Volume 14 Smoke Filled the Sky Chapter 88 A Lightning-Bolt Battle
Like the US commander, Zhang Xuefeng also used the tactical command and fire control to run the fire control computers on the warships and each warship, but unlike the US commanders, Zhang Xuefeng set the automatic engagement mode in accordance with the combat rules, instead of making decisions after being prompted by the computer. [Full text reading]
This difference in detail not only reflects the active and passive relationship between the two belligerents, but also determines the outcome of the war.
It must be admitted that in modern warfare, which is becoming more and more fast-paced, the logical analysis ability of the human brain and the degree of human reactivity have become one of the factors limiting the combat capability of weapon systems. Arguably. From land to sea, to sky, and even to outer space, on almost all space battlefields. Humans need the support of computers. In particular, support and assistance in tactical decision-making and control.
For example, in this naval battle in the history of mankind, in which electromagnetic cannons were decided and won thousands of kilometers away, the role of computers even exceeded that of the officers and men of the naval fleet.
After giving the order to attack, Zhang Xuefeng handed over the tactical decision-making power to the central computer of the flagship.
Although as the commander of the fleet, he can cancel the decision-making power of the computer at any time and change it to human decision-making, but he will never do it unless it is absolutely necessary, because previous postponements and drills have proved that in the fleet artillery battle. The degree of decision-making of people simply cannot meet the requirements of operations.
According to the Tactical Engagement Procedures of the Republic Navy, the flagship's central computer divides the tactical operation into three phases, namely reconnaissance and dialing, attack, and screening, and the last two stages can be repeated, i.e., when it is determined that the target has not been destroyed, the attack will be repeated until the target is destroyed. Although this tactical decision-making process is very simple, it is very complex to implement.
As mentioned earlier, the first thing the central computer did was to have the escort warships shoot "reconnaissance shells." ”
Firing "reconnaissance shells" is a task, but it is not a simple matter to control so many "reconnaissance shells" at the same time. Don't say anything else. It is not practical to set up multiple high-traffic channels. Of course. There must be a solution, and the simplest solution is to create a relay station for information processing between the reconnaissance area and the fleet. If possible, reconnaissance aircraft carrying high-performance computers, or vertical take-off and landing patrol aircraft in the fleet, should play this role.
Obviously, there were no such good conditions at this time. As a result, only one type of "ammunition" with a special structure and a special mission like a "reconnaissance shell" can be used, which is a signal relayer that carries a signal processing system and a high data link. "Because it is used in extreme situations, and such times often mean that the VTOL patrol aircraft of the fleet cannot arrive in time. So like the "reconnaissance shells", the "signal relays" are fired by electric touch guns. The difference is. "Signal relay. The energy required when shooting is much lower. Flight is much slower. And it does not need to be outside the atmosphere, but to enter the atmosphere, and then rely on the carrying liter system, which continues to work for several minutes at an altitude of about kilometers above the ground. In order to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy, leaking secrets and advanced technology, after the end of the work, "signal relay." Yes
Destroy.
From a technical point of view, the "signal relay" is not high-tech.
Of course, this "electronic device." There are still merits, the most important of which is the ability to initially process the signal and send dozens, if not hundreds, of different pieces of information at the same time using an intermittent compression technique. Do so. It can not only improve the efficiency of information transmission. It can also effectively improve the security of information, that is, after the enemy intercepts the information, because there is no software and password required for decompression, it is impossible to completely restore the information. Of course, the former is even more important when sending tactical information. Especially when it is necessary to use hundreds of "reconnaissance shells." This ability to send multiple pieces of information at the same time is crucial.
After solving the problem of signal transmission, it was necessary to make effective use of "reconnaissance shells".
Of course, it seems that this is a bit simpler. That is, it is only necessary to arrange the trajectory of each "reconnaissance shell", and all "reconnaissance shells" can be effectively used. The question is. These "reconnaissance shells. It was fired from the phantom electromagnetic guns of many old warships located in different locations and not even in the same state of navigation, and the purpose of each "reconnaissance shell" was different, plus the information had to be processed in just a few minutes, and the fire control data for each shot was issued to all warships. You can imagine how difficult it is. Arguably, this is the main reason why the flagship is equipped with a powerful central computer, and let the central computer centralize the processing of this information. It is important to know that due to the limitations of communication efficiency, especially wireless communication efficiency, the fire control computers on each ship process their own information, and then the flagships coordinate it, which requires a lot of time to exchange information, so that the efficiency of information processing information is reduced, that is, the fighters are delayed.
