Chapter 824: The Aircraft Carrier Sinks
The upper deck of the aircraft carrier is a hangar, and the lower deck is stored with fuel and fresh water, oil and other materials, once the fire spreads to the lower deck, it will almost be a big explosion that sinks the aircraft carrier!
Smoke and flames were used to quickly extinguish the fire, which has never been attacked on a U.S. aircraft carrier since World War II!
On the USS Nimitz, everyone was holding back a fire, and this day was simply a day of shame for the US Navy!
The battleship that survived the attack was in the midst of a nervous self-examination at this time, and Pakistan's supersonic anti-ship missiles were simply too fierce!
If the strength of the aircraft carrier's aircraft still exists, it can still play a certain role at this time, but now, relying entirely on the defense of passive anti-aircraft missiles is simply terrible.
The MK41 silos on the Aegis battleship have almost knocked out all the missiles in stock, and the Ticonderoga class, which has a little more stock, only has more than 20 spare bombs left, and as for the Burke class, the remaining bombs are in single digits.
Since the supply ships accompanying the fleet had already been sunk, the reloading of these missiles could only be said after arriving at the base, and at this time, the sun had just risen in the sky in the east, and everyone's mood was extremely low.
"Damn it, Alert!" At this moment, a Burke-class destroyer on the periphery that escaped the attack, the radar operator shouted, and on the sea in the distance, a wave of anti-ship missiles flew again!
The same supersonic anti-ship missiles! After intercepting the missiles of the previous wave, everyone thought that the Pakistanis would not come again, and even if they came again, it would take at least two hours to return, mount new missiles, and come back to attack. And now, only half an hour has passed, and the second wave of anti-ship missiles has actually come again!
There are more than fifty of them, and now the distance is only thirty kilometers!
Under the blow of the first wave. Only three Aegis battleships survived, one had a phased array radar destroyed by an anti-radiation missile, and the remaining two, with no more than 30 bombs in reserve, could not intercept the target at all, not even a third!
Pakistan's second wave of blows came too suddenly, too quickly, too powerfully. A punch to the soft underbelly of the Americans!
What made the Americans most depressed was that they didn't find out how these incoming missiles were launched at all!
On the sea, several ground-effect aircraft are detaching at high speed, and just after they approached the US aircraft carrier formation, they corrected the missiles carried by their own side through the data link of the satellite. All of them were launched.
The scene was spectacular, and everyone's hearts were excited.
Even if the ground effect aircraft is fast. It is also able to fly close to the sea surface and make maximum use of the blind spot of the opponent's radar, but to attack the Americans' aircraft carrier formation, their missile range is still too close.
Missiles carried by fighter planes have a range of more than 200 kilometers, and warships on the sea surface are used to launch them. Even if a booster is used, the range is more than 100 kilometers, and in peacetime, this weapon will definitely not pose a threat to the American aircraft carrier formation!
But now, the American aircraft carrier group has been crippled. The AWACS aircraft has not yet taken off, the sea is full of sinking ships that need to be rescued, and in this case, the Americans are simply not aware of the dangerous approach.
At a distance of 100 kilometers, they launched the missiles they carried, and then broke away at high speed, and the missiles that flew away completely ended the US aircraft carrier formation!
The U.S. Navy put up a stubborn resistance, launching anti-aircraft missiles one after another, quickly aiming at those flying supersonic missiles, and at this time, the missiles on the opposite side had already begun to carry out a serpentine maneuver in the final attack stage!
Some missiles shot down incoming anti-ship missiles, however, many more, flew over unscathed!
"Boom!" The USS Enterprise suffered a second missile, and this missile blew a big hole in the waterline, and the sea water continued to pour in as it shook left and right.
The sailors were doing their best to save the carrier, closing the watertight doors and sealing the damaged cabins, which were buoyant enough to keep the carrier on the sea.
"Boom!" The third anti-ship missile continued to fly, and this missile almost drilled into the hole that had just exploded, and inside the aircraft carrier, there was an earth-shattering explosion, and the air wave flew dozens of meters high with a mushroom cloud.
Ammunition is gone!
Since the opponent was attacking from the east, the Enterprise located in the east was the first to suffer from a series of anti-ship missile attacks, and when the third missile attack was completed, it was inevitable that the aircraft carrier would slowly flip, capsize, and sink.
And on the other side of the Nimitz, doom has also come.
