Chapter 1152: Sea and Air Battle

readx;

At the same time, the aircraft carrier group of the US Navy also received information from satellites that traces of the Iraqi Navy had been discovered. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Iraqis, let you try the true power of the US Navy!

On the Kitty Hawk and the USS Washington, F18 fighters were also launched one after another, and at the same time, the Ticonderoga-class cruisers also began to make pre-launch preparations, and their universal launch boxes also contained vertically launched anti-ship Tomahawk missiles.

The Tomahawk missile is already a full-fledged missile, and after replacing the anti-ship seeker, it can perform anti-ship tasks.

As a result, when the fighters took off, more than 50 Tomahawk missiles were also launched, and the US attack method actually inherited the model of the former Soviet Union, using anti-ship missiles first!

However, this attack method still requires satellite guidance, and the huge US military operation is absolutely impossible without satellites.

In space, the scramble continues.

Two days ago, the Arab Space Corporation launched another Buran 3 space shuttle.

In the command cabin in front, Arslan calmly hovered on the console and pressed the switch on it.

The cargo door on his back has been opened, and he needs to launch another orbital maneuver to destroy the American reconnaissance satellite.

Astronauts are all selected from among the pilots, and although the use of the space shuttle transportation form and landing like an ordinary plane can already lower the physical selection of astronauts by a notch, the first batch of astronauts in Iraq were all selected from among the pilots of the Air Force.

Arslan, after careful selection, left the fighter unit. After several years of training, he became an astronaut.

Aviation and astronautics. Just one word, technical difficulty and danger. But it has multiplied, and the space shuttle has completely detached itself from the atmosphere and traveled in the universe.

There are all kinds of dangers.

However, this is more in line with Arslan's character, constantly surpassing his dreams.

At a time when war on land and sea is about to start, the battle for space shows its necessity even more.

"Abandoning the launch mission, the auxiliary engine will ignite in a minute. * Carry out orbit change operation. At this moment, the sound of the ground control station came from the headphones.

Their target, an American reconnaissance satellite, had made an orbit change operation thirty seconds earlier, and they had swooped down.

The Americans launched cruise missiles, and the Saudi E3 AWACS aircraft, detected the situation at a long distance, at the same time. The fighters that are constantly taking off also show that the attack actions of the Americans have been launched.

At this time, the naval aviation of Iraq. It's been five minutes since takeoff.

These five minutes are the key to victory or defeat!

The Ticonderoga-class battleship Hilo is using its own four-sided phased array radar. Search the sky around you.

They already knew that the Iraqis were eight hundred nautical miles away. War could start at any time, and they had to use their own four-sided phased array radar. to protect the safety of their fleet.

At this time, the E2 Hawkeye AWACS aircraft has not yet found the target.

At this moment, they received a notification from the rear command that more than fifty ballistic missiles had suddenly been launched in the desert region south of Saudi Arabia!

Having received this news, the three cruisers, already armed with Standard 3 missiles, knew that the time had come to test themselves.

"Anti-ballistic missile mode, ready to launch Standard 3." Said the captain of the Shiloh.

The Standard 3 missile is the US Navy's anti-ballistic missile system, and this system, which they have always advertised, is far better than the land-based anti-missile system, and there are only more than 50 ballistic missiles, and they can completely cope with it!

Each cruiser was equipped with forty of these missiles, two aimed at one target, and some missiles could be left.

At a distance of eight hundred kilometers, they detected these incoming ballistic missiles, and the combat system automatically assigned targets to each warship, and at the same time, the interception was already in its final stages.

"Tom! Tong! "With a loud sound, the first thruster of Standard 3 ignited, pushing it out of the launch box, and from a distance, it looked like a festive firework, and the smoke had already surrounded the entire battleship.

Each warship has launched more than 30 Standard 3 missiles, which is indeed a test of the Aegis combat system, but the test is not the four-sided phased array radar, but its data processing.

Tracking more than a dozen ballistic missile targets at the same time, and calculating the interception points of its own missiles at the same time, because the distance exceeds 500 kilometers, it cannot choose to intercept in the ascending stage, but can only intercept the opponent's incoming missiles in the landing stage.

Even at the time of the initial test, there had never been an attempt to intercept so many targets at the same time.

