258 Naval and Co-ordination

On the calm waters of the Baltic Sea, the deck of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier swayed slightly, and this battleship, which embodies the hopes of the German Navy and the dream of a world naval power, is training intensively. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Frankly speaking, the German aircraft carrier Zeppelin was not a combat ship at this moment, it was just a training ship at this time.

As a training ship, this aircraft carrier is not carrying real combat crews, or rather, it is not carrying real combat configurations.

The aircraft that was supposed to be on board this aircraft carrier was not the maximum, but it was loaded with much more people.

On average, there are 4 pilots in training on a fighter jet, and there are even more pilots trained on a Stuka aircraft, a full 7!

In order to provide flight training for so many pilots, all the training aircraft did not have time to rest, and the German Navy wanted to be able to train as many naval pilots as possible in the shortest possible time.

The reason for this arrangement is that it can make the greatest use of space and can drill the maximum number of naval aviation units that can take off and fight in the fastest time.

And because Li Le has the experience of using aircraft carriers in later generations as a guide, his experience is even more advanced than that of aircraft carrier commanders around the world who are still in the exploration stage.

The theory of fleet aircraft carriers proposed by him, the theory of using a perfect fleet to cover aircraft carriers and using carrier-based aircraft to strike at enemy forces beyond visual range, is much more advanced than the current theory of the use of aircraft carriers by the navies of various countries.

On the other hand, Li Le also put forward the viewpoint of take-off and combat efficiency to the commanders of German naval aircraft carriers, which is to use the most reasonable statistical theory to formulate the command of aircraft carriers.

Sometimes, if the weapon is not powerful, use scientific training and more powerful methods of use to make up for the problem of the weapon itself! This is the method given by Li Le, a method that has been used by many countries in later generations.

It has to be emphasized once that in fact, the ME-109T fighter is not a good fighter, because of the design of the landing gear, it is not suitable for aircraft carriers to take off and land, and the range does not seem to be sufficient.

Compared to another famous Japanese competitor, the Zero, this German fighter is more of an airport defender, with a heartbreaking short range.

There are many problems caused by the lack of range, and when attacking, the huge problem is that the escort radius is too short, and the strike distance is greatly reduced.

When it comes to the air defense of the fleet, the impact of the range problem is that the fighters do not have enough time to stay in the air.

The most embarrassing thing about an aircraft carrier's air defense operations is that once it enters the rhythm of its own planes returning home for refueling because of high-intensity operations, the enemy fighters do not leave.

Once caught in this rhythm, it is a very unfavorable situation to either be forced to abandon some of the planes without fuel, or to be caught by the enemy to attack the aircraft carrier.

Li Le only has ME-109T fighters in his hands, which is the main reason why he has not replaced aircraft carrier-based aircraft for a long time. And the solution he found for the German carrier-based aircraft was to make up for the disadvantages caused by the range problem through precise calculations.

There is no way to make up for the hard damage in the attack range in a short time, but it is theoretically possible to keep more fighters in the air when defending.

The long range pursued by Japanese carrier-based aircraft has given the Zero fighter a combat radius of more than 1,000 kilometers, which is almost twice as much as that of German carrier-based aircraft.

Similarly, when converted into the time of the empty space, the Japanese carrier-based aircraft is probably three times that of the German carrier-based aircraft, which is the advantage of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft.

On the other hand, if German carrier-based planes can improve take-off and landing efficiency by using the law of reasonable arrangement of take-off and landing, they can achieve the time of Japanese naval fighters in the air.

This is not a clever transformation, that is, the disadvantage of fighter performance is transformed into the ability of the commander to coordinate the take-off and landing of aircraft!

It has to be said that the Germans are born with this kind of genius in overall computing, and they can easily arrange the take-off and landing of aircraft, and the efficiency is amazing.

From the real history of World War II, the German railway department arranged the train timetable, and it can be easily seen how talented the Germans are in the timetable.

They have carefully calculated and practiced to easily find the highest efficiency, and rely on their unrivalled punctuality to unswervingly carry out the proposed plan.

"Dive bombers No. 3 and No. 4 with aerial bombs on board took off immediately! You have 1 minute and 30 seconds to operate! "From the command tower of the aircraft carrier Zeppelin, the commander of the German naval aviation commanded loudly.

Two Naval Air Force Stuka C dive bombers, loaded with training bombs, immediately started their engines and began to move towards the runway.

