"Your Excellency Harris, Ship 112 called us and was willing to be the first to launch anti-ship missiles and fire at the target ship. In order to avoid mistakes, they requested to launch the missiles at a distance of forty kilometers."
Hearing the news, Harris smiled: "To avoid mistakes, it's obviously because the anti-ship missiles they carry can only hit forty kilometers, and our target ship is still immobile, so they dare to attack at this distance."
If the missile is launched from the top, if it were further away, they would not be able to reach it!"
If other warships came from the east, then Harris would never dare to issue such an order. It is said that the YJ-12 flies at supersonic speeds throughout the entire journey, the YJ-18 sub-super combination, and the YJ-21 fly high-altitude ballistics. Any missile can
Can pose a threat to US aircraft carriers.
However, Eagle Strike 81 is a weakling.
In the 1980s, the range of anti-ship missiles was generally 30 to 40 kilometers. The reason is also very simple. In addition to the fact that the solid propellant technology was not advanced enough at that time, more importantly, beyond this distance, the radar on the warship could not detect the target.
The location is now.
Helicopter guidance is needed at this time, but if the helicopter flies to a height that can detect enemy warships below the sea level, the radar on the enemy warship will still be able to detect the helicopter, and will launch anti-aircraft missiles in the next second, killing the helicopter, especially
Nowadays, there are often anti-aircraft missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers, and helicopters have almost no chance of survival.
"Yes, we all think so. This time it just makes the Orientals look embarrassed, and then we have to publicize it. The Orientals' anti-ship missiles are not good, and in the end we have to rely on our Harpoon missiles!"
"Notify Ship 112 that in an hour we will launch an anti-ship missile attack, take off our early warning aircraft, and supervise the entire process!"
"yes."
112 ships.
"Attention, now go to the sea area near the target ship. We will stop at a distance of forty kilometers to launch the missile!" Du Yu issued a combat order: "This time we must show the style of our Eastern soldiers!"
"Captain, are these forty kilometers a little closer?"
"Yes, even two hundred kilometers is not that far."
Listening to everyone's discussion, Du Yu shook his head: "What do you know? This is an arrangement from superiors! If we want to attack a target two hundred kilometers away, don't we need the cooperation of reconnaissance satellites? When we use these resources, don't we
Will it be exposed to foreigners?"
The guys stopped talking.
In this day and age, is there still a need for helicopter guidance?
Of course not! Helicopter guidance is outdated! If it is about a hundred kilometers away, you can use the over-the-horizon radar carried by the warship to search for the target and switch to a locked attack. If the distance is further, you can use an early warning aircraft or a reconnaissance satellite to search
target data.
Especially for reconnaissance satellites, this is the most important thing. In the vast sea, reconnaissance satellites search the sea surface like a needle in a haystack. Once a target is found, it will be immediately judged by the intelligent program, and then adjust the focus and enter a detailed search state.
After searching for the target, the intelligence from the reconnaissance satellite will be transmitted to the warship through the communication satellite, guiding the warship to launch an attack. The whole process is very fast and convenient, and it is currently the main attack method of the navy.
But this attack method must not be known to the Americans, especially since there must be electronic reconnaissance equipment nearby. As long as they emit electromagnetic signals, they will be discovered, analyzed, and even cracked.
None of these can be used. We can only use the original equipment imported from the West on the warships. Then we can only attack within the visual range, which is about forty kilometers.
"All right."
"Haihu radar is on!"
Following the order, the "Sea Tiger" radar imported from Europe by Thomson-SCF in the 1980s was turned on. It searched the surrounding sea surface with electromagnetic waves to find the precise location of the target.
Now the Navy has long since changed its gun. During the mid-term inspection of life extension upgrades, there was also a plan to install advanced radar on the 112 warships, but after evaluation, it was abandoned.
Not cost effective.
Even the Hyundai class is not planned to be significantly modified, let alone the 112 warships that are not as good as the Hyundai class. Since the Sea Tiger radar that has been used from the beginning can still be used, it is better to use it.
The improvements are mainly in the data link and command and combat system. With the advanced data link, search data can be obtained directly from other warships without having to worry about it yourself.
Now, the Haihu radar is getting stronger and stronger, constantly searching the nearby sea area, and soon the radar officer will report it.
"Report, target found at sea fifty kilometers away!"
"Confirm with the fleet whether it is the target ship for our attack this time!"
This is the most critical thing. If you make a mistake, you will be in big trouble.
During exercises, unintentional injuries may occur, and every exercise will have casualty indicators. Ground exercises, even with blank ammunition, may cause life-threatening danger to some comrades. Air Force exercises, such as
Rockets aimed at the ground may hit the wrong location. If the navy's anti-ship missile hits the wrong location and sinks a naval warship participating in the exercise, it will be a big mistake.
"yes."
On the command ship Blue Ridge, Harris smiled after listening to the message passed on: "These Easterners are really careful. Tell them that the target is correct, let's fight!"
"They still use the Sea Tiger radar, a French product from thirty years ago. This radar matches their YJ-81 missile. Although their warships have been upgraded, they have not replaced the radar, which is a bit curious.
