Originally, the home port of Virat was Mumbai, but since Mumbai suffered a air strike from Pakistan, causing damage to the nuclear reactor and a large number of nuclear leakage and nuclear radiation, Mumbai has almost become an empty city. ~,

India's west coast is no longer safe and will be attacked by Pakistan's aircraft carriers with carrier-based aviation forces at any time. In this case, transferring the aircraft carrier power to the east coast is the choice that the Indian Navy has to make.

In the eastern part of India, Visakhapatnam is a good port that allows Indian aircraft carrier formations to be stationed. However, the rebels in Hyderabad always jump out from time to time to make trouble, and sometimes even come to Visakhapatnam to make trouble, put a few 107 rockets, and then run away hurriedly before the security forces arrived.

In order to deal with this situation, the Indians had to place aircraft carriers in the relatively safe port of Kolkata. Anyway, it has been a few years since the last enclave incident, and it has been relatively calm since then. Moreover, the shipbuilding industry here is also very developed, so repairing is more convenient.

Now, Kolkata, which lacks strategic depth, has been forcibly attacked by Pakistani troops! Indian naval forces are now thinking of preserving their strength and quickly drive out of the Kolkata port!

Unfortunately, this warship uses a steam turbine, so it is not that easy to start!

Back then, when the island country's navy came, the Beiyang Navy's warship was still slowly igniting fires and burning the boiler, and was completely in a passive state of being beaten. Now, the Indian Navy is the same.

The Virat aircraft carrier is two paons steam turbines with a total power of 57m, which can enable the aircraft carrier to reach a speed of 28 knots. Although this aircraft carrier is equipped with a Sea Harrier fighter with vertical take-off and landing, it consumes too much fuel for vertical take-off and landing, so the main form is short-range take-off and landing. In short-range take-off and landing, the speed of the aircraft carrier itself is also very important, which can make the carrier-based aircraft more fuel-saving during take-off and landing.

Now, the aircraft carrier has been docked in the port for half a month. The boiler has been turned off, heating the water in the boiler and re-driven the warship operation. Although it is no longer the type of coal-burning boiler that used to burn heavy oil, it is still a long time. Without a few hours of preheating, the aircraft carrier cannot be driven at all.

This is also the reason why Britain is vigorously promoting the gas turbine of warships. If the Virat uses a gas turbine, it can sail at full speed in a few minutes after starting, and there is no need for a long preheating process.

In addition to this Virat aircraft carrier, there is also a Rajput class destroyer and a pride of the Indian Navy, the Delhi class destroyer they built on their own!

In later generations, India's Delhi-class destroyers were a freak of difficult labor. India approved the No. 15 shipbuilding plan in 1977 to build three new generation destroyers. The construction officially began in 1982. They chose the Soviet Kasing-class missile destroyer as the model, that is, their own Rajput-class as the template. The design of this warship was participated by many Soviet personnel, and the detailed design was completed in 1985. The construction of the first ship was launched in November 1987. It is expected that the first warship will be put into service in 1992.

However, the Indian Navy has high hopes for this warship and has continuously put forward new requirements during the construction process, which has led to shipbuilding units having to rebuilt the completed sections of the ship for more than 30 times! As a result, although the first ship of the 15th plan, Delhi, had a keel installed as early as 1992, it was dragged until 1995 and was put into service in 1997. Moreover, a fire broke out during the construction process.

Now, the construction of this warship is progressing quite quickly. Under the strong stimulation of the Pakistani Navy, India will never be willing to fail. It can rely on Pakistan's war compensation to not be paid, and these weapons and equipment will be put into service as soon as possible! Therefore, the first warship was put into service in 1992 according to the original plan. After more than a year, the various weapon systems on it have also been run-in. It can be said that this warship is the leader of the Indian Navy.

Now, after getting the news, the two warships were also started. Although many naval officers were still on the shore, the captain who had hurry on board decided to leave and set sail.

Stay here and wait to be captured by the Pakistani army? You can't give it to the Pakistani Navy for nothing! Move these two warships to Visakhapatnam in the south!

Compared to the slow Virat, these two destroyers are much faster because they both use gas turbines!

Four DT-59 gas turbine engines are roaring, and the powerful power output of 60,000 horsepower is enough to make this destroyer reach a high speed of more than 30 knots!

