24 missiles has been opened one after another.
Anything can be difficult underwater, for example, at a depth of 20 meters, you need to withstand 2 atmospheres, so it is very laborious to open the lid of the cylinder, and you must first pressurize the cylinder with high-pressure gas to make the pressure inside and outside the cylinder roughly equal, and then you can easily open the cylinder cover.
On the open lid of the canister, a milky white watertight diaphragm can be seen, which is a sealing method taken to prevent a large amount of seawater from pouring into the missile launcher when the lid is opened.
It is technically very difficult to launch missiles from underwater, which is also until later generations, and only the five major hooligans have submarine-launched nuclear bomb technology, as for Ah San's, hehehe, this joke is very funny, Ah San started to build a ballistic missile submarine, before and after, after more than ten years, as a result, it can be loaded with 12 K-15 missiles with a ton of nuclear warheads and a range of 700 kilometers! Range 700 km! This is simply a suicide range! Of course, the Indians have also developed the K-4 ballistic missile with a range of 3,500 kilometers, but this thing is still being designed.
India aside, the other major nuclear submarine possession countries are the United States and the Soviet Union, and the technology of the two countries is also completely different.
The Soviet nuclear submarine used a thermal launch, especially for several liquid missiles, which were launched by underwater ignition, which was characterized by launching in the launch canister, that is, the huge missile flew out directly by its own power, which was represented by the SS-N-23.
France also launches underwater ignition, but it is necessary to eject the launch canister and ignite it underwater, such as the M51 missile.
The United States, on the other hand, uses a cold launch.
Now, with the firing command given, the missile operator, pressed the button.
"Bang!" The sound of high-pressure air, so crisp, resounded throughout the nuclear submarine, the moment of the ignition button, the electric squib detonated, ignited the gas generator, and the high-temperature and high-pressure gas produced was sprayed from the bottom of the launch canister.
As it burst through the watertight diaphragm, seawater continued to pour in, just enough to balance the shift in the center of gravity caused by the departure of the Trident missile.