Take the "reconnaissance shell" of the heart mouth. If you use the most powerful personal computer in the old year to process this information, you need to work at least continuously for the milk year, if you use the most powerful computer in the regiment. It also takes about years, and if you use the first generation of neural network computers in the year of the blade, it will take about an hour to use "Qin." The central computer on the number of seconds, took only four seconds.
It can be seen that without a significant increase in computer performance, it would be impossible for computers to control belligerent operations.
In fact, it is the easiest thing to deal with these upfront fire control data. You're welcome to say that when processing this data, the central computer on the flagship is not even fully operational. The resource occupancy is less than that of the gills.
As the "reconnaissance shells" reach the target, the sensors begin to work, and the reconnaissance information is transmitted back to the fleet through the "signal relay", and the real computing peak officially arrives.
Because theoretically, it is impossible for a central computer on a flagship to process so much information at the same time. In addition, the central computer has to abandon other information on fleet operations, and cannot occupy all the resources of the central computer unless it is absolutely necessary. Therefore, when receiving the reconnaissance information from the "reconnaissance shells", the central computer will not immediately process it, but will hand over the first received data to the fire control computers on other warships. Due to the use of synchronous reception technology, i.e. at the same time as the flagship received by the "signal relay." The information of coming back, so after receiving the news from the flagship to Yi Xunshu and said that Xunshan was not the same body clam "Zhengfeng." The fire control computer on other warships can carry out reconnaissance information under normal circumstances, in order to reduce the trouble of control. Each warship will give priority to the information coming back from the "reconnaissance shells" fired by its own ship.
Although the fire control computers of other warships are far inferior in performance to the central computers on the flagship. However, this diversion method can minimize the pressure on the flagship's communication system, that is, the flagship no longer needs to accept the raw information processed by friendly ships. It is only necessary to obtain the information processing results of friendly ships.
The problem is that the performance of the fire control computer is really not that high, and the amount of information is amazingly large, so in the end, the central computer on the flagship has to process the information that the friendly ship cannot handle. Because the information transmission is too fast, when the friendly ship joins the information processing work, the central computer on the flagship also begins to process the relevant information.
The critical time comes at this time.
The fundamental purpose of processing information is to find out what is useful from the multitude of useless information, that is, to find targets from reconnaissance photographs of various spectrums returned from "reconnaissance shells". For this reason, it is necessary to do a comparative analysis of the sealed information in order to find out the useful parts of it.
Obviously, such work can only be carried out by a central computer on the flagship.
When comparing and analyzing various reconnaissance information. The central computer will certainly be working at full capacity. Because the power consumption is too staggering, and not all electronic components are made of ambient conductive materials, some electronic components cannot be made of conductive materials. So when it is fully running, the heat of the central computer is very amazing, and even after the reactor on the battleship, it will take up a lot of electricity. It can be said that this is also the reason why only this level of computer can be equipped on the "Qin" class. Its enormous operating power actually takes up the most power from the cooling system, making it difficult for other warships to keep their computers running at full capacity while maintaining normal operations.
Fortunately, in some cases, a set of efficient software and some key information can do more with less. As mentioned earlier, the overlook of "Long Beach." During the passage through the Panama Canal, there was a delay of several hours due to the replenishment of ammunition, during which time a small reconnaissance satellite was launched by the Republic's Space Army. This small reconnaissance satellite has synthetic aperture radar and infrared cameras on board. Other words. The Navy of the Republic has mastered the radar signatures and infrared radiation signatures of the capital ships of the "Long Beach" class.
Combined with the target recognition software specially developed for the central computer, the workload of the computer can be minimized.
Thanks to this, about a minute after the "reconnaissance shells" of the fleet appeared in Dianwufen, that is, the first fleet, the central computer on the "Qin" found the ones it had from the massive reconnaissance information, and thus determined the exact location of the first fleet.
At this time, the flagship of the first fleet was distributing fire control data to 7 other capital ships.
About the point of weakness, the 8 ships of the first fleet "long plow." The capital ships of the class began to fire "reconnaissance shells".
