A giant like an aircraft carrier wants to sail safely at sea. The steel used in construction is also specially made, far exceeding ordinary warships. This is also the reason why only a few countries can manufacture aircraft carriers. At that time, Ah San was unwilling to endure the high cost of buying a modified second-hand aircraft carrier. When he decided to make it himself, he found that if he wanted to start construction, he had to buy steel from Russia at a sky-high price.

Iraq has moved half of the Black Sea shipyard back, and at the same time, it has moved the equipment, technology and personnel of the special steel factory back to Iraq. Kusai does not want to be controlled by others in this regard.

Therefore, although the aircraft carrier's ability to resist strikes is not as strong as that of battleships, it can still withstand ordinary anti-ship missiles when they attack.

Once Western countries used retired aircraft carriers for testing, and suffered more than a dozen anti-ship missiles. The fierce explosion on it caused it to lose its navigation ability and did not completely sink to the bottom of the sea.

If a few ordinary C801 series anti-ship missiles fly in, the Kitty will resist and nothing will happen.

However, it is different now. The missiles flying at several times the speed of sound, even if they are not equipped with **, the huge kinetic energy brought by high speed has a very powerful lethality. What's more, they are not facing one or two, but fourteen missiles!

"Boom!" On the fifth deck, the trauma officer heard the loud sound, which was almost shattering their eardrums. Then, there was a fire in front of him.

The high-energy armor-piercing blasted the warhead and successfully tore open the shell of the aircraft carrier, but only a small hole was torn open.

Without a warhead with a charge of more than 500 kilograms of medicine, it is impossible to effectively penetrate the aircraft carrier. A big guy like KH-41 is still not powerful enough.

He ignored the few sailors who died, and the rest immediately carried out damage control, put out the fire and prevented the fire from spreading.

Then, there was another collision, and this time it broke out in the rear cabin.

The Kitty Hawk kept moaning during the impact of KH-41. This was the eighth one. Although it hit the body almost at the same time, the captain of the Kitty Hawk still remembered it very clearly.

It seems that my aircraft carrier can resist. At that time, just leave enough time for yourself to drive back.

However, this wish will be shattered in the next moment.

A missile that flew in from behind drilled into the opening where the missile had exploded. After drilling in, it tore opens the second watertight door, and then an explosion occurred inside.

Although important weapons, ammunition and other things are all placed in the center of the aircraft carrier, separated by several layers of steel plates, the engine compartment behind is only separated by two decks.

The explosion of this missile affected the engine room.

In order to power this warship worth tens of thousands of tons, the Kitty Hawk's boiler is very powerful and the internal pressure is also very high. This explosion will cause severe damage to the boiler, and a large explosion will occur in the cracked area.

Two of the eight boilers of the Kitty Eagle exploded. Suddenly, a propeller stopped rotating, and the entire boiler room was surrounded by high-temperature and high-pressure steam. Several outside turbine operators were steamed by the heat flow.

Steam affected the remaining boilers and they did not work properly.

The Kitty Hawk completely lost power, and because the propeller on one side stopped first, the warship was yawed, and then the hull began to tilt.

Then several missiles flew in and continued to hit several compartments.

The tilt of the ship caused the damage control personnel to be unable to deal with the problem in time. They did not have time to close the cabins, and the sea water began to pour into the aircraft carrier continuously.

The hull of the Kitty Hawk began to tilt even more unconsciously.

All the people on the aircraft carrier's faces suddenly turned from white to dead. They seemed to have realized that this aircraft carrier might not be able to escape a fate.

This is the first aircraft carrier to be sunk in the war since World War II!

Another Washington ship is a little better than the Kitty Hawk, but it's just a little better.

Compared with Kitty Hawk class, the Nimitz class, which has a larger displacement of water, has a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a larger displacement. In addition to the hull and deck that continues to use high-strength steel to resist the attack of semi-armor-piercing bombs, during construction, the key parts, ammunition depots and cabins are equipped with 63.5 mm thick "Kevra" armor, which also makes its displacement reach a scale of 100,000 tons. The ship has 23 watertight transverse bulkheads and 10 fire-proof partitions, fire protection, damage pipes and impact resistance. Its ability to withstand strikes is twice that of Kitty Hawk class.

However, it also bears more missiles, with nineteen anti-ship missiles hitting its side body. One side of it has severe water inflow and the hull has begun to tilt. However, due to the timely closing of the watertight door, the hull has no danger of sinking.

However, from a cruiser surviving next to it, its deck had been tilted significantly.

This Ticonderoga-class cruiser is one of the surviving ones.

