, who is the second tube. [Full text reading] cannot deny the importance of luck in naval warfare. ……

It can be said that any naval battle that can be written into the history books has an element of luck, and luck often plays a role more than other factors. For example, in the Battle of Midway in World War II, a maritime reconnaissance plane on the cruiser "Tone" of the Japanese Combined Fleet failed to take off on time due to mechanical problems, and the US fleet was on the reconnaissance route of the reconnaissance plane, and the Japanese Combined Fleet was also attacked by an opponent because it was unable to get close to the US fleet in time. In the end, he failed miserably.

In the "Battle of the Maldives. Luck plays an equally important role.

As mentioned earlier, when the commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet was hesitating whether to send an attack group in accordance with the target information provided by the Indian Ocean Theater Command, a long-range maritime patrol plane through the air defense network appeared on the US fleet and produced the target coordinate information before it was shot down, so that the commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet did not have to hesitate anymore and also allowed the attack aircraft group of the Indian Ocean Fleet to fly directly to the target.

Undoubtedly, this is the luck component.

Conversely, when a problem arises for the US military, the luck factor cannot be ignored.

At that time, the US military commander was really hesitant. The reason is very simple: when it is impossible to determine the sea area where the target is located, if you blindly send out a group of attack planes, it is very likely that you will waste too much fuel when searching for the target, or fly too far in the wrong direction, and eventually the attack will be fruitless, or you will not be able to return to the fleet after the attack. The commander of the US fleet did not care about hundreds of fighters, but hundreds of pilots. You must know that it is a hundred times more difficult to train an excellent pilot with thousands of hours of flying experience than to build a fighter. It can even be said that if too many pilots are lost in the initial period of the war, "it will inevitably have an impact on the combat effectiveness of the Navy."

At this time, the US military's radio detection equipment showed a very weak signal.

In less than half a minute, the central computer on the flagship made a comprehensive analysis of the signal and determined that it was a radio signal from the distress equipment on the carrier-based fighter of the Republic Navy. What's more, these two signals are in the waters of the Maldives archipelago, which is not only very close, but also not too far from the US fleet to be more than a kilometer. It is very likely that it is around a kilometer of milk.

We have to admit that the detection accuracy of the electronic reconnaissance equipment of the US military is very high.

Of course, we have to admit that sometimes a design that is in a safety position can become a safety hazard.

The two radio signals were indeed issued by the carrier-based fighters of the Navy of the Republic, and by the fighter that crashed after takeoff. Judging by the circumstances at the time, it was certainly not the radio signal that the pilot sent for help.

The reason is simple, the fleet commander did not announce the lifting of radio control, and the warships were all communicating with each other using a laser directional communication system. What's more. The fighter planes broke down after take-off, and in strict accordance with the code, they made an emergency landing on the sea behind the fleet, and under normal circumstances, the fleet would definitely dispatch vertical take-off and landing planes to patrol the vicinity, and the task of these planes was to rescue the overboard pilot.

According to the operational record of the Navy of the Republic. After the fighter plane made a forced landing, two vertical take-off and landing planes rushed over and rescued the pilot. Two pilots also mentioned this in their subsequent reports. They did not activate the radio call system after the crash. From this, it must have been the automatic control system on the fighter that activated the radio call system, and the radio signal came out.

This is also very understandable, as early as Tian Nian, the US Navy installed an automatic take-off and landing system on carrier-based fighters, and take-off and landing are no longer controlled by pilots, thus greatly improving the efficiency and safety of take-off and landing. Before the year of Lili. That is, when the aircraft carrier of the "Shanghai" class was built, the Navy of the Republic also used this system on a new generation of carrier-based fighters. Because the probability of failure during take-off and landing is much higher than that of normal flight, at this time, the automatic control system will activate the emergency rescue equipment on the fighter.

Although technically speaking, the radio call system can be turned off manually, but the two crashed fighters were on attack mission, and it was impossible for either the pilot or the aviation crew on the aircraft carrier to turn off the radio call system on the fighters. The reason is simple. If a fighter plane is shot down by an enemy plane in battle and crashes into the sea hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, this system must be used to send the azimuth coordinates so that the plane carrying out the rescue mission can rush over and rescue the pilot as quickly as possible.

As a result, the radio call system operates at a very long distance, even if the signal strength is not high. It's also easy to be revealed.

At this point, it is not difficult to understand why the US fleet, which is close to a kilometer away, can show these two very weak signals.

