The previous wave of saturation attacks by the 022 formation fired a total of 36 YJ-83 anti-ship missiles, which consumed a total of 69 Standard II medium-range ship-to-air missiles and 8 Sparrow short-range ship-to-air missiles from the King Kong-class destroyer formation. Improved
16 Sea Sparrows and some Phalanx ammunition.
Although the Mark II interceptor missiles supported by Aegis have a good interception rate against subsonic anti-ship missiles such as the YJ-83, the entire formation is also weak at this time.
After all, the amount of ammunition carried by each ship is limited, and now the ammunition stocks of the two King Kong-class ships and the two Flag Wind-class ships have already consumed a large part.
The purpose of this operation under the solemn command of Li Zhenghe was not to destroy these Huangfang ships at once. What they wanted was for the opponent to expend a large amount of Standard II anti-aircraft missiles.
In fact, Li Zheng has also considered forming a missile boat brigade with more 022s. For example, ten or even fifteen 022 missile boats can conduct a saturation attack at one time. In this way, it is estimated that at least two of the King Kong-class destroyer formations can be destroyed.
Ships, especially the two Haikaze-class destroyers that are already relatively weak.
But there is a problem. When large quantities of 022 are gathered together, they lose their concealment.
Without concealment, it would be extremely dangerous for these 022 missile boats to venture into the attack range of the YJ-83 to conduct a surprise attack.
Li Zheng was very careful about fighting. He must avoid losses if his troops could avoid them, instead of fighting hard and big battles at every turn.
This is related to his background as a sniper.
Because sniper is a profession that requires great caution.
Once you make a miscalculation and make a slight mistake in your sniper tactics, even if you can snipe and kill the target, your life will be at stake.
Li Zheng participated in actual combat so many times and came back alive every time. In addition to bravery and boldness, caution was the basic reason for his survival.
The 001 aircraft carrier formation set out from the northern military port. The purpose was to attract the blue team's attention and make Wen Zhaohui think that this aircraft carrier formation was the main force of the attack. He focused all his attention on them, thereby ignoring the secretly and covert navigation.
022 missile boat brigade.
Before the missile boat brigade attacked, the aircraft carrier formation suddenly stopped moving forward. This was also Li Zheng's plan to attack from east to west.
Because the aircraft carrier formation was heading south from the northern military port, it stopped 420 kilometers away from Xianlai Island. This made Wen Zhaohui confused for a moment. At first, he thought he was sending carrier-based aircraft to attack the fourth destroyer.
detachment, unexpectedly when they stared at the formation, they found no movement.
Except for taking off a Z-19 early warning aircraft and a Z-18 anti-submarine aircraft for surrounding surveillance, there was no movement from the 001 aircraft carrier formation.
At this time, the 022 missile boat formation suddenly appeared southwest of the two Kongang-class destroyers and the two Flagwind-class destroyers of the Fourth Destroyer Detachment, and fired a saturation salvo without saying a word.
Wen Zhaohui, who was in the Lanjun Joint Staff Headquarters at the time, was shocked when he learned the news.
He secretly shouted that he was careless.
This cunning Li Zheng.
They actually used the aircraft carrier formation as a cover, but in reality they were letting the 022 formation make a surprise attack.
Don’t talk about martial ethics!
However, what he didn't know was that Wu De was actually behind him.
In fact, the main force of the attack was really the No. 001 aircraft carrier formation.
After the saturation attack of the 022 missile boat formation was withstood, before Wen Zhaohui had time to breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly discovered that when all Huang Fang's early warning forces were concentrated on the 022 missile boat formation, on the deck of the 001 aircraft carrier formation,
The carrier-based aircraft flying group has taken off a large number of J15 carrier-based aircraft as quickly as possible.
Moreover, this formation of 16 J15 carrier-based aircraft immediately entered a state of flying close to the sea after taking off, making full use of the curvature of the earth to avoid the surveillance of the phased array radar on the King Kong-class destroyer.
By the time they reappeared on the radar screen of the King Kong-class destroyer, they had already finished firing the YJ-91 anti-ship missiles attached to them and needed to raise the altitude to return home.
