Little good weapons. 【】If it cannot be used correctly. Wait for the heart to be done...

As mentioned earlier, the "Area Laser Interception System" is a typical "area kill" weapon, not a traditional "point kill" weapon. More importantly. The energy consumption of this incredibly powerful weapon is just as impressive. In the case of not causing a serious negative impact on the normal operation of the country and society, it can only be used at most, and even if it is reckless, it can only be used again, that is, it can only be used 10,000 times in total. If you charge an energy storage device, you will need to wait until half a year later for the next interception. There is no doubt that in a strategic defense that wastes every second, with the potential for catastrophic consequences, it is simply impossible to pin hopes on half a year later.

It can be seen from this that the "regional laser interception system" is not only a powerful strategic weapon. It is also a weapon that is "non-renewable" and very sensitive to timing. Exactly. The entire combat system is controlled by a computer, which does not require human intervention according to the timing of combat use. This arrangement does not mean that the computer is more judgmental, but that the computer is more responsive.

In this battle to intercept Russian cruise missiles, reflexes are obviously more important than judgment.

As already mentioned, the strategic bombers of the Russian Air Force went to the airspace for the scheduled patrol after receiving an early warning, and after receiving an order for a strategic counterattack from Russian President Cheryakov. In accordance with standard procedures, a number of Zhiyiyi strategic cruise missiles were fired at dozens of major cities in the territory of the Republic.

Because the strategic bombers of the Russian Air Force took off in two batches, that is, before the outbreak of the war, half of the bombers had already patrolled the airspace in two predetermined airspaces, including the south of Lake Baikal in the Republic of Buryatia and the back of the Khingan Mountains outside the Starov Mountains in the Amur Region. The remaining half of the bombers immediately took off and headed for the Central Siberian Yenisei Stolbova River Nature Reserve in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and two predetermined airspace in the southern part of the Verkhnyansk Mountains in the Republic of Sakhayakutia. As a result, the Russian army's strategic bombers were divided into 4 groups, and the deterrence objects of each group were also adjusted.

In accordance with the relevant code of operations of the strategic aviation of the Russian Air Force, in the event of a sudden strategic strike. The bomber, which was on standby on the ground, failed to take off. Bombers on standby patrol in the air will fire all cruise missiles at the enemy's major cities in accordance with the highest priority scheme. This is because after the era, Russia's relations with the West have eased, with the transfer of strategic submarines to the Northern Fleet, and the threat to Europe with short-range ballistic missiles and land-based cruise missiles deployed in Kaliningrad. So all the strategic bombers of the Russian Air Force are deployed in the Asian region east of the Ural Mountains. The main threat to the republic. Exactly. With only some of the bombers in the air, "every persuasion will be fired at the big cities north of the Yangtze River basin." In particular, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Qingdao, Shijiazhuang, Datong, Shenyang, Dalian, Changchun and other large industrial cities with a population of more than oo thousand. Under special circumstances, it is even necessary to concentrate on attacking a few international metropolises with populations of about 10 million, such as Beijing and Shanghai.

As a strategic counterattack force, strategic bombers have a very fast degree of reaction and are basically able to take off into the air to prepare for battle within a few minutes after receiving an alarm, while the attack time of a strategic ballistic missile with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers is more than a minute. So in the case of raising the alert level in advance. Strategic bombers are often able to lift themselves into the air in times of tension and do not stay on the ground.

It is precisely for this reason that the strategic aviation of the Russian Air Force has also developed another set of strategic counterattack plans. That is, if all the bombers have been lifted into the air and have reached the missile firing area, if the maximum retaliatory strike against the enemy country is carried out. Because the bombers carrying out routine patrol missions had to strike at the megacities of the republic if necessary, and most of the megacities of the republic were south of the Yellow River and thousands of kilometers away from Russia, in order to improve the penetration rate of cruise missiles, the regular patrol areas were set up near the borders of Russia, such as the Baikal region in Eastern Siberia and the Amur River and Heilongjiang River basin in the Far East.

If you take four deniers. The range of the bombers patrolling these two airspaces covered all areas of the Republic of China except for the municipalities directly under the central government in southern Tibet. Bombers considering an emergency take-off are unlikely to have enough time to rush to the missile launch zone located in the border area, so the Russian Air Force has set up several backup missile launch areas deep in the homeland, which are relatively far from the republic. In this way, taking into account the combined strike effect, bombers close to the Republic will be responsible for attacking large cities in the south of the Yangtze River Valley, and bombers farther away from the Republic will attack large cities in the north of the Yangtze River Valley. Like all strategic weapons, these two sets of attack programs are locked into the missile guidance system in the form of firmware. Other words. Before the attack. The weapon operator on the bomber is generally the co-pilot, and only needs to choose the appropriate attack procedure according to the actual situation, such as the strategic counterattack order received. Because of this set of attacks. Bombers do not spend much time determining their precise position, but rely on navigation information provided by ground navigation stations, or inertial navigation systems to determine their approximate position, so strategic bombers must patrol within a pre-set missile state. And according to the attack program set by the pre-well, the attack was launched"

There is no doubt that the attack procedure of strategic cruise missiles is certainly a top state secret.