Extrapolating from the time, it took 6 minutes for the first fleet to complete the preparations, all people think. The central computer of the "Long Beach" class was inferior to the "Qin" class. Obviously, this perception is a bit biased. The greatest impact on the reflectivity of the first fleet is definitely not the performance of the flagship central computer. It's about how decisions are made and what they do.
As mentioned earlier, after the current tracking was revealed, the US military commander handed over the tactical decision to the central computer.
Theoretically, the central computer of the "Long Beach" class is capable of using "reconnaissance shells." The ballistic data, coverage and route data of the First Main Fleet and other relevant information are roughly calculated from the active sea area of the First Main Fleet, and then countered with "reconnaissance shells". The question is. This theoretical conclusion must be hugely biased. If in the 1st Main Fleet, the problem is not very big, after all, "reconnaissance shells." It is projected by escort battleships and does not take away the valuable combat power of the capital ship. For the First Fleet, the problem is not so simple. In addition to the limited number of "reconnaissance shells" in the ammunition depot of the capital ship, it is also necessary to consider whether the firing of "reconnaissance shells" will have an impact on the subsequent counterattack, such as overheating the refueling of the main gun, thereby reducing the accuracy of the shelling. In this way, logically, the central computer will wait for more precise information about the target location.
There is no doubt that there is definitely such information.
In fact, when the commander of the US military gave the order, the central computer on the flagship of the US military was already processing such information.
This is how the 1st Main Fleet projected "reconnaissance shells." when electromagnetic radiation comes out.
As a matter of fact. At the end of the day, the passive detection system of the First Pilot Fleet received the electromagnetic radiation signal of the First Main Fleet. The question is. Shoot "reconnaissance shells." It is not the capital ship, but the escort warship in the fleet.
What's worse is that in the past few months, cruisers and destroyers of the Republic Navy have not only shelled US military bases in the Mariana Islands, but also practiced at shooting ranges in the Ryukyu Islands, so there is a lot of similar electromagnetic radiation on the battlefield. More importantly, it is difficult for the passive detection system to accurately measure the distance of this instantaneous electromagnetic radiation, and can only roughly measure the direction, and the extension line connecting the 1st Fleet with the 1st Main Fleet is the central part of the Ryukyu Islands. And there are several naval ranges over there. Affected by these factors. The U.S. military's central computer did not judge it as a threat and did not deal with it. It was not until the appearance of "reconnaissance shells" in batches that the central computer of the US military was in comparative analysis. The high-frequency electromagnetic radiation was characterized as a threat, and it was roughly concluded that it was the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the escort warships of the First Main Fleet when using electromagnetic guns, and the general direction of the First Main Fleet was determined.
It can be said that the logical analysis capability displayed by the US military's central computer in this link not only proves its powerful computing ability, but also proves that the US military has a group of talented software engineers and that the United States has made a major breakthrough in the research of neural network computers with primary artificial intelligence.
The problem is that only the direction was determined, and not the distance, and it was not yet a complete and effective fire control.
The shortcomings and shortcomings of the US military's decision-making concubines were concentrated at this time.
As mentioned earlier, the US military commander chose to control tactical operations by computer at the prompting of a central computer. After receiving this instruction. The central computer on the flagship is not in two scenarios
The feasibility of the intermittent Hong Zhi did not act according to a plan, but chose to stagnate Sichuan... i.e., comparing the analysis results of the two schemes. Then calculate the course of action that is most likely to find the enemy fleet.
Undoubtedly, this is a huge amount of computational work, and even a few minutes for a class-level computer. More importantly, comparing the analysis results of the two schemes and calculating the optimal action is another time-consuming logical computation.
Due to these factors, it took about six minutes for the central computer on the flagship of the US military to complete the tactical decision.
In the past, it wouldn't have been a big deal to take a few minutes to figure things out. Even in low-intensity combat, it's normal to spend a little more time making tactical decisions. The problem is that the enemy is nearby, and the blow is coming. It's also spending too much time on decision-making, which is absolutely undesirable. To put it another way, if it's not a computer that makes a decision, it's a human who makes it. Even if a person's logical thinking is much slower than that of a computer, he can still make the most correct choice with his rich experience.
Of course, there are more flaws in computers than that.
