Warship of Great Power

"Hmph, it's just a subsonic anti-ship missile, and the warhead doesn't have much charge, what's so great about it." Sunil looked at his men with an unconvinced expression on his face: "How is it, are you ready for the test launch?"

"Ready." Pilai, the head of BrahMos Aerospace, said confidently: "This test launch is different from the previous ones. This time it is a test launch after formal installation. We will use the most advanced Delhi-class destroyer to launch missiles and attack the target ship at sea. The target ship is a 100,000-ton tanker. If we can sink this tanker, it means we can sink a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier!"

Seeing that anti-ship missiles are popular everywhere to attack warships, the Indians can't hold their breath. In their eyes, their BrahMos anti-ship cruise missiles are the most advanced in the world, but they are not known to the outside world.

Now, they also want to take advantage of this popularity. After all, their aircraft carriers are lame and catapults are nowhere in sight, so they can only use this anti-ship missile to boost morale.

"Unfortunately, the Calcutta class has not been equipped yet." Sunil was a little regretful.

The Delhi class is a destroyer that entered service in the 1990s. Its appearance is rough and old-fashioned, and various radar antennas are arranged in a messy manner. It looks messy and not modern at all.

Look at modern warships, they are all stealth-shaped, and it is best to have four-sided phased array radars and vertical launch systems. This is enough. The first warship with such advanced features in India is the Calcutta class, but it is a pity that it is slow to build and it will take a long time to launch and outfit.

Therefore, we can only use the outdated Delhi class.

"Our Delhi class is also a modern warship, and its overall combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the Eastern 052C, and is comparable to their latest 052DL." Hearing Sunil's sigh, another senior official Mukherjee said.

"That's right!" Sunil's face lit up again: "The combat effectiveness of our Indian Navy far exceeds that of the Orientals, and our experience in operating aircraft carriers far exceeds that of the Orientals. Our BrahMos anti-ship missiles are also the most advanced in the world! When will the target shooting start?"

"We're waiting for you now. Do you want to board our Delhi-class destroyer and see it with your own eyes?"

"Of course." Sunil nodded: "We'll go now!"

Half an hour later, a Sea King helicopter landed on the Bombay, which is the third ship of the Delhi-class destroyer. It was commissioned in 2001 and is considered the most advanced destroyer of the Indian Navy. The hull is wide and the appearance looks very similar to the Soviet-era Kashin class, but the wide flight deck represents its new identity, which is in sharp contrast to the old Russian warships with narrow decks.

On the front bridge, various radar equipment are installed in a messy manner, all of which are old Russian products. This avoids the problem of radar integration. On the decks on both sides of the bridge, two sets of quadruple anti-ship missile launchers are arranged.

This layout is very strange and unique. The Russians' is directly forward, while it is tilted outward. Other countries are almost arranged in the middle and rear, guiding the tail flame into the sea, and its tail is directly facing the deck.

Originally, when it was designed, the Russians' Sunburn supersonic anti-ship missile was to be placed here, but during the construction process, I don't know what the Indians thought, and downgraded the supersonic Sunburn anti-ship missile to KH-35, which is the subsonic Uranus anti-ship missile, NATO code SS-N-25. The performance of this missile is similar to that of the harpoon, which can only be said to be mediocre.

Now, one of the launchers has been replaced with a brand new BrahMos anti-ship missile launcher. This missile is more than eight meters long, and the launch tube is nearly nine meters, making it much longer than the previous missile, and the launcher looks particularly special.

At this time, the cover of one of the launch tubes has been opened, revealing the warhead inside.

If it is an air defense missile, in order to ensure that the missile has good sealing inside, a fragile launch cover is generally added to the front end, but anti-ship missiles do not need it.

If you look from the front end of the launch tube cover, you can see the unique spike of the warhead, which feels like a MiG-21 fighter. It uses this unique nose air intake method, and the spike can also move back and forth to adjust the size of the air intake. This layout can be seen on the most powerful anti-ship missiles before the collapse of the Red Empire.

For example, P-500 and P-700 are both of this structure, which also explains the identity of this missile: Although the Indians have been emphasizing that this is jointly developed with the Russians, in fact, the Russians just moved the previous structure over through archaeology.

In fact, it also inherits many design shortcomings. For example, the missile-borne radar can only be installed in this spike. Although the diameter of the missile is 0.67 meters, the spike can only fit a radar antenna with a diameter of 300 mm at most. The search distance of the missile-borne radar will not exceed 50 kilometers, and there will also be a big problem of interference from the air intake lip.

From a technical point of view, the four-sided beveled air inlet used by the Oriental Eagle Strike-12 is the best solution. Of course, India will definitely not admit it, let alone use this layout.

Of course, any long-range anti-ship missile cannot always use its own radar to find the target. It must use other technical means. Asan is simple and straightforward. He moved the satellite navigation system to it. In this way, as long as the target is locked, it relies on inertia in the early stage. Systems and satellite navigation to fly autonomously are enough to solve the problem.

