Chapter 248 This is so embarrassing
Global Hawk is missing? What's going on?
This is the most advanced UAV in the United States. Although there have been records of being shot down before, this thing is not a sparrow. Can anyone get it down?
The most important thing is that, as a reconnaissance aircraft, Global Hawk itself has the ability to discover targets.
In the previous records of being shot down, Global Hawks could also sense being locked by missiles. However, because Global Hawks carry fewer infrared bait bombs, once locked by missiles, it is difficult to escape the fate of being shot down.
But even so, the US military can at least know that the drone was shot down by a missile, right?
But this time it was a damn thing, the drone was lost directly.
It seemed to disappear out of thin air.
Could it be that a lightning flash suddenly descended from the sky and instantly slashed the drone?
Not to mention that there has been no lightning explosion in the area where the Global Hawk has arrived recently, even if there are lightning protection measures provided by the drone, it can ensure that it has a certain survivability and will not be killed instantly.
After several attempts, the U.S. military failed to contact the drone, they almost confirmed that the drone had crashed.
Drones are no more like manned aircraft. Manned aircraft, even if they lose contact, the pilot can allow the aircraft to land safely or land forcibly. But the drone cannot do it. Once the backend control is lost, it is like a headless fly, and may plunge into the sea.
Brigadier John is now completely gone from his previous compliment. If he hadn't requested it many times, the superiors would not have agreed to bring this global hawk here.
Now the Global Hawk is gone, and this is nearly $100 million in equipment. The people have to give an explanation, right? It is hard to say whether they will be used as a scapegoat. After all, the "Fizgerald" missile destroyer was knocked out by a freighter a hole in the past few years, and the captain and deputy captain were both dismissed. The basket he had made was not smaller than that time.
John knew very well that he could not hide this matter even if he wanted to. These American media reporters are not philanthropists, and they only have news in their eyes!
The news about the loss of the Global Hawk drone was soon learned by the reporters accompanying the ship. The news shocked them and also knew that it was a big news.
All kinds of news quickly passed back to China and was posted online as soon as possible.
Global Hawk mysteriously disappeared over the Western Pacific...
Experts infer that the drone may have encountered extreme weather...
It is not ruled out that the missiles of a certain country around it are shot down...
According to internal information, the drone may enter the Chinese airspace and investigate relevant information...
All kinds of news are rampant, and Americans do not care why the drone ran into Chinese airspace. They only care about the disappearance of the drone.
Missing? Of course, it won’t disappear for no reason, it must have fallen.
How could American drones fall for no reason as the most advanced technology? They must have been attacked.
Therefore, many bad guys made remarks online, insisting that the drone must have been shot down by the Chinese military, and even some people who claim to be experts also jumped out to interpret and analyze.
However, the US military fell silent at this time. After all, they are the official and they must have evidence to speak. Even if the US is a well-known rogue country, they have to make one fake evidence.
Now that the situation has not been cleared, I just rashly accuse me, just adding a laughing stock.
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Although the Global Hawk is gone, the exercises have to continue. After all, the missiles have been fired. You can't let it float in the sky, right?
Brigadier General John threw away distracting thoughts and continued to let someone monitor the movements in China.
In his heart, he did not think that the Global Hawk fell was caused by China. He felt that this might be more of an accident.
The exercise missiles launched by the United States themselves are getting closer and closer to the aircraft carrier fleet, and the units are already on alert, and John himself is in the command seat.
However, as soon as his butt was sitting down, a person in charge of data monitoring exclaimed.
"God! What's going on?"
"Bell, what are you yelling?"
"Missile! I discovered the missile, thirty kilometers away from us!"
"Fake it?"
"What nonsense?"
The missile was discovered only after entering the aircraft carrier fleet's distance of 30 kilometers. Is it really a decoration for the radar in the aircraft carrier fleet?
However, the next second, everyone stared at me because they saw a fire light flying towards this place through the porthole of the island. As a soldier, I was very familiar with this scene, it was a missile!
"Intercept!" Brigadier General John was almost scared. With the flight speed of the missile, this distance was just a matter of the blink of an eye. How could he hesitate?
The combatants of this fleet have experienced actual combat, and have experienced countless exercises.
But they have never encountered such strange situations as they are now.