After completing the logical calculations, the central computer derives the approximate distribution of the target, to be precise, the chronological range of the target in a probabilistic way. That is, the sea area where the target may appear is divided into several "dozens" or even hundreds of areas, and the area where the target is most likely to appear is calculated. In general, the target has the highest probability of appearing in a certain area. The probability of occurrence of adjacent regions decreases according to the exponential function. As a logical tool, the computer will never rely on experience to determine the whereabouts of the target. When directing tactical operations, it is also completely determined by logic. Affected by this, the central computer will certainly allow the fleet to first use the area where the target is most likely to be projected "reconnaissance shells." Then press Look Neighbor until you find the target.
Judging from the combat operations of the US fleet, the central computer at that time determined the range of the target's appearance to be within the range of kilometers to kilometers in the direction of the induction. There will not be much problem with the azimuth data, after all, the US military has received the electromagnetic radiation generated by the electromagnetic guns of the first main fleet when it fires, so it can roughly determine the direction of the first main fleet, even if it is taken into account that the first main fleet is sailing at a high speed, it will not be too far behind.
The key is the distance parameter.
From the US military "reconnaissance shells. In terms of the distribution of landing points, the central computer determined the area of the curved to the base of the 1st Main Fleet as the most likely area. This is understandable, after all, according to the intelligence held by the US military, the maximum range of the electromagnetic guns on the escort warships of the Republic Navy is about 1,000 kilometers. of splash ballistics. It can be roughly concluded that the range extension technology was used, that is, the trajectory was changed by the rocket propulsion motive and the range was extended, so the maximum range was definitely more than a kilometer.
It can be said that at this time, there is a serious problem with the computer's compilation analysis.
If it were to be judged by people, it would definitely be linked to the range of the new electromagnetic cannon of the Republic Navy up to the Jin kilometer, so the range of the "reconnaissance shells" fired by the escort warships would be assumed to be the Jin kilometer. Even thinking further, if you want to arrange countermeasures from this, you must first reconnoitre, the sea area near the kilometer. The question is. When the computer did the logical analysis, it did not refer to these factors, but according to the range of the main guns of the escort battleship. Incrementally. In this way, the first thing that needs to be reconnoitred is the sea area of more than 1,000 kilometers.
It can be said that this error, which is produced by logical calculations, is very fatal.
Even when the US capital ship fires a "reconnaissance shell" using the semi-loaded standard, it can reach the maximum shot, and it also achieves the maximum shot. It only takes tens of seconds to scout an area every time. The problem is that as the distance increases, the number of shells required to search each area increases, and the time it takes to fire will increase. On top of that, a lot of time will definitely be wasted before the search for the first main fleet.
For a battle where reflexes are everything, such a waste of time is basically equivalent to suicide.
At one point, the US capital ships are still projecting "reconnaissance shells, and the eight Qin"-class capital ships in the first main fleet have already opened their formations and are ready to open fire.
Although the electric collision radiation produced by the US military firing was also detected by the passive radar in the first main fleet, and the direction data was quickly measured, the central computer on the flagship did not adjust the tactical action, the reason is very simple, the US fleet's square data is basically consistent with the fire control data obtained before, and the result of logical analysis is that there is no need to adjust the fire control data, that is, the fire control data obtained before has a higher degree of credibility.
Once the female capital ships were ready, the first salvo began.
In the same way as controlling the "reconnaissance shells" fired by escort warships, under the condition that the computing power is not completely occupied, the shelling is all controlled by the central computer on the flagship, that is, the central computer gives specific shelling instructions, and the fire control computers on each battleship are only equipped with fire control computers with relatively backward performance because they are built according to the flagship standards, so six of them are only equipped with fire control computers with relatively backward performance and only need to fire according to orders.
What's more, when the first salvo of 8 capital ships was coming to an end, the 2 electromagnetic guns on the 6 cruisers in the fleet opened fire again. A number of old "reconnaissance shells" were projected at the first fleet, but half of the "reconnaissance shells" projected this time carried sensors specially designed to screen the results of shelling, that is, visible and infrared cameras equipped with wide-angle lenses. As mentioned earlier, the attack procedure is followed by the screening procedure, because the muzzle degree of the electromagnetic cannon on the escort battleship is much slower than that of the electromagnetic cannon on the capital ship, and the average flight of the "reconnaissance shell" is also slightly slower than that of ordinary shells, so even if the fire is fired at the same time, "reconnaissance shells." It also arrives dozens of seconds later than the shells projected by the capital ship, so it can complete the screening work in a very timely manner in order to decide whether a second round of attacks is needed.
