Chapter 1114 The Behavior of the Weak
"There is no doubt that this is a super aircraft carrier with a displacement of 100,000 tons." Swift took the satellite photos and looked at the scene of the launch, with extremely complicated emotions: "In this aspect, the Orientals have finally caught up with us. No, they have already surpassed us. After all, our electromagnetic catapult is still being tested and there are still many problems, and they are already working on a second electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier, and this one is still nuclear-powered!"
Over the years, they have watched Dongfang continue to grow and develop, and they have tried to take action many times, but to no avail. But now, Dongfang's strength has finally reached its strongest point! It was so powerful that it left them behind.
"With powerful weapons, can we have strong combat capabilities?" At this moment, someone next to him said: "Yes, the Easterners' aircraft carriers are indeed very powerful, but we don't think they can operate these aircraft carriers. , there is a simple idiom called a century-old navy. Without a hundred years of historical accumulation, it is impossible to build a powerful navy. They still have a long way to go!"
Looking at this colleague, Swift shook his head: "Huh, I don't even have the courage to face reality. When their aircraft carrier formation is formed, some people will have a headache. What's the point of being tough now."
Hong Kong already has three aircraft carriers and has become the second largest naval force in the world! Even all the navies in Europe combined are not enough for them to fight.
Swift had mixed feelings.
"The aircraft carrier formation is really not easy. It requires the cooperation of the surface fleet and the air formation, and even the cooperation of underwater forces. It is difficult for them to form an army in a short time. In recent years, their navy has expanded very quickly. I heard that a The chief engineer three years ago can now become a captain. Such a navy has no combat effectiveness at all. They still have a long time to go. However, I envy their naval officers and soldiers. Promotion in recent years has been the easiest. "
If the navy still has those old warships, it will be even more difficult for naval soldiers to be promoted. After all, there are only so many warships, and every carrot is a pit. It will take an old captain ten or even twenty years to reluctantly leave. After leaving his post, his men were waiting eagerly. When he left, there was still a large group of people fighting for it.
There is no need for it now.
The frigate captain becomes the destroyer captain, and the destroyer captain becomes the cruiser captain. As he continues to move up, the lower-level officers are constantly promoted. For naval officers and soldiers, this is indeed a golden age.
Three years ago I was still serving as a frigate captain, but in three years I might actually become a cruiser captain. No, it's still a destroyer, but a 10,000-ton destroyer.
“Then what should we do? Do we want to protest against them building aircraft carriers one after another and destroying the regional balance?” said an officer.
Protesting is the behavior of the weak, but now, it seems that all they have left is protesting.
"Yes, we want to protest. The navy in the East is getting stronger and stronger, which has seriously damaged the regional balance." Swift said: "However, the protest only exaggerates an atmosphere and does not provide any relief. We still need to formulate a more far-sighted strategy, and by the way, what is the status of our research and development of anti-ship missiles specifically used to fight aircraft carriers?"
In the past, the Americans didn't have to worry about developing anti-aircraft carriers at all. What they had to face was the enemy's surging anti-ship missiles, and the enemies rarely had large surface ships. They were the offensive force. They had to do It's a good job to protect yourself.
But now, the situation has been reversed. Their opponents also have powerful surface forces. When they look at their arsenal at this time, they see that there are no weapons that can pose a threat to the opponent.
Their main anti-ship missile is the Harpoon. After repeated upgrades, the maximum range has been extended to 240 kilometers. However, Dongfang’s advanced aircraft carriers have an attack range of at least 600 kilometers. Their warships cannot get close to the target within 200 kilometers!
Therefore, they need an advanced long-range anti-ship missile with a range of more than 800 kilometers, equipped with advanced electronic systems, active attack capabilities, and reduced impact on intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance systems and data links, and global Relying on the positioning system, in the future battlefield, their proud methods will pale in comparison.
This project is already on the fast track and is named the LRASM missile.
“The A-type missile is progressing smoothly and should be put into use within five years, but the B-type missile has encountered many twists and turns during the development process and is likely to be abandoned.”
"What? There are problems with research and development? For us, only type B bullets have hope of success, and type A bullets are just used as targets to attract their firepower!" Swift frowned: "Our arms research and development What is the company doing?”
LRASM is Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, which is the abbreviation of "Long Range Anti-Ship Missile". This is the most important weapon of the U.S. Navy. At the same time, the Air Force's B-1B bombers can also carry it. In the case of airdrop, the range of this missile It will be further increased to 900 kilometers. The flight will be safer and the strike will be more concealed. The missile body has swept wings and can be recovered into the rear missile body for easy use in the vertical launch system. The stealth appearance is their big killer.
According to the plan, there are two types of this missile. Type A is a conventional subsonic cruise missile using a small turbofan or turbojet engine. This is what they are best at, so it is not difficult. However, in the face of a large number of Dongfang Under the premise of the Aegis battleship, this kind of missile may have little survivability, and it cannot stop the sniper kills of those active phased array radars and Red Flag 9 missiles.