Of course, the central computer of the flagship of the US military also gave relatively clear analysis results.

As far as the commander of the US fleet is concerned, there is another situation to consider, that is, the commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet deliberately set up a formation in order to use these two radio call signals to lead the US fleet's attack aircraft group in the wrong direction, so that the US military will miss the opportunity to counterattack.

The question is, do U.S. commanders have any other options?

It has already been mentioned earlier, probabilistically speaking. There is an 80 percent chance that the Republic's Indian Ocean Fleet will appear in the waters off the Maldives archipelago, and US military reconnaissance planes have already searched the waters east of the archipelago. There is no current Republic fleet. Although purely theoretically, it is also possible for the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Republic to sail westward, that is, to follow the tracks of the Fourth and Eighth Fleets and circle to the west of the battlefield. However, in the case that the position of the South China Sea Fleet can be roughly determined, let alone the admirals. Even the most ordinary Navy soldier knows that the Indian Ocean Fleet will not be heading west, because it is a search for U.S. shore-based long-range maritime patrol aircraft deployed in Djibouti and the Seychelles.

More importantly, it can be roughly concluded from the timing of the appearance of the two signals. It was indeed a radio call signal from a wrecked fighter jet.

Affected by these factors, the US commander did not hesitate any longer, and issued an attack order to stop less than four minutes after the departure of the two attack aircraft groups sent by the Indian Ocean Fleet. Fighters on the flight deck of aircraft carriers rose into the air at the fastest speed.

Of course, the US commander did not adjust the tactics of the attack that had been determined earlier. Fan Fan Ji. It was the air defense fighter that took off first. And when the commander of the US military gave the order to attack Yuanfen. The Chin air defense fighters, which perform the tasks of the air defense of the fleet, have already formed 7 groups. Turn north. Although none of the fighters had enough fuel left to return to the fleet, the U.S. military commander had arranged for the VTOL patrol planes on the escort warships to take off with partner refueling pods to provide fuel for the escort fighters returning home.

In terms of timing, the U.S. military dispatched only about a few minutes later than the Republican fleet.

Even if you count the US multi-role fighters that carried out the attack mission, they all took off until the old point, and they were only a few minutes behind the attack aircraft group of the Republic fleet.

At the beginning of the century, this time was nothing.

The problem is that at the end of the 2nd century, the blade minutes were enough to decide the fate of both fleets.

For a heavy air supremacy fighter with a cruising flight of Mach, flying a kilometer at an altitude of 1,000 meters is a matter of many minutes, and even if the time to climb and add after takeoff is counted, it will not exceed a few minutes. It can be seen from this that the luck of the US military is indeed good. Judging from the situation at that time, if the US military commander had adopted the conventional tactic of letting the fighters on the aircraft carrier carry out the forward escort mission, the US fleet would have been attacked before all the fighters on the attack mission had taken off. More importantly, escort fighters that take off ahead of schedule can only fly as many kilometers to the north as a kilometer at most, that is, they will come into contact with the fighters of the Republic Navy before they have left the fleet's air defense zone within a warm radius of 1,000 kilometers, thus greatly compressing the air defense area of the US fleet. And this means that the effectiveness of air defense interception will inevitably be greatly reduced.

The problem is that it will be difficult for the US escort fighters who went north in advance to turn the situation around.

The set is simple. The number is too small!

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Although judging by the situation on the battlefield, the advantage should be in the hands of Yin Jun. In any case, the US escort fighter has not yet flown far, and there are large escort warships equipped with passive detection systems and early warning planes on patrol behind them; according to the US military's operational code, early warning planes will not activate detection radars when they go out on patrol, and the long-range early warning tasks will be undertaken by the passive detection systems on large warships, and only after a large group of incoming aircraft has appeared, will the escort warships contact the early warning planes. Let the AWACS aircraft activate the radar, illuminate the target for the air defense fighter, and guide the air defense fighter to fight. Because the flight degree of AWACS aircraft is far inferior to that of fighters, when the fleet is in a state of engagement, it will be deployed in advance, while the carrier-based AWACS aircraft of the Republic Navy cannot follow the fighters. But there is a huge difference in quantity. In addition, heavy fighters have well-developed interception systems, which can intercept multiple old long-range air-to-air missiles in a single engagement, while there are only a handful of fighters capable of carrying old multiple long-range air-to-air missiles in combat. That is to say, in air battles dominated by heavy fighters, the proportion of air combat outside the line of sight is not large, and most of the time it will be fought within the line of sight, and the winner will be decided in a dogfight. A few days ago, the Navy of the Republic had already fought twice with the US Navy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as evidenced by both battles with the carrier-based aviation of both sides. In dogfight, quantity is more important than performance.

