Chapter 640 640 Battle of the Mozambique Channel (5)

The bomber of the century taught the Americans a hard lesson, and even shook South Africa's confidence in following the United States. Coupled with the previous failure to besiege and hunt Chinese submarines, the Americans can be said to have faced a series of defeats in the Chinese army after the start of the war. However, this kind of losing streak is not unbearable, because although the Americans are constantly losing their combat strength, they have not lost the real main force, and there is no major problem in grasping the strategic points. The loss of Diego Garcia Island was also expected and was not in the strategic plan.

The United States has sufficient strategic patience, and in history they have lost and won many wars, and the Americans are still very good at dealing with setbacks. Even the people in the United States who support the war do not feel any dissatisfaction with the continuous defeats, which may be related to the beautification of the results of the US military on the one hand, and the continuous exaggeration and reinforcement of the results, making people feel that they have not lost too much, and on the other hand, the Americans are still more calm than the people in some developing countries, can tolerate such losses, and are full of hope for victory.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld mentioned in his report to Bush: "We do not know how long and how much China has hidden advanced weapons like the bomber of the century, and this may not be the first piece of equipment that has mysteriously appeared, and it will never be the last." This qiē also confirms that the Chinese have been planning for this war for a long time, and it is also related to the Chinese's traditional thinking that "the weight of the country is not lightly revealed". However, because we do not have effective means to counter the sudden attack of the Century bombers on our front and even on our homeland, this makes our various fixed targets on land very vulnerable. And the fleet in the Indian Ocean theater of operations, the process of berthing in the port has also become thrilling. Therefore, we have to increase the speed of our attack on the Chinese and defeat the Chinese navy as much as possible to gain a comparative advantage. ”

On the other hand, the US military did not stop looking for ways to counterbalance the Chinese bombers of the century, and according to the accounts of those who experienced the attack, the US military judged that the Chinese bombers had found a special way to achieve special stealth, not only in terms of electromagnetic signals, but also in terms of optics, which brought considerable difficulty to striking them. But at the time of its attack, the bomber was temporarily revealed, and this was the window for the counterattack of the US air defense forces. It's just that because the time is very short and the radar can't catch it, the most effective way is actually the most primitive anti-aircraft gun. In fact, this is not the best way, such as the big guy of the century bomber, the attack can be carried out at an altitude of 10,000 meters, after all, all the missiles are missed, and there is no need to care if they are thrown, and the firing height of the anti-aircraft gun wants to be raised to that height, only with a relatively large caliber, and it is quite difficult to guarantee the accuracy.

In any case, the US military must firmly carry out its Indian Ocean strategy, and even if a weapon is powerful, it always has its own cover door, and the US military does not believe that the Chinese can change the course of the war with one or two advanced weapons. However, the Americans who were superstitious about weapons also began to make some moves of their own, and Grigory Kirk, who was staying in Alaska, received a lot of questions from the Americans these days, asking him to study plasma stealth technology and optical stealth technology similar to that of China's century bombers.

Cornell, commander of the U.S. Expeditionary Fleet, led the expeditionary fleet to the north 14 hours after the bombing of the century, targeting Mogadishu, a major Chinese naval force on the east coast of Africa. Somalia became a nightmare for Americans after the Black Hawk Fall, but China has transformed the country with hard work and friendliness (and Red Alert spies), and although Somalia is still relatively poor in East Africa, a less resource-rich country, it has changed dramatically from a decade ago, with the locals basically getting enough food and clothing, and primary education has begun to spread.

The Chinese are quite popular in Somalia because Chinese merchants bring goods, factory owners provide jobs for the locals, Chinese teachers bring knowledge, and even the garrisons make the locals feel safe. Some Somalis like to ask respected Chinese to mediate, and it seems that Chinese are naturally suitable to do such things.

Somalia is not a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, but after the Sino-American war, Somalis also became more agitated, and some locals took to the streets with various sticks and axes, because they were confiscated by the newly established CP government many years ago, so that's all. They are not here to sabotage, but to stand in solidarity with China. Some also unfurled banners demanding that the government distribute weapons to civilians and, if the Americans came, to remind them of the fierceness and bravery of the Somalis.

There are even some young Somali students at the entrance of the Mogadishu naval base who have asked to join the Chinese Navy to fight against the American devils. The officers in charge of public relations in the Navy were not aware of it, and could only express their gratitude while declining their unreliable behavior.