At 1 minute and 10 seconds, the first of the two planes had already rushed off the runway, and the other was following behind, probably less than 30 meters apart.

The two planes flew into the sky one after the other, and No. 1 and No. 2, who were already waiting in the sky, joined their formation, and the four planes once again skimmed the deck of the aircraft carrier and rushed in the direction of the imaginary enemy.

"Recovered fighter numbers 5 and 6...... Time: 2 minutes and 30 seconds! Clear the deck now! There are still 30 seconds to go, and the two fighters are about to enter the field! "After taking off two Stuka C dive bombers, the commander gave the order to welcome the plane for landing.

The busy ground crew on the deck immediately leaned towards the safe area, and in the distance a ME-109T fighter had already aimed at the deck of the aircraft carrier and lowered its altitude.

"Height! Height! Very good! Falcon 5! There is no problem with your height! No problem! The ground crew on the deck alerted the carrier-based aircraft approaching the aircraft carrier, watching its figure sway slowly in the sky.

Soon, the carrier-based fighter rushed onto the runway of the aircraft carrier, and the landing hook in the tail successfully hooked the recovery barrage on the deck.

The sheer force caused the plane to quickly come to a halt from its high-speed advance. The ground crews on both sides swarmed up, and before the pilot could climb out of the plane, they pushed the fighter out of the runway area where it had landed.

In the sky, another ME-109T fighter that had circled around also rushed down at this time, bringing a gust of wind on the deck.

The carrier-based fighter also successfully hooked the tail landing hook to the arresting line and stopped at about the same location.

"That's it! Congratulations! The timing was just right! You have the next 7 minutes to rest, and after that, you have 8 minutes to clean the deck. On the high conning tower, after the officer finished his last sentence, he put down the radio intercom.

On the edge of the deck, a post responsible for commanding the deck ground crew raised two arms and made a gesture of 7, and everyone was relieved when they saw it.

The pilots climbed out of the plane and walked to the door leading to the lounge with the help of ground crew, where the pilots, who were already on standby, were packing their bags.

The officer on the conning tower took a cup of boiling water from the adjutant and drank it all before letting out a long breath.

The captain of the Zeppelin, the German Admiral Lütjens, who had just taken office not long ago, came over and smiled with a smile: "Tired, aren't you?" How long is the break this time? ”

The captain was also the commander of the German Navy's air fleet, and had recently commanded the battle cruiser Scharnhorst, which had been on a safari in the Atlantic Ocean and had a wealth of experience in breaking up engagements at sea.

Of course, this admiral, like other admirals, has no experience in commanding aircraft carriers, and the only advantage is that he only needs to command warships, and the affairs of aircraft are left to the commander of naval aviation.

In the same way, such a division of labor is also a valuable experience learned from the future US aircraft carrier management system.

And on the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, the commander carefully selected by the German Navy and poached from the Luftwaffe was the aviation commander in front of him, named Hines.

Hines smiled bitterly, looked at Rutyans in front of him, and complained: "This kind of dense take-off simulation is really sad...... The whole plan must be seamless, and every step that goes wrong is complemented by another set of plans...... I've barely managed to memorize a third of it. ”

The University of Berlin has developed a set of take-off and landing procedures for naval aviation, which includes emergency measures to deal with each link after an error, and has evolved into about seven sets of take-off and landing specifications with different rhythms.

At present, the training of the German Navy is to follow the mature model of this set of plans as much as possible. If all goes well, the German Navy's take-off and landing efficiency may be the highest among all countries in naval aviation today.

This is definitely not bragging, the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States all have powerful aircraft carrier fleets, and they all have many aircraft carriers, and there is no need to use such a strict take-off and landing process.

It was only in the sixties and seventies that the United States completed the jet-age aircraft carrier take-off and landing efficiency test, and explored the world's most advanced naval aviation combat efficiency specifications.

The efficiency of the Japanese naval aviation is there, and it can be said that it is the most combat-effective maritime aviation force in the world so far, but its efficiency is indeed not as perverted as Germany.

The main reason is not that the Japanese can't do it, but that they don't need to design it that way - their planes have a larger range, more carriers, enough tactical scheduling, and no need for such complexity.

Only Germany has designed the entire process so precisely in order to intensify the training. And only Germany took such an aircraft carrier to train the aviation of the entire navy......