Chapter 682 682 Battle of the Solomon Islands (8)
At a time when the US military was completely powerless to resist the Liu Renliang formation entering their defensive circle, the US carrier-based aviation was already scattered, and at the moment when the Aquila was shooting down nearly 100 US fighters in a row, the Aquila once again fired a number of YJ-18 heavy anti-ship missiles at the US surface ship formation. The targets of these anti-ship missiles were the outer escort ships of the aircraft carriers, in order to clear the way for the battleship to attack.
A large number of anti-ship missiles rushed at the US military and other NATO allied escort ships at high speed in a supersonic manner, and the US military was not completely unprepared; after being heavily damaged by China's anti-ship missiles many times, the US military studied the trajectory of China's YJ-supersonic anti-ship missiles and developed a new response system.
Before the Solomon Islands campaign, the U.S. military urgently updated its fleet procedures, making them more calm in the face of Chinese hypersonic missiles. Ram missiles and phalanx were launched one after another to comprehensively intercept missiles launched by Chinese arsenal ships. On the whole, the interception was successful, although it was not as efficient as the Chinese ships intercepting the American Harpoons, but 60 percent of the anti-ship missiles were shot down by the US military, and of course the rest were hit.
As a heavy anti-ship missile, one can sink a medium-sized ship of 5,000 or 6,000 tons, and a ship escorting two US aircraft carriers will die if it is a frigate, and half of the destroyers and cruisers will not be beneficial. Don't look at the fact that the US military already has a considerable success rate of interception, but it still lightly penetrates the side of the US warship, and then delays the detonation, blowing up the US military or other NATO allied ships into the air.
Even other cruisers and destroyers in the Chinese ship formation began to launch anti-ship missiles like fireworks, 052D did not carry too many anti-ship missiles, that is, 8, the basic configuration of cruisers is generally 16-24, they fired more than 20 anti-ship missiles in one go, and the target was also the escort ships of NATO allies.
"We can't let the Chinese unilaterally attack us, we also have to fight back!" Fargo wiped beads of sweat and gave orders, the US warships are also equipped with a lot of anti-ship missiles, and they have more launch platforms, this distance has been able to locate each other, and it has also entered the range of basic anti-ship missiles, and the US military is also equipped with the latest LRASM missiles, which is also a great threat to Chinese ships.
However, it is precisely because the LRSAM is so new that the number of US military weapons equipped with its own ships is not large, unlike the Chinese Navy, which has a total of more than 1,500 YJ-18 two-speed attack anti-ship missiles equipped for various ships in the Southwest Pacific Theater. Naturally, Qi Yiming's contribution is also indispensable.
The war has completely evolved into a money-burning game, a few multimillion-dollar missiles can no longer change the war, if you want to win, you must invest hundreds or even thousands of missiles, the Americans did not understand this matter at first, but after the Chinese even showed such things as arsenal ships, the Americans also had a sense of enlightenment, and they also knew why they suffered so many losses in the first place.
The destroyer Mayrain of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, because the Mayrain was in a good position and happened to be sandwiched by several friendly warships, did not suffer from the attack of Chinese anti-ship missiles, while an Australian frigate and a U.S. destroyer on its side had been damaged one after another and slowly sank.
Captain Ikeuchi Tianma stared at the picture from the U.S. military, which was officially a picture of the Chinese general-class battleship taken back by the U.S. fire scout drone, and he said like a madman: "Battleship, it seems that the era of Yamato has come again, what a heart-warming era it was, our predecessors wrote an immortal epic with blood and loyalty, and at that time Shina was just a despicable country that we bullied, Minasan, even if today's Shina Navy continues to defeat our friendly Mi country, But they are only fat physiques blown up with money and steel, and a real navy cannot be achieved by weapons, and it is necessary to let the people of China know that they are still far from our sea warriors of the Great Japanese Empire! ”
Although Ikeuchi Tianma is so surging, but his sea self-defense officers do not buy it, what weapons are not important, blood is the most important, can no longer infect the Japanese of this era, although they are also hostile to the Chinese, but the strength of the Chinese has returned to the Tang Dynasty, back to the Ming Dynasty, making the Japanese pay a heavy price, and the Japanese can only look up carefully.
How long has it been since the United States, the big brother that Japan relies on, has not won? Although the U.S. military can keep shouting clichés such as first suppressing and then promoting, strategic needs, etc., any soldier understands how terrible it is when defeat becomes a habit.
