Warlord: Red Alert Base, I challenge the whole world alone

Chapter 311: The unexpected intrusion of the American submarine and the rising mushroom cloud

The Minuteman-2 intercontinental ballistic missile stood quietly in the launch silo, with white smoke constantly coming out of the missile body.

This also means that the missile has made all preparations before launch.

However, at the critical moment before the launch, an accident occurred.

"Report, a US submarine has been spotted in the test area."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the launch hall was filled with shock.

When they chose the experimental site, they deliberately chose a relatively remote sea area with no one around, but they did not expect that at this critical moment, the submarine of the United States would come to cause trouble.

"Its appearance is definitely not a coincidence. Someone from the United States must have discovered something."

Colonel Wang, who was in charge of commanding the launch, calmed down after a moment.

"Have the drone turn the live footage over!"

The so-called aerial camera is a modified C-2 Greyhound carrier-based general-purpose transport aircraft, specifically used for on-site image capture and transmission.

This transport plane is not only loaded with heavy filming equipment, but also equipped with satellite communication equipment.

The captured images can be transmitted via a transmitter to a communication satellite in a synchronous orbit.

The satellite communication satellite then sends the received data back to the ancient country's ground station, which then processes and converts the data and finally displays the image on the large screen in the hall.

Since it needs to go through multiple transfers and data processing, the picture is not real-time, but has a picture delay of about 5 minutes.

A few minutes later, a bird's-eye view was displayed on a dedicated color TV projector.

On the almost green sea, the first thing that catches your eye is a large target ship located at the test center.

This target ship was also manufactured by Jiangnan Shipyard and simulates a 5-ton battleship.

Of course this is just a simulation. It is just an empty target ship, not a real battleship.

In addition, there are several retired and sealed naval ships around this target ship.

These include the Boston-class guided-missile cruiser and the Mitchell-class destroyer.

Anyway, it costs money to keep these ships sealed, so it is better to use them as test ships to collect nuclear explosion data.

There are 8 ships in total, all floating quietly in the calm deep sea.

Soon the scene shifted to a sea area more than ten miles away, and a black shadow floating on the sea was rapidly enlarged.

It was a US submarine that had surfaced.

This is a new type of submarine that was put into service in the United States last year. Its appearance is somewhat similar to the S-21 submarine of the Hans country.

Obviously, reference was made during the design.

At present, the design of the S-21 submarine has become the mainstream submarine design of various countries.

Because any expert can see the advantages of this appearance.

As the ship's hatch opened, Major Davis and others emerged from the submarine.

"My God, these are all warships from the ancient country, but they seem to be retired warships. How come they appear here?"

Major Davis was a little surprised when he saw the ship drifting in the distance.

"And there doesn't seem to be anyone on these ships."

"I didn't see anyone on board either. These ships seemed like ghost ships."

Major Davis frowned, he always felt that there was something weird and abnormal here.

The reason they appeared here was to investigate the situation here.

Because naval intelligence showed that the ancient people's fleet frequently appeared in this sea area.

Especially in recent times, the frequency of appearances has increased.

The Pacific Command sent destroyers and cruisers to investigate.

However, they were all intercepted by the ancient navy's destroyers and carrier-based aircraft.

Since surface ships were not effective, they sent submarines to sneak in to collect intelligence and see what the ancient people were doing.

Now they are finally here.

"Full speed ahead, drive over and take a look."

Since I don’t see anyone, I’ll drive over and take a look.

He also didn't think that the ancient people would fire at them, at most they would just expel them.

So this new type of submarine sailed on the surface at a speed of more than 14 knots towards the center of the nuclear explosion more than ten nautical miles away.

This scene was also seen by Jiang Hua and others.

"President, how should we handle this situation?"

Director Wang came to Jiang Hua and asked respectfully.

"Proceed as usual. At the same time, notify the fleet responsible for alert to conduct a thorough investigation to prevent similar incidents from happening again."

Now that you've already broken in, don't even think about leaving. You're just serving as experimental data.

The Second Fleet, which was responsible for surveillance, began to deploy S-2 anti-submarine aircraft and anti-submarine helicopters on a large scale and began to conduct strict inspections of various sea areas.

It was indeed the Second Fleet's dereliction of duty that allowed the US submarine to slip into the test area this time.

It also exposed the fact that the ancient country's fleet still had loopholes in anti-submarine technology and problems with its attitude.

He thinks he is invincible, so he looks down on everyone, just like a nouveau riche.

In Jiang Hua's opinion, this kind of proud thinking is probably prevalent in all branches of the military.

It seems that after we return, we need to strengthen the ideological construction of each unit.

In the future, while strengthening our strength, we must also follow up with ideological construction.

There are many examples of arrogant soldiers being defeated.

In modern times, there are many examples of failure even for the invincible Eagle Sauce.

Ten minutes later, with an order, the Hurricane-8 intercontinental ballistic missile was hot-launched from the silo.

Smoke and tail flames instantly enveloped the entire launch silo and surrounding areas.

It wasn't until several seconds later that the slender missile was seen rising into the sky.

At this time, the picture also focused on the Hurricane-8 missile.

The launch procedure of an intercontinental ballistic missile is somewhat similar to that of a carrier rocket.

When reaching a certain altitude, the procedure turn begins.

The missile's guidance system uses full inertial guidance.

Because the missile's speed in the middle and terminal stages is too fast, which will cause blackouts, other guidance systems are completely useless and only inertial guidance can be used.

