Warship of Great Power

"UAVs can perform reconnaissance missions, but if you want to have full control over the surrounding sea areas, you need early warning aircraft to go up. Once the early warning aircraft go up, you need fighter jets to escort you."

Vitalia nodded. In fact, this was what she had just thought. As long as she sailed for another day and approached the African continental shelf, she could mobilize aircraft from along the way to escort. Once encountering a situation, it would be convenient for fighter planes to take off to meet the enemy, so there would be no need for anything. Scared.

As for today... I hope it was an accident!

The AWACS aircraft that took off vertically quickly switched to level flight, then climbed. It took three minutes to reach the cruising altitude and turned on the airborne radar.

"To the northeast, at a distance of 400 meters, there are more than 20 targets approaching us!" As soon as the radar was turned on, the radar officer shouted loudly.

When the Aegis battleship searches high altitudes, it has a search distance of four to five hundred kilometers, but it has no choice when searching low altitudes. After all, the earth is a ball, not a flat surface.

Only when the early warning aircraft is condescending and overlooks the earth can it see the ultra-low-altitude flying targets in the distance. At this time, as the radar officer reports, the target data is also quickly passed over. On the island of the Guinea, looking at those on the screen The highlight, everyone’s expressions changed.

What is this for? Ultra-low altitude sneak attack? Do you plan to charge forward and then fire a volley to kill everyone on your side?

Impossible, impossible, not so blatant, they wouldn’t dare to do this, all this is probably a trap!

"We must take off all the fighter planes. Except for the two that are still under maintenance and the two that have taken off, we can also dispatch sixteen more. With these fighter planes, we should be able to complete the interception mission." Américo also became nervous and anxious. He said to Vitalia.

"Don't worry, let's take a look first and then talk."

"Look? The situation is so urgent now. If there are twenty aircraft, each aircraft can carry four anti-ship missiles. This is a saturation attack of eighty missiles. Although we have four Aegis battleships, in case of an attack There is no accident, as long as one of them is not intercepted..."

If you only have ordinary destroyers and frigates, you have to wait for the opponent to attack and intercept the opponent's anti-ship missiles. But with carrier-based aircraft, it is different. You can intercept the opponent's fighters and actively attack the opponent!

Therefore, if the navy wants to develop and grow, it must have aircraft carriers. Without air supremacy, there will be no sea supremacy.

Now, the Guinean Navy is powerful. They have 60,000-ton warships, and they have twenty carrier-based fighter jets that can perform missions! How could you not go up in such a dangerous situation?

"Don't worry. If we all go out this time, we will consume a lot of aviation fuel. If they just feign an attack this time, what if we don't have enough aviation fuel next time?"

"Oh, damn!" At this moment, an officer looked at the screen and said angrily: "Why did Rabbit leave the early warning aircraft without orders and go to intercept it?"

For any country, the military must strictly enforce discipline and follow orders. However, the world of mercenaries has their own rules. At some point, they may defy discipline, as long as their intentions are good.

For example, now, everyone knows that it is impossible for Valenchenko to surrender to the enemy. He is already an old pilot. If he suddenly ran over this time, he must want to fight.

"Rabbit, return!"

"Rabbit didn't hear that! Rabbit is going to kill the enemy! Rabbit is going to make a contribution, Rabbit is going to rise!"

Listening to Valenchenko's special accent, Vitalia's expression changed: "He drank? Who told him to drink? Damn it, tell him, I will deduct a year's salary from him!"

The faces of everyone present changed. What a joke. For a drunken old man, eight horses can't pull him back!

At this time, in the sky, Valenchenko took off his oxygen mask, took another sip of wine, and felt that the world was beautiful. Hum, twenty targets are nothing. Watch yourself go by and kill all these targets!

We were fooled by the Yankees back then, and we didn’t dare to make a fatal move. If we had directly started fighting back then, then the whole of Europe would have been owned by the old men, and it would never be like this!

I don’t know how many old men have this idea. Anyway, in Vannes, when drinking, many people will lament the past and wonder what if they really took action.

Now, their Vana has become powerful. It is not just a mercenary organization, but also a symbol of their former ideals! Now, seeing that they have aircraft carriers, the mercenaries of Vana are even more arrogant. How could they allow themselves to be bullied by the enemy?

If you don’t accept it, do it!

Valenchenko suddenly burped, and the smell of alcohol surged up. He felt that his whole body was full of strength, and his eyes turned red.

In order to save fuel, he did not have the luxury of turning on the afterburner. He just used the most fuel-efficient way to fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters. The green diffraction HUD in front of him was constantly refreshing data.

He is not fighting alone. He has the support of early warning aircraft and other like-minded comrades behind him. What is so scary about him? A drunken old man can beat a polar bear to tears!

Three hundred kilometers, two hundred kilometers, one hundred kilometers... Valenchenko turned on the fire control system and prepared to lock on the target. Unfortunately, the stealth machine could not carry many missiles. He remembered that the Su-27 was equipped with more than a dozen missiles. The missile scene.