The place where the missiles were launched was also immediately captured by the US Navy, and the Burke-class destroyers escorting the escort did not carry Standard 3, but they mixed one-third of the Tomahawk missiles, and for that target, they immediately launched more than 20 Tomahawk missiles, daring to launch ballistic missiles, they must bomb it down!

The battle has officially begun.

The ballistic missile, which entered the atmosphere, began to fall at extremely high speed, and at the same time, for the last time, received data from satellites and corrected its own target information.

At this time, the third-stage engine of the Standard 3 missile has been ignited, and at an extremely high speed, it flies towards its own target, and the collision kinetic warhead in front of it has begun the final target acquisition process.

Receiving target data after re-entry of ballistic missiles flying at extremely high speeds is a difficult problem, so although Iraq's system is mature, half of the missiles still do not receive information, but according to the pre-arrangement, they have conjured up three warheads. The first two missiles hit their first target accurately, but the subsequent missiles turned into three warheads, which made them immediately feel the pressure.

Originally, it was intended that two missiles would shoot down a target, which would guarantee a higher probability, but now, they are separated, attacking one target, and one target slips through the net.

The combat system was constantly re-calculating and reassigning targets, and at the same time, the new Standard 3 missile was quickly launched.

At this time, the AWACS aircraft had already observed the Iraqi Navy fighters flying at an ultra-low altitude and high speed on the sea surface, and there were as many as eighty of them!

The escorting F14 fighters immediately pounced, and the remaining F14 fighters were also ejected from the aircraft carrier in the rear.

In later generations, the Americans gradually eliminated their own Tomcat fighters because the power of their aircraft carrier formation was too strong and they could hardly meet a decent opponent, but now, with the strength of the Middle East, the pressure on the US Navy is still very great, so only partially eliminated the Tomcat fighters, and the Kitty Hawk and the Washington have maintained a F14 wing and the scale of twenty fighters.

No matter how the F18 is improved, the combat effectiveness of air supremacy will not reach the level of the F14.

In this regard, the Americans are actually somewhat envious of the Iraqi aircraft carrier, the Su-27K, which can already take on a variety of tasks.

All the energy of the Aegis cruisers was used to intercept ballistic missiles, and several Burke-class destroyers, taking on the task of mid-level air defense, were ready to intercept missiles that slipped through the net at any time.

At a distance of 500 kilometers from the American aircraft carrier, the Iraqi naval aviation, and the US naval aviation, contacts began.

The F14 fighter wrote about the Immortal Bird missile, which has a range of more than 100 kilometers and is a magic weapon for defeating the enemy at the beginning.

However, by now, it is already old, and the Immortal Bird missile, which was originally designed to intercept bombers, achieved good results at the very beginning, but later, as Iraq gradually became familiar with this missile, how to evade this missile, there were already countermeasures.

The most difficult thing is to find out that when you are unprepared, you are shot down by the other side, which is the saddest situation at this time.

The AWACS aircraft urgently reported that the US fighter plane had launched the Immortal Bird missile, and all the planes began to turn according to the AWACS report, getting rid of the other side's lock. At the same time, work began on the interference pod, carried on the side of the wing.

The F14 interception operation relied on long-range Immortal Bird missiles to temporarily gain the upper hand in the first round of confrontations, and a Su-27K fighter that failed to dodge was hit, and a pilot spilled blood in the sky.

But then, the distance between the two sides was reduced to within 80 kilometers.

"Prepare to launch medium-range shells." Reyer shouted calmly on the radio that he was the commander-in-chief of the carrier-based aviation during this attack.

The forty Su-27Ks escorted by the escort are ready for launch, and the advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles mounted under their wings are no worse than the AIM120 of the Americans, and in terms of range, they still have an advantage.

This kind of missile was developed by Iraq by synthesizing the common characteristics of the original active sky flash and the R77 missile, and the active sky flash has always used the original sparrow missile body, which has led to its maneuverability not increasing, and the advanced design of the R77 missile's missile body, especially the unique tail rudder, has led to an increase in maneuverability, and the main circuits and electronic equipment on the missile are all improved from the active sky flash.

Iraq invested in the continued improvement of the active Sky Flash, which later became the Meteor project, but this project was later added to other European countries, and for some strategic reasons, the Iraqi side also agreed, and the project became an international project. But the progress has been greatly delayed.

Under these circumstances, in addition to developing its own advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, Iraq has begun to continue to develop advanced long-range air-to-air missiles that use ramjet engines and have a range of more than 100 kilometers.