1443 、 The Altered War
Whoosh ~ ~ ~ Accompanied by a whistling sound, a BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile flew at a low altitude of 200 meters away from the sponge. This missile was 5.56 meters long and had a pair of slender, flat wings on both sides. A small air inlet was located at the bottom of the missile. After a huge amount of air was sucked in, it was ejected from the tail at high speed, propelling the missile forward at a speed close to the speed of sound.
Around this missile, dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles could be seen flying at high speed! Not only that, from time to time, other types of missiles would arrive first despite being launched later, diving down from the sky at an even faster speed! Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile! The dozens of Trident II missiles had already dived down from the atmosphere. With a loud bang, the second-stage rockets separated and the terminal guidance was activated. The missiles began to enter the final calibration stage!
Whoosh ~ ~ ~ The thick clouds were directly penetrated. A long string of islands were scattered across the vast ocean like a pearl necklace. The Hawaiian Islands! The missile continued to fly at high speed, its speed increasing to more than 15 times the speed of sound! As it continued to approach, the missile's final target, Oahu, was clearly visible!
Now, the two large ports on Oahu, Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Harbor, were densely packed with all kinds of ships. There were warships and civilian ships. At the port's loading and unloading area, an endless army of robots was gathering! How many robots were there here? 100,000? 1 million? 10 million?
However, these were not the things that the incoming missile needed to worry about. The missile only had one purpose — to destroy everything!
Whoosh ~ ~ ~ ~ A dazzling purple laser beam instantly shone on the Trident II missile. The extremely high temperature instantly melted the missile's fairing. Then, the missile's fuse was immediately destroyed! Following that, a few more laser beams shone on the missile. The missile's electronic equipment and engine were immediately destroyed. The missile that was flying at high speed instantly turned into a fireball. With a long trail of flames and thick smoke, it fell to the ground and became a pile of burning scrap metal!
Missiles kept falling from the sky. Dozens of spherical aircraft were circling above Oahu. As long as a missile approached, the hedgehog-like spikes on the aircraft would immediately fire a laser beam, accurately shining on the missile. In less than a second, a missile would be destroyed! Not only that, but the 360-degree arrangement of the spikes made the interception efficiency of this aircraft astonishingly high. In other words, there were no mistakes at all. The interception rate was 100%!
Not only that, but there were also many more spherical aircraft escorting them in the sky above the port. Be it Tomahawk cruise missiles, Trident II ballistic missiles, or even drones or fighter jets that got too close, they would all be destroyed!
The Interceptor was what Tang Yu was going to use to completely change the way humans fought since the 1960s, using missiles as the core of their warfare! From the moment this aircraft appeared on the battlefield, the rules of the battlefield would be decided by Tang Yu!
Not only were the missiles ineffective, but another desperate battle was also taking place in the sky above Oahu. Hundreds of F-15 fighter jets and F-22 fighter jets were protecting dozens of B-52 bombers and B-2 stealth bombers, preparing to carry out bombing missions. However, these planes were now facing a massacre!
Fighting against this group of aircraft were dozens of Dragon Rider Mark IV aircraft! Logically speaking, this kind of subsonic ground support aircraft had absolutely no chance of contending against supersonic aircraft like the F-22 or even the F-15. However, among these Dragon Rider Mark IV aircraft, there were more than ten spherical Interceptor aircraft!
The area within five kilometers of each Interceptor aircraft was completely a dead zone. The air-to-air missiles launched by the US fighter jets would be destroyed not long after they flew out! Even those fighter jets would have their electronic components burned after being illuminated by the laser beams for more than ten seconds, causing serious damage or even crashing.
The US F-15 and F-22 fighter jets could only use their airborne cannons to fight. One could imagine the combat power they could display! Under the cover of the Interceptor aircraft, the Dragon Rider Mark IV aircraft were like the Grim Reaper! At this time, the cumbersome B-52H bomber became a target!
A B-52H bomber flipped in the air in despair. Around it were three or four Dragon Rider Mark IV aircraft, continuously firing ion cannons at the bomber. Soon, several large burning holes were blasted into the fuselage of the bomber, and fuel began to leak. At this time, a Dragon Rider Mark IV aircraft seized the opportunity. First, it climbed at an almost 90-degree angle, then quickly swooped down. The ion cannons in the nose of the aircraft instantly fired, blasting a few large holes on the wings of the B-52H bomber! Immediately after, the wings of the aircraft were instantly torn apart. Several parachutes unfolded in the air, and the bomber also circled and disappeared into the sea of clouds.
The US attacks on the Guardian Empire army entrenched in Oahu failed again and again, but they did buy a lot of time after all. Not only that, the US invested dozens of Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarines to patrol the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian Islands and the west coast of the US. As long as they found any Guardian Empire ships, they would be sunk. This instead became one of the biggest headaches for Gao Ming, the commander of the Guardian Empire army in this world. Therefore, the plan to land on the US mainland was delayed a lot, allowing the US to build a 'Pacific Line of Defense'.
The Pacific Line of Defense consisted of three re-commissioned Iowa-class battleships as the core, and seven aircraft carrier battle groups as the wings. Using the powerful industrial strength of the US, the US built countless huge steel floating boxes and connected them into dozens of huge artificial floating islands. They also installed cranes, turrets, warehouses, and other equipment on the floating islands to form a comprehensive line of defense.
Not only that, after realizing that missile attacks were basically ineffective, the US immediately adjusted its industrial production, stopped 70% of the missile production line, and turned to the production of various gunships. The battleships that were sealed after World War II were pulled out for repair and reassembly. If one went to the US shipyard now, one would feel as if they were in the World War II period.
Moreover, the cutting-edge weapon technology in the US reserves had also begun to play a role. After the opening of Area 51, the US quickly included plasma rifles in the production plan. At the same time, they also prepared to produce the first generation of mechanized exoskeletons, multi-wave detectable stealth radars, electromagnetic coil cannons, the first generation of high-energy laser weapons, and so on.
As for the Guardian Empire, their biggest weakness now was that they did not have a navy. The only thing that could barely be called a navy was the leech-type Terminator. To be honest, it was not enough to expect this kind of shallow water that was about two meters long and only had sharp teeth to attack the US navy with machinery. Surface ships could still be attacked with the absolute advantage of air force, but nuclear submarines were more difficult. They could only use a large number of leech-type Terminators to surround the bottom of the ship and then seize the opportunity to intercept and detonate the submarine-launched missiles or destroy the propulsion device of the nuclear submarine. Overall, they were still very passive.
Gao Ming had already begun to organize the use of the existing docks in Pearl Harbor to modify the captured US warships to adapt to the Guardian Empire's combat style.
Ms. Utani, with the Predator spaceship called the Black Star, and the X-Force with the skeleton necromancer Brad Frost Bones as the core organization, had also been thinking of ways to attack the Guardian Empire's rear. However, the rear of the Guardian Empire was still very tight. There were only the forward operating base in Pearl Harbor on Oahu and the base with the portal as the core in Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. The former's territory was too small, and reinforcements would arrive immediately if they were attacked. Not to mention the latter, just the millions of robots gathered in Antarctica made the X-Force not dare to act rashly.
In addition, Clichy had also been tracking the X-Force, so at this stage, they could not cause much trouble.
However, this superficial balance was gradually breaking. As the forces gathered by the Guardian Empire became stronger and stronger, the battle plan to break through the Pacific line of defense and land on the US mainland was already on the agenda!
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