"Clemings spoke.
"What's so curious about this?" Harris said: "The construction cost of their warships is very low. Spending money on improvements is not as cheap as building new ones..."
When he said this, Harris suddenly became uninterested.
The biggest advantage of Dongfang is that it is cheap. Therefore, even if Dongfang's military expenditure is only one-tenth of ours, Dongfang's warships can be put into service in large numbers, but ours does not have this advantage.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It would be great if our own warships could be built at such a low cost and in large quantities!
"Our two Burke-class destroyers have arrived in the nearby area and can directly observe the entire process of the Eastern Navy's missile launch." Clemings continued: "Two helicopters also flew near the target ship to carry out the attack effect.
Evaluate and see what the actual performance of Dongfang’s anti-ship missiles is. Does their so-called Dongfang Exocet have the power of the French Exocet.”
At that time, the Eagle Strike 81 was born and was hailed as the Oriental Flying Fish by the outside world. Both in appearance and working process, it was very similar to the French Flying Fish. This time I could finally see it with my own eyes.
The French Flying Fish has made great achievements on the battlefield, but what about this Oriental Flying Fish? Isn’t it just a regular product?
112 warships.
"Report, the Blue Ridge has responded. The target 40 kilometers ahead of us is the target ship. The nearby sea area has been cleared, and there are only two helicopters in the air for effect assessment."
This kind of thing must be assessed in advance. Who knows whether anti-ship missiles will fly up and rush towards the helicopter? They have to be on guard.
"Okay, now the entire ship is on right rudder!"
Anti-ship missiles are installed on Soviet warships, facing directly forward, so that they can launch anti-ship missiles when charging. From the modern class to the Glorious class, they all have this layout.
Especially the Glorious class, with so many missiles on both sides, it looks very exaggerated.
However, this arrangement also has many flaws. The most troublesome one is that the missile's tail flame ablate the deck. This is almost unsolvable. After all, when the missile flies forward, the tail flame has to spray backwards. By the time the missile is fired once, the entire deck will be destroyed.
And the nearby bridge will look like it has experienced a fire.
Therefore, except for Lao Maozi, other countries do not do this. If there are vertical hairs, they are discharged directly through the exhaust duct. If there are no vertical hairs, then the missiles are arranged horizontally on the warship, so that when the missile is launched
, just enough to discharge the smoke to the sea on the other side.
The 112 warship did the same thing when it was designed. Its anti-ship missiles were arranged behind the chimney, with the rear mast as the dividing line, and the front and rear were oriented in one direction. The front ones were aimed at the port side, and the rear ones were aimed at the starboard side.
However, when they first entered service, these missile launchers were arranged in groups of two, with two groups on each side, that is, four. The entire warship was equipped with eight missiles. However, during the mid-term improvement, the Japanese-shaped missile launchers were placed horizontally.
A group of two became a group of four in a field shape, so that the number of missiles changed from eight to sixteen, and the firepower density doubled.
Because it still uses a square launch tube, the appearance does not seem to have changed at all, but the missile inside has changed, upgraded from the YJ-81 to the YJ-83!
Since the Navy already has a large number of advanced anti-ship missiles, this missile has not attracted much attention from the outside world. In the eyes of ordinary people, this missile seems to be just an upgraded version of the ordinary Eagle Strike 82. No one knows
, its performance has undergone a radical change!
Ship 112 moved a graceful full starboard rudder on the sea, pointing the port side in the direction of the target. One of the Z-shaped launch tubes opened its cover, revealing the gray missile warhead inside.
Nothing seems special.
Countless people on the nearby Burke-class warship looked at this with ridicule in their eyes.
"Old-fashioned warships like the ones in the East can only use such backward anti-ship missiles. Even if they have new missiles, they don't have any guidance capabilities."
"Yes, even though it was built in the late 1980s, it is much worse than our warships of the same period!"
At this moment, they seemed to have forgotten that there were a large number of Aegis warships in the East, and they only thought that the warship in front of them was the main warship in the East!
"Report, the missiles are ready!" an officer on the 112th warship shouted loudly.
"emission!"
emission!
A strong thumb pressed the launch button, whoosh!
Blazing flames emerged from the back of the launch tube and discharged from the starboard side to the outside. A ball of flames suddenly burned on the sea. In front of the missile launch tube, an ordinary-looking missile jumped out of the launch tube.
First there was a gray warhead, then a sea-blue missile body. When the missile was halfway exposed, the four missile wings in the middle unfolded, and then the tail missile wings... The entire missile flew out, with a larger missile body behind it.
Slightly thicker booster.
The entire missile flew toward the sea, trailing a tongue of flame at its tail. A trail of white smoke was pulled out from behind the tongue of flame, growing longer and thicker on the sea surface.
Soon, the booster fell off, the main engine ignited, the missile flew smoothly over the sea, and the tail flame almost disappeared.
"First use the booster to accelerate, and then use its own engine to propel it on the sea. This method is very conventional and nothing interesting. However, it only flies at an altitude of five meters above the sea. The flight control technology of the Orientals has been upgraded.
