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A rectangular area drawn by four coordinate points may be puzzled by ordinary people, but the U.S. Navy can understand it at a glance: Isn’t China launching ballistic missiles towards the sea?It's still the kind with a recovered salvage warhead!
No wonder the Chinese naval formation joined a Soviet support ship with 3 helicopters. It turned out to be for this purpose.
Speaking of salvaging warheads, I'm not sleepy...
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The exercise notice was issued on February 2. At noon on February 5, which is late at night local time in the United States, the Chinese embassy said when receiving questions from reporters that China would conduct a launch vehicle test.
On the night of February 2, three U.S. warships chased up from behind and entered the visible distance of the Chinese warship formation. Before the U.S. Navy made a radio call, the anti-ship missile tracking radar of ship 6 aimed at it again.
"Our ship is sailing peacefully on the high seas..." The US warship called the Chinese formation on a public radio frequency.
"Please explain why you are here."
"The U.S. Navy sails peacefully in this waters and is not hostile to you, it just happened to pass by."
The Americans said so, and happened to pass by, but these two destroyers are a cruiser, and the cruiser has a helicopter on it...
Chapter 9, the most accurate ballistic missile on earth
The 60s of mankind began when the whole world witnessed China's pretentiousness.
Entering the first day of the 60s, the French atomic bombing on January 1 was once misunderstood: France wants to lead the trend in the world of coercion.It was later discovered that they were very wrong.
China first beat India to the point of being helpless, then unilaterally declared a ceasefire and released a group of Indian prisoners on the grounds that they had eaten too much—there were more Indian prisoners than Chinese troops participating in the war.
Then, began to return the seized Indian weapons and equipment. The original text of China's announcement was "We have no interest in the seized Indian weapons and ammunition."
On January 1, January 14, and February 1, China successively completed the tests of the atomic bomb, the enhanced atomic bomb, and the radiation implosion hydrogen bomb.The hydrogen bomb is a headache for the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France. The Chinese are like doing homework after class. The first question, the second question, and the third question, well, finally finished, put together the homework and hand it in , all right.
During this period, on January 1, as a small group of Indian troops on the border lost control and shelled Chinese positions, China responded with a cruise missile.The missile flew directly to New Delhi from the Sino-Indian border, accurately passed over the Indian Capitol, and dropped a letter from the Chinese President to Nehru in the inner courtyard of the Capitol.
Although it is not a nuclear test, but in the academic and engineering circles——Raytheon, Lockheed, Martin Marietta, and Dassault engineers have whispered in private that the shock of this cruise missile is no less than that of a nuclear weapon explosion.
The hydrogen bomb test on February 2 was not over yet.When people were confused and wanted to close the curtain and close the stage of "Welcome to the 3s Show", China refused to step off the stage: "Let me go! Let me go! I still have a badass to pretend!"
After China announced that it would conduct a launch vehicle flight test from February 2 to 8, the White House spokesperson responded immediately.
"China's ballistic missile test is a very irresponsible attitude towards the world and the countries and people in the test zone."
"The flight path of China's ballistic missiles is likely to pass or pass over the Philippines and Indonesia at close range. Once the missile deviates from the target, it will have a catastrophic impact on these countries."
The Chinese embassy in the United States replied through the air: China's launch vehicle flight test only transports scientific experimental instruments, and does not carry any warheads or weapons.
After being deflated, the White House spokesperson continued to find fault:
"It is an arrogant and unruly behavior for China to set up a no-sail zone in an area far away from its own territorial waters and sphere of influence."
"China has rashly set up a large-scale no-navigation zone, which has affected the maritime shipping and fishing operations of neighboring countries. China's no-navigation zone has been established for 48 hours, far exceeding the length of international practice. This is an unprofessional Performance."
It's all side issues, and the embassy doesn't even bother to care about it.
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Most of the ballistic missile tests in the United States are launched into the sea, from Cape Canaveral or Vandenberg Air Force Base to the Atlantic Ocean, so the US Navy is familiar with China's routines when it sees them.
In 1959, the United States fired an average of two ballistic missiles into the sea every month, mainly Raytheon DM18, and sometimes Atlas and Atlas-B.Now that the routines of testing ballistic missiles at sea are so familiar, of course the U.S. Navy has also figured out a few counter-tricks.
The Chongqing ship led the formation to the northern waters of Guinea Island, and the three American warships beside it were 30 kilometers away and paralleled far away.The planes flying overhead were all carrier-based planes, so Zhang Xuesi was sure that there was an American aircraft carrier operating nearby.
For several Chinese destroyers, an aircraft carrier battle group was dispatched?This is too much face.
On February 2, after the U.S. Navy protested for the third time that China's use of missile fire control radars to target U.S. warships was a "military provocation," ships 7 and 105 finally stopped using radars to target U.S. warships.But the muzzles of the main guns were still pointing at each other.The Chinese side electrifies the missile launch system, and the U.S. Navy probably does the same.
