Although the incoming anti-ship missile was discovered at the last moment, the commander of the third guard group was not happy at all.

First, there are too many anti-ship missiles, and second, the third guard group has not yet prepared air defense when picking up the enemy.

Warships are not fighter jets, and the large radars on warships need to be preheated before starting, even the most advanced solid-state active phased array radar.

Under the threat of electromagnetic weapons, the radars on the ten warships did not turn on.

Given the situation at that time, if the radar is activated in advance, the ten warships will lose their air defense capabilities when the anti-ship missiles attack.

The reason is very simple. The absolute damage radius of electromagnetic warheads to electronic equipment is 20 kilometers. If the electronic equipment is in a working state, especially those large radars, it has strong electromagnetic radiation, so it is more susceptible to damage in the working state.

According to the tests conducted by the US military using several electromagnetic warheads obtained in the Second Korean War, the distance of the "Aegis" system was damaged by electromagnetic warheads in its working state is about 35 kilometers. If the environment is good, such as the sky is clear, the distance will increase.

At that time, at least three electromagnetic rockets detonated about thirty kilometers from the third guard group.

Because the weather on the battlefield is clear, even if several warships are far apart, as long as the radar is activated, they will definitely be destroyed by electromagnetic rockets.

It is obviously a little late to start the radar when you pick up the enemy.

In order to intercept anti-ship missiles as much as possible, before the warships were put into combat, the F-22a, which had air-to-air missiles, gave up the retreating j-11c and turned to intercept anti-ship missiles.

The interception operation of f-22a was soon effective.

The c-806 is a subsonic anti-ship missile. It will only throw away the cruise engine when it is approaching the target and use the rocket engine on the warhead to accelerate to Mach 2.5.

Even if the afterburner is not opened, the f-22a can catch up with the anti-ship missile.

In the first round of interception after 6:5, more than 20 f-22a shot down at least 30 c-806.

However, for anti-ship missiles with a total volume of about 840, thirty of this order of magnitude is nothing.

Because the fleet entered the battle only after 10 o'clock, after using up all medium-range air-to-air missiles, the F-22a aircraft group not only did not withdraw from the strike area of ​​long-range air defense missiles, but also continued to pursue anti-ship missiles and shot down more than a dozen anti-ship missiles with the aim-9y.

At that time, several F-22a even used air cannons.

It must be admitted that Japanese pilots are very brave.

In fleet air defense operations, especially when intercepting targets beyond the visual range, the strike range of fighter jets entering the air defense missile is equivalent to seeking death.

When intercepting ultra-low-altitude targets forty kilometers away, the air defense missiles cannot get guidance from the radar, and all attack in an automatic way, that is, rely entirely on missile-based radar to search and attack targets. Even if there is an enemy-to-we-to-we-to-we-to-the-flying system on the fighter jet, there is definitely no enemy-to-we-to-the-eye-to-the-air missile.

Compared with anti-ship missiles, the signal characteristics of fighter jets are more obvious.

You should know that the c-806 is a stealth anti-ship missile. Even if it is not done thoroughly enough, because the missile body is much smaller than the fighter jet, the radar reflects a lower signal than the f-22a.

The same is true in other aspects.

The c-806 uses a small turbofan engine and is flying at a subsonic speed during the cruise phase, so the infrared radiation characteristics are much smaller than those of f-22a.

If you choose air defense missiles, you will definitely regard the f-22a as the primary target of hunting.

When the fleet conducts air defense operations, air defense fighters enter the air defense interception area, which not only cannot help the fleet, but will instead weaken the fleet's air defense capabilities.

For example, in order to avoid accidental injury, the fire control system on the warship needs to spend a lot of resources to identify the enemy and us.

In this battle, at least seven F-22a were shot down by air defense missiles launched by Japanese warships, and these missiles were supposed to run towards the incoming anti-ship missiles.

It’s not that the Japanese pilots don’t know about this problem, but the situation is too special.

At that time, a Japanese pilot named Kano Kondo first used an aviation gun to shoot down an anti-ship missile with an aviation gun, and then introduced the air defense missile that was pursuing him into an anti-ship missile group. Although the F-22a he was flying was shot down by an air defense missile, he was not spared, but three nearby anti-ship missiles were also shot down by shrapnel. Later, the Japanese Prime Minister personally awarded Kano Kondo's highest medal of honor.

Fortunately, the two destroyers launched much more long-range air defense missiles than the F-22a.

Before the fleet began air defense operations, F-22a intercepted about fifty anti-ship missiles. During the two peripheral anti-missile interceptions, the two air defense destroyers launched a total of 132 air defense missiles and shot down nearly 90 anti-ship missiles, and the interception efficiency was not low.

The main reason for this achievement is that both warships use one-to-one interception methods.

Although according to the standard anti-missile interception tactics, two air defense missiles should be used to intercept one anti-ship missile, when there are much more anti-ship missiles, it can only be intercepted in a one-to-one manner.

According to this calculation, the hit rate of "Standard 2" is less than 70%, which is far from the claimed 95%.

