"Mach 5 at the end of the penetration", God, is this information true or false?

If that's the case-

A chill chilled William Pratt from head to toe, and it seemed that he could see the terrifying sight of missiles flying in front of him, and the lieutenant general didn't dare to think about it anymore.

More than 120 Kh-15s came in a completely unexpected way, and the several batches of RIM-66H launched in the early stage did not play a role, but all the combat personnel of the aircraft carrier battle group did not have time to feel sorry for these squandered missiles, and the large rockets with bright tail flames were already approaching the inner air defense circle of the fleet, no matter how efficient the "Aegis" was, it was time for the entire fleet to experience the baptism of life and death.

In the face of the high-trajectory flying AS-16 "Horse Rifle", even the "Standard" II, which has a greatly increased range, has an effective interception distance of only a few tens of kilometers, and batches of anti-ship missiles with different directions swooped down on the huge fleet on the sea in front at a speed of more than Mach 3.

In the face of the Red Navy's missile salvo, the "Aegis" warships, which were busy launching the RIM-66H, did not rely only on this hard interception method, but also turned on all the electronic jamming equipment, and coordinated with each other through a chain of numbers, this strategy still played a role, but compared with the missiles that were confused and locked onto the wrong target, the number of Kh-15s that still accurately extracted the echoes of the battleship was significantly more.

After a long, suffocatingly tense wait, a wave of "Standard" II missiles in the sky finally met head-on and began to play an intercepting role, and the missile launches of the nine "Aegis" ships were almost non-stop. Dozens of ship-to-air missiles that split up to meet the "return gun" flew in all directions. For a while, a large cloud of fireworks exploded in the blue sky and debris flew up. The incredibly fast heavy throwing spears and slender arrows that swooped down against the tide exploded, staining the nearby sky a brilliant orange.

If you use a missile to intercept a missile, if you face the liquid-propellant AS-6 "Kingfish", the explosion of the fireball may be even more spectacular, but at the moment such a scene is not appreciated, all the crew members of the U.S. Navy battleship are busy at their posts, the personnel on the anti-aircraft defense system are like facing a big enemy, and the rest of the guys in the battle position look panicked. After all, in this life-and-death battle, the Harpoon missiles and MK-45 naval guns and the like could not play a role, and they could only pin their hopes of survival on the hard work of their colleagues.

In the early morning in the Northwest Pacific, the cold sea breeze that raged all night rarely subsided, and the waves on the ocean surface were still the same, and on the bridge of a fully enclosed ship, anyone could see with the naked eye the fireballs and flashes of light exploding in the distant sky.

Each brilliant firework represents a successful anti-ship missile interception, and the soldiers of the United States are well aware of this, as they gaze nervously at the vast sky where the trajectory looms. The heart is unconsciously praying, which means that the more fireworks there are for survival, the better. Because this time, no one can guess how dangerous the scene of the air defense commander will be, and how huge the number of air-launched anti-ship missiles thrown by the Russians will be.

With dozens of heavy missiles, or even more, in the face of such a catastrophe, will the US Navy, which relies on the "Aegis", be able to escape?

This question, the front-line fighters are extremely nervous, or are busy with the battle and have no time to think about it, but the faces of the commanders can show that the subjective courageous struggle cannot change the objective reality after all, in the face of the swarming "return to the horse gun", Vice Admiral William Pratt is already thinking about how much strength the huge fleet under his command will lose in this offensive and defensive battle, and what to do in the next battle.

Acknowledging reality in despair, but not ready for a baptism, the Kh-15s rushed to the horizon without hesitation because of the horror of the Americans.

After flying over a long voyage of hundreds of kilometers, the supersonic missile only took a few minutes, and the stout body of the projectile that entered the dive trajectory has been accelerating, and the sharp head cone roared against the shock wave, and the air-launched anti-ship missile, which is designed to gradually accelerate with the help of gravity, has broken through Mach 4 and is sprinting towards the target!

The speed continues to increase, and the terrifying range of Mach 5 will reach in the final encounter, and the gray battleships staring at the self-homing head are still frantically launching the "Standard" II, and the RIM-66H that flew out of the launch unit is like a wisp of out-of-body soul, but at this time, the "return rifles" who have not been successfully intercepted by the missiles have rushed to the front, and no matter how many "standards" there are, there is no meaning.

Flying from 60 kilometers away, the distance was almost a moment for the Kh-15, which had an astonishing Mach number, and the AN/SPG-62 on the bridge of the battleship was still trying its best to complete the irradiation.

