Speaking of aircraft carriers, the first thing you may think of is the US super aircraft carrier. The United States now has 11 large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, including 10 " Nimitz " class and 1 "Ford" class, the largest in the world. Almost all aircraft carriers have participated in the overseas operations of the US military in recent decades. It can be said that aircraft carriers have become an important force for US military's overseas intervention. Generally speaking, a complete aircraft carrier battle group contains 1 aircraft carrier, 2 Ticonderoga class cruisers, 4 Arleigh Burke class destroyers, 1 large supply ship and 2 offensive nuclear submarine . The aircraft carrier can carry up to 90 carrier-based aircraft, with powerful anti-ship, anti-submarine, and land attack capabilities.
Ford aircraft carrier
US aircraft carrier combat group
my country's two aircraft carriers, the "Shandong" ship and the "Liaoning" ship, have a far different scale and quality than the United States, but have greatly improved the long-distance combat capabilities of our country's navy. In the future, the chances of aircraft carriers between China and the United States "meet" in the ocean will increase greatly. In the long-distance combat environment, can my country's aircraft carrier battle group resist the saturation attack of of the US aircraft carrier aircraft carrier battle group? Let’s do a detailed combat deduction below.
Imaging of my country's dual aircraft carrier formation
The main attack force of the United States
The anti-ship combat force of the US aircraft carrier battle group is mainly the 48 F/A-18E/F or F-35C fighter jets carried on the aircraft carrier. This time we only consider F/A-18E/F to participate in the war. In terms of choosing anti-ship missile , based on the principle of lenient information on the enemy, we have adopted LRASM long-range anti-ship missile this time. The LRASM missile is a new generation of long-range anti-ship missiles from the United States. It has a long range (air-launched type can reach 900 kilometers +), good stealth performance, advanced guidance capabilities and strong artificial intelligence technology. It is the main anti-ship missile of the U.S. Navy in the future. The F/A-18E/F fighter can carry up to 4 LRASM missiles, and the 48 F/A-18E/F fighter jets can launch 192 LRASM missiles at a time.
F/A-18E/F fighter launch experiment
LRASM Missile performance parameters
F/A-18E/F can carry 4 LRASM missiles
LRASM missile aerodynamic layout, making stealth to the extreme
The defense force of my country's aircraft carrier battle group
Take my country's "Shandong" aircraft carrier battle group as an example, it is equipped with 1 055 large destroyer , 3 52D destroyers, 4 054A frigates, 1 901 large supply ship, and 2 093 improved nuclear submarines. Among them, the 55 destroyer is equipped with 96 HHQ-9B air defense missiles (also equipped with 16 YJ-18 anti-ship missiles), the 3 052D is equipped with 144 HHQ-9B air defense missiles (each ship also has 8 YJ-18 anti-ship missiles), and the 4 054A is equipped with 96 HQ-16B air defense missiles (each ship also has 8 anti-submarine missiles), and the entire fleet is equipped with 150 HHQ-10 air defense missiles and 15 1130 near-defense guns.
Aircraft carrier formation air defense firepower list
055 Destroyer has strong regional air defense capabilities
052D Destroyer also has excellent regional air defense capabilities
054A Launches air defense missiles
Assuming battlefield deduction
"Shandong"Aircraft carrier formation was suddenly attacked by the US "Nimitz" class aircraft carrier battle group during training in the long sea. The US aircraft carrier began to eject 48 F/A-18E/E fighter jets when it was 1,500 kilometers away from our aircraft carrier formation, carrying a total of 192 LRASM missiles. In order to maximize the firepower channel of our aircraft carrier formation, the US military began to fire 192 LRASM missiles at a rate of 900 kilometers away from our aircraft carrier formation, so that all missiles could reach our aircraft carrier formation at the same time. The biggest disadvantage of the
LRASM missile is that it is too slow, its cruise speed is only Mach 0.9, and its penetration ability is very poor. It takes 50 minutes to complete the maximum range. If it is discovered in time, we will have sufficient interception time and organize multiple interception networks.
Although our aircraft carrier formation is equipped with large phased radars of 346B and 346A, the air search distance exceeds 400 kilometers, due to the influence of the curvature of the earth, it is difficult for the radar on the ship to find low-altitude targets 40 kilometers away. It is necessary to cooperate with the carrier-based early warning aircraft to provide high-altitude warnings to discover low-altitude targets at long distances.
The shadow part is a ship radar blind spot
Due to the lack of fixed wing early warning aircraft, the air warning mission of our aircraft carrier formation is currently provided by the Zhi-18 early warning aircraft. Its maximum flight speed is 336 kilometers per hour and its maximum lift limit is 9,000 meters. A columnar active phased array radar is installed at the tail of the fuselage, which can detect and track various targets within a range of 150 to 200 kilometers. Generally speaking, the Z-18 early warning aircraft is deployed 150 kilometers in front of the aircraft carrier formation to perform early warning tasks.
Zhi-18 Early Warning Machine
Because the LRASM missile adopts a highly stealth design, it is assumed that the Zhi-18 Early Warning Machine finds its traces at a distance of about 100 kilometers and provides the target accurate three-dimensional coordinate information to our defense ships. Although the 055 and 052D destroyers use 364A/B large active phased array radar, the HHQ-9B air defense missile is equipped with an active radar seeker, which theoretically has "unlimited" firepower channels. However, due to the need for relay guidance from the Zhi-18 early warning aircraft, the firepower channel of our aircraft carrier formation will be greatly restricted. The number of fire channels of 052D and 055 is currently tentatively set to be 12, while 054A is 4. Two missiles are used to counter one LRASM missile, and three-layer interception is used to maximize the number of interceptions.
Comparison of range and speed parameters of various types of missiles
052D destroyers launched very fast
Calculation shows that the first round of 4 HHQ-9B air defense missiles fired by our four 055 and 052D destroyers intercepted the first batch of 2 LRASM missiles 208 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier formation, and the last round of 4 HHQ-9B missiles intercepted 2 LRASM missiles 167 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier formation. The first round of HHQ-9B missiles can theoretically intercept 48 LRASM missiles. The second round of the first intercepted two LRASM missiles 173 kilometers away, and the second round of the last round of the second round of the second round intercepted two LRASM missiles 138 kilometers away. And so on (see the table below for details), when HHQ-10 intercepted the last batch of targets at 0.6 kilometers, our formation carried out a total of 12 rounds of missile interception, intercepting a total of 184 LRASM missiles. For the remaining 8 LRASM missiles and a small number of "skipping fish" before, 15 1130 guns intercepted within a range of 5 kilometers to form a dense firepower network, which is enough to intercept the remaining LRASM missiles.
Interceptor effect picture of various types of missiles in our side
HHQ-10 missile
1130 near-proof gun
Through the previous deduction, it is not difficult to find that our aircraft carrier battle group has strong anti-saturation attack ability and is able to withstand the first wave of saturation attacks in the United States. At present, LRASM missiles have not yet been put into service in large quantities in the US military. The main anti-ship missiles are still "harpoon" anti-ship missiles with a range of less than 200 kilometers, which pose a relatively low threat to Chinese ships.
With the continuous improvement of my country's long-range early warning capabilities and the continuous maturity of the high- supersonic anti-ship missile on the ship-borne near space, in the future, my country can launch a preemptive strike against the US aircraft carrier battle group outside the range of the US LRASM missile.
my country has started researching near space hypersonic anti-ship missiles
