Chapter 069: Bombing the U.S. Fleet (Part I)
Many people must be very strange, see World War II, or the aircraft carrier of the propeller aircraft is very dense, and the runway looks very short, how to take off the plane, in fact, because the propeller is forward thrust, and downward lift, the runway is not very long, of course, the more metal structure of the aircraft, the heavier the aircraft, the longer the runway is needed,
The jet engine used in jet aircraft relies on the recoil effect of the gas produced when the fuel is burned backwards at high speed to make the aircraft fly forward, so a longer runway is required.
The ship-island aircraft carrier does not have hydraulic catapults on board, so it cannot take off at short distances, and their scheduled runway is two hundred and fifty meters,
There are also 700 meters behind for docking aircraft, about 40 J-1 and 10 H-1 torpedo bombers can be parked in a row, and these flew two factions,
The other faction was close to the runway docked 20 J-1 and 18 H-1 bombers, this group of planes quickly took off, they flew quickly to the US aircraft carrier, and the plane in the cabin was blamed by the crane to fall out and continue to take off,
It took about an hour and a half for all the planes to take off, which means that the first batch of planes had already exchanged fire with the enemy, and the last wave of planes took off.
An hour and a half after the plane took off, Huang Feihu asked people to send a telegram to the Vic Moral Squadron, asking them to take to the air to fight, and the Chinese Air Force on Wake Island soon took action.
At this moment, the US military did not fall asleep, their radar soldiers looked at the radar screen attentively and dedicatedly, and at half past one in the morning, the first wave of planes had arrived 200 kilometers away from the US fleet.
The US radar soon detected the existence of this group of planes, and the radar soldier immediately picked up the phone and said, "An unknown plane has been found." ”
And other ship-borne radars also discovered Chinese planes one after another, and for a time the bells of each ship rang loudly.
"Quick, enemy attack." The U.S. fleet panicked, 200 kilometers, the average plane will arrive in ten or twenty minutes, this time is too short, the plane has to pull out of the warehouse, it will take so long to fly,
Spruance didn't even brush his teeth, his premonition finally became a reality, the Chinese really have a conspiracy,
"This group of planes flew from the north-west, but this afternoon they all found the Beiyang Fleet on the side of Wake Island, although the Chinese fleet can sail there after nightfall, but their defense within six hundred kilometers