Each of the 16 J15s is equipped with 4 YJ-91 anti-ship missiles.
Although this thing is a little less powerful than the YJ-83, please note, students, this is supersonic!
Supersonic!
At a short distance of 80 kilometers, the supersonic YJ-91 only needs 3-4 minutes to pounce in front of you...
Inside the Red Side's Joint Staff Headquarters.
Everyone is staring at the batch of YJ-91 anti-ship missiles on the screen.
Sitting solemnly in his chair, watching the great show organized by his right-hand man, he asked Li Zheng with a smile: "How many of their ships do you think you can destroy this time?"
Li Zheng smiled and asked his superior: "This distance?"
He nodded seriously.
Li Zheng said: "Chief, you know it yourself, right?"
Seriously: "I need to hear your judgment."
Li Zheng pondered for a moment and said: "At least 3 ships."
He said seriously: "So many? Are you sure? This is a shield ship. Although it is an older model, it was developed on the basis of the first generation Burke class. The blue team also helped them upgrade the radar. It is said to be less powerful.
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Li Zheng said: "The King Kong-class radar is a good thing. It is already the same as the second-generation Burke-class radar. But chief, you should be clear. Don't think that the yellow and blue sides are allies, and don't think that the yellow side treats the blue side as a foster father."
, but what the blue side gives to the yellow side is always a strict version, and it is not the best. Even the original Burke-class II generation, I am afraid it will be difficult to withstand this wave at this distance."
What Li Zheng said makes sense.
Of course Serenity is aware of the capabilities of the King Kong level.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Li Zheng said that the original Burke-class II destroyers could hardly defend against this wave of attacks at this distance.
The air defense weapons of the Burke 2A destroyer are mainly Standard 2 series air defense missiles (including MR and ER) and ESSM (Improved Sea Sparrow) missiles, as well as the "SeaRAM" close-in defense system.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Currently, the main ammunition preparation plan for the Blue Navy destroyers is mainly based on standard 2MR, and the number of standard 2ER is relatively small.
The maximum range of the standard 2MR missile is 160 kilometers, but the effective range is much less than this data, which is similar to the Red Flag 16B.
The maximum range of the ESSM missile is 50 kilometers, and the effective range is also less than this data. The biggest feature of the ESSM missile is that it can load 4 missiles in a vertical launch unit, which is the so-called "four missiles in one pit".
On the Burke 2A, there are dozens of missiles of each type, and the number of bombs is sufficient.
However, these two missiles have a serious problem, which not only reduces the effectiveness of sufficient ammunition reserves, but also wastes the ability of the SPY-1D radar to lock and track hundreds of targets.
The problem is the guidance method. Both the Standard 2MR missile and the ESSM missile use semi-active guidance (referring to the current Standard 2MR Block3 and ESSM Block1, which were changed to active guidance on the Standard 2MR Block4 and ESSM Block2).
Semi-active guidance requires an illumination radar to allow the missile to continuously track and lock the target. That is to say, no matter how many targets the Burke 2A radar can lock or how many missiles are loaded, the number of targets that can be tracked at one time depends on the illumination radar.
One irradiation radar can illuminate up to 2 targets at the same time. There are only 3 irradiation radars on the Burke 2A, which can illuminate up to 6 targets at the same time.
In other words, the Burke 2A can only attack 6 targets at a time. After shooting down the corresponding target, the radar can illuminate the next target.
In professional terms, the Burke 2A has only 6 fire channels.
This is true for the original version, not to mention the castrated version of the shield ship that Huang Fang bought from Blue Fang.
This is also an important basis for why Li Zheng dared to predict that the destroyer detachment hiding in the northeast of Xianlai Island would be severely damaged.
Compared with Li Zheng who was relaxed and calm at this time, Wen Zhaohui's face in the Blue Joint Staff Department was ashen.
He also knew that the King Kong-class destroyer formation he ordered Huang Fang to deploy near Xianlai Island was doomed by this saturation attack.
When fishing with bait, the bait was swallowed, but the fish did not take the bait and ran away...
Now it depends on how many of the four destroyers can survive.