In comparison, the B-type missile is more important. This is a supersonic anti-ship missile!
Supersonic missiles fly faster, leaving less reaction time for the opponent. Coupled with the snake-like maneuver at the end, the opponent becomes more difficult to intercept. Once the supersonic missile hits the target, the warhead will impact with high speed. The effect will be very good.
To deal with the increasingly powerful fleet in the East, especially aircraft carriers, only supersonic anti-ship missiles will be effective!
Who would have thought that the development of this model would actually encounter difficulties.
"Our arms company has never developed a supersonic anti-ship missile." A colleague said: "For us, this is a big problem. We only have the KH-31 anti-ship missile we obtained from Damao a few years ago. This kind of The range of the missile is too close and has no reference value at all. We can only imitate the target missile based on this anti-ship missile."
There was a period of chaos after the collapse of the Red Empire. The Americans targeted Mao's weapons arsenal and successfully purchased KH-31 anti-ship missiles from it. This missile was converted into a target missile and was mainly used to test their Aegis air defense. missile system, and later they imitated this missile and produced a batch of GQM-163 "Coyote" supersonic target missiles.
This is already the only supersonic missile the U.S. Navy has on hand. Since it is an imitation of the KH-31, its range is only one or two hundred kilometers. To extend the range is not as simple as increasing the length. It requires a new design, which they simply do not have. This strength.
Over the years, the only work they have done is to change the air inlet of the ramjet engine to a rectangular shape, and the four air inlets on the outside of the missile body have been changed from circular to rectangular, which is also imitating the Eastern Eagle-12.
It is very effective in testing one's own air defense systems, but if you want to use this technology to build specialized anti-aircraft carrier missiles, you don't have the capability yet.
Don’t look at the fact that the East can build advanced anti-ship missiles one after another, with subsonic, supersonic and sub-super combinations. This is completely the result of years of technological accumulation. The Americans do not have any technical reserves and can only be blind.
There are many supersonic models of anti-aircraft missiles. The ones that are designed to intercept ballistic missiles can reach Mach 4 or 5. However, these missiles can reach such speeds in thin air at high altitudes, while anti-ship missiles must After flying at ultra-low altitude for a long time, the two are not recovered at all.
“Then can we build anti-ship ballistic missiles?” When it comes to attacking aircraft carriers, the best weapon is naturally anti-ship ballistic missiles! When the Orientals had this kind of weapon in hand, they immediately stiffened up. When necessary, they would test-fire one to show off their muscles and make the Americans lose their temper.
Now, the East already has conventional aircraft carrier formations. If you want to deal with them, the best way is of course anti-ship ballistic missiles, using Eastern methods to deal with the Easterners.
"Anti-ship ballistic missiles need to overcome more technical difficulties." The officer on the side said: "First of all, we have no medium-range ballistic missiles for a long time, and we need to develop them again. Secondly, after the ballistic missiles re-enter the atmosphere, they need to maneuver. We need warships that can find enemies on the sea. These are all new areas that we have not yet touched, or we gave up because we did not successfully develop them. If we want to develop them again, we will probably have to invest tens of billions of dollars."
Intercontinental ballistic missiles are for nuclear deterrence and will not be used on ordinary battlefields. Look at the Scud missiles flying all over the sky, and look at the missiles of the Parthian and Northern Kimchi countries. They just want to cry without tears. So, In later generations, they began to develop related weapon systems. Anyway, if there was a leader who liked to withdraw from the group, he would withdraw from any treaty that restricted him.
However, this thing has to be developed again. For the Americans, development costs money, and it also costs a lot of money.
Not only are medium-range missiles, they also need to maneuver and change orbit after re-entering the atmosphere, and they can even fly Qianxuesen ballistics. In the 1970s, the Yankees developed a "winged high-energy reentry vehicle." This aircraft, launched by Pershing 2 missiles, used a cone layout with small delta wings and rudder surfaces, trying to complete the reentry process through this solution. It is maneuverable and can also roll when the belly is hot, allowing the other side to bear the heat.
According to their plan, this warhead uses radar for terrain matching guidance in the final flight stage, and then uses a kinetic warhead to attack the missile launchers of the Warsaw Pact countries. If this missile is developed, it can become an anti-ship ballistic missile with slight improvements. .
However, the entire project did not mature from the experiment in 1979 to 1985. The maneuverability in the final stage was very limited. The key was the inability to receive navigation information during flight to update flight data, so the project was eventually abandoned.
Now it’s equivalent to re-development, they simply don’t have this capability.
At this time, listening to these answers, Swift sneered: "In other words, we currently have no means at all to deal with the increasingly powerful Eastern Fleet?"
Needless to say, there are no such advanced anti-ship missiles. There are not even anti-ship missiles that can be inserted into the JSF joint fighter. What's more, this kind of fighter has not been successfully developed and is still being delayed. The Easterners on the opposite side have formed an absolute suspicion against them. Suppression!