For stealth aircraft, turning on their own radar will expose their existence and lose the meaning of stealth. Therefore, the standard tactic of stealth aircraft is to fight with the support of early warning aircraft, receive information from early warning aircraft through data link, and then input it into the fire control computer to provide data for missile launch.

In this way, the stealth aircraft becomes a carrier of missiles!

Of course, there are many prerequisites. For example, the missile needs to be an air-to-air missile guided by active radar. As long as the target data is injected before launch, it can find the target by itself. If it is a semi-active radar missile, it needs to be illuminated by the rear airborne radar throughout the whole process, and there is no such convenient condition.

However, the useless semi-active radar air-to-air missile should have been thrown into the garbage dump long ago. For the Eastern Air Force, it was almost eliminated after it was developed and never equipped on a large scale. As for export, it was all active radar air-to-air missiles.

"The rabbit is locking the target!"

On the Guinea ship island in the rear, everyone was stunned. Didn't they become so arrogant just by drinking a few glasses of vodka? It's fine if you don't obey orders, but after flying over, you actually didn't say anything and immediately started to attack. Are you going to start a war?

"Rabbit, Valenchenko, I'm your boss Vitalia, now I order you to stop attacking!" Vitalia was anxious, picked up the radio receiver and shouted loudly.

"If you continue to be so reckless, then when you come back, you will never fly again!"

"Rabbit... I didn't plan to come back. They have 20 planes, and I only have one. I want to empty the bomb bay. I want to go up and kill them with machine guns. In the end, there are no more shells, and I have to hit another one. Ura, Ura!"

Obviously, Valenchenko hasn't woken up yet.

Vitalia's face changed. Should I start the autonomous return program?

"The early warning aircraft reports that the target has disappeared." At this moment, another call came from the radio.

Just now, there were clearly 20 targets, who would have thought that they suddenly disappeared again, what's going on?

"A new group of targets appeared in the east!"

The east is Kangaroo Country, and there are targets coming from Kangaroo Country!

One group left, and another group came, and they all appeared and disappeared in the sea area about 400 kilometers around the fleet. What does this mean?

They are testing, they are tempting, wanting to send out their own aircraft, consume combat potential, wait until the fuel is gone, wait until the aircraft need maintenance, and then play a big game?

Americo felt the sweat on his back swishing out, Vitalia is really amazing, if it weren't for her just now, he would have sent all the fighters to take off directly, and then he would have been fooled by the enemy!

"Report, the satellite communication system sent an encrypted file, only you have the right to view it."

Vitalia was shocked: From Qin?

She quickly sat down, turned on her special laptop, connected to the aircraft carrier's data system, and then downloaded the file, with the encrypted USB flash drive and face recognition, opened the file.

There are only four words in it: Be careful underwater.

"Attention, switch to anti-submarine mode, take off the Z-30 anti-submarine aircraft!"

Looking at Vitalia's serious face, everyone was a little curious. Now we are conducting air defense, why do we have to switch to anti-submarine?

Air defense and anti-submarine are not a matter of a word. Different combat needs require different formations.

Air defense is generally a diamond formation, with destroyers and frigates arranged outside and important high-value warships such as aircraft carriers protected in the middle. In this way, once missiles or aircraft come over, the warships inside can be protected to the greatest extent.

And anti-submarine?

Anti-submarine requires the warships to be pulled apart. The more they are spread out, the less likely they are to interfere with the operations of other warships due to their own noise. Generally speaking, they all adopt a horizontal formation, with all warships lined up in a row and moving sideways.

It is not easy to switch formations. What if someone comes from the sky while searching underwater?

At this moment, Valenchenko cursed on the radio: "This damn guy is so cunning!"

"Call Rabbit, what did you find?"

"Rabbit reports that there are a lot of aluminum foil on the sea. They should be using drones to drag aluminum foil balls forward, pretending to be fake targets to approach us!"

In the Falklands War, the British used helicopters to drag aluminum foil balls to increase radio reflectivity, thereby pretending to be warships and guiding the missiles fired by the other side to attack these aluminum foil balls, thereby protecting the safety of the fleet.

This method is very simple, but it is easy for the other side to be tricked. After all, what is seen on the radar screen is not the target image, but the echo reflected by the target.

The stealth aircraft reduces the echo to protect itself, and the aluminum foil ball increases the reflected echo to pretend to be some fake targets.

In fact, this technology is too old. The advanced technology is to use electronic interference, or even invade the opponent's data link to directly increase the fake target. However, it is not easy for potential enemies to do this. The electronic technology in the East is very advanced. They don't have this ability at all, so they can only settle for the second best and directly use drones to drag fake targets.

Since it was a fake target, the enemy's real intention was not to attack from the air. After all, a direct attack from the air would be too obvious, and it would be more concealed to attack underwater.

However, they used the warning from the air to attract their attention. When they were busy dealing with the threat from the air, there would be a fierce attack from underwater!

After they were done, they ran away and refused to admit it afterwards. Anyway, there was no evidence to prove it!

And their target must be their own aircraft carrier!

Thinking of this, countless people were scared.

"Switch to anti-submarine immediately, quickly!"

