Volume Fourteen, Smoke of Gunpowder, Chapter 45, Thunder Strike
Compared with missile launchers, strategic submarines have outstanding advantages in concealment, suddenness and maneuverability, and also have fatal shortcomings.
Among the many shortcomings, the launch time is too long and is undoubtedly the most prominent.
Taking a 0-level strategic submarine loaded with an old submarine-launched ballistic missile as an example, it will take at least a ugly minute to launch the old missile. During this period, the submarine cannot maneuver at high speed, and must also control the submarine depth within Feng Mi. As for the huge noise generated during launch, there is no need to mention. In this way, let alone other anti-submarine methods, as long as there is an enemy attack submarine within a nearby kilometer of ugly meters, it is difficult for strategic submarines to survive. Because the primary task of attack submarines of all countries is to kill the strategic submarines of the enemy after the war breaks out, followed by the surface warships of the enemy. Therefore, there must be an enemy attack submarine behind any country's strategic submarine. It is true that the navies of several major powers call the strategic counterattack initiated by strategic submarines "Operation Doomsday". Since it is the end of the world, it is not so important whether the strategic submarine itself can survive.
I have to say that luck is not completely biased towards the Republic.
At least the Russian Navy's view of the "Arctic Storm" class strategic submarines do not have to worry about the Republic's attack submarine nearby when launching submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
If it was before Tian Nian, then it was before Dao Nian. The strategic counterattack of the Russian Navy was enough to destroy the entire republic.
At the beginning of the century, even if the Republic was able to deploy attack submarines to the Barents Sea and could track Russia's strategic submarines, it was impossible to sink Russia's strategic submarines before launching missiles by Russian strategic submarines. At that time, the Republic had no national strategic defense system. Even if it was launched by a class strategic submarine, six submarine-launched ballistic missiles could destroy the large city of Zhaozuo, causing hundreds of millions of casualties, and completely losing the ability to war.
Even at the end of this century, the Republic already had a national strategic defense system. Because the system potential has not been discovered, the system's combat power is relatively limited, even if it can intercept incoming submarine-launched ballistic missiles, it is unlikely that it will shoot down the real and false targets that spill out the submarine-launched ballistic missiles launched by the submarine. As long as one-third of the warheads successfully penetrated, only one-fifth of them were real warheads. It also means that the big city of Congzuo will be destroyed, and two-thirds of the citizens of the Republic will be destroyed during the Qinghai period.
As mentioned earlier, if the interception method is not changed, it will be difficult to fight against the strategic counterattack initiated by the strategic submarine.
It is important that no matter what method is adopted, the purpose is the same, that is, the enemy's nuclear warhead cannot explode on the territory of the Republic, or even the enemy's nuclear warhead cannot enter the air over the territory of the Republic.
Just like dealing with land-based ballistic missiles, it is best to destroy submarine-launched ballistic missiles before launching.
The key is here, how to destroy the submarine-launched ballistic missile before it is launched.
As mentioned above, no matter how fast the missile flies, if the launch speed cannot be increased, it will still expose the submarine carrying the missile to the enemy's anti-submarine power for a long time. In fact, it is almost impossible to increase the launch speed of the submarine-launched ballistic missile. Although compared with land-based ballistic missiles, almost all submarine-launched ballistic missiles that undertake the "last" mission are aimed at large and medium-sized cities of the enemy country, with the primary purpose of killing and destroying the enemy's live forces, so there is no need to accurately locate before launching.
It can all rely on the position information provided by the high-precision laser gyroscope on the submarine. At most, it can be launched and used to perform positioning and measurements with a photoelectric periscope. However, strategic submarines generally launch missiles under the water surface. During the launch process, in order to ensure that the missile can exit the water smoothly and take off after it is discharged, it has very high requirements for the submarine's submarine depth, speed, inclination and other navigation conditions. For example, when it is first launched, it is required that the submarine depth be between the Tun and Mami, the speed must not exceed the rainbow joint, and the longitudinal and lateral inclinations must not exceed the stiffness.
If the state of the submarine itself can be constant, that is, it is not difficult to maintain such a navigation attitude under normal conditions. The problem is that when launching submarine-launched ballistic missiles, because the missile itself has the mass, after launching the missile, it is equivalent to reducing the displacement of the submarine. That is to say, even if the impact of the launch method on the submarine's navigation attitude is not considered, the impact of the missile's own weight on the submarine must be considered. In this way, the missiles on the submarine can only be launched one after another, and there must be a certain interval between them. To increase the missile launch speed, the interval time must be shortened.
From the previous analysis, there are only two ways to shorten the interval time. One is to adopt the launch method with the least impact on the submarine's attitude, and the other is to reduce the quality of the missile. The former does not have many methods available, after all, there are only a few ways to launch. No matter which method, it will have an impact on the submarine's navigation attitude, and it can only reduce the impact, but not eliminate the impact. The latter does not have many methods available. The main thing is to try to use new technologies as new materials to make the missile lighter. For example, the launch mass of the most advanced "Trident" submarine-launched ballistic missile at the beginning of the century is as high as 10 tons. After the blade year, the launch mass of the port dropped to 10 tons. With the range unchanged and the throwing ability only reduced, the total mass was reduced instantly. This shows the trend of miniaturization of missiles.
