Chapter 813: The Turning Point of the U.S. Navy's Hegemony Era (Updated)

This seems to be different from what history and what the Americans claimed?

In history, the USS America was majestic and made great contributions to the United States. After its retirement, the US Navy officers and soldiers who had served on it hoped that it could enjoy its old age. However, the American leaders did not do so, let it retire safely, and then send it to a dock to wait. Instead, they gave it a new mission.

On April 19, 2005, the USS America was towed away from the old Philadelphia naval port. According to the plan carefully planned by the Naval Sea Systems Command, the US Navy launched a "live ammunition attack" on it with surface, underwater and air weapons. At the same time, the USS America itself was also equipped with multiple weapons. After withstanding the heavy bombing for 25 days, the once powerful steel behemoth began to take on a large amount of water at 11:30 am on May 14, local time, and then sank silently into the Atlantic Ocean.

Without any defense system, the USS America was bombed for 25 days before it was sunk! But now, the USS America sank after only four Sunburn missiles hit it. Isn't this a huge contrast? Is the hero of East China bragging too much?

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Of course not!

First of all, this USS America aircraft carrier did not have a layer of Kevlar armor on the outside to increase its protection capabilities like later generations. The perverted aircraft carriers of later generations by Americans actually had anti-strike capabilities that had reached the level of the original battleships!

Of course, if the missile was a subsonic Exocet missile, the semi-armor-piercing warhead would not be able to tear open the side of the USS America, after all, its power is limited. However, what is flying here is a supersonic anti-ship missile weighing four tons! Speed ​​brings greater energy. According to the law that kinetic energy equals mass times speed squared, the energy brought by the Sunburn missile by speed alone is several times that of the Exocet missile. Adding mass, it is definitely more than ten times the attack power of the Exocet missile!

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Secondly, the attack of the first two missiles opened a gap in the opponent's weakest tail and caused a fire in the hangar. Although it did not burn other places, the burning caused the structure of the aircraft carrier's steel plate to change, and it no longer had the original mechanical strength.

What weapons did the Americans use during the test? Definitely not supersonic anti-ship missiles! In the American arsenal, the weapons used to attack warships were Harpoon anti-ship missiles similar to Exocet, and anti-ship missiles improved from cruise missiles Tomahawk, all of which were subsonic. The Americans had no idea of ​​the power of supersonic anti-ship missiles!

This is the result of quantitative change leading to qualitative change! When the Americans were testing, they were just tickling, but the attack of the Argentine Navy was definitely a powerful fist!

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At the same time, when the Americans attacked their own aircraft carrier, it was in calm weather and they used various weapons to attack. At that time, there was nothing on the aircraft carrier, just an empty shell. But now? The USS America is a fighting machine, full of planes and loaded with various weapons and ammunition! Even if a small hole is torn and the fuel or ammunition inside is triggered, the consequences will be absolutely catastrophic.

For example, the biggest blow to the US aircraft carrier right now is the last missile that penetrated the ammunition depot. The detonation of the ammunition depot caused the entire aircraft carrier to break apart! No matter how many layers of watertight compartments you have or how many anti-sinking structures you have, it is winter in the southern hemisphere now, and the wind is high and the waves are strong enough to overturn the entire aircraft carrier!

This is the fact. When the final explosion was heard, the U.S. Navy was stunned. The fire burning on the sea illuminated the entire sky. In the fire, U.S. Navy officers and soldiers kept jumping into the water. They swam hard in the icy sea, hoping to be rescued by other ships. However, more people eventually lost consciousness in the cold sea.

War is cruel. Even if you drive your aircraft carrier over here with great arrogance, you must be prepared to be destroyed!

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The fire burned for several hours until it was completely light. The surrounding warships rescued more than 800 crew members who fell into the water, but more people had already followed the aircraft carrier and sank into the icy Atlantic Ocean.

The USS America sank, and the era of American naval hegemony ushered in a major turning point!

When daybreak came, the weather cleared up, the waves became smaller, and seagulls continued to fly over the sea, occasionally passing over the US aircraft carrier formation.

The size of the American aircraft carrier formation has become larger, and the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier battle group has finally joined the USS America aircraft carrier battle group! However, at this time, the USS America has disappeared under the sea!

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The USS Carl Vinson carrier battle group cruised around the sea last night, and every one of them was filled with anger!

The U.S. Navy has never suffered such a loss! The U.S. Navy must take revenge! Mobilize six aircraft carrier battle groups to completely cripple Argentina's navy and air force!

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The news that the USS America was sunk spread all over the world very quickly, and the first place to hear it was the White House. When Reagan, who was half asleep, heard the news, he felt dizzy and almost had a cerebral hemorrhage!

At the beginning, Reagan walked into the White House with full confidence and took charge of the entire America. He was full of vigor and vitality. But now, under his leadership, the United States has not yet emerged from the trough and has been thrown back into the abyss!

It can be said that the decision to send troops was somewhat hasty. After all, it was a war between Britain and Argentina, and the United States could have stood outside and acted as a mediator. However, the Americans immediately contacted the entire Western world and gave Britain full support. Later, after Britain's defeat, the United States fully supported Britain and gathered the entire Western world's fleet to attack Argentina. Who would have thought that they would encounter such a result!

The navy failed! This was something he had never thought of. As the most powerful navy in the United States, when a regional conflict occurred, the first question the president of the United States would ask was, where are our aircraft carriers? With aircraft carriers, there is sufficient force! And now, the aircraft carrier was sunk!

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"It is obvious that this is no longer a local war, but a total war! Argentina sank our aircraft carrier. We must exhaust the power of the entire Western world to win this war! This is a challenge to the United States and the entire Western world!" said Vice President Bush.

As a former World War II veteran, Bush also felt that this incident made Americans feel too humiliated. The United States still had concerns about going to war with the Soviet Union. If Argentina abused the US Navy, how could the United States continue to be the leader of the Western world!