Chapter 684 684 Battle of the Solomon Islands (10)
The US surface ship detachment did not wait for China's Liu Renliang battleship, but waited for a large number of J-31 and F-14CN+ fighters of the Chinese naval aviation, because the control of intelligence in the theater was already in hand, and almost as soon as they entered the range of anti-ship missiles, these fighters directly dropped the air-launched YJ-12 and YJ-20 missiles. Because of the need to take care of the stealth performance of the J-31 and its multi-purpose strike capability, the Navy has developed a stealth anti-ship missile similar to the YJ-15 for this medium-sized fifth-generation aircraft, which can fit into its narrow built-in magazine.
The YJ-20 has a short range of only 120 km, but it has excellent stealth performance and can reach a flight speed of Mach 5, and the J-31 can carry two of these missiles with only two PL-10 medium and short-range air superiority missiles to achieve certain anti-ship capabilities.
Similarly, the US military's air defense missiles also have a strong air defense capability at a distance of more than 100 kilometers, and although they are weaker against stealth aircraft, it is difficult for those Tomcat fighters to have a significant improvement in their stealth capability, and they are as dazzling as torches in the night sky on radar.
U.S. standard anti-aircraft missiles continue to be fired into the air from surface ships, and Chinese pilots are desperately trying to counteract and dodge, but several fighters are still shot down by U.S. anti-aircraft missiles. Of course, the U.S. military is more difficult to defend against anti-ship missiles launched by China. In particular, the YJ-20 missile, which has a small range but is very stealthy, is about to enter the visual range when the US military discovers it, and the active radar guidance of this new missile will not trigger the US military's warning system, because the guidance radar it uses has an echo deception function, and even many times, the enemy does not know that there is a missile after being hit.
The US military is able to have a good chance of countering missiles such as YJ-12 and YJ-18 according to its newly loaded procedures, but in the face of missiles such as YJ-20 and YJ-15, it is a little overwhelmed. Although it is basically impossible for a single YJ-20 missile to sink any 5,000-ton warship, it is enough to severely damage these warships, and after many hits, then the hit enemy ship will not escape the fate of sinking.
Seven ships of the U.S. surface ship squadron were eventually sunk by anti-ship missiles, including one ship that was sunk by a submarine-launched anti-ship missile fired from a nearby Chinese AIP submarine.
After the USS Jilin aircraft carrier battle group broke through the US surface ships that were intending to contain the Chinese battleship Liu Renjiao, it continued to pursue the US dual-carrier fleet fleeing southeast from the other direction. China's naval warplanes, on the other hand, continued to take the lead and pursued the US aircraft carrier.
At this time, there were not many fighters left on the US aircraft carriers Constellation and USS Ford, and there were only 30 of them that could fight at full capacity, while there were not many Chinese fighters, and less than 50 fighters participated in the pursuit. The U.S. military can only send these remaining fighters to counter the pursuit of Chinese fighters, because the fastest naval ships can run thirty or forty knots, but these planes can be supersonic.
The appearance of Chinese battleships, the siege of the Chinese Navy, and the continuous loss of the battle situation made the American pilots unable to play their highest combat condition, even if their opponents, the Chinese pilots had been fighting for many hours in a row, exhausted and in poor condition.
The air battle was fought by both sides, but the Chinese Navy was slightly better, with all 30 US carrier-based aircraft shot down, while the Chinese lost only six fighters. That is, after the Chinese Navy completely annihilated the carrier-based aircraft formation of the US dual-aircraft carrier fleet, the combat capability of the HNA basically disappeared. Although pilots had been rotated and the losses of the U.S. fleet had been significant, the forward command had determined that it was no longer realistic to use HNA to continue to threaten the U.S. fleet. All fighters were recalled, and the reserve of carrier-based aircraft units on standby at Rabaul base was quickly dispatched to take over the strike.
At this time, the main attack force of the battle had been completely handed over to the battleship Liu Renliang, although the battleship Zhou Yu was also in the theater of operations, but it was in Port Moresby on the island of New Guinea, and it could not participate in the battle for a while.
In the final stage of the battle, the Liu Renliang and the Aquila, which maintained a high speed, still caught up with the main fleet of the US army, and entered the visual range and began to bombard the ships of the US and NATO allies. The reason why they entered the line-of-sight to attack was because the US troops were fleeing for their lives with all their might, and it was difficult to correct the orbits of the electromagnetic cannon-guided projectiles during high-speed marching, and this problem could be ignored within the line-of-sight. Therefore, the Liu Renliang and the Aquila took the risk of entering the line of sight before striking at the American fleet.
