Chapter 449: Challenging the Soviets' Aircraft Carrier Formation
Discover four targets at low altitude, 300 kilometers away from you! Admiral Durt, who got the news, immediately knew that the real battle was coming, and coming from the direction of 030 must be American fighters taking off from an air base in Pakistan!
Americans, this is a provocation! At the same time, this is also a kind of temptation for the Americans to determine the combat effectiveness of their own aircraft carrier formation! And for such provocations, the attitude of the Soviet Navy was quite firm, and warships are the territory of the country's mobility! The enemy must not be allowed to invade!
There is a precedent for this, just a few years ago, when the heroic General Andrei, when he was still a MiG-25 fighter pilot at the Sokolovka base in the Far Eastern Military District, he once flew over the American aircraft carrier formation at a low altitude, and at that time, the American escort warship, unceremoniously opened fire, huge supersonic ramjet missiles, rushed towards Andrey's fighters, if it were not for the MiG-25's flight speed and altitude too perverted, it would definitely be beaten down by the Americans. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At that time, the Soviet Union did not protest, believing that such actions of the Americans were acts of provoking war, and the counterattack in this case was tacitly acquiesced.
Now the situation has been reversed, and it is the Americans who have come to challenge the Soviet aircraft carrier formations!
If it weren't for the fact that their carrier-based aircraft discovered these four sneaky targets, then they would have been broken through the air defense network by the other side and drilled into the aircraft carrier formation, but their fate would definitely be extremely tragic! Because, the Soviet aircraft carrier, correctly called a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser! Even if the anti-aircraft missiles of those warships escorted by the other side evade their own escort, they will definitely not be able to enter the sky above the Kyiv-class aircraft carrier!
The twin two SA-N-3 anti-aircraft missile launchers, the twin two SA-N-4 missile launchers, the two AK-726 twin 76.2 mm guns, and the eight AK-63030 mm close fire guns constitute a powerful anti-aircraft fire, and if the Americans want to sweep over their own aircraft carrier deck like Andrey, it is definitely an act of death!
The US aircraft carrier formation must be hugged from front to back, and a large group of warships will dare to go on the road together, while the Soviet aircraft carrier will dare to carry out combat missions alone!
"Take off the spare MiG-23K immediately!" There was no need for Admiral Durt to give an order, and at the moment of receiving the news, the captain of the Minsk, Colonel Victor, immediately ordered the take-off of the remaining two MiG-23Ks, which were completely airborne and mounted.
The Kyiv-class aircraft carriers have limited decks, and the parking area can only be located at the rear end of the tall bridge, which does not interfere with the take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft. There are six slots, and at the beginning, two MiG-23Ks had already taken off, and now there are two MiG-23Ks and two Ka-27 helicopters.
Two MiG-23Ks were quickly towed to the take-off area, and in just one minute, the two MiG-23Ks flew into the sky.
Breathing in the air in the oxygen mask, pilot Christophe looked at the fleet under his wings, as carrier-based aviation, their mission is to protect the safety of their own aircraft carriers!
The afterburner has not been closed, the wing is swept back to the last position, this is a quick volley mission!
Under the belly of the aircraft, two mounted R-27 missiles shone with milky white light.
At this time, the top radar of a Krivac-class missile frigate at the forefront of the formation had already discovered the four incoming targets from the complex sea surface echoes!
Top radar, the main antenna is a plane array, composed of many waveguide strips, just like a narrow wall with many grooves with different tilt angles, this radar is not advanced, not as good as the phased array radar of later generations, but the technology is mature, in the Soviet warships, a large number of equipment, used to provide long-range air alert missions.
In later generations, this radar was equipped with the Huaxia Navy along with the Hyundai-class destroyers, and then was copied by a large number of Huaxia and equipped on the new generation of various types of destroyers.
If it is a high-altitude aircraft, the early warning distance can reach 150 kilometers, and the improved version of later generations can exceed 300 kilometers. And now, in the face of the fighters coming from a low altitude, I found that the distance was only sixty kilometers!
At this time, the four incoming fighters had already turned on the afterburner, which was obviously an ultra-low-altitude attack tactic common for sea attacks!
With a breathing apparatus, the American Colonel pilot Tedoro felt the bumps of ultra-low-altitude flight. He was a little excited and a little dissatisfied with this mission.
Test the level of air defense of Soviet aircraft carrier formations and at the same time simulate the launch of anti-ship missiles!
Just after dawn today, a reconnaissance satellite in outer space that changed its orbit spotted the Soviets' aircraft carrier formation, and then the order was sent to the US Air Force stationed in Pakistan to carry out this military operation.
This kind of task was originally done by the US Navy, and the task of the US Air Force is not anti-ship! However, even if the US aircraft carrier is at full capacity, it will take more than 10 days to arrive from the Far East, and it can only rely on the US Air Force to test it first, and at the same time, it is also a demonstration.
There is no steel drill, no porcelain work, the kind of death-seeking action that swept over the deck of the Soviet aircraft carrier, although a bold pilot put it forward, it still did not pass, the air defense level of the Soviet Navy is also extremely powerful, too close is to find death, and now, what they need to do is to fly close to the sea, at a distance of 100 kilometers from the Soviet naval formation, suddenly pull up, use their own airborne radar to find and lock on to the other party, simulate the attack, and then, return and retreat!
Too easy. This plan, apparently, is also the result of a comprehensive consideration of various circumstances, for the Soviet aircraft carriers, which did not have carrier-based AWACS aircraft, it was not difficult to fly at ultra-low altitudes and get close to a distance of 100 kilometers to them, moreover, in the arsenal of the United States, it happened to have anti-ship missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers!
The most advanced anti-ship missile in service in the United States is the AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile developed by the MacDonald-Douglas company, with a maximum range of 111 kilometers, that is, 60 nautical miles, and then replaced with the updated JP-10 aviation fuel, and the range was increased to 130 kilometers.
The United States does not like to develop anti-ship missiles with an ultra-long range, they have fighters that can increase their attack range, and every time they make improvements, the focus is on upgrading the electronic system of anti-ship missiles to increase their reliability and penetration capability. (To be continued.) )