The waves crashed against the hull of the warship, and the Kiev, loaded with 40,000 tons, stood majestically in the wind and waves. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On the dark green deck, it also began to get busy gradually, and a helicopter rose from the deck.

This helicopter has a wide body and a short tail, and compared to ordinary helicopters, this aircraft is unique in that it does not have a tail! The tail is the same rudder as the fixed-wing aircraft! In order to balance the reaction force of the rotors, the top of this helicopter is not a huge propeller, but two propellers, which are reversed coaxially to counteract the moment of the propellers.

This is the masterpiece of the Kamov Design Bureau, the Ka-25 carrier-based helicopter with the Western code name Hormone, which is also the workhorse helicopter of the Soviet carrier-based aviation.

Compared with other helicopters, this Ka-25 has a huge bulge under the nose of the nose, as long as you have a little common sense, you will know that it is equipped with huge radar equipment!

This is the Ka-25B electronic warfare model! The main role of this helicopter is to launch missiles for ships to intercept targets. Including the launch of SS-N-1 missiles from the cruiser "Kresta", the launch of SS-N-12 missiles from the cruiser "Kiev" and the launch of SS-N-19 missiles from the later commissioned battle cruisers "Kirov" and "Frunze", and so on.

As a practitioner of the missile omnipotence theory, the Soviet Union developed a series of missiles, and in order to deal with the maritime threat of the Americans, the Soviet Union's anti-ship missiles were even more varied, frenzied, such as the SS-N-12 "Basalt" heavy long-range anti-ship missile, which was 11.7 meters long and weighed 4.8 tons. The diameter of the projectile is 880 mm, the wingspan is 2.6 meters, and the flight speed is Mach 2.5. The maximum range is 550 km, and the warhead is 1 ton of conventional explosives or 350,000 tons of nuclear explosives of *** yield. The body of the projectile is made of titanium alloy, and the power plant is a liquid rocket ramjet engine and two external solid rocket boosters. As long as one of the US aircraft carriers is hit, it will definitely sink into the sea.

Due to the influence of the curvature of the earth, almost beyond eighty kilometers, it is already the limit of the shipborne radar to find surface ships, and the longer the distance, you need to rely on other means, so. Many of these long-range anti-ship missiles in the USSR need relay guidance, and helicopters are the most commonly used way.

This Ka-25B helicopter was specially developed to guide anti-ship missiles, and in addition to a large radar radome with a spherical lower surface under the nose to carry radar, a cylindrical radar radome is installed under the rear of the cabin. There is also a complete data transmission equipment.

This is also what makes Andrey criticize, your anti-ship missiles are hugely powerful, but they need helicopter guidance, in front of American aircraft carriers. In front of a powerful carrier-based aircraft, your guidance helicopter will not be able to lift off normally at all, and it will be easily knocked out.

It is necessary to develop the same aircraft carrier formation as the West!

"Flight control center, flight control center. 003 has taken off, 003 has taken off. The staff on deck reported.

“003，003。 Pay attention to the search for the 16th sea area, pay attention to the search for the 16th sea area. "On the bridge. The guide called to the helicopter.

Just an hour earlier, a Soviet reconnaissance satellite had spotted the American aircraft carrier formation. The Americans actually went around in circles and sailed three hundred nautical miles to the east!

It's better this way, the Americans' aircraft carrier formations will not be protected by land-based carrier-based aircraft!

At the same time, in order to search for the aircraft carrier formations of the Americans, carrier-based helicopters carried by warships, also began to take off.

In the vast sea, it is not easy to search for an aircraft carrier formation, moreover, the Soviet Union did not have a powerful carrier-based early warning aircraft, and could only rely on carrier-based helicopters, in later generations, the Soviet Union developed a professional Ka-31 early warning aircraft, in order to make up for the shortcomings of the absence of carrier-based early warning aircraft.

And now, it can only rely on the Ka-25B for the time being, because this helicopter was originally designed to guide anti-ship missiles, so it has a powerful sea search radar, which can operate within a range of 200 kilometers away from the fleet, and at the same time, it can also detect aircraft carrier formations at a distance of about 300 kilometers, after all, the aircraft carrier is huge, and to find such a large target as an aircraft carrier, the sea search radar can be found at a long distance.

Pilot Captain Kulikov piloted the helicopter, and after leaving the aircraft carrier, he flew to the east, and the most likely area of activity of the American aircraft carrier was the 16th sea area!

The endless sea, clear and blue, the glass of the cockpit is open, breathing in the familiar smell of the sea breeze, Captain Kulikov is also excited.

As an excellent carrier-based pilot, Kulikov has been in service for more than ten years, and when he first took off and landed from the narrow stern flight deck, he needed superb flying skills, and now, he is very happy to be able to take off and land on the wide flight deck, and at the same time, Kulikov is also witnessing the continuous strengthening of the Red Navy.

In the middle of the fuselage, on a console, the radar operator is nervously staring at the radar screen.

Time passed little by little, and on the nearby sea, nothing was found, not even a fishing boat!

"Keep flying!" Unconsciously, it has already flown to the sea area 300 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, and as a helicopter with a maximum range of only 650 kilometers, the current flight is already the limit.

"Prepare to go home," the captain said.

"Target found!" At this moment, the radar operator behind suddenly shouted: "In the sea area of No. 17, azimuth 050, three hundred kilometers away from us!" ”

The aircraft carrier formation of the Americans actually sailed farther and reached the sea area of the 17th! It's like an ambush at sea! Luckily, I found them!

"Calibrate the charts, and we'll head back at once!" The captain said that the fuel in the plane is now only supported until it has just returned to the aircraft carrier, and it cannot be delayed any longer.

In addition to reporting to the mother ship on the radio, it is also important to calibrate the charts.

At this moment, suddenly, a sharp alarm sound came from the headphones.

"Damn, we are being targeted by American planes!" Kulikov cursed, quickly reducing the height of the helicopter.

In order to search for the long-distance American aircraft carrier formation, your own helicopter has to increase the altitude, so when you find the American aircraft carrier formation, the American aircraft carrier formation will also find your own helicopter!

The Ka-25 is equipped with a sea search radar and does not have the ability to search for the air, so it does not have the ability to detect aircraft in the air. (To be continued.) )