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Volume One Pioneer of the Times Chapter 1267 The Shadow of ¡°Typhoon¡±

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    Clear sky, no wind, good visibility, blue sky and blue sea.  (Niu Wen Novel ~ Read Novel Online) This is the city of Suez in Egypt. The famous Suez Canal is also named after this small coastal city. It is located in the north of the Gulf of Suez and the south of the Suez Canal. It actually guards the Suez Canal and  The transportation hub of the Red Sea is as strategically important as Port Said at the northern end of the Suez Canal.  In peacetime, the city of Suez is a busy port. Ships preparing to enter the Mediterranean will berth in formation at the port outside the city, and the formation will go north through the canal within the specified time. At this time, the city of Suez is the starting station of the fleet, and Suez  Port Said is responsible for receiving the fleet. If the fleet enters the Red Sea from the Mediterranean Sea, then Port Said is the starting station of the fleet, while Suez City is responsible for receiving the fleet. This is how the Suez Canal is navigable. Under normal circumstances, you  It is impossible to see fleets heading north and south appearing in the canal at the same time, because the current canal is not very wide. Only by arranging the navigation plan in this way can the ships not collide with each other due to wake interference.  Since the outbreak of the war, maritime traffic in the Suez Canal has been directly affected. During the Sino-British War, maritime shipping in the Suez Canal and the Red Sea were threatened by submarines and mines from both warring parties. When Germany and the Asian League fell into war, the Suez Canal  Traffic on the canal was completely cut off. The German army occupied the west bank of the canal, while the Asian Alliance troops controlled the east bank of the canal. The two sides faced off across the canal, and artillery battles and air battles occurred from time to time. Under this situation, the Suez Canal  It has become a dangerous waterway. No merchant ship captain in his right mind would sail his ship to the canal area to be bombed at this time. The once busy golden waterway has become a battlefield for Chinese and German special forces, infiltration warfare and harassment warfare.  Frequent outbreaks occur in the canal zone.  Fortunately, Germany did not rule Egypt for too long. After the Asian Alliance troops drove all the German troops out of Egypt, the restoration of navigation of the Suez Canal was already included in the strategic plan of the Allied Forces Command. After all, the strategic significance of this canal is really great.  Whoever controls the canal will hold the key to sea control in the Mediterranean. Now that the canal is completely controlled by the Allies, the Allied warships and transport fleets can come from the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea unimpeded and pass through the canal.  Entered the Mediterranean Sea.  In fact, from the moment China's tank troops rolled over the sand beside the canal, China's engineering troops and engineering troops had already begun to carry out preliminary cleaning work for the restoration of navigation in the Suez Canal, focusing on those that sank in the channel.  Some of these ships were sunk during the war, and some were deliberately sunk by the Germans to block the waterway after realizing that Egypt could no longer hold it. Chinese technical personnel must find a way to destroy these ships.  The ship can be salvaged, or simply cut underwater, disintegrate the ship, and then lift it out of the water separately. In addition, there are some mines laid by the Germans on the waterway. The anchor mines are relatively easy to remove. The key is the magnetism of those sinking to the bottom.  Mines, in order to eliminate these dangerous lurkers, the Chinese Navy¡¯s demining force has been busy on the Suez Canal for a whole month, basically clearing these biggest obstacles that affect the safety of the waterway. Although the U.S. Navy participated in the later clean-up work,  They are just supporting roles. The protagonists are the domestic mine-clearing ships and mine-clearing equipment of the Chinese Navy.  After a month of hard work, the Suez Canal can finally resume navigation, and today is the first day that the canal resumes navigation. To commemorate this historic and strategic day, all heads of state attending the Cairo Allied Summit  All will attend today¡¯s navigation ceremony in person.  At nine o'clock in the morning, the heads of state of various countries had arrived in the city of Suez and were sitting in the awning on the high ground on the west bank of the canal, witnessing the arrival of this historical moment.  At a quarter past nine, the President of Egypt, who presided over the navigation ceremony, finally raised the signal gun and issued the "navigation allowed" signal. Then, all the ships in formation sounded their whistles and slowly sailed from the northern entrance of the Gulf of Suez.  Slowly sailing towards the Suez Canal channel, the first one is the allied naval fleet, which is present in each country. They pass through the viewing platform in alphabetical order according to the country name. The officers and sailors on the warship who are not on duty are all wearing military uniforms and standing on the port side of the warship.  