Daoguohang intercepting ballistic missiles are the key skills of various countries' strategic defense systems. Even if Kugongchuanju cruise missiles are considered to be a global problem.

Compared with intercepting ballistic missiles, the biggest problem with intercepting and cruise missiles is not intercepting, but discovering.

Relatively speaking, except that cruise missiles are more concealed, that is, difficult to detect, they are far inferior to ballistic missiles in other aspects. The outstanding concealment, that is, low detectability, has given cruise missiles a place and developed on the battlefield. Of course, cruise missiles are not static, but are constantly developing and improving as technology develops.

If we scored according to the flight speed, until the beginning of this century, the cruise missiles were still mainly subsonic. For example, the American "Tomahawk" series, the Russian "Takema" series are very similar to the "Tomahawk", so they are nicknamed "Tomahawk" and the "Storm Shadow" in Europe. Without exception, these subsonic cruise missiles used ground flight to avoid the enemy's air defense radar and achieve the purpose of penetration.

The technology of the late and early century induced power is not that it is impossible to manufacture supersonic cruise missiles, but that supersonic cruise missiles have relatively serious performance defects. For example, in the era of Daoqitian, the former Soviet Union developed a flight speed of up to Mach, with a range of more than 0 meters and 0 meters.

The "shipwreck. Anti-ship missile, and installed on many large warships, including the Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, the "Kirov" class nuclear-powered cruisers "Peter the Great" class and the "Glorious" class cruisers, became the nemesis of the US aircraft carrier. The problem is that this launch mass exceeds the heart kilogram and is equivalent to the "Tomahawk" type, and the warhead carrying the persuasion kilogram is equivalent to the "Tomahawk. type! 8 times the maximum range of the anti-ship missile is only one-third of the "Tomahawk. type, and it is difficult to assume the heavy responsibility of ground attack. If it wants to increase its range to the "Tomahawk" class, it needs to increase the launch quality above, which is not only beyond Xintun. Increasing the launch quality will not only make it difficult to assume the heavy responsibility of ground attack.

Mass production prices will also make equipment extremely difficult. For example, the US "Ticandroga class cruiser can be carried at most, and the knife "Tomahawk" configuration can also be carried in half. The "Glorious" class cruiser with a comparable displacement can only carry the old one and the improved one. If a missile is so large that it is difficult to carry a warship, this missile will not have much practical value. Correspondingly, the Soviet Union's long-range cruise, missile, called "Tomahawk Sky," was also a subsonic cruise missile, and did not have supersonic flight capabilities, so it made the range reach strategic indicators without significantly increasing the launch quality.

What brought cruise missiles into the supersonic era is the ever-changing science and technology.

Around the end of the old era and the early days of the dynasty, with the arrival of a new round of technological revolution represented by the power revolution, many advanced technologies with the significance of the Ge era were launched one after another, and they had practical value, so cruise missiles entered a period of rapid development.

In just a few years, in addition to the United States, which was the first to move towards the "hypersonic" era, Russia, which had made achievements in the field of supersonics, Europe, which actively provided overall influence, and the Republic, which initiated the power revolution, all challenged the United States in the field of "hypersonics".

The "speed competition" in the field of cruise missiles has begun. Also based on speed, the "hypersonic" era can be divided into several stages, namely the entry stage with a maximum flight degree of Mach 6 to 8, the maximum flight speed exceeds the initial stage of the old Mach, the maximum flight speed exceeds the mature stage of the old Mach and the maximum flight speed reaches the ultimate stage of Limach. No matter how fast the speed is, it will leave the category of cruise missiles and become a new type of missile with suborbital flight capabilities.

