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No. 1113 Aegis Fire Channel
Of course, not all Sparrow missiles failed to intercept. Some proximity fuzes exploded early, and a large number of broken rods were sucked into the engine by the P-500 missile, causing the P-500 to explode directly in the air!
However, the interception efficiency of this round is obviously not very high! Only seven missiles were intercepted. You must know that the number of Hornet fighters in the sky far exceeds that of Tomcat fighters!
Hundreds of fighter planes from two aircraft carriers shot down so few missiles! Fourteen more missiles penetrated their firepower network and flew towards the direction of the aircraft carrier formation!
The Tomcat fighter plane can sweep its wings back from the air and dive down quickly, while the Bumblebee, a fighter plane that seems to be omnipotent but not proficient in anything, can't intercept it even if it dives down from the air, and it has already flown away!
But now, those 14 missiles are continuing to fly forward rapidly, and they are less than 100 kilometers away from the American aircraft carrier formation!
Outside the formation, all the Aegis warships became extremely tense.
The Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Vincennes is the latest Aegis warship that has just entered service in the US Navy formation. Although the first two ships, the USS Ticonderoga and the USS Yorktown, also use four-sided phased array radar, However, since the vertical launching device was not fixed, the dual-arm launching device was used, which greatly limited the launching speed. This Ticonderoga-class No. 3 ship was improved and finally installed a vertical launching device!
There are sixteen groups of eight-unit launchers, eight groups are installed in the front and rear of the ship, and the total ammunition capacity is 122. This also makes the Aegis system have the ability to resist saturation strikes!
In history, it was not until the fifth Aegis warship that it had such a capability, but now that the United States is facing a serious maritime situation, they have to step up the development of their Aegis system, and the first two Ticonderoga ships level, the same modification will be carried out.
The flat-panel an/spy-1a radar, facing the sky, radiates extremely powerful electromagnetic waves, filling the surrounding airspace. Since those missiles fly from ultra-low altitudes, even the phased array radar of the Aegis system cannot Spot these missiles at long distances!
Then shoot down those high-flying pilot bombs first!
The phased array radar locked on the target firmly, and the launching devices on the front and rear of the deck were lit with fire. Two milky-white Standard 2 missiles were launched in a group, and three groups were launched in a row!
Two salvos! In the face of these flying missiles, you must not be stingy with your ammunition. Only two salvos can increase the hit rate!
After the missile was launched, the an/spg-62 target irradiated the radar, and under the distribution of the computer, intense work began.
The Aegis system that the Americans boast about uses a flat-panel phased array radar and vertical launch missiles. It has a full range of multi-channel strike capabilities and can resist saturation attacks. However, this is actually quite nonsense, because the Aegis system, There are still restrictions on firepower channels.
The Aegis system uses a passive phased array radar, which can illuminate the target, but it is definitely not enough to guide one's own air defense missiles to the point where they can trigger the proximity fuze!
Moreover, the standard 2 air defense missile is not an active seeker missile, it uses a composite guidance of inertial guidance plus mid-stage command guidance plus terminal semi-active radar guidance.
Therefore, vertically launched missiles can be launched without restriction, and the search radar can also conduct mid-course guidance to the missile without restriction. However, when the missile finally needs to attack in the final stage, an additional radar signal that can provide accurate Irradiation Radar!
On the Ticonderoga class, the irradiation is achieved by the AN/SPG-62 target irradiation radar. Then, how many missiles can be guided at the same time depends on how many such targets illuminate the radar. On the Burke class, There are three such radars. And on the current Vincennes, there is only one!
So does it mean that it can only guide and attack one target? That's not a lot,
The United States also used their brains and used the method of time-sharing irradiation. After all, the missiles attack the targets sequentially. According to the judgment of the shipboard system, the missile that hits the enemy first will be irradiated first, and after the irradiation is completed, it will aim at the next target. In this way, in a round of salvo, it can illuminate at least four targets, that is to say, there can be 4 fire channels!
Therefore, the Aegis system is not as powerful as the Americans boasted. Its phased array and vertical launch are very advanced, but the missiles are holding back!
If it is changed to active radar guidance, such as a seeker like the Phoenix missile, in the final stage, it can solve its own irradiation problem by itself, then it will truly have the ability to engage in multi-target combat!
What's even worse is that the Vincennes only has one illumination radar! It can only provide up to four fire channels! It is far from being able to achieve the ability to resist saturation blows!
Time passed very quickly. Tens of seconds later, the first batch of missiles launched had already flown to an altitude of several kilometers, and the three missiles 50 kilometers away were successively irradiated by radar!
Boom! The standard 2 high-explosive warhead successfully destroyed the target!
The disappearance of bright spots on the radar screen made the officers and soldiers of the US Navy cheer, but this was only the beginning!
As the leading missile was destroyed, another missile rose up below. At the same time, the missile on the sea surface had accelerated to the maximum speed, Mach 2.5!
At the same time, the radar of the Aegis warship finally found those missiles flying at ultra-low altitudes. The 6 uyk-7 and 20 uyk-20 computers on board were performing crazy calculations. At the same time, the front and rear two The silo continuously lit up flames, and standard 2 missiles were fired out quickly one after another!
After rushing a few hundred meters into the sky, it swooped down and flew according to the target azimuth provided by the phased array radar, while waiting for the final radar illumination!
Boom! A standard 2 missile successfully destroyed a missile flying from an ultra-low altitude!
Boom! The flames on the sea made the U.S. Navy cheer, and the AN/SPG-62 target illumination radar was also working hard.
In theory, it can provide up to four fire channels at a time, but now, it has successfully guided to the fifth missile!
The missiles flying in formation at an ultra-low altitude allow the target to irradiate the radar with almost no need to rotate, and can directly guide the next one!
However, when it guides the fifth one, everything is over!
The remaining p-500 missiles have been dispersed, and they are only five kilometers away from the US aircraft carrier formation. They have entered the final attack process!
The radars at the front of the missiles were turned on one after another, picking up the target with the largest echo wave to attack!