Chapter 605: Fierce Battle in the Southern Subcontinent (3)
"That's it, hopefully it hits." Seeing that the difference between the other party's coordinates and his previous report was not big, Gao Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief, such a hit rate should be higher.
"What's that?" Axis sailors who were on a lookout from the high bridge of the battleship shouted.
Because the radar performance of the Axis countries is not very good, the ability to deal with sea surface clutter is too poor, and the Axis fleet is only equipped with air warning radar, and the sea scanning ability is very weak, so the lookout has become the best supplement to the radar, and the missile that sweeps the sea is the biggest blind spot of the radar, and only the lookout can find it.
"It's so fast." They had seen jets, but in their impression, the F84 fighters they saw in the exercise could not fly at such a low altitude, while the propeller planes did not have such a fast speed, which made the Boston GIs a little confused.
Before the lookout's words fell, the five YJ-1 improved anti-ship missiles had already raised their flight altitude and rushed towards the aircraft carrier at an ultra-fast speed of Mach 0.9. At this time, not only the lookouts on the ships, but even the radar soldiers clearly saw the missiles that raised the altitude.
"Oh my God." The sailors who were working on the deck of the aircraft carrier looked at the missiles that were getting closer and closer, and their exclamations had not yet exited, and the missiles were already in the air. Despite the use of stellar inertial guidance, the aircraft carrier has the largest radar reflective surface, so all five missiles found the aircraft carrier.
The first missile, which missed its target, plunged into the sea against the side of the aircraft carrier and exploded in the water, lifting a huge column of water up to five meters high. However, the second and third missiles did not hesitate to penetrate the inside of the hull from the deck below the ship's island, the fourth missile missed again, and the fifth missile was shot into the chimney of the aircraft carrier by magic.
With two loud bangs, the two missiles that entered the hull from under the island exploded almost simultaneously, and the deck of the aircraft carrier slammed into the hull before collapsing, and the island that was in flames fell into the hole.
But the matter was not over, the fifth missile fired from the chimney exploded in the boiler room, and the huge power of the explosives caused a chain reaction in the boiler room, and the high-pressure heavy oil boiler and steam turbine, as well as a large amount of aviation fuel next door, were quickly ignited, and huge explosions occurred one after another.
The pressure that had nowhere to vent rushed out of the breach in the deck, spewing out the island that had just begun to pour into the pothole, and the island tilted in the opposite direction again and fell into the sea, disintegrating into countless pieces.
The fire caused by aviation fuel quickly burned into the hangar, where a large number of refueled planes were parked, and as the flames of fuel flow quickly ignited the planes here, explosions occurred one after another, and the entire aircraft carrier had been transformed into a huge flare. The aircraft carrier Giant, with a displacement of nearly 40,000 tons and belonging to the Royal Navy of the Saar Empire, was completely scrapped in the fire.
The USS Giant became the first surface ship ever sunk by a missile, but it was only just beginning. While the Axis sailors were still shocked by the strange destruction of the Giant, five new missiles struck again.
The original version of the YJ-1 missile had a range of only 43 km, and after years of research and improvement, although the improved version used at this time did not change in appearance, the range was increased to 100 km due to the replacement of a more efficient rocket engine and a solid fuel with a higher combustion value, and the accuracy of the missile was also greatly improved because of the replacement of a better seeker and a smaller gyroscope.
"Here we go again, it's an enemy plane." Before the lookout could say a second word, a missile had already hit the battleship he was on. This time, as the aircraft carrier began to sink slowly, the radar reflective surface was much smaller, so the target of the missile was no longer limited to the aircraft carrier.
The Axis fleets had no experience in dealing with missiles, and their formations were too dense, which not only allowed them to have a lot more targets, but also increased their hit rate a lot, so not a single missile was wasted this time, and they caught up with their targets separately.
The battleship is too large and the radar reflection cross-sectional area is also large, so the missiles will naturally find the biggest target, so except for one missile that sank a 10,000-ton cruiser, the other four found the battleship, and one of the unlucky battleships also suffered two. Just like that, a battleship and a cruiser soon began to sink, and the other two battleships were seriously damaged, but the worst thing was that the fleet was hit so badly that Burke did not know where the attack came from.
Fortunately, the third blow did not come, and Burke immediately ordered to rush to the rescue of the overboard. The power of the missiles was great, and the attack was too sudden, which made not many surviving sailors, there were many small ships in the fleet, and with their efforts, the soldiers who fell into the water were quickly rescued, and the 'giant', which had been burned into a torch and began to sink, Burke had no choice but to sink it, and a destroyer sent the giant ship into the water with two torpedoes after receiving the order.
The reason why Jiang Pingxian's fleet stopped the missile attack was that the Asuka No. 1 had returned home due to lack of fuel, there was no strategic reconnaissance plane to provide coordinates, and the radar detection range on the warship could not detect it, so now they had to move at full speed towards the sea area of the enemy fleet, hoping to catch up with them and launch a few more missiles.
Finally, the Mediterranean Fleet of the Chinese Navy approached a distance of 60 kilometers, and the ship-based sea-to-sea radar system finally discovered the other side, and the radar could lock on to the target. "This time let's have a big one, all cruisers are ready, and the YJ-1 improved missiles are ready for a salvo." Jiang Pingxian's order made all the officers and men on the cruiser excited, and all the fire control radars were aimed at their targets, and under Jiang Pingxian's order, eight missiles took off into the air and flew towards the local fleet.
"There's a lot of weird stuff." A lookout exclaimed that eight missiles flying across the sea had approached.
"What the hell is this?" Burke stood on the bridge of the flagship, desperately looking at the eight missiles that came his way, he was already going crazy. After a loud bang, six of the missiles found their target, and two battleships and two cruisers sank to the bottom of the sea, one of which had been wounded before, and another battleship was seriously damaged.
Just when Jiang Pingxian wanted to attack again, the radar soldier suddenly reported: "General, there is a UFO approaching in the southwest, it may be an enemy heavy bomber. ”