Chapter 188: Air Combat (2)

Because of the relationship between movies and news placements, in the minds of many ordinary people, the usual appearance of the aircraft carrier fleet is the feeling of several other warships next to an aircraft carrier.

But the truth couldn't be further from this.

In modern warfare, because of the development of long-range missiles and thermonuclear weapons, both the navy and the army have long passed the era of intensive operations of large group armies.

In the past wars in the Middle East, there have been more than one occurrence when entire regiments, or even brigades, of infantry and tank armies were sent into the sky by the mother of two enemy bombs or missiles.

Although warships are much stronger than infantry or armored vehicles, they will never dare to make intensive marches in wartime in the face of the devastating power of thermonuclear weapons or ballistic missiles.

230 nautical miles off the coast of Rio, several ships of various sizes cruised on the surface.

In the sky above these ships, the fighters divided into several formations were silently circling, vigilantly guarding against all possible enemies like falcons.

"They came, there were a lot of them, the radar ...... Unbelievable! The target shown on the radar has exceeded the upper limit! "The AWACS aircraft at high altitude were the first to detect the incoming Angel Legion.

Piercing sirens resounded throughout the fleet.

With the support of modern communication technology, all the ships, planes, and submarines scattered in this sea area are operating at this moment.

Amid the shouts of the non-commissioned officers, the soldiers on the ship quickly rushed to the predetermined combat positions, especially those air defense destroyers that played the role of aircraft carrier guards, in addition to the standard anti-aircraft cannons, even rows of anti-aircraft machine guns were temporarily installed on the side of the ship at this time.

At this moment, looking at the end of the sea from the perspective of the aircraft carrier and the destroyers beside it, several missiles suddenly took off into the air!

Blue sea and blue sky.

The missiles, trailing with tail flames and leaving behind a long, almost sky-high column of smoke from the ship, turned in the air and whistled in the direction of Rio de Janeiro.

On the orders of the fleet command, the lead cruiser in the formation, which was closest to Rio, fired missiles.

It is different from the scene in the movie, where the missile hits the target quickly once it is launched, and an earth-shattering explosion occurs...... In reality, the time a missile is launched to the moment it hits the target is not a split-second thing.

Despite the extremely fast flight speed of the missile.

However, as an over-the-horizon long-range weapon, most of the time, the enemy that the missile is going to attack is often hundreds or thousands of kilometers away.

Let's say the current war.

The cruiser that launched the missile was about 200 nautical miles away from the Angel Legion, which had already rushed out of Rio de Janeiro by this time - this is equivalent to a distance of about 370 kilometers!

In addition, the cruising speed of the Tomahawk missiles launched on the warship is only about Mach 2, and it will take at least about 20 minutes from launch to hitting the target.

Therefore.

After this wave of missiles was launched, some of the recruits who were excited to see this scene were quickly discouraged by the calm of the tropical ocean.

But the U.S. military never relied on these recruits to fight wars.

The greatest enlightenment of the Western military to modern warfare lies in its "standardization" and "process-oriented" improvement.

The officers and non-commissioned officers, who had already been familiar with this process, continued to give orders fluently.

In such a modern fleet, even the captains do not have the power of the captains of the ships before World War II.

These well-trained officers and non-commissioned officers, who have undergone many baptisms of war and a large number of simulated training, are the basis for the fleet's truly smooth operation and combat effectiveness.

Soon.

Shortly after the first wave of missile tests was launched, missiles were launched from 26 cruisers, destroyers, and destroyers equipped with long-range anti-aircraft missiles in the entire aircraft carrier formation.

The array of vertical silos on the deck opens and closes quickly at a certain pleasing rhythm, and the anti-aircraft guides in the internal launch tubes soar into the blue sky with a deafening whistling!

Unfortunately, it wasn't at night.

Otherwise, people in this sea area will be able to see countless missiles emitting a trumpet sun-like light and soaring into the sky!

Hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles disappeared from view.

Immediately afterwards, on the decks of the three aircraft carriers, the fighter jets roared into the blue sky under the dual action of electromagnetic catapults and their own thrust.

The fighters hovered high above the carrier's head, waiting for the second group of planes to take off.

Soon.

The second group of planes also left the deck with great speed and joined the sequence of hovering in the sky. Then came the third batch, the fourth batch......

In just a few minutes, the first wave of fighters taking off had already organized a battle formation in the air, increased the thrust of the engines, and roared in the direction of the followers' missiles!

……

"It's coming!" At the forefront of the Angel Legion, the battle angel created by Luo Shen himself suddenly warned more than 200,000 angels in the 'psychic network'.

A convenient psychic network instantly provided the entire Legion with images captured by his special ultra-long-range electromagnetic induction organ in his brain.

Thereupon.

In the angels' field of vision, they were aware of the attack two minutes before the missile striked.

"Spread out!" The 19 honest men in charge of commanding the entire legion commanded.

The next moment the angels scattered in all directions.

The angels in the upper echelons of the colony flapped their wings and quickly rose upward, flying above the clouds.

Some angels spread left and right, and after flying a certain distance, they broke through the speed of sound, and the group dispersed further.

Other angels swooped down to the surface like seabirds, flying nimbly to the surface of the sea and scattering across the surface......

At this time.

Hundreds of missiles were formed in the air, and the spectacular "barrage" that looked like a queue of shots appeared in sight.

Initially.

There was no sound of all this.

These missiles, which are more than twice the speed of sound, come faster than the sound when they come head-on.

But as the missile swarm approached, goosebumps arose from the terrifying sound of the massive turbo engines running violently.

The U.S. military adjusted the final landing point of the missile.

Although the dispersal of the Angel Legion made their idea of "catching them all" come to naught, it was not surprising that the U.S. military, which had already analyzed the possibility of such a situation before the war.

Missile colonies spread out, chasing more target clusters.

The moment the chips carried in the missile determine that they are in the best killing range, these weapons will detonate themselves only when they are more than twice as fast as ordinary angels.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......!!!!

Dense explosions and large clouds of fire exploded in the blue sea and blue sky of this tropical scene.

For a moment, the entire sky seemed to be stained with flames and explosions, roaring like a landslide, and the frenzied air currents swept through like a hurricane!

It seemed to be raining in the sky, crackling, and countless limbs fell.

Hands, feet, head, torso, wings......

Despite having spread some distance ahead of time, the speed difference between the missiles and the normal Silver Angel still allowed most of the missiles to catch up with their targets and explode in a relatively dense area of the Angels.

This wave of anti-aircraft missile attacks alone resulted in close to 3,000 casualties among the Silver Angels.

Thousands of severed limbs and corpses fell into the sea.

Some even hit angels flying close to the surface of the sea, and while there were no casualties, the sight was terrifying to many who had just transitioned from civilian status to angels.