After all, as an anti-ship missile with a maximum flight speed of Mach 2.8, it can fly more than 900 meters in one second. Its maximum range is about 300 kilometers, which only takes five or six minutes. During this time, the target Even if it speeds at 30 knots, it can only travel five or six nautical miles. When it flies to the distance where the missile-borne radar can detect the target, the target will never leave its search range.

As a supersonic anti-ship missile, the most important technology is of course its engine. According to Asan, this small integrated ramjet engine was developed by their HAL company. However, the technology ultimately came from Lao Maozi and Asan. Even if you manufacture it yourself, there will be many quality problems, let alone design it yourself.

But Ah San is still very proud. After all, this is their most advanced anti-ship missile. In their eyes, this kind of missile can kill an aircraft carrier!

"Your Excellency Sunil, welcome to the guided missile destroyer Bombay!" The captain led the team in greeting: "We are ready to launch missiles at any time. Do you need to see the missile first?"

"No need, start the test as soon as possible. Has the area around the target ship been cleared?"

"Yes, with the target ship as the center, everything within fifty kilometers has been cleared."

"What about other than that?"

"There is a powerful tugboat," the captain said.

It was a 100,000-ton oil tanker. It would be a waste to sink it directly. Therefore, the tugboat was ready aside. When the target practice was completed, they hurried over to salvage it, and then towed the ship back for dismantling, and the scrap metal was dismantled. Maybe even build a few motorcycles!

"It won't be an accidental attack, right?"

"How is it possible?" Mukherjie said: "How is it possible that our anti-ship missiles have an error of fifty kilometers?"

It is understandable that an anti-ship missile with a range of about 300 kilometers will have an error of a few kilometers when it flies to the destination. When it flies in front of the target, it may not be able to distinguish the one it should attack because of the large number of targets. At this time, the target with the largest echo will be selected. These are also settings for anti-ship missiles.

After all, after flying over, the opponent's fleet is mixed together. Unless the missile uses a TV camera and an AI to distinguish which is which, otherwise, you have to fight according to the biggest one. In the fleet, the biggest one is It is definitely the most powerful one. It would be right to fight a large destroyer or even an aircraft carrier.

Occasionally, if there is accidental damage, it will be a supply ship, but hitting a supply ship can also cause the opponent to lose its combat capability.

In short, there is an error, and an error of fifty kilometers is impossible!

Sunil nodded.

"Come on, let's go to the bridge."

Preparations were going on in an orderly manner, and calls were heard from time to time.

"Early warning aircraft call, target position, east longitude..."

If you want to attack long-range targets, you must have air power to provide target data. This responsibility falls squarely on the A-50EI early warning aircraft. Asan currently has only three such early warning aircraft. The body of the IL-76 is equipped with He bought a large plate, and inside it was the radar system developed by the Davidians. It was quite advanced overall, but... there was no data link!

Because there is no data link, we can only rely on voice calls. This method is very backward on the modern battlefield. Not only is it easy to be interfered, but the number of command aircraft will also be much smaller. However, this will not affect Asan's heart. Proud, they have always believed that the performance of this early warning aircraft is the strongest and number one in the world.

"Input the target coordinates into the missile! Confirm shooting Zhu Yuan for the last time!"

"Attention, prepare to launch!"

The atmosphere on the bridge was a little tense.

"All preparations have been completed!"

"emission!"

Following the order, a ball of flame suddenly appeared on the left side of the bridge, where thick smoke billowed, as if it was on fire. In the blazing flames, a slender projectile left the launch tube, dragging the thick smoke and continuing. Fly forward.

"The ramjet engine cannot start on its own and needs a booster behind it to give it a certain speed." Pi Lai said at the side: "Also, almost all ship-based missiles will have solid launchers. Some smoke is normal, but when the ramjet engine When the engine starts, there won’t be such a big noise.”

"Report!" At this moment, someone hurriedly ran up: "There is a fire under the bridge!"

"what happened?"

"The airflow of the missile's solid rocket booster was so strong that it blew away the baffle we placed there! There is an area at the rear made of composite materials..."

"Hurry up and put out the fire!"

Under the bridge, countless people held fire hoses and began to put out the fire. Fortunately, it did not cause a major disaster.

Almost at the same time, somewhere.

"Attention, hack into GPS satellites and modify time signals!"

"We have successfully gained control of the GPS and are modifying the time! However, we can only modify it for a few minutes at most, and they will react soon."

"A few minutes will be enough."

Although these methods of blocking the GPS signal and then releasing the false signal prepared by one's own side can also be used, there are many problems. For example, it is now impossible to get close to the target to do this.

So we changed to another way, directly invaded the satellite and forced the modification of the time signal. As long as the time difference was a few microseconds, we could get the wrong coordinate data. It was normal to deviate by 40 to 50 kilometers.

The Mumbai was busy for a while, and the missile launched had thrown away the booster and turned on the ramjet engine.

