Great warships

Chapter 1256: After drinking vodka, he shouted "Ura", fearless

"UAVs can perform reconnaissance missions, but if you want to have comprehensive control over the surrounding waters, you need early warning aircraft to go up, and once the early warning aircraft is up, you need fighter jets to escort it."

Vitalia nodded. This was actually what she had just thought. As long as they sailed for another day and got close to the African continental shelf, they could mobilize aircraft along the way to escort them. Once they encountered a situation, it would be convenient to take off fighter jets to meet the enemy, and they would not have to be afraid of anything.

As for today... I hope it's an accident!

The vertical takeoff early warning aircraft quickly switched to level flight and then climbed. It took three minutes to reach cruising altitude and turned on the onboard radar.

"Northeast direction, four hundred away, there are more than twenty targets approaching us!" The radar officer shouted loudly as soon as the radar was turned on.

When the Aegis battleship searches at high altitude, it has a search distance of four to five hundred kilometers, but it has no way of searching at low altitude, after all, the earth is a sphere, not a plane.

Only the early warning aircraft, which is high above and overlooking the earth, can see the targets flying at ultra-low altitudes in the distance. At this time, along with the report of the radar officer, the target data was also quickly transmitted. On the island of the Guinea, everyone's face changed when they saw the bright spots on the screen.

What was he doing? A low-altitude sneak attack? He was planning to rush over and then fire a volley to kill all of his men?

Impossible, impossible, they wouldn't be so blatant, they wouldn't dare to do that, this might all be a trap!

"We must send out all the fighter jets. Except for two that are still under maintenance and two that have already taken off, we can still dispatch sixteen. With these fighter jets, we should be able to complete the interception mission." Americo also became nervous and said to Vitalia anxiously.

"Don't worry, let's take a look first and then talk."

"Let's see? The situation is so urgent now. What if there are 20 planes, and each plane can carry four anti-ship missiles? That's a saturation attack of 80 missiles. Although we have four Aegis warships, if something goes wrong, as long as one missile is not intercepted..."

If we only have ordinary destroyers and frigates, we will have to wait for the enemy to attack and intercept their anti-ship missiles. But it will be different if we have carrier-based aircraft. We can intercept the enemy's fighter jets and actively attack the opponent!

Therefore, if the navy wants to grow and develop, it must have aircraft carriers. Without air superiority, there will be no sea superiority.

Now, the Guinean Navy is powerful, they have 60,000-ton warships, and they have 20 carrier-based fighters that can perform missions! In such a dangerous situation, how can you not go up?
"Don't worry. If we all go out this time, it will consume a lot of aviation fuel. If they are just feinting this time, what if we don't have enough aviation fuel next time?"

"Oh, damn it!" At this moment, an officer looked at the screen and said angrily: "Without any order, how could the rabbit leave the early warning aircraft and go to intercept?"

For any country, the army must strictly enforce discipline and obey orders, but the world of mercenaries has its own rules. Sometimes, they may violate discipline as long as their starting point is good.

For example, now everyone knows that Valenchenko would never surrender to the enemy. He is already an old pilot. This time he suddenly ran over, he must want to fight.

"Rabbit, return home!"

"The rabbit didn't hear! The rabbit is going to kill the enemy! The rabbit is going to make a contribution, the rabbit is going to rise!"

Hearing Valenchenko's special tone, Vitalia's face changed: "He drank? Who let him drink? Damn it, tell him, I will deduct a year's salary from him!"

Everyone present was pale, what a joke, for a drunk Russian guy, even eight horses couldn't pull him back!

At this time, in the sky, Valenchenko took off his oxygen mask, took another sip of wine, and felt that the world was beautiful. Humph, twenty targets are nothing. Look at yourself, kill all these targets!

Back then, we were fooled by the Americans and did not dare to kill them. If we had fought a direct war, the whole of Europe would have been ruled by the Russians. It would not be like the situation now!

I don’t know how many Russians have this idea. Anyway, in Vana, many people, when drinking, would sigh about the past and think about what would have happened if a fight had really happened.

Now, their Wana has become powerful. It is not just a mercenary organization, but also the ideal they once pinned on it! Now, seeing that they have aircraft carriers, the mercenaries of Wana are even more arrogant. How could they allow the enemy to bully them?

Do it if you don't accept it!

Valenchenko suddenly burped, and a smell of alcohol came up. He felt his whole body was filled with strength, and his eyes turned red.

In order to save fuel, he did not extravagantly turn on the afterburner, but just rushed at an altitude of 10,000 meters in the most fuel-efficient way. The green diffraction HUD in front of him kept refreshing the data.

He is not fighting alone, he has the support of early warning aircraft and other like-minded comrades behind him. What is there to be afraid of? A drunk Russian can beat a polar bear and make it cry!
Three hundred kilometers, two hundred kilometers, one hundred kilometers... Valenchenko turned on the fire control system and prepared to lock the target. Unfortunately, the number of missiles that the stealth aircraft could carry was limited. He missed the scene of the Su-27 carrying more than a dozen missiles.

