Volume Fourteen, Smoke of Gunpowder, Chapter 87, Final Countermeasure(2/2)
Based on the situation at that time, anyone could guess the general content of the telegram. It was precisely because of this that the US Pacific Fleet Command immediately contacted the Delivery Fleet after receiving the alarm.
At this time, there are still two choices before the commander of the First Descent Fleet.
According to the combat strategy, "Go" can take two completely different actions according to the battlefield situation. First, stop looking for the combat operations of the first main fleet to fight, retreat to the southeastern waters of Guam, wait for the appropriate reality, and then head north to fight with the first main fleet. Second, when you are sure to find the first main fleet and launch an attack first, you actively look for the first main fleet to fight.
It is obvious that the situation at this time is not exactly the same as the two plans.
If it is threatened, the first main fleet is at least a thousand meters away, and the submarine that sent the telegram is far away from about thousand meters away. The escort warship and anti-submarine patrol aircraft have not found any enemy submarines within four thousand meters nearby, so there is no reason to say that the first main fleet is threatened. The problem is that not to mention being sure to launch an attack first, now finding the first main force muscle...Do is very trapped. The first traction fleet Ken Hong will definitely adjust its tactics after feeding the submarine's tactical intelligence, that is, after Mu Mu feeds the submarine's tactical intelligence, it will definitely adjust its tactics and come up with it. In this way, he will encounter the first main force before dawn. The reconnaissance aircraft can only find the first main force after dawn. In other words, if he wants to fight with the first main force at night, he can only rely on his own strength and cannot count on other troops.
It can be said that this is the most critical issue.
Because it is impossible to determine whether the first main fleet has accurately grasped the whereabouts of the first pilot fleet, that is, it is impossible to know whether the submarine that sent the telegram has collected the navigation data of the first pilot fleet, so we can only consider the worst case, that is, the other party has mastered all the situations of the first pilot fleet.
To be precise, the US military commander must not have any luck, at least he should stop sailing west.
By the time the US military commander figured out this principle, it was already a matter of points.
Because the first pilot fleet was still sailing northwest before, and the first main fleet turned its course to about a certain degree before the force minutes, and advanced towards Guam at the speed of the force knot, so when the US commander issued a steering order, the distance between the two sides was less than 1,000 meters, but about 4,000 meters.
More importantly, about minutes before this, Zhang Xuefeng officially issued combat orders to the entire fleet.
According to the combat record of the first main fleet.! Point the knife, the eight cruisers and eight multi-purpose destroyers in the fleet fired thousands of "reconnaissance shells" to the waters that the suspicious fleet reported to the submarines may have arrived according to the combat plan. According to the precise detection and search of each "reconnaissance shell". Calculate the shells at a square kilometer of sea area to enter the gliding flight stage at a drop of kilometers from the sea surface. The sensor is activated, and a rectangular area is searched along the ballistic direction, and the search is completed when the flight altitude is reduced to the blade kilometer. Just keep the field of view of the sensor at about kilometers to search for about kilometers of sea area.
, eliminate the repeated search area. The average search for each shell is not a difficult task. The "reconnaissance shell" can be searched. The sea area of more than 40,000 square kilometers is equivalent to a whole sea area with Guam as the core and a radius of kilometers. Of course, it is impossible to distribute the search force in this average way during actual combat, but should allocate the reconnaissance force according to the probability of the appearance of the enemy fleet, that is, repeat searches for the most likely sea area of the enemy fleet, and the reconnaissance force is distributed according to the unlikely sea area. Even so, thousands of "reconnaissance shells" can search for the sea area that falls ten thousand square kilometers.
If the submarine's report was not unknown, the first main fleet would not have used so many "reconnaissance shells".
You should know that if calculated based on value, there are multiple "reconnaissance shells, which are equivalent to the same number of heavy anti-ship missiles.
This is to find the first pilot fleet, rather than attack the first pilot fleet.
Of course, within the range of the naval gun, finding the first pilot fleet is the beginning of attacking the first pilot fleet.
Because "reconnaissance shells are fired by cruisers and destroyers, the flight speed is slightly slower. When reaching the apex of the ballistic, rockets must be used to boost the engine to accelerate to extend the flight distance in outer space and achieve the purpose of increasing the range. It is important that, without reaching the first cosmic speed, these "reconnaissance shells must eventually return to the atmosphere along the parabolic ballistic. Affected by these factors, the flight speed of the "reconnaissance shells" is a little slower than other shells that do not use extended range technology, so the flight time is longer.
However, for shells with an average flight speed of 1,000 meters, it only takes four seconds, which is a little over 3 minutes.
That is to say, when the US commander made the turn decision, "the reconnaissance shells have arrived over the descent fleet.
Affected by the ionosphere, the passive detection system of the first pilot fleet did not find "reconnaissance shells with a flight altitude of more than kilometers." Until these shells entered the dive trajectory and reached below the ionosphere. The captured images were fired back in the form of high-compression digital signals, the passive detection system on the US warship received the electromagnetic signal source, and it was star-like, hundreds of electromagnetic signal sources appearing in the night sky. It is definitely a troublesome thing to process so many electromagnetic signals at the same time, and even supercomputers need to take a little time. In fact, before the computer draws an analysis conclusion, experienced fleet commanders should know that the electromagnetic signal source appearing above the fleet is "reconnaissance shells" and is a reconnaissance shell projected by the enemy fleet.
Suddenly, the US military is not completely passive.
Thanks to the world's top computer technology, the supercomputers on US warships will definitely not be worse than those on Republican warships. After judging the danger, the supercomputers of US warships immediately activated the emergency defense combat mechanism. Because those "reconnaissance shells" do not pose a direct threat to the warships, the US warships did not activate the air defense system and interception system. More importantly, after analyzing all electromagnetic signal sources and their motion trajectories, the superfire control computer on the flagship of the first fleet can combine the information they have mastered, such as the "tracks of the first main fleet, the maximum range of its main gun, etc., to roughly analyze the position of the first main fleet at this time. Although this rough analysis cannot be used as attack data, it can become a reference data for searching with "reconnaissance shells", thereby reducing the use of "reconnaissance shells" and ensuring that the first main fleet is found before using the last "reconnaissance shells".
The entire analysis process lasted only minutes, and the fire control computer of the first fleet flagship gave a reference decision to "counter": that is, "reconnaissance shells. The sea area where the first main fleet is most likely to appear.
Chapter completed!