Chapter 803 Sunburn, Attack!
Although the Soviet Union's previous anti-ship missiles were also supersonic missiles, they all used liquid rocket engines. The current Sunburn anti-ship missile uses a first-of-its-kind liquid ramjet engine and a solid rocket engine that are cleverly combined.
The biggest feature of the ramjet is its simple structure. When the aircraft reaches a certain speed, the air entering the aircraft is directly compressed by the air intake. Therefore, there is only a combustion chamber at the back, and no turbine or compressor is needed. It is quite simple. However, one disadvantage of the ramjet is that it must reach a certain speed! If the speed is too low, the ramjet will not work.
Therefore, this type of engine cannot propel the aircraft to accelerate from a standstill, which requires the addition of an additional rocket engine.
At this time, the solid rocket booster was what pushed the missile out. The rapidly burning booster pushed the anti-ship missile to accelerate continuously. Soon, it had already reached Mach 0.6, reaching the minimum speed of the ramjet engine! The burned booster fell off from the back and splashed into the sea water. In front, the foldable flame stabilizer in the integral liquid ramjet engine unfolded, and the four circular air intake baffles in the middle of the front were broken, and air began to be taken in. The igniter ignited, and a new tail flame appeared at the tail, which was brighter than before! The ramjet engine started working!
Many people were temporarily blinded by the sudden brightness, but the Argentine naval soldiers did not retreat. They were extremely excited and had already released their powerful weapons!
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One after another, with an interval of one second, six huge anti-ship missiles were fired!
The guidance method of the Sunburn missile is fire-and-forget, using autopilot, radio altimeter and active and passive composite radar. The autopilot is used in the self-control section, and due to the use of a high-precision radio altimeter, the low-altitude flight altitude fluctuation is only 0.5 to 1 meter.
Therefore, now that these missiles have been fired, we can actually retreat. However, with a determined look, Machetans did not immediately order a return!
This type of missile can be fired and then launched, but if you want to be more accurate, it is best for you to continue to provide radar illumination!
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After all, after the initial automatic flight, the Sunburn missile still needs terminal guidance in the final attack phase. Although the missile head adopts a composite guidance system, it can work in an active way and capture the target 7.5 kilometers away, but the American aircraft carrier formation, surrounded by many warships, will definitely use their own hulls to resist after discovering these incoming missiles! Therefore, it is better to continue to provide guidance signals from our side and let the radar work in a passive state. In this way, the passive radar will continue to receive the target radiation signal during flight and continue to correct the flight trajectory!
You can just fire and forget about it, but it would be better if you could take care of it!
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With this thought in mind, Marchtans continued to move his ground effect vehicle forward. Moreover, he really wanted to see the echo on the radar screen disappear!
The United States, a hegemonic country! Now, they are using their military force to interfere in Argentina's internal affairs! They can actually send stealth aircraft to bomb the capital of Argentina. This is simply a naked provocation! Argentina will never be afraid of such an opponent!
Six huge anti-ship missiles were flying over the sea. At the same time, two Tomcat fighters in cruising state took off from the aircraft carrier and climbed to an altitude of nine thousand meters. At the same time, they began to use their radars to scan the surrounding sea and sky.
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A few seconds later, the radar operator of the lead aircraft exclaimed: "Damn it, 010 direction, 120 kilometers, a large target, very low altitude, 15 meters, speed 500!"
When the Tomcat fighters were climbing, they did not turn on their radars. Because they were sailing north, they also flew north when they catapulted to take off. They turned around only after they climbed to the cruising altitude. At this time, they were already 40 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier formation.
And now, the target they searched for was 120 kilometers away from them, which means it was only 80 kilometers away from their aircraft carrier formation!
If the enemy had come closer, the radar officer would have thought that the enemy was a warship in his fleet and had just fallen behind. But now, this was absolutely impossible! Because the target was flying at a very low altitude!
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At this time, it was just midnight.
This large target flying at a very low altitude definitely had bad intentions. However, this made the radar officer a little confused. What exactly was this target? If it was a fighter plane, then the radar echo would be too big, right? It was just like a ship! And if it was a ship, it would be incredible. Where had he ever seen a flying ship?
As the radar operator exclaimed and quickly switched to a more accurate mode, his surprise had completely turned into fear: "America, America, six targets, altitude one, speed 2.2 Mach! Distance sixty! Please prepare for air defense!"
Height 1 meter, speed 2.2 Mach, distance 60 kilometers! When the warning information was transmitted to the aircraft carrier formation, there was a panic on the bridge.
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Damn, what is that? Is that a Soviet supersonic anti-ship missile?
The pilot of the Tomcat fighter did not fly towards the six targets because the distance was too close. At this distance, the air defense system of his own warships could open fire. His mission was to destroy the carrier of the missile!
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"Quick, quick, quick!" At the rear of the formation, on the Virginia-class nuclear-powered missile cruiser "Arkansas", the officer on duty shouted loudly: "Hurry up, capture the target, capture the target!"
The United States' Aegis warship was not put into service until 1983. Therefore, up to now, the United States does not have the special Aegis system that can resist saturation attacks like later generations. The only thing they can rely on is the standard missiles on the warship's double-arm launcher.
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The "Arkansas" is the fourth of this type of nuclear-powered missile cruiser, with a displacement of 9,000 tons. One of the main reasons why it accompanied the USS America on this expedition is that this warship is nuclear-powered and there is no need to worry about refueling.
At the same time, this warship also undertakes important air defense tasks, and on this night, missiles suddenly attacked, and now they are sixty kilometers away!
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This is a supersonic anti-ship missile, flying at a speed of two Machs, flying seven hundred meters in one second! It takes less than two minutes to travel a distance of sixty kilometers!