The destroyer has a small body and quick reaction. It can quickly change its posture and quickly deploy to both sides. Although it is also a straight array, it can still protect the three amphibious assault ships in the center.

Seven warships launched an anti-submarine search.

The three amphibious assault ships only have bow sonars, while the four missile destroyers have towed array sonars. Releasing this sonar can detect targets at a considerable distance and avoid its own noise interference.

However, these are not as fast as anti-submarine aircraft.

In the past, anti-submarine aircraft could only use helicopters. Even if it was a Z-20, the maximum take-off weight was only ten tons, and the equipment it could carry was very small. Now it uses a Z-30 with a maximum take-off weight of thirty tons. Whether it is a sonar buoy or an anti-submarine torpedo, the number of sonar buoys or anti-submarine torpedoes carried is doubled.

In order to avoid air turbulence caused by mounting under the wing, this anti-submarine aircraft does not carry any torpedoes under the wing, and there is no space under the belly, so it is designed to be mounted internally.

Its belly is divided into two bomb bays, the front one is mounted with anti-submarine torpedoes, and the rear one is mounted with sonar buoys. It also has magnetic elasticity, and it is equipped with the most advanced equipment!

Amid the roar, the Z-30 took off from the deck and began to perform anti-submarine missions.

"Not bad, when can we train to this level?" Seeing the rapid changes in the formation, Vitalia spoke. Now, almost all the people who are operating are sent by Qin Tao, not their own people.

Although these people are from the shipyard, they are very skilled and have tacit cooperation. At the same time, this is also due to the powerful integrated command system. The position of each warship can be quickly distributed using data links.

At this moment, a voice came from the radio: "Report, the rabbit has found the target, request to open fire!"

While the fleet quickly changed its formation, Valenchenko was not idle either. He drove the fighter plane to continue tracking and came to 500 kilometers away from the fleet. Here, he finally caught up with the drones towing aluminum foil balls!

Global Hawk drone, long wings, huge fuselage, such a drone can tow at least five aluminum foil balls, and can also be separated by a certain distance, so four drones are enough.

After completing the decoy mission, they released the aluminum foil balls and then returned in formation. After all, there were already aircraft groups in the east to continue to lure.

However, they were caught up by the J-31A!

Although there was an early warning aircraft commanding in the rear, the early warning aircraft could not see the J-31A with first-class stealth capability, and Valenchenko did not use radar, but used the EODAS distributed optoelectronic system!

The stealth aircraft will expose itself if the radar is turned on, and it may not be able to detect enemy targets if the radar is not turned on. Is there a way to have the best of both worlds?

The old Russian gave the answer: use infrared and optical means!

In fact, there are optoelectronic probes on the F-14 Tomcat fighter, but the Russian IRST system is more famous. There is a hemisphere in front of the windshield of the cockpit. With it, the fighter can lock on to targets 40 kilometers away without turning on the radar.

Yes, 40 kilometers, this is its limit, and it cannot detect any farther.

Over the years, technology has been constantly improving, and the optoelectronic technology in the East has developed rapidly. The search distance of this system is hundreds of kilometers, and it is also an infrared imaging device. The target detected is no longer a point, but a figure, which can more clearly distinguish the target.

Hearing his call, Vitalia said: "Rabbit, don't worry, identify the type of target!"

"The target is the Global Hawk drone!"

Since it is a drone, what is there to hesitate about? In fact, even if it is a manned fighter, Vitalia has an urge to give an order to fire, let alone a drone.

"Shoot it down for me, be careful, don't expose yourself!"

"Understood!" Finally received the order to fire, Valenchenko was so excited.

The weapon switched to the machine gun!

In the past, there were many arguments that fighter jets did not need machine guns. After all, we had entered the missile era and machine guns were no longer useful! So they just threw away the machine guns.

As a result, the pilots of the F-4 Phantom fighters cursed all day long. Missiles were like rockets. Whether they could hit the target after firing a salvo depended on luck. When the missiles were gone, the enemy aircraft was right in front of them and they had no means to fight. As a result, a machine gun pod was later installed.

In the third-generation aircraft period, machine guns were all installed on fighter jets. However, in the stealth aircraft stage, whether machine guns were needed was debated again.

Stealth aircraft would run away after hitting, so what was the point of machine guns? Moreover, missile technology was already very advanced. Machine guns would be gone after a few bursts of firing. What was the point?

However, facts speak louder than words. Advanced fourth-generation aircraft were also equipped with machine guns.

The American F-22 fighter jets have an ancestral M61A2 machine gun installed on the right air intake. The F-35A is equipped with a newly developed GAU22/A machine gun. The Russian Su-57 has a 30mm GSh-30-1 cannon installed on the right side of the fuselage.

What about the Eastern J-20?

I haven't seen it yet, but there are many sayings that the engine is not powerful enough, so the cannon was abandoned, and it will be installed after the modification.

The J-20, which is specially used to fight for air supremacy, may not really need it, but the J-31A, which performs all-round tasks, must have a cannon. It can attack the ground at critical moments. As for now, it is just right for playing aerial sniping!