At that time, the problem of the US military was not only the small number.

Because of the dispatch of many reconnaissance planes, the number of air defense fighters in the US fleet has always been on the low side. In order to ensure that a sizable fleet of fighters can be maintained over the fleet at all times, it is necessary to reduce the size of the fleet. What's more. After the commander of the US army gave the order for combat readiness. Aircraft carriers have been moved to adjust the air defense fighters. In order to ensure that the fighters parked on the flight deck can take off as quickly as possible, the Chin air defense fighters on the US fleet are made of; Aircraft carriers were sent separately, instead of 2 or 3 aircraft carriers, as in the past. Other words. Mouth fighters are part of 7 air wings. And these fighters are rushing to the battlefield. Naturally, seven formations were formed in a three-plane formation and two formations in front and back, and the distance between each formation was too many kilometers.

As you can imagine, when encountering fighters sent by the fleet of the Republic, the American fighters were very scattered.

In the case that there are too few fighters on the cantonment. Fight in a tank as a swarm. The number of US fighters is even more pitiful.

Of course, the U.S. military combat right has an advantage that a republican fighter cannot have: fighting with its back to the fleet.

To put it bluntly, in the event that the opponent cannot be defeated, the fleet air defense circle can be withdrawn, as long as it does not enter the inner air defense circle of the fleet, it will not be attacked by the fleet air defense system, and the Republic fighters who follow into the air defense circle of the US fleet will definitely be attacked.

Exactly, after the encounter between the two sides. The fighters of the Republic Navy in the first wave of attack planes immediately fired the anti-ship missiles they carried in advance, because they were more than a kilometer away from the aircraft carriers in the US fleet, so the fighters of the first wave of attack planes could only use anti-ship missiles to attack the escort warships located north of the US fleet, and then meet the US fighters. After a round of engagement, the remnants of the U.S. fighter jets immediately retreated and retreated into the air defense circle of the fleet. Although the fighters of the first wave of attack planes did not need to catch up with them and would not be attacked as long as they stayed outside the air defense circle of the fleet, the range of the heavy anti-ship missiles carried by the fighters was about 1,000 kilometers, and the maximum interception radius of the air defense circle of the US fleet was also about 1,000 kilometers. More importantly, after being attacked from the air, that is, entering the state of air defense, the fleet will certainly expand the range of activities, that is, the escort warships must distance themselves from the objects they are protecting, at least maintaining a distance of more than one kilometer, and in many cases even expanding to a field of kilometers. As a result, the second wave of attack planes, which is the main force, can only fire missiles at a distance of many kilometers from the US aircraft carriers, and it is very difficult to pose a threat to the US aircraft carriers. More importantly, US fighters retreating into the air defense circle of the fleet can intercept anti-ship missiles with the remaining air-to-air missiles. Whatever one may say, none of the anti-ship missiles are equipped with expensive interception systems, and therefore anti-ship missiles do not have the ability to combat air-to-air missiles.

Affected by this. Knowing that there would be a great risk, the fighters of the first wave of attack aircraft rushed in.

It must be admitted that technological advances have brought tremendous benefits to both the offensive and defensive sides.

As mentioned earlier, in a new round of technological revolution. The defending side gets more benefits than the attacking side. So the war is moving in favor of the defenders. Outline...

This situation is very evident in the air defense operations of the fleet.

If at the beginning of the introduction of the century, in the case of the position of your own fighters in the area of attack. The fleet air defense system will definitely suffer and even not work properly. In this regard, the US Navy has even made clear regulations, that is, carrier-based fighters are only responsible for air defense operations outside the area, and if enemy planes or anti-ship missiles fired by enemy planes enter the air defense zone, carrier-based fighters will not be stunned to pursue them, and they cannot even use fire control radars to irradiate targets, so as not to cause interference to the fleet's air defense system. Relatively speaking, the impact of interference is nothing, and the real problem lies in accidental hits and accidental injuries. Although in front of the battleship. Fighter planes are nothing, and if they can protect their warships well, even if they shoot down a few of their own fighters, it is not a big deal, but accidental hits and accidental damage will also disperse the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower, occupy the air defense fire control channel, and greatly reduce the interception capability against threats.

