"Boom!" When the sky exploded with a shocking bang that shook the sky, the bow of the USS Zeppelin suddenly burst into an overwhelming red light, like a torch cloud descending on her deck. In a moment www.biquge.info hundreds of square meters of shipbuilding steel plates were twisted and shattered like papier-mâché, and together with the fragments of the cabin equipment below, they burst into the sky in all directions -- the terrifying lethality of a 1,000-pound aerial bomb on the unprotected area of a warship was undoubtedly revealed, and a single blow was almost equivalent to a concentrated attack on the target area by 10 battleship main gun shells!

"Heroic soldiers of Britain, let's avenge Sergeant Jordy!" In the British airborne communication channel, Major Clarke's eyes were red, and he yelled at the communicator in front of him. As the commander of the attack aircraft group, Clarke, who was hovering at high altitude, witnessed the whole process of the 911 plane being hit by the bullet and crashing into the enemy ship.

At this time, the largest aircraft carrier was already in flames, billowing smoke rising thousands of meters high, and from any point of view, its damage was far greater than that of the Bismarck, which had also been attacked by British planes four months earlier. With just a few more bombs, Britain has a good chance of achieving its first decisive result since the start of the war!

The British pilots responded in droves, and morale climbed to an all-time high. They also noticed the explosion on the German aircraft carrier, and compared to the previous futility, the scene in front of them clearly gave them great confidence in victory. Although the many anti-aircraft guns on the sea were still firing desperately, raining deadly projectiles into the air, the British pilots were fearless and desperately tried to drop bombs on the heads of the opponents.

Artillery fire erupted, warplanes rolled and neighed, and the British aircraft group launched a continuous stormy attack on the German aircraft carriers running at high speed on the sea. During the dive flyover, most of them targeted the two Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers. Occasionally, a "battle" was hit by a dense anti-aircraft shell, and its broken wings fell straight into the sea with billowing black smoke, but more "combat" broke through the German anti-aircraft fire interception that was numerous but primitive and fire-controlled, and dropped heavy bombs on the target.

With the huge water column rushing into the sky, the two German heavy aircraft carriers exploded again like a volcanic eruption, and the destructive sound waves that almost shattered the galaxy swept the entire sea and sky, making people worry about whether they would disintegrate and explode under the continuous thunder bombardment!

On the bridge of the USS Hipper, not far from the flagship, Fang Yan's eyes were solemn, staring at the two friendly heavy aircraft carriers that were besieged. In just 10 minutes, more than 30 British bombers had dropped bombs on them. Although the British aircraft were not professional dives, and the hit rate was much lower than that of the German carrier-based bombers, so far, the 2 ships have been directly hit more than 10 times. A large number of decks collapsed and collapsed, and the casualties were conservatively estimated to be more than 500, among them, the beveled deck of the Ekman aircraft carrier was even blown off and fell into the sea, and the scene of the whole ship in a sea of fire was extremely weak and miserable.

"The British are still too young. There was a major discrepancy between the types of bombs they had and the choice of targets, "Seeing that more than half of the bombs dropped by British planes, Fang Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief and whispered softly. Perhaps too eager to sink Germany's core aircraft carrier to salvage the defeat, the more than 50 British bombers that attacked went to the largest of the first air battle shuangshu, completely ignoring the two relatively slender Hipper-class. This choice was not a problem in itself, but combined with the ammunition carried by the British bombers, it became a fatal mistake to make the landing.

According to Fang Yan's observations, the two Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers were full of high-explosive bombs with huge charges. With the kinetic energy of its own fall, this bomb has a certain penetration power when using the tail fuse design, but it is still only suitable for unarmored or lightly armored targets, and the threat to heavy armored warships is extremely limited. Because as long as the main horizontal armor is not penetrated, the destructive power of the bomb is limited to the non-core area above the armor, and even if the superstructure is completely wiped out, the heavy armor warship can successfully turn in with its intact power system.

As early as the final stage of the surprise attack on Scarpa Bay in September last year, the British Air Force suffered this loss in the bombing of the Bismarck: high-explosive bombs of 500 pounds and below could not even blow up a decent crater in the face of the 40-mm full-coverage open deck of the German ship. This time, the British replaced with more powerful 1,000-pound bombs and confidently launched an attack on the German aircraft carriers, but the Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers were very different from the crispy cans imagined by the British, and Fang Yan had already turned them into solid enough sea fortresses when they were designed.

As an improved version of the historic aircraft carrier, the Zeppelin-class has an armored flight deck of 180 meters × 20 meters long and wide, and up to 100 mm thick, which can even protect against 500kg of armor-piercing bombs dropped from high altitudes, thus protecting the double-decker hangar below. The high-explosive bombs dropped by British planes could only destroy the unprotected area around her deck, and even the hangar could not be reached, let alone the core compartment further down. The only ones that can really pose a lethal threat to the Zeppelin class are armor-piercing bombs of more than 800kg and a number of high-power torpedoes. It is a pity that Britain in the current period lacks neither these weapons, nor the ability to drop them on German aircraft carriers.

And even the Hipper-class, which has a defensive level more than one grade lower than Zeppelin, is not survivable by these high-explosive bombs dropped by current British bombers. She has a 75 mm thick main horizontal armor inside the hull, which is more than enough to withstand conventional armor-piercing bombs dropped at ordinary heights. The only difference from the Zeppelin class is that the Hipper-class, with a standard displacement of only 13,000 tons, has no armored flight deck, and its hangar is in an undefended streaking state in the face of high-explosive shells.

If the British bomber had chosen the smaller Hipper-class, it would have been unsinkable, but it would at least have dealt a devastating blow to her hangar and elevator, forcing her to not get off the slipway for at least six months, and possibly nine months. However, the British bombers chose the target above the Zeppelin class, and it will take less than 3 months for this aircraft carrier to return to Hong Kong and return to the ocean!

Gradually, British Commander Clark also noticed something unusual. The two enemy ships that they were trying to attack only looked miserable, not only did they not lose their speed, but there was also an area in the middle of the deck where there was no open flame. Shocked and alarmed, Clark gritted his teeth and ordered the remaining dozen or so planes that did not drop bombs to change their targets and attack the other two small aircraft carriers. Either way, he has to achieve substantial results today!