Volume 7 The Smoke of the Peninsula Chapter 44 The Mechanical Warrior
Lu Yuanshan, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps tried their best.
Attacking Hamhung, the U.S. military began to "advertise".
Because fighter jets of the Republic Air Force have been operating in the skies over northern Korea, the first to appear is not a US carrier-based fighter, but a "Fast Hawk" hypersonic cruise missile launched by a Zumwalt-class destroyer.
2 Zumwalt-class destroyers launched 35 missiles within 1c of a minute (36 in fact, one of which crashed into the sea shortly after liftoff and self-destructed. At that time, the United States was selling this cruise missile with a maximum flight speed of Mach 8 to its European allies, but in order not to affect export sales, the US military did not mention the crash accident in the combat report, and included it in the training consumption), attacking 1 important targets including long-range air defense missile positions, shore defense missile positions, command centers, and communication centers.
The strike was very successful, out of 1 target, 11 were completely destroyed, 3 were incapacitated.
After the appearance of the "Fast Eagle", the slightly slower "Tomahawk" cruise missile was unveiled.
Compared to the "Fast Eagle", the "Tomahawk" can be considered a real "veteran". When the first generation of "Tomahawks" was born, many US officers and soldiers had not yet been born.
The U.S. military uses all fifth-generation "Tomahawks," which mainly add "timely attack capabilities," and after reaching the battlefield overhead, if no attack target is found, it can fly in a search state2 and launch an attack after finding the target. As a result, the "Tomahawk" has the combat capability to strike at maneuvering targets.
The Tomahawks, where cruisers and destroyers were launched, mainly dealt with the DPRK mobile units.
Of the more than 1 Tomahawks, less than one-third hit stationary targets, and the other 90 or so were all equipped with sub-warheads and were responsible for striking the North Korean armored forces near Hamhung.
Later, according to the information released by the U.S. military. This round of attacks paralyzed at least the tank battalion and 5 armored battalions!
The Navy show is not over yet. U.S. Air Force ground-based strategic bombers make their debut.
The 12B-2 and 32B-1BB carry surface-to-air cruise missiles with a range of more than 600 km. There is a ground to drop missiles over the Sea of Japan. Some simply dropped missiles over the Pacific Ocean east of Japan. None ventured close to the Korean Peninsula. It is even more unlikely that a volley bombing mission will be carried out.
Clockouchi. The bombers fired almost 800 air-launched cruise missiles.
As a missile-carrying aircraft. The "potential" of strategic bombers is clearly displayed. In the event of a sortie of tactical fighters. Deliver the same number of ground-to-air launched cruise missiles. At least a few hundred of them will have to be launched!
The only pity is. The place of use of the US military is still "stockpile".
To feed arms companies like Raytheon, the United States has procured tens of thousands of air-launched cruise missiles over the past few years. Because air-launched cruise missiles are "strategic weapons," they cannot be sold to other countries, including the vast majority of allies. In addition to nearly seventy percent of the air-launched cruise missiles consumed in the Iran war, at least one air-launched cruise missile is stored in the U.S. ground arsenal.
If they are not taken out and used, these missiles will be destroyed in 3 to 8 years.
Since the beginning of the war, the US military has used more than one air-launched cruise missile in the battle, and has spent almost all the ammunition in its stockpiles at all costs.
While the stock is being depleted in large quantities, the US military is ordering more advanced air-launched cruise missiles from Raytheon.
From this, it follows that the main task of the US Air Force is not to participate in the war, but to consume "surplus supplies".
The "rain of missiles" had just fallen, and 2 destroyers of the "Zumwalt" class were again on the field.
With EDD long-range attack shells, Zumwalt-class destroyers can strike coastal targets at a distance of 250 km from the coastline.
Within 2 hours, more than 2 EDD shells were fired from the 2 ~ "Zumwalt" class destroyers.
The fact that the US military once again allowed the "Zumwalt" class destroyers to show their faces had nothing to do with the sale of arms.
Several European countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy, are seeking "ideal destroyers" and are all interested in the "Zumwalt" class destroyers that lead the "trend of the times." If the Zumwalt-class destroyers can be marketed to European allies, they will not only be able to share the high development costs, but also give several US shipyards a chance to survive in dire straits.
In order to increase competitiveness, the United States also introduced a "simplified version" of the Zumwalt-class destroyers.
In the case of reducing the displacement to 8500~:, a 155 mm electrothermochemical cannon will be canceled, equipped with a more integrated radar and electronic system, and the number of vertical launch systems will be reduced from 80 to 6c, reducing some of the systems that are useful to the US military.
As a result, not only is the displacement more acceptable to European countries, but the price is also cheaper.
In order to make money, the United States also excludes selling construction technology to European countries, or part of the technology of the "Zumwalt" class, to help European countries design similar destroyers.
By this time, the sky had already brightened.
The air forces of both sides (including the carrier-based aviation of the US military) fought all night and fought to exhaustion. It was only at this time that the U.S. Navy's carrier-based aviation came into play.
