The training exercises for the aircraft carrier battle group were unfolding in an orderly fashion.
Due to the curvature of the Earth, the phased array radar on battleships has a limited detection range for low-altitude targets, generally only a few dozen kilometers.
And this is precisely why pilots have to rigorously practice low-altitude penetration.
Of course, many advanced anti-ship missiles employ low-altitude breakthrough to increase their chance of success.
Flying at heights just above the sea surface drastically limits the reaction time of the ships at sea.
From the detection of the target to the organization of weapon interception, for anti-ship missiles traveling at one or two kilometers per second or even faster, there were only ten to twenty seconds left for the ship's air defense.
With such a short window of time, if there were a sufficient number of anti-ship missiles, this would constitute a saturation attack.