Chapter 10 Supplementary Attack

In terms of tactical arrangements, the US military's assault operations can be said to be impeccable.

When the cruise missile group arrived, in order to avoid accidental injuries, the Chinese fighter jets patrolling near Yokohama retreated 150 kilometers away. After all, the theater air defense system did not have time to distinguish the enemy and us when intercepting hypersonic cruise missiles. Even if the enemy and us recognition system on the intercepting missile plays a role, the fighter jets hovering over the battlefield will affect the interception operations.

The result was that when the US fighter fleet arrived over Yokohama at 20 to 23 minutes, the closest Chinese fighter jet was still more than 100 kilometers away.

At that time, the early warning aircraft patrolling the outer edge of Yokohama did not find any U.S. fighter jets entering at a very low altitude.

There is nothing strange about this. During anti-missile operations, early warning aircraft must serve the theater air defense system, so they all concentrated on illuminating the cruise missile group in tracking to guide targets for intercepting missiles, resulting in the four early warning aircraft ignoring the US military aircraft group from the south.

In this round of attack, the US military used not missiles, but anti-ship guided bombs.

In previous naval battles, the Chinese Navy had long proved that anti-ship guided bombs equipped with rocket boosters were the most ideal sea strike weapon for tactical fighters. Although this would increase the risk of breaking out of fighters, such as having to drop bombs close enough to the target, causing fighters to enter the air defense interception area of ​​the enemy fleet, it could maximize the hit rate of ammunition and thus improve attack efficiency.

Another crucial factor in replacing anti-ship missiles is that anti-ship missiles can break through the enemy fleet's air defense system is getting bigger and bigger. Since the fourth-generation fighter jets, built-in bomb bays have become the mainstream configuration, so it is difficult for tactical fighters to carry large-sized anti-ship missiles. If anti-ship missiles are designed according to the size of the fighter jet's bomb bay, their performance will be difficult to improve.

In the 1920s, the US Navy invested in the development of a small anti-ship missile targeting the F-35c built-in bomb bay, and only 400 were produced, and it was retired after five years of service. The main reason is that the maximum flight speed of this small anti-ship missile is only Mach 95, with a maximum range of less than 120 kilometers. It is impossible to break through the fleet air defense network at all, and fighter jets also have to bear huge penetration risks.

In fact, the U.S. Navy did not give up on small anti-ship missiles after this.

However, as the fleet's air defense capabilities gradually improve, especially the new terminal interception system represented by electromagnetic rapid-fire guns has begun to become popular, and small anti-ship missiles with slow speed and short range have no market. In addition, the displacement of warships is getting bigger and bigger, which puts forward higher requirements on the power of anti-ship missiles, resulting in the warheads of anti-ship missiles becoming larger and larger, and the small body limits the power of the warheads. As a result, no small anti-ship missile can be equipped with a large warhead, and it will not pose a serious threat to the warships.

You should know that if you use anti-ship missiles such as AGM-84 with an overall mass of less than 1,000 kilograms and less than 500 pounds of warhead, at least eight will be required to paralyze, and more than twelve will be required to sink. In ideal cases, the probability of more than ten missiles hitting a warship is not very high, so it is very necessary to use larger anti-ship missiles in the warhead.

The direct result of these factors is that anti-ship missiles are getting bigger and bigger, and they are no longer suitable for fighter aircraft to carry.

Although theoretically, tactical fighter jets can also carry large anti-ship missiles weighing more than two tons when using plug-in methods, in normal combat operations, especially when attacking enemy fleets, no commander will let fighter jets plug in anti-ship missiles.

You should know that external ammunition will destroy the stealth ability of fighter jets and shorten the combat radius of fighter jets.

In modern sea and air combat, it is unimaginable that fighter jets do not have stealth capabilities. You should know that fighter jets without stealth capabilities can be detected by the opponent's early warning aircraft at 400 kilometers away even if they adopt ultra-low altitude penetration tactics, and it is impossible to break through the opponent's air defense network. With the stealth capability not affected, the fifth-generation carrier-based fighter jets can shorten the exposure distance to within 150 kilometers in ultra-low altitude penetration.

Affected by these factors, the US Navy has also turned its focus to anti-ship guided bombs.

With the performance of the Chinese Navy in the previous few wars, especially the Sino-Japanese War and the Second Indian Ocean War, the US military did not encounter much trouble when developing anti-ship guided bombs, and made very smooth progress. In 2047, it developed the first 1,000-pound-level bomb, and then developed 2,000-pound-level and 4,000-pound-level bombs, but the main equipment was 1,000-pound-level and 2,000-pound-level bombs.

When dealing with large warships, the charge of 1,000 pounds of 150 kg and the charge of 2,000 pounds of bombs with a charge of more than 250 kg are enough. Only when attacking certain specific targets and having a relatively ideal combat environment can a 4,000 pound bomb be used.

