.Chapter 64: Fatal Strike

At 5:55, the US Fourth Fleet issued an air defense alarm again. Urban Rebirth Novel Ranking

An early warning aircraft that had retreated fifty kilometers southward detected a Chinese fighter jet that was coming from the north, less than two hundred kilometers away from the Fourth Fleet and was climbing up quickly. The guides on the early warning aircraft immediately concluded that this was an attack aircraft group and called the air defense fighter jets to intercept.

At this time, there were less than thirty air defense fighters over the Fourth Fleet.

Because it has been concluded that the Chinese fleet is in the north, all of these 30 air defense fighters have been killed.

Unfortunately, they intercepted not fighters that performed attack missions, but another batch of escort fighters, to be precise, four J-32s.

The question is, why did these four J-32s enter from ultra-low altitude and climb at full speed north of the Fourth Fleet?

You should know that it is precisely because of entering from an ultra-low altitude and climbing at full speed that the guides on the US early warning aircraft think it is an attack aircraft, because only the attack aircraft will penetrate from an ultra-low altitude, and climb up when it is closer to the target, and then drop the anti-ship ammunition it carries.

According to the combat records of the task force, the four j-32s approached the Fourth Fleet while chasing two US fighters. It happened that the two US Marine fighters were hunting down. When evading, the US pilots hoped to make full use of the low-altitude performance advantages of US fighters and get rid of the Chinese fighters that were chasing them. Unfortunately, the low-altitude performance of the j-32 was also very outstanding. As a result, about half a minute before being discovered by the US early warning aircraft, four j-32 shot down the US fighter jets. Because it was very close to the Fourth Fleet at this time, and the carrier-based early warning aircraft supporting combat had detected the air defense fighter jets sent by the Third Fleet, the four j-32s did not retreat, but chose to climb quickly and strive to reach a suitable height before fighting with the US fighter jets.

There is no doubt that four J-32s will definitely not be able to stop more than twenty US fighter jets.

But behind it, more than a dozen j-32s were rushing at full speed.

More importantly, the attack on the US joint fleet has begun.

At less than six o'clock, 144 J-33s carrying out long-range attack missions dropped their light anti-ship missiles about 450 kilometers north of the US Fourth Fleet. Because the US carrier-based early warning aircraft retreated, they did not detect this batch of fighter jets that had lost their stealth capabilities in time.

After launching the missile, the two squadrons flying in the front did not withdraw, but joined the air battle ahead.

Although the actual situation is different from the initial judgment, the attack distance does not exceed the combat radius of the fighter. Therefore, after completing the attack mission, the fighter can return to the fleet to replenish the fleet's air defense force in time, or launch a second attack when necessary, but Mu Haoyang's mission command is very clear, that is, all fighter aircraft performing attack missions do not need to consider returning to the fleet due to combat radius issues. When returning, they will receive support from the air force tanker, or fly to the air base in southern India. Read the Burning Ocean online

In addition, the air combat situation at that time did require these j-33s to make self-sacrifice.

The reason is very simple. The US air defense fighter jets still have an advantage in number. Moreover, all J-32s used up all interceptor missiles when intercepting the US attack aircraft group, while US fighter jets have enough interceptor missiles. Therefore, when entering combat, the number of Chinese fighter jets is more obvious. Although the J-33, which performs attack missions, does not carry interceptor missiles, it carries combat missiles and has a 450-round air cannon available. As long as you master the number of advantages, it is not a problem to defeat the US air defense fighter jets.

Of course, we have to cover up our early warning aircraft.

You know, if US fighter jets are allowed to seize air supremacy, the eight early warning aircraft will be doomed.

The result is that the US military finally grasped the air superiority, but had to face forty-eight J-33s again, and this time the numerical advantage is on the hands of Chinese fighters. The Burning Ocean Complete Collection

At 6:15, the US early warning aircraft discovered an approaching anti-ship missile group.

The cruise flight speed of light anti-ship missiles is not very high, and they will only speed up during the penetration stage, so they are relatively easy to intercept.

When the air defense fighter jets were unable to free up, the US air defense warships entered the battle.

Faced with the direct threat of anti-ship missiles, the US air defense warships ignored the fact that there were their own fighter jets in the combat airspace, and at this time there were few US fighter jets.

Unfortunately, the US early warning aircraft did not find that there were more than 100 Chinese fighter jets behind the anti-ship missile group.

This is a new type of penetration tactic introduced by the Chinese Navy Air Force after summarizing the combat lessons of the Second Indian Ocean War.

The core of tactics is to allow fighter jets that perform close-range bombing missions to break out behind anti-ship missiles.

Of course, there is a very important prerequisite, which is to seize the air supremacy of the opponent's fleet and force the opponent's carrier-based early warning aircraft to retreat.

