What is the most deterrent in this era? Of course it is a ballistic missile! Especially intercontinental ballistic missiles!
When the missile drags the flames and rises from the ground, it means death, it means a world war, and it means that the earth is facing destruction.
This is the power of ballistic missiles.
And now, at the height of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union had the ability to destroy each other several times. The reason for deploying so many is for insurance.
Under the enemy's first wave of strikes, his remaining ballistic missiles can still destroy the opponent. If this is the case, the opponent must stay awake and want to throw a nuclear bomb for fun? Come on, destroy together!
In this way, the so-called theory of nuclear deterrence has been formed. If the balance is maintained under deterrence, both sides can destroy the other, so neither of them dare to act first.
The key to nuclear deterrence is the kind of mobile platforms, such as those nuclear submarines deep in the ocean, carrying huge nuclear warheads, such as those missile trains that follow railways and wander around the vast Soviet land, such as the all-wheel drive. , A wheeled mobile launch vehicle that can travel in the wild at any time.
However, the main body of nuclear deterrence is still fixed silos. The number of nuclear bombs in the silo is the largest.
Ballistic missiles and rockets are almost the same. Rockets are launched on the ground. However, if you deploy ballistic missiles directly on the ground, you will face various problems such as wind and sun. Therefore, dig a hole in the ground and The storage of missiles underground is the main method of nuclear bombs.
It is actually unscientific to call him a silo. In wartime, it provides missile launch missions. In peacetime, the missile is actually placed here after it leaves the factory. There will be as many missiles as there are. How many silos, because there is no chance of reloading at all.
At the same time, it does not mean that it will be launched immediately. It can be said that it will not be launched during its entire life cycle. Then, this silo is usually the storage place of the missile, and it needs to provide storage, inspection and maintenance. In order to increase the survivability of the missile, the current missile silo must be able to withstand the nuclear explosion effect after the atomic bomb explodes. When the missile is attacked by the other side, the missile in the underground well is safe and sound.
For example, the launch cover of a missile silo weighs several hundred tons, and can survive the attack of the opponent before starting a counterattack.
And a large number of silos are deployed in a no-man’s land. These are the launching positions for intercontinental ballistic missiles. In the Soviets, there are many such positions, and there is one on Sakhalin Island.
Compared with those mobile launch platforms, fixed launch silo, the biggest advantage, of course, is the short preparation time.
The time for refueling is the same. However, before a ballistic missile is launched, it must calculate the trajectory, enter the launch program, when the superior ignites, and when it re-enters the atmosphere, and the trajectory of the ballistic missile must be accurately calculated.
These calculations require the coordination of multiple data. Of course, the most important is the coordinates of the launch position and the target. Only by determining the two coordinates can the trajectory be calculated in accordance with various atmospheric conditions, latitude and longitude, and so on.
If it is a mobile launch, it is not easy to determine one's position. In an era without a global positioning system, it is difficult and time-consuming to obtain a high-precision position of one's own.
For a fixed silo, its own coordinates are determined, and the measurement is done. At the same time, its strike target is also determined. This is considered when the silo is designed. In other words, most ballistic missiles, From the day of entering the silo, the trajectory is calculated, and when needed, it can fly with fuel.
In this way, the response speed of the fixed silos is very fast.
At the same time, such a position is also very important. The main task of the Homeland Defense Air Force on Sakhalin Island is to guard the ballistic missile launching position here. It is only recently that the main task has become the battle for air supremacy with the American aviation in Hokkaido. , To cover one's own cross-sea landing forces.
And now, an American plane is actually heading towards its ICBM position. How can this be done
Osipovich and his wingman, regardless of fuel consumption, lavishly started the afterburner, wanting to rush to the vicinity of their ballistic missile position as soon as possible, and strive to shoot down the opponent before the opponent flies!
The Soviet air defense system is strictly demarcated. The airspace of the homeland air defense air force is separated from the defense area of the ground air defense missile force. In this way, the problem of identifying friend or foe is avoided.
The principle of the ground ballistic missile force is that as long as it enters my range, all will be killed without mercy!
Hit yourself? Let yourself not have eyes and fly into the no-fly zone
Near our ballistic missile position, there is a Sam-6 missile launch position, and it is dangerous within 30 kilometers of it.
If you let that Tomcat fighter fly to the ballistic missile position, it would be hitting the face of the Homeland Air Defense!
With so many fighters, they didn't stop them and let them reach their ballistic missile positions? If this kind of aircraft carried a nuclear bomb during the war, it would have blown up one's own position.
The two planes were flying at high speed and wanted to fly over as quickly as possible to intercept the abominable American fighter plane. At this time, Nathan didn't know that he was flying towards the ICBM launching position.
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union used satellites to detect each other’s ballistic missile launch positions. These solid silos were the targets of the intercontinental missiles of both sides. As long as the other’s missiles were blown up in the silos, the other side would still What power can there be to fight back
This is also a concept of nuclear deterrence, but satellites alone are not enough. In many cases, as long as you take a certain posture and mobilize an engineer to work in the wilderness for a few days, it will be marked as a ballistic missile silo.
The real silo may have been started underground, and nothing can be seen on the surface.
As it is now.
"We can't return directly." In the fighter plane, Nathan said to Gus: "Now, we have been discovered, so the Soviets will definitely set an ambush on our way back. We must avoid unnecessary fighting."
This time, it was a reconnaissance flight, carrying reconnaissance equipment. Although a few missiles were also hung up, they were all used for self-defense. Nathan didn't want to fight the enemy as a last resort.
Bring back the important information detected!
So, Nathan made a bold plan to cross from the middle of Sakhalin Island, and then fly back from its western strait at a super low altitude! (End of this chapter)