Chapter 812： A Turning Point in the Era of U.S. Naval Hegemony

? This seems to be different from what the Americans claim in history?

In history, the USS America is majestic and has made great contributions to the United States. After retiring, the US Navy officers and soldiers who once served on the USS America hoped that it would enjoy her old age, but the American high-level officials did not do this and let it retire safely. , and then sent to a dock to wait. but gave it a new mission.

On April 19, 2005, the USS America was towed away from the old military port of Philadelphia. According to the plan carefully planned by the Naval Sea Systems Command in advance, the U.S. Navy's surface, underwater and air weapons carried out "live ammunition attacks" on it. **. After resisting indiscriminate bombing for 25 days, the hull of this once-powerful steel behemoth began to flood into the water at 11:30 am local time on May 14, and then sank silently into the Atlantic Ocean.

In the absence of any defense system, the USS America was bombed for 25 days before it was sunk! But now, after only hitting four sunburn missiles, the USS America sank. This contrast is too big, right? Is it that the hero of East China is too bragging?

of course not!

First of all, the USS America has not yet laid a layer of Kevlar armor on the outside to increase its protective ability like the later generations.

Of course, if the subsonic Flying Fish missile is flying, the semi-armor-piercing warhead will not be able to tear open the side of the USS America. After all, its power is limited, but now it is a four-ton supersonic missile. Ship missiles! The speed brings more energy. According to the kinetic energy equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the speed, the sunburn missile only relies on the energy brought by the speed, which is several times that of the flying fish missile, plus the mass, it is definitely the attack power of the flying fish missile. more than ten times!

Secondly, the attack of the first two missiles opened a gap from the weakest tail of the opponent, and at the same time caused a fire in the hangar. Although it did not burn anywhere else, the burning caused a change in the structure of the aircraft carrier steel plate, and there was no original That kind of mechanical strength.

What weapons did the Americans use when they were experimenting? Definitely not a supersonic anti-ship missile! In the American arsenal, the attack on warships is the Harpoon anti-ship missile similar to the flying fish, and the anti-ship missile improved from the cruise missile Tomahawk, all of which are subsonic, and the Americans simply do not know the supersonic anti-ship missile. The power of ship missiles!

This is the result of quantitative change leading to qualitative change! When the Americans were experimenting, they were just scratching their itch, and the attack of the Argentine Navy was definitely a powerful fist!

At the same time, when the Americans were fighting their own aircraft carrier, they greeted them with various weapons under calm conditions. At that time, there was nothing on the aircraft carrier, just an empty shell. And now? USS America is a fighting machine, it is full of planes and loaded with all kinds of weapons and ammunition! Even if a small hole is torn open and the fuel or ammunition inside is triggered, the consequences are absolutely catastrophic.

For example, now, the biggest blow to the US aircraft carrier is the last missile that got into the ammunition depot. The detonation of the ammunition depot caused the entire aircraft carrier to break! No matter how many layers of watertight cabins you have or how many anti-sinking structures you have, it is winter in the southern hemisphere, and the wind and waves are high enough to overturn the entire aircraft carrier!

This is the truth. When the final explosion came, the U.S. Navy was stunned. The fire on the sea illuminated the entire sky. During the fire, officers and soldiers of the U.S. Navy kept jumping into the water. He was swimming hard in the sea, hoping to be picked up by other boats. There were more people, but in the cold water, he finally lost consciousness.

The war is cruel, and the aircraft carrier is driven over arrogantly, and it must be mentally prepared to be destroyed!

The fire burned for several hours until the sky was completely bright, and the surrounding warships rescued more than 800 drowning crew members, but more people had followed the aircraft carrier and sank into the icy Atlantic Ocean.

USS America, sinking, the era of US naval hegemony, there has been a major turning point!

When the day dawned, the weather cleared, the waves became very small, and the seagulls continued to fly over the sea, passing the American aircraft carrier formation from time to time.

The American aircraft carrier formation has grown in size, and the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier battle group has finally merged with the US aircraft carrier battle group! However, at this time, the USS America has disappeared under the sea!

The Carl Vinson aircraft carrier battle group was cruising around the sea last night, and each of them was extremely angry in their hearts!

The US Navy has never suffered such a loss! The U.S. Navy must take revenge! Mobilize six aircraft carrier battle groups to completely crippled Argentina's navy and air force!

USS America was sunk! This news quickly spread all over the world, and the first one that reached the White House was Reagan, who was sleepy. When he heard the news, he felt that the world was spinning, and he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage!

At the beginning, when he walked into the White House confidently and took charge of the entire America, Reagan was in high spirits, but now, under his leadership , the United States has not yet come out of the trough, and has been thrown into the abyss again!

It can be said that the decision to send troops was a bit hasty. After all, it was a war between the United Kingdom and Argentina, and the United States could stand outside and persuade it. However, the Americans immediately contacted the entire Western world and gave the UK full support. Later, even after the defeat of the UK, the US fully supported the UK and gathered the entire Western world's fleet to attack Argentina. Who would have thought , but encountered such a result!

The navy has failed! This is something he never thought of. As the most powerful navy in the United States, when there is a regional conflict, the first thing the President of the United States asks is, where is our aircraft carrier, and if there is an aircraft carrier, there will be sufficient force! And now, the aircraft carrier was sunk!

"Obviously, it's not a local war, it's a full-scale war! Argentina has sunk our aircraft carrier, and we're going to use up the power of the entire Western world to win a war! This is for us, the United States, for the entire West. The world's challenge!" said Vice President Bush.

As a former World War II veteran, Bush also felt that this incident made the Americans too useless. The United States still has concerns about starting a war with the Soviet Union. If Argentina abused the U.S. Navy, how could the United States be the leader of the Western world in the future? By! (To be continued.)