.Chapter 124 Unlimited Scenery

As the First Marine Division approached Jince Port, the nerves of the coalition forces also became tense.

Although after the "East Korean Gulf Sea and Air War", the coalition forces strengthened the strike force against the People's Army's ballistic missile forces. The US military alone mobilized hundreds of F-15Es from three wings to specialize in the mission of search and attack missile motorized vehicles. The South Korean Air Force also provided F-15Ks from two wings to assist the US military in attacking the People's Army's medium- and short-range ballistic missiles, but the coalition's active actions did not receive equal returns. The high-intensity air strike lasted for several days, and only less than twenty missile-launched vehicles were discovered and destroyed.

Fortunately, the People's Army did not launch a large-scale missile attack.

In the past few days, the coalition forces have made adjustments to combat forces, especially those for ballistic missiles.

In order to enhance the anti-missile capabilities of the troops, the coalition first increased the number of anti-missile systems in the theater, and used C-17c to transport eight sets of thaads from the United States and Europe. Six of them were deployed behind the east-west fronts, providing protection for early warning aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft and other support aircraft. The remaining two sets were sent to the front-line combat troops, one was deployed in Hamxing and the other was deployed in Liyuan, which had just been occupied.

However, the thaad war zone anti-missile system is not omnipotent and cannot be guaranteed to be foolproof.

Facts have proved that when faced with large-scale ballistic missile attacks, the interception capability of the thaad system is very limited. Only a ballistic missile equipped with electromagnetic warheads can destroy the entire anti-missile system. When dealing with low-altitude cruise missiles, the anti-missile system is not ideal.

The biggest problem is not interception methods, but how to detect incoming missiles in time.

Without enough early warning time, any advanced anti-missile system cannot come in handy.

To this end, on the fifth day after the First Land Warrior Division set out from Hamxing, the U.S. Department of Aeronautics and Space used a "Delta" rocket to launch a group of missile early warning satellites.

All three early warning satellites are deployed in low-Earth orbit and work with the three early warning satellites that were previously launched, which can ensure uninterrupted surveillance of the entire territory of North Korea, and issue an alarm within ten seconds after the missile is launched, providing more than five minutes of early warning time for the anti-missile interception system.

It must be admitted that the United States is indeed rich and powerful.

Six missile early warning satellites are worth $2 billion, including two launch vehicles, and a total investment of nearly $3 billion.

Spend so much money just to deal with those medium- and short-range ballistic missiles worth less than one million dollars!

Missile early warning satellites can detect ballistic missiles, but cannot detect long-range rockets using solid rocket engines, and cruise missiles using turbojet engines.

In order to establish a complete and effective missile early warning system, the coalition forces must work harder.

To this end, the coalition forces had to transfer the early warning aircraft patrol airspace on the Western Front battlefield from Yuanshan to Hamxing, so that it could detect cruise missiles flying over the Yalu River.

Together with early warning aircraft, the US military's e-8c "joint satellite" was also deployed from the front to search for long-range rocket launchers.

The series of deployment and mobilization of the coalition forces is enough to show that the large-scale use of electromagnetic weapons by the Volunteer Army in the counterattack has had an invaluable impact on the war. Regardless of whether the coalition forces realize that electromagnetic warfare has changed the appearance of the war, they have at least begun to pay attention to the new tactics of the Volunteer Army.

However, dealing with electromagnetic strikes is not easy.

As a pioneer of electronic warfare, the US military studied electromagnetic warfare decades ago, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union, many research work was forced to dismiss. After entering the 21st century, the situation of the United States' dominance formed. Especially after the September 11th incident, the threat to the United States was no longer a major country, but a terrorist organization without a state form. The US military carried out military reforms, cracking down on terrorist organizations, and dealing with rogue countries became the main task.

Affected by these factors, the US military's degree of electronicization is becoming increasingly higher.

From aircraft carriers to guns in soldiers, almost all have electronic components, and the impact of electronic products on weapons and equipment is becoming increasingly significant.

In order to reduce procurement costs, the US military began to lower the standards for military electronic products, and even adopted civilian standards in some secondary fields. For example, a large number of commercial computer chips were used on the latest "littoral combat ships" of the US military, and some US soldiers even regarded "Apple" mobile phones as necessary equipment.

Civil equipment can greatly reduce the manufacturing cost of weapons and equipment, but the problems arising from this are also very prominent.

As early as during the Cold War, the US military discovered that transistor electronic devices have far less anti-interference capabilities than electronic tubes. Only electronic tube products can survive in the nuclear war.

This is the same situation in electromagnetic warfare.

After being hit by high-power electromagnetic strikes, transistor electronic devices are easily burned, but electron tubes are not easily damaged.

It can be imagined that behind the high modernization, there are huge risks.

The US military discovered the risks, but found no way to eliminate them.

