Chapter 1153 sinking
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It was still two volleys, passing through the tactical target assigned by the early warning aircraft in the rear. Fires kept flashing under the wings, and the missile flew out. [High quality update.]
The Su-27k fighter jets, which are responsible for the attack mission, continue to fly ultra-low altitudes. As long as they get close to a distance of 300 kilometers, they can launch missiles under their wings.
For the pilots of the F-14 fighter jets, they now face a choice. If they attack the opponent's escort fighter jets first, then the attacking aircraft groups will break through their own defense. When they took off, they only carried two Immortal missiles, and the rest were replaced by the Aim-120 missile. After all, the Immortal missile's hit rate of attacking high-mobility targets is not high, and the sparrows are already out of date.
In the 1990s, the Immortal Missile had a mid-term improvement and replaced the solid circuit. However, its design was out of date after all, and its huge size and weight made the carrier unable to make high overload maneuvers at all. Moreover, the Immortal Missile could only be carried by a tomcat. Therefore, the United States is more inclined to improve the Aim-120 to allow it to reach a longer range. Moreover, although the Immortal Missile has a longer range, various problems such as enemy identification have not fully utilized the performance of this long-range missile.
The American Tomcat fighter jet squadron forgot one very important thing. In air combat, attacking the opponent's early warning aircraft is always the most important thing. However, Iraq's carrier-based early warning aircraft is 200 kilometers behind, while Saudi Arabia's early warning aircraft is even 400 kilometers away. They cannot surpass Iraq's fighter jets and directly attack the early warning aircraft.
The Su-27k fighter jet, which was flying at an ultra-low altitude, avoided the first round of attacks of the Tomcat fighter jet, was shot down, but continued to fly forward. At this time, they seemed to be parameciums who were not afraid of death, without consciousness. Now, what they need is this fearless spirit.
Two e-2 early warning aircraft were constantly monitoring and mobilizing their own fighter jets to intercept them. However, the Tomcat fighter jets had already flown into the attack range of the fighter jets escorted by the opponent. Once the two sides began to fight, it was not easy to withdraw.
The Su-27k fighter jets under the cover of Reyer rushed towards the Tomcat fighter jets and began to fire their own medium-range bombs.
Suddenly, two Su-27k fighter jets flying at ultra-low altitude below turned on their afterburners and began to climb up quickly.
Are the Iraqis going to launch an attack? At this time, they are still nearly 400 kilometers away from their aircraft carrier formation! When did they have anti-ship missiles with such a long range? Could it be a weapon of some Soviets? However, only granite missiles can reach such a long distance, right? It is just that kind of missile that cannot be mounted on the Su-27k fighter. To be precise, that kind of missile is not yet air-launched.
The guide on the US early warning plane was a little hesitant, but he did not notice. At this time, his plane was less than 300 kilometers away from the other party!
Iraq does not have long-range air-to-air missiles, otherwise, in the battle just now, why not use long-range air-to-air missiles at long distances?
He forgot that Iraq had used long-range air-to-air missiles to attack early warning aircraft ten years ago.
However, at that time, the carrier was the MiG-25. The MiG-25 at a considerable altitude and speed would provide the missile with a sufficient initial speed and increase the missile's range.
It is impossible for the MiG-25 to take off from the ship. Although the radar cover of the Su-27k nose is large, it cannot provide guidance information for the missile to reach 300 kilometers away.
However, early warning aircraft can! The Iraqi early warning aircraft behind is already providing data for these two aircraft. Under the wings of these two aircraft, they are not carrying a thick anti-ship missile with a titanium alloy shell, but a new type of missile that is still slender.
This kind of missile is a new missile that uses ramjet engines with a range longer than the r-33. In later generations, Russia has been developed for a long time and pushed to the international market under the name of KS-172. Now, this missile has fallen into Iraq's hands. After several years of development, this missile specifically used for attacking early warning aircraft has entered the sequence of Iraq's air weapons.
However, the maneuverability of this kind of missile is not good, so it is okay to strike slow early warning aircraft, but it is not so suitable to strike flexible fighter aircraft. Moreover, it is mainly used now, the anti-radiation seeker.
At a height of 3,000 meters, the two Su-27ks each launched the two ultra-long-range missiles they carried. At this time, they were only 250 kilometers away from the US early warning aircraft.
In the formation of attack ships, two planes specifically designed for early warning aircraft emerged, and they launched missiles at a distance of more than 200 kilometers.
This made the American early warning aircraft panic.
The propeller engine was spinning rapidly, and the pilot had already opened the throttle and lowered the altitude at the same time to perform S-type maneuvering flights, hoping to avoid such missiles. In fact, they didn't know that just turn off the radar.
