Chapter 1114: Aegis Fire Channel
Of course, not all Sparrow missiles failed to be intercepted. Some of the proximity fuses exploded prematurely, and a large number of broken rods were sucked into the engine of the P-500 missile, causing the P-500 to explode directly in the air!
However, the interception efficiency in this round was obviously not very high! Only seven missiles were intercepted. You know, the number of Hornets in the sky far exceeded that of Tomcats!
Hundreds of fighter planes from the two aircraft carriers only managed to shoot down a few missiles! Fourteen more missiles penetrated their firepower network and flew towards the direction of the aircraft carrier formation!
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The Tomcat can sweep its wings back and dive down quickly in the air, but the Hornet, a fighter that seems to be omnipotent but is proficient in nothing, cannot be intercepted even if it dives down from the air because it has already flown away!
And now, those fourteen missiles continued to fly forward rapidly, and they were less than a hundred kilometers away from the American aircraft carrier formation!
Outside the formation, each Aegis warship became extremely nervous.
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The Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Vincennes is the newest Aegis warship that has just entered service in the U.S. Navy. Although the first two ships, the Ticonderoga and the Yorktown, also used four-sided phased array radars, the vertical launch device was not yet completed and they still used a double-arm launch device, which greatly limited the launch speed. The third ship of the Ticonderoga class has been improved and finally installed with a vertical launch device!
There are sixteen groups of eight-mounted launchers, eight groups each at the front and rear of the ship, with a total payload of 122 missiles. This also gives the Aegis system the ability to resist saturation attacks!
Historically, it was not until the fifth Aegis warship that such capability was acquired. But now, the United States is facing a serious maritime situation and they have to speed up the development of their Aegis system. Moreover, the first two Ticonderoga-class ships will also undergo the same transformation.
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The flat AN/SPY-1A radar radiated extremely powerful electromagnetic waves towards the sky, filling the surrounding airspace. Since those missiles were flying at ultra-low altitudes, even the phased array radar of the Aegis system could not detect these missiles at a long distance!
Then let’s shoot down those high-flying guidance missiles first!
The phased array radar locked onto the target firmly. Flames appeared on the launch devices in front and behind the deck. Two milky white Standard 2 missiles were fired in a group, three groups in a row!
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Two salvos! Facing these incoming missiles, we must not be stingy with our ammunition. Only by firing two salvos can we increase our chances of hitting the target!
After the missile was launched, the AN/SPG-62 target illumination radar also began intensive work under the assignment of the computer.
The Aegis system, which the Americans boast about, uses a flat-panel phased array radar and vertically launched 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 still has fire channel limitations.
The Aegis system uses a passive phased array radar that can illuminate the target, but it is definitely not enough to guide its own air defense missiles to the point where the proximity fuse can be triggered!
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Moreover, the Standard 2 air defense missile is not a missile with an active seeker. It uses a composite guidance system of inertial guidance, mid-course command guidance, and terminal semi-active radar guidance.
Therefore, vertically launched missiles can be launched unlimitedly, and the search radar can also provide mid-course guidance to the missiles unlimitedly. However, when the missile finally needs to attack in the terminal stage, an additional illumination radar that can provide precise radar signals is required!
On the Ticonderoga class, the AN/SPG-62 target illumination radar is used to achieve illumination. So, how many missiles can be guided at the same time depends on how many such target illumination radars there are. On the Burke class, there are three such radars. On the current Vincennes, there is only one!
Does that mean it can only guide the attack on one target? This is not a small problem. The United States has also used a time-sharing illumination method. After all, the missiles attack targets in order. According to the judgment of the ship-borne system, the missile that first contacts the enemy will be illuminated first. When the illumination is completed, it will aim at the next target. In this way, in one round of salvo, it can illuminate at least four targets, that is, there can be four fire channels!
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Therefore, the Aegis system is not as awesome as the Americans boast. Its phased array and vertical launch are very advanced, but its missiles are lagging behind!
If it is changed to active radar guidance, such as a seeker like the Phoenix missile, it can solve its own illumination problem in the final stage, and it will truly have the ability to engage multiple targets!
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What's even worse is that the Vincennes only has one illumination radar! It can only provide four fire channels at most! It is far from being able to resist saturation strikes!
Time passed quickly. After dozens of seconds, the first batch of missiles had already flown to a height of several thousand meters. The three missiles fifty kilometers away were illuminated by radar one after another!
"Boom!" The Standard 2 high-explosive warhead successfully destroyed the target!
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The disappearance of the bright spot on the radar screen made the US Navy officers and soldiers cheer, but this was just the beginning!
As the leading missile was destroyed, another missile rose up from below. At the same time, the missiles on the sea surface had accelerated to their maximum speed, Mach 2.5!
At the same time, the radar of the Aegis battleship finally discovered the missiles flying at ultra-low altitudes. The 6 UYK-7 and 20 UYK-20 computers on board were performing frantic calculations. At the same time, flames continued to rise from the front and rear launch silos, and one Standard 2 missile after another was quickly fired!
After rushing several hundred meters into the sky, it dived down and flew according to the target direction provided by the phased array radar, while waiting for the final radar illumination!
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"Boom!" A Standard 2 missile successfully destroyed a missile flying at an ultra-low altitude!
"Boom!" The flames that lit up on the sea made the US Navy cheer, and the AN/SPG-62 target illumination radar was also working hard.
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Logically, it should provide a maximum of four fire channels at a time, but now, it has successfully guided up to the fifth missile!
The missiles fly in formation at ultra-low altitudes, so the target illumination radar barely needs to turn and can directly guide the next missile!
But after it guided the fifth one, everything was over!
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The remaining P-500 missiles have been dispersed and are only five kilometers away from the US aircraft carrier formation. They have entered the final attack process!
The radars at the front end of the missiles were turned on one after another, picking up the target with the largest echo wave to attack!