This time, the US military mainly used two thousand-pound bombs, and some four thousand-pound bombs.

The attack target of US fighter jets is very clear: large warships of the Chinese Navy. Fighters carrying two thousand-pound-class bombs mainly attack cruisers and destroyers, while fighters carrying four thousand-pound-class bombs mainly attack aircraft carriers. Each pilot received clear mission instructions before taking off.

It can be said that the attack speed of US fighter jets is very fast.

Thanks to the rocket booster device, the last flight speed of the anti-ship guided bomb is above Mach 10, and the target characteristics are much smaller than that of the anti-ship missile and the missile body is stronger. If the throwing distance is within ten kilometers, the accuracy can also be achieved within ten meters without relying entirely on the inertial guidance system, and no other guidance means are required, so the last interception is more difficult.

Actual combat has proven that intercepting anti-ship guided bombs is almost impossible to complete.

You should know that when relying entirely on the inertial guidance system, even if the bomb is directly hit by the shells fired by the electromagnetic rapid-fire cannon, it will not be greatly affected. Small-stance control rocket engines can quickly correct the ballistics and ensure that the bomb hits the target.

More than ten years ago, the Chinese Navy conducted tests to prove that existing electromagnetic rapid-fire guns are difficult to pose a threat to anti-ship guided bombs within five kilometers.

The reason is very simple. The caliber of the electromagnetic rapid-fire gun is too small and the mass of the projectile is too light.

Take the 1,000-kilogram class anti-ship guided bomb for example. The end speed is Mach 10. After throwing off the rocket booster engine, the mass of the projectile body is about 700 kilograms, and the momentum is 2.38 million kilograms per second. The mass of the projectile fired by the electromagnetic speed-fire gun with a caliber of 30 mm is 70 grams. The speed at five kilometers is 2,000 meters per second, and the momentum is 140 kilograms per second, which is only one-seven thousandth of the bomb. In other words, even if the shell hits the bomb horizontally, the impact on the bomb's flight trajectory can be ignored. If it is a frontal hit, the impact on the bomb's flight speed will be minimal, and it is impossible to change the bomb's trajectory.

It can be seen from this that the principle of intercepting anti-ship guided bombs is completely different from the principle of intercepting anti-ship missiles.

If it is to intercept anti-ship missiles, there is no need to change the ballistics of the anti-ship missile at all, but directly destroy the guidance system on the anti-ship missile, causing the anti-ship missile to lose its guidance capability.

In fact, this is also the main reason why the Chinese Navy launched the "Coil Electromagnetic Rapid Fire Cannon" project when developing the "Taishan" class aircraft carrier, large general warships, and anti-submarine warships, and directly increased the caliber from 30 mm to 70 mm and the mass of the projectile to 15 kg. Only the coil electromagnetic can increase the muzzle speed of the projectile to Mach 20, and only when the projectile reaches this mass can it ensure that there is enough momentum five kilometers away to deviate the flight trajectory of the anti-ship guided bomb.

It can be said that this round of attack is fatal.

In less than five minutes, hundreds of warships of the Pacific Fleet were all shot, and six aircraft carriers and twelve cruisers were given special care.

When the situation was irreversible, most captains issued orders to rush to the beach.

Doing so is the only way to save the warship.

More importantly, only by avoiding sinking in the harbor can the collateral impact be minimized and Yokohama Port can quickly restore its usefulness. If hundreds of warships are all sunk in the harbor, then Yokohama Port will be paralyzed at least in the next few years.

You should know that in the Pacific direction, the only one that can compete with Yokohama Port is Zhoushan Port.

As for military ports such as Naha, Cam Ran Bay, Subic Bay, Nagasaki, Motosan, Qingdao, Kaohsiung, and Keelung, they either have too backward infrastructure or are too narrow in size, and they are not qualified to be the home port of the Pacific Fleet, and can only provide support to the fleet at most.

Geographically speaking, Yokohama Port has very outstanding strategic advantages.

Not to mention, Yokohama is much closer to Guam than Zhoushan to Guam, so the threat to the US Navy is much greater. To put it bluntly, the Chinese fleet can attack Guam from Yokohama Port in one day, or attack Midway after four days, and if it starts from Zhoushan, the former takes three days and the latter takes eight days, so the combat flexibility and combat efficiency of the fleet will be greatly reduced.

This is also true that when the US military focused on the Chinese Navy's Pacific Fleet, it did not forget to bomb Yokohama Port.

After the attack of the tactical fighter jets ended, a second wave of missile attacks came immediately.

These missiles were not launched by bombers, but were launched by eight US cruise missile submarines deployed in the Western Pacific. Each cruise missile submarine carries 168 hypersonic cruise missiles, and the eight submarines have a total of 1,344 cruise missiles.

For the infrastructure that attacks Yokohama Port, 1,344 missiles are definitely more than enough.

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