Chapter 648: The Decisive Battle of the Atlantic Anti-Radiation Missile
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A month later, the German "Hail" program revived again. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.infoββ
In order to counter the large radar station system built by the Chinese Empire on the British Isles, the Luftwaffe failed to send multiple waves of aircraft to attack it in various ways, and the German army found a breakthrough to improve the anti-jamming capability of the Hail missile in technology.
Thanks to the active efforts of hundreds of Germany's top rocket and signal experts, the Germans have added a passive radar guidance head to the Hail missile, making it the most ideal anti-radiation (anti-radar) missile weapon.
Despite the hasty development of the project, out of 20 tests, fifteen times failed, only five times succeeded, two of which accurately hit the target, and the error was within 2 meters, which gave the Germans a strong self-confidence.
Soon, the German High Command quickly ordered the mass production of new passive radar seekers and upgraded the existing German stocks of more than two thousand Hail missiles.
Anti-radiation missiles, also known as anti-radar missiles, refer to missiles that use electromagnetic radiation from enemy radars for guidance to destroy enemy radars and their carriers. In electronic countermeasures, it is the most effective weapon against radar hard killing.
This anti-radar weapon technology was originally only available in the late forties, but Germany, forced by the Chinese Empire with no way out, quickly burst out with a powerful military-scientific and technological potential, and the newly improved Hail missiles were launched entirely against the large radar stations established by the Chinese Empire in the British Isles.
The German army was able to quickly develop anti-radiation missiles, on the one hand, because it was forced by the Chinese Empire. On the other hand, German spies in Britain were so pervasive that classified data such as radar radiation parameters of the radar stations of the Chinese Empire in Britain were also mastered by the German OKW Intelligence Bureau.
Before launching, the Hail improved missile should conduct reconnaissance of the target and determine its coordinates and radiation parameters. After launch, its seeker continuously receives the electromagnetic signal of the target and forms a control signal, which is transmitted to the actuator so that the missile can automatically guide the target.
The United ** did not expect that the German missiles would be able to carry out a large level of performance improvement in just one month, and they were specially designed for large radar stations in the United Kingdom, which caused serious damage to the radar stations of the United **.
From July 11 to July 15. Three large radar stations, seven medium-sized radar stations and 433 small coastal radar stations on the British Isles were all attacked by new German missiles, and more than 70% of the radar station facilities were destroyed.
When the Germans learned of the news from the OKW Intelligence Bureau, they decided to continue with the Hail operation plan and restart Operation Sea Lion. Hitler drew a large number of bombers from Germany and Italy. Redeploy to the English Channel and resume a massive bombing campaign against the British mainland.
On the morning of the 16th. The combined American and German forces dispatched 4,120 bombers. Escorted by 3040 fighters, it was planned to cross the English Channel and go straight to London.
The Joint ** English Channel Air Defense Command detected the incoming enemy aircraft through the only few radar stations and quickly reported it to the Joint ** General Command.
Cai held discussions with the top commanders of the United Nations Command and decided to take the initiative to intercept the English Channel and protect London at all costs. But just in case. London was still in the midst of an unprecedented evacuation. After all, the UN Air Force is capable of intercepting Allied aircraft, but not the new Allied Hail missiles.
Meantime. ββCai also made an urgent report to the General Staff of the Chinese Empire. Information was reported about the inability of the Germans to intercept the new missiles, and the serious damage to the radar system in the UK. Request for support from the General Staff.
After receiving Cai's report, Zhang Zizhong quickly deployed relevant scientific research personnel to study Germany's new missile and come up with a countermeasure plan as soon as possible.
When entering the palace to face the saint, Zhang Zizhong mentioned this matter to the emperor Wang Chenhao. Originally, Zhang Zizhong just said it casually, and he didn't expect the emperor to understand.
However, Wang Chenhao was particularly sensitive to Germany's missile program, and when he heard that the targets blown up by the Germans' missiles were basically radar station facilities, Wang Chenhao immediately judged that the missiles used by the Germans were new-type missiles equipped with anti-radiation seekers, which were specially designed to deal with the radar stations of the Chinese Empire.
Therefore, Wang Chenhao immediately proposed the most simple and effective solution to Zhang Zizhong, that is, after detecting the Germans' missiles, he immediately shut down the radar station and quickly dispatched the vehicle-mounted radar to maneuver at high speed, so that the Germans' missiles could be diverted.
Although the vehicles carrying the radar will be attacked by missiles, the accuracy of the Germans' missiles will not be very high, and the accuracy of attacking fixed targets may be greatly improved, but the hit rate of attacking moving targets is extremely low, and it is almost impossible to hit.
Zhang Zizhong never expected Wang Chenhao to have such insight, so he naturally admired it and immediately conveyed Wang Chenhao's will.
In London, Cai quickly ordered the closure of large radar stations in various places to avoid being attacked by German missiles, and at the same time sent army radar vehicles to the no-man's land in the city to lure away the Germans' missiles.
Sure enough, the Hail missile with an anti-radiation seeker launched by the Germans quickly lost its original target and was quickly led to the outskirts of the deserted city by the ground-based radar vehicle of the Chinese Emperor. Due to the high-speed maneuver of the radar vehicle, none of the Hail missiles hit the target.