An unknown missile actually approached the fleet thirty kilometers, no! It is now only twenty kilometers...
Intercept! Use all means to intercept!
Under normal circumstances, intercepting missiles will first use air defense missiles, and then use dense array artillery or other means. But how can you care about so much at this moment?
All air defense missile launch units received the launch command as soon as possible, and "standard" ship-to-air missiles whizzed out to face...
My sister, Yingmao! This is chasing someone else's butt! - Because the missile has already swept over the aircraft carrier battle group.
Not only that, the dense array artillery also began to show its power, and shells rushed into the sky!
What kind of scene is this? A missile is far ahead in the front, and a large group of air defense missiles are chasing afterwards. Unfortunately, it is getting farther and farther away.
And behind, countless artillery fireworks were setting off, as if celebrating that the missile in front ran away first place.
This scene, which was truly recorded by the reporters accompanying the ship, may become the ultimate in the history of the US military.
The whole process only happened in just a few seconds. When he saw the missile leaving, Brigadier John stayed in place stupidly. He knew that his military career was absolutely over.
He was absolutely frightened just now, otherwise he would never have issued an interception order.
Because at that time, with the speed of this mysterious missile, if it really attacked the aircraft carrier, it would be too late for them to intercept it even if they wanted to intercept it.
If they were not attacking the aircraft carrier, they would not be able to intercept the other party. Why let these ship-to-air missiles fly into the sky to set off fireworks?
A foolproof move!
This is not only a foolish move by Commodore John, but also a foolish move by all the operators of the entire fleet.
That's right, Brigadier John issued an interception order, but getting all the missiles in the launch unit was done by these operators themselves.
In fact, these are understandable. The missile really made them feel the threat of death.
At the critical moment of life and death, who is thinking so much? Just use all the means. As for the consequences, is the consequences important?
However, the matter did not end there. When they were just fooled by the mysterious missile, the missile they launched had already flown over the fleet.
The launch of the ship-air missile just now was very exciting! Unfortunately, the backup missile has not yet been filled.
This is so embarrassing...
Although they still have dense array artillery, the exercise does not have this step...
So...under the attention of countless American soldiers on the fleet, the missile drew an elegant arc in the air and flew directly towards the northeast!
"Not good!" Looking at the missiles moving away, John was shocked, "Hurry! Send instructions to the Florida and start the missile self-destruction program immediately!"
John knew very well that this missile had enough power to fly to China's land. Once such a thing really happened, he might not be as simple as being dismissed and would definitely go to military court.
The others on the ship also knew the seriousness of the matter and the instructions were quickly passed on.
In a place where they could not see the naked eye, the missile still flying in the air exploded, ending its final mission.
And with the self-destruction of this missile, it also indicates a complete failure of this anti-directorial exercise.
As for the successful intercepting of another missile by the ‘Shade’ system, no one has paid attention to it.
Regarding this exercise, everyone believed in advance that the United States was absolutely sure to successfully intercept missiles. This principle is very simple. If even the missiles it fired, how can we intercept missiles with unknown parameters launched by other countries?
If the interception is successful, it is just a normal situation. Who is going to pay attention to the normal situation now?
Today is definitely the day of shame for the Stanis fleet.
Not to mention intercepting other people's missiles, even the missiles launched by themselves can only watch them float over their heads.
Well, if this is tolerant, then what's the point of launching a large number of ship-to-air missiles and chasing someone else's butt?
As long as you are not a military idiot, you can tell from the scenes sent back by these reporters that it was too late for the United States to start the interception program. It was almost too late to arrive at grandma's house.
What does the commander of the fleet do? Are you eating shit?
You said that even if you don’t intercept it, it’s okay. At worst, you can just fly over from your head and show a little bit of American generosity.
But you waited for other people's missiles to fly over to the head before launching ship-air missiles. Is this going to cheer for others?
Do you really think that a missile worth millions of dollars is not scrapped? Taxpayers’ money is not so wasted, right?
Of course, more people are not not paying attention to the waste caused by these ship-to-air missiles, but rather the blow to the reputation and image of the United States, and at the same time deeply hurt the long-standing pride of the American people.
This matter has already been known to the whole world. Everyone originally wanted to see why China was slapped in the face, but the US military made a big joke. Who should I ask for?
Chapter completed!