Although the military intelligence bureau has the ability to reach the sky, but after decades of hard work, it has not been able to get the guidance chip of the strategic cruise missile of the Veros Air Force.

It is not possible to grasp the flight path of enemy missiles in advance. This does not mean that effective interception is impossible.

Compared with ballistic missiles, the most important feature of cruise missiles is the ability to set a course. Looking at it from another angle, this is also the fatal flaw of cruise missiles.

For example, its maximum range is as high as 1,000 kilometers in Wangkou, but the maximum attack range in actual combat often does not change by 4,000 meters. Among the various factors that lead to a much shorter actual range than the nominal range of a strategic cruise missile, the impact of the guidance system is not obvious, and the main thing is that when attacking an important target that is heavily protected, it is necessary to carefully design the attack route and make use of the loopholes in the enemy's air defense network as much as possible.

You must know that for strategic cruises and missiles flying at an altitude of 1,000 meters, the first thing to consider is not the enemy's strategic defense system, but the enemy's regional defense system, especially those theater air defense systems deployed near the target. For example, if the 41 Persuasion, which was launched in the airspace north of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, wanted to attack Beijing, it had to at least avoid the three theater air defense networks set up on the northern border of the Republic, Qiqihar, and Chengde, and find loopholes in Beijing's air defense network, so the flight distance was not 4,000 meters, but a full 1,000 kilometers.

Among them, the key is how to avoid the theater air defense network along the way.

It can be said that this is a very advanced and very useful science. In order to avoid the theater air defense network, it is necessary to first grasp the deployment of the theater air defense network. There is no doubt that such a large country as the Republic of China. The theater defense system not only covers the whole country, but also overlaps and intersects with each other. For example, the theater air defense system deployed in Chengde can protect Changchun with regional air defense missiles with a range of 1,000 kilometers, and the theater air defense system deployed in Qiqihar can also protect Changchun. Leaving aside for the time being whether Russia's intelligence agencies have the ability to find out the deployment of the air defense network in the theater of operations of the republic, even if they can, there are basically no loopholes to exploit in the face of such a dense air defense network. If you can't get around, you can only force your way through.

In fact, this is precisely the main means by which strategic cruise missiles break through the air defense network.

Still to know. In addition to being protected by false images created by bombers when firing, it also has a variety of penetration methods. For example, its active aircraft adopts a segmented design, which can throw away the first-stage cruise engine when penetrating the defense, and use the debris generated after the cruise engine explodes to interfere with the enemy's air defense radar. At the end of the trajectory, in addition to throwing away the second-stage cruise engine to create interference, dozens of decoy warheads can be dropped one after another, so that the real warhead is always covered.

The problem is that there is a prerequisite for these penetration methods, that is, they cannot be used in advance.

For example, when attacking a target thousands of kilometers away. Four Dan. The second-stage cruise engine can only push the missile flying edge. kilometers, the terminal booster can only push the missile to fly for kilometers, so the first-stage cruise engine must work at least plus seconds, that is, to push the missile to fly for kilometers, if it is abandoned in advance. The missile will not be able to reach the target.

There is no doubt that the missile that has just been fired is the most vulnerable.

More importantly, the missile airspace was less than a kilometre away from the mainland of the Republic, so it entered the airspace of the Republic before abandoning the first-stage cruise motive. At this time. The target characteristics of the missile are very noticeable. And there is almost no maneuverability to speak of, so it is easy to be shot down by an area anti-aircraft missile.

Strategic bombers are responsible only for firing missiles. It is not responsible for assisting in missile penetration.

With the concentration of bombers, it is impossible to follow the missiles to penetrate the defense.

In this way, the only way to improve the penetration efficiency of missiles is to increase the density of clusters. Let dozens, if not hundreds, of missiles enter the territory of the republic along the same route. Although there are some risks associated with this, such as the possibility of detonating a tactical nuclear warhead in the missile's incoming shipping lane, which can wipe out all missiles within a radius of thousands of kilometers, but not as a last resort. The authorities of the republic will never do such a self-harming thing, and it will only take a few minutes to persuade them to break through the air defense network, and by the time the authorities of the republic make a decision, the 10,000-ton nuclear warhead carried by Chanichi has already exploded over the big cities of the republic.

It is in this way that the "regional laser defense system" comes into play.