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From this point of view, if we can solve the problem of identifying friend or foe, especially in an extreme combat environment, we can allow air defense fighters to operate in the air defense area of the fleet, fight together with the air defense system on the warship, and intercept incoming targets. Needless to say, this problem is not easy to solve. The traditional means of identifying friend or foe is by sending a string of radio signals with special meanings. After receiving the radio signal, the friend-or-foe identification device on your fighter will automatically shoot out another series of radio signals with the same special significance, that is, make a response. As long as the answer is correct. It's allies. It is conceivable that this rather "primitive" means of screening can only be used in low-intensity warfare, not to mention being maliciously interfered with, and even on a battlefield with a relatively complex electromagnetic environment, the identification signal of friend or foe is easily affected. As a result, the identification system loses its due role, and as a result, friendly forces are attacked. Not to mention the battlefield in the middle of the century, in the Gulf War many years ago, there was no decent electronic jamming equipment at that time, and the Allies repeatedly injured friendly troops by mistake.

As with radio identification systems, other electronic identification methods are susceptible to interference

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It wasn't until around the end of the field that the engineers of the Republic took the lead in introducing the "field effect principle." It was used in the identification system of friend or foe to solve the world-class problem of friend or foe identification. The "field effect principle" is not complicated, that is, it uses the basic physical properties that all objects with mass, i.e., gravitational and electromagnetic fields. Because the field of any object is unique, the identity of the object can be determined by the field generated by the object. Because the principle is so simple, within a few years, many countries, including the United States, have mastered similar technology. Of course, the "field effect principle" is not perfect, limited by the performance of the detection system, plus the earth itself has a gravitational field, as well as a geomagnetic field, so the "field effect principle" is adopted. The range of detection equipment is very limited. Only close objects can be detected. That's exactly what happened, "the principle of field effects." It was only used decades after it was proposed, and it was first used in the identification of friend or foe system. In any case, in the identification system of friend or foe whose main purpose is to avoid accidental injury, the requirements for sensing distance are not harsh. Even at certain times; Distant targets need to be screened, and other means can be used, rather than relying on the "field effect." ”

It is precisely because of this that the fleet's air defense operations have undergone essential changes.

Of course, this does not mean that your own air defense fighters can jump around without worrying about your own air defense system.

In any case, friend or foe identification is a process, not an end, and therefore costs money.

In the outer air defense circle, which is dominated by long-range air defense missiles, the point and time for identifying friend or foe are nothing, but when we go to the inner air defense circle, which calculates time in milliseconds, that is, when Ran energy weapons intercept incoming targets, the time taken to identify friend or foe is not so short.

To put it figuratively, in the case of the laser interception system of the Navy of the Republic, when dealing with a target, the continuous irradiation time is only an old millisecond, even if the splitting system is used to irradiate the old target at the same time. The continuous irradiation time is only 10,000 milliseconds, and the energy loss of the 10,000-millisecond spectroscopy system will occur. Its energy transfer efficiency is roughly paste. What's more, when it comes time to use energy to intercept systems, it is often anti-ship missiles that need to be dealt with. Moreover, it is a missile that has already lost the motive, leaving only the warhead and attitude control motive. At this time, the degree of anti-ship missiles is basically above the Limach, and the combat distance of the energy interception system is about 1,000 kilometers. Therefore, the reaction time left for the interception system is only 3 seconds, and under normal circumstances, it is necessary to make 2 interceptions of the target in such a short time, that is, each time there are only old seconds, that is, such as milliseconds. Counting the damage assessment and so on, the preparation time for each fire and the total interception time will not exceed the total interception time of the cat, and the strength of milliseconds. It can be seen that after the interception time of 10,000 milliseconds. All that's left, milliseconds. Because the energy interception system is not to destroy the target. Rather, it deviates the target from the trajectory and cannot pose a threat to the battleship, so the target must be shot down at a distance of one meter from the battleship's joint mouth. Without this time, there is not even a millisecond of respite.

It can be seen from this that in the inner air defense circle of the fleet, the interception system will not distinguish between friend and foe, but will intercept all targets that enter the attack range and pose a threat to the warship. More importantly, the criterion for the interception system to judge whether the target poses a threat to the warship is simple, that is, whether the target is moving towards the battleship. To be precise, whether the relative distance between the target and the battleship is decreasing or expanding. If it's shortening, it's a threat.

