Chapter 455: The Myth of Undefeated
The same tragedy awaits the Kangaroos, the star of the squadron, even if their enemies are actually the eight ghosts.
Because just after the Battlestar group took off, their radar images were immediately transmitted to the display screen in front of the Ming pilots by the Hawkeye early warning aircraft and data links circling in the nearby sky.
The Goblins, who had already completed this mission, but still had half of their ammunition left, made a big circle in the sky with a huge combat radius that far exceeded their opponents, and when the Battlestar Fleet reached the sky above the battlefield and searched there blankly, they returned to the battlefield. But it is in the blind spot range of the airborne radar behind the Battlestar group, the fighter radar is not an early warning aircraft radar can basically achieve 360 degrees of coverage, they are at most a certain sector in front of the search, the ghosts often suffered this kind of loss in the Vietnam War in the original history.
But it is not the same with AWACS aircraft accompanying the operation.
The ghosts approaching from the rear quickly locked onto the target in front with the fire control radar, and the battle stars that lost the command of the ground-based radar did not have a radar warning device, and it was impossible for the most advanced version of the tail guard to detect the ghosts attacking outside the visual range, until the latter's missiles approached within the visual range, and the sharp-eyed pilots could not detect it by sight.
The entire fleet was in chaos in an instant.
This time, the sixteen Battlestars that took off scattered in panic, and at the same time turned on the afterburner to try to dodge the missiles at twice the speed of sound, but it was obvious that they discovered it too late, the lightning air-to-air missile modeled on the Sparrow F had a speed of more than Mach 3 and a maximum range of forty kilometers, and the missiles launched from less than a dozen kilometers away had enough range to catch up with the target.
What's more, their targets are again Battlestars who have nothing but speed.
In less than ten seconds, eight battle stars turned into brilliant fireworks in the sky.
This was followed by air battles within visual range. Accelerates better than goblins. Moreover, the practical ceiling is slightly higher than the remaining eight Battlestars of the Goblin, and climbs extremely fast to seize the altitude. Attempts to attack by firing from a high superiority were based on the experience of the air battle in Goryeo, and they were originally designed based on this experience.
But unfortunately, their opponents were no longer playing in this plane, and after closing enough distance to get enough attack sector in front of the stars that were killing from diagonally above, all the goblins fired their Thunderbolt missiles in a salvo again.
Next, this kind of missile, which can be used to torture the Phantom even with the Harrier, has a hit rate of more than 80 percent. Once again, he defended the majesty of the Ming army's sky overlord.
After this round of attacks, there was only a lone battlestar left in the sky.
"Let's go, we won't bully you!"
The leader of the Ming squadron, who commanded the battle, made a gesture to the only opponent with some embarrassment, and the other seven ghosts with a Thunderbolt missile each watched the latter inhumanely.
The battlestar resolutely rushed towards the nearest goblin.
Listening to his heroic screams on the radio, the brigadier general took off his hat in grief and rage in the control tower of Hedland Airport.
The result of this air battle was like a heavy punch to the kangaroos, and also to the people behind them, Nima, this is too exaggerated, right? Eight Goblins shot down twenty-eight warplanes. He was unscathed, and he didn't even fire a cannon. Large electronic jammers suppress, AWACS commands, and medium-range air-to-air missiles attack beyond visual range......
Well, you city dwellers really know how to play!
Could it be that the Ming army is really so invincible, from the forties to the present, more than ten years have passed, is their myth so unbreakable? I know you have a technical advantage, but it's not so exaggerated, right?
We're a fighter with twice the speed of sound, huh?
A year ago, I used this thing to symbolize the aircraft manufacturing technology of the United States to regain the commanding heights of technology again, and a year ago I used it to prove the strong strength of the United States, but it turned into a joke by you like a toad that fell to death, and this face hit me really bang.
The stunned Lockheed Corporation even sent their national treasure designer, Skunk Works, to design the most classic P38 fighter jet and single-handedly create Lockheed's brilliant Kelly. Johnson personally flew to Australia. At the same time, General Electric, which provides radar for the kangaroos, also sent a large number of engineers to study the problem of dealing with electronic interference, and the ace pilots of the United States Jun team also flocked to Western Australia to work together to end the Ming army's aerial myth.
And at this time, the expeditionary strike group of the Ming army arrived.
In the center was the Dreadnought, which was ready to be decommissioned after the battle, flanked by the amphibious assault ships Loyalty, which looked bigger than this aircraft carrier, eight dock landing ships, destroyers and frigates providing anti-submarine and anti-aircraft protection, and the battleship Huaxia Yanhuang and light cruisers, which would provide cover for the landing operation.
There's even a legion of Phantom fighters providing cover for this fleet.
