Chapter 399: Chapter 200 Fear of Death
Chapter 399: Chapter 200 Fear of Death
From the current situation, the task to destroy the THAAD system within South Korea’s borders posted on the Dark Web was entirely a plot, targeting the Destroyer and his mysterious combat aircraft. After detailed intelligence analysis, the conspirators concluded that the Destroyer was possibly Chinese or an overseas Chinese person with loyalties to the homeland. Hence, they posed as a somewhat nationalistic Chinese individual to publish the task, exploiting Chinese resentment towards South Korea’s THAAD system to lure the Destroyer into the trap. Indeed, Yan Fei was deceived by this mission, and the incessant slander from the South Korean side during that period fueled his anger, leading him right into the trap.
What the plot’s designers didn’t anticipate was that upon discovering the task on the Dark Web, Yan Fei didn’t immediately accept it out of caution. Instead, he deployed drones to South Korea to destroy the THAAD system and planned to accept the task only upon completion. Consequently, the designers didn’t know if the Destroyer had taken the bait and would come here, naturally rendering them unable to maintain the perfect state of the trap at all times. After all, keeping a trap in perfect condition constantly demands vast resources and manpower. If the Destroyer failed to appear, setting up the trap would result in a significant waste of funds.
It was for this reason that when the drone arrived at the THAAD System Base in Star City, South Korea, using the most covert methods, there were only minimal personnel and equipment on guard, leaving a significant gap in the trap’s defenses. So, when the drone launched the first wave of attack and destroyed the wooden replica of the THAAD system, quite some time had passed before the conspirators realized the Destroyer had entered their trap. Regrettably, due to financial reasons, they couldn’t maintain the trap perfectly and were unable to attack the drone as soon as it appeared.
After one attack, the drone discovered the trap and quickly retreated. Although the designers immediately retaliated against the drone, their response was somewhat hasty, allowing the drone to first evade the onslaught of steel ball missiles, then confront the THAAD system head-on, and, relying on its formidable combat power, actually succeeded in destroying the THAAD system.
When the drone took off from near the coast of Shanghai, Yan Fei had already considered that this mission might be a trap, and so he had developed several different combat plans. Therefore, after destroying the ground THAAD system positions, the drone immediately ascended again, returning to an altitude of thirty thousand meters and swiftly headed towards the sea to the east.
Without further obstruction, the drone quickly crossed South Korea’s coastline and reached the sea on its eastern side. As the drone prepared to lower its altitude and re-submerge into the ocean, its quantum radar suddenly alerted that more than twenty missiles had emerged from the sea surface below, speeding towards the drone.
With the fast scanning of the drone’s quantum radar, the auxiliary brain immediately identified the approaching missiles as the US Forces’ SM-2 air defense missiles. Then, extending the radar’s scan range, the radar detected three massive warships on the distant sea surface, from which the SM-2 air defense missiles had been launched.
The characteristics of these three warships appeared in the auxiliary brain’s database under the quantum radar’s scanning. Utilizing the data in the database, the brain analyzed and compared the ships, quickly determining their identities as warships belonging to the South Korean navy.
The two larger warships among them were Sejong the Great-class destroyers of the South Korean Navy, namely the lead ship Sejong the Great and the second ship Yulko Yi. The slightly smaller warship was the Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer of the South Korean navy, the second vessel, the Choe Yeong.
These three South Korean destroyers were rushing from the eastern territorial waters of South Korea towards the coastline. It seemed that upon realizing the Destroyer’s escape, the planners of this conspiracy had started to mobilize and call upon the warships on patrol in the waters off South Korea in an attempt to encircle and intercept the drone.
All three warships were the elite of the South Korean navy, fully equipped with the United States’ Aegis Combat System, boasting powerful air defense capabilities. After detecting the drones with their shipborne radars, they launched SM-2 air defense missiles at the drone in the high altitude. Within a brief period, 24 SM-2 air defense missiles had been fired by the three warships, and it looked like they were preparing to launch even more.
Under the lock of the Aegis System, SM-2 air defense missiles headed towards the drone at an altitude of thirty thousand meters. However, when compared to the THAAD missiles launched by the THAAD system, the SM-2 air defense missiles were significantly inferior. Their flight speed and attack range and altitude were far less. Therefore, Yan Fei was not overly concerned upon realizing that the incoming missiles were SM-2 air defense missiles. Their maximum range was only 24,000 meters, and their flight speed topped at Mach 3. The drone was flying at Mach 3 at an altitude of 30,000 meters, which meant that no matter how many SM-2 air defense missiles were fired, they could not reach it.