Britain, although it still considers itself an old capitalist country, is already in decline, for example, most of the warships of the British Navy were built during the First World War. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The same is true of the current Athletic, an aircraft carrier ordered by the Royal Navy in 1917. For various reasons, it was not completed until 1923, and in this way, the first specially designed aircraft carrier fell into the hands of the Fengxiang.

The previous aircraft carriers were converted from other warships, but this aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier with a completely new design.

For example, it has an all-through flight deck; The closed bow has strong wave resistance; The bridge, mast and chimney were combined into a large island located on the starboard side of the hull on the right side of the all-through flight deck, which was the first time that an aircraft carrier had adopted an island-style superstructure design.

In particular, the design of this ship island has been passed down to later generations, becoming a pioneer of various aircraft carriers. It is not only conducive to flight and navigation command, but also has higher strength than lateral chimneys and collapsible chimneys, and is beneficial to hull sealing.

This 10,000-ton aircraft carrier had 20 aircraft on board at that time. However, with the increase in the size of carrier-based aircraft, the number of carrier-based aircraft dropped to 16 aircraft.

After the Athletic God was put into service, it was sent to the Far East and has been cruising in Southeast Asia and the China Sea. And so, until now, after the Scapa Bay air raid, the Athletic was hastily transferred back to the Atlantic with the important mission of revenge.

These days, the British Navy has been searching for the whereabouts of the German Navy, but it has found nothing, and now, now that there are German warships, of course they will not let go!

"Take off the carrier-based aircraft and immediately launch an attack on the German warship!" Tovey said to Onslow.

"Yes, we're going to attack right away!" Aung Slow was confident.

This is the essence of the old navy!

Generally speaking, naval carrier-based aircraft cannot be dispatched at night, for example, in later generations, even if the Americans show off their military might around the world, less than 50 percent of their naval carrier-based aircraft pilots have the ability to fly at night.

And now, the British Navy, but for night operations!

Their greatest reliance is precisely because of their backward carrier-based aircraft, Swordfish torpedo machines.

The take-off and landing on the aircraft carrier is very risky, the fluctuating deck, the crosswind that may come at any time, all make the take-off and landing full of risks, especially when landing, even if the deck lights are on, for the flying aircraft, the deck is still a projectile place.

The higher the take-off and landing speed, the greater the risk of working at night.

In this comparison, the Swordfish is a perfect match, because the Swordfish is a biplane, and a great advantage of the biplane is that the speed is low, yes, here, the low speed is an advantage, which makes its take-off and landing easier!

The British have done this more than once in history.

In Taranto, the British successfully used Swordfish in night torpedo warfare, and in the subsequent naval battle of the Indian Ocean, Samorville also intended to use the large mackerel to sneak up on the Japanese fleet at night.

Biplanes, that's how confident they are.

And now, the attack of the British Navy, again!

All the deck lights were fully turned on, illuminating the flight deck, and on the take-off line, a Swordfish torpedo plane was ready, and under the belly, the torpedo more than six meters long was so conspicuous.

Pilot Ted, sitting in the open cabin, his back seat was empty, and the machine gunner was canceled.

At night, air combat was almost impossible, so, the rear-seat machine gunner was purely redundant, and in the rear-seat position, an additional fuel tank was installed, carrying more fuel.

Now, it's half past eight in the evening, looking at the runway lights in front of him, Ted shouts over the radio, "Swordfish request to take off." ”

"Good luck with the take-off." The sound of the bridge came from inside the headphones.

Pushing the throttle to the maximum, the 750-horsepower Bristol Sagittarius XXX9-cylinder air-cooled engine roared, and the full-powered Swordfish torpedo machine slid on the narrow deck, and before it reached the very front of the deck, it took off.

The advantage of the biplane is that the take-off and landing speed is low, as long as there is a flat land, it can take off!

In the back, one Swordfish after another took off, and this first attack wave, consisting of 12 Swordfish.

6 carried one torpedo each, 4 bombs, 2 bombs and flares.

The Germans would never have thought that they would attack at night, and when the flare came on, it was when the Deutschland was sunk!

Ted looked at the dark night sky around him, and now he flew entirely on instruments, something that only the most experienced and seasoned pilots could do.

And the biggest advantage of this attack is that the distance is very close, the German warship is only thirty nautical miles away from their side, even if the Swordfish flies slowly, at most twenty minutes, it will fly there.

Your task is not necessarily to sink the opponent, as long as you injure the opponent and make the opponent incapacitated, several cruisers in the fleet can come up and sink the German with naval guns.

Gotta do it nicely!

They did not know that their whereabouts had been discovered by the Germans.

Deutschland.

On a huge hemispherical screen, bright lines rotate in circles, and those bright spots are almost always there.

The radar crews were preoccupied, they knew that battle would come at any moment, and they were the eyes of the Deutschland.

Suddenly, on the radar screen, several additional points of light appeared!

These points of light are small and almost looming on the screen, however, definitely not an echo of interference, but ... Plane!

Those few British fleets at sea, among them there are actually aircraft carriers!

"Report, the British have been found to have taken off the carrier-based aircraft, which is expected to arrive in fifteen minutes!" On the bridge, Colonel Stange received the news.

"All ships, sound the air defense siren, turn off all lights, and the anti-aircraft gunners are in place." Colonel Stanger said, "Let us meet the arrival of the British with heavy artillery fire." ”

In the original time and space, the Deutsche was equipped with a 37mm hand-pulled machine, which did not have enough firepower in the face of the Swordfish attack aircraft, but now, the Deutschland is already a very powerful air defense ship!

It has three twin-mounted 105-mm anti-aircraft guns, as well as sixteen 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, this kind of firepower is enough to make the opponent tremble, no matter how many planes come, it is sure to shoot down the opponent!

Sharp anti-aircraft sirens sounded throughout the warship, and the sound of anti-aircraft sirens was heard, and the anti-aircraft gunners were quickly running towards the anti-aircraft gun positions.

"What's going on out there?" Bruce asked.

His attitude was quite good, so he was treated well, blowing a cool breeze on the deck, which was also because there was not enough space inside the warship, and next to him, there were German naval soldiers with submachine guns who were guarding them, and they were still very polite to him.

"There are air strikes." The German sailor said to him.

"I ask to go to war." "During my time in the U.S. Navy, I also operated anti-aircraft guns, especially the Bofors anti-aircraft guns," Bruce said. ”