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    The clear blue sea and sky, the sun shining all over the ocean, reflecting thousands of sparkling lights, are really beautiful.  There is a mighty and majestic fleet floating on the endless sea, which is a joint fleet composed of multinational navies.  The core warships that make up this fleet are basically Chinese and American warships. Like other military services, only China's military strength can rival that of the US military.

    Captain Guo Dezhu of the cruiser Nanjing stood on the bridge and looked at the behemoth not far from the ship. He couldn't help but sigh with envy: "The battleship Wisconsin, the fourth of the Iowa class, the last battleship of the United States during World War II, once participated in  After the Battle of Lingayin Bay, the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa, it returned to active service twice in 1961 and 1966. Now it has completed modernization and modification. In addition to three triple-mounted 40Umm main guns, it also has four eight-mounted Tomahawk cruisers.  Missile launch boxes, four quad-mounted Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers, and four Phalanx arrays. If we hadn¡¯t had the Type 002 aircraft carrier, there wouldn¡¯t have been a ship with a larger tonnage than this World War II-era vintage ship.¡±

    Political Commissar Song Hua said: "Battleships have been eliminated after all. The return of the Wisconsin and Missouri to active service is to adapt to the '600 Fleet' plan proposed by Reagan. The main purpose is to fight against the Soviet Union. Now the Cold War is over.  , the US military no longer needs to maintain such a large fleet, and even if the Iowa class is modernized and modified, its mission performance cannot be compared with the destroyers of this era. To put it bluntly, although our Nanjing is.  The displacement is less than a quarter of the Wisconsin, but in a one-on-one battle, the Nanjing has a much greater chance of victory than this classic ship. "

    Guo Dezhu nodded frequently and said with a smile: "It's true. After all, times have changed. Although the battleship's main guns are fierce, we don't need to be within their range at all. Our phased array radar can shoot hundreds of kilometers  We will find them outside, and then we can use supersonic anti-ship missiles to launch saturation attacks. With the air defense capabilities of the Iowa-class battleships, we cannot intercept a few. Hundreds of millimeters of armor cannot stop our new generation.  anti-ship missiles. The only outcome is that the US battleships were sunk by our missiles without even seeing us."

    Guo Dezhu leaned on the back of his chair and sighed: "What I was thinking just now is that our country's navy has grown from weak to strong. From the time of Zheng He, it was able to cross the ocean and visit countries in Southeast Asia, and then began to prepare for the establishment of Beiyang in the late Qing Dynasty.  The fleet, the collapse after the Sino-Japanese War, the gold exchange for the Four King Kongs in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the confrontation with the KNT Navy, the Battle of Xisha, and the majesty we have today. I think we may have missed the era of giant ships and cannons.  At that time, we even said that we didn¡¯t even have a navy. We could only watch the invaders coming to our homeland on warships. The bloody Pacific War had nothing to do with us. But today, we have caught up with the informatization navy and the high-tech navy.  Our ships may not be the largest in the era, but the comprehensive combat strength of our ships is definitely not even comparable to that of the Americans."

    This sentence is actually not conceited. The fleet dispatched by the pL Navy this time is composed of amphibious assault ships Shangri-La and Fujian, cruiser Nanjing, four 052 destroyers Kunming, Nanchang, Hohhot and Sansha, three  Frigates, including one Type 0545 Wuxi, two Type 05 Ma'anshan and Wenzhou, plus two Type 09-type attack nuclear submarines and two Type 03 conventional submarines, two ocean-going supply ships and a submarine support ship.

    Such a fleet formation is a bit surprising even to the U.S. Navy. China has brought out Aegis destroyers alone. At last year¡¯s National Day military parade, people saw two 052 Aegis destroyers, so the outside world believes that this new Aegis destroyer is  China has only built two ships of this type, but now China has produced four ships of this type, which makes people speculate whether China has more.  What they don't know is that a large number of 05s in the navy were originally transferred to the Nanyang Navy. The 05s used in last year's ship review were specially borrowed from the Nanyang National Defense Force to fool people.  This kind of deception also happened this time. China left four 054AI frigates, and sent two this time, just to prevent people from discovering that it had actually equipped a large number of 0545 frigates.

    The 0545 frigate has stronger firepower and is equipped with a phased array radar. Its multi-target processing capabilities are greatly enhanced. It can be called a small Aegis. In terms of appearance, it is very different from the 05 because its stealth design is better.  It's better, it uses a fully enclosed mast, and many devices are built-in.

    In many overseas deployments, the frigate class is the most commonly used, so the Chinese Navy has specially left four 05s to replenish the number, but in fact the main combat capabilities have been transferred to 0545s.

    The U.S. military also dispatched Ticonderoga-class Aegis cruisers this time, nearly twice as many as China, but the Americans don¡¯t mind not bothering themselves when they can use the Allies.  The Nanjing has more firepower than the Ticonderoga class, and its various designs are very advanced. The Americans would like to take this opportunity to get to know the Nanjing well and benefit from it.  Therefore, the Nanjing appeared in the fleet, performing air defense and anti-submarine missions for two US battleships.

