kvmb Chapter 324: Dimensional strike of the Sea Eagle-1 anti-ship missile, three-dimensional landing oper
Chapter 324: Dimensional strike of the Sea Eagle-1 anti-ship missile, three-dimensional landing oper
One after another, F-14 Tomcat carrier-based fighter jets were launched from the deck of the Qin-class aircraft carrier.
In less than 20 minutes, 20 F-14 Tomcat fighter jets from two squadrons were ejected.
A group of F-14 Tomcats formed a formation in the air and flew towards the Gulf of Oman under the guidance of the E-2C Hawkeye early warning aircraft.
The mission of these two Tomcat squadrons was to sink the English ships still in the Gulf of Oman and clear a sea passage to the port of Abbas for the landing troops.
Bandar Abbas is the main landing point for British troops, with more than 20 warships of various types stationed in this area.
The largest ship in terms of tonnage was the County-class heavy cruiser, which entered service in the early 30s.
Merchant ships also transported a steady stream of combat supplies to Bandar Abbas through the Persian Gulf.
Two W-class destroyers, led by a Linxian-class light cruiser, were patrolling the waters north of Arabia.
British intelligence discovered that a large fleet of the ancient country passed through the Sunda Strait.
This information also attracted great attention from the English Navy.
They speculated that the ancient country's fleet was most likely to go to Persia through the Sunda Strait.
This patrol formation consisting of three ships is designed to prevent the ancient country's third fleet from rushing in from this direction.
Each of the four F-4 Tomcat fighter jets carries a Sea Eagle-14B anti-ship missile on its four pylons under the fuselage.
Model A is a ship-launched model, and Model B is an air-launched model.
The maximum range is 115 kilometers, the warhead is 220 kilograms, and the guidance method is active radar guidance.
This type of anti-ship missile may be a little difficult to use against large warships.
After all, its warhead is only more than 200 kilograms.
Even if it can attack the waterline of a warship, its power is definitely not as strong as that of a torpedo.
But it is still easy to use against small and medium-sized ships.
At a distance of about 150 kilometers, the F-14 Tomcat's radar had already locked onto three warships.
The four fighter jets adopted a 1+1+2 group attack mode.
The two W-class destroyers were each attacked by an F-14 Tomcat fighter.
The larger Linxian-class cruiser was attacked simultaneously by two F-14 Tomcat fighter jets.
Once the effective range reached 100 kilometers, the four Tomcat fighters launched an attack at the same time.
"Whoosh..."
"Whoosh..."
One after another, Sea Eagle anti-ship missiles took off from their launchers and whizzed towards targets hundreds of kilometers away.
During the initial and middle stages of flight, each Sea Eagle anti-ship missile maintained a flight altitude of about 800 meters and a flight speed of about 1000 kilometers per hour.
On the English light cruiser HMS Aurora, the English marines were bored as they carried out their patrol missions.
Only a new recruit on the top watchtower was carrying out his mission seriously.
Suddenly he discovered several huge black shadows swimming under the ocean not far away. When he looked closely, he found that they were a school of killer whales.
Just as he was about to look away, four Seahawk anti-ship missiles with orange-red tail flames caught his eye.
The four missiles flew almost close to the sea surface, at a height of only about 4 meters.
This also means that the four Haiying-1B anti-ship missiles have entered the terminal attack state, and the active radar carried by the warheads has locked onto the Zhendan light cruiser.
The recruits were shocked when they saw these missiles.
"The ancient people are coming, the ancient people are coming!"
Although he had never seen a missile, the flying cylinder symbol was very easy to recognize.
Currently, only ancient countries are equipped with this new type of weapon.
"Ancient missiles spotted on the left, evade immediately, evade immediately!"
While shouting, he also sounded the battle alarm.
"Full right rudder, full speed, evasive!"
The captain's roar was trembling, and the helmsman was twisting the rudder with all his might, looking very anxious.
Soon, the 7,000-ton steel behemoth began to twist its body awkwardly, and the sound of dense gears meshing could be heard from under the deck.
The anti-aircraft soldiers also entered the battlefield positions at this time, and the cannons began to fire dense bullets, but it was too late.
The first Sea Eagle anti-ship missile entered the water more than 20 meters away from the port side, and the 220-kilogram armor-piercing warhead easily tore through its underwater armor.
"boom....."
A violent explosion came from the bottom of the cabin, and the entire cruiser suddenly tilted 12 degrees to the left. The captain lost his balance and staggered, but fortunately he managed to keep his balance.
"Report damage!"
The captain quickly grabbed the communicator and roared ferociously.
However, the only response he got was the noise of electricity.
The second Sea Eagle anti-ship missile followed closely.
This time it plunged directly from the chimney and poured into the engine room.
The explosion swept through the entire engine room, and the boilerman was instantly roasted in the high temperature.
Thick smoke and raging flames billowed up from the torn chimney hole and quickly enveloped the entire rear of the ship.
The third and fourth missiles hit in quick succession.
The fourth missile dealt a fatal blow to the 7,000-ton cruiser.
It tore directly through the deck at the front of the cruiser and then plunged into the ammunition depot under the turret.
Hundreds of 150mm artillery shells stored there were detonated.
