Some netizens asked: Can the US aircraft carrier group intercept our Dongfeng 21D or Dongfeng 26?
Without further ado, let's assume that a hypersonic ballistic missile is attacking the US aircraft carrier ** from 3,000 kilometers away, and it is expected to hit the target in about 10 minutes. Then the missile was lifted into the air, and in less than a minute, the American aircraft carrier group received an early warning from defense satellites. Since the target was a ballistic missile, the ship group decided to abandon maneuver evasion and move to a defensive posture.
Then, 2 to 3 minutes later, the ship's command room found that the analog computer could not calculate the trajectory of the attacking missile, and speculated that it may have adopted a gliding orbit change design, similar to the Chinese Dongfeng-21D or Dongfeng-26. Here are the data of the following two missiles:
The DF-21D can carry a high-explosive warhead of about 800 kilograms, or a nuclear warhead with a 300,000-ton TNT equivalent, with composite guidance, a range from 1,700 km to 3,000 km, and a maximum flight speed of Mach 15.
The DF-26 can then carry a 1,200-kilogram to 1,800-kilogram high-explosive warhead, or three thermonuclear warheads with a 200,000-ton TNT equivalent, with composite guidance.
The command level of the US aircraft carrier group knows very well that once this missile re-enters the atmosphere, it is basically impossible to intercept it, whether it is a carrier-based aircraft phalanx or other air defense missiles, and the only way is to launch the standard three air defense missiles to intercept them in multiple waves and in large quantities outside the atmosphere.
Because of the successful early warning of defense satellites, although the trajectory cannot be calculated, there are still about 3 defense nodes, and each defense node will be able to use multiple standard 3s for blocking interception.
Under the rapid response of the command level, when there are 7 minutes left in the countdown to be hit, the first wave of 5 Standard 3 launches is expected to usher in the first defense node in 3-4 minutes, followed by the second wave of 7 Standard 3 launches 30 seconds later, and the second defense node is expected to usher in the second defense node when the countdown is 2 minutes, and the third wave of 10 Standard 3 launches after another 20 seconds, it is expected to usher in the last defense node in about 1 minute countdown.
It should be pointed out here that there are of course more standard three for the aircraft carrier group, but 10 is the limit of effective defense, and there is no practical significance in exceeding this number. Time passed minute by minute, and when the countdown came to 4 minutes, the first wave of interceptions failed, followed by the second wave of interceptions, and more than a dozen tails were left far behind by the target projectile. In the end, the third defense node came, and it finally paid off, because the ultimate defensive facet incoming bomb, even if it adopted the orbit change design, was still in the short interception window, and was hit by a standard three, and there were about 10 seconds before he entered the atmosphere, and the commander of the aircraft carrier group cheered at this moment, and finally successfully intercepted it.
However, the next moment, the alarm sounded again, and the warning from the defense satellite was just now, and just now, another 10 missiles were lifted into the air again in an area 3,000 kilometers away. It is emphasized here that the above inferences are for entertainment purposes only and do not have actual reference value, so do not take them seriously. In addition, it is added that Standard 3 does have the ability to intercept ballistic missiles, but so far, all interception tests in the United States have been single-calibration target missiles, and they have never tried interception tests against multiple target missiles.