Which of the modern weapons and equipment does not have electronic equipment? The red dot scope on the rifle, the infrared phase formation system on the tank, the radar and flight control computer on the fighter, the communication system and radar system on the warship, and even the military network system of the US military's combat power multiplier are all built on electronic equipment. If refined, they are all composed of transistors mainly composed of silicon elements.

It is obviously impossible to replace these equipment.

The key is that the strong combat effectiveness of the US military is based on powerful communication and command systems, and these systems are based on advanced electronic technology.

Without microprocessors composed of thousands of transistors, can the US military still be able to fight easily?

Whether it is the thaad anti-missile interception system or missile early warning satellite, early warning aircraft deployed at the front are passive defense methods and cannot fundamentally eliminate the threat.

To eliminate the threat, you have to take the initiative to attack.

The question is, can the US military take the initiative to attack?

The Volunteer Army is nominally a mercenary army and has nothing to do with China, but the Volunteer Army's combat support systems are all located in China.

If the US military wants to take the initiative to attack, it must attack China's mainland, at least attack combat aircraft over China's mainland.

Obviously, this is impossible.

Not to mention the huge military risks of attacking Chinese local targets, the US president will not approve it because it has even greater political risks.

The US military has entered a dead end and cannot find an effective solution.

Over the past few days, more and more signs indicate that the volunteers, who have already tasted the sweetness of electromagnetic attacks, will never give up and are actively organizing new counterattacks, and will use electromagnetic weapons again, and will even expand the range of electromagnetic weapons to strike.

Will the Volunteer Army attack the US aircraft carrier battle group again?

Because shortly after the First Land Force Division launched an attack, two conventional submarines of Type 041 left Qingjin Port, the coalition forces placed the protection of the aircraft carrier battle group first.

By this time, the US military had already figured out that it was not the attacking nuclear submarine that attacked the Washington.

Although this result embarrassed Strauss because before unilaterally withdrawing from the ceasefire negotiations, he had clearly stated to Britain, France, Russia and the Secretary-General of the United Nations that China first undermined the principle of war and used unconventional weapons, General Aaron breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the threat of attacking nuclear submarines was much greater than that of conventional submarines. If the attack on the aircraft carrier battle group at that time was an attacking nuclear submarine, it would definitely be more than the "Washington" that sank.

The problem is that the two Type 041 conventional submarines are not small.

If the nuclear submarine had not sunk the Washington, it would have been done by conventional submarines. Judging from the reactions of the surviving officers and soldiers, five torpedoes hit the Washington in two batches. The explosion of the first two torpedoes was much more powerful, and it can be concluded that it was a 650-mm heavy torpedo.

If so, then the one that sunks the Washington USS 041 conventional submarine, and it must be the one that arrived at Qingjin Port later.

If the same trick of the volunteer army repeats itself, how much better is the 72nd Special Mixed Fleet?

To this end, the US military immediately launched an anti-submarine combat operation specifically for two Type 041 submarines. In order to show support, the South Korean Navy also sent several destroyers.

Is it that easy to search for two AIP submarines that can lurk under the sea for more than 20 days in the vast ocean?

Even though there were as many as seven attack nuclear submarines covering the 71st Special Mixed Fleet, three of which were "Virginia" class, the US military still did not have much confidence.

The initiative is in the hands of the attacking party, and the aircraft carrier battle group can only passively defend.

More importantly, the threat comes not only from the sea, but also from outside the atmosphere.

If the volunteers want to use submarines to attack the aircraft carrier battle group, they must first crush the anti-submarine capabilities of the aircraft carrier battle group, and they must use ballistic missiles carrying electromagnetic warheads.

The experience of the 72nd Special Mixed Fleet has proved that the original anti-missile tactics of the US military cannot deal with saturated attacks.

The interception range must be expanded, and intercept outside the atmosphere at the latest during the rising stage of the ballistic missile. It must not be intercepted in the reentry section of the ballistic missile.

In addition to deploying the thaad system on land, the US military can only allow anti-missile warships to deploy in front.

Fortunately, the Volunteers no longer have the ability to compete with the coalition forces for air supremacy, so it is difficult to find anti-missile warships that have separated from the aircraft carrier battle group, and they cannot attack.

But who can guarantee that everything is foolproof?

Faced with the severe missile threat, the US military must be cursing the Secretary of Defense who brought the ABL plan to dismiss the year.

Although the Pentagon has restarted the ABL program under the firm request of Chandler and Allen to re-engineer the aircraft for flight testing and commissioned Boeing to manufacture three engineering prototypes to speed up the development, it is impossible for the US military to obtain a laser anti-missile aircraft with combat capability in a short period of time.

Although the coalition's ground forces are invincible, almost all senior coalition generals, including Aaron, are secretly praying that the People's Army has used up all medium- and short-range ballistic missiles and that the Volunteer Army will not be able to launch missile assault again. If the 71st Special Mixed Fleet ends with the same end, the coalition will always lose the opportunity to win the war.
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