From the point of view of fire control alone, the difficulty of control in the attack phase is much lower.
Because the "reconnaissance shells" have already locked on the eight US capital ships, and the second set of information obtained during the supplementary reconnaissance, the central computer can cross-compare the two sets of information, so as to roughly determine the navigation status of the US capital ships, especially the navigation data, such as the degree of navigation, direction, and steering angle, and thus estimate the range of activities, and the most attractive is the range of activities of the eight US warships to arrange the guns when arranging the firepower training. The central computer is 8 ships "Qin. The strike missions were evenly distributed among the capital ships of the class, and all of them threw shells into the designated area.
In this link, the most important thing is not to determine the shelling data, but to select the type of shell.
One might think that armor-piercing shells should be chosen specifically for use against large warships, especially those with a depth of more than a liter meter and a saw-high deck. In fact, before trying to make the target reduce the degree of navigation, that is, to make the target unable to avoid it at a high level, the combat efficiency of the armor-piercing projectile is very low, and if you want to paralyze the target, the most ideal must be the cluster submunition with a special bullet.
You must know that both the Republic Navy and the US Navy have fired cluster submunitions for the large-caliber electromagnetic guns of capital ships! This submunition fired by an electromagnetic cannon. In fact, it is a special artillery shell that does not contain explosives and does not rely on the principle of explosion to kill and injure the target. Speaking of the principle, it is very simple, that is, using the enormity given by the electromagnetic gun, let the submunitions kill the target with kinetic energy. When it comes to the scientific and technological content, it is indeed not very high, the mother bomb, that is, the artillery shell is only a carrier of submunitions, and it only needs to spread the submunitions at an appropriate height with the centrifugal force generated by rotation, and does not require sophisticated electronic control equipment and guidance systems.
If we must talk about the technical content of the submunitions, that is, the materials used to make the submunitions.
Because of the least drag profile, the dive motor on the parent bomb, and the centrifugal rotation of the submunitions, the degree of the submunitions is not a problem. According to tests conducted by the Navy of the Republic, the degree to which the submunitions fall to sea level when dropped at the height of blade meters is between Mach and Mach, and this degree ensures that the submunitions can penetrate the armor and several decks of any warship. Even so, the submunitions of the Republic Navy cluster submunitions still use a special alloy of armor-piercing shells with a heat-insulating coating on the surface. The problem is that the submunitions are not loaded with explosives, and their mass is limited, and if they can only penetrate the armor of the battleship, the damage to the battleship will not be too great. It's like a bullet leaving a hole in the human body. The actual killing effect is certainly not ideal.
In order to increase the destructive effect, it is necessary to make a fuss about the structure of the bullet. The submunitions used by the Navy of the Republic are one example of a composite munition. From a structural point of view, the front end is made of a soft copper alloy hood, which is mainly to reduce wind resistance; Then there is the main bullet rod with special alloy, which accounts for about one-third of the length; This is followed by a high-density fragile lead alloy segment, which also occupies a third of the length, and the main purpose of this part is to increase the average density of the submunitions, which is more conducive to the preservation of kinetic energy. Another purpose is to burst into the enemy ship after entering it, so as to kill the surrounding personnel and destroy the equipment inside the hull with the high fragmentation generated; Finally, a stabilized tail made of special materials that will spontaneously combust after impact, and the function of this part, in addition to stabilizing the trajectory, is to ignite the flammable material inside the enemy ship after hitting it.
In fact, cluster submunitions have another advantage that no other munition has, and that is that they are "uninterceptable." "Theoretically" an 8-concave kilogram shell can be equipped approximately. Four, concave submunitions, and no fleet defense system and fleet interception system in the world can intercept so many targets at the same time. What's more, submunitions are very large and very fast, making them difficult to detect. This is just as an anti-aircraft missile can deal with a fighter but cannot deal with a fighter's shell, and when the air defense system is faced with these small shells, which are not much bigger than chopsticks, they can basically only look at the sky and sigh and pin their hopes on solid armor.
