Chapter 812: The Turning Point of the Era of U.S. Naval Supremacy
This seems to be different from what the Americans claim in history?
After being decommissioned, the officers and men of the United States who had served on the USS America hoped that it would enjoy its old age in peace, but the American top brass did not do so, let it retire safely, and then send it to a certain dock to wait. Instead www.biquge.info it was given a new mission.
Historically, on April 19, 2005, the USS America was towed away from the Old Military Port in Philadelphia. According to the plan carefully planned by the Naval Ocean Systems Command in advance, the US Navy's surface, underwater, and air weapons carried out a "live-fire attack" on it, and at the same time, the USS America itself also installed ******** in many places. After resisting the indiscriminate bombardment for 25 days, the hull of this once commanding steel monster began to enter a large amount of water at 11:30 a.m. local time on May 14, and then silently sank into the Atlantic Ocean.
Without any defense system, the USS America took 25 days of bombing before it was sunk! But now, after only hitting four Sunburn missiles, the USS America sank, and the contrast is too great, right? Is East China the hero bragging too much?
Of course not!
First of all, this aircraft carrier of the USS America has not yet laid a layer of Kevlar armor on the outside to increase its protection capacity as it did in later generations.
Of course, if it is a subsonic Exocet missile, a semi-armor-piercing warhead, it will not be able to tear through the side of the American aircraft carrier, after all, the power is limited, but now it is a supersonic anti-ship missile weighing four tons! Speed brings more energy, according to kinetic energy equal to mass multiplied by speed squared, the Sunburn missile only relies on the energy brought by speed, which is several times that of the Exocet missile, plus the mass, it is definitely more than ten times the attack power of the Exocet missile!
Secondly, the attack of the first two missiles, opening a gap from the weakest tail of the opponent, and at the same time causing a fire in the hangar, although it did not burn anywhere else, but the burning caused a change in the structure of the steel plate of the aircraft carrier, which no longer has the original mechanical strength.
What kind of weapons did the Americans use when they tested? Definitely not a supersonic anti-ship missile! In the arsenal of the Americans, the attacks on warships are Harpoon anti-ship missiles similar to Exocets, as well as anti-ship missiles improved by cruise missiles Tomahawk, all of which are subsonic, and the Americans do not know the power of supersonic anti-ship missiles at all!
This is the result of quantitative change leading to qualitative change! When the Americans were experimenting, they were just scratching the itch, and the attack of the Argentine Navy, that was definitely a powerful fist!
At the same time, when the Americans were attacking their own aircraft carriers, they greeted them with all kinds of weapons when the wind was calm, and at that time, there was nothing on the aircraft carrier, it was an empty shell. And now? USS America is a fighting machine with planes parked on it, loaded with all kinds of weapons and ammunition! Even if it is a small hole that triggers fuel or ammunition inside, the consequences are absolutely catastrophic.
For example, now, the biggest blow to the US aircraft carrier is the last missile that got into the ammunition depot, and the detonation of the ammunition depot led to the rupture of the entire aircraft carrier! It doesn't matter how many layers of watertight cabins you have, how many anti-sinking structures you have, it is winter in the southern hemisphere at this time, and the wind and waves are high and fast, enough to overturn the entire aircraft carrier!
In fact, when the final explosion came, the US Navy was stunned, and the fire on the sea lit up the entire sky, and in the fire, the officers and men of the US Navy constantly jumped into the water, and they swam hard in the icy water, hoping to be picked up by other ships, and there were more people, but in the cold water, they finally lost consciousness.
War is cruel, and if you start your aircraft carrier with arrogance, you must also be mentally prepared to be destroyed!
The fire burned for several hours, until the sky was completely bright, and the warships around rescued more than 800 crew members who had fallen overboard, but many more people had already followed the aircraft carrier and sank into the icy Atlantic.
USS America, sunk, the era of US naval hegemony, there has been a major turning point!
At dawn, the weather cleared, the waves became smaller, and the seagulls continued to fly over the sea, occasionally skimming over the American aircraft carrier formations.
The Americans' aircraft carrier formation is even larger, and the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier battle group has finally converged with the USS America! However, at this time, the aircraft carrier USS America has disappeared under the surface of the sea!
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier battle group was cruising around the sea last night, and each of them was extremely angry in their hearts!
The U.S. Navy has never suffered such a loss! US Navy, you must take revenge! Mobilize six aircraft carrier battle groups to completely cripple the Argentine Navy and Air Force!
USS America was sunk! This news soon spread all over the world, and the first to reach the White House, the sleepy-eyed Reagan, when he heard the news, he felt that the world was spinning, and he was about to have a cerebral hemorrhage!
At the beginning, Reagan was high-spirited when he walked into the White House with confidence and took charge of the entire United States, but now, under his leadership, the United States has not yet come out of the trough and has been thrown into the abyss again!
It can be said that the decision to send troops was a bit hasty in the first place, after all, it was a war between Britain and Argentina, and the United States could stand outside and be persuaded to fight. However, the Americans contacted the entire Western world at the first time and gave Britain comprehensive support, and then, after the defeat of Britain, the United States fully supported Britain and gathered the fleet of the entire Western world to crusade against Argentina.
The Navy has failed! As the most powerful navy of the United States, when a regional conflict arises, the first thing the US president asks is, where are our aircraft carriers, and if there are aircraft carriers, there will be sufficient force! And now, the aircraft carrier has been sunk!
"It is clear that now it is no longer a local war, but a total war! Argentina has sunk our aircraft carrier, we are going to exhaust the forces of the entire Western world and win a war! This is a challenge to us, the United States, to the entire Western world! Vice President Bush said.
As a former World War II veteran, Bush also felt that this incident had made the Americans too cowardly, and the United States still had concerns about going to war with the Soviet Union, and if Argentina was allowed to abuse the US Navy, how could the United States be the leader of the Western world in the future! (To be continued.) )