On one side, they paid attention to the heads of state on the high ground on the west bank of the canal.  Of course, this is also a ship review for the Allies. In addition to showing the determination and strength of the Allies to seize sea control in the Mediterranean, it is also a show of force to the Axis Powers. Therefore, those who appear on the canal are basically very powerful.  Combat warships, and the most strategic deterrents are naturally the aircraft carriers of various countries.  It is not quite accurate to say that they are aircraft carriers from "all countries". The aircraft carriers that appeared on the scene were six aircraft carriers from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Among them, there were only two large aircraft carriers, one each from China and the United States, and the other four  Aircraft carriers are all small escort aircraft carriers, belonging to the British Navy and the French Navy.Among the aircraft carriers of various countries, the only one that can take off jet fighters is currently the Chinese Navy's "Donghai" aircraft carrier, and this aircraft carrier will also serve as the air defense for this allied special aircraft carrier fleet after it enters the Eastern Mediterranean.  The main task of this fleet is to assist the Allied forces to land on the island of Cyprus. If possible, Crete may also become an attack target of the fleet, and the main task of the fleet is to test the Axis deployment for the subsequent Allied fleet.  naval strength in the eastern Mediterranean and to distract the Axis navies in the Atlantic.  After the six aircraft carriers led a large number of escort fleets through the viewing platform, it was the turn of the auxiliary ships to go into battle. Among these auxiliary ships, there were two strange-looking warships that aroused great interest from the heads of state and military experts present. And those  The two warships are two new cruisers of the Chinese Navy, one named "Typhoon" and the other named "Storm".  According to the visual inspection of various military experts on site, the "Typhoon" and the "Storm" should be the same class of cruisers. Judging from the hull length, freeboard height and other dimensions, the full load displacement of this class of cruisers should be between 7,000 tons and 9,000 tons.  In terms of tonnage, they are not very large warships. However, what is surprising is that the firepower equipment and layout of these two new cruisers are fundamentally different from conventional cruisers. This only requires  Just look at the number of naval guns on their decks. Whether it is "Typhoon" or "Storm", only a few naval guns can be visually seen on their decks. One of the main guns is located in the middle of the bow deck.  On the line, the caliber will not exceed 150 mm. The other several naval guns are obviously small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns, and they are all arranged on both sides of the front deck of the warship. The gun emplacements extend up to under the bridge in the middle of the warship, and the entire warship  On the quarter deck, there was not a single gun in sight.  However, the rear deck of the empty warship is not empty. There are four huge weird box-shaped objects fixed on the rear deck at a 45-degree angle by strong support rods, and they are arranged separately.  There are two groups, one in front and one in the back, and they are all arranged in a cross layout, one high and one low. If you can look from the side and rear of the sky, you can see that there are two huge "approx." arranged on the rear deck of the warship.  x" shaped object.  As soon as these two strange-looking warships appeared, they immediately aroused whispers from the audience. They began to speculate on the purpose of these two strange-looking warships. Their intuition told military experts that the "Typhoon" and "Storm" should be  Combat ships, and those four huge box-shaped objects must be their main weapons for combat, but what is in the boxes is not easy to guess, but think of China's missile technology  In its leading position, many foreign officials speculated that the four huge box-shaped objects were probably also filled with guided rockets. As for whether they were used to attack warships or land targets, everyone  But there is no consensus.  Politicians and military strategists from various countries were sitting on the viewing platform, speculating on what kind of combat ships "Typhoon" and "Storm" were, but Zhao Bei, the initiator of all this, was sitting on the viewing platform, secretly proud of himself, while his companions  Jiang Fangzhen, the deputy chief of staff sitting on the side, also had the same expression as Zhao Bei, proud and somewhat proud.  In fact, the "Typhoon" and the "Storm" are indeed the latest cruisers of the Chinese Navy. The "Typhoon" is the first ship, so this class of ships is the "Typhoon" class cruiser.  The "Typhoon" class is not the previous artillery cruiser, but a new concept of "missile cruiser". The four objects that look like large iron boxes are the missile storage/launch tubes. Each launch tube is equipped with a  "Sailfish" anti-ship missiles, that is to say, each "Typhoon" class guided missile cruiser can carry four powerful anti-ship missiles for combat.  