Chapter 1108： P five hundred saturation attack

Among the Soviet naval equipment, the most dazzling is the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Kremlin, followed by the conventional-powered aircraft carrier Soviet Union, and then the Kirov-class nuclear-powered warship with a displacement of 20,000 tons.

These battleships are shrouded in great brilliance, but, in fact, in the entire Soviet naval sequence, the most cost-effective is the Glory-class cruiser!

Since the 1960s, the Soviet Union's surface ships have continued to develop, and suffered a loss from the Cuban missile crisis. The Soviet Union has realized the weakness of the navy.

After that, the construction of the Kirov class began in the early and mid-1970s. This type of warship escorted the newly built Soviet aircraft carrier, attacked American aircraft carriers, and served as air defense and anti-submarine missions of the formation.

After the completion of the Kirov-class construction, this kind of warship has well undertaken the design task, but because the Kirov-class ship adopts nuclear power and has a full-load displacement of up to 24,300 tons, the construction and maintenance costs are huge, and it is difficult to build and use in batches. In other words, this kind of warship cannot be equipped in batches.

Therefore, in order to cooperate with the Soviet ocean-going aircraft carrier and make up for the shortcomings of the Kirov class, the Soviet Union began to build an economical and reduced version of the Kirov class, which is the Glory class!

The glorious class uses gas turbine propulsion, which greatly reduces the cost of construction and maintenance of warships. At the same time, the displacement of this warship is 12,000 tons, which is just the right size, and it has a good effect on escorting the aircraft carrier.

Four of these warships have now been completed. Among them, the Admiral Lobov is the latest one to be commissioned.

In later generations, the sharp weakening of Russia's national strength made it impossible for them to maintain a huge military strength like the Soviet era. The navy has also been continuously reduced, and the aircraft carriers and land have been retired and sold. And only the Glory class, with its outstanding cost-effectiveness ratio, has been retained and has become the main warship or even the flagship of the three major fleets of the Russian Navy.

The last ship, the Admiral Robov, was even more ill-fated. Historically, the Black Sea Shipyard did not build this warship when the Soviet Union disintegrated, so the warship was left to Ukraine and named Ukraine.

Ukraine can't afford this super warship either, so Ukraine wants to sell it.

Russia wants to buy it, but Russia doesn’t want to spend it, and he has no money. Huaxia wants to buy it the most and has money. However, factors such as the international political environment made Huaxia eventually miss out on this kind of warship.

If Huaxia could buy the Ukrainian at that time, then the Huaxia Navy would definitely have the treasure of the country. (Every time I think of this, the hero of East China also feels a pity. However, although our country did not buy it, we still got the Rif-m air defense missile above.)

And now, with the substantial economic development of the Soviet Union, the construction of the navy is also quite rapid. The Admiral Lobov, which was built two years ahead of schedule and started in 1982, was completed at the beginning of this year. Sea trial, now, join the Black Sea Fleet to carry out the mission together.

The two Glory-class ships are miniature versions of the Kirov class, and they are also similar in terms of carrying weapons.

They all carried p-500 "Basalt" missiles! This is the killer weapon tailored by the Soviet Navy for the US Navy aircraft carrier, a heavy long-range supersonic anti-ship missile! NATO codenamed ss-n-12 "Sandbox"!

These missiles are arranged on both sides of the front end of the bow, four rows each, two in each row, a total of 16 missiles! The entire Glory class, nothing else, just look at these anti-ship missiles, you can see the momentum of this kind of warship! Mighty, spectacular!

The two Glory-class ships, after turning around, disengaged from the formation and began to accelerate! At the maximum speed of 30 knots, the launch covers on both sides are all open!

"Launch!" shouted the captain aboard the Glory.

The target data has been bound, and the satellite communication data link is good! At the same time, the early warning aircraft has also locked the target and transmitted the data synchronously. For the glorious class, there is only one task left, launching missiles!

emission!

The missile casing made of titanium alloy is exposed from the launch box, shining in the sun!

The pointed head is exposed first, then the projectile, and finally the engine!

After the first missile was launched, thick smoke enveloped the entire warship! The two external solid rocket boosters at the tail ignite first to accelerate the missile! When the speed of the missile exceeds Mach 1, the external solid rocket booster will fall off, and the liquid rocket ramjet of the main cruise will follow the ignition.

emission!

The p-500 missiles flew out of the launch tube at intervals of one second. The entire sea surface was enveloped by the thick smoke that was launched. Like rockets, they flew out one by one, with murderous aura from hell, and began to attack. !

Two Glory-class missiles were launched within a dozen seconds!

In the past, this kind of missile needed to rely on the carrier-based Ka-27 helicopter for relay guidance. On the real battlefield, of course, this is quite nonsense. It is the aircraft carrier formation to be attacked! Can the Ka-27 helicopter fly to the sea hundreds of kilometers away from the warship to provide relay guidance? It will definitely be shot down by someone else's carrier aircraft!

But now, it is no longer needed. The scanning range of the early warning aircraft is large enough to help transmit target information over its own fleet. At the same time, the satellites in outer space are also firmly locking the position of the US aircraft carrier formation! Through the data link, these missiles are constantly getting data!

These missiles are the saturation attack tactics that the Soviet Navy has been advocating!

When the American formation was constantly aware of the threat of air defense systems, they invented the Aegis system, and wanted to rely on vertically-launched air defense missiles and phased array radar to complete the task of guarding their airspace. At the same time, in order to break through American air defense system, the Soviet Union continues to develop its own saturation attack tactics!

The saturation attack is to attack the enemy's defense line with a numerical advantage. Even if the enemy's defensive firepower can destroy part of the attacking force, when the number exceeds the upper limit of the defense energy, the remaining attacking force will break through the defense line and destroy the center of gravity of the defense.

In fact, this is what it means. If the missiles launched in the past exceed the upper limit that the opponent can deal with, they can break through the opponent's air defense circle!

The Aegis, America's most advanced warship, bragged all day that no missiles could break through their defenses, in fact?

If in future generations, indeed no missile can break through their defenses, Aegis is unbreakable. However, in front of the Red Navy, Aegis is a joke!