This, of course, did not have much effect on the battles in the outer air defense ring of the fleet.

With the support of the fleet's air defense system, the US fighters quickly turned the situation around, giving the adventurous Republic Navy fighters a bitter taste.

However, the situation has not become favorable for the US military.

While the US military was doing its best to intercept the fighters of the Republic Navy, the second wave of attack planes had already reached a distance of many kilometers to the north of the US fleet.

As mentioned earlier, at the time of the encounter with the US fighter jets. The fighters of the first wave of attack aircraft groups dropped the anti-aircraft missiles they carried on the escort warships on the periphery of the American fleet. According to the recollections of some pilots, at the time when they were fighting for air supremacy with US fighters. At least the moving U.S. warships were hit by missiles, and smoke was rising. According to the U.S. military's operational records, the warships that were hit by missiles between the old point and the old point and the point of occupation were "not moved," including a patrol ship that was on guard duty in the north of the fleet, a multipurpose destroyer that was on auxiliary alert duty, and two antisubmarine destroyers operating in the vicinity. Because all the battleships were sunk, and they were all under severe electromagnetic interference before sinking, and the tactical information was not received by the flagship, it is impossible to determine the specific sinking time of these four battleships, and how many missile attacks were received before sinking.

Judging from the situation at that time, especially the performance of the new generation of anti-ship missiles of the Republic Navy, the cruiser "Bunker Hill" must have been the first to be attacked. According to the combat records of the US military, the ship was at the beginning of the battle. Air defense alert tasks are being performed with a passive detection system equipped. Because the course of the U.S. fleet is negative, the ship is actually located in front of the left of the fleet, not directly ahead. This also coincides with the US Navy's air defense formation, that is, when performing air defense combat missions or considering air threats first, an air defense warship with long-range alert capability should be equipped in the direction of each blade on the left and right sides of the fleet. It will provide early support for carrier-based early warning aircraft in the same direction and cooperate to complete the fleet's air defense alert tasks. Although the passive detection system will not emit electromagnetic radiation, in the eyes of anti-ship missiles, a cruiser with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons is definitely a target second only to an aircraft carrier. Because before the missile was launched, the pilot had determined that it could not attack the aircraft carrier, so he chose the free attack tactic, that is, when the anti-ship missile entered the final range, it no longer searched for the aircraft carrier, but attacked the warship that was most obvious in the seeker's exploration range and was not attacked.

Relatively speaking, the fate of that multipurpose destroyer will not be much better.

As mentioned earlier, the US Navy did not build multipurpose destroyers and anti-submarine destroyers on the same platform, but based on multipurpose destroyers, cruisers were opened, and anti-submarine destroyers were completely new. That is, the multipurpose destroyers of the US Navy are closer to cruisers. And not anti-submarine destroyers. Although in terms of displacement, the multipurpose destroyer is several thousand tons smaller than the cruiser, but it is much larger than the anti-submarine destroyer, so it is under saturation attack by anti-ship missiles. In particular, after the cruiser "Bunker Hill" was hit by a number of missiles in succession, the multipurpose destroyer "Bullard," which acted in conjunction with it, must have become a missile magnet named after the captain of a destroyer who died with the ship during the Middle East war, attracting a lot of anti-ship missiles.

Because most of the crew of the "Bullard" was spared by the "Bunker Hill", and the officers and men of both ships confirmed that the battleship had caught fire before sinking. And it is quite possible that the superstructure made of lightweight materials was caused by the high temperature generated by the explosion of the missile, so it is generally certain. At that time, the pilots of the Navy of the Republic saw these two warships. That is, 2 more anti-submarine destroyers sank after being shot. This can also be proved by the fact that the two destroyers have survived with less than one of the most famous officers and men, and the surviving officers and men are all working in the upper compartments of the battleship, and how vulnerable the anti-submarine destroyers are in the face of the anti-ship missiles of the Republic Navy.

In any respect, the biggest contribution of the first wave of attack aircraft was to take out the escort warships north of the U.S. fleet.