    In addition to the Nanjing and another 052 destroyer Sansha, the fleetIn addition, there are two Aegis cruisers from the US military. In fact, there are still many difficulties in allowing the navies of the two countries to coordinate operations, such as the problem of identification of friend or foe. Chinese warships and American warships have completely different sets of standards. If  A Chinese cruiser launched a missile. It was originally intended to attack the enemy, but it was probably recognized as a threat by the US warship and then counterattacked.  In order to act together, the two sides conducted in-depth exchanges and completed a set of Allied Agreement Standards C, which enabled Chinese warships to be recognized as friendly forces by US warships and avoided some unnecessary troubles.

    Such a group of powerful warships gathered together have a direct mission, which is to act as a launch platform for cruise missiles in air strikes.  Whether it is the Ticonderoga class, the Iowa class, or China's 05E-6B, they all have the ability to launch land attack cruise missiles. Some tactical indicators of Tomahawk missiles and Long Sword missiles are also very close. The joint combat command basically  Use these two weapons as one.

    At this moment, the Nanjing and other ships in the fleet received instructions from the top.

    "Use cruise missiles to attack the designated target." Guo Dezhu glanced at the code text and confirmed the attack instructions.

    Because the threat posed by the Iraqi Air Force to multinational forces is actually not great, the fleet's air defense has not been deployed to the most extreme level. For example, the Nanjing cruiser's 2B universal vertical launch units are only equipped with three Thorn 4 long-range missiles.  Anti-aircraft missiles (or Red Flag), one Thorn-medium-range air defense missile (four bombs in one pit, or Red Flag-6), the remaining launch units are mainly equipped with 10 Eagle-2 supersonic anti-ship missiles, B  Changying-anti-submarine missiles, the largest number is the Changjian-15 sea-based cruise missile with 6 pieces.

    The Changjian-15 is a cruise missile in the Changjian series of missiles that is relatively small in size, but has strong mission flexibility and excellent anti-jamming capabilities and strike accuracy.  Because the volume of the Changjian-10 exceeds eight meters and is slightly too large to be accommodated in the ship's vertical hair, the base developed a new generation of sea-based special version of the Changjian-15 cruise missile based on the Changjian-10.  This missile has a range of 156 kilometers to 26 kilometers, a cruising speed of up to Mach 09, and can go supersonic at the end and perform special maneuvers. It actually uses some anti-ship missile technology.

    Purely from the perspective of ease of operation and reliability, the Changjian-15 is superior to the Tomahawk used by the US military at the same time.  It takes 8 hours to prepare the Tomahawk. It is undoubtedly quite troublesome to formulate a mission plan and input terrain and image data into the missile before launch.  Moreover, the Tomahawk is not smart enough to change the target midway.

    On the other hand, the Changjian-15 can be launched quickly. It only needs to input a set of attack coordinates to launch. Thanks to the Beidou system, the Changjian missile does not require overly complicated terrain matching and input of other data. It only requires one  Just group the latitude and longitude.  And it can also preset multiple groups of targets and select new attack points midway.  New information from multiple media such as early warning aircraft, drones, and scouts can also be transmitted in time to the launched Long Sword missile, and the coordinates can be corrected midway, greatly improving the effect and accuracy of the strike.

    With Guo Dezhu's order, the weapons officer quickly input the attack command, and then a burst of fire and thick smoke rushed up from the launch unit, and the heat-launched Long Sword missile responded and shot into the blue sky.  Similarly, other US warships also launched their own Tomahawk missiles. In this wave of attacks alone, the combined fleet launched 2 cruise missiles.

    Batches of cruise missiles are more difficult to defend against than fighter air strikes. The Iraqi army does not have any advanced and intelligent battlefield terminal air defense weapons, so cruise missiles are almost unsolvable for the Iraqi army.

    Because the cruising speed is faster, the Long Sword missile is like a long leg in a race, arriving one step ahead and launching an attack.  These land-attack cruise missiles all use high-explosive warheads. When they hit the target, they often set off a large mushroom cloud, giving the defending Iraqi army great fear and psychological pressure.

    Coupled with the cruise missile attack, and with the almost unreserved cooperation between China and the United States, although the air strike was launched for a short time, in just a few days, it reached another dimension that would take twenty days to reach.  attack effect.  A large number of communication facilities, military facilities and even some important civilian facilities in Iraq were destroyed, and some power plants in Baghdad were also bombed, turning Baghdad into a dark city at night.

    Although Qi Yiming doesn't like harming civilians in war, this is what war is like.  The ridiculous belief that those who hold guns are enemies and those who don¡¯t hold guns are not enemies will only hurt themselves in the end.
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