On this day, the Germans thought they were sure of victory, and they fired 1,145 improved anti-radiation hail missiles at London, but none of them hit the ground radar station facilities of the United **, and all of them fell in a no-man's land on the outskirts of London, and they did not cause any casualties except for the killing of a dozen sheep.
At the same time, the attack group of the United States and German air forces encountered the United Nations air force over the English Channel. Fierce air battles broke out between the two sides, and although the fighters of the UN Air Force were advanced, they were insufficient in number. In total, the UN Air Force has more than 450 jet fighters and 1,201 propeller fighters, while the US and German Air Forces have more than 3,000 fighters.
In the first hour of the battle between the two sides. The United Nations Air Force shot down more than 700 enemy planes with hundreds of jet fighters, but the old propeller fighters were shot down by the Allied Air Force with more than 600 planes.
An hour and a half after the air battle began, the jet fighters of the United Nations Air Force were extremely fast, able to easily shoot down the backward propeller planes, and at the same time it was difficult for them to be hit by the enemy, thus destroying the number of enemy planes rose to more than a thousand. While other propeller fighters of the UN Air Force suffered greater losses. 1112 were shot down by the enemy.
At this time, the Allied Air Force still had more than 1,700 fighters left, and the United Nations Air Force had only 89 propeller fighters in addition to 450 jet fighters.
What is extremely unfavorable to the United Nations Air Force is that although the jet fighters are extremely fast, they do not have enough time to stay in the air, and in order to intercept enemy attack groups, the United Nations Air Force flies over the English Channel to intercept them. In this way, after an hour and a half of fighting. The time spent in the air by all jet fighters reached the warning line. Had to go back.
And the remaining 89 propeller fighters naturally did not dare to fight again, and also retreated. ββ
In this way, the Allied Air Force was victorious, continuing to cover more than four thousand fighters to London.
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the bomber group of the Allied Air Force arrived over London, and the combined ** air defense force made every effort to attack the incoming enemy planes, and the artillery shells using radio proximity fuses also failed. The cunning Germans switched off the radio before approaching London, disabling the Coalition**'s radio proximity fuse shells. Only more than six hundred enemy aircraft were shot down.
The Germans finally dropped revenge-filled aerial bombs on London, destroying a third of the city's urban area. Two-thirds of the urban area was on fire. More than 60,000 houses were destroyed and more than 100,000 people were left homeless. This included Chinatown in the city of London, which was the target of the German bombing. Fortunately, Cai Ye had taken precautions and deployed a large number of air defense units around Chinatown, and all the Chinese were safely evacuated to the air-raid shelters and underground bunkers, without causing casualties. However, most of Chinatown was destroyed, and the economic damage was very large.
After the air raids, Churchill announced that he would use the funds aided by the Chinese Empire to Britain to give priority to the restoration of the destroyed facilities in Chinatown and the resettlement of Chinese people, as a result of the British government's curry favor with the Chinese Empire. The Imperial Chinese Government also spoke highly of Churchill's statement and promised to increase aid to Britain in return.
7** The British suffered heavy losses in the bombing, and in retaliation, the Chinese Empire quickly dispatched bombers from its own territory and overseas bases around the world to the British front line to prepare for retaliatory bombing of the German capital and other important cities.
As a result, the United Nations and the Allies have all abandoned their humanitarian beliefs at this moment, no longer caring about civilian casualties, and the two sides have carried out indiscriminate bombing of each other's populous and industrial cities, causing an exponential increase in the number of innocent civilian casualties on both sides. On average, thousands of civilians die every day in the bombardment, leaving tens of thousands homeless. ββ
The United Nations was backed by the Chinese Empire's deep pockets, so tens of thousands of homeless civilians in Britain were able to be properly resettled. Millions of homeless civilians in the Allied countries such as Germany, Italy, and Spain were starving, criminal, and panicked, and the Allies were too financially constrained to take care of them, so that more and more people in the Allied countries began to join the anti-fascist partisans and began to fight against the Nazi government.
After the start of the military operations of the two camps to indiscriminately attack civilians, the Allied Powers, which were already in a weak population, were bombed by the United Nations Air Force, and the number of casualties soared, which not only caused huge economic losses to the Allies, but also made the population deprivation of the Allied Powers manifest itself in all aspects.
The large-scale bombing of the United Nations Air Force by the Allied countries not only damaged the factories of the Allied countries, damaged their equipment, reduced the production of industrial products on a large scale, and caused a surge in population losses, which made the alliance's troops, which were already tight, more and more insufficient, and many young people between the ages of 13 and 15 were forced to join the army, resulting in a serious decline in the combat strength of the alliance. The loss of population has led to a reduction in factory production, a large amount of arable land has been barren, women, the elderly, and child laborers have been forcibly pulled by the government to supplement their productive forces, and many high-tech products have either been reduced or of extremely poor quality, weakening the military strength of the Allies.
