Chapter 200 Unable to intercept!

Author: September Sauce

Chapter 200 Unable to intercept!

"A new type of ballistic missile in my country was successfully tested, with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers."

After DF-17 completed its first experiment, the news was released, and the shock it brought was no less than a storm sweeping the world.

The first to respond was the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier formation.

In the bridge command room, Thomas looked at the latest intelligence with concern and said to Gildy beside him:

"The previous news was indeed accurate. They are indeed developing a new type of weapon."

"Moreover, judging from the current public information, this weapon is aimed at us."

"It's terrible that they're developing it so much faster than we expected."

"If every weapon is like this and can be put into actual combat in less than three months, then what chance do we have against them?"

"The gap will soon be closed, and our advantage will no longer exist."

Gildy across from him looked solemn, but compared to the pessimistic Thomas, he still held on to some illusions.

In his opinion, the opponent's speed was too fast, even ridiculously fast.

How is this possible?

Even if our own side wants to trial-produce a medium-range ballistic missile, it will take at least more than a year, and the actual verification process will be even longer.

Now, anything built within three months is either just a modification of the original equipment, or it is just false propaganda.

Thinking of this, he asked:

"Is it possible that it is fake? Maybe this is just a signal they deliberately sent out to deter us."

"Of course, I'm not saying that the equipment is fake, I'm just saying that maybe the performance parameters are not as exaggerated as they say?"

"Look at their reports. Is it possible to have a range of more than 1,000 kilometers and a penetration speed of Mach 5 or more? Is this data a result of intentional amplification?"

"What a joke!"

Thomas rolled his eyes and then replied:

"Gildy, you have to understand that with them, the data will only be smaller, not larger."

"The reported range is 1,000 kilometers and Mach 5, but the actual performance may be 2,000 kilometers and Mach 10."

"This is their usual style. They call it hiding one's strength and biding time, but in fact it is just plain insidious."

Having said this, Thomas sighed.

"Now, the situation is very unfavorable for us."

"Jianlou does not want a real conflict to break out between the two of us. All we can rely on is actually the advantage of the aircraft carrier battle group in the open sea."

"But now, the situation has changed."

“If this weapon really exists, then they have simply expanded the ‘conflict scale potential’ at sea.”

"In the past, we threatened them with the possibility of small-scale war, but now, on this basis, they have come up with higher-level deterrence measures."

"Their attitude is very clear. As long as a conflict breaks out, they will definitely use the advantages of medium-range ballistic missiles to expand local conflicts to the global situation."

"So, the choice is back in our hands."

"And in this kind of matter, whoever is forced to make a choice is the passive party."

Hearing his words, Gildi nodded silently.

"No matter what, we must find a breakthrough."

"Otherwise, if this operation ends hastily, neither the Corner Tower nor the Congress will let us go."

"I see."

Thomas pondered for a moment and continued:

"We should organize a drill."

"What drill?"

"Missile interception exercise! Let's use Pershing 2 as our imaginary enemy!"

Hearing this, Gildy's eyes lit up.

The Pershing 2 tactical missile has an effective range of 1,800 kilometers and a terminal penetration speed of Mach 12.

On this earth, it can be said that almost no defense system can effectively intercept it.

For a long time, it was the Sword of Damocles hanging over the USSR's head. It only took hundreds of missiles to instantly disarm all the USSR's weapons.

Using it as an imaginary enemy is indeed an extremely effective choice.

Because, if the Aegis system can show its strength in front of it, the sense of oppression caused by the so-called "new medium-range missile" will be instantly lifted!

Gildy suddenly became energetic.

"Where to launch? We have only deployed Pershing 2 in Europe now. From the range point of view, there is no effective test environment."

"No, we can have it."

A smile appeared on Thomas's lips.

"The missile wall plan has been around for a long time, but because of our misjudgment of China's strength, it was never really put on the agenda."

"Now, taking this opportunity, we can just do a preview."

"Even Congress will never refuse. After all, they should be more anxious than Guolou right now."

"Understood."

Gildi also smiled knowingly, and after a moment, he asked again:

"Which region should you choose? Vietnam? They are not strong enough to carry out such cooperation, right?"

"Of course it can't be Vietnam. I think Thailand is a good choice."

"Of course, this is not a cooperation that can be achieved in the short term. Under the current circumstances, we can try it on our own territory now."

A few days later, Thomas and Gilday's proposal was approved at an alarming speed, and even the maneuvering of the aircraft carrier formation was unusually smooth.

In less than a week, the first batch of three Pershing 2 missiles have been deployed for testing.

Subsequently, under the command of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier formation, the first missile defense exercise was quickly launched.

This exercise was made public as a joint military exercise, and the entire process was even broadcast live.

Everyone can see that this is a pure muscle show.

However, no one can ignore the significance of this action.

Because it can almost be said to completely demonstrate the hegemonic strength of the US Aegis system.

Since the launch of Pershing 2, the anti-missile system has been tracking it in all directions at all times.

Starting with the AN/SPY-1A multifunctional phased array radar, the radar emits hundreds of narrow beams to continuously scan the hemispheric airspace.

Even after only one radar beam discovers a target, the radar immediately controls more beams to illuminate the target and automatically switches to tracking, and at the same time sends the target data to the command and decision-making subsystem.

The command and decision-making subsystem performs friend-or-foe identification and threat assessment on the target, allocates interception weapons, and sends the resulting data to the weapons control subsystem.

The weapons control subsystem automatically compiles the interception program based on the data, and sends the program to the missile through the missile launch subsystem.

The entire process from discovery to identification did not take more than 20 seconds, and within this short period of 20 seconds, the Aegis system had already predicted the approximate impact range of the missile based on its speed, angle and other information.

Although the accuracy of this impact point range is very poor, under the surveillance of the integrated air and sea early warning system, the missile had just entered the atmosphere and was already locked by the anti-missile missile that took off in advance.

At this time, the Pershing 2 missile had just entered a level flight attitude.

Since the air resistance is greater than gravity, its speed continues to decrease during the descent. Under the control of the inertial guidance system, the flight direction sometimes jumps up and sometimes pulls down. On the premise of reducing the re-entry speed, it can avoid the anti-missile system to the maximum extent.

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But such maneuvers are meaningless to the Aegis system. It sensitively tracks all movements of the missile, intercepts the missile as it takes off, and heads straight for the Pershing 2 missile under the guidance of the sea-to-air radar data link.

At 4,000 meters in the air, the interceptor missile hit the Pershing 2 missile, exploding in a brilliant fire.

The live broadcast was silent. No one cheered or congratulated each other. It seemed that in the eyes of those participating in the experiment, this was just a simple and ordinary experiment.

However, outside the live broadcast, the discussion surrounding this anti-direction exercise has already raged.

China's military forum has already exploded, with all kinds of comments almost flooding the screen, and the vast majority of them are lamenting this huge gap.

"Oh my god, it can actually be intercepted. The technology of the United States can really be said to be at the Zenith level."

"With a speed of Mach 10, doesn't it mean that all existing air defense systems cannot intercept it? How do they do it themselves?"

"Who knows? Anyway, their attitude is very obvious, they just want to show off their muscles. This time we are embarrassed. As soon as our new missiles came out, they immediately held an interception exercise. Isn't this a slap in our face?

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"I don't know if it's a slap in the face or not, but I want to say that Aegis is actually not that strong, right?"
To be continued...