Relatively speaking, the key to anti-missile operations lies in medium-range interception, that is, between 40 and 20 kilometers away from the fleet.

In this area, two air defense destroyers and four "High Wave" class destroyers can be put into battle. If they are closer, even the "Murayu" class can participate in the battle.

In any case, the more warships participating in the battle, the more firepower channels there will be, and the more targets that can be intercepted at the same time.

More importantly, as long as the anti-ship missile approaches within twenty kilometers, the fleet is likely to lose its last chance, because there is no reason why the Chinese Navy does not install electromagnetic warheads for some anti-ship missiles.

Even if there is only one anti-ship missile installed with an electromagnetic warhead successfully breaks through the middle-level air defense network and detonates within 20 kilometers of the fleet, the consequences are unimaginable.

As it turns out, this judgment is not wrong.

Ten destroyers launched more than 300 "advanced sea sparrows" and hundreds of "sea sparrows" within one and a half minutes, and conducted "super saturation intercepts" of incoming anti-ship missiles.

You should know that anti-ship missiles did not arrive at the same time. The ones flying in the front were intercepted by long-range air defense missiles, so there were not many anti-ship missiles approaching the fleet first, with only more than 200 total, and about half of the anti-ship missiles were in the rear, and they were more than 50 kilometers away from the fleet.

Using nearly 500 air defense missiles to intercept more than 200 anti-ship missiles is definitely a "super saturation interception."

The problem is that launching so many air defense missiles at the same time in a very short time will inevitably lead to a reduction in combat efficiency.

Although launch is not a problem, the mk41 vertical launch system can launch air defense missiles at a speed of one second, which is enough to launch all air defense missiles on the warship, but the fire control channel on the warship is very limited, and it can only guide a large number of missiles to a certain direction at the same time, and then the air defense missiles will fight on their own.

In theory, this is not a big problem.

The "Advanced Sea Sparrow" has an active radar guide and has strong independent combat capabilities. Before launching, you only need to obtain general information about the target, such as the incoming direction.

However, in order to improve the combat efficiency of missiles, precise guidance must be provided.

The result was that "super saturation interception" still failed to shoot down all anti-ship missiles, and in the end more than 20 anti-ship missiles successfully broke through the fleet's mid-level air defense network.

What happened next was definitely a disaster.

At 6:15, when the first ray of dawn appeared on the sea, the first c-806 detonated about fifteen kilometers away from the fleet's flagship "Foot Handle".

The missile is equipped with not a semi-armor-piercing warhead, but an electromagnetic warhead.

At that time, at least six of the ten warships in the third guard group were within twenty kilometers of the explosion point, and the other four were less than thirty-five kilometers away from the explosion point.

This missile alone completely destroyed the survival hope of the third guard group.

According to information disclosed after the war, during this attack, China HNA used anti-ship missiles carrying the electromagnetic warhead for the first time on a large scale, accounting for about one-third of the total.

In other words, at least 280 anti-ship missiles carried the electromagnetic warhead.

More importantly, these missiles did not reflect separately, but were mixed in the missile group. Because the warheads were only replaced, the signal characteristics were exactly the same as those of other anti-ship missiles. When conducting anti-missile interception, Japanese warships could not distinguish incoming anti-ship missiles, and it was impossible to focus on intercepting anti-ship missiles carrying electromagnetic warheads. As long as an anti-ship missile breaks through the mid-level air defense network, it could open a breakthrough for the anti-ship missiles behind it. Using missiles to attack warships paralyzed on the sea is no more difficult than target shooting.

You should know that Japanese warships do not have electromagnetic resistance.

Even with electromagnetic confrontation capabilities, Japanese warships cannot be spared, because under electromagnetic interference, the radar on the warship will definitely fail. Relying on the terminal interception system alone, no fleet can withstand the concentrated attack of hundreds of anti-ship missiles.

Of course, there are also questions about how many anti-ship missiles carried by China HNA have used.

Under the circumstances at that time, if HNA had used enough of this type of missiles, there was no need to use too many anti-ship missiles, because it could completely allow anti-ship missiles carrying electromagnetic warheads to open the way forward, causing the outer layer and middle-level air defense network of the third guard group to be paralyzed. Anti-ship missiles only need to face the final interception system. According to the calculation of ten missiles against one warship, one hundred anti-ship missiles are enough.

In any case, anti-ship missiles are not paper-based, and the unit price of C-806 in the international market is as high as 15 million yuan.

Using hundreds of anti-ship missiles means billions of additional war expenses.

According to the situation at that time, among the 840 anti-ship missiles, only a very small number must have been equipped with electromagnetic warheads, and they are all at the forefront of the missile group.

According to some information released after the war, the Chinese Air Force and Navy had a very large demand for electromagnetic weapons at that time. Fighters alone consumed more than 5,000 electromagnetic ammunition in air combat. After the Second Korean War, the annual output of electromagnetic weapons would not exceed 1,500, so the number of electromagnetic warheads that could be used on anti-ship missiles at that time was definitely limited, but the number of mass-produced anti-ship missiles was sufficient.
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