For stealth aircraft, turning on its own radar will expose its existence, and the meaning of stealth will be lost. Therefore, the standard tactic of stealth aircraft is to fight with the support of early warning aircraft, receive information from early warning aircraft through data links, and then input it into the fire control computer to provide data for missile launch.

In this way, the stealth aircraft becomes a missile carrier!

Of course, this also has many prerequisites. For example, the missile needs to be an air-to-air missile guided by an active radar. It only needs to inject target data before launch and then find the target by itself. If it is a semi-active radar missile, it requires the rear airborne radar to illuminate the entire process, and there is no such convenient condition.

However, the useless semi-active radar air-to-air missiles should have been thrown into the trash long ago. For the Eastern Air Force, they were almost eliminated after they were developed and were never deployed on a large scale. As for exports, they were all active radar air-to-air missiles.

"The rabbit is targeting!"

Everyone on the Guinea ship island in the rear was stunned. Didn't they become so arrogant just by drinking a few glasses of vodka? It would be fine if they didn't obey orders, but they actually wanted to take action immediately after flying over without saying a word. Are you trying to start a war?

"Rabbit, Valenchenko, I am your boss Vitalia. Now I order you to stop the attack!" Vitalia was anxious. She picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted loudly.

"If you continue to be so reckless, you will never be able to fly again when you come back!"

"Rabbit... I have no intention of coming back. They have twenty planes and I only have one. I will empty the bomb bay and use my machine gun to kill them. When I run out of ammunition, I will hit another one. Ura, Ura!"

Obviously, Valenchenko had not woken up yet.

Vitalia's expression changed. Should she start the autonomous return program?

"Early warning aircraft reports, the target has disappeared." At this moment, another call came over the radio.

There were clearly twenty targets just now, but who would have thought that they suddenly disappeared? What happened?

"A new group of targets appeared in the east direction!"

To the east is Kangaroo Country, and there are actually targets coming from Kangaroo Country!

One group leaves, and another group comes. Moreover, they appear and disappear in the sea area about 400 kilometers around the fleet. What does this indicate?
Are they testing and enticing, trying to get their own side to send out aircraft and consume their combat potential, wait until the fuel is gone, wait until the aircraft need maintenance, and then make a big move?
Americo felt the sweat on his back. Vitalia was indeed amazing. If she hadn't been there, he would have sent all the fighter planes into action and would have fallen into the enemy's trap!

"Report, the satellite communication system has transmitted an encrypted document, and only you have access rights."

Vitalia was shocked: From Qin?

She quickly sat down, turned on her specially made laptop, connected to the carrier's data system, downloaded the file, and opened it using an encrypted USB drive and facial recognition.

There were only four words in it: Be careful underwater.

"Attention, switch to anti-submarine mode, take off the Z-30 anti-submarine aircraft!"

Seeing Vitalia's serious expression, everyone was a little curious. We are now conducting air defense, why do we have to switch to anti-submarine?

Air defense and anti-submarine warfare are not a matter of just a few words. Different combat requirements require different formations.

Air defense is generally in a diamond formation, with destroyers and frigates placed outside and important high-value warships such as aircraft carriers protected in the middle. This way, once missiles or aircraft come over, the warships inside can be protected to the greatest extent.

And what about anti-submarine?

Anti-submarine operations require that warships be spread out. The farther apart they are, the less likely they are to interfere with other warships' operations due to their own noise. Generally speaking, they move in a horizontal formation, with all the warships lined up in a row and moving sideways.

It is not easy to switch formations. What if you are searching underwater and someone comes over from the sky? What should you do?
At this moment, Valenchenko's curse came over the radio: "This damn guy is so cunning!"

"Calling Rabbit, what did you find?"

"Rabbit reports that a large amount of aluminum foil was found on the sea surface. They should be using drones to drag the aluminum foil balls forward, pretending to be false targets to approach us!"

During the Falklands War, the British used helicopters to tow aluminum foil balls to increase radio reflectivity, thereby impersonating warships and guiding the enemy's missiles to attack the aluminum foil balls, thereby protecting the safety of the fleet.

This method is very simple, but it is easy for the other party to fall into the trap. After all, what is seen on the radar screen is not the target image, but the echo reflected by the target.

Stealth aircraft reduce echoes to protect themselves, and aluminum foil balls increase reflected echoes to impersonate some false targets.

In fact, this technology is too old. The advanced technology is to use electronic interference or even invade the opponent's data link to directly add fake targets. However, it is not easy for potential enemies to do this. The electronic technology in the East is very advanced. They simply do not have this ability, so they can only settle for the second best and directly use drones to drag fake targets.

Since it was a fake target, the opponent's real intention was not to launch an air strike. After all, a direct attack from the air would be too obvious, and it would be more covert to attack underwater.

However, they used the warnings in the air to draw their own high attention. When they were busy dealing with the threat from the air, there would be a fierce attack from underwater!
After they were done, they would just run away and never admit it afterwards, because there was no evidence to catch them anyway!
And their target must be their own aircraft carrier!
Thinking of this, countless people were frightened.

"Switch to anti-submarine mode immediately, quickly!"