In this way, the interception distance of the enemy's air defense warships for ultra-low-altitude penetration anti-ship missiles will not exceed 60 kilometers without the support of early warning aircraft. If they are supported by early warning aircraft, they can be increased to more than 200 kilometers. The final ranking of the novel is based on the end-level penetration speed of the light anti-ship missile 4 Mach. The enemy's air defense warships only have one minute interception time at most, and the air defense missiles launched during this period are very limited, so they can only focus on intercepting the most threatening anti-ship missiles. In addition, when intercepting anti-ship missiles, the radars of the air defense warships are in the tracking lock mode, especially when guiding medium-range air defense missiles, because most air defense warships do not specially formulate fire-controlled irradiation radars for them, and phased array radars must be guided by the phased array radar, so it is difficult to detect fighter jets that also penetrate from ultra-low-altitude penetration in time.

The biggest advantage of this tactic is that when the enemy fleet intercepted anti-ship missiles, the fighter jets responsible for close-range attacks had already broken through the enemy's air defense network.

In fact, this is to allow anti-ship missiles to attract the enemy's air defense firepower and open up penetration passages for fighter jets.

In nature, there is no essential difference from the previous attack tactics, except that anti-ship missile attacks and close-range attacks are more closely connected.

Of course, this change is enough to improve the penetration efficiency of fighter jets.

You should know that modern navy air defense operations calculate time in seconds. Many times, a few seconds can determine the victory or defeat of a battle.

The two closely connected attacks are equivalent to saving dozens of seconds.

At this time, this is the situation facing the Fourth Fleet of the US Army.

When the US air defense warships were trying their best to intercept hundreds of light anti-ship missiles, the J-33 aircraft group carrying anti-ship guided bombs had made a breakthrough and entered the bomb drop zone. As a result, when the US air defense warships detected the rapidly pulled fighter jets, it was too late to intercept.

At 6:20, the first batch of twenty-four J-33s dropped anti-ship guided bombs, focusing on attacking US air defense warships.

This round of strikes was very successful because the USS American aircraft carrier battle group was at the forefront, and at this time the aircraft carrier battle group had only one air defense cruiser.

The result is that not only this air defense cruiser was given priority care, but a multi-purpose destroyer that replaced the air defense cruiser was also hit.

Relatively speaking, destroyers' air defense capabilities are obviously not as good as cruisers.

That's why these j-33s not only attacked the escort warships of the USS American aircraft carrier battle group, but also attacked the escort warships of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier battle group in the rear.

When the second batch of twenty-four j-33s entered, they attacked two aircraft carriers almost without any obstacles.

When the third batch of twenty-four j-33s entered, they focused on attacking the "Kid Eagle" aircraft carrier battle group at the last side, and also attacked the air defense warships first.

Before six:30, both the fourth and fifth batches of j-33 dropped bombs.

The final arrival was the sixth group of only sixteen J-33s. These fighters dropped all bombs on the USS America and Enterprise aircraft carriers. The reason was that the fourth and fifth batches of J-33 focused on bombing the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier battle group, and instead ignored the two aircraft carriers in front.

It can be said that this is a pretty fatal blow.

Although at the end of the attack, the three American-class super aircraft carriers did not sink and were still floating tenaciously on the sea surface, two-thirds of the escort warships were sunk, and all three aircraft carriers were severely damaged, not only losing their combat capabilities, but also reducing their speed.

It was not until this time that the second batch of air defense fighters sent by the Third Fleet arrived.

According to the US military's combat records, Nixon did not attack the Chinese fleet as planned, because when he was preparing to attack, the Fourth Fleet had already been hit. However, Nixon did not send additional air defense fighters to the Fourth Fleet in time. In his defense letter submitted to the US Court of Justice, he mentioned that at that time there were only twenty-four air defense fighters over the Third Fleet, and the Third Fleet was also within the strike range of the Chinese Fleet, so he had to leave these fighters. By the time he adjusted the carrier-based fighter jets, the Fourth Fleet had entered the fleet's air defense combat stage, so the reinforcement fighter jets he sent before six o'clock did not venture into the air defense kill range of the Fourth Fleet.

Of course, this statement is not unreasonable, and Nixon was eventually declared innocent by the military court.

The question is, is this indeed the case?

Given the situation at that time, if Nixon had added fighter jets to the Fourth Fleet before six o'clock, he would have the ability to remotely intercept the J-33 fleet that was attacking the Fourth Fleet.

In fact, Nixon did not send additional fighter jets before six o'clock, but instead sent additional fighter jets after six o'clock.

Before six o'clock, the Third Fleet did urgently dispatch a batch of air defense fighter jets, but it did not send it to the Fourth Fleet, but expanded the air defense range northward.

It must be admitted that Nixon did this, because the Third Fleet could also be attacked.

However, after the battle, Nixon already knew that the Chinese fleet had tried its best to attack the Fourth Fleet and did not pose a threat to the Third Fleet at all. At least before launching a second attack, it would not threaten the Third Fleet. As a result, after the battle, he revised the battle report and said that the fighter jets sent to expand the air defense range were sent to cover the Fourth Fleet, which was also cleared of the charge.
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