The airflow in front of the warhead was forcibly hit into the body of the missile, and entered the engine behind along the channel. At high speed, there was no need for a compressor, and the airflow was compressed, and then entered the combustion chamber. After helping the fuel to burn, it formed a high-temperature and high-pressure gas ejection.

Whoosh! As if it was excited, the missile accelerated again. It was only Mach 1 just now, but now, Mach 2, Mach 2.8... It quickly sprinted to the maximum speed.

But at this time, the computer inside the missile was confused.

What's going on?

The data provided by the inertial navigation is not consistent with the data obtained by the GPS receiver!

The inertial navigation system is internal, relying on its own gyro operation integration to obtain its own trajectory and then obtain its own position information, while the GPS receiver is external and obtains position information through external signals.

These navigation methods are very common in various weapons and equipment. Generally speaking, inertial navigation is the main method, and satellite navigation is used for correction.

Yes, it is used for correction!

Inertial navigation will increase the error as time and distance increase, but satellite navigation will not. It will always ensure high enough accuracy. Even if it is a civilian signal, the accuracy of ten meters is much smaller than the accumulated error of inertial navigation.

That is to say, once the two navigation information conflict, it must be based on satellite navigation, after all, satellite navigation is used to correct inertial navigation errors.

However, it has just flown less than 50 kilometers and huge errors have begun to appear, which makes the missile computer somewhat incomprehensible. Although it does not understand, it does not force it. If there is a mistake, it will correct it and correct the error!

So, it modified the course according to the satellite navigation data and embarked on a new route.

In the sky, the A-50EI early warning aircraft was still monitoring the target shooting. Soon, the radar officer found something wrong. The flight trajectory of the missile seemed to be a little off?

However, it might be that he made a mistake. He rubbed his eyes and continued to look at the screen. At this time, the missile had flown hundreds of kilometers and the deviation was getting more and more.

"Early warning aircraft report, the missile deviated!"

What?

When they got this news, everyone on the Bombay was stunned.

"How could it deviate? This is absolutely impossible. The early warning aircraft must have made a mistake!" Pi Lai said: "Our missile has a high accuracy within 300 kilometers!"

The whole flight process took only five or six minutes, that is, in a few words, the missile flew half the distance.

"Where did it deviate to?" Sunil asked.

"Early warning aircraft report, deviated to the right side of the track, and now it has deviated by about 30 kilometers."

Right side, has deviated by 30 kilometers?

Sunil's eyelids suddenly jumped violently: "Did it fly towards our tugboat?"

"Yes, it did go in the direction of the tugboat. Quick, quick, notify the tugboat to avoid it immediately!"

At this moment, everyone felt the cold sweat on their backs burst out all of a sudden. It was the target boat! In fact, even if the tugboat was twenty kilometers away, there would be no danger, as the accuracy of the anti-ship missile was still very high.

Who would have thought that after the missile flew out, it lost its accuracy and flew in another direction!

Tugboat, run!

When they got the news, everyone on the tugboat was stunned, and the captain was the first to react: "Quick, full speed, full speed!"

In order to demonstrate the performance of this missile, they launched it at the maximum range, so as long as they left a certain distance, the missile would not catch up.

But it was too late!

At this time, the missile had flown fifty kilometers away, and the yaw had reached more than forty kilometers. At this time, it climbed to about one hundred meters in the sky, turned on the radar, and searched the sea surface.

A target clearly entered its field of vision, and that was it!

The missile adjusted its direction for the last time, dived to a height of ten meters above the sea surface, and headed towards the tugboat!

On the early warning aircraft, the radar officer looked at the bright spot on the screen and murmured, "Impossible, impossible, how could this happen?"

"Poor guys, the best way now is to jump off the ship quickly, they can't escape."

On the tugboat, a lookout had already seen the missile flying close to the sea surface. It made an S-maneuver smoothly, as if showing off its maneuverability. Its body danced on the waves, showing its skillful flying skills.

However, everyone on the tugboat was terrified. For them, this was the coming of death!

"Oh, damn it!" The captain's face was bleak. Just as he was about to order a jump off the ship, he heard a terrible buzzing.

Bang!

The BrahMos missile hit the target ship at a speed of 2.8 Mach, directly deforming the target ship. The next second, a huge explosion sounded.

Boom!

The 300-kilogram warhead exploded! The goal of the BrahMos anti-ship missile is to deal with large warships, so its charge is the same as that of the C602, and the power of this missile is also quite powerful.

The small tugboat could not withstand the impact.

At this time, on the other side, the relevant departments were also in a mess.

"What's going on? Why is there a clock signal deviation in our satellite?"

"Quick, re-calibrate to standard time immediately! Damn it! If I find out that someone is deliberately making trouble, we will twist his head off!"

Now, various activities around the world rely on satellite navigation systems. GPS has always had problems recently, which has made many users dissatisfied. Beidou Navigation will gain more market share. This happened again today. Fortunately, it was only a satellite error over the Indian Ocean, and it did not cause major problems for Europe.