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As mentioned earlier, the US military's heavy anti-ship missile has a high level of intelligence.

When attacking the fleet, the US military's heavy anti-ship missile will first focus on attacking air defense warships that act as stumbling blocks, and then attacking aircraft carriers. When the war broke out, this feature played a great role, especially in the battle of sneak attacking Yokohama, which almost caused the entire Chinese Pacific Fleet to be wiped out. However, in another battle, this feature has exposed problems, that is, when attacking the USS Taishan aircraft carrier battle group that just left Subic Bay, the US military's heavy anti-ship missile focused on attacking the USS Beijing and Tianjin aircraft carrier battle groups that covered the USS Taishan. Although it eventually led to the sinking of the USS Beijing and the USS Tianjin were severely damaged, it failed to threaten the USS Taishan.

Now, this problem has been exposed again.

Facing the air defense fire network composed of four large air defense warships, the US heavy anti-ship missiles were like moths that flew fire, hitting one after another, instead of trying to bypass the four air defense warships and attacking the aircraft carrier from the west, and only a small number of them penetrated from high altitudes.

The result is that the end-interception capability of the large comprehensive warship has been fully utilized.

You should know that these are four large comprehensive warships of the Heilongjiang class, not the Taiwan class cruiser.

In the final interception system, the biggest feature of the "Heilongjiang" class is that it uses medium-caliber electromagnetic rapid-fire guns, which improves the interception scope. In fact, at the beginning, this move was only to improve the interception ability of anti-ship guided bombs, rather than to increase the interception scope. The reason is very simple. The previous small-caliber electromagnetic rapid-fire guns were very inefficient when intercepting anti-ship guided bombs, and even had no effect.

In terms of performance, the medium-caliber electromagnetic rapid-fire gun has essentially improved.

When using a 2.5 kilogram projectile, the muzzle speed of the 70 mm coil electromagnetic gun is as high as Mach 20, and the speed of the sub-caliber projectile at ten kilometers is still as high as Mach 10,000, and the kinetic energy is as high as 144,500 megajou, which is more than a thousand times that of the previous electromagnetic speed-firing gun at five kilometers. More importantly, although the caliber has increased a lot, the heat dissipation ability of the coil electromagnetic gun is significantly better than that of the orbital electromagnetic gun, so when performing short-point shooting, it is very good.

The rate of fire is still as high as 15,000 rounds per second, which can fire 150 shells in ten milliseconds. A airtight barrage is arranged on the flight path of the incoming missile. Just one shell can destroy the missile. According to the tests conducted by the Chinese Navy, when the new electromagnetic rapid-fire gun intercepts the target with a short shot, the hit rate of heavy anti-ship missiles with a flight speed of less than Mach 10 kilometers away reached almost 100%.

In fact, at this time, heavy anti-ship missiles have almost no mobility, because when they are twenty kilometers away from the target, the heavy anti-ship missile will throw away the main engine, and the warhead will fly under the action of inertia, relying solely on the micro rocket engines placed around the aerodynamic center to adjust their posture. More importantly, if there is no detection system on the warhead of the anti-ship missile, it is impossible to detect the approaching shells.

Of course, the biggest advantage of the medium-caliber electromagnetic rapid-fire gun is its high combat agility.

When intercepting targets in the 30-degree horizontal and 45-degree horizontal areas, the new medium-caliber electromagnetic rapid-fire gun can fire twenty times within one second, that is, in the two fire intervals, it only takes forty milliseconds to lock the next target and adjust the shooting angle.

Of course, there is a prerequisite for this, that is, no additional interception of fish that have escaped the net.

In fact, when conceiving a large comprehensive warship of "Heilongjiang" class, the Navy raised this question, namely, is it necessary to supplement the interception of the fish that escaped in the last stage. After a lot of analysis, the Navy gave a positive answer, that is, the benefits of supplementary interception outweigh the disadvantages. According to the interception tactics proposed by the Navy, as long as the firing rate and reaction speed of the electromagnetic rapid-fire gun are required to be fast enough, there is no need to supplementary interception, because the fire control system will naturally lock the target that was not hit again and then conduct a second interception.

Of course, the Navy has also made adjustments in the firepower configuration.

On the large "Heilongjiang" class of large comprehensive warships, there are a total of eight sets of last-stage interception systems deployed on the head and tail of the ship, and the other four sets are deployed on both sides, so four interception systems can be allowed to fight at the same time in any direction. It is precisely based on this basic concept that Mu Haoyang believes that each "Taishan" class should be equipped with three large comprehensive warships to ensure the response to anti-ship missiles incoming in any direction.

Of course, if the anti-ship missile comes from a certain direction, and there are two large air defense warships in that direction, the interception capacity can be increased by at least 200%.

This battle proves the correctness of the new air defense theory.

In the last five seconds of interception battle, the sixteen final interception systems on the air defense warship opened fire in total, shooting down 668 heavy anti-ship missiles. Although the overall hit rate was only 60%, the average hit rate for each fire was more than 95%. At that time, the defense areas of the Sidu warship overlapped with each other, resulting in nearly 40% of the anti-ship missiles being double intercepted.

