Chapter 665 Tomahawk Cruise Missile Bombing
The attack range of the Soviet-made SS-1 surface-to-face missile (i.e., Scud missile) is about 190 miles.
If you want to have a longer range, you can tie the two Scud missiles together like in later Iraq, and then the range of the Scud missile can be increased to more than 300 kilometers.
However, the disadvantage is that the attack accuracy is very low, so Chen Yanlong's temporary deployment of the Scud missile launch position in Port Ceuta, the order to Rommel and the missile launch team required them to only use one Scud missile to attack.
When the first round of German air strikes began, the first wave of German attacks was to bomb the airport in the English Channel.
Under the huge air raid, the British airport, which was not as good as defense, was bombed by the flames. One after another, the British airfire planes were also blown up in an instant and turned into scrap iron of the flames, burning on the airport.
Even those British aircraft that could take off in time and were ready to fight back were destroyed one by one by the German air force, which had superior quantity and quality, and were shot down in the air, with blood sprinkled in the sky.
At the same time, the German SB2C dive bomber group and the Boeing B-52 long-range bomber group were also bombing the British defenses throughout the English Channel; in particular, the German army also used concrete cracking bombs to blow some particularly strong fortifications and bunkers into ruins and even razed them to the ground.
"Our Air Force has already started attacking. Should we continue to launch missile attacks?"
After the German army dispatched 2,000 air strikes in Rohélé and dropped nearly 2 tons of bombs, a launcher at the Scud bomb launch base was asking their commander, Colonel Carlisle Road.
"Wait for Marshal Rommel's launch order, he will inform us when the attack will be launched!"
Commander Colonel Carlisle nodded and replied, nodding while observing the bombing in the English Channel.
"Boom! Rumble..."
At this moment, one tomahawk cruise missile after another was launched from the Boeing B-52 long-range bomber group at lightning speed, and roared to the British important military facilities, barracks, commands, logistics supply stations, and food storage areas in the English Channel.
Flashes of explosions were constantly rising and falling, constantly harvesting the lives of one British army after another, including those engineering teams and migrant workers who were hired to build fortifications here.
Of course, the most powerful bombing was the British army's military garrisons, logistics supply areas, food storage areas, and various military facilities.
Even some ships that had just arrived to support the battle were killed by the tomahawk cruise missiles launched by the German army and sunk into the sea and fed the fish.
In the early 1970s, due to the rapid development of high-tech such as microelectronics, small aero engines, and stealth technology, General Dynamics, in 1972, developed a strike weapon with depth outside the defense zone, namely the "Tomahawk" cruise missile that was used in sea-based, air-based and land-based versions.
The Air Force-type Tomahawk cruise missiles include: AGM-109H (attacking ground airports), and AGM-109K (attacking maritime ship targets).
As for the naval "Tomahawk" cruise missiles, there are: AGM-109I (attacking ships, ground targets), AGM-109J (attacking ground targets), and AGM-109L (attacking sea/ground solid point targets).
Chen Yanlong secretly redeems these "Tomahawk" cruise missiles with his smartphone to exchange for as many as 2,000. They were used to specifically attack the English Channel to support the aircraft carrier fleet, as well as buildings that were particularly difficult to blow up in the English Channel.
However, the current attack is only specifically aimed at the British and American aircraft carrier fleets to support, and the main missile attack firepower of the English Channel still needs to be handed over to the Scud missiles for attack.
Although the vehicle-mounted Scud launch base is temporarily deployed, it can still launch attacks within a few days.
"Is this our head of state-of-the-art missile? Their destructive power is very powerful! It seems to be faster and more powerful than the Scud missiles we are preparing to launch!"
Looking at the explosion power of the small fleets that were quickly attacking the British army to aid, and the "Tomahawk" cruise missiles, which were the most important military facilities on the English Channel, they were shocked to the extreme, and they were very envious of the navy and the aviation army for obtaining such powerful missiles for combat.
"Yes! Fortunately, we also have the Scud missiles of the Bu Shao, which can not only use the original V1 and V2 missiles for attack; I'm afraid we are really too far behind, and there is not much accuracy!"
In response to this, Commander Colonel Carlisle also stared at the powerful "Tomahawk" cruise missiles with envy Buyi, nodded in agreement.
"Report to the sir! Marshal Rommel calls, so that we can launch a bombing attack right away!"
"Please give orders to the chief!"
Just before these missile correspondents hurried to Colonel Carlisle and reported.
"good!"
"All Scuds and staff are ready to launch Scud missiles!"
"We must ensure accuracy and bombard more British military targets!"
Commander Colonel Carlisle immediately issued an order.
With his radio command issued, all missile groups were ready to launch the Scud missiles and attack them. They locked Luo's attack target.
"emission!"
After all missile launch groups have set targets and launched calculations, Commander Colonel Carlisle immediately issued a shooting command.
As soon as the order was reached, one by one, the Scud missile launchers were fired out, and they blasted at the target they locked in.
The ground equipment of the Scud missile mainly includes three-purpose vehicles for transporting and vertical launching. The chassis is MAz-543LTM. The vehicle is 12 meters long, about 3 meters wide and 2 meters high...
In addition, there are a large number of ground measurement vehicles, command vehicles, power vehicles, propellant filling vehicles, test vehicles, fire trucks, etc.
The main attack function of the Scud B missiles that were just launched by the German army is to attack British airports, missile launch sites, command centers, military facilities, troop gathering places, transportation hubs, etc.
However, the launch procedures of these Scud missiles take as soon as 45 minutes from predicting positions, erecting, raising, checking, withdrawing vehicles to ignition launch.
Moreover, it even took up to 1-2 hours before the war, so when the German army deployed these Scud missile launchers, it was several hours in advance, or even one day.
When the first wave of German Scud missiles bombed densely to the British army's base, the entire English Channel had been flooded with explosions like earth-shaking mountains and surging seas of fire.
Chapter completed!