The current US Navy guided missile destroyer is not only equipped with anti-aircraft missiles, but also six anti-ship missiles.
In 1953, it was bombed by anti-ship missiles in the Taiwan Strait. It has been 7 years now, and the US anti-ship missiles were actually launched two years ago.
"The American destroyer opposite, USS John King, was commissioned only last year," Captain Kang Liegong carefully read the US warship identification manual before sailing, "It is an air defense destroyer, and the four of us are all multi-purpose. The destroyer has a different positioning. The anti-aircraft missile installed on the John King is not simple, it is called RIM-2 'Beagle', with a maximum range of 32 kilometers and a height of 4 meters, which is more powerful than our Hongqi-[-]L."
"When our Haihongqi-7 comes out, the comprehensive performance will completely overwhelm this beagle."
Zhang Xuesi: "Yes, the performance of our Haihongqi-7 can surpass that of a beagle. The Haihongqi-7L's benchmark is that so-called 'Brass Knight'."
There were 7 ships in the Sino-Soviet mixed formation, 3 warships from the U.S. Navy, and maybe a few more behind them. Just like that, the two sides stared at each other and arrived at the scheduled sea area on the evening of February 2.
At this moment, the Pacific Ocean is calm, and half of the sunset has sunk into the sea level. The sun has dyed the battleship golden yellow, and the waves on the sea surface are also shining like gold leaf. Birds fluttered around.
Ship 111 and Ship 112, one left and one right, left the formation and went out. The remaining five warships turned off their power plants and floated without power on the sea.
"Our superiors instructed us to try our best to complete the work at the first time point," Kang Zhiqiang said. "The first time point is the launch of the missile at 2:8 pm on February 9, and coordinate positioning must be carried out 24 hours in advance. It is now the evening of the 7th." 7:10. Another 25 minutes later, at 7:35, the No. 105 star of the sextant system will pass over us, and the Chongqing Ship, Ship 106, and Ship [-] will use the satellite positioning system at the same time to perform positioning in a static state."
The sextant system uses dual-frequency positioning in a static state, and the positioning accuracy can be less than or equal to 25 meters.After sailing, when the formation is sailing at sea and berthing at the port it visits, it will start the satellite positioning system to measure its own coordinates from time to time, which proves that the measurement accuracy is no problem.
"After using satellite positioning, do you want to perform maritime replenishment for ships 105 and 106?"
Kang Zhiqiang: "From the morning to noon of February 2, there will be five hours to refuel the two ships. But the satellite positioning for a while must be guaranteed first. Each ship will report its own equipment status."
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In January 1960, Western shipping users who ordered satellite navigation terminals from China received the terminal systems they bought with their own money.
The complete system consists of two large boxes, one is the equipment box and the other is the parts box.The parts box contains cables, antennas in sections, various fixing tools, and the like.
Fix the equipment box in the cockpit, then take out the cables in the parts box according to the instructions and wire them in the cabin, make a hole to protrude out of the cabin, assemble the antenna and fix it on the mast or the top of the bridge, and plug in the plug , the sextant system is installed.
In addition to the parts assembly instructions, there is also the satellite timetable, which is a reference book for daily use. It records the approximate time when the satellite passes overhead in various regions of the world. At this time, the sextant system can be activated for positioning.
In April 1959, the shipowners who bought the "pre-release version" at the Canton Fair now feel that they have made a lot of money. .
These are all civilian terminals. The first batch of more than [-] warships and submarines of the Chinese Navy and the Soviet Navy have installed military terminals.
From about October onwards, the satellite calibration of the sextant system has reached the goal and can be used normally—but because there are only two or three satellites (there are two more to be adjusted), the time window for navigating and positioning is slightly less Some.
But no matter how little it is, it is better than the Meridian satellite system of the United States-the satellites they launched in September have become bricks, and the second one launched on December 9 is a Doppler system verification satellite. The United States can only have it around the end of 12 The first satellite capable of providing navigation services is launched.
"Newcomers in China, are you using the sextant system?"
10 kilometers away, the destroyer John King actually chatted with the Chongqing ship on the radio channel.
Zhang Xuesi also replied in English: "That's right, do you want to buy a set to try? Just go to the Chinese Embassy in Washington and order directly. You can get a [-]% discount if you mention my name to Gu Weijun."
"..." The captain of the USS John King was speechless. The radio channel was quiet for a while, and the captain replied: "The United States has its own satellite navigation system. Next year, in 1961, the satellite navigation terminal will be equipped with the Navy."
"Buy early and enjoy early, and it won't affect you to install a meridian instrument in the future."
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At 7:35, satellite positioning began, and a few minutes later, the coordinate parameters measured by ships 105 and 106 returned to the Chongqing ship.The six coordinate points measured by the three ships are all gathered together, no problem.
The precise coordinates of the sea area were sent back to the country. At the Jiuquan missile launch site, the warhead of the Dongfeng-3 ballistic missile that had been erected on the launch pad was connected to the launch pad by a data cable, and then connected to the underground command center from the launch pad.