Except for the aircraft carriers that have the kind of anti-strike capabilities in the battleships during World War II, the rest of the warships do not have this ability. The KH-41 cannot chew the aircraft carriers, but they can easily deal with cruisers, destroyers and frigates. With a displacement of less than 7,000 tons, they can definitely be killed with just one round. And only two cans are needed for a displacement of 10,000 tons.

Under this round of attacks, the US aircraft carrier formation was only one tilted Washington, one Ticonderoga class, and one Perry class.

The rest have already sunk into the water or are slowly sinking into the sea.

In the air, their fighter jets shot down fifteen Su-27Ks, and they also suffered losses of seventeen, almost tied.

Their attack formation has begun to be intercepted by the escort fighter jets of the Iraqi aircraft carrier formation before it has reached the distance to launch the harpoon missiles it carries.

The U.S. Harpoon missile is a good anti-ship missile with better performance than Feiyu and C802. However, its disadvantage is that it has a short range and a small speed, only a range of 130 kilometers and a speed of Mach 0.75. Therefore, it is okay to attack a single warship, but attack the aircraft carrier formation, and there is almost no hope of winning.

They did not expect that after Iraq sent nearly 100 attack fighters, it could still maintain twenty air-optimal fighters in the formation to intercept them.

With their numerical advantage, they continued to approach the other side's formation, but the missiles of the air defense warships of Iraq's aircraft carrier formation successfully intercepted the missiles they launched.

The air defense force of Iraq's aircraft carrier formation is no worse than that of the United States, and they are even more advanced than that of the United States. In recent years, for Iraq, it has been a few years of rapid development, and their carrier-based air defense systems have long been mature.

The Soviet Union used to be a theory of missile victory, so they vigorously developed various missiles, including supersonic anti-ship missiles, and ignored aircraft carriers. The United States was a theory of aircraft carrier victory. Although it also attached great importance to anti-ship missiles, it had never developed supersonic anti-ship missiles.

Due to the strong attack power of US aircraft carriers, generally speaking, their hostile targets only have limited air defense capabilities. Even in the Soviet Union, the US Navy would defeat the Soviet Navy before the Kuznetsov aircraft carrier was put into service.

So, they now realize that they have almost no chance of winning if they want to attack an Iraqi aircraft carrier formation whose strength is no less than theirs.

Because this is the Arabian waters, they were also attacked by land-based fighter jets at a long distance, which put them at a complete disadvantage.

This naval battle is enough to be recorded in history, and history has remembered this day. On April 10, 2002, in the Arab waters, the Iraqi Navy took the initiative to attack, sinking a US Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, injured a USS Washington, and at the same time destroyed two US Navy missile cruisers, three missile destroyers and two frigates.

The Iraqi Navy suffered no losses. Except for twenty-five fighter jets being shot down, none of their warships suffered any losses.

Of course, this is on the surface. Just as the sea-air confrontation was in full swing, underwater battles were also underway. Two Los Angeles-class submarines wanted to launch an attack on Iraq's aircraft carriers. Iraq's submarine forces counterattacked. During the battle, they sank two American submarines, and one of their own submarines also suffered two torpedoes in order to protect the aircraft carrier. However, they could still sail and returned to the base from the sea after dark.

This is a day that excited the entire Arab world. They finally defeated the American aircraft carrier formation for the first time on the front. For them, the Americans are no longer a powerful military existence. They can face the Americans' military interference. They proudly say that we have the confidence and ability to defend our own territory. The Middle East will solve the problems themselves!

After the aircraft carrier was damaged, the US carrier-based aircraft was forced to land at a nearby Yemeni Air Force Base. After that, Iraq immediately dispatched airborne troops to control the air force base and captured all the American pilots.

The naval battle has not ended yet, and Iraq does not allow the remaining warships to slip back. After the attack squadron returns, they mount the bullets again, eject and take off, and prepare for a second supplementary bombing. At this time, they no longer carry the valuable KH-41 anti-ship missiles, but Iraq's own series of anti-ship missiles based on C801, because the American aircraft carrier has completely failed at this time, and this attack is just a cleaning of the battlefield.

Moreover, the American Aegis warships had just launched those long-range air defense missiles, so they flew over from high altitudes and then dropped bombs.

When they flew over, what they did not expect was that the remaining two warships chose to surrender.

The air defense missiles have been fired, and the supply ships have not followed up. There are brothers who fell into the water all around. If they resist, it will only be the end of being destroyed. What they need to do more is to rescue those brothers who fell into the water. (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!)
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