Anti-ship missiles are different from air-to-air missiles. They have different targets and different methods.
For example, air-to-air missiles generally fly directly over. In order to fly farther, like Phoenix missiles, higher ballistics are used to reduce air resistance.
Anti-ship missiles, in order to avoid being detected by the other party, will switch to ultra-low-altitude flight at a long distance.
Generally speaking, depending on the range, their route selection is also different.
For example, a missile with a range of more than 100 kilometers is enough to fly almost at an ultra-low altitude, and at most use high ballistic flight within a few tens of kilometers after launch. This kind of missile with a range of 500 to 600 kilometers has more options .
The range of the missile changes with their altitude. Now, the target is more than 300 kilometers away. Therefore, this kind of missile with a range of 600 kilometers has no hesitation in choosing it during the entire flight. They fly at ultra-low altitudes, so they are the easiest to penetrate defenses, and at the same time, they are not easy to be intercepted.
High-altitude interception is different from low-altitude interception. High-altitude interception is more reliable, while at low altitude, filtering out clutter is a hassle.
However, when they fly at ultra-low altitudes, they not only conceal themselves, but also shield their sight.
Yes, it is difficult for them to find the target in the case of ultra-low-altitude flight. Therefore, according to the pre-designed procedure, they will suddenly climb from the sea level when they are ten to twenty kilometers away from the target. Get up, and then turn on your own airborne radar to search for the target!
If they can search for the target, they will dive down again and fly into ultra-low altitude, almost fleetingly on the opponent's radar screen.
However, this is for shipborne radars. At this time, they are all hidden from the early warning aircraft. Looking down from the sky, no matter how low their height is, they will be accurately found out, and they want to unfold secretly. Attack, there are no doors!
If it is other missiles of later generations that have the data link function, then only a leading missile will fly high, and at the same time it will transmit the signal to other missiles, exposing itself and preserving the main force.
But now, they don't have a data link function. All missiles are guided by their own radar, so they must be pulled up.
When they climbed to a height of several hundred meters, they flattened, and the sea search and attack radar in front of the warhead began to scan in the predetermined sea area.
The target is nearby, and it will definitely be found.
However, they did not find anything. Under the strong electromagnetic interference, their seekers could no longer distinguish the massive amount of data, which is true and which is false.
If they have a brain, the brain should be blurred at this time. If they have eyes, their eyes are cataracts, and the eyes are white, and nothing can be seen clearly.
Suddenly, they were dumbfounded, they had flown hundreds of kilometers, waiting for the final attack, but in front of them, there was nothing, nothing was found!
How to do
This is a difficult problem facing all radar guided missiles. What if there is an interference source and the target becomes blurred
The Phoenix missile provides a solution. If I can't see clearly and can't find the target, then I will look for the interference source, and I will hit whoever interferes.
However, the large swaths of KH-22 anti-ship missiles that are flying now are all lost. They are like lost lambs, helpless and hesitating. They continue to fly forward, but they cannot attack at all without finding the target. .
"Boom!" After flying over the target area, the first missile exploded. It burst into the sky with shining fireworks, illuminating the dark sea. It was unwilling, but its mission was already ended.
With the first one, there is a second one, and a third one!
The Soviets’ costly missiles all became brilliant fireworks on the sea. They detonated their bodies on the sea. They would break the silence of the night sky. They became a shameful joke.
The other Tu-95 maritime reconnaissance planes did not continue to approach to guide them after discovering that one of them had crashed. For them, they could not overcome the strong electromagnetic interference, and they could not accurately find the target.
At the same time, American fighter jets have come to expel them. In order to avoid the fate of the same crash, they can only fly away.
On the sea surface, the explosion of anti-ship missiles one after another seems to be telling the flaws of sea surface saturation attack.
Electronic technology, without advanced electronic technology, everything is in vain!
The Soviet Union has been taking nuclear war as the concept, thinking that integrated circuits cannot bear the impact of nuclear explosions, preferring to use electronic tubes, and the volume of electronic tubes cannot continue to shrink, and their electronic systems cannot continue to improve.
Only by relying on these backward missiles, it is impossible to truly hit the U.S. Navy, and a few electronic jammers completely deceived them.
Of course, in addition to the cause of the electronic jammer, there is also a real reason. There is indeed no warship there, and the sea area there is indeed empty.
A few nautical miles away, the cruiser Chicago.
The cruiser was still racing at a speed of 32 knots. The chimney on the top emitted thick black smoke and melted into the black night sky. At this time, some officers and sailors who were no longer prepared for combat missions had already stood on the deck and looked far away. Fireworks in the sky.
After failing to find the target, these missiles did not dive down at all. They flew at a height of several hundred meters, and then exploded. This scene looked so beautiful. The dark night sky was illuminated by these fireworks. .
On the top of the warship, a three-coordinate SPS-43 search radar was still rotating. On the bridge, the radar officer looked at the radar screen and kept counting.
More than seventy of them have blew themselves up!
How many missiles did the Soviets lose this night? These big fireworks are worth millions of rubles, right
The Soviets are too generous.
There are also photographers who took this brilliant picture and waited until tomorrow to make the headlines in the newspapers to see what the Soviets were like.
At this moment, suddenly, the radar officer saw a bright spot unusual.
He rubbed his eyes to make sure he was not mistaken, and then his voice resounded across the bridge: "A missile is coming towards us!"
That target was clearly displayed on his radar. At this distance, even if the other side attacked the sea, it would be found. At this time, it was flying towards its own side, and it was accelerating continuously.
God! How can there be fish that slip through the net? (End of this chapter)