On the other hand, in the United Nations camp, the Chinese Empire, as a populous country, was in the rear of the war and was not affected by the war. The abundant human resources and the strong growth of industry and agriculture can fully guarantee the combat effectiveness of the front-line joint forces. Britain, Turkey, and the Soviet Union were the front lines of the war, and although their military casualties and industrial losses were large, the Chinese Empire could replenish them in time, so it did not affect the entire war situation.
The power of the two opposing camps is constantly changing, and the general trend is that the United Nations camp is growing rapidly, while the Allied camp is in a state of rapid weakening. This is the same as the other. People of insight in various countries around the world are optimistic about the victory of the United Nations, and this has further stimulated the growth of guerrilla forces in the territory of the Allies, and the camp of the Allies has fallen into a dangerous situation of internal and external difficulties.
In order to turn the tide of the war, the United States and Germany have stepped up the development of nuclear weapons. At the same time, the Germans soon learned that the reason why the Hail missiles could no longer destroy the radar system of the United ** was because the United ** had turned off the radar station. As a result, the Germans quickly improved the device of the homing head of the Hail missile, on the basis of the original anti-radiation homing head. By installing magnetic tapes or magnetic strips, they are used to record enemy radio and radar signals. Thus guaranteeing the missile after takeoff. Even if the United ** turns off the radar station and uses the vehicle-mounted radar to decoy, it will not interfere with the flight direction of the Hail missile, and the Hail missile can continue to fly to the intended target through the magnetic stripe information recorded in the seeker, thus cracking the countermeasures of the United **.
In August, the German army's new Hail missiles resumed firing into the British mainland. And quickly destroyed more than twenty stationary radar stations of the joint **.
Cai was forced to completely shut down the main large radar stations, and only retained more than 20 small and medium-sized radar stations along the coastline. It was used to monitor German aircraft and missiles across the Channel. But soon the German missiles quickly destroyed all these coastal radar stations, putting the United ** in serious danger.
Fortunately, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire was inspired by the case of a ground-based radar combat vehicle inducing a German missile that was not hit by a missile. Six Chinese Aegis air defense heavy cruisers were quickly dispatched to the English Channel.
These six Aegis ships are the Chinese Imperial Navy after the advent of the radar redesigned air defense heavy cruisers, in the overall layout still follow the Typhoon-class hull design, the displacement has increased slightly, to 16,000 tons, firepower, armor protection and combat speed has not changed, the increased displacement is mainly used in the installation of ship-borne large anti-air and sea search radar systems, so they are still classified into the Typhoon class, so that the Typhoon-class heavy cruisers continue to maintain the glorious title of Chinese Aegis ships.
The new Aegis ships were originally equipped for the Imperial Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier battle group and battleship battle group to serve as the main fleet escort, and most of the Aegis ships were in the process of being modified and upgraded in the dock after the outbreak of the war. At the moment, only a dozen Aegis ships have completed the upgrade of modern radar systems and are back in service with the fleet.
At the same time, the Imperial Chinese Navy completed the construction of six Tornado-class missile cruisers. The six missile cruisers are equipped with the main fleet, and their shipborne missile systems also need the radar systems of the new Aegis ships as a guide. Due to the limitations of radar technology, each Aegis ship can only provide relay and terminal guidance for a total of 32 Roaring Sky Dog ground-to-ground cruise missiles in eight quad mounts on one Tornado-class missile cruiser at the same time, so the Navy can only send six Aegis ships to the English Channel for air defense alert duty.
The six improved Aegis ships, together with the six electronic combat ships, are just enough to cover the radar search missions and radio detection and jamming missions over the entire English Channel.
The Aegis ship, which is equipped with large radar facilities, has been moving at high speed on the sea surface of the English Channel, making it difficult for the Germans to hit it, ensuring that the radar system of the United ** is operating normally, and can continue to monitor the information of aircraft and missiles taking off from the direction of the Allies, and rebuild the air defense system of the British Isles.
The electronic combat ships have been upgraded with radio jamming equipment and reconnaissance equipment, which can quickly shield radio signals within a radius of 100 kilometers, depriving Allied aircraft of radio command and increasing the chances of victory for the United Nations Air Force.
With the Chinese Empire sending twelve Aegis ships and electronic combat ships to the English Channel, it greatly relieved the air defense pressure of the United ** on the British Isles. As soon as the German missiles and bombers approached the English Channel, the United Nations air defense command would receive information and make timely evacuation of citizens and anti-aircraft combat preparations to minimize casualties and losses.
The Germans fired more than 300 Hail missiles at the 12 Aegis ships and electronic combat ships of the Chinese Empire in the English Channel, but none of them hit the target.
The only chance was that when a hail missile was about to hit the heavy air defense cruiser Mukden at high speed, it was locked onto by the powerful Vulcan Phalanx system on the Mukden, and in the dense rain of fire, the hail missile was destroyed.
Although the Mukden Aegis ship was intact, the accuracy of this Hail missile was so high that it almost hit the high-speed battleship, which was highly valued by the General Staff of the Chinese Empire, and the accuracy of the German missile attack even exceeded that of the Chinese Empire, which forced the missile experts of the Chinese Empire to increase the research and development of missile attack accuracy.
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