The Constellation aircraft carrier, which is slightly closer to the Liu Ren Rail, has become the main target of the Liu Ren Rail, and the 6 Shirata 400mm electromagnetic guns are all aimed at the US Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier, and the other Constellation will be retired next year, and obviously at this time due to the outbreak of war, the US military will not retire this aircraft carrier, and even several Forrestal-class aircraft carriers that were previously decommissioned and mothballed will be refitted and then put back into active service.
The U.S. military is also helpless, the Chinese Navy has inflicted heavy losses on them one after another, sinking and even capturing a number of aircraft carriers, and the speed at which fighter jets can be rebuilt is relatively fast, but even if the aircraft carrier is fast, it will take two or three years, although the newly built aircraft carrier is better, but maximizing the residual value of waste is also beneficial to the war situation.
It's just that now the veteran aircraft carrier of the U.S. military has come to the last node of its life, and only one of the six guided shells of the divine Baitian heavy electromagnetic cannon misses the miss, but it also misses the bullet, and the remaining five rounds, three of which hit the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, and two of them cut off a large piece of the entire bridge.
But after all, it is an 80,000-ton heavy aircraft carrier, and it has eaten six 400mm heavy guns, but it is not like those 10,000-ton battleships have been directly sunk, but a shell that penetrates through the deck hits the power compartment of the aircraft carrier, and the boiler has just exploded, which directly reduces the speed of the Constellation aircraft carrier, which was originally traveling at high speed, to 10 knots.
However, all the U.S. ships within visual range, even the guns of the Perry-class frigates, were able to hit the Chinese two-ship combination. And several bold frigates of the US military even used Standard-1 anti-aircraft missiles as anti-ship missiles, aimed at Chinese ships, and launched them directly with a bang regardless of whether they were accurate or not.
The lethality and penetration of these anti-aircraft missiles are absolutely inferior to those of regular anti-ship missiles, but they cannot withstand such a swarm of attacks, and even with the complex and perfect close defense system of general-class battleships, it is a little difficult to deal with so many anti-aircraft missiles and naval guns.
And the captain can't turn on the Iron Curtain system yet, because although even a nuclear bomb can't knock her defenses within three minutes, but at the same time, the ships in the Iron Curtain can't attack any targets outside the Iron Curtain, so it's a bit of a chicken rib, and it's more appropriate to use when you're besieged and waiting for friendly forces to come to help.
However, with the thick armor of the arsenal ships and battleships, it was no problem to resist a few rounds of 127mm and 76mm Otto Melera naval guns, not to mention that the battleship Liu Renliang was able to sink the two giant battleships directly before they could do any substantial damage to them.
After a round of heavy shelling of the Constellation, Liu Renliang gave the bombardment to those destroyers and frigates who wanted to stop them, and these "little ones" had no chance in the face of the terrible heavy electromagnetic cannon. At the same time, the Aquila also seems to have been inspired by American frigates, and regardless of the difference in missiles, they swarmed the ships that shelled them with anti-aircraft missiles on the ships.
"Sonar detected the approach of the torpedo, number 6, ready to launch a torpedo hydroacoustic decoy!"
Previously, because they did not carry fish bait, China's arsenal ships suffered a lot of losses, and because the battleship belonged to the melee warrior type, it was unimaginable without this talisman. A small underwater acoustic decoy can imitate the sound of water emitted by a battleship, and directly guide those torpedoes to abandon the battleship and attack the bait, eliminating the danger of being attacked.
That is, when China's two-ship combination continued to abuse the US military and other NATO allied ships, Fargo once again made the choice of a strong man, leaving more than half of the ships here to fight the Chinese battleships, while the USS Ford nuclear-powered aircraft carrier carried only two destroyers, a cruiser and a frigate, with a nuclear submarine, to leave the engagement area as fast as possible.
And the Chinese battleship Liu Renliang was on a killing spree, and it didn't care about intercepting the fleeing Ford of the American army for a while, and the battleship was basically to the limit of the attack, and the Baitian electromagnetic cannon was an extremely sophisticated and complex weapon, and it had been fighting for such a long time, if it didn't stop, something was likely to go wrong, and it wouldn't necessarily be who hit whom.
But in any case, the more than a dozen naval ships led by the Constellation that the US military left behind are considered to be finished. After three rounds of shelling by the Liu Renliang in a row, the Constellation was finally so broken that it was tilted towards the bow. Everything on the flight deck slid out to sea, and half an hour later, the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier was completely sunk in the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
She was also buried with more than 10 destroyers of the US military and the Sea of Japan, because the power of the Baitian electromagnetic cannon was too great, many sailors even died directly in the shock of the moment of the shelling, thousands of NATO officers and soldiers were killed in this naval battle, and only the US aircraft carrier battle group Ford successfully escaped.
At this point, the Battle of the Solomon Islands came to an end, and the Chinese Navy once again won a remarkable victory.