No matter how miniaturized it is
Of course, there is no way to solve this problem, it is just that the cost is very high. This special solution is to minimize the amount of missile load of the submarine. If a submarine only carries one ballistic missile because there is no repeated launch, there will be no launch interval. The problem is that if you do this, the funds required not only make the navy unbearable, but no country can bear it. Not to mention that a submarine only carries one ballistic missile, in an era when the cost of a strategic submarine is 100 billion yuan as the basic calculation unit. Even if the amount of missile load is reduced by half and the number of submarines is doubled, including personnel, bases, daily maintenance, supporting attack submarines, etc., it is enough to discourage any navy.
As mentioned earlier, how many submarine-launched ballistic missiles a strategic submarine carries is the best value derived from the combination of various factors. It is not a decision made by any general.
In this way, shortening the transmission interval time is still the main means to shorten the transmission time.
Under normal circumstances, the "Arctic Storm. The interval between launching a boron is 10 seconds, that is, launching a missile every 2 and a half minutes, and launching all missiles requires half a knife, which is about half an hour. In an emergency, the launch interval between the first six bullets can be shortened to a sufficient second by the wrong launch method. The interval between the next six missiles is still, falling seconds, but before launching the next six missiles, it is necessary to spend old minutes to adjust the navigation status of the submarine. Which launch method is adopted? Generally, the decision is made by the submarine based on the actual situation.
According to relevant regulations of the Russian Navy, if it is determined that there are no attack submarines from enemy countries around, all submarine-launched ballistic missiles should be launched in an orderly manner according to the former method. If it is determined that there are attack submarines from enemy countries around and they have not been covered by their own attack submarines, the latter method must be used to launch half of the conductors as soon as possible.
Obviously, the first situation is in line with this.
There is no doubt that if the Russian sect knows the full combat power of the Republic's national strategic defense system, at least the commander of the Russian Navy would regret it.
You should know that when Russian submarines operating in the Barents Sea received the order to launch missiles, they were about ugly above their heads. A few kilometers away, several strategic alert satellites had widened their eyes and activated the satellite data links. They could send location information to several nearby interceptor satellites within the bell after discovering the target, and several interceptor satellites specially prepared for Russian strategic submarines.
As mentioned earlier, Russia sent strategic submarines to the northern fleet as early as the 1940s.
In response to this situation, the Republic's Navy first proposed to respond with "frontier deployment". To put it simply, it is to deploy attack submarines in the allies located in the North Atlantic. There are only three countries to choose from, namely Greece, Cuba and Venezuela. Greece is located in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea. Attack submarines set off from Greek ports and have to pass through the Strait of Gibraltar to enter the Atlantic Ocean. Obviously, it is not very good.
Reality.
Cuba was under the eyes of the United States. The Soviet Union deployed a few missiles to Cuba that made the United States fight. If it really wanted to deploy attack submarines to Cuba, the United States' reaction was imagined, so it was not realistic. Venezuela's geographical location was the most ideal, but this Latin American country also had a good relationship with Russia, and it was unlikely that it would agree to let the Republic deploy attack submarines to deal with Russia in its ports. That's why the navy's proposal was quickly rejected.
The problem is that you have to find ways to deal with new challenges.
Faced with this problem, Pei Chengyi, who was already the Minister of Defense at the time, handed over the burden to Liu Xiaobin, that is, to deal with the enhanced strategic threats by expanding the capabilities of the national strategic defense system.
The solution is not complicated: by increasing the system's response speed and enhancing strike capabilities, we strive to destroy the Russian strategic submarine before it launches a second submarine-launched ballistic missile. In order to minimize the threat. With the capabilities of the Republic's national strategic defense system, if each Russian strategic submarine can only launch a submarine-launched ballistic missile, the threat is not very large. In fact, according to the results obtained by scientific calculations, launching three submarine-launched ballistic missiles by each Russian strategic submarine will not put too much pressure on the national strategic defense system, and the probability of intercepting the missile and warheads is still close to 100%.
Of course, there is only one key point, that is, how to prevent Russian strategic submarines from continuing to launch missiles.
To this end, two conditions must be met. One is to quickly discover and locate, and the other is to quickly launch an attack.
In the first condition, it is not difficult to find, but strategic early warning satellites can do it. The key is positioning. Although strategic early warning satellites can roughly locate the missiles that have been launched, the radiation signals emitted will be detected by the strategic early warning satellite only after the main engine of the missile is ignited. In response to this situation, the latest generation of submarine-launched strategic ballistic missiles of several major countries have adopted corresponding response technologies, such as using high-pressure air or high-pressure water flow to push the missile out of the launch cylinder, using low-temperature primary boost engines to lift the missile to a height of thousands of kilometers, and then starting the main engine, thus greatly delaying the time when the strategic early warning satellite discovers the missile. Of course, as long as it is a ballistic missile, it will emit extremely obvious radiation signals during the rising stage and be detected by the strategic early warning satellite.
