Chapter 960: Carrier-based aircraft take off
As a backup force, the 50th Squadron could not operate many weapons, and most of the advanced specialized anti-ship bombs imported from Germany were on six specialized aircraft carriers, and only two were given to them.
After all, this kind of tanker-converted aircraft carrier does not have a special hangar at all, and the temporarily modified arsenal is also very narrow, most of which are ordinary aerial bombs, and there are only two of these high-powered weapons.
One is assigned to an aircraft carrier, and whoever carries this bomb must complete the task!
Almost all of them rushed to mount bombs, and their sense of war was very high.
Pearl Harbor.
Located on the island of Oahu, it is a family of the Hawaiian Islands and the seat of the state of Hawaii. There is only one dredged channel with a depth of 13.7 meters, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, quite similar to Scarpa Bay.
Because the Hawaiian Islands are located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, they were originally independent kingdoms, later colonized by Spain, and then seized from Spain by the United States in 1898.
After that, Pearl Harbor belonged to the United States, and until now, the United States has built a ship repair yard, dry dock, fuel supply depot, docks, and necessary naval facilities in Pearl Harbor, from which it can easily radiate to East Asia.
With the rise of the island nation, the United States attaches more importance to Pearl Harbor, building a submarine and aviation base here, and last year, when German submarines came to the Pacific to make trouble, Pearl Harbor raised its security level and sent a large number of warships to search in the Pacific Ocean.
And now, with the Pacific Ocean calming down again, the Pearl Harbor base, as before.
The situation in Europe is extremely precarious, but in the United States, isolationism is still very serious, not too many people want to get involved in the war, for them, warm sunshine, beautiful beaches, and countless beautiful women, this kind of life, is what they want most.
Today, it is Sunday, most of the senior officers of the Navy have left their positions, officers and men are also people, and they also need to rest, most of their families are on the island of Hawaii, this Sunday, is the day for them to reunite with their families.
At this time, 220 nautical miles north of Oahu, a huge fleet was accelerating in full force.
In the chimneys of every aircraft carrier, black smoke came out, and the deck of the aircraft carrier was densely packed with carrier-based aircraft.
Since the German bombers were exported to the island countries, the island countries gritted their teeth and sent all their 97 ships to the shore, and most of the aircraft carriers loaded on the aircraft carriers were Stukka, and now the first batch of planes to take off are also this kind of aircraft.
Fujita Izu was sitting in his plane, and a one-ton PC1000RS bomb had been mounted on the center line of his belly, and he was extremely excited at this time, with a white cloth tied to his flight cap before the expedition.
Inside the headset, the command finally came, he opened the throttle wide, released the brakes, Stuka's engine roared, the fighter slid forward, with the help of the deck wind, the Stuka bomber was at the end of the deck, easily pulled up, he gently brought the operating stick back, and the fighter continued to climb.
Behind him, the machine gunner was also extremely excited, watching the fighters take off from the deck.
Soon, hundreds of warplanes flew up in formation in the air, flying in the direction of Pearl Harbor.
On the bridge of the Akagi, Nagumo Tadaichi looked at these planes, and his mood was just as excited, no matter how much hesitation he had at the beginning, now, when the battle had begun, he was just like everyone else, he was only looking forward to victory.
Next to him, Rudel was relaxed.
For a long time, as the military adviser of the island country, Rudel has provided a piece of advice, if this attack is successful, there is no doubt that Rudel is also one of the heroes, if the attack fails, well, it is the island people who die anyway.
Rudel has always been bold because he does not have to worry about the loss of troops.
However, now, he has a strong premonition that this attack will definitely go quite smoothly.
Roosevelt couldn't wait to have an excuse for war, and he played right and wrong several times, just to get the United States into a wartime system, but unfortunately he was stirred up by Germany again and again.
This time, it was finally a real bullied, what will the Americans do?
Let the United States and the island nations consume each other's strength in the war!
"The Ryuta Maru also received the order, and when we took off, the Ryuta Maru was also flying fighters, and they should arrive on the battlefield earlier than our fighters." Nagumo Tadaichi said: "Moreover, two hours ago, from the country, there were two G5N deep mountain bombers, which had already taken off, and according to the time, they should be able to catch up with our second wave of bombing." ”
The designers of the Deep Mountain Bomber, after having to receive the German DB605 liquid-cooled engine, were not satisfied, but the test flight showed good performance.
The engine is so mature and reliable that it meets the performance requirements immediately after it is installed on the aircraft, and the fuel consumption rate is low, so that the actual range is increased!
Historically, many bombers faced the problem of engine overheating in the process of development, and the same was true of the American B-29, which was almost not until the post-war period to completely solve the problem of engine overheating.
Liquid-cooled engines, on the other hand, are born with this advantage. The biggest problem that plagued the bombers was solved, and the Deep Mountain Bomber was quickly finalized almost as soon as it was loaded on the plane.
This bomber is being produced intensively, and the two prototypes, which can not wait to participate in the operation, will take time to fly from the distant homeland.
Rudel nodded, the islanders want to import the German Junkers-290, it is impossible, but the islanders develop their own bombers, and Germany supports them, all for the benefit of Germany.
They want to replicate Scarpa's success, so let them try, but there's one last question.
"When are you going to declare war on the United States?" Rudel said.
When they attacked Scapa Bay, the British had already declared war, but the British were too careless, believing that Germany did not have the strength to attack them, and now, between the island countries and the United States, it is only an economic dispute, if the island countries did not declare war on the United States before the sneak attack, it would be intolerable to the Americans.
"This, I don't know, we're only in charge of combat." Nagumo Tadaichi said.
Declaring war, that's a politician's business, as a soldier, it's good to be only responsible for fighting.