Chapter 822: Eagle Strike-91's Attack
Eagle Strike-91!
This kind of missile, which uses an integrated rocket ramjet engine, has the initial speed given by the carrier aircraft at high altitude, and its range is further increased, and the distance of more than 200 kilometers is completely within the effective range!
Eighty missiles, with the roar of death, pounced on the American aircraft carrier formation, and the Americans suddenly felt a lot of pressure.
Compared with what happened to Pakistan last night, they are even better, after all, the missiles fired by Pakistan do not have any stealth capabilities, but another feature of these missiles is that the speed is quite high!
Mach three! You can walk one kilometer in one second, and this distance of more than 200 kilometers is three minutes!
At this time, the five Aegis warships of the entire aircraft carrier group, including two Ticonderoga-class cruisers and three Burke-class destroyers, are operating at full power with phased array radars on all sides, and at the same time, the combat automation system automatically assigns targets to each warship.
Almost after the discovery of the missile launch, the first salvo of fire began after a few seconds of preparation of the individual Aegis system warships.
One by one, the Standard-2 missiles, dragging tongues of fire, were launched from the MK41 launch box, dragging thick smoke and rushing into the sky.
Those high-altitude missiles are their best targets, even if the speed is Mach 3, it is completely within the combat envelope of the Standard-2 missile!
However, those missiles flying from high altitudes, after only staying at high altitude for a few tens of seconds, began to drop in altitude!
The Standard-2 missile intercepts high-altitude targets and can have a range of one hundred and fifty kilometers, however, intercepts missiles flying close to the surface of the sea. The range is within fifty kilometers! After all, the Earth is round, and the distance, obscured by the curved sea, is a blind spot for any air defense system!
"Damn it!" Inside the Aegis battleship, there was a scolding voice.
The first missiles launched were aimed at high-altitude targets, and as a result, they swooped down from high altitudes! The speed has increased to a staggering Mach 5! Then. Just disappeared from the radar screen!
Each warship has just launched about 30 Standard-2 missiles, and although the number of radars guided at the end of the stage is not large, and there are only eight AN/SPG-62 target illumination radars, they can be used on a time-sharing basis, and the missiles launched earlier are guided first, and the missiles launched later first use the data inertia of the pre-bound data, and then guide the missiles launched later after the fire channel is vacated. Each missile can easily deal with a dozen targets.
But now. Those missiles that swooped down from high altitude made almost all the Standard-2 missiles launched earlier become big fireworks, and only two missiles successfully shot down two incoming supersonic missiles, and more than seventy missiles!
In the Cold War, the nightmare of the US Navy was the anti-ship missiles that flew like locusts, and the Aegis that the Americans spent a lot of effort to develop. It is to fight saturation attacks. It's a pity, the Navy of the Red Empire. Without a decent naval battle at sea with the US Navy, the Soviet Union collapsed. The U.S. Navy became the most powerful presence.
And now, the US Navy finds that they tremble in the face of Pakistan's Navy.
At this time, a new E-2 AWACS aircraft was hastily finishing maintenance from the hangar. Preparing to be raised to the deck for catapult lift-off, and over the ocean, the aircraft carrier formations of the US Navy temporarily lost the early warning capabilities provided by AWACS.
The bumblebees that had ejected earlier began to act as the eyes of their own fleet, and their radars were adjusted to the mode of sea attack. The trail of anti-ship missiles, which had been lowered to less than twenty meters above the surface of the sea, was tightly captured.
One hundred and twenty kilometers, one hundred kilometers, eighty kilometers...... At a distance of seventy kilometers from the aircraft carrier group, the Aegis radar had not yet captured the target, and the launch of the second batch of standard missiles began again.
One by one, the Standard-2 missiles came out of the launch canister, and the advanced vertically launched MK41 system of the United States showed a strong ability to resist saturation attacks at this time.
The disadvantage of vertical hair is that when the missile is launched, it is towards the sky, and it must first fly to a high altitude, and after accumulating a certain speed, it can have enough aerodynamic torque to pry the missile, complete the steering in the sky, and then dive down.
Therefore, before the target was detected, the second batch of standard missiles began to be launched again, and the first missile launched had already dived down from a high altitude and flew in the direction where the target came, and the SPY-1 radar of the Aegis system at this time finally searched for a low-flying target!
At this time, the distance is already within forty kilometers!
The YJ-91 missile continued to descend in altitude, and at a height of five meters above the sea surface, it continued to fly at a speed of Mach 3, and the waves on the sea were also about two meters, and the missile was hidden in the waves, which was even more difficult to detect.