"Clemings spoke.
"Yes, it has been upgraded, but what's the big deal? Our Harpoon missiles can do the same."
The main anti-ship missile of the U.S. Navy is the Harpoon. Its appearance is very similar to that of the Exocet. It has not changed much in decades, but its internal control circuit has been upgraded several times.
In their eyes, there is nothing special about the missiles flying now.
"Yes, in previous eras, low-altitude penetration was a good plan. However, our navy has advanced early warning aircraft, and their anti-ship missiles will be discovered by us in advance even if they penetrate at ultra-low altitude." Harris said.
The missile cruises at a speed of Mach 0.9 and can fly more than 300 meters in one second, which is 20 kilometers in one minute. The distance of 40 minutes is only two minutes.
"Of course, during the time when their missiles are flying in, we can organize at least three rounds of interceptions, and the final ones that slip through the net will be handed over to the Phalanx." Clemings said: "If the Easterners only have this kind of missile
, then we don’t have to worry.”
This sentence made Harris depressed again. Why do you mean that the Orientals only have this kind of missile? In the Oriental equipment sequence, this kind of missile is already outdated! The Orientals have advanced anti-ship missiles, those that fly at supersonic speeds and sea skimming.
There is no way to guard against those hypersonic missiles!
The Navy has always been worried about this. Their E-2D early warning aircraft are optimizing the software to guide standard missiles at critical times, striving to intercept more Eastern anti-ship missiles.
As the two people talked, the missile was also flying at high speed, thirty kilometers, twenty kilometers, ten kilometers...
On a Black Hawk helicopter, a high-speed camera was filming, and someone was supervising. Photographer Irving was the first to notice that something was wrong.
"Hey, why did a hotter flame suddenly appear from the tail of that missile? It was like a solid motor was ignited?"
He quickly went to adjust his camera, but it was too late. The missile had already left the lens range of his camera!
At this time, the E2 early warning aircraft finally discovered the unexpected situation: "The target begins to accelerate!"
Accelerate? Isn't this a subsonic missile? It has already reached the cruising speed of Mach 0.9. At most, it can perform a few snake-like maneuvers at the end and it can continue to accelerate?
"Damn it, it's already exceeded the speed of sound!"
"It's still accelerating!"
"Asia-Super League combination? How is it possible? Isn't this a technology unique to the YJ-18?" Clemmings shouted in surprise.
Of course, it’s not only available in YJ-18, it can also be played in YJ-83!
Although the Eagle Strike 83 does not have a casing, it also has its own unique trick. An additional rocket engine is added to the tail of the missile, which can launch a supersonic attack over the last twenty kilometers or so!
The normal range of this missile is close to 300 kilometers. After taking off, it first flies on the sea surface at 20 meters. When it reaches a certain distance, it will ignite the rocket engine to accelerate and climb, and then dive down. In this way, the speed
It can be greatly improved, and can sprint up to Mach 1.5.
In order not to expose the true performance of this missile, the entire attack process has been modified. Anyway, the distance is forty kilometers. It flies directly to the sea level for a cruise of five meters. When it is ten kilometers away from the target, the rocket engine is suddenly ignited.
Start climbing faster!
When this missile was pulled up from the sea, everyone had a premonition that something was wrong. This was definitely not an ordinary Eagle 81, nor was it the C802 exported by Oriental. What kind of missile was this?
The appearance is the same as before!
However, nothing can be changed now.
The missile quickly climbed up to a few hundred meters, and then dived down. The sophisticated frequency-agile terminal guidance radar on the warhead radiated electromagnetic waves, locking its target instantly.
Long-distance missiles will face the problem of target position changes during flight. After all, it takes time to fly there. A distance of several hundred kilometers can often take more than ten minutes or even half an hour to fly. Such a long time,
The target will definitely not stay where it is, so if you look for it based on the original data, you will definitely not find anything.
What to do?
There are various methods. If the missile itself has a two-way data link and can receive rear information, it can continuously refresh the target position information and correct the trajectory during flight.
If not, you can also fly to a high altitude to have a look. During the flight of Lao Maozi's missile, he likes to fly a pilot bomb at high altitude to provide the latest target location to the low-altitude missile at all times.
If there is only one single one, you can pull it up at the predetermined location to have a look, and then dive down!
Although it only pulls up a few hundred meters, it can search the surrounding sea area and then turn into a dive. In the process, the speed of the missile keeps increasing!
Mach 1.1, Mach 1.2, Mach 1.3!
If it is a long-distance attack, the missile's fuel is consumed, its weight becomes lighter, and at the same time it climbs to a higher altitude and then dives, the terminal speed can be increased to above Mach 1.5, but now, the speed of Mach 1.3 is not low!
Everything happened so fast that Harris didn't have time to react. He just jumped up from his chair and looked at the screen in front of him. It was a video from a helicopter ahead.
A missile with flames trailing on its tail was swooping down from the sky and heading straight for the target ship. Next to the missile, there was a floating window with data measured by the early warning aircraft attached to it: the speed was Mach 1.3!