However, inertial guidance also has its disadvantages, that is, the longer the distance, the greater the accumulated error.

The error of this missile is about 300 meters.

However, for an intercontinental missile carrying mushroom bombs, this error is nothing.

Under the surveillance of the ground radar station, the trajectory of the Hurricane-8 intercontinental missile was also displayed on the screen.

"The third stage engine has shut down and separation has begun."

"The third-stage engine separated successfully."

"Second stage engine ignition sequence initiated."

"Second-stage engine ignition successful."

Following the staff's briefing, Jiang Hua also clearly perceived the current operating status of the missile.

With the ignition of the second-stage engine, the speed of the missile increased further, and it rushed out of the atmosphere with a roar.

At this time, the missile had reached an altitude of about 120 kilometers.

Its target is an altitude of 300 kilometers.

After working for more than a minute, the second-stage engine ran out of fuel and detached, and the first-stage main engine ignited successfully.

At this time, the missile had already broken through the atmosphere and reached an altitude of more than 200 kilometers.

After a few dozen seconds, the missile had reached the predetermined altitude of 300 kilometers, and then began to turn and rushed at high speed in the predetermined direction.

The main engine at the tail also began to burn the last of its fuel, accelerating the missile to a speed of Mach 20.

If we zoom in on the launch process, we can see that the trajectory from point A to point B is actually a parabola.

The main function of the third-stage engine is to push the missile to a predetermined height, and then fly to the target location by inertia.

This also means that the missile has entered the mid-course flight stage.

During this process, the speed has reached an extreme speed of 20 Mach.

The middle section of the flight takes the longest time, and it takes about ten minutes to fly a distance of nearly 7000 kilometers.

At this time, the United States' submarine was still moving forward with great effort.

The Second Fleet also directly recalled all anti-submarine aircraft and anti-submarine helicopters.

At the same time, radar and shipboard electronic equipment are ready to be shut down at any time.

A nuclear explosion emits strong electromagnetic radiation.

When transistors and integrated circuits are working, once they are affected by strong electromagnetic radiation, there is a high probability that various short circuits and burns will occur.

Therefore, it is necessary to shut down the equipment on board at this time and wait until the impact of this wave of strong electromagnetic radiation has passed before turning it back on.

A few minutes later, the space measurement ship following the fleet successfully captured the missile's signal through radar and began continuous tracking.

"The missile will fall in about seven minutes."

At this moment, all eyes began to focus on the direction of the test area.

Even though they can't see anything now.

But they knew very well that after the missile fell, a sun would bloom here.

In the underground hall of Chang'an, Jiang Hua also held his breath and stared at the screen in front of him.

At this time, the US submarine had approached a Mitchell-class destroyer deployed on the periphery.

“No one was found on board the warship.

But the destroyer's guns and radars are all intact. Why would they leave such a complete destroyer here?"

And through observation they also found that the destroyer was very new. Its appearance was not spotless, but at least it was very clean.

Such an unmanned ship is placed here without anyone guarding it.

However, dozens of miles away from this sea area, there is a large-scale fleet of the ancient country patrolling, which reveals an unusual atmosphere.

"Are they going to blow up these ships?"

Suddenly at this moment an officer realized.

"what?"

Major Davis suddenly turned to look at the officer, his pupils beginning to shrink.

He finally knew what was wrong, he finally knew why these ships were empty.

Because these ships are target ships, there are no personnel assigned to guard them.

However, on the periphery, there is a huge fleet of the ancient country on guard.

This explains it.

But why didn't the ancient country send a plane to check when they were so close to here?

There was no way they hadn't noticed their tracks.

After all, they have been floating for so long.

"Because this place is about to be bombed."

Major Davis shuddered at the thought and exclaimed, "Everyone, go back and prepare for an emergency dive! Quick!"

At this time, everyone began to panic and dive into the submarine.

"what is that?"

An officer saw a fireball like a meteor falling rapidly in the sky, and it seemed to be falling in the area where they were.

At this time, everyone else also stopped their actions and looked at the colorful "meteor" with a long tail.

This meteor is the W65 thermonuclear warhead, a hydrogen bomb with an equivalent of 200 million tons.

As for the atomic bomb, as the first generation of nuclear weapons, it has been retired by the ancient country's strategic forces.

As the second-generation nuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb is the main force of the strategic rocket force and the tactical nuclear weapons of the navy, army and air force.

Accelerated by inertia, the warhead falls at a speed exceeding Mach 10.

The process was so fast that they couldn't react.

This "meteor" arrived above the nuclear explosion area at lightning speed, deviating from the center area by about 270 meters.

The bullet suddenly exploded like the sun, and the extremely dazzling light blinded the eyes of Major Davis and his group like a sharp blade.

At such a close distance, the light radiation emitted by a nuclear explosion is extremely strong and is simply beyond the tolerance of the human eye.

Then, enormous energy, enough to shake the world, was released from the center of the explosion.

The surface of the sea was like being hit by a huge hammer, and was pressed down by the blast wave.

The ships were melted and torn apart by the high temperature and tremendous power. Even the hardest steel could not withstand this extremely violent force.

The American submarine was also blown out of the sea by the violent air waves that followed and was directly engulfed by flames in the air.

At this moment, no one could see clearly what was happening at the center of the nuclear explosion.

A mushroom cloud rising into the sky was released at the center of the explosion.

This also means that the Hurricane-8 intercontinental ballistic missile successfully completed its test launch.

This is also a New Year's gift from the Strategic Rocket Force to the ancient country at the end of the year.