The US "Eisenhower" aircraft carrier battle group has suffered a large-scale attack, and the airspace over the Red Sea has already transitioned from a "ship raid battle" to a "bomb-ship confrontation" stage.
At present, dozens of ** ships in the Red Sea are piled up, but the Houthis pick on hard bones and gnaw on the hard bones, and launch three ** strikes within 10 hours, hitting the US aircraft carrier, first dispatching 12 suicide drones at the same time, followed by the launch of 3 anti-ship ballistic missiles, and finally 2 anti-ship cruise missiles to finish.
The aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower sounded the alarm and took off the F-18 "Super Hornet" in an emergency to launch an anti-missile interception operation together with the USS Laban missile destroyer. Judging from the statement released by the US side, the US military has successfully intercepted all targets coming from a single direction, and so far no ship has been attacked by missiles, and no personnel have been attacked.
The attack on the Houthis has yielded nothing, but the analysis of the idea of this wave of aircraft carriers is completely correct, relying on multiple batches and multiple angles to launch attacks, and the time lag of aircraft carrier defense. But the problem is that the Houthis' anti-ship firepower is a little weaker.
The Houthis used three types of equipment in the attack: drones, anti-ship ballistic missiles, and anti-ship cruise missiles.
The Houthi suicide drones, which are mainly supplied by Iran with engines and flight control components, and then processed in their own small workshops, are slow, short-range and low-power. The first wave of 12 suicide drones was dispatched at the same time, with the aim of attracting anti-aircraft fire from the Aegis destroyers on the periphery of the aircraft carrier, and the strategic awareness was there, but it was really insufficient.
2 anti-ship cruise missiles, most likely Iran's "Noor" anti-ship missile, that is, Iran's imitation of the C-802 anti-ship missile of the eastern powers, the Houthis used "Noor" in 2016 to destroy a UAE Navy equipped with HSV-2 high-speed transport ship, and now the Houthi "Noor" anti-ship missiles still have a lot of inventory, which is undoubtedly the main combat force of the "attack ship".
The three anti-ship ballistic missiles are presumably Iran's "Persian Gulf-2" anti-ship ballistic missiles, which are mainly modified from Iran's "Conqueror-110" short-range missiles, and of course also have a certain amount of Hongqi-2 surface-to-air missile bloodline. With a range of about 300 km, a 500-kilogram semi-armor-piercing warhead is installed, and an optoelectronic guidance head is used, and once a ballistic missile strikes an aircraft carrier from the top down, the power is still considerable.
Summing up the Houthi attack on the US ship this time, there is no problem in strategic thinking, and the hard flaw is that the drones and missiles in their hands are not saturated enough, and they are not too advanced.
The US "Eisenhower" class aircraft carriers are equipped with E-2C AWACS aircraft and F-18E F fighters, which provide long-range defense capabilities for the aircraft carrier strike group, and through the joint operation of AWACS aircraft and fighters, they are actually able to intercept targets at a distance of 520-550 kilometers from the aircraft carrier.
At the same time, the ship-based Aegis system has a powerful multi-channel air defense capability, and even if carrier-based aircraft are not used, the Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyer, which is equipped with high-performance fire control radar and ship-to-air missiles, is more than enough to deal with the Houthi attack with 16 24 ship-to-air missiles at the same time and a rapid launch energy at one-second intervals.
In order to break through the defense system of the Burke-class destroyers, ordinary anti-ship missiles need to use a saturation launch strategy, that is, multiple missiles are launched at the same time to distract the attention and resources of the defense system, and these missiles must also have complex ballistic flight capabilities, but it is clear that the Houthis do not currently have high-end anti-ship missile systems.
At present, if you want to break through the defense circle of the US nuclear aircraft carrier, it is estimated that only the PLA can try it in the world, and the saturation attack system composed of attack drones, anti-ship ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles is possibleIt is an important part of the PLA's anti-access or area denial combat system.
The PLA has long-range stealth attack UAVs, including Attack-11, as well as hundreds of J-7, H-6K and other attack fighters, which can launch dozens of anti-ship cruise missiles at the same time to form a saturation attack, of course, inseparable from the powerful Dongfeng-21D, Dongfeng-26 anti-ship ballistic missiles and YJ-21 hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missiles. Compared with this bit of equipment of the Houthis, it is an absolute "top version".
But then again, although the Houthi attack was unsuccessful, the U.S. military actually did not take advantage of it, and it was a great loss. The Standard-2 anti-aircraft missile used to intercept Houthi drones costs $2.1 million per shot, and the Standard-6 ship-to-air missile capable of intercepting the Conqueror-110 costs $4 million per shot.
As soon as the cannon sounds, **10,000 taels", the more U.S. troops shoot down the number of Yemeni Houthi drones and missiles, the more serious the losses, if this battle continues like this, the U.S. military really can't afford to spend a lot of money to eradicate a small non-** armed force, this account The U.S. military can't be unclear?
There is no other way to open the Red Sea route than to get Israel to cease fire and stop the fighting.