The kangaroos have a number of air bases in North Australia, and even their naval base in Darwin Harbor, which will definitely not work without air cover, and the combat radius of the ghost fighter reaches 1,200 kilometers, and from the Surabaya base to the Port of Hedland is only 1,500 kilometers, not to mention the relay escort of the carrier-based aircraft on the two aircraft carriers, which can ensure that the fleet is under the strict protection of the Ming fighters throughout the voyage.
Not only fighter jets, but even Flying Leopards patrol the skies around the area with guided bombs, ready to attack Australian warships that dare to come out to meet them.
But at this time, the kangaroos no longer have the courage to come out to fight, they are frightened by the results of the air battle in Western Australia, that is not a battle, it is purely to die, before the problem of the Ming army's electronic jammer can not be solved, the Australian government prohibits the air force from taking to the air to fight, although the plane is sent by the United States, but the death is their own people, even if they know that they are the guinea pigs for the United States, but even the mice can not just fight the virus without studying the antidote!
As for their aircraft carrier HMS Melbourne......
That's not used to fight hard with the Ming army at all, it's a symbolic thing, used to make the people firm their confidence, a light aircraft carrier of less than 20,000 tons, who can be beaten alone, F104 was killed by the Ming army's carrier-based aircraft, not to mention FJ4.
But there is one thing that is useful.
Fifty meters underwater in front of the Ming fleet, the sonar officer on an Australian submarine is nervously listening to the gradually approaching propeller noise, unlike other Australian troops, nearly half of the sailors on their submarine are actually US troops, including this sonar officer, the Chinese have already done research, in the case of the inability to break the defense of the Ming army in the sky, the submarine is the most effective weapon, so they attach far more importance to the role of the submarine than the kangaroos, after all, they want to sink a Ming warship too much.
"Prepare to launch a torpedo!"
After the sonar system locked onto a Ming warship, the submarine captain immediately ordered in a low voice.
In the bow of the six torpedo tubes, six of the latest MK37-1 torpedoes are ready to go, this latest torpedo can be said to be the most advanced weapon of the US military under water, with active and passive two self-guidance methods, in addition to wire guidance, in fact, this kind of torpedo is to add a wire compartment behind the self-guided MK37-0, using low-speed and high-speed two attack modes, the caliber is 482 mm, the range can reach 8 kilometers, and the warhead charge is 150 kilograms.
They were targeting a Qi Jiguang-class destroyer.
This destroyer walked in a bold straight line on the sea as if it was unconscious, and inside it was a dock landing ship, and on the deck of this destroyer, the captain was holding a pipe and looking at the side not far away, there was an eight-mounted launcher that had just been installed, eight rectangular white metal boxes were the same as Ziyan ship-to-air missiles, four groups were lined up on both sides of the launchers, in fact, this was modified with Ziyan missile launchers.
"Ma, you still want to sneak attack?"
The captain looked at the sea area where the Australian submarine was located and said.
At this moment, one of the launch box covers in the eight-link launcher suddenly flew out, and then a missile-like object flew out of it with flames, dragging its trail straight in the direction of the Australian submarine.
Asroc anti-submarine missile, or killer whale, as the Ming army called it.
The underwater submarine was unaware, and in order to prevent detection by the Ming army's sonar, the kangaroos even reduced the engine speed to the minimum, quietly suspended in the seawater, slightly adjusting the bow pointing, while waiting for the target to enter the range.
"Something overboard!"
Suddenly, the sonar officer exclaimed, and then his face suddenly changed drastically, because at this moment, the sudden active sonar bombardment hit the submarine.
"Quick, speed up the dive!"
The captain yelled in a cold sweat.
At this time, less than a kilometer away from them, the warhead part of the Killer Whale anti-submarine missile, which had just fallen into the water, that is, the sonar seeker of a light anti-submarine torpedo, was constantly sending sound waves forward, and after the sound waves hit the submarine were reflected back, it was like a line that dragged it to approach at a speed of more than 40 knots.
The unfortunate Australian submarine had been so low that it could barely move, and it was not easy for this 1,000-ton behemoth to start urgently, but in fact, it had just lowered its upward bow when the self-guided torpedo hit the submarine headlong. The 44 kilograms of explosives on the head of the thunder were detonated in an instant, and the huge underwater explosion pushed the sea water like a super giant hammer and smashed it on the submarine shell, just like smashing a beef canned box with a hammer, the high-quality steel plate of the submarine shell was shattered at once, and the sea water violently crashed into the submarine under the strong water pressure.
Soon the captain of the destroyer on the surface of the sea was in the telescope and saw the oil splash gushing out of the sea.
"Go and report to Commander Liu, we sank a submarine, I don't know whose family."
He said indifferently to an officer beside him. (To be continued.) )
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