When Nathan and Gus were dressed neatly and rushed to the pilot preparation room on the bridge, the deck was already full of fire and steam. The two standby Tomcat fighters had already dragged their tongues and left the aircraft carrier. The deck flew into the dark night sky.
"What's the matter?" Nathan asked Petrobori, "The Soviets really came here?"
"A target was found. Now, the cruise fighter is flying towards the target. We need to visually determine the target type." Petrobori said.
Although the United States and the Soviet Union have not declared war yet, the conflict between them is already fierce. Even in this case, the United States is still cautious and cannot go directly to fire. It must first identify the model.
"If it were a Soviet maritime reconnaissance plane, then it would be the Soviet Tu-22M bomber group." Nathan frowned when he looked at the position marked on the aeronautical chart.
This night, the single target should be a reconnaissance plane. I did not expect that the Soviets would actually want to attack at night!
However, it is not as easy at night as during the day. Generally speaking, the Soviets’ Tu-22M bomber group should launch attacks during the day, because they can use satellites during the day!
In addition to using satellites to detect targets, their missiles can also be guided midway through satellites. In this way, the reconnaissance aircraft does not have to risk providing mid-range guidance.
Because there is no strong electromagnetic radiation, it should not be Tu-126, and even if it is Tu-126, their radar detection range is not enough.
How to do? Next, it will be related to the survival of the aircraft carrier formation. A large number of Tu-22M bombers will launch a saturation attack on their own aircraft carrier formation
In this era, the US aircraft carrier formation does not have the Aegis system to protect their skies.
The Aegis system is capable of multi-target attack and can calmly respond to incoming missiles. Now, a large number of US Navy services are still the Allen-Sumner-class destroyers and Keeling-class destroyers that started construction during World War II.
These old ships still look the same as they were during World War II, without any modern aesthetics. Among them, the Allen-Sumner-class destroyers have gradually withdrawn from active service, and the Killing-class destroyers will have to take a few more years before they can be used. Modification, equipped with STIR radar and sea sparrow air defense missile.
The main force of US warship air defense was the carrier-based air defense system developed during World War II to deal with the Japanese kamikaze suicide aircraft.
These three missile systems, including the Beagle, Tatar, and Brass Knight, constitute the first-generation surface defense ship-to-air missile system of the United States. Since the first letter of the English name of the three models starts with "T", so There is another ship-to-air missile system commonly known as the "Three T".
Among them, the Beagle and the Tatar are medium-range and short-range missiles, with a firing height of almost 10,000 meters. The Brass Knight is a big guy with a ramjet, mainly used for fleet air defense to deal with Attacks by various types of aircraft. The maximum firing range is 120 kilometers, and the firing range is 3 to 26.5 kilometers.
In other words, if the MiG-25 comes over, the Navy can use brass knights in addition to intercepting Tomcat fighters.
Once it comes to a large area of anti-ship missiles, relying on the 3T system is not enough.
What to do then
"Colonel, I suggest that we immediately eject all Tomcat fighters now, and we fly to their Tu-22M bomber's only way to intercept them ahead of time!" Nathan said.
Now that oneself has found the other side, the other side has also found oneself, and then it will call the Tu-22M bomber, the supersonic bombers with variable swept wings, it will take at least an hour to come over at full power. During this time, it was enough for one's own side to set up an ambush position and intercept them from the other side's halfway.
They want to use the night to attack, and there is a tomcat, and they won't let them succeed.
This is also the best plan, intercept them before the other party launches missiles!
The route is the only one. The other party cannot go in a circle. It must have taken off from Sakhalin Island, flew over the four northern islands, and then pounced towards oneself along a straight line. Together with the powerful search capabilities of the AWG-9 radar, the medium-sized bomber can be far away. I found them far away.
However, Colonel Petropaoli shook his head anyway.
Although this plan is very tempting, but the meaning of the above is very obvious, when the opponent is not clearly hostile, oneself cannot fire.
It's like fighting during the day, almost all of which broke out over Hokkaido, and the wreckage also fell on Hokkaido. In this way, it will be easy to negotiate in the future.
It must be taken care of by one's own side.
But now, those supersonic bombers can launch an attack from 500 kilometers away. Will you kill them all at a distance of 500 kilometers? In the mouths of the Soviets, they would definitely say that they provoked it on their own initiative, and that they were flying normally.
During the day, the Soviets had already suffered a loss. Now, if the Soviets continue to suffer too much, they will become angry with embarrassment. Maybe the Three World Wars really broke out.
It's hard to think about it, but they have to look at the problem more from a political point of view, which is really inappropriate now.
Looking at Petropaoli’s expression, Nathan was extremely angry. Sure enough, you guys are all soft-hearted and dare not dare anything. Opposite them, there is a guy named Andre, who is a fierce guy. With the Soviet Union, it broke through the siege of the West. In the end, it divided the West, flattened Europe, and the United States was also divided.
Thinking of this, Nathan was particularly anxious, but he knew that it was useless to be anxious, and he had to find a way.
"If that's the case, then I have another idea." Nathan said: "We can sacrifice a warship for the absolute safety of the entire formation."
When he heard what Nathan said, Captain Steve finally agreed: "Okay, then let's do it."
Sure enough, such an idea of shrinking the head and tortoise is acceptable? Nathan was also speechless: "Okay, then I'll go down and prepare."
"Idea, fleet, speed up to sail south." Colonel Steve began to issue combat orders: "Chicago, change course and sail north. Except Chicago, all warships, keep the radio silent!"
This is an escape plan.
Following his order, the huge aircraft carrier fleet began to full rudder right and sailed toward the south, and the opposite of the fleet was the heavy cruiser Chicago, which was on full power and all the electromagnetic equipment was turned on. (End of this chapter)