In fact, this solves the positioning problem.
To put it simply, when it is impossible to determine the launch location of the missile,
In this way, in addition to being quick to attack, we also need to expand the range of strikes, that is, to replace precise strikes with cover strikes.
Mu Yong doubted that the most ideal strike weapon must be a nuclear weapon.
The problem is that the London Treaty clearly stipulates that nuclear weapons can only be deployed in the atmosphere and cannot be deployed in outer space. If you want to attack targets thousands of kilometers away, whether it is a ballistic missile or a cruise missile, it seems to be out of reach. Although the response speed of the "regional laser interception system can meet the requirements and the energy travels at the speed of light. However, strategic submarines hide under the sea. Above are dozens of meters thick sea water, and sea water is an ideal heat dissipation medium. No matter how powerful energy weapons are, they cannot pose a threat to submarines hidden in the sea.
Obviously, we can only pin our hopes on kinetic energy weapons.
A kinetic energy bomb of a kilogram-level blade can have the power equivalent to a tactical nuclear warhead, and the kinetic energy bomb will not interfere with each other when attacking. If it can throw dozens or even hundreds of kinetic energy bombs into the sea area where the enemy strategic submarine is located at reasonable intervals, it is not a problem to destroy the submarine. You must know that seawater is an ideal medium for transmitting pressure. The transmission efficiency of the shock wave generated by the explosion in seawater is thousands of times higher than that in the air. A kinetic energy bomb can destroy missile launchers within a radius of thousands of meters. Even if the submarine is much stronger than the missile launcher, as long as the kinetic energy bomb falls within a few hundred meters, the submarine will not be spared.
Of course, the deployment of satellites carrying kinetic energy bombs will not arouse suspicion from the enemy country.
That's why, as early as the end of the era, the Military Intelligence Bureau used the secret funds allocated by the Ministry of National Defense to purchase "kinetic energy intercept satellites specifically to deal with Russian strategic nuclear submarines." These satellites have kinetic energy bombs of the Limaitan kilogram level, and all satellites are deployed on the same orbit to ensure that satellites above the Shanxi stay above the Arctic Ocean at any time, and can maneuver through orbit, and can move through orbit, and within 2 hours, it will concentrate satellites above the Arctic Ocean, such as satellites above the Barents Sea.
Because these satellites exist to deal with Russian strategic submarines, when used, the central computer of the strategic defense system will not consider the second attack, and there will be no room for room for it. To put it bluntly, if the first attack is not successful, the Russian strategic submarine will launch all submarine-launched ballistic missiles and conduct a second interception, it will not be possible to prevent the missiles that have been launched into the republic.
As mentioned earlier, kinetic energy interceptor satellites are all deployed in low-Earth orbit, that is, they are only hundreds of kilometers away from the ground.
It takes up to a hundred seconds for the kinetic energy bomb from launching to falling on the sea surface. Although sea water is liquid and has fluidity, the passive energy bomb hits at a speed of more than kilometers per second, and the result can be imagined.
According to the memories of a pilot on a private jet of a base expedition flying over the Barents Sea at that time, with hundreds of flashes falling from the sky, as if the sky was pierced by a sharp javelin; before the sky changed color, a stream of water columns of up to thousands of meters high were stirred up on the sea. It seemed that the whole sea was boiling; then there was a thunder-like explosion and lightning thunder. It seemed that the sea and the sky were completely mixed together. The world returned to a state of chaos; the end of the fall was that it had just evaporated, condensed again during the ascent, and the tilt with a hint of heat.
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This description is not an exaggeration at all.
You should know that each satellite has dropped a kinetic energy bomb, and every 2 satellites attack one target. Therefore, there are as many kinetic energy bombs that fall in the same sea area. According to the energy calculation of the kinetic energy bomb, the energy generated by an attack is as high as ten thousand tons, which is equivalent to the explosion power of a strategic nuclear warhead!
Fortunately, such a great power will not cause radioactive contamination.
Otherwise, the pilot of the small plane would not be able to tell others the horrifying scene he saw.
In fact, for the officers and soldiers in the Russian submarine, death is not painful at all. Because the attack of kinetic energy bombs mainly relies on the huge pressure generated after the explosion to the submarine, the Russian strategic submarine was crushed into a discus in an instant, and the officers and soldiers in the submarine were probably finished before they understood what was going on.
Of course, the attack on Russia's new strategic submarine failed to destroy a submarine-launched ballistic missile that Mao Jing took off.
In any case, after the Qianmei ballistic missile takes only a few dozen seconds to leave the troposphere. It reaches the top of the stratosphere in about a hundred seconds. The impact of the kinetic energy bomb explosion at sea will not affect the missile at a height of one or two thousand meters at most.
This is why when attacking Russian strategic submarines, the battle to intercept submarine-launched ballistic missiles also began.
However, compared to the earth-shaking key strikes, the interception operations led by laser interceptor satellites and the missile detonated by high-energy lasers seem too pediatric and cannot be said to be eye-catching.
When millions of tons of sea water fell back to the sea, the strike and interception operations against Russia's strategic forces officially ended.
Chapter completed!