Chapter 1,13 Naval exercise

It is known as the most powerful navy in the world, and it is a dual aircraft carrier formation, and was flew over its own aircraft carrier by the other party! This is simply unimaginable. What did the Aegis warship do?

After the Tomcat fighter took off, one e-2 early warning aircraft also took off to monitor the situation in the low altitude. However, it only saw the four light spots flying towards the Gulf of Oman. There was no doubt that it was an Iraqi fighter. ////

If they were invaded by Soviet air forces, they could still accept it. The Iraqi Navy, which they considered to be a second-rate army, actually made such a bold move, which made the US Navy even more unacceptable.

If the Iraqi Navy held exercises in advance and embarrassed them, then the Iraqi air force dared to provoke this time, which was simply unacceptable for them.

The two anti-ship missiles under the wings were simply a demonstration against them.

Moreover, over a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers, Iraq's aviation troops were able to find them in the vast sea, which shows that the combat effectiveness of the Iraqi army has been greatly improved.

In addition to shock and dissatisfaction, they also began to be careful. The carrier-based aircraft took off, and the Hawkeye Early Warning Aircraft was also monitoring the airborne and gradually approached the Gulf of Oman.

June 20, 1988.

Outside the Gulf of Oman, a large-scale military exercise is gradually underway. The main force of the exercise is the destroyer with a displacement of more than 8,000 tons.

In the sky, an Iraqi Navy super Hornet helicopter flew outside the exercise area.

On the helicopter, there were military officers from various countries. They were invited to observe the exercise up close. After receiving the invitation from Iraq, all countries sent their military officers to the first time. The one they were most interested in was of course the modern-class detained by the Iraqi Navy.

Looking around the world, I'm afraid only Iraq has the courage to detain Soviet warships, and it also keeps them for their own use. Other countries are also a little moved. Now, the Soviet Union owes a lot of debts to Western Europe. Otherwise, learn from Iraq and detain a Soviet warship?

The largest warship is eye-catching, and the smallest missile boat also attracted a lot of attention, because the appearance of that missile boat is too peculiar.

"Why is that warship so strange in appearance?" said a British military observer.

"That is the latest missile boat to be launched by our Iraqi Navy." The representative of Iraq on the Super Hornet helicopter commented: "The appearance of this warship is made completely according to the model of reflecting radar waves. When a radar is illuminated, the radar wave will be reflected in another direction, thereby reducing the probability of being discovered by the radar, and the surface is coated with radar-absorbing paint."

Stealth warship? Now, the Lafayette-class in France has begun to enter the final design stage. The first ship was only built in 1990. A country like Iraq, with such scientific research conditions, can actually develop a stealth warship? Although it is just a small missile boat, this is already a leapfrog development.

"It's not just radar stealth." The Iraqi representative continued to comment: "Our warship also uses noise reduction and cooling the exhaust system through seawater. In addition to stealthing from radar, it also has lower infrared and acoustic characteristics."

The concept of Iraq is always so advanced. Other military observers sighed in their hearts, when has the Iraqis developed to this level?

"How high is this missile boat's stealth performance?" asked a Frenchman.

"If our Red Star missile boat can be discovered by the opponent at a distance of 80 kilometers, then our missile boat can be completely forty kilometers away and not discovered by the opponent." said the Iraqi commentator.

The speech was not loud, but it shocked the others. If this missile boat in Iraq was really that amazing, in the Persian Gulf region and outside the Gulf of Oman, such missile boats could completely kill large warships to fight guerrillas.

"This kind of missile boat is loaded with an anti-ship missile developed by our Iraq itself, with a range of 200 kilometers." The Iraqi commentator continued.

Iraq did not hide its force at all this time. On the contrary, it was a bit exaggerated. In fact, there were still some problems that the first stealth missile boat that was put into service had not been solved, especially the so-called stealth coating, which was still in the development stage. Therefore, the construction of the No. 2 boat was relatively delayed.

However, these foreigners obviously didn't know that they heard the commentary of the Iraqi commentator, and then looked at the appearance, thinking that Iraq had really developed a world-class stealth ship.

These observers immediately saw its purpose as a small stealth missile boat, which can be used as a carrier of anti-ship missiles to attack aircraft carrier formations!

Just as they were thinking, they saw the commentator receive a message, and then the commentator excitedly announced to them: the largest warship below is about to launch a supersonic anti-ship missile!

