Three hundred kilometers above the sea.
The cruiser Chicago is already at full power.
In the history of American warships, there are several Chicago ships. The last one was hit by a torpedo thrown by Japanese aviation during World War II and eventually sank.
The current ship belongs to the Albany-class guided-missile cruiser. At the same time, when it was built, this cruiser was outdated, especially the superstructure. Therefore, all the original superstructures and weapons of this warship were removed and replaced. . The converted ship has a new, very high superstructure and relies heavily on aluminum to save weight.
From the outside, the superstructure already has a relatively new appearance, but the hull below is still old. Such a combination is simply nondescript. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were many such modifications.
The shipboard weapon system is changing with each passing day. The previous hull cannot be eliminated and wasted. It can only be modified in this way. The current USS Chicago is a Baltimore-class cruiser, which was converted from the San Francisco Naval Shipyard in July 59. Came, and was put into service again on May 2, 64, as the CG-11. After that, it became the flagship of the Third Fleet of the Pacific Fleet.
Now, along with the aircraft carrier battle group, during combat patrols, it has accepted the most dangerous mission for the first time in history, and now, its mission is about to be completed.
Pretend to be your own aircraft carrier battle group and attract the opponent's Tu-22M bomber to project missiles!
Yes, this is a suicidal task. After accepting this task, the bearded captain has almost one question. Who on earth came up with this bad idea? I have to say, this idea is very interesting!
No one dared to think so, it was just a joke. If nothing else, it must be the idea of Nathan, who has a different brain from ordinary people.
Only Nathan has such a horrible idea.
One of his warships is huge, and on the opponent’s radar screen, it can definitely show the appearance of a large warship. While the main fleet of his side is evacuating, his warship is facing the direction of the opponent’s reconnaissance plane. At the same time, in the sea around him, two electronic warplanes released a large piece of chaff in advance. The chaff hovered in the sea. Together with the warship, it formed a strong echo reflection. The reconnaissance plane is not capable of long-range resolution and can only see the large echoes. Therefore, when the reconnaissance plane's radar is turned on, it accurately finds the target.
What's next? Of course it's gone!
The Chicago was running at full horsepower, four boilers were working at full power, black smoke gurgled out from the chimney, and the dark night sky echoed the peculiar whistle of four steam turbines, driven by 120,000 shaft horsepower. Next, the cruiser with a displacement of 17,000 tons bounced out of the sea with a maximum speed of 32 knots.
At this moment, the captain was standing on the bridge, looking at the dark sea ahead, with all his attention, while beside him, everyone else was a little timid.
Can you be timid? There are hundreds of anti-ship missiles flying in, any one of them is enough to sink a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier! And, God knows if those Soviets were mixed with nuclear warheads in anti-ship missiles!
As long as they are targeted by any anti-ship missile, they will die here.
However, the captain was not afraid. All this seemed dangerous, but they were all being calculated accurately.
Those anti-ship missiles sounded terrifying, but the speed of one's own side was 32 knots, and during this period of time when the enemy's missiles arrived, they were able to travel several nautical miles away.
The enemy’s missile needs to turn on the radar at the end to search. Its radar seeker has a very narrow field of view. As long as one runs out of the opponent’s seeker, it can be safe and sound.
At the same time, in order to cover the escape of the Chicago, two EA-6B electronic jammers are currently undergoing full-power jamming operations.
The A-6 attack aircraft is the main attack aircraft currently in service on the US aircraft carrier. At the same time, extensive improvements have been made on the body of this attack aircraft. Among them, the electronic jammer is a derivative model.
Compared with the ordinary A-6 attack aircraft, its body has been lengthened and reinforced to accommodate four crew members. Except for one pilot, the other three are all electronic officers.
The upper part of its vertical tail is relatively wide, and there is an electronic interference antenna dome inside. Its core is the AN/ALQ-99 tactical jamming system, and it can also carry five external electronic jamming pods. One of them is under the belly and four are under the wings. Each pod is equipped with two interfering transceivers, which can interfere with one of seven bands.
The full-band, large-blocking electromagnetic interference in later novels requires astronomical energy. It is impossible to achieve full-band electromagnetic interference, only selective interference.
At the same time, this also requires strong electricity, so there is a pneumatic fan at the front end of each pod to drive a generator to power the pod.
(This design is rather peculiar. Because the power of the generator driven by the engine is limited, we simply add a wind generator. This reminds Huadong Zhixiong of a human design, adding a wind generator on the top of the car, so that the car will drive forward. , It can generate electricity, and the generated electricity can drive the car forward. Well, the perpetual motion machine has appeared, a car that does not consume fuel.)
Now, the two EA-6Bs carry pods according to the mission combination. The fairing on its vertical tail is equipped with a sensitive surveillance antenna. When it detects the radiation signal of the distant Tu-95 sea search radar, it will immediately go to the sea. The Chicago issued an early warning.
At this time, the Chicago was ready, and when the E-2 AWACS reported that the other party had launched a missile, it immediately turned off! At the same time, the two electromagnetic jammers started full-power interference, so that the other party did not know the movements of their warships.
What's the use after tossing for a long time? Waste the Soviets' anti-ship missiles!
Yes, it is a waste of Soviet anti-ship missiles, three flying regiments, hundreds of KH-22 anti-ship missiles, and a saturation attack. How much consumption will it cost? In the second half of the year, the Pacific Fleet will definitely tighten its belt to live.
And when the Soviets knew that the hundreds of missiles they had launched hadn't hit any target at all, that is, they had launched into an empty sea, they would definitely feel quite regretful, right? If they were from island nations, they would have to apologize by caesarean section.
Of course, they fired missiles, which was only one of their purposes. In this way, the charges of the Soviets for taking the initiative to attack would not escape. Next, let the Soviets know that their tactics will be crushed by the American naval aviation! (End of this chapter)