The bow of the Aurora cruiser erupted like a volcano, and flames shot up into the sky.
Steel is easily melted and torn apart...
The entire cruiser shook violently in the fierce explosion.
A teeth-grinding sound of metal tearing was also heard from the bottom cabin. The entire warship was torn apart from the bow and broke into two pieces.
Two county-class destroyers not far away were attacked before they could recover from the shock.
Two anti-ship missiles hit the two destroyers of more than 2,000 tons in succession.
Flames and thick smoke immediately engulfed the two destroyers.
Although neither destroyer sank immediately, their fate was already sealed.
After tearing open the gap, a group of F-14 fighter jets continued to fly forward.
The speed of the fighter jet is already very close to the speed of sound.
However, the F-14 does not have the ability to supercruise, and if it wants to fly at supersonic speeds, it needs to open the afterburner.
Once the afterburners are turned on, the range starts to drop sharply.
The boost will not be turned on until the critical moment.
The Gulf of Oman is too small, and three E-2C Hawkeye early warning aircraft can monitor the entire sea area.
The British warships staying in the Gulf of Oman were also clearly displayed on the radar screen.
Two or four Tomcat fighters in a formation launched a hunting operation against British ships in the Gulf of Oman under the guidance of early warning aircraft.
The 4-ton County-class heavy cruiser was subjected to a saturation air attack by four F-14 Tomcat fighter jets.
In just 20 seconds, four Tomcat fighters launched 4 Sea Eagle-16B anti-ship missiles in one breath, launching all the anti-ship missiles they carried.
This is also because the armor-piercing capability of the Sea Eagle-1B anti-ship missile cannot penetrate the main armor belt of a heavy cruiser with a thickness of more than 200 mm.
But it just so happened that the County-class heavy cruiser did not have a main armor belt, which was information that the navy did not have.
Instead, they carried out a saturation attack in the same manner as they would against conventional 10,000-ton ships.
Even if it is impossible to sink it directly, the battleship can be paralyzed under intensive attacks.
Subsequent A-6 Intruder attack aircraft will carry heavy torpedoes to deliver a fatal blow.
Faced with 16 incoming anti-ship missiles, the Norfolk heavy cruiser was simply unable to intercept them.
The missiles hit the superstructure, chimney, stern steering gear room, waterline, power compartment and other parts of the 10,000-ton heavy cruiser in succession.
The 10,000-ton cruiser soon stopped on the sea, and flames and thick smoke had engulfed the entire warship.
The first round of air strikes ended. Tomcat fighters launched more than 50 anti-ship missiles and sank 15 British warships, with an average of 3.3 missiles per ship.
Soon the second round of attacks began, still carried out by the Qin-class conventional-powered aircraft carrier.
The remaining three aircraft carriers also began to dispatch carrier-based aircraft one after another.
However, the target of these carrier-based aircraft was not the British ships, but the port of Abbas.
At this time, Admiral Nelson, the commander of the China-Saudi Arabian Fleet, also learned that the ancient fleet had arrived in the Arabian Sea and launched an attack on them.
The ancient country used an aerial missile to attack their warships, and most of the ships were sunk.
This news was a bolt from the blue for the entire China-Saudi Arabia Command in Bahata.
Faced with the current situation, Admiral Nelson is powerless.
Under the construction of the British, Bandar Abbas became the largest port in Persia and their main oil shipping port.
Otherwise, how could the English be so kind as to help the Persians build a port.
This port was the site of a landing of English troops a few days ago and was taken control of by England.
And now this port is under air attack from the ancient country's carrier-based aircraft force.
A fleet of F-14 Tomcat multi-purpose carrier-based fighters, A-6 Intruders and A-7 Corsair attack aircraft launched a massive bombing of the port of Abbas.
This time, both the A-6 and A-7 attack aircraft used a large number of precision-guided weapons.
Less than 20 nautical miles from the port of Abbas, two Type 072 amphibious assault ships and four Type 071 dock landing ships (Thomaston class) began to release landing troops.
Compared with the Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship, the new Type 072 amphibious assault ship is more powerful.
It has a full load displacement of 4 tons, and it also has a dock that can carry hovercraft, landing craft or amphibious vehicles for landing.
其标准的直升机模式是16架CH-46中型多用途直升机、6架CH-53重型运输直升机以及4架UH-60黑鹰通用直升机。
The dock can also carry 6 32-ton air-cushion landing craft or multi-functional amphibious infantry fighting vehicles.
Its main task is to carry a fully staffed Marine combined arms battalion on a single ship for landing operations.
So its dock can carry an entire battalion of armored vehicles and more than 1000 Marines.
Personnel and light equipment are deployed via ship-borne helicopters, and heavy equipment is delivered via landing craft.
Helicopters loaded with personnel launched three-dimensional landing operations under the cover of carrier-based aircraft.
Amphibious infantry fighting vehicles and air-cushion landing craft were speeding across the sea.
The personnel and equipment of three fully-staffed Marine combined arms battalions were successfully deployed in the port of Abbas by six landing ships.
The next step is to use the port of Abbas as a fulcrum to launch a landing operation on Colte.
This landing operation was quite simple, but the news of the Third Fleet's appearance in the Arabian Sea caused a huge shock in the entire Zhongsha region like a depth bomb.