The "Sailfish" anti-ship missile is a flying missile with a radar-guided attack and a semi-armor-piercing warhead. The warhead alone of each missile weighs up to half a ton. It is very powerful. Even for a battleship, if critical  If a "Sailfish" hits its body, it will immediately lose its combat effectiveness. The missile is propelled by a turbojet engine, but during the take-off stage it relies on a rocket engine to push the missile out of the launch tube. After that, the rocket booster automatically falls off. Immediately afterwards, it has  The started main engine immediately increases power. At this time, the missile officially enters the cruise state and flies to the target under the guidance of the radar.  Currently, there are two models of the "Sailfish" anti-ship missile, namely the sea-based type and the land-based type. The land-based type is equipped with the Navy's coastal defense forces. It relies on heavy-duty multi-wheel trailer maneuvers and can be deployed on the coastline to attack near shores.  Targets, or used to block narrow waterways, and the sea-based version of the missile is equipped on the "Typhoon" class cruiser.  The "Typhoon" class cruiser is also the first main warship in the world to use missiles as its main combat weapon. It can provide medium and long-range anti-ship combat support tasks for aircraft carrier battle groups. The longest range of the "Sailfish" has actually exceeded  Seventy kilometers away, the highest flightWith a speed of 950 kilometers per hour, this is a subsonic anti-ship missile and the first anti-ship missile in the world to enter active service.  Precisely because it is the world's first anti-ship missile to enter active service, it is a huge breakthrough in tactics. Before this, there has never been a similar weapon, and there is no reference for reference. Everything needs to be designed from scratch.  , Therefore, the shortcomings of the "Sailfish" also exist objectively, and the most obvious shortcomings are that it is too large and too heavy. Since the wings are not folded, and the fuel tank takes up a lot of space in the missile body, therefore,  In order to achieve the maximum firepower density of the warship and reduce the center of gravity of the warship, the missile storage/launch tubes must be arranged obliquely and arranged crosswise into two groups at the front and rear. In this way, there will be two huge missiles on the rear deck of the warship.  An object similar to an "x". Moreover, in order to prevent the high-heat exhaust gas when the front missile is launched from affecting the safety of the rear missile, a special exhaust gas guide groove is designed next to the support rod of the rear launch tube. As a result, this class of cruiser  It looks extremely weird.  But weirdness is weird, and no one can underestimate the combat effectiveness of "Typhoon". Before it officially appeared in front of the public, the Chinese Navy had used the cruiser "Typhoon" to conduct four highly simulated actual combat shooting tests. The target ships were:  Retired battleships, destroyers, gunboats, and training ships fired four live rounds, all using double-bomb salvos. A total of eight "Sailfish" were fired, and four of them directly hit the target ship. Although the other four missed.  Yes, but it also landed on the sea surface very close to the target ship and exploded. The shrapnel was enough to sweep across the deck of the target ship, and the shock wave of the explosion could also cause a direct impact on the underwater part of the warship.  In the face of such ferocious striking power, traditional artillery battleships have actually been declared obsolete. The era of battleships has completely ended. In future battleship confrontations, radars will replace rangefinders, and missiles will replace large-caliber ones.  Artillery, in this battleship confrontation mode, whichever side has better radar and missile performance will be able to seize control of the sea. Which side can better interfere with the radar and missiles of enemy warships, whichever side will be better able to survive.  At the end of the day, what determines the outcome of the battle is the electromagnetic wave invisible to the naked eye. This is a war of electromagnetic waves.  Fortunately, the Chinese Navy is once again leading the navies of the world's powerful countries in this regard. The "Typhoon" class radar and anti-ship missiles are the best or even the only ones in the world.  No matter whether other heads of state are willing to admit it or not, the missile era of war has quietly begun, and it is China that has opened this curtain.  The Chinese President sitting on the viewing platform looked happy, but the expressions of the US President and the British Prime Minister were very unnatural. They also discovered the difference between the two new Chinese warships, and the two quickly exchanged opinions.  They all agreed that the new warship must also be an offensive weapon. They did not need to analyze it from the micro level like military experts did. They only needed to look at the size of the two warships to understand. If it is a defensive warship  , there is no need to build it that big. Maybe it is the legendary "future battleship". The two heads of state immediately decided to convene their staff to discuss the matter after the ship review and consult the military.  How serious is the threat of this unknown weapon? We need to conduct the necessary strategic assessment.
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