The phalanx on both sides, the Sea Sparrow missiles, are rapidly intercepting these incoming anti-ship missiles, but those missiles that are twisting and flying are not so easy to intercept, and these systems are designed to intercept subsonic missiles, and the anti-ship missiles flying at the speed of Mach 3 greatly exceed the reaction time of these systems.
"Boom!" Huge speed, brought huge kinetic energy, an YJ-91 missile pierced Nimitz's belly, in an instant, the entire aircraft carrier shook, if the ammunition was detonated, it would be the same result as the Enterprise!
Dozens of sailors disappeared in an instant, and the remaining people, holding fire hoses, quickly extinguished the fire, they knew that if they didn't work hard to save this warship at this time, everyone would die!
There are still hundreds of kilometers from the southern archipelago, and no one can swim back, how many warships will survive this round of anti-ship missile strikes? Maybe they'll all sink!
"Boom!" The second missile came again, and the entire aircraft carrier made a sound of steel plates breaking, and everyone watched in amazement as the deck broke from the middle, and a hole more than ten centimeters wide appeared, fortunately, the aircraft carrier was not disconnected!
When the attack was over, the surviving people were feeling how beautiful it was to be alive, the sea was full of ships about to sink that were about to sink, the Nimitz aircraft carrier, still holding on in the waves, and many sailors were swimming in the direction of this aircraft carrier.
Diego Garcia.
The group of B-52 bombers returning to the sea did not have the slightest excitement, and the mood of the people on the entire island was quite low.
At this time, the news of the second round of attacks had not yet come, and the first round of attacks launched by Pakistan caused heavy casualties to the double aircraft carrier formation of the US Navy, which was an unbearable loss for the United States!
The B-52 bomber is an ultra-long-range large bomber, nicknamed the Stratofortress, although it was born in the fifties after World War II, but this aircraft has always been in the equipment sequence of the United States Air Force, and it is also an important aircraft, this is the only bomber in the United States that can carry air-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles, in later generations, the Americans have been extending the life of this kind of fighter, planning to fly until 2050, becoming a classic aircraft with a life span of up to 90 years.
The bombers, who had returned home after launching cruise missiles, had already entered the landing route at this time, and as if they were piloting a large passenger plane, the cockpit was in the form of a steering wheel.
The pilot carefully pulls the lever back to form an angle, and in the field of vision, only the straight runway can be seen in the distance, and operating this large aircraft, every take-off and landing is also very complicated, and if you are not careful, you will have an accident.
The altitude is getting lower and lower, and at this moment, the anxious voice of the ground tower guide is heard in the headphones: "Pull up, pull up, there are missiles!" ”
On the ground, a missile dragged a tongue of fire, flew up, and accurately hit the hanging engine compartment of the B-52 bomber, and suddenly, smoke rose from the engine compartment.
In the process of descent, which was already very difficult to maneuver, and now it suddenly lost the power of the two engines, and in an instant, the B-52 rolled to one side.
"Boom!" The bomber fell from a few tens of meters in the air, on the grass not far from the runway, burned, and not a single person escaped.
The next few bombers, which also entered the gliding course, were also attacked by portable anti-aircraft missiles, and the two that were closer were hit, and the farther ones were lucky enough to climb high and escape with the help of heat flare bombs.
Diego Garcia Base is the only US military base in the Indian Ocean, 1,900 kilometers away from the South Asian subcontinent, and it is the only military base where US strategic bombers can intervene militarily in the eastern and western hemispheres without refueling.
The entire island is under the military control of the United States, and a military force of more than 3,000 people is stationed, including about 1,700 military personnel, including officers and soldiers of long-range bomber units and naval nuclear submarines. The civilian personnel are 1,500 and mainly perform non-military combat missions.
In order to use this place as a military base, the United States drove away all the original residents of the island!
From 1966 to 1973, about 2,000 inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago were expelled from their homes where they had lived for hundreds of years and "forcibly migrated" to the Seychelles and Mauritius. Their lives have since plummeted, and many have committed suicide as a result.
There is no need for any reason for hegemonism, and those people who were born and raised here can only endure the brutal bullying of the Americans, and for decades, they will not be able to return to their homeland.
And now, they have finally waited for this day, the military strength of the Americans is no longer so strong, and their barbaric aggression in the Middle East has already put the Americans into the quagmire of war,
A middle-aged man wearing a tropical camouflage combat uniform and holding an AKM rifle threw away the launcher of the Stinger anti-aircraft missile he was carrying, and said to the person behind him: "This is ours!" We're going to kill all the Americans and build our own homeland! ”
Behind him, countless people with weapons emerged. (To be continued.) )