Even Mu Haoyang was extremely surprised when the result of this battle.

Although about 60 anti-ship missiles pierced from high altitudes, nearly 40 of which broke through the interception network composed of large comprehensive warships, when they entered the dive attack stage, they were all hit by the final interception system on the aircraft carrier, and none of them threatened the aircraft carrier.

During the entire battle, only one anti-ship missile landed on the sea less than 500 meters away from the "Tarzan".

It can be said that this is a duel between a computer-controlled super defense machine and a super attack weapon that is also controlled by a computer.

In the battle that is fast-moving, human factors can almost be ignored.

At the end of the battle, the US military spent more than 1,000 anti-ship missiles worth up to 100 billion US dollars, only consuming hundreds of air-to-air interceptor missiles, thousands of ship-to-air missiles, and nearly 200,000 electromagnetic cannon shells, which failed to injure a warship.

Of course, in this battle, the disadvantages of the final interception system were also exposed.

The biggest problem is that when facing densely penetrated anti-ship missiles, the interception area of ​​the last interception system has been reduced to the minimum level, and the all-round interception capability is not outstanding enough, resulting in dozens of anti-ship missiles breaking through the intercept network from high altitudes, posing a threat to the aircraft carriers behind.

If it weren't for the "Tarzan" class aircraft carriers that were equipped with the same last-stage interception system, the consequences would be unimaginable.

You should know that if it is a "Kunlun Mountain" class aircraft carrier, small-caliber electromagnetic rapid-fire cannon may not be able to play a role in the same situation.

Of course, this battle also gave Mu Haoyang a revelation, that is, a powerful last-stage interception system is likely to completely change the basic landscape of fleet air defense operations. To put it more indirectly, if the last-stage interception system can withstand anti-ship attacks, then regional air defense is not so important.

But the battle is not over yet.

At five o'clock, all the warships in the "Huashan" aircraft carrier battle group entered the Indian Ocean.

Fifteen minutes later, the Hengshan aircraft carrier battle group will also enter the Indian Ocean. Because the Songshan is responsible for cutting off the rear, it will take about 8:40 to enter the Indian Ocean.

At the end of the battle, Gong Jifei suggested that the air defense fighter be returned.

However, Mu Haoyang did not agree, but asked all air defense fighters to withdraw from the battlefield and continue to let the "Taishan" and "Huashan" launch carrier-based fighters.

Mu Haoyang's reason is very simple: the danger has not passed yet, and the attack aircraft group sent by the Third Fleet may arrive soon.

If the air defense fighter jets are returned at this time, even if the unique idea of ​​the "Taishan" class will double the efficiency of its recovery fighter jets than the "Kunlunshan" class, and when recycling fighter jets, it will give way to the two catapults at the head of the ship to continue to release the fighter jets, it will also reduce the dispatch rate of the fighter jets by half. When danger may come at any time, Mu Haoyang does not want to lose this half of the dispatch rate.

More importantly, with the "Tarzan"-class conceptual characteristics, even if all fighter jets are sent out, they have the ability to recover two batches of fighter jets at the same time.

It can be said that this is exactly the biggest feature of the "Tarzan" class, which is to improve the recycling efficiency of carrier-based fighter jets.

If it is replaced with the "Kunlun Mountain" class aircraft carrier, the first thing the fleet commander considers when conducting aviation operations is whether the fighter can be recovered in time. Many times, because the fighter jets cannot be recovered in time, the fleet commander has to deliberately reduce the dispatch momentum of the fighter jets.

In a sense, this is also the original intention of the "Tarzan" level.

Of course, Mu Haoyang's judgment is extremely accurate.

In the next ten minutes, the Taishan and Huashan dispatched fighter jets at full speed, each dispatching thirty-six and forty-eight.

At this time, Mu Haoyang had ordered a group of fighter jets that had exhausted ammunition to expand the scope of patrol south.

Although these fighters have obtained the ability to intercept from the outside of sight, Mu Haoyang is very clear that what he needs to face next is not the heavy anti-ship missiles flying from more than a thousand kilometers away, but those carrier-based fighters that take care of anti-ship missiles or anti-ship guided bombs.

In this way, fighter jets with only fighting missiles and navigation guns still have interception capabilities.

According to Gong Jifei's recollection, Mu Haoyang was most worried about being attacked by US carrier-based fighter jets that took care of anti-ship guided bombs.

It can be said that experience plays a crucial role at this time.

From another perspective, Mu Haoyang will also let fighter jets take care of anti-ship guided bombs to carry out fatal strikes on the enemy fleet after the anti-ship missile attack. More importantly, if the US military can dispatch more bombers, it will definitely not be divided into two batches, but will be used in a concentrated manner.

In other words, Mu Haoyang has judged based on experience that the US military's missile attack has ended.

This judgment played a crucial role in the subsequent battle, because at this time, the attack aircraft group sent by the Third Fleet was less than 500 kilometers away from the task force, and all 144 fighter jets carrying out attack missions took care of anti-ship guided bombs, and there were 72 escort fighters.

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