In space, there is a striking Aegis, a missile defense system widely used by the US Navy. The system is equipped on American Poke-class frigates, as well as Ticonderoga-class frigates. Its primary mission is to defend against invading anti-ship missiles and fighter jets, and to establish an impregnable "air defense ring." In addition to the United States, Japan, South Korea and many European countries are equipped with this **.
However, "Aegis" is not the only means of defense for the US Navy. The navies of various countries around the world are also equipped with short-range defense systems, which include short-range defense artillery and close-range defense missiles, constituting a short-range air defense system. In general, when an enemy missile breaks through the Aegis defenses and approaches a ship, the system will not be launched. The dense array system in the United States, the AK-630 system in Russia and the Cashtan system are all in this category.
Anti-aircraft artillery is the "last line of defense" on ships. And as soon as this type of ** is used, it means that the enemy's air defense system is getting closer and closer, "close at hand". So such a system generally does not have a great distance. Taking the US close-range defense system as an example, its firing range is about 1500 meters, our Type 1130 "10,000 rounds" short-range anti-aircraft artillery can reach up to 4 kilometers, and the Russian "Kashtan" can reach 8 km.
Recently, intelligence from the United States, known as the "Central Command", revealed that a missile from the Houthis was intercepted by the US Navy DDG101 Griffry. Don't look at the name is awesome, but you can also see the problems of the United States in this regard.
Why? The Aegis-class missiles that the United States is proud of were intercepted by the Houthis, but its air defense system was intercepted. According to the US ** team, the missile was only 5 seconds after hitting the US ** ship and approached 1,500 kilometers away, just within the range of the US military's tight defense system.
Obviously, this Houthi missile penetrated the "Aegis" that the United States is proud of and entered the internal defense area of the American fleet! It is clear that the United States and other Western countries are using "Aegis" to resist ordinary anti-ship missiles of the Houthis!
Now most of them are equipped with supersonic and hyper-high-speed missiles, and a distance of 1500 meters is just a blink of an eye for them. A subsonic anti-ship missile from the Houthis can fly over 1,500 meters in seconds, which is enough for the U.S. team's tight defense system to respond.
However, anti-ship missiles with a high rate of fire like the Russian P-700 fly at a speed of more than Mach 2, and the response capability of such a high-density array is obviously insufficient. What's more, it is not uncommon for current anti-ship missiles to reach more than four times the speed of sound.
Assuming that Russia is deploying Zircon on a large scale, it is said that it can reach a top speed of up to Mach 9 per hour, so that it will not even have a response time of a second in the face of a dense defensive line, let alone use it against it.
Obviously, in the face of high-speed development of missiles, the American "Aegis" is not as "indestructible" as imagined!