Chapter 1263 Trident Launch
As a powerful Ohio-class submarine, it carries 24 Trident missiles, which are all-solid MIRV missiles. Each missile can have 7 to 12 warheads. If calculated based on 8 warheads, an Ohio-class submarine can carry 192 nuclear warheads and can theoretically attack 192 targets. In this way, just one Ohio-class submarine can send a medium-sized country back to the Stone Age in half an hour, and can completely paralyze a large country!
But now, facing the space laser cannon overhead, it is unknown how many of the US ballistic missiles will be effective! When the Soviets occupied Alaska, the ballistic missile positions in Alaska did not play any role!
However, submarine-launched missiles still have advantages, otherwise, the Soviet nuclear submarines would not have sniped the American Ohio-class submarines all over the world!
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This once again reflects the role of aircraft carriers. What do aircraft carriers do? One very important task is to escort underwater nuclear submarines! For example, is China's Liaoning aircraft carrier designed to carry carrier-based aircraft to attack a country or region and seize air superiority?
No! The more important role of the Liaoning is to cruise in the South China Sea, so that it can cover the strategic missile nuclear submarines cruising in the South China Sea, allowing such nuclear submarines to launch nuclear bombs calmly!
When the Soviet Union built the Moscow class and even the Kiev class, this was their mission!
In the past, the United States did not seem to have an urgent need in this regard, because the United States controlled the world's maritime power! But now, everything is different!
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The United States' aircraft carriers could no longer leave the port. Faced with the Soviet Union's overwhelming supersonic anti-ship missiles, they would surely be destroyed if they left the port!
Since the aircraft carriers could not leave the port, they could not escort the nuclear submarines. Therefore, the Soviet nuclear submarines began to strangle their missile nuclear submarines in an all-round way!
Only this Ohio-class ship escaped. If it had fired all its missiles at the Soviet Union, it would have caused certain troubles to the Soviet Union. But now, they are going to fire missiles at their own country, at Area 51?
why is that?
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However, the correctness of the order was beyond doubt. After a few seconds of contemplation, Captain Alexander finally gave the order: "According to the Pentagon's order, change the nuclear bomb target data and prepare to enter the launch countdown."
The Trident nuclear bomb has stored in advance information on various Soviet targets, from the distant Moscow to the nearest Far East. Data on various strategic targets are available, but there is no data on the United States' own.
Only a madman would drop a nuclear bomb on his own country, right? However, the order was correct. This can only mean that Area 51 is facing a serious challenge. The Soviets must have landed in Area 51! In order to ensure that the secrets of Area 51 are not leaked, the superiors have to take this measure! This barbaric measure is the only solution!
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Change the target data! Inside the huge nuclear submarine, the submariners followed the instructions and quickly operated, launching and entering the countdown program!
If it is launched at a known target, the preparation time will be within ten minutes. At the same time, nuclear bombs will be launched at a rate of one per minute. It will only take half an hour to launch all missiles. Now, it takes an extra few minutes to re-inject target data.
The sophisticated inertial navigation system is also used to position the submarine and determine the launch parameters. The captain and the deputy captain put the key into the launch pad. Everything is being prepared in a tense and orderly manner.
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"Raise the periscope!" Alexander stood in front of the periscope and put his eyes on it. Suddenly, he was delighted.
At this time, there was a thick layer of fog on the sea!
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The Soviet laser cannon looks awesome, but in fact, it has its shortcomings. This thing is greatly affected by the climate, because, especially in the fog, the attenuation of the laser is quite severe! This means that this launch is guaranteed!
In future generations, when the whole country is covered in smog and everything is hazy, if a war breaks out at this time, all of the United States' laser-guided weapons will be unusable!
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At this time, it was only twenty meters away from the sea surface, which was the optimal launching depth of the Trident missile.
The submarine's speed is only about 2 knots, everything is ready!
Behind the command tower, the covers of the 24 missile launch tubes have been opened one after another.
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Underwater, everything becomes difficult. For example, at a depth of 20 meters, you need to withstand 2 atmospheres of pressure. Therefore, it is very difficult to open the cylinder cover. You must first use high-pressure gas to pressurize the cylinder. After the pressure inside and outside the cylinder is roughly equal, you can easily open the cylinder cover.
On the opened tube cover, you can see a milky white watertight diaphragm, which is a sealing measure taken to prevent a large amount of seawater from pouring into the missile launch tube when the cover is opened.
It is technically very difficult to launch missiles from underwater. This is why only the five major gangsters have submarine-launched nuclear bomb technology until later generations. As for India, haha, this joke is very funny. India started to build a ballistic missile submarine, which took more than ten years. As a result, it can be loaded with 12 K-15 missiles with a one-ton nuclear warhead and a range of 700 kilometers! A range of 700 kilometers! This is simply a suicide range! Of course, the Indians have also developed a K-4 ballistic missile with a range of 3,500 kilometers, but this thing is still under design.
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Leaving India aside, the other major nuclear submarine owners are the United States and the Soviet Union, and the technologies of the two countries are completely different.
Soviet nuclear submarines used thermal launch, especially for several liquid missiles, which were launched by underwater ignition. The characteristic was that they were launched from the launch tube. In other words, the huge missiles flew directly out under their own power. The representative one was SS-N-23.
France also uses underwater ignition and launch, but the launch tube must be ejected and then ignited underwater, such as the M51 missile.
The United States, on the other hand, uses cold launch.
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Now, with the ignition order given, the missile operator pressed the button.
"Bang!" The sound of high-pressure air was so crisp that it echoed throughout the entire nuclear submarine. The moment the ignition button was pressed, the electric squib exploded, igniting the gas generator. The resulting high-temperature and high-pressure gas sprayed into the tube from the bottom of the launch tube. Driven by the reaction force, the heavy Trident missile drilled through the watertight diaphragm on the top, created a wave of water, and rushed upwards!
When it broke through the watertight diaphragm, seawater was also pouring in at the same time, just enough to balance the shift in center of gravity caused by the departure of the Trident missile.