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Chapter 115 The Navy's New Firepower!

On the surface of the deep blue sea, a rusty-looking warship was constantly ups and downs in the waves.

There is already a distance of more than [-] kilometers from the coast, and it has reached the deep sea area of ​​the South China Sea.

There was no one on the dilapidated warship, just like a ghost ship.

Suddenly, several violent flashes pierced the night sky, and rockets flew towards the dilapidated warship.

The 300mm high-explosive rocket quickly approached the warship, and then slammed into the hull violently, causing a huge explosion.

The flames with a power comparable to the explosion of more than a dozen tons of TNT explosives flooded the entire sea surface in an instant, and the huge shock wave set off the waves, stirring up thousands of waves.

And create a small mushroom cloud nearly [-] meters high!
The warship trembled violently, seemingly unable to withstand such a blow, but it miraculously continued to float on the sea.

The hull has suffered serious damage, debris is flying around, and black smoke is filling the air, but the warship has not been completely sunk.

However, several successive rockets surrounded the warship, and the sound of explosions was deafening.

Seemingly drawing the wrath of its uninvited guests, the seemingly abandoned warship has resisted attack after attack with tenacity.

However, the resistance of the warships gradually became weak.A huge rocket hit a vital part of the hull, causing an even more violent explosion.

The structure of the warship began to crumble, the shattered wreckage scattered, and the burning flames spread rapidly.

The final explosion completely knocked out the warship, and it quickly sank into the abyss of the South China Sea.

The wave formed a huge eddy where it sank.

The sinking of the warship marked the end of a period in this sea area.

The wreckage destroyed by the rockets is silent in the deep sea, while the sea gradually calms down, leaving only a few traces of torn smoke, like traces of a dream.

The sea has returned to silence and solitude, once again immersed in deep blue serenity.

An observation ship moored a few kilometers away was meticulously monitoring the former navy ship as it slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.

Until the last wave, all dissipated in the sea breeze.

"This power is comparable to the shore-based anti-ship missiles of the Second Artillery, right?"

An officer on the ship wearing a navy white uniform hadn't recovered from the devastating scene just now, feeling as if he was in a dream.

"Also, these rockets seem to have been launched from six hundred kilometers away?"

Zhang Xingyang slowly put down the telescope in his hand, and replied very calmly:

"Yes, this is our newly developed 406mm heavy rocket. It only needs one salvo of a rocket launcher to destroy a 3000-ton destroyer!"

"Is this still a rocket?"

"Isn't this more powerful than traditional anti-ship missiles?"

A naval officer has been in the military for nearly 25 years and has never heard of a rocket that can achieve such power.

Even looking at the effect of the rocket just now, it is beyond the power of ordinary subsonic cruise anti-ship missiles!

Originally, Han Zitao still didn't understand this test.

After all, even if the warship is decommissioned, it is still a meritorious ship of the Navy!

When he was young, he spent his recruit career on the destroyer just now.

When it was proposed to use the destroyer as a target ship for weapons testing, there was a lot of opposition within the Navy.

In the end, it was the navy boss who came forward to stop these voices.

However, before the strike on the destroyer was completed, no one believed that the rocket produced by the No. [-] Yuxi Machinery Factory, which was not well-known before, could sink the warship.

After all, even if it is a 406mm rocket, it can only have a warhead of 200 kg. For a warship, as long as it does not hit a vital part, it is difficult to directly sink the warship!
But after the first rocket hit the destroyer, Han Zitao changed his opinion.

Although the concentrated part is the side area of ​​the warship, most of the explosive power is wasted.

However, a large hole with a diameter of several meters was still blasted on the surface of the warship!

And a small mushroom cloud that looks like an exploding mushroom egg!
"Actually, it's not that exaggerated. Because there is no power during the flight phase, in the second half, it is easy for the enemy to calculate the trajectory and intercept it!"

"So the actual combat power is not as strong as you imagined!"

Zhang Xingyang corrected the naval officer's unrealistic fantasy about rockets.

This is also the most fatal flaw of the rocket, that is, at the end, because it has no power, there is no way to maneuver to defend against the anti-missile missiles and near-anti-cannon attacks on the opposite side!
"But it also has its own advantages."

The naval officer looked over curiously, wanting to know what advantage he had.

"That is, its cost is very low, the cost price of a round is less than 300 million!"

"Compared to tens of millions of anti-missile missiles, it can completely compete with the opponent in a war of attrition."

"As for the near-anti-aircraft gun, it has no reaction time at all in the face of a rocket with a terminal velocity of Mach 7.6!"

The biggest advantage of the 406mm heavy rocket is that it is so cheap that it is almost only one-tenth of the price of anti-missile missiles!
And the high speed of terminal penetration!

"But if there is no terminal power, it will be difficult to attack a moving target, right?"

At this time, the naval officer asked another question.

Because sea targets are different from land targets, warships are basically on the move except when resting in the harbor.

Although the speed is not very high, it can still move thousands of meters in a few minutes.

Under such circumstances, it is difficult to directly attack the intended target.

"This problem is indeed difficult to solve, so our solution is to take a saturated attack!"

"Although this consumes more rockets, as long as it can destroy the opponent's warship, it is profitable. It is not a loss to exchange a hundred rounds!"

Zhang Xingyang did not have such worries. The rockets were developed for saturation strikes, even at sea.

Hearing Zhang Xingyang's explanation, the naval officers and other naval personnel on board began to think seriously and realized the strategic and tactical significance of this new weapon.

As a low-cost weapon, it will not develop in the same high-precision direction as missiles.

Instead, it will continue to take advantage of its price advantage and start a war of attrition with the enemy!

Obviously, these naval personnel on board are elite, and they quickly realized that this breakthrough may have a major impact on future maritime operations.

Start discussing how to respond and apply this new weapon of war.

Zhang Xingyang rested his hands on the iron railing of the monitoring ship, quietly looked at the sea in front of him, and his heart was full of expectations for the future.

He knows that the advent of this new type of weapon will provide a stronger guarantee for maritime security and national interests.

(End of this chapter)