Only the phased array radar system, by changing the radar phase, so that a large number of electromagnetic waves converge in one place, can accurately capture! Unfortunately, this would give up the ability to search for more airspace, as if it were a high-powered telescope, although it could see clearly, but the field of view was smaller.
In short, since you have found out, you have to attack!
The Standard-2 missile, which had dived down from a high altitude, flew rapidly toward the target under the illumination of the AN/SPG-62 target illumination radar at the end of the day, but just as a close encounter was about to occur, the flying target suddenly twisted its thick waist on the surface of the sea.
Serpentine maneuver! Having approached the target, the anti-ship missile, of course, does not fly along a straight trajectory! It must have been maneuvering in the S shape, and the intercepted anti-aircraft missile was maneuvering only after it was behind the target, and at this moment's turn, the Standard-2 missile pounced into the air, as if it was a dashing feint that made the opponent fall into the water.
The second Standard-2 missile continues to pounce on the target under the irradiation of the target illumination radar, and the probability of a single interception is less than 80 percent, and only when two missiles intercept a target at the same time can there be a higher probability of interception!
Finally, the second missile lived up to expectations, and at a distance of two meters from this anti-ship missile, the warhead detonated, and countless fragmented warheads flew in all directions, sprinkled on this anti-ship missile.
However, the missile continued to fly forward as if it was fine!
The YJ-91 supersonic anti-ship missile is a money-burning thing, one such missile can buy ten C-802 missiles, and the entire missile is quite valuable, for example, the shell of the missile is made of titanium alloy!
Only a close collision can destroy this missile, and the attack of a broken rod two meters away will not cause fatal damage to this missile!
It's too late! The computer decided to hand over the missile to the air defense system behind, and the target irradiation radar aimed at the next target, continuing to prepare for interception.
On the surface of the sea, there are constantly fireballs, and every successful interception of an anti-ship missile will mean that the threat to your side has been reduced again, and for supersonic anti-ship missiles, the Aegis system has only one chance to intercept!
More than 30 anti-ship missiles were successfully intercepted, which is already an unprecedented data, you know, in the experiments of later generations, the ability of the Americans to intercept supersonic target aircraft is very poor.
However, there are still almost forty anti-ship missiles flying in the sky!
Just as the Standard-2 missiles were preparing for a dive attack, the Sea Sparrow missiles on various frigates and destroyers were also launched one after another, and again, they only had one chance!
The large size of the Standard-2 missile leads to inflexibility, and the Sea Sparrow missile is smaller in size, moreover, the electronics are more advanced.
The Sea Sparrow missiles fired from the two-arm launchers did their best to shoot down nine YJ-91 missiles, which is already the most ideal situation.
The captains of various warships were trembling in their hearts at this time, and those Eagle Strike-91s, which were close at hand, had already flown into sight! The only way to deal with your own side is the dense array at the end of the stage!
The Phalanx is a six-barreled 20mm Gatling cannon with a rate of fire of up to 3,000 to 5,000 rounds per minute, using the resulting rain of bullets to kill and injure opponents!
However, at this time, the YJ-91 also entered a serpentine maneuver at the end of the stage, and it was even more difficult to be intercepted in a supersonic flight state!
An YJ-91 emerged from the strafing array of strafing from the array, leapt from the water, swooped down, and plunged directly into the antenna of a Ticonderoga-class phased array radar.
This is an anti-radiation seeker missile, which recognizes only the strongest radiation source!
"Boom!" The missile completely penetrated the bridge of the Ticonderoga-class, and then, without burning out the fuel, exploded along with the warhead, and in an instant, the front half of the bridge disappeared in an instant.
The fire was spreading fast on the cruiser, and like the Shelfield, the Ticonderoga class used a lot of aluminum alloy to make the upper structure in order to reduce the weight, and now, the aluminum alloy is burning fast!
"Boom!" The hapless cruiser, followed by a second anti-ship YJ-91 missile, hit the area above the waterline, and the sea water poured in frantically, the fire was extinguished, and the cruiser sank.
The anti-ship missiles that broke through the air defense system of the aircraft carrier formation brought the aircraft carrier formation rain of death!
There were a total of sixteen missiles, which broke through the air defense system, broke through the phalanx system, and let out a vengeful roar!
The USS Nimitz, the American's second-generation nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and an aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 90,000 tons, ushered in its most terrible day at this time. (To be continued.) )