Compared with the subsonic era, the biggest difference in the "hypersonic" era is that as the speed increases, the flight height ratio of the missile is also increasing, and it is greatly improved. For example, the maximum flight altitude of the hypersonic cruise missile in the entry stage is generally controlled at about kilometers of force, while the maximum flight altitude of the cruise missile in the ultimate stage exceeds kilometers, and partly close to 4 kilometers. The reason for the continuous increase of altitude is very simple; the ultra-fast flight speed will cause the friction between the bullet body and the air to generate huge heat, and it is even at the risk of burning the missile. Only by continuously increasing the flight altitude and leaving the dense atmosphere can the heat generated by air friction be effectively reduced. More importantly, in the face of various new detection systems, the impact of reducing the flight altitude on improving the penetration rate is increasingly increasing. The increasing speed has become the main means to increase the survival probability of missiles during the penetration process and improve the breakthrough of enemy air defense systems.

Some people may think that at a height of kilometers, cruise missiles flying at the speed of Limach have deviated from the development route of cruise missiles, that is, they are no longer concealed.

In fact, hypersonic cruise missiles are still very concealed compared to ballistic missiles.

It must be admitted that in the field of tactics, hypersonic cruise missiles are indeed difficult to make a difference. Even in some special circumstances, hypersonic cruise missiles still have an irreplaceable role. For example, when attacking large aircraft carrier battle groups, hypersonic cruise missiles are still one of the most effective ammunition. However, most of the time, hypersonic cruise missiles have withdrawn from the tactical stage. For example, in the Middle East War, hypersonic cruise missiles account for less than three thousandths of the ammunition consumed by the Republican army, and the proportion of ammunition consumed by the US army is less than one percent, far lower than tactical ammunition such as long-range artillery shells and gliding bombs. Of course, Yi Xunshu Shushu has a different body clam, and among the many factors that use the tactical application of Sichuan Wugaogao enemy sound cruise missiles. One of the missing towns is relatively high, and the main reason is the high price.

In the strategic field, price is naturally not a big problem.

It can be said that even the price of hypersonic cruise missiles is much cheaper than other tactical ammunition, and if calculated according to the system price, it will definitely be cheaper. That's right. In the big wave of comprehensively destroying nuclear weapons, several nuclear powers not only did not let strategic bombers retire early, but instead enhanced the existence value of strategic bombers by developing and improving hypersonic cruise missiles.

Russia has not performed badly in this wave.

As early as the early days of the outbreak, in order to resist the economic crisis and the Great Depression caused by severe overproduction, Russia increased its military equipment investment, including several military equipment projects related to hypersonic cruise missiles, with the final code name of 10. The projects improved and developed based on the project were favored by the Russian Navy and Air Force, and once entered the engineering stage. If it were not for the serious quality exceeding the standard and the weight reduction design effect was weak. I am afraid that Russia would become the third country to develop and produce hypersonic cruise missiles since the United States and the Republic at the end of the day. For the Russian military industry, in addition to the regret caused by the failure of the first and fourths, it is more about experience. It is on this basis that the Russian Air Force proposed the performance indicators of the next generation of cruise missiles at the end of the day of the day. It also clearly required a brand new development rather than a modification on the original products.

After hard work in the past year, around the end of the weak era, the Canlingli hypersonic cruise missile led by the Russian Ruby Design Bureau and jointly participated by several design bureaus such as Tianlei and others were successfully developed, and it received mass production orders from the Air Force, becoming the standard weapon of the new generation of Xieru strategic bombers. This number also came. Russia also became the fourth country after France and mastered the development and production technology of hypersonic cruise missiles. After that, under the active promotion of the Russian Air Force, the Ruby Design Bureau successively launched a variety of improved models such as Siwang, as well as new missiles such as Siyijin and Sikong. Among them, Siyibao, which was launched in the Year of the Year, is Russia's latest generation of hypersonic cruise missiles, with its maximum flight speed reaching Mach. This is also the latest standard equipment for Russian strategic bombers.

At this time, the strategic defense system of the Republic's Sky Army was facing dozens of Russian strategic bombers launched from the airspace, many hypersonic cruise missiles.