The destroyer has a small hull and quick reaction. It can change its posture quickly and deploy rapidly to both sides. Although it is also a straight-line array, it can still protect the three amphibious assault ships in the center.

Seven warships launched an anti-submarine search.

The three amphibious assault ships only have bow sonars, while the four missile destroyers have towed array sonars. Releasing this type of sonar can detect targets at a considerable distance while avoiding interference from its own noise.

However, none of these are as fast as anti-submarine aircraft.

In the past, anti-submarine warfare could only be carried out by helicopters. Even the Z-20 had a maximum take-off weight of only ten tons and could carry very little equipment. Now we use the Z-30, which has a maximum take-off weight of thirty tons. Whether it is sonar buoys or anti-submarine torpedoes, the number of equipment carried has doubled.

In order to avoid airflow turbulence caused by mounting under the wings, this anti-submarine aircraft does not carry any torpedoes under its wings. There is also no space under the belly, so it is designed to be mounted internally.

Its belly is divided into two bomb bays, the front one is equipped with anti-submarine torpedoes, and the rear one is equipped with sonar buoys. It also has magnetic elastic capabilities and is equipped with the most advanced equipment!
With a roar, the Z-30 took off from the deck and began to carry out anti-submarine missions.

"That's right. I hope we can train to this level someday." Vitalia spoke as she watched the formation change rapidly. Almost all of the people operating now were sent by Qin Tao, not their own people.

Although these people are from the shipyard, they are very skilled and work in perfect harmony. At the same time, this is also due to the powerful integrated command system, as the position of each warship can be quickly distributed using data links.

At this moment, a voice came from the radio: "Report, the rabbit has found the target, request to open fire!"

While the fleet was rapidly changing its formation, Valenchenko was not idle either. He continued to track them in his fighter plane and had already arrived 500 kilometers away from the fleet. Here, he finally caught up with the drones that were towing the aluminum foil balls!
The Global Hawk drone has long wings and a huge fuselage. One drone can tow at least five aluminum foil balls at a certain distance, so four drones are enough.

After completing the luring mission, they released the aluminum foil balls and returned in formation. After all, there was already a group of aircraft from the east to continue the luring.

However, they were caught up by the J-31A!
Although there was an early warning aircraft commanding in the rear, it could not see the J-31A with first-class stealth capability, and Valenchenko did not use radar, but the EODAS distributed optoelectronic system!
If a stealth aircraft turns on its radar, it will expose itself, but if it doesn't turn on its radar, it may not be able to detect enemy targets. Is there a way to have the best of both worlds?
The Russians gave the answer: use infrared and optical means!
In fact, the F-14 Tomcat fighter has an optoelectronic sensor, but the Russian IRST system is more famous. There is a hemisphere in front of the cockpit windshield. With it, the fighter can lock onto targets kilometers away without turning on the radar.

That’s right, forty kilometers, this is its limit, it cannot detect anything farther.

Over the years, technology has been constantly improving, and Oriental's optoelectronic technology has developed rapidly. The search distance of this system is hundreds of kilometers, and it is also an infrared imaging device. The detected target is no longer a point, but a figure, which can more clearly distinguish the target.

Hearing his call, Vitalia said: "Rabbit, don't worry, identify the target species!"

"The target is the Global Hawk drone!"

Since it is a drone, there is no need to hesitate. In fact, even if it was a manned fighter jet, Vitalia would have the urge to give the order to open fire, let alone a drone.

"Shoot it down for me. Be careful not to expose yourself!"

"Understood!" Valenchenko was so excited after finally receiving the order to open fire.

Switch weapons to machine guns!
In the past, there was a lot of talk that fighter jets didn’t need machine guns. After all, we had entered the missile age and machine guns were no longer useful! So they just threw away the machine guns.

As a result, the pilots of the F-4 Phantom fighter jets cursed all day long. The missiles were like rockets. Whether they could hit the target when fired in a salvo depended on luck. By the time the missiles were gone, the enemy planes were right in front of them and they had no means to fight. As a result, an external machine gun pod was installed.

When it came to the third-generation aircraft era, machine guns were once again installed on fighter jets. However, when it came to the stealth aircraft stage, the need for machine guns was once again debated.

What is the point of a cannon if a stealth aircraft will just run away after hitting it? Moreover, missile technology is already very advanced. What is the point of a cannon if it just fires a few bursts and then dies?
However, facts speak louder than words, and many advanced fourth-generation aircraft are also equipped with aircraft cannons.

美国佬的F-22战斗机，在右进气口上安装了一门祖传的M61A2航炮。F-35A型则装备了一门全新研发的GAU22/A航炮。老毛子的苏57则在机身右侧安装一门同样祖传的30毫米Gsh-30-1航炮。

What about the J-20 in the East?
I haven't seen it, but there are many reports that the engine was not powerful enough, so the cannon was abandoned and it was installed after the modified model came out.

The J-20, which is specifically used to fight for air supremacy, may not really need it. However, the J-31A, which performs all-round tasks, must have an aircraft cannon. It is used for ground attacks at critical moments. As for now, it is just right for aerial sniping!

(End of this chapter)