Chapter 1527: The Biggest Crisis of NATO’s Indian Ocean Fleet

On the calm Indian Ocean, far away from the battlefield, a merchant ship was sailing along the coastline of Africa.

Just when all the crew members were sleepless, discussing the war not far from them.

On the surface of the sea not far from the merchant ship, a column of water rose up, and a jet-black missile strung up from the surface of the sea, startling everyone on board.

Immediately, the crew immediately picked up their mobile phones to take pictures. The missiles strung up from the bottom of the sea were very huge. The long missiles ignited at a height of about fifteen meters above the water surface.

The strong flames illuminated the entire merchant ship and frightened everyone.

However, before they could react, another missile came out from the water not far away, and it was also ignited and lifted into the air, followed by a third missile that also rose into the sky.

The captain of the merchant ship and many other people were almost ashen-faced.

"nuclear war……"

The launch of a submarine-launched nuclear missile by a strategic nuclear submarine was the same news. Almost everyone on board believed that these were three submarine-launched nuclear missiles.

It really frightened them, they stumbled and their faces were full of despair.

The next person to be frightened was naturally the Pentagon, but what they saw were not three missiles, but twenty-four missiles that were taking off.

"A ballistic missile launch warning signal was found around the Indian Ocean, and the missile launch time was fifteen seconds ago."

The launch of the V-2FJDD anti-ship ballistic missile, like other ballistic missiles, will produce tail flames, plumes and columnar smoke.

And although the solid rocket motor of the missile can use glycidyl azide polyether low-temperature combustion agent to reduce the temperature of the engine exhaust flame, add potassium salt to suppress secondary combustion, reduce the concentration of smoke in the exhaust flame, suppress the smoke with foaming polymers, and use additives Make the emitted infrared radiation avoid the atmospheric window to reduce the detection probability of the US missile early warning satellite.

But in only fifteen seconds, the U.S. Space-Based Infrared System Synchronous Orbit Early Warning Satellite still detected the launch of a ballistic missile. The sensitivity of space-based infrared early warning satellites is more than ten times higher than that of digital signal processing satellites, and they can observe through the atmosphere.

However, considering that the missile uses a variety of infrared stealth technologies to reduce the infrared radiation in the atmospheric window, it will not lose its atmospheric cover until the air is thinner than 10,000 meters. Therefore, it is determined that the satellite discovery time is delayed by 15 seconds.

Synchronous orbit early warning satellites carry scanning and staring infrared detectors at the same time,

They are respectively used for large-scale detection and small-area continuous surveillance. If the missile is launched in a maneuvering manner and leaves the range that the detector may monitor, the time to be discovered can be delayed.

It's just that here in the Indian Ocean is the center of the battlefield. A large number of satellites from the United States are gathered, and at a huge cost, a synchronous early warning satellite was moved over.

In order to find the anti-ship ballistic missiles to deal with the Iraqi-Syrian Federation in time, after all, the previous destroyer Jones was sunk cleanly, which sounded a heavy alarm for the United States.

The joystick satellite, which cost a huge price, originally caused the Pentagon a little pain, but now, all that is left is luck.

At this moment, the NATO Indian Ocean Fleet is already in a bitter battle. If these missiles are allowed to succeed, the situation will be even more tragic.

"The early warning satellite is starting to measure the trajectory of the missile."

After the launched missile is locked, when the space-based infrared early warning satellite detects infrared radiation, it must first distinguish its wavelength range and characteristics according to the infrared characteristics, and then infer its temperature and even the type of propellant, and then analyze and distinguish the type of target (such as ballistic missile or launch vehicle) and then measure the vector velocity of the target.

Due to the use of infrared detectors, the observed missile trajectory is a continuous point, so it is necessary to accumulate enough data to determine the target trajectory. The missile trajectory measurement can be completed within 10 seconds.

However, to measure the trajectory of ballistic missiles with infrared equipment, 2-3 satellites must observe at different angles at the same time to obtain the ballistic trajectory in three-dimensional space. The observation data cannot be completed by the early warning satellite, and must be processed by the ground control station. Therefore, the missile trajectory obtained at this time lacks the ballistic height and inclination angle. It is only the velocity vector of the projected trajectory on the plane, not the real velocity vector of the missile. Therefore, It is impossible to predict the target of the missile.

At this moment, the U.S. military is in the Indian Ocean, and it is only a synchronous satellite. If it is in the Far East, Europe or the Pacific Ocean, the situation will be completely different.

Within ten seconds after the satellite is discovered, the approximate target of the missile attack can be calculated, but here in the Indian Ocean, it can be said that there is almost no way.

"Immediately transmit the signal to the Joint Tactical Ground Station in the theater, the overseas ground station in Australia, the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the Early Warning Center of the US Space Command in Cheyenne Mountain in the continental United States for data fusion and processing. Velocity determines its trajectory."

In the Pentagon, the anti-missile command center responded immediately, quickly distributing the data obtained by the early warning satellites to each data station, allowing more satellites to calculate the missile trajectory.

For the parabolic trajectory of a ballistic missile, its horizontal acceleration is the average value of accumulated data, and it takes a certain amount of time to accumulate the trajectory to calculate the trajectory. For example, the thrust of the engine remains the same, but if the working time is extended for any time, the trajectory must be different, so it only takes 10 seconds The flight trajectory observed by internal observation is not enough to determine the missile landing point.

Moreover, most modern ballistic missiles use mobile orbit change technology, and the final trajectory cannot be determined until the end of the active phase. Therefore, the real missile landing point prediction will not be obtained soon, and it is impossible to issue an alarm to the troops in the theater.

At this moment, the entire Pentagon is highly tense, although everyone is ready to accept another defeat of the Navy.

But failure is failure, relying on the fleet's aviation power and the defense of the fleet itself, even if the Iraqi-Syrian Federation has the upper hand, there is no big problem in self-protection.

But if the opponent's missiles approached, the situation would be completely different.

After all, it is barely dealing with the carrier-based aircraft of the Iraqi-Syrian Federation Navy, and the entire fleet is confined to a relatively small place. Encountering such a missile attack is simply worse.

The calculation of the ballistic trajectory is also to allow the fleet's anti-missile system to better intercept it. Otherwise, no matter how good the defense capability is, under the rapid attack of ballistic missiles, without early warning, it is all nonsense.

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