These deeds have also been presented in the news by the Chinese media, and the Chinese have also brushed their favorability towards these lovely African friends. And the real concern is the Americans, who almost got bogged down here many years ago, and it is clear that the people here are more hostile to the United States after years of Chinese operation. Even if the U.S. Navy and Marines succeed in seizing a Chinese base in Somalia, the locals will inevitably resist stubbornly. And if the United States wants to maintain this, I am afraid that it will have to send a large number of troops, thus forming a containment, and obviously, this is not the result that the US military wants to see.

These are follow-up questions, and the question that the expeditionary fleet is thinking about now is, how to defeat the Chinese Indian Ocean fleet.

Cornell led the fleet north and began to seek a decisive battle with the main force of China's Indian Ocean Fleet, and some American airfields in South Africa were affected by the attack, but there were still a small number of airfields that could meet the needs of the U.S. military to send reconnaissance planes and patrol planes to reconnoiter the nearby Chinese fleet.

As one of the earliest stealth planes of the United States, the SR-71 Blackbird served as the eyes of the US expeditionary fleet, and the SR-71 flew in the northeast and southwest directions along the contiguous waters off the east coast of Africa, in an attempt to discover the Chinese fleet, so that the US military could gain the first opportunity.

In fact, the SR-71 reconnaissance plane sent by the US military was not unlucky; in the northern part of the Mozambique Channel, this reconnaissance plane detected a large-scale surface target, and judged that it was the main force of China's Indian Ocean Fleet, which was blocking the Mozambique Strait to prevent the US fleet from continuing to move northward and protect its own bases in Mogadishu and Gwadar.

However, when the SR-71 Blackbird detected the Chinese fleet, it itself was exposed to the anti-stealth radar of the Chinese Aegis cruiser. Blackbird's stealth technology is relatively early, and it can not effectively absorb and refract scatter radar waves in the full spectrum, so it is still easy to be found by well-equipped Chinese ships, and even China is developing the second generation of air police-3000 early warning aircraft that can carry anti-stealth radar, and Blackbird is basically not a stealth aircraft in the eyes of China's PLA.

"Not good, the Chinese have discovered us, and their fighters want to intercept us!"

"Fighter intercepted us, haha, it's a joke, we have a maximum altitude of 100,000 feet (30,000 meters), and now no Chinese fighter can fly so high!" The Blackbird's crew wasn't too worried, and the SR-71 had never been shot down since it entered service, so they were extra confident.

In addition to stealth, the airspeed of the SR-71 Blackbird can reach more than Mach 3, and the maximum ceiling is 30,000 meters, and its maximum combat radius is close to 3,000 nautical miles.

The F-14CN that took off from the Chinese aircraft carrier was indeed unable to reach the arrogant SR-71, and the crew members of the US reconnaissance plane looked at the Chinese fighter that wanted to fly hard but could not do it, and they were all happy in their hearts, and some people humiliated the Chinese pilot by the porthole.

Just when the F-14 reached the maximum ceiling and was really powerless for the SR-71, I saw one of the F-14CN+ relying on its own vector engine to pull out a vertical nose action, and in an instant, the nose pointed to the SR-71 in the sky, and in a short period of time, the Tomcat fighter released two PL-8 air-to-air missiles, using the missile's own momentum, to attack the SR-71 at an altitude of nearly 30,000 meters.

The Americans were shocked when they saw this, but in the end it was a false alarm. Although the two PL-8s relied on their tail sprays to kill the SR-71, the more the two missiles flew more and more, they had no strength, and the flight at a high altitude and a large angle also greatly interfered with their accuracy, and neither missile hit the stealth reconnaissance plane in the air.

But just when the crew of the US reconnaissance plane breathed a sigh of relief, four missiles suddenly rushed up from below. The four missiles were much larger than the PL-8 launched by the Tomcat. These missiles are Hongqi-19 anti-missile anti-aircraft missiles equipped with warships such as 052D and 055. This type of missile has become one of China's most important air defense weapons, and because of its astonishing large firing height and maneuverability, the Hongqi-19 missile has the capability of anti-missile and anti-satellite in the middle course, not to mention a US reconnaissance plane at an altitude of 30,000 meters.

A number of Hongqi-19 hit the SR-71 one after another, completely beating this reconnaissance plane that the US military was once proud of, and the parts of the aircraft that exploded at high altitude slowly faded from the sky, and the myth that the US SR-71 was undefeated finally came to an end. However, this SR-71 did not crash in vain, and it has already reported the location of the main force of the Chinese fleet to Cornell, the commander-in-chief of the US expeditionary fleet.

When Cornell heard this, he immediately became energetic, and the troops were dispatched to begin to storm the Mozambique Channel, and as a naval man with a sense of honor, sinking the enemy at sea had a different kind of romantic existence.