After leaving the dock, two warships with only a small number of crew members were moving quickly. As long as they reached the sea, it would be difficult to be discovered by Pakistani fighters, and they would be safe!

The sky in the east was getting brighter and brighter. Two destroyers split the waves on the sea surface and advanced quickly, leaving two splashes of water at the tail.

On the Delhi-class destroyer, the ral-02 air search radar was rotating. To them, the biggest threat was the Pakistani Air Force!

The destroyer's captain Pluvier Dass walked back and forth within the bridge, looking at the sea in the distance from time to time.

Before the fighter jets that have left the strike range of Chittagong's aviation base, their warships are still in danger!

The screen of the air-to-air radar is constantly refreshing. As soon as the radar operator calms down, he sees the two highlights above.

"Two planes were found, with an altitude of 8,000 and a distance of 23."

Due to the curvature of the earth, it is difficult for warships to find fighter jets coming from low altitudes, but they are not so scared of targets flying from high altitudes. It is precisely because the other party is flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters that they can discover them more than 200 kilometers away.

"Prepare the Sam-7 air defense missile. If the opponent enters our air defense circle, launch it immediately!" Pluville said.

As the most powerful warship produced in India, this warship has regional air defense capabilities. The Sam-7 air defense missiles equipped on the warship have a range of 25,000 meters!

Of course, he knew in his heart that if the fighter jets were really mounted to sea attacks, they would definitely carry Eagle Strike series anti-ship missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers. The air-to-air missiles on their warships would just kill the incoming missiles.

Although there are two 3s-90 single-arm launch devices on the bow and tail of the ship, since the Sam-7 is a semi-active radar-guided missile, it requires continuous-wave radar to illuminate the entire process. Therefore, before the previous missile hits the target, they are unable to guide the second Sam-7 missile, and the actual performance is greatly reduced.

Just as Pluvier was thinking about using Sam-7 and AK630 six-barrel cannons to entertain each other, he heard a surprise shout from the radar operator: "One hundred and sixty kilometers, they launched missiles!"

One hundred and sixty kilometers! Even if it is the -802 missile from China, its range is not so far! What kind of missile is this? The two smaller signals separated from the target signal are so clear!

"The target speed is continuing to increase, and it has exceeded the speed of Mach 2 and is expected to arrive in four minutes!" The radar operator's shout was filled with tremolo.

This is a supersonic anti-ship missile!

Indians, try a Pakistani meal! Rick, wearing an oxygen mask, was full of excitement in his heart.

When it was almost dawn, I received news from the early warning plane that two warships moved out of the Kolkata port, and Rick and his wingman took off immediately.

Originally, if these warships were staying honestly in the Kolkata port and waiting for their own army personnel to accept it, then it would be fine. If they dare to come out, they would be eliminated resolutely!

Moreover, in order to give the Indians the greatest deterrence, Rick and his wingman were carrying their latest sea attack weapon developed by the Hawk Strike 91-a heavy supersonic anti-ship missile!

This missile was once tested at the shooting range and could destroy a 10,000-ton cruiser. Now, it was originally an aircraft carrier to deal with the Indians, but the aircraft carrier did not come out, and the two destroyers were also good targets for attack!

When Rick pressed the launch button, he clearly felt the fuselage tremble, and then the Eagle Strike-91 anti-ship missile fell off the pylon.

After falling for one second, four surrounding solid rocket engines at the tail ignite, flames shot out from the tail, and at the same time, the wings automatically open.

In the goggles, Rick was also excited to see the hot tail flame. This big guy was so excited!

The rocket engine further accelerated the missile to Mach 2. The baffles of the four air inlets were opened, and the airflow compressed by the rapid missile entered the ramjet engine.

The fuel of the rocket engine has just been burned, and the ramjet engine has held a relay race!

After the ramjet engine was ignited, the missile continued to accelerate. The first shell made of titanium alloy rubbed violently with the air, and the temperature rose to several hundred degrees.

Mach 2.5, Mach 3, Mach 3.5! At such hypersonic speed, the missile is flying rapidly at an altitude of 5,000 meters.

The range of a missile is related to its altitude. At such an altitude, the range of the missile exceeds 250 kilometers. If it keeps flying over the sea, the range will be reduced to less than 150 kilometers.

If you attack a US ship with an Aegis system, you may have to fly by siege the sea. Now, the warships that attack A San are so arrogant and domineering!
Chapter completed!