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Of course, not all Sparrow missiles failed to intercept. Some proximity fuzes exploded early, and a large number of broken rods were sucked into the engine by the p-500 missile, causing the p-500 to explode directly in the air!

However, the interception efficiency of this round is obviously not very high! Only seven missiles were intercepted. You must know that the number of Hornet fighters in the sky far exceeds that of Tomcats!

Hundreds of fighters from two aircraft carriers shot down so many missiles! There were also fourteen missiles that penetrated their firepower net and flew in the direction of the aircraft carrier formation!

The Tomcat can swept back from the wings of the air and dive down quickly, while the Hornet, which seems to be all-powerful but is not proficient in anything, can't intercept even if it dives down from the air, and people have already flown away!

And now, the fourteen missiles are continuing to fly forward rapidly, and they are less than 100 kilometers away from the American aircraft carrier formation!

Outside the formation, all the Aegis battleships were extremely nervous.

The Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Vincennes is the newest Aegis battleship that has just entered service in the U.S. Navy. The first two ships, the USS Ticonderoga and the USS Yorktown, also use four-sided phased array radars. However, since the vertical launcher has not been completed, the dual-arm launcher is still used, which greatly limits the launch speed. This Ticonderoga-class No. 3 ship has been improved and finally installed the vertical launcher!

There are 16 sets of eight launchers, eight sets each on the front and rear of the hull, with a total load of 122 bombs, which also gives the Aegis system the ability to resist saturation strikes!

Historically, this capability was not available until the fifth Aegis warship, but now, the United States is facing a serious maritime situation, and they have to step up the development of their Aegis system, and, the first two Ticonderoga level, will undergo the same transformation.

The flat-panel an/spy-1a radar radiates incomparably powerful electromagnetic waves toward the sky, flooding the surrounding airspace. Since those missiles fly from ultra-low altitudes, even the phased array radar of the Aegis system cannot Spot these missiles at long distances!

Then shoot down those high-flying pilot bombs first!

The phased array radar firmly locked on the target, and before and after the deck, there was fire on the launcher, and two milky white Standard 2 missiles were launched in three groups in a row!

Two salvos! In the face of these flying missiles, you must not be stingy with your own ammunition. Only two salvos can increase the hit rate!

After the missile was launched, the an/spg-62 target irradiated the radar, and under the assignment of the computer, intensive work began.

The Aegis system, which Americans boast about, uses flat-panel phased array radar and vertical launch missiles. It has a full range of multi-channel strike capabilities and can resist saturation attacks. However, in fact, this is quite nonsense, because the Aegis system, There are still firepower channel restrictions.

The Aegis system uses a passive phased array radar, which can illuminate the target, but it is definitely not enough to guide its own air defense missiles to the extent that it can trigger the proximity fuze!

Moreover, the standard 2 air defense missile is not a missile with an active seeker, it uses a composite guidance of inertial guidance plus mid-course command guidance plus terminal semi-active radar guidance.

Therefore, vertically-launched missiles can be launched without restrictions, and search radars can also conduct mid-course guidance to the missiles without restrictions. However, when the missile finally needs to attack at the end, an additional radar signal that can provide precise Illuminated radar!

On the Ticonderoga class, the radar is illuminated by the an/spg-62 target. Then, how many missiles can be guided at the same time depends on how many such targets illuminate the radar. On the Burke class, There are three such radars. And on the current Vincennes, there is only one!

So does it mean that it can only lead to attack one target? This is not a lot. The United States has also used the method of time-sharing irradiation. After all, missiles attack targets in sequence. According to the judgment of the shipborne system, the missiles that touch the enemy first are irradiated first. After the irradiation is completed, then Aim for the next target. In this way, in a salvo, it can irradiate at least four targets, that is to say, there can be 4 fire channels!

Therefore, the Aegis system is not as powerful as the Americans boast. Its phased array and vertical launch are very advanced, but the missiles are holding back!

If it is changed to active radar guidance, such as a seeker like the Phoenix missile, in the final stage, it can solve its own irradiation problem by itself, then it will truly have the ability to engage in multi-target engagement!

What's even more pitiful is that the Vincennes has only one illuminating radar! It can only provide up to four channels of firepower! It is far from being able to achieve the ability to resist saturation strikes!

The time was very fast. After tens of seconds, the first batch of missiles launched ~www.readwn.com~ had already flown to an altitude of several kilometers, and three missiles 50 kilometers away were irradiated by radar one after another!

"Boom!" The high-explosive warhead of Standard 2 successfully destroyed the target!

The disappearance of the bright spot on the radar screen made the US Navy officers and soldiers cheer for a while, but this is just the beginning!

As the guided missile was destroyed, another missile rose up below, and at the same time, the missile on the sea had accelerated to its maximum speed, Mach 2.5!

At the same time, the radar of the Aegis warship finally found those missiles flying at ultra-low altitudes. The ship's 6 uyk-7 and 20 uyk-20 computers were doing crazy calculations. At the same time, the front and rear two The silo, constantly bursting into flames, one by one Standard 2 missiles, quickly launched!

After rushing hundreds of meters into the sky, it dives down and flies according to the target orientation provided by the phased array radar, while waiting for the final radar illumination!

"Boom!" A standard 2 missile successfully destroyed an ultra-low-altitude missile!

"Boom!" The fire on the sea made the U.S. Navy cheer for a while, and the an/spg-62 target irradiated the radar and was also working hard.

It stands to reason that it provides up to four channels of fire at a time, but now, it has successfully guided to the fifth missile!

The ultra-low-altitude formation-flying missile allows the target to illuminate the radar almost without turning, and can directly guide the next one!

However, when it guides the fifth, everything is over!

The remaining p-500 missiles, which have been dispersed, are only five kilometers away from the US aircraft carrier formation, and they have entered the final attack process!

The radars at the front of the missile are turned on one after another, picking up the target with the largest echo and attacking!