“Yes, we don’t have the relevant means at the moment.”
Swift continued to sneer. Apart from sneering, he couldn't think of any good way to do it.
Great Britain.
"Our Queen-class aircraft carrier must be guaranteed to be launched before the end of this year! The Oriental's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have already been launched, and our aircraft carrier cannot be later than theirs! After it is launched, the outfitting work must be started as soon as possible, and we must strive to be better than the Oriental's The aircraft carrier will be commissioned early!" Benjamin's face turned red, like a defeated rooster, and his voice was a bit high-pitched.
"What do the Orientals have? When we conquered the world without setting the sun, they were still fighting with swords and spears! Our industrialization history is hundreds of years earlier than the Orientals, and we are no worse than the Orientals!" Benjamin's His eyes were full of pride: "Now, it's time to restore our former glory! We are going to build two Queen-class ships, we are going to build a 10,000-ton Type 83 destroyer, and we are going to build an 8,000-ton Type 45. When After our warships are built, we will drive these warships to sail freely in the East!"
At this moment, he seemed to be moved, and his eyes were full of excitement.
"Ahem, Sir Benjamin, our current financial expenditure is simply not enough to support these. The most we can do is raise funds to launch the first Queen-class aircraft carrier. The second ship and other warships need to be moved back. Delay." Jimmy Brown said with some embarrassment.
It's easy for you to shout a few slogans, but in the end the country has to foot the bill. If the country doesn't have so much money, everything is in vain.
"No, we must find a way to raise funds. We must build a strong fleet. Otherwise, we will completely lose everything, including dignity!" Benjamin's eyes were gloomy. For them, this is indeed difficult to do. , however, they have no choice!
The people below did not speak, but were worried about a large bill.
Port of Toulon, France.
A huge aircraft carrier fleet is setting sail for the new Operation Agapante in 2005. The gray-painted Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier looks very conspicuous, especially the unique triangular marking line on the angled deck. It is the only one, there is no semicolon.
There is a row of carrier-based aircraft parked on the right deck. Several of them are Rafale fighter jets with a delta-wing layout. They look full of modernity, but most of them are still old Super Etendards. When the Rafale was slowly put into service, the Super The flag still needs to be strong and strong to fill the gap left before the arrival of the Rafale fighter jets.
There is an E-2 early warning aircraft parked in front of the ship island. This early warning aircraft makes them even more powerful, and they feel that they are the most powerful naval fleet in the world.
On the ship island, the French captain was very excited: "Our French navy is the most powerful navy in the world. We have always been so for these years! So what if the Eastern navy has advanced aircraft carriers? They have not fought at all. After a war, an army without war experience will not have any combat effectiveness!"
After finishing speaking, he looked to one side of the formation. The main force responsible for the **** mission were two Kasar-class air defense ships. Although they were called air defense ships, these warships had neither vertical launchers nor four-sided phased array radars. The main anti-aircraft weapon is the US-made MK-13 single-arm missile launcher between the hangar and the radar, which can launch US-made Standard-1 anti-aircraft missiles.
Although the French have been clamoring for national defense independence, they also know that the performance of their own anti-aircraft missiles is too poor, and American anti-aircraft missiles are more reliable.
In addition to this main force of anti-aircraft missiles, there are also six short-range anti-aircraft missiles on both sides of the hangar. They are transplanted from the Army's Mistral missiles and are mainly used to intercept sea-skimming anti-ship missiles.
Looking at these two old main air defense ships, the French captain suddenly became uninterested: "It doesn't matter. Although the air defense destroyers are a bit old, it is because our Horizon class has not completed construction. When the Horizon class comes out, it will make our 473 fleet More advanced!”
The self-righteous French went out and embarked on a long voyage with powerful dreams.
Eastern, South Kimchi Country.
All the naval leaders were silent, just looking at the huge fleet design in trance.
Where is their fleet?
According to their plan, the KDX-3 destroyer is just the beginning. Next, there will be 10,000-ton destroyers and aircraft carriers. They will build the most powerful fleet in Asia!
But now, their shipyard will soon be gone!
“The Belgians have already started the compensation process. According to the original contract, Line Dai Heavy Industries has to pay a large amount of compensation. Moreover, this is just the beginning. There will be a large amount of compensation waiting for them in the future until they go bankrupt.”
"Even if we want to allocate funds for rescue, we can only rescue it once at most. We simply cannot cope with the subsequent surge of compensation. Letting this shipyard go bankrupt and then waiting for other shipyards to take over is the best option. The United States also has This plan."
“If the United States is allowed to take over, the warships we build in the future will be even more dependent on the Americans. If they don’t nod, we won’t be able to build them at all, and they will never allow us to build aircraft carriers.”
Everyone knows this ending, but they can't change it, **** the Orientals!
(End of this chapter)