Chapter 514: The Aircraft Carrier Explosion
In "George. In the bridge command room of the USS Washington, people were waiting for the F-18 Hornet to return to its nest, after all, it was only a show flight, and Captain David Lawsman could not have kept the guests waiting too long.
Captain David Lawsman pointed to the display screen on the command platform and said to everyone: "This display screen can observe the status and location of each fighter, and even their bomb load, now we can see that the Hornet that just flew out is flying back, in good condition, the ammunition is fully loaded, it is estimated that in two minutes we can see him landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier." ”
The leaders of the Philippines and Vietnam all picked up binoculars and began to look for the bumblebee.
Today's wind speed is not high, the weather is clear, it is definitely a good weather, and Kaisius Clay, as a fighter pilot, has been in the 'George. Washington's aircraft carrier has been in service for 5 years, and is an experienced veteran pilot.
Today he was ordered to perform a live-fire take-off and landing demonstration, which was not difficult for Cassius Clay, who had similar training subjects every week, and Caisius Clay was able to handle every step from take-off to landing, which was achieved after hundreds of training sessions.
"Brood, brood, XF-187 ready to return to the nest." Cassius Clay shouted from inside the communicator, his eyes fixed on the two screens in front of the cockpit.
"Permission to return to the nest, good luck." The command center issued an order, "Good luck to you", the word has been around for a long time, and has since become a common phrase to say every time.
Kathys Clay slows down in a Hornet. Begin to approach the aircraft carrier, and according to the measured data, find the best angle, and prepare for landing.
But when the tires of the XF-187 Hornet were only forty or fifty centimeters from the deck. The accident happened, the plane suddenly tilted to one side, all this happened so suddenly, everyone was stunned, and it felt like the time of this moment was frozen.
Mu Yang, who is quietly immersed at the bottom of the sea, is like a fierce beast, looking for opportunities with his eyes wide open. Always ready to launch the most fierce attack, and now, the opportunity has finally arrived. He saw that the F-18 fighter jet full of missiles was about to land, and Mu Yang raised his spirit.
At the moment when the fighter was about to land, Mu Yang suddenly launched a gravity technique, adding four times the gravity to the left wing of the F-18 Hornet fighter.
Airplanes take off and land. It's a very delicate job. Any small change may cause an accident, not to mention such a strong instantaneous change, so that the entire fighter plane is like a heavy hammer, directly deflected to the left, the fighter at the moment leaned over and tilted his head, straight to the direction of the bridge.
In the short time of a second, Kacius Clay couldn't react at all. Not even if he is the best fighter pilot, at the moment. It was no longer human, and he only had time to shout an "ah" before the plane was already on the Cambridge.
In the bridge command, at first, the leaders of the Philippines and Vietnam were still watching the silver-gray hornet with great interest, slowly approaching the deck and preparing to land, but in the next second, the plane suddenly shook and tilted its body towards the bridge, which made the people in the command center startled, and some people began to shout and dodge to the side, but it was already too late.
"Boom ......"
The plane crashed directly into the bridge command room, causing an explosion in an instant.
However, this is not the end of the story, as the F-18 fighter was fully loaded with live ammunition, and after the explosion of the aircraft, several missiles were also affected.
The F-18 Hornet carries six missiles, two AIM-9L Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, two AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-surface missiles, and two AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles.
The AIM-9L "Sidewinder" air-to-air missile and the AIM-7 "Sparrow" air-to-surface missile are both small missiles, which are more in pursuit of guidance and accuracy, and their power is relatively small, but the "Harpoon" anti-ship missile is different, it is a real heavy weapon, and this guy was originally created to deal with ships.
You must know that the AGM-84 "Harpoon" anti-ship missile is one of the most important anti-ship weapons of the US military at present, with a length of 3.84 meters, a diameter of 0.344 meters, a launch weight of 522 kilograms, and a warhead carrying more than 200 kilograms of tn.t explosives.
"Boom Boom Boom"
Continuous explosions.
At this time, the entire aircraft carrier had exploded.
I don't know if it was which missile exploded, or if all the missiles exploded, but the explosion came quickly and violently, and a huge ball of fire formed at the bridge and went straight into the sky.
The Cambridge of the entire aircraft carrier has been seriously deformed, you know, the bridge of the aircraft carrier is the central command center of the entire aircraft carrier, and because of today's performance, the commander of the fleet command, Rear Admiral Phillips, the captain of the aircraft carrier, Colonel David Lawsman, as well as the commander of the fighter plane, the intelligence officer, etc., basically all the high-level are concentrated on Cambridge.
Of course, there are more than a dozen national leaders of the Philippines and Vietnam who came to visit.
At the moment when the XF-187 Hornet fighter jet plunged headlong into Cambridge and caused the explosion, these people were already fully reimbursed, and as for the more violent explosion that followed, sorry, they could no longer enjoy it.
The explosion was too violent, and the explosion also caused other damage, the 13 F-18s parked on the deck were not spared at the moment, seven or eight fighters were affected by the explosion on the spot, and directly became scrap, while the other fighters were slightly luckier, but some were also hit by the flying bridge wreckage, partially damaged, at least in need of repair, as for whether they can fly into the sky, it is already unknown.
At this moment, the entire deck of the aircraft carrier was full of flames, raging fires rising into the sky, thick smoke billowing out, which could be seen from a long distance.
In some of the marginal areas, the corpses of the soldiers could be seen, lying motionless on the deck, and they were lucky, because the people at the center of the explosion could not see even a single corner of their clothes at the moment.
The US aircraft carrier group has a total of 20 ships, and everyone was shocked when they received the news of the explosion of the flagship "George Washington", but then the entire fleet immediately entered a state of first-level alert.
They don't know if they've been attacked by the enemy, but they have to deal with the situation as if they were attacked.
Just a few seconds after the explosion, an automatic alarm was also received in the command center of the US Navy Command, and the satellite images immediately turned to the head of the aircraft carrier 'George Washington' to begin the most careful investigation.
"Hurry up and find out what happened, I want to know the cause as soon as possible, as well as the damage, if it is really the enemy who is attacking the American aircraft carrier, I will let him bear the wrath of the Americans." Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Will Washington, roared from the command center. (To be continued.) )