The young maritime self-defense officer Miura really joined with a nationalist sentiment of punishing the Chinese, but after the war really started, this self-defense officer learned that the war was not as easy as they imagined, and most of the Japanese Self-Defense Force members who participated in the island defense operation were annihilated, a few were captured, and their fate would definitely not be better than that of these land self-defense forces.
"It's impossible for us to defeat Chinese, it's impossible, their missiles, their artillery, will tear us apart directly......" Miura Masama was already on the verge of collapse, trembling, unable to carry out any orders at all.
Ikeuchi Tenma, who was still very excited just now, was furious when he saw Miura's real appearance, he stepped forward and gave Miura a few slaps, scolding: "Red Deer Noro! You, the glorious scum of Japan, must fight to the end, you must fight to the end......"
Ikeuchi didn't really know what to say, because the rational part of his heart told him that they couldn't win, no matter what kind of rhetoric he put out, the gap was here, even if China sent only 5 ships, they couldn't defeat the Chinese.
"Shock preparation, shock preparation, it was the shelling of the Chinese, the Chinese battleships opened fire!"
Just when Ikeuchi still wanted to teach Miura a lesson, the Mayrain and other nearby warships entered the stage of anti-impact, and the Chinese battleship Liu Renliang showed its most ferocious side at this time, using electromagnetic railguns to fire 400mm caliber heavy high-explosive shells, these terrible projectiles weighing more than a ton, under the propulsion of kinetic energy, the power was extremely terrifying, and a Spruance-class destroyer of the United States was directly hit by this terrible shell on the hull at the front end of the bridge, The projectile did not stop and directly penetrated the nearly 10,000-ton destroyer from the deck to the bottom of the ship.
It's not enough to break through a destroyer, a cannonball directly hit the bridge of the destroyer Shimakaze of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, this time the projectile exploded after direct contact, and a small mushroom cloud rose up, this is definitely not an atomic bomb, but the power of high explosives is definitely not small, plus the bonus of kinetic energy, most of the Shimakaze actually turned into fragments in the explosion, and after the smoke dissipated, even the appearance of a ship could not be seen.
All the NATO allies who saw this scene gasped, and some people were shocked: "What kind of monster did the Chinese make?" ”
"How is it possible that a shell fired from 106 kilometers away did not miss a single shot?"
Thanks to the newly developed electromagnetic gun fire control system, these shells flying at a few Mach numbers are as accurate as missiles, and in fact they are indeed artillery missiles, and the shells are equipped with simple seekers, which can adjust the flight attitude and trajectory during flight to better hit the enemy. Although this will increase the cost of artillery shells, it is still much cheaper than anti-ship missiles, and almost no ship in the world can withstand it.
Seeing the power of the shelling of the Chinese general-class battleship, Fargo was also directly like a cat with a burned tail, and he shouted: "Kill that battleship for me at any price, and can't let her shells hit either of the Constellation and the Ford, her shelling is too terrible, too terrible!" ”
At such a juncture, the US warships that were still able to move could only do their best, either by concentrating on firing anti-ship missiles at the Liu Renjiao, or by speeding up to rush towards the battleship, even if they were shelled or hit by ships, they would have to drag the Liu Renliang and prevent her from attacking the two US aircraft carriers.
No one would have thought that the Chinese Navy would be able to defeat the fleet of dozens of US main warships with only five ships, and the shelling of the Liu Renliang was endless from the beginning, and the 400mm projectiles were constantly pushed into the gun chamber, and then accelerated by the electromagnetic and launched out. Its hit rate was as high as 90 percent or more, and almost any US warship had no chance of surviving as long as it touched the edge of the shell.
After the appearance of the general-class battleship, the form of naval warfare has completely changed, under the protection of the power of the arsenal ship, it is difficult for the aircraft carrier-based aircraft to break through the air defense umbrella of the arsenal ship, and the cheap and accurate artillery bombardment of the general-class battleship is enough to smash the enemy's ship at a distance of 200 kilometers.
Even if the General's Battleship faced the enemy's multiple fighters alone, it would be difficult for even heavy anti-ship missiles to sink it, and the sturdy armor belt, perfect close defense weapons, and even the killer Iron Curtain device made the General's Battleship a monster that could not be matched on the battlefield.
Of course, if you really build these monster battleships, the cost is unimaginable, such as when Japan built the Yamato class, known as one of the three stupid things in Showa, although the combat capability of the shogun battleship is not comparable to the Yamato, but the fact that a shogun battleship is equal to two and a half Type 003 aircraft carriers still makes the navy a little difficult to digest for a while.
Therefore, the general battleship can really only be played by Qi Yiming using the Red Alert base.