At that time, the four formations had a total of Russian strategic bombers firing a number of missiles, and the Mountain bombers carried eight missiles. According to the combat records of the Russian army, only 3 missiles on 4 bombers failed and failed to shoot out, so a total of 4 1 missiles were fired. Since it is impossible to know how many missiles were shot down by the strategic defense system before this, it can only be roughly estimated that there were still many missiles that were not shot down and were divided into 4 clusters and flew to the Republic along 4 fixed lines. Two missile clusters closer to the Republic will enter the airspace of the Republic four and a half minutes after firing, while two missile clusters that are further away will enter the airspace of the Republic seven minutes after firing. Because of the early interception with scare, into the contract? minutes, so the remaining interception time is only Tian seconds and ventriloquist respectively※

For anyone, "the blade and the rest of the seconds are a very short period of time."

However, for the strategic defense system of the republic, this is a very ample time.

After the target has been locked, that is, the interception area has been determined, the time required for each interception by the "regional laser interception system" does not exceed the edge second. Among them, except; In addition to the attack time, you have to add the system adjustment time. Even if a reflective satellite is used to illuminate the target, it will not be adjusted after the fourth interception, so it is fully capable of making two interceptions of each missile cluster.

Of course, there is certainly no need for this.

If you want to give a visual description of these four interceptions, it is like an incomparably sharp dagger made of lava that has left four burnt red wounds on the vast Asian continent. The reality is that in these four interception areas, which are about 1,000 kilometers wide and about 1,000 kilometers long, not only all man-made facilities, including the 41 Persuasion cruise missiles and buildings on the ground, but also people, wild animals, trees, and other living forms were all vaporized in an instant. At most, only a few charred ruins remained, and even the surface of the ground was melted and cooled to form a layer of mottled quartz crystals. It can be said that 4 interceptions can be described as "spectacular". From an energy point of view alone, the energy of each interception acting in the target area is equivalent to the energy released by the explosion of a small tactical nuclear warhead. What's more, in a nuclear explosion, only about half of the energy is converted into internal energy, while eighty percent of the energy released by high-energy lasers is converted into internal energy. Thus, the actual destructive effect outstripped that of a tactical nuclear explosion.

Fortunately, none of the four regions are located in the republic, and three of them are in Russia "in Mongolia."

In fact, this is also the main reason why the central computer of the strategic defense system should immediately activate the "regional laser interception system", because according to the calculations, if the interception is not carried out immediately, the Russian cruise missiles will enter the airspace of the republic, and when the time comes, whether the interception is carried out with the theater air defense system or the use of the "regional laser interception system", the wreckage of the missile with a nuclear warhead will fall on the territory of the republic, causing serious radioactive contamination. If the latter is used, it will also cause damage to ground facilities and casualties.

As mentioned earlier, in this case. Human beings are certainly not as responsive as computers.

If the decision is made by people, even if it is only delayed for 2 minutes, the consequences are unimaginable. In practice, even if Pei Chengyi is asked to give orders. I'm afraid he'll have to think about it before he makes a decision.

Of course, there is certainly no secret to such an earth-shattering engagement.

When the interception began, Pei Chengyi put down the work at hand and put his energy on the big screen. Through the real-time images of the reconnaissance satellites deployed in low-earth orbit, we can clearly see the collateral effects of the interception, and we can directly appreciate the enormity of this weapon system.

It is known that the "regional laser interception system" has an extraordinary relationship with Pei Chengyi.

At this time, I'm afraid that Pei Chengyi doesn't think about how much money he spent on this system. It's why it wasn't seen as a strategic offensive weapon. You know, if you use it to hit enemy targets, it only takes one attack to completely destroy Manhattan Island, killing millions of people, and the power is completely beyond nuclear weapons. What's more, the current strategic defense system is powerless against energy weapons.

In fact, at that time, Pei Chengyi must have thought about developing it into a strategic offensive weapon.

In the end, the reason why it was not possible to turn the idea into reality was simple: there were not enough composite batteries. As mentioned earlier, if the newly produced composite battery is used to store the required electrical energy, it is completely beyond the country's capacity and cannot be used in other fields, and the result can be imagined. I am afraid that before the war has begun, the authorities of the republic will fall. In addition, there is another, more important reason, that is, the system itself is also the target of the enemy.

To put it bluntly, if it is carried out according to the standards of strategic offensive weapons, the secrecy will certainly be reduced, and as long as the United States knows that the Republic is engaged in such destructive weapons, it will certainly take countermeasures. The solution to disabling the "regional laser defense system" is very simple: to destroy the reflecting satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Although it is impossible to distinguish which of the many satellites in geostationary orbit are reflective satellites, it is based on the strength of the United States. You can come and catch them all in one go, and destroy all the satellites in geosynchronous orbit to achieve the goal. Without reflecting satellites, the "regional laser defense system" is basically an ornament, not to mention used to attack the enemy's homeland, and even if it is used for defense, its value is very limited.

From this it follows that the authorities of the republic do not want to use this weapon of the era, but they cannot do so.

Of course, judging from the actual defense effect, the performance of the "regional laser defense system" is fully worthy of the investment, and even exceeds most people's expectations.

However, the strategic offensive and defensive contest between the two sides has not ended.

You know, the most deterrent and weighty strategic counterattack weapon in the hands of Oris has not yet appeared!