To be precise, it is to enable the second wave of attack planes to fly more than 1,000 kilometers southward, so as to attack the aircraft carriers located at the core of the US fleet with the anti-ship missiles they carry, especially the aircraft carriers of the Sixth Fleet, the USS Bush, the USS Madison, and the USS Buchanan, which are located in the left front of the fleet. More importantly, when the first wave of attack planes was pursuing US fighters, they also entered the air defense circle of the Sixth Fleet from this direction, so when the second wave of attack planes arrived and fired missiles, the air defense warships in the Sixth Fleet were all busy dealing with the fighters in the sky, and did not notice the attack aircraft group in the distance. It was not until the attack aircraft group, after reflecting the missiles, irradiated the US warship with fire control radar to provide the last target information for the anti-ship missiles, that the alert system on the US air defense warship issued an alarm.

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There is no doubt that it is too late to organize a defense at this time.

In terms of time, even if the anti-ship missile flies for kilometers, it will only take four seconds, which also includes the time taken to climb after launch. In total, the second wave attack aircraft group had 2 old fighters. Each fighter fired 6 anti-ship missiles. In other words, many anti-ship missiles were fired at the US fleet, and it was later proved that some of the anti-ship missiles failed to fly to the US fleet due to malfunctions after firing, or failed to pose a threat to the US fleet.

It is almost impossible for the Sixth Fleet to intercept so many missiles in such a short time. In the face of a swarming stream of anti-ship missiles. The commander of the Sixth Fleet had no choice. The combined fleet defense system can only be activated, with the help of the air defense of the Fourth Fleet, which is located on the right, and the Eighth Fleet, which is following the right rear.

"The Joint Defense System, not a mystery. The basic principle is to use the ship's detection system to provide target data for anti-aircraft missiles launched by other air defense warships. Obviously, this is also a mode of cyber joint operations. The key to the realization of this tactic is not the performance of the detection system, but the performance of anti-aircraft missiles, especially the autonomous attack capabilities of anti-aircraft missiles. You must know that the "Aegis" system, which came out as early as the Lichen century, can detect thousands of targets at the same time and track hundreds of them, but what limits the combat effectiveness of the "Aegis" is the fire control channel of the air defense missile. If the anti-aircraft missile no longer needs a fire control channel, at least a special fire control irradiation radar, and can rely on the rough data provided by the detection system, and then completely rely on its own detection system to search for and attack the target, then the performance of the air defense system is no longer limited by the fire control channel, but by the detection capability of the detection system. It's obvious. It is much better to increase the detection capability than to increase the fire control channel. It was not until the end of the century era that the anti-aircraft missile made a major breakthrough in "intelligence", possessed an autonomous attack capability sufficient to cope with the general battlefield environment, and matured in the following years. A few years before the outbreak of World War III, that is, around the end of the year, the Republic and the US Navy had a new generation of anti-aircraft missiles capable of autonomous attack. Only by this time did the "Joint Defense System" become a truly effective tactical system.

As a weapon system, there are naturally pros and cons. It can't be perfect

At a time when we are making full use of the fleet's air defense capability and greatly improving the efficiency of the fleet's air defense, the "joint defense system" also has a very conspicuous shortcoming. That is, when making Dan, all combat platforms that join the system need to activate high data links, thus releasing extremely obvious electromagnetic radiation.

There is no doubt that in the face of new anti-ship missiles, the battleship that activates the tactical data link is like a person with a flashlight in a dark room, it could not be more obvious.

In a sense, this is tantamount to dispersing the anti-ship missiles that were originally concentrated on attacking the Sixth Fleet to other fleets.

Although theoretically, this is tantamount to increasing the probability of survival of each fleet, after all, there is an upper limit to the interception capability of any fleet, and the interception efficiency within the upper limit range is the highest, and if the upper limit is exceeded, the interception efficiency is low, and there will definitely be warships hit by missiles. In other words. It is certainly much easier for a fleet to deal with such missiles than with young missiles, because the Eighth Fleet only has an aircraft carrier battle group, and even if it is evenly distributed, the Sixth Fleet will be assigned a number of anti-ship missiles, not such a missile, so this analogy is not entirely accurate. But when the number of anti-ship missiles is sufficient to pose a threat to each fleet, a dispersed attack is tantamount to increased losses.

Objectively speaking, there were not many anti-ship missiles attacking the US fleet at that time, but they were very advanced.

It is known that the Navy of the Republic has always attached importance to anti-ship missiles, and even for a long time. Use advanced anti-ship missiles as the main weapon to restrain US aircraft carrier battle groups. Even in the middle of the 2nd century, with the comprehensive popularization of the forced electromagnetic interference system, the combat effectiveness of anti-ship missiles was greatly reduced, and the Navy of the Republic did not relax the relevant research and development, but tried every means to improve the anti-jamming capability of anti-ship missiles.

