Chapter 220: Target Aircraft Carrier

The air defense systems of the destroyers and frigates escorting the aircraft around the aircraft carrier received signals from the AWACS planes and knew that attack planes and missiles were coming, and they urgently entered the anti-missile mode, and the radar and infrared sensors on the ships immediately began to operate at high speed.

The radar on the destroyer, which is responsible for the air defense of the fleet, quickly caught the missile flying towards the aircraft carrier, and the altitude of the anti-ship missile of the central country was less than 10 meters, which was basically the same height as the minimum launch height of the ship-to-air missile of Denmark.

Two ship-to-air missiles on one of the destroyers closest to the anti-ship missiles took off from the launch box after determining the basic parameters and headed head-on with the anti-ship missiles.

The sea waves were undulating, and an anti-ship ballistic trajectory flew over the waves 20 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, and the oncoming ship-to-air missiles quickly locked onto the target, drew an arc in the air, made a maneuver of more than 20 G, dived down from a high place, and exploded in the air at a distance of several meters from the anti-ship missile.

The steel balls carried on the missile smashed the fairing of the anti-ship missile at once, detonated the explosives of the warhead, and the missile immediately turned into a ball of shining red light and plunged headlong into the sea.

There are three anti-ship missiles left, which are already very close to the aircraft carrier, and at this time the inner air defense system on the aircraft carrier is also tracking the incoming missiles, and the ship-to-air missiles of the process point defense on the aircraft carrier seized the trajectory of the anti-ship missiles and were destroyed at a distance of 10 km from the aircraft carrier.

There is still one anti-ship missile left at a distance of five kilometers from the aircraft carrier, and the short-range phalanx system on the aircraft carrier has taken over the defense of ship-to-air missiles, and the search radar is keeping an eye on the last missile.

If the missile is intercepted within two kilometers of the aircraft carrier, the missile can still cause great damage to the aircraft carrier due to the inertia of high-speed flight.

When it was three kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, the phalanx was equipped with a ten-barreled 30-millimeter Gatling principle cannon, and the ten-barreled high-speed cannon suddenly erupted tongues of fire, and the dense shells formed a huge barrage in the air, forcibly blocking the way of the incoming missiles.

With a loud bang, the last anti-ship missile was successfully intercepted by the Phalanx system, and due to the close distance, many fragments of the missile explosion fell on the deck of the aircraft carrier.

This was just a tentative attack by Yang Guo, which ended in failure, and Nagumo knew that the attack that followed was the more terrible thing.

In line with his thoughts, the AWACS aircraft detected four more attack planes of the Central State swooping down on the aircraft carrier formation, which means that eight anti-ship missiles will simultaneously attack Nagumo's twin aircraft carrier battle group, which is struggling to support.

Nagumo had already ordered the last batch of fighters escorting the aircraft carrier to attack in advance to intercept it, and this time the attack planes of the central country were spread very widely, and the distance between each of them was several kilometers, and they attacked the Danguo aircraft carrier battle group in a fan shape from different directions.

Dan's fighters were soon dispersed into small groups to fight, and the fighters still had a very strong advantage over the attack planes, and the central fighters also knew how powerful the Danish fighters were, and before they reached the optimal range, the eight anti-ship missiles were launched at the same time and went straight to the aircraft carrier battle group.

After these 8 fighters launched their missiles, they did not leave but fought in the air with the Danguo fighters who came to intercept them, and the attack planes of the central country were fighter-bombers with very good performance, and their aerial combat capabilities were not weak!

The 8 fighters of the central country were strangled together in the air battle with the 12 fighters of the Dan country, and gradually deviated from the range of the aircraft carrier formation of the Dan country to the northeast, and the early warning planes of the Dan country were horrified to find that the 12 attack planes of the central country were killed from the southwest!

Dan's aircraft carrier formation has no fighters available, so it can only watch the fighters of the central country calmly approach the aircraft carrier! Nanyun didn't understand, according to the intelligence, he had calculated the number of fighters in the central country, the fighters who were currently fighting in the air with Dan and the fighters that were shot down by Dan, the fighters deployed by the central country in this theater should all be dispatched, and the intelligence showed that there were no fighters from other theaters to reinforce it, and the air force of the central country was more powerful to guard against the land attack of the Dan country, and it was impossible to have 12 attack planes.

In fact, the active fighters of the central country have indeed all been dispatched, these 12 fighters have long been retired and mothballed in the previous generation of old fighters, and the pilots were also urgently recruited after retirement, and the reason why the central country continues to send fighters to harass is to lure away all the fighters of the Dan country and provide cover for these 12 old fighters, and these 12 fighters are completely vulnerable in front of the Dan fighters. However, for the aircraft carrier formation without escort fighters, there is only the fate of being slaughtered by others.

The 24 air-to-ship missiles on these old fighters were launched almost simultaneously, forming a dense puff of smoke in the air, and then spewing tongues of fire towards the Danguo aircraft carrier formation!

The Danguo fleet did not sit still, and in the absence of fighter escorts, the surrounding destroyers and frigates immediately moved closer to the aircraft carrier, forming an arrow formation in the direction of the incoming missiles, and the destroyers and frigates escorted the aircraft carrier's anti-aircraft missiles in the center, all ready to meet the incoming missiles.

Nagumo's wishful thinking was to withstand a missile strike by a central fighter plane, and at the same time order a part of the Dan fighter planes that were engaged with the central aircraft carrier to quickly leave the battle and return to escort the escort.

As long as the aircraft carrier survives this round of strikes and its fighters come back in time, it can at least ensure that the aircraft carrier can retreat in its entirety, and as long as the aircraft carrier still relies on the excellent performance of its own fighters, it can continue to support and return to the protection range of Dan's land-based aviation and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback.

If there is a loss of aircraft carriers, even if only one is sunk, then Dan's sea power will be completely defeated, and if it is unable to face the central country's two-aircraft carrier battle group, it can only retreat in the harbor and dare not go to sea, and the sea supremacy will be completely lost.

The 24 missiles of the central state were hit by the regional air defense missiles on the destroyers of Denmark, the leading 6 missiles were shot down by the air defense missiles, and the remaining 18 missiles passed through the interception range of the regional air defense missiles.

The point defense missiles on the frigate and the phalanx system combined to intercept 12 missiles, and only 6 missiles remained, and the three frigates in the aircraft carrier defense circle were close to the aircraft carrier and were ready to defend the aircraft carrier at the expense of themselves.

After a frigate saw the missile attack, it rushed head-on with all its might, and with a loud bang, the missile hit the middle of the frigate, and this heavy anti-ship missile could make a large destroyer incapacitated, and the frigate, which was half smaller than the destroyer, was blown in two on the spot and sank quickly in less than a minute.

There are only 5 missiles left, and even if the huge aircraft carrier is a heavy anti-ship missile, as long as it does not hit the vital point, even if it is hit by 8 missiles, it may not be able to sink it.