This is an anti-radiation seeker, not an active radar seeker. Although the Soviets were equipped with an active radar seeker in the final development stage, after Iraqi experiments, the effect was not as good as that of a passive seeker.
The missile hit the body of the early warning aircraft and exploded a big hole. The early warning aircraft swayed and fell into the sea.
The aircraft carriers in the rear immediately continued to eject new early warning aircraft. They must maintain early warning aircraft in the air to effectively monitor those fighter jets flying in at ultra-low altitudes.
"The catapult failure." The captain of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier heard the sound depressedly, and at the critical moment, he lost the chain again. Moreover, this time it was not a slipway failure, but a high-pressure gas tank failure. It took less than half an hour to repair it. At the same time, all four catapults were unavailable.
Just now, dozens of aircraft were ejected with high intensity, which made the mature catapults in the United States unable to support them. Of course, another reason is that the Kitty Hawk is old after all.
This did not happen to the Washington, and another early warning aircraft that was taken off urgently flew in safe airspace, while continuing to monitor those enemy aircraft.
However, there is a five-minute gap in between, and these five-minute gap is the hope of Iraq's victory.
Because, at this time, the other Su-27k had already flew to a distance of 300 kilometers, and the Tu-22m bomber and the J-H-7 group had already arrived at the battlefield at this time.
If the early warning aircraft were still there, they must have discovered a newly flying ultra-low altitude aircraft fleet. Now, during this period, the Iraqi Air Force has approached a dangerous distance.
The two Su-27k fighters that launched the missiles did not return, but continued to climb high, received the instructions from early warning aircraft to engage in air combat with American fighters, which is also the benefit of the Su-27k. This heavy fighter can change to air combat after throwing away the bulky missiles. Although it now only carries two short-range missiles and two medium-range missiles, if you are lucky, you can still kill two of the other side's aircraft.
Just as the air combat was in full swing, the ballistic missile had already hit the sky and after an emergency high-speed left rudder was carried out, the captain of the Kitty Eagle was still in fear. The warhead fell into the water, and the splashed water column was more than 20 meters high. The sound of the aroused hit the hull. It also sounded very terrifying, but it also confirmed their judgment.
It is not that easy to launch a ballistic missile in an aircraft carrier because it lacks the last thing: the last last step guidance.
After all, ballistic missiles are used to attack fixed targets. If you want to strike mobile targets at sea, all anti-ship missiles have an active radar seeker at the front end, which is used to determine the final direction of the target and modify their own route. However, for ballistic missiles that are down at a speed of more than ten times the speed of sound, there is no problem with the radar on their heads. However, a high-temperature diffuser that can pass through the radar waves is also required, so there is almost no material to use.
Therefore, before re-entering the atmosphere, the satellite signal was received for the last time. It could only determine the possible location of the other party according to the pre-designed algorithm, and then hit it.
Not all warships have such luck. Both the largest aircraft carriers dodged, and the cruiser with the second largest displacement also dodged. However, an Arleigh Burke-class was smashed, and the huge energy warhead penetrated the hull. In this case, the hull did not break immediately, which was a miracle.
Moreover, the warhead did not hit the mk41 launch unit, otherwise it would definitely cause a huge explosion. However, the situation was not much better. The ammunition under the naval gun in front was ignited, which damaged the controllers' emergency operations and did not put out the fire. Finally, during the explosion of the ammunition, the head in front was exploded, and the sea water swarmed in. The captain had to give an order to abandon the ship.
For air defense, as long as there is a missile that escapes the net, it will cause a huge disaster. Now, Iraq is only using ordinary warheads. If it is equipped with a nuclear warhead, then the entire fleet will be wiped out at this time.
The air battle between escort fighter jets has already begun. As the most powerful US Navy, they actually felt a sense of panic that they had never felt before.
After the early warning aircraft took off, it was immediately discovered that a batch of new fighter jets were flying at an ultra-low altitude. In terms of quantity, it was definitely not a carrier-based aircraft on Iraq's aircraft carriers, but their land-based aircraft. However, how could their land-based aircraft have such a large range?
Fighters relying solely on escort are definitely not enough. The Aegis warships are on high alert and are ready to fight against the whistling saturation attacks at any time.
At the same time, the attack aircraft group released by the US aircraft carrier formation has also entered the long-range defense circle of the Iraqi aircraft carrier formation, and the first round of Tomahawk anti-ship missiles also flew there.
Twenty escorted Su-27k fighter jets from Iraq's aircraft carrier formation immediately went up and fought, and the battle also started outside the Iraqi aircraft carrier formation.
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