It can be seen that although the power of each submunition is very limited, when a single shell drops thousands of submunitions, any warship will be beaten into a hornet's nest. Although it is difficult to sink a warship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons with this level of damage, it is like hitting a rhinoceros with a steel ball bullet, but the steel ball bullet can hurt the rhinoceros, and hundreds or thousands of small armor-piercing shells can definitely damage the battleship, thus reducing the battleship. According to the actual combat test of the Navy of the Republic, the burning part on the submunition will definitely be able to cause a fire on the warship, because the vast majority of warships are controlled by computers when sailing, so when the computer is on fire in the ship, it will definitely reduce the degree of navigation, so that the fire extinguishing robot can suppress the fire and avoid the spread of the fire. To know. Any warship is an ammunition depot floating on the sea, with a large amount of flammable materials but also a large amount of explosive materials. Not to mention the counter, under normal circumstances, a somewhat sane captain would order a reduction in sailing. The reason is simple. Sailing at a high level is tantamount to blowing wind into the battleship, which is also tantamount to fueling the fire.
In fact, even without igniting enemy ships. It can also damage the critical equipment of enemy ships through dense bullet rain.
From a tactical point of view, the purpose of equipping the capital ship with cluster submunitions is to paralyze the enemy ship on the surface of the sea at the beginning of the battle and create an opportunity for the use of armor-piercing shells.
It is precisely for this reason that it is particularly important to screen the results of the attack.
You know, the probability of sinking an enemy ship with cluster submunitions is very small, and the combat efficiency is very low, so there is little point in using cluster submunitions after paralyzing enemy ships. What's more, not only are there not many cluster submunitions equipped on battleships, but the price of cluster submunitions is also several times that of armor-piercing munitions. If we take into account that there are auxiliary propulsion equipment on advanced warships. Moreover, most warships will not completely lose their ability to maneuver after being attacked by cluster submunitions, so it is even more likely that they should use armor-piercing shells to sink enemy ships after the attack gets in the way.
The actual combat situation was not much different from the test of the Republic Navy.
In the face of the swarming rain of bullets, the stall in the first fleet "Long Beach." The level can only barely parry.
It's just that such a swift attack still hasn't been able to completely defeat the First Fleet.
You must know that the flight degree of cluster submunitions will definitely not be faster than that of armor-piercing bombs, and they will fly thousands of kilometers. It takes about two and a half minutes for concave seconds. That is, these shells fell on the left and right of the point mountain. According to the U.S. Navy's Fleet Combat Records, U.S. reconnaissance shells appeared about a minute ago, that is, about a minute ago, to help the First Main Fleet a kilometer away, and screened out the Spider "Qin." class capital ship. More importantly, some of the "reconnaissance shells" fired by the US military carried magnetic sensors, and this sensing position was enough to detect the magnetic field disturbance generated by the Dixinli fleet when the artillery was firing, and it was enough to make a tactical judgment that the first main fleet had fired.
I have to admit that the computer technology of the United States is indeed very advanced.
As mentioned earlier, it took about 2 minutes from the time the central computer of the 1st Capital Fleet received the data from the return of the "reconnaissance shells" to the firing of the capital ships, while it took only 2 minutes for the 1st Fleet. Of course. This is a response in the case of an emergency mechanism, that is, in the event of a certain that the enemy ship has already opened fire, the fleet will counterattack in the fastest way. It's a pity. This is because when the US central computer made the decision to counterattack all, the artillery shells fired by the first main fleet were still thousands of kilometers away. Moreover, it flew outside the atmosphere, so the radar of the US fleet was not able to detect these shells, and the US fleet did not activate the active radar at that time, but the passive radar monitored the battlefield environment, and due to the interference of the ionosphere, the passive radar could not monitor the targets outside the atmosphere, and the central computer of the US military had no way to determine the arrival time of the enemy fleet's attack. That is to say, in choosing the method of counterattack, it seems that the central computer of the US military has chosen a full-scale counterattack, that is, attacking all the main targets that have been detected. Instead of concentrating fire on part of the main targets.
In accordance with this counterattack decision, the eight "Long Beach" class capital ships completed the first salvo with the fastest degree.
Like the First Main Fleet, the U.S. military also chose to use cluster submunitions first.
In any case, cluster submunitions can not only reduce the target's navigation, but also paralyze the target's electronic equipment and detection equipment, and even have the opportunity to destroy the target's communication equipment, thus rendering the target incapacitated.
The problem is that it is not the shells of the American army that fall first, but the shells of the Navy of the Republic.
did not wait for the second salvo of the US capital ships. To be precise, as soon as the US capital ship network completed the first salvo, the first batch of shells projected by the first main fleet fell.