Aviation went into battle
The team also went on the offensive.
Unlike the landing on Wonsan, the US Marines had to storm Hamhung.
Although the U.S. troops had already invested thousands of tons of ammunition in the front fire preparations, the Hamhung defenders did not collapse and still held on to their defensive positions.
According to many people's estimates, the US military will run into a bloody encounter on the "iron wall" of Hamxingdi.
The fact was far from what was expected, and the US Marine Corps made extensive use of new weapons and equipment specially developed for positional offensive warfare and urban warfare, and adopted offensive tactics summarized on the Iranian battlefield.
No matter how tenacious the North Korean army is, it will not be much stronger than the Iranian army of the Iranian army of Aladan.
With the support of aviation and long-range artillery fire, the M1A2 main battle tank and the MGSS (which replaced the M2/M3 series tracked infantry fighting vehicles) tore through the defense line of the North Korean army in only three hours, leaving the North Korean infantry deployed outside the city without the power to fight back.
After entering the city, the first thing that appeared on the battlefield was a large number of "robot warriors".
The U.S. military has begun to use "land robots" on a large scale on the Iranian battlefield, with the main purpose of trying to avoid dangerous missions for soldiers in urban warfare.
During the battle, heavily armored tank units rushed to the front, followed by infantry fighting vehicles.
After taking control of the street, the micro-drone is responsible for searching the nearby buildings, and after finding the target, the tracked land combat robot equipped with a heavy machine gun and an automatic grenade launcher enters the building under the remote control of the soldier, eliminating the enemy hiding in the building, and finally the soldier enters to clean up the battlefield.
Very realistic, and very brutal battles!
The vast majority of the North Korean troops who hope to take advantage of the complex environment of the city to resist to the death are not American GIs, but killing machines without life and emotion!
At that time, the U.S. military was also equipped with a "suicide" drone carrying a powerful miniature bomb. If they encounter a fortress that the land robots can't conquer, these "suicide drones" will be dispatched to blow enemies hiding inside the fortress or behind the barricades to pieces.
Later, the republican ** team seized some of these drones and found that the "explosives" used turned out to be composite batteries!
I have to admit that in order to win the war, the United States has taken science and technology to the extreme.
The battle in the city of Hamxing began around 1 on the 211th and ended at 18 o'clock, a total of 8 hours, except for more than 1 North Korean army who surrendered, the rest of the 21,000~ more than 21,000 North Korean soldiers were all killed! The U.S. military only paid the price of losing 13 tanks, 211 infantry fighting vehicles, a number of other vehicles, 2,711 officers and soldiers killed, and 763 wounded.
Technique and tactics determine the final victory.
At that time, a group of Korean troops escaped from Hamhung and eventually fled to the Republic, where they told the Republic military police, who were in charge of the "reception", about the fighting in Hamhung.
The massive use of unmanned combat weapons by the US military on the battlefield immediately attracted the attention of the Republic Army.
Although after the Laos War and the Vietnam War, the Republic Army accelerated the development of unmanned combat weapons and spent a great deal of effort to sum up the lessons and lessons of urban warfare, the Republic Army was not equipped with a large number of unmanned combat weapons, and its main combat force was still flesh-and-blood soldiers.
It is certainly unrealistic to immediately equip combat units with unmanned combat weapons, and the only way is to "paralyze" the US military.
On the afternoon of the 22nd, the special forces previously responsible for rescuing the parachuted pilots set off from Linjiang and rushed to the front line. They had only one mission, to try to acquire some unmanned combat weapons of the US military.
The Army of the Republic knows the "dead hole" of unmanned combat weapons.
Because it needs to adapt to the complex combat environment, the degree of artificial intelligence of the computer is not high, in order to avoid the situation of accidentally injuring friendly troops, so most of the unmanned combat weapons must be operated by the soldiers in the rear remotely. If it can intervene in radio communication signals, it can paralyze the unmanned combat weapons of the US military.
It's like paralyzing the GPS/Instagram navigation system in the Iran war.
In order to achieve this goal, the Republic Army must master the operating frequency of the US military's radio remote control equipment before it can develop radio jamming equipment-for-tat.
Here, it is very intuitive to reflect the importance of "electromagnetic control".
If you gain air supremacy, you will be able to rise above the enemy's head; If you gain control over the electromagnetic system, you can override the enemy's command and control system, turning the enemy into a "headless snake".
Of course, a small special forces force could not stop the surging US ground forces.
After capturing Hamxing, the U.S. army marched north on the morning of the 22nd, and after conquering Wulao (the name of the town), they divided their troops into two routes, advancing to Changjin Lake and Zhenzhan Lake respectively.
At the same time, a marine corps of about 2,500 men attacked the port of Hungnam south of Hamhung, and then advanced along the railway line to Hongwon, Bukcheong, Liwon, Tuancheon, Geumjeong, Jiju, Cheongjin, and Nassin, opening up a third offensive route.
At this time, the battle was not far from the Republic Army's dispatch to Korea.
Damn it**
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