On the deep blue sea, a rusty-looking warship floated and floated in the waves.

It is already more than 500 kilometers away from the coast, and has reached the deep sea area of the South China Sea.

There was not a single person on the dilapidated warship, it was like a ghost ship.

Suddenly, several violent flashes pierced the night sky, and rocket after rocket flew towards the dilapidated warship.

The 300-mm high-explosive rocket quickly approached the warship and then slammed into the hull, causing a huge explosion.

The flames of the explosion of more than a dozen tons of TNT explosives instantly filled the entire sea, and the huge shock wave lifted the waves, stirring up a thousand waves.

And create a small mushroom cloud nearly 100 meters high!

The warship trembled violently and seemed unable to withstand such a blow, but it still miraculously continued to float on the surface of the sea.

The hull had already suffered serious damage, debris was flying everywhere, black smoke was in the air, but the warship had not yet been completely sunk.

However, several rockets surrounded the warships one after another, and the explosion was deafening.

The seemingly abandoned warship seems to have drawn the wrath of uninvited guests, and it has stubbornly resisted attack after attack.

However, the resistance of the warships also gradually became weak. A huge rocket hit the vital part of the hull, causing an even more violent explosion.

The structure of the warship began to crumble, the shattered wreckage scattered in all directions, and the burning flames spread rapidly.

The last explosion completely crushed the warship, and it quickly sank into the abyss of the South China Sea.

The waves formed a huge whirlpool at the place where it sank.

The sinking of the warship marked the end of this sea area.

The debris destroyed by the rockets fell silent in the depths of the sea, while the water gradually calmed down, leaving only a few traces of torn smoke, like traces of a dream.

This sea is back to silence and solitude, once again immersed in the deep blue tranquility.

An observation ship moored several kilometers away is meticulously monitoring the old ship of the former Navy, slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea.

Until the last trace of the waves, they all dissipated in the sea breeze.

"This power is already comparable to the shore-based anti-ship missiles of the Second Artillery, right?"

An officer on the ship, dressed in a navy white uniform, had not yet recovered from the devastating scene that had just been devastated and felt as if he was in a dream.

"And, it seems, these rockets were launched from six hundred kilometers away?"

Zhang Xingyang slowly put down the telescope in his hand and replied very calmly:

"Yes, this is our latest 406-mm heavy rocket, which can destroy a 3,000-ton destroyer with just one salvo of one rocket artillery!"

"Is this still a rocket?"

"Isn't this more powerful than a traditional anti-ship missile?"

A naval officer who has been in the army for nearly twenty-five years has never heard of a rocket of such power.

Even looking at the effect of the rocket just now, it is beyond the power of ordinary subsonic cruise anti-ship missiles!

Originally, Han Zitao still didn't understand this test.

After all, even if the warship is decommissioned, it is still a meritorious ship of the Navy!

When he was younger, he spent his career as a recruit on the destroyer.

At that time, when it was proposed that the destroyer should be used as a target ship for weapons testing, there was a lot of opposition within the navy.

In the end, it was the navy boss who stepped forward to stop these voices.

However, before the attack on the destroyer was completed, everyone did not believe that the rocket made by the Yuxi No. 2 Machinery Factory, which had not been famous before, could sink the warship.

After all, even if it is a 406-mm rocket, it can only have a 200-kilogram warhead, and it is difficult for a warship to sink it directly as long as it does not hit the vital part!

But after the first rocket hit the destroyer, Han Zitao changed his opinion.

Although the concentration was on the side of the warship, most of the blast power was wasted.

But still a large hole several meters in diameter was blown out on the surface of the warship!

and a small mushroom cloud that looks like a mushroom egg explosion!

"In fact, it's not so exaggerated, because there is no power during the flight phase, in the second half, it is easy for the enemy to calculate the trajectory and intercept it!"

"So the actual combat power is not as strong as you think!"

Zhang Xingyang corrected the unrealistic illusions of naval officers about rockets.

This is also the most fatal flaw of the rocket, that is, at the end, because it has no power, there is no way to carry out mobile defense against the attack of anti-missile missiles and close defense artillery on the opposite side!

"But it has its own advantages."

The naval officer looked over curiously, wondering what the advantage was.

"That is, its cost is very low, and the cost price of one shot is less than three million!"

"Compared with tens of millions of anti-missile missiles, it can completely compete with the other side in a war of attrition."

"As for the close defense artillery, it has no reaction time at all in the face of a rocket with a terminal velocity of Mach 7.6!"

The biggest advantage of the 406-mm heavy rocket is that it is so cheap that it is almost one-tenth the price of an anti-missile missile!

As well as the high speed of the end penetration!

"But if you don't have terminal power, it's hard to attack a moving target, right?"

The naval officer asked another question at this time.

Because sea targets are different from land targets, warships are basically on the move, except when they are resting in the harbor.

Although the speed is not very high, it can still move a distance of several kilometers in a few minutes.

In such a situation, it is difficult to directly attack the intended target.

"This problem is indeed difficult to solve, so our solution is to take a saturation strike!"

"Although this consumes more rockets, as long as you can destroy the opponent's warship, you will earn it, and you will not lose a hundred rounds for one!"

Zhang Xingyang has no such worries, and rockets were developed for saturation strikes, even at sea.

Hearing Zhang Xingyang's exposition, the naval officers and other naval personnel on board began to think seriously and realized the strategic and tactical significance of this new weapon.

As a low-cost weapon, it will not develop in the same direction as missiles in the direction of high precision.

Instead, it will continue to use its price advantage to wage a war of attrition with the enemy!

It was clear that these naval personnel on board were elite, and they quickly realized that this breakthrough could have a significant impact on future operations at sea.

Start talking about how to deal with and apply this new combat weapon.

Zhang Xingyang put his hands on the iron railing of the monitoring ship, quietly looking at the sea in front of him, and his heart was full of expectations for the future.

He knows that the advent of this new type of weapon will provide a stronger guarantee for maritime security and the interests of the country.

(End of chapter)