Probably speaking, it is almost impossible to avoid the attack of cluster submunitions.
In the first round of salvo fire, the 6 electromagnetic guns on each of the "Qin" class capital ships fired 8 rapid shots, that is, with the fastest firing, 8 shells were projected within the myoke. Other words. Every U.S. military's "Long Beach." The capital ships of the class were all attacked by successive cluster submunitions. In 2 and a half minutes of the flight of the shells. To the knots of the voyage of the "Long Beach." The class is able to travel about the woman. Rice. Combined with the steering maneuverability of the warship, it can be roughly concluded that the sea area that needs to be covered by the shell is, such as 10,000 square meters, and in the case of ensuring the hit rate of Anhui's submunitions, that is, the submunitions dropped by the cluster submunitions, in the case of habitual hitting the target, the cluster submunitions can cover the maximum area of 10,000 square kilometers when dealing with warships of this size of the "Long Beach" class, so theoretically only a cluster submunition can be covered by a "Long Beach" class capital ship, and the hit rate is guaranteed. In accordance with the combat tests of the Navy of the Republic. Only the hit rate of the battleship, that is, the hit of the submunitions, can reduce the navigation degree of a large warship of 10,000 tons to below the blade joint, and in the case of the hit rate, it can reduce the navigation degree of the battleship to the mouth section.
For a large warship with the maximum degree of navigation in the knots to the knots, the degree of the mouth knot is equivalent to paralysis on the sea surface.
According to the operational records of the First Introductory Fleet of the US Navy. Almost at the same moment, eight ships of the Long Beach class were attacked like a rain of bullets. Although "Long Beach. The class was equipped with battleships built since the Second World War. The heaviest armor in the world, and a variety of forms of armor mixed deployment are adopted, such as the outermost layer of the battleship is made of a single armor composed of high-strength alloys, the first horizontal deck is strengthened to composite armor, the second horizontal deck material armor is strengthened by electric armor, and key facilities are also strengthened by armor boxes. All in all, "Long Beach." The level of armor protection of the class is stronger than that of all previous large warships, including aircraft carriers, and the comprehensive armor protection capability is even higher than that of battleships during World War II. But in the face of those small-sized armor-piercing shells with a degree of up to three thousand meters per second, "Long Beach." The protective armor of the level has almost become an ornament, not only the overall armor set up in three layers has been pierced, but even the armor box of some key equipment has been pierced, and only some extremely important parts, such as the reactor compartment, ammunition compartment, and power compartment, are unharmed. The problem is that even if the reactor and propulsion system are intact, the auxiliary control system, the electrical energy transmission system, and other equipment and facilities related to navigation, and even decisive for navigation safety, are hit.
The result was obvious, after concluding that there would be a huge risk when sailing at high speeds, the computer automatically controlled the warship reduction.
Although there is evidence that at least there is a look at "Long Beach." Captain of the class after the current voyage is lowered. Removed control of the computer and reduced the number of ships by manual control. This is certainly the most correct way to deal with it, because the risk of staying on the battlefield and waiting to be hit by enemy shells is certainly much greater than the risk of capsizing when sailing at high sails, but there is a reaction process for manually controlling the battleship, which takes at least 2 to 3 minutes.
There is no doubt that the First Main Fleet will not give the US captain this opportunity.
About a minute after the end of the cluster bomb attack, the "reconnaissance shells" again arrived over the First Fleet and returned to the battlefield information in time. Because the first salvo used cluster submunitions, not armor-piercing shells capable of sinking enemy ships, the central computer of the first main fleet did not need to spend too much time screening the results of the strike, but only needed to grasp the navigation of the target and calculate the new fire control parameters.
The whole process only takes a few seconds. The central computer then issued a new order to open fire to the capital ships. At about the point of the tun, the second salvo was fired at the second round of the 8 "Qin"-class capital ships of the main fleet. This time it was no longer a short burst of fire, but an area-covered shelling according to the optimal strike scheme calculated by logic, lasting up to a minute!
It must be admitted that the fire response of the US military had an effect, and it was very obvious.
When the first main fleet carried out the second salvo, the cluster submunitions dropped by the US capital ships were already approaching and were about to enter the atmosphere! It is said that the book is full of umbrellas