However, at this moment, the angle difference between the anti-ship missiles approaching the dangerous range is becoming larger and larger, and they enter a roundabout trajectory with the instructions of the on-board computer. In the face of high-speed targets coming from all directions, even the "Aegis" system with the AN/SPY-1C radar has been overwhelmed, the number of targets is far from the upper limit of the integrated system, and the tracking parameters that can be transmitted can no longer drive the AN/SPG-62 to work normally.

The firepower channel, the number of incoming targets that can be countered at the same time, the fully automatic air defense interception system that the Americans are proud of finally showed a crack, which rapidly expanded under the impact of incoming missiles.

The Kh-15, which has a speed of more than Mach 4 at the end of the stage, only takes a few tens of seconds to fly to the target from 60 kilometers away, which is enough time for the PESA radar of the "Aegis" to complete the target information processing, but the AN/SPG-62, which has a limited number of irradiation angles, cannot take care of the "standard" of dragging smoke in the sky, and a large number of ship-to-air missiles are in urgent need of the irradiation signal of the fire control radar at this time, and the target orientation is changing rapidly, and the radar irradiation conditions are also changing all the time. Even air defense systems that engage fully automatically are inevitably under a lot of pressure, or simply fail because the instructions are beyond the actual capabilities of the equipment.

In the face of the aircraft carrier battle group, the intensive assault of batches of Kh-15 has actually realized the operational idea of Marshal Sergei Gorshkov, and launched a "saturation attack" on the US Navy aircraft carrier battle group.

Saturation attack, even in the parallel world, is not a new concept, this means of attack in the hands of the Red Empire continues to evolve, together with the enemy on the other side of the ocean to accept the revolution of military technology, the contest between the spear and the shield in the far sea has always existed, in the face of the threat of anti-ship missile carrier aircraft of the Russians, the U.S. Navy has developed a long-range interception system with the cooperation of E-2C and F-14, and the "Aegis" system that can theoretically deal with saturation attacks.

It is precisely for this reason that there was a time when the admirals and technicians of the United States were full of confidence that the US Navy, which has three layers of anti-aircraft firepower, has completely stepped out of the shadow of Russia's heavy anti-ship missiles.

One hundred and thirty AS-16s, almost at the same time, pounced on the aircraft carrier battle group, and this kind of firepower density has exceeded the response ability of the "Aegis" system, which is a complete tragedy for the U.S. Navy.

Contrary to the general view of the outside world, the US military has always had a clear understanding of the "Aegis" system, which costs a huge amount of money, and no one has ever placed the heavy burden of air defense on this kind of fleet air defense system in the tactical research of the United States Navy. In the United States of Navy, the role of the "Aegis" has always been a supplement, not the main combat force, and the fundamental task is to intercept the Russian heavy anti-ship missiles leaking into the outer air defense ring.

Based on this operational thinking, the F-14 and AIM-54 were the main ones that gave confidence to the United States Navy in the so-called "saturation attack" of Ivan, but in today's battle, the mistake or luck was simply too bad, and the disturbance of the "sickle" made the outer air defense circle full of holes, and the "Aegis" that needed to face the salvo of anti-ship missiles alone needed to undergo a severe test.

This kind of test may be spectacular on the shooting range, but it is a tragedy on the battlefield of life and death.

Accelerating all the way to the target locked on by the homing head, the Kh-15s in a hypersonic state are still undergoing intensive interception by the "Standard" II.

The battle has reached a life-and-death juncture, the completely crazy US Navy warships are shooting missiles like crazy, the combat system is also completely overloaded, one after another gray-white "Standard" II is flying out of the sheath, the commander and the front-line combat personnel are very clear, now "saving ammunition" or something is completely, if it is really directly hit by the Russian giant spear, then the next thing to consider is not the stock of missiles, but whether it will sleep at the bottom of the sea!

One after another, the "return gun" that broke through the interception of the "standard" missile flew over the distance between the warhead and the warship in an instant, and when supersonic speed struck, the ship's crew could not hear a sound at all, and suddenly encountered a devastating impact of the missile, and a violent explosion followed.

A salvo of missiles, the number of Kh-15s left after the penetration is not very large, but it is still a disaster for the US Navy.

In the anti-ship missile interception war that had just broken out, the U.S. Navy, which had assembled nine "Aegis" warships, had already done its best to launch nearly 400 RIM-66Hs in just two or three minutes, and counting the firepower of intercepting the first batch of "Kingfish" missiles dozens of minutes earlier, every fleet air defense ship, including the "Ticonderoga" and "Burke," had consumed a small half of its ammunition. (To be continued......)