Some people may say that the best way to intercept ballistic missiles is to intercept and bombs, rather than intercept warheads, so the best way to intercept cruise missiles is to deal with bombers, not missiles. Before that, the Kinetic Energy Interceptor Satellite of the Republic's Sky Army had attacked the Russian missile launcher. Why not use the same method to deal with Russian strategic bombers? No matter what, no matter how fast the bomber flies, it is not as good as the kinetic energy missile.

The front half of this view is correct. If the bomber can be shot down, it will naturally be the best.

The problem is that the latter half is almost impossible to achieve. The only key is whether kinetic energy missiles can hit strategic bombers flying at high speeds.

When attacking missile launchers on the ground, kinetic energy missiles do not directly concentrate the launchers. Instead, they use the destructive effect generated when they land and explode to destroy nearby missile launchers. Kinetic energy missiles fly about a hundred years from launch to landing. In such a short time, the maximum speed of less than an hour is less than a thousand meters. At most, the missile launchers with a maximum speed of less than a thousand meters can travel along the highway at most, so only a few kinetic energy missiles are needed to cover the area where the launchers are located, ensuring that the launchers are destroyed.

In the same time, strategic bombers with a cruise speed of Mach 4 or above can fly hundreds of kilometers, while kinetic energy missiles are not loaded with explosives. The kinetic energy will only be released when they land or hit the target. Therefore, to hit the flying bomber, at least tens of thousands of missiles are required for full coverage.

Some people may say that kinetic energy missiles should be equipped with guidance systems.

Not to mention whether the open guidance system will be disturbed. After entering the dense atmosphere, kinetic energy missiles with a flight speed of up to thousands of kilometers per second will produce high temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees Celsius when they rub against the air. Among the known materials, no one can withstand such high temperatures, so it is impossible to install a detection window on the missile, and the guidance system cannot obtain external information, so guidance is impossible. It is impossible to talk about guidance. It is true that all kinetic energy missiles used to attack surface targets and suspended targets in the atmosphere have only the simplest inertial guidance system, and there is no precise guidance system.

In addition to the difficulty of attack, it is also difficult to accurately track high-speed bombers from outer space.

It can be said that if you want to shoot down Russia's strategic bombers, the only way is to move out heavy air combat fighters and launch an attack under the guidance of early warning aircraft and ground long-range radar.

Mu Yong doubted that strategic bombers would not patrol near the border, and Russia did not lack strategic depth.

For example, during this attack, the distance between the four missile launch airspaces and the border of the Republic is more than 1,000 meters. With such a large distance, even if the air-controlling fighter has enough range, it is difficult to break through the Russian local air defense network and complete the attack operation under heavy obstruction. Besides, Russia's strategic bomber is not without pilots. After encountering threats, it will definitely turn to escape and will not give the enemy fighter a chance to get closer.

Importantly, the inability to accurately track the bomber does not mean that it cannot detect the bomber, nor does it mean that it cannot grasp whether the bomber is in a concave way. The long-range strategic alert secret security era with a detection distance of more than 1,000 meters in Liankou, two warning radars deployed in the northwest and northeastern regions of the Republic can monitor Russia's Siberia and the Far East, and roughly position the bombers that take off patrol. More importantly, as long as the Russian bomber launches missiles, the long-range alert radar can detect the resulting electromagnetic field disturbance, thereby issuing an alarm.

In addition to long-range alert radar, there is also a strategic early warning in space specifically used to detect cruise missiles.

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In short, as long as Russia's strategic bombers launch cruise missiles, the strategic early warning system of the Republic's Sky Army will issue an alarm.

Of course, intercepting missiles is a little easier than intercepting bombers.

After Russian bombers launched missiles, the interceptor satellites located over Siberia and the Far East entered combat state, and all interceptor satellites equipped with high-energy lasers automatically attacked the detected high-risk targets after receiving the instructions.