The problem is that since it is a missile, Yin, it is a guided weapon. The guided weapons used to attack moving targets are vulnerable to forced electromagnetic interference systems, or at least the accuracy of the attack will be greatly reduced.

By this time the battle had been fought, the U.S. military had no choice.

In the face of a swarm of anti-ship missiles, the US fleet can only abandon its hard defense and pin its hopes on the forced electromagnetic interference system.

According to the combat records of the US military, the Sixth Fleet was the first to use the forced electromagnetic interference system at about the old point.

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In the following minutes, the Fourth and Eighth Fleets also used the forced electromagnetic interference system, and all three fleets used it several times.

Although in the second wave of attacks by swarms of attack aircraft, at least. U.S. warships were hit by missiles, including a cruiser and three destroyers of the Sixth Fleet, two destroyers of the Fourth Fleet and two destroyers of the Eighth Fleet, and one destroyer was sunk by missiles. In addition, there are also aircraft carriers of the Sixth Fleet and the Fourth Fleet, which were damaged by missiles, but judging from the overall attack efficiency, the threat of anti-ship missiles to warships is really not great, and compared with the naval battle many hours ago, it is not even comparable to the electromagnetic guns equipped on escort warships.

Of course, anti-ship missiles are not for nothing.

Judging from this round of engagement, after the fleet is attacked by anti-ship missiles, even if the use of a forced electromagnetic interference system can minimize the attack efficiency of the anti-ship missiles, the combat capability of the fleet itself, especially the ability to respond to sudden strikes, will certainly be greatly reduced. In addition, in the case of forced electromagnetic interference, in order to ensure that the warships in the fleet cover each other, it is necessary to reduce the navigation of the fleet and shorten the distance between the warships to within a kilometer. Although it is good to be able to control between the old kilometer and the force kilometer. As a result, not only will the U.S. fleet become denser, but the maneuverability of warships will certainly be limited. Looking at it from another angle, if there is an artillery bombardment at this time, and it is an artillery bombardment supported by front-line intelligence, I am afraid that no matter how powerful the US fleet is, it will be completely annihilated.

It's just that in this naval battle, those electromagnetic guns in the Indian Ocean Fleet are useless.

When the forced electromagnetic interference system was used, the US fleet began to turn around and made the decision to withdraw from the battlefield. Although at this time the attack aircraft group sent out by the US fleet missed the second wave of attack aircraft of the Republic fleet and was heading north, but before attacking the Republic fleet. The U.S. attack aircraft group encountered the third wave of attack aircraft sent by the Republic fleet. Because the fleet was threatened, the fire-fighting fighters of the third wave of attack planes all threw away their sea-fighting ammunition and switched to intercepting US fighters, while the escort fighters of the US attack group did not keep up, but were dealing with the second wave of attack planes that had already completed their attack mission.

It can be said that the situation on the battlefield at that time was extremely chaotic.

Despite the unremitting efforts of the US fighter pilots who carried out the attack mission, there were very few US fighter planes that were able to break through the interception of the fighters of the Republic Navy and launch missiles at the predetermined sea area. What's more, these U.S. fighters did not receive intelligence support, nor did they receive the support of their own fleet, so the U.S. pilots did not know that they were aiming at the rear of the Republic fleet! Fierce kilometers, so they fought to the death, and the attack actually didn't make much sense, and didn't even pose much of a threat to the fleet of the Republic.

It must be said that the counterattack of the American army neutralized the third wave of attacks by the fleet of the Republic.

You must know that the third wave of attack planes is not carrying anti-ship missiles with a range of 1,000 kilometers, but guided bombs equipped with rocket booster engines and strapdown inertial guidance systems, and this kind of bombs are used against warships, especially those that have sailed through the terror festival and have been protected by forced electromagnetic interference systems. To be precise. This kind of kilogram-class bomb equipped with carrier-based fighters is actually a "shell" dropped by a fighter plane, and it has no other characteristics except for its speed and the use of a closed-loop guidance system.

There is no doubt that if the third wave of attack aircraft arrives, the US fleet, which has lost its air defense capability, will definitely be unlucky.

The problem is that at all times, the main purpose of naval warfare is to protect the self-bow, not to destroy the enemy.

That's right, this one is vigorous. The largest naval battle in human history so far ended after such an unexpected air battle.

For both sides, what they gained from this naval battle was not the results of the battle, but the experience and lessons.