The sky seemed to be trembling.
Only by witnessing it with one's own eyes could one truly feel the power of modern war weapons.
The sound of each missile whistling through the sky was like a continuous roar of thunder.
Among them, the Tomahawk cruise missile's Mach 0.72 speed was the slowest. The other missiles maintained the same speed.
Less than 70 nautical miles away from the target, more than 100 missiles flew for seven minutes and eleven seconds.
The fire control radar couldn't lock onto it.
But missiles could be locked onto by infrared, GPS, and optical locks.
Those sonar buoys that weren't destroyed by the target ship's electromagnetic waves could also provide accurate target positioning for distant ships.
In the last two nautical miles, the Tomahawk cruise missile began to climb high into the sky.
The Harpoon anti-ship missile quickly descended, close to the sea level at a height of three meters.
The anti-air missile maintained its position.
The cruise missile would attack the top, the anti-ship missile would attack the target ship's waterline, and the anti-air missile would penetrate the ship's armor with kinetic energy and attack the ship's interior.
The three attack modes were in Commander Lassiter's vision. Even if the target ship could interfere with the missile's positioning system, even if it could make the missile lose its ability to turn.
But with more than 100 missiles raining down, how could there be a chance of missing?
A Tomahawk cruise missile weighed more than a ton. If it smashed down at Mach 0.72, it could create a hole in the target ship just by relying on its own kinetic energy.
What's more, did the target ship really have the ability to interfere with more than 100 missiles in an instant?
In the command room of the Burke-class destroyer, everyone stared at the big screen. There were Tomahawk cruise missiles on it, and real-time images were captured through optical lenses.
On the silent and black and white screen, various missile parameters were marked. In the middle of the screen, the sea was like a bare plain.
When the screen suddenly rose and then began to dive, everyone in the command room saw a black dot the size of a fist at the end of the screen.
It was like a rock growing on a plain, growing there all by itself.
Everyone clenched their fists, held their breath, and stared at the black dot on the screen that began to rapidly enlarge.
When the black dot became the size of a watermelon, people could finally make out its outline.
Then the screen suddenly began to flash.
The screen became a blinking eye, and when it blinked for the third time, it became a vast screen of snowflakes.
…
When the Humpback Whale was captured by the cruise missile's optical lens, it also discovered the incoming missile rain.
The eight monsters in charge of piloting the Humpback Whale did not panic, nor did they show any fear.
The power of the electromagnetic generator was instantly turned to the maximum.
Streams of ultra-high frequency electromagnetic waves that could not be captured by the naked eye spread out at the speed of light, forming an absolute electronic killing zone within a range of two nautical miles. The power was so great that even the spray and mist behind the Humpback Whale were steaming.
In the air two nautical miles away, more than 150 missiles of various types were whizzing over.
They were like bolts of lightning that had been slowed down, moving towards the Humpback Whale.
In the face of absolute numbers, the Humpback Whale had lost the ability to evade.
Because there were only fifteen seconds left to react, no matter which direction he dodged in, it was impossible to rush out of the ring-shaped bullet screen formed by these missiles.
He could only face them head-on.
With the sturdiest and smallest ship's bow as the point of resistance. While the electromagnetic generator was operating at full power, the Humpback also performed an emergency deceleration action.
The fully electrically powered Humpback Whale reduced the original 80% electromagnetic engine output power to 0 in less than three seconds.
After the two 200,000-kilowatt-hour electromagnetic engines lost their energy sources, they performed an emergency "brake" on the main shaft.
Of course …
It was obviously extremely unrealistic to want to completely stop a giant ship that weighed no less than 30,000 tons and had an astonishing speed of 130 knots in just over ten seconds.
Even if it was a land supercar with a braking distance of only 30 meters, it would take at least ten seconds to completely brake from 130 knots, which was close to 250 kilometers per hour.
These fifteen seconds could only reduce the Humpback Whale's speed from 130 knots to 100 knots.
It looked a bit like a futile struggle.
The Humpback Whale was close to 30 meters high and 50 meters wide.
Even if the bow of the ship was designed with a large slope, which greatly reduced the wind resistance area, it was still a behemoth with a bow that was comparable to an aircraft carrier.
The incoming missile rain was divided into three heights. The Tomahawk cruise missiles climbed to a height of thousands of meters and smashed down with the force of thunder.
Unsurprisingly, the bow of the Humpback Whale would withstand at least one or two anti-ship missiles flying over the sea and three anti-aircraft missiles flying at an altitude of 20 meters. As for the Tomahawk missiles, it was up to luck.
These missiles were not the poor rapid-fire artillery shells of the previous frigate.
The rapid-fire artillery had a caliber of 76 millimeters.
According to the caliber, the Tomahawk cruise missile had a caliber of 520 millimeters.
The Harpoon anti-ship missile had a caliber of 340 millimeters.
And modern mainstream anti-ship missiles had a delayed detonation function. It could rely on the terrifying kinetic energy and the high-hardness shield at the front of the missile to first penetrate the outer armor of the target ship, and then violently detonate when the missile flew through the interior.
Even if its control system was destroyed by strong electromagnetism, relying only on kinetic energy and the violent explosion after the impact, the bow of the Humpback Whale would not be able to withstand an anti-ship missile and remain unscathed.
So …
In the eyes of those on the destroyer dozens of nautical miles away, the giant black ship was bound to be torn to pieces by the missile.
The eight monsters in the control room did not think so.
Through the external infrared and optical surveillance images, they could clearly see the incoming missiles, dragging long smoke and rapidly expanding in their field of vision.
One of the Master Metal Expert's palm was placed on a handle similar to the brake device on the console.
More than a hundred missiles were only a kilometer away from the Humpback Whale. It would only take a second and a half to hit the Humpback Whale.
The Master Metal Expert jerked the handle in his hand.
This was the handle used to control the output of the "air cushion."
When it was closed, the high-speed airflow under the bow of the Humpback Whale was constantly ejecting high-speed airflow. The high-speed airflow that used the airflow to separate the huge body of the Humpback Whale from the sea was suddenly cut off.
The airflow was cut off, and the air cushion at the bottom of the Humpback Whale naturally disappeared.
Then, the Humpback Whale's terrifying weight of more than 30,000 tons slammed into the sea at a speed of 50 meters per second.
In the next moment, the seawater around the Humpback Whale seemed to be detonated by hundreds of missiles.
"Bang ~"
The Humpback Whale hit a circle of terrifying waves up to 100 meters high.
In the next second, more than a hundred missiles of various types slammed into the ship with terrifying kinetic energy.
Then, they first smashed into the huge waves.
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