Nowadays, no missile in the West is supersonic, because supersonic missiles need a combined ramjet engine, and all missiles in the West are subsonic. In this regard, the Soviet Union was far ahead.

Western countries only discovered the launch of this missile in previous exercises in the Soviet Union. At that time, they were shocked by the speed of this missile. This missile could actually fly at a speed of Mach 2.4!

Generally speaking, the distance of a carrier-based radar to find a sea-grabbing target will not exceed twenty kilometers, because the flight speed of this missile is three to four times that of the common subsonic missiles in the West. The subsonic missile needs to fly for about seventy seconds within this range, and the US Aegis system can fully intercept. This supersonic missile only takes thirty seconds to discover, lock, and attack, and leave them with only a dozen seconds to react. In other words, the United States is almost unable to react to this kind of missile.

In the Soviet Union, this missile was called Baishe, while in the West, it was named Sun Chi, as if the sun was roasting the earth. This missile tests the US Navy's air defense system at any time.

Now, Iraq's test-firing of this missile has obviously deeper significance.

In the chimney of the modern-class unforgettable number, huge black smoke kept coming out, which was also the defect of the boiler that burned heavy oil. It seemed as if it was during World War II, the smoke was constantly discharged into the air, slowly fading, and finally disappeared.

Inside the bridge, Lieutenant Colonel Abdur Wahid Thomas was calm and gave orders one by one.

At the top of the bridge, there is a pair of radars that look like a big bell cover. This is the eyes of the White Fly missile, the "Letai" anti-ship missile guidance radar. At this time, this radar is aiming at a target ship a hundred kilometers away.

Ye Ruofu next to him was full of admiration for this Iraqi Navy Lieutenant Colonel who had been familiar with the operation of the entire warship even though he had only taken over for more than a month. He searched all over the Soviet Navy, but no one was as passionate and obsessed with warships as he did.

Abdul went from being a captain of the Heden-class warship to the current modern-class warship. He knew very well that his responsibilities were of great importance, so he had been working hard to master the operation of this warship of nearly 10,000 tons.

There was no problem with this missile test, it was a demonstration.

Moreover, this test launch was the protagonist of the Iraqi Navy personnel, and the Soviets next to them were instructors. Moreover, when the Iraqis made mistakes, they would take over the operation rights at any time.

A thick smoke ejected from the launch tube in front, and then a huge missile rushed out.

There is a solid-state vertebrae in the combustion chamber of the main engine of the Baixe missile. At this time, the booster ignites to help the missile accelerate. This is also a defect of the ramjet engine. It cannot complete the boost work by itself. The ramjet engine must be able to ignite after reaching a certain speed. After the booster is burned, the ramjet main engine ignites, and the air is sucked from the four intake channels around the warhead, and the missile begins to continue to accelerate.

All the observers on the helicopter recorded this spectacular scene, and the smoke launched by the anti-ship missile almost surrounded the entire modern class.

Three minutes later, the target ship a hundred kilometers away was hit above the waterline by this huge missile. The entire target ship immediately turned into two sections and quickly sank.

During the exercise, the anti-ship missile launch achieved a successful success.

Then, traces of fighter jets were passed through the sky, and Iraqi fighter jets that took off from Abbas base flew over the ship formation to provide air defense capabilities for the formation.

After the spectacular scene, the Super Hornets helicopter returned to the base of Gershm Island.

"May I ask, is your exercise targeting the US Navy?" A British observer saw that the Iraqi naval commander had just returned from the exercise, and immediately seized the opportunity and asked.

Finally someone raised this question, which is a sharp question. After all, everyone knows what's going on in the recent situation.

"We are close allies of Iraq and the United States. Our exercise was just a very ordinary exercise, not targeting the US Navy at all," Nasser said.

At the same time, in Baghdad, reporters also raised this question to the spokesperson of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"This is just an exercise jointly held by our Iraqi Navy and the Saudi Navy, and it is not targeted." An Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesperson said: "We are close allies with the United States. Just yesterday, we also conducted a joint exercise with the United States Navy."

After saying that, the spokesperson took out a photo, in which several Iraqi fighter jets were flying over an American aircraft carrier.

The world didn't know about this confrontation, so after seeing this photo, the news reporters were sensational.

Could it be that the US aircraft carrier is coming this time to hold a joint military exercise with Iraq? (To be continued.
Chapter completed!