The problem is that if there is interception, there will naturally be anti-interception methods. Compared with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles have no speed advantage and cannot throw away the main engine in advance. Relatively speaking, the only advantage of cruise missiles is that they can obtain support from load-load platforms, that is, strategic bombers. In any case, cruise missiles are ammunition, not weapons platforms, and their autonomy is very limited. If you rely entirely on the cruise missile's own penetration ability, it will definitely be very difficult to break through the Republic's defense network, and it is even unlikely to enter the Republic's airspace.

In response to this situation, the Russian Air Force has developed a very creative confrontation device: a virtual imager.

Of course, this is not a patent of the Russian Air Force. The Republic also has similar equipment to the U.S. Air Force.

To put it simply, a "virtual imager" is a device specially used to deceive intercept satellites. The working principle is very simple, that is, using bombers and laser projectors in the tow pod to create more virtual three-dimensional images around the bomber, allowing interceptor satellites that rely on visible light, infrared and ultraviolet rays to detect cruise missiles to treat them as cruise missiles, thereby wasting time on these worthless virtual images and giving real cruise missiles the opportunity to penetrate. It can be seen that virtual imager cannot guarantee that cruise missiles can penetrate 100% but only greatly improve the penetration rate.

That's right, at the beginning of the interception, the interceptor satellite of the Republic's Sky Army had to face not multiple targets, but multiple targets!

It can be said that this is the biggest trouble in intercepting cruise missiles.

Not to mention that intercepting satellites are controlled by computers, even if they are controlled by humans, it is difficult to distinguish a real cruise missile.

In the absence of any other way, the only way is to attack all "targets" in sequence, regardless of whether they are true or not.

The problem is that if you want to attack all targets in a conventional way, you have to intercept all satellites. In fact, even if the Republic and Russia go to full war, the national strategic defense system will not place all its strength on Russia's side, or even transfer the main intercepting force.

In other words, it is impossible to achieve one-stop use with conventional interception methods.

Of course, before the system is adjusted, the drug-blocking satellites located over Siberia and the Far East are still performing their mission without any slightest performance. According to the procedures for dealing with cruise missiles, high-energy lasers are used to illuminate the detected targets in turn. Because there are a large number of false targets, the intercepting satellites will not repeatedly illuminate the undestroyed targets. This is also the biggest difference between intercepting cruise missiles and intercepting ballistic missiles.

At this time, the redundant statistics program in the national strategic defense system began to work.

To put it bluntly, the central computer of the strategic defense system will calculate the interception efficiency at any time and predict whether all targets can be intercepted in time. If it is found that all targets cannot be intercepted in time and the number of remaining targets exceeds the maximum interception capability of other interception systems, the central computer will adjust the interception tactics, such as launching an interception system specially used to deal with cruise missiles.

This is the case in reality. After about minutes, it was confirmed that there were nearly % of the targets and the targets were not shot down. The central computer of the national strategic defense system came up with the result of "interception failure". After concluding that other interception systems could not intercept so many targets at once, they activated the emergency mechanism and began to adjust the interception tactics. Of course, these were all automatically controlled by the computer. There was no need for human intervention. In fact, the entire calculation took less than seconds. At the speed of human reaction, it was impossible to make accurate judgments in such a short time.

As central computers issued instructions, interceptor satellites over low-Earth orbit stopped fighting almost at the same time.

At this moment, on a huge artificial satellite located in the geosynchronous orbit above the eastern longitude equator, the memory alloy stimulated by the current was rapidly expanding and unfolding. Dozens of small robots pulled up dozens of huge flexible reflective cloths along the stretched skeleton, and finally formed a huge reflective mirror.

On the land more than 30,000 kilometers below, a military base located in the Taihang Mountains suddenly became lively.

In the blink of an eye, a light column that was even more dazzling than a nuclear explosion rose up from the ground, and rushed towards the huge mirror at a speed of tens of kilometers per second, and then turned back at the same speed and landed on the ground thousands of kilometers away from the base. As the mirror slowly rotated, the spots on the ground were also slowly moving.

I'm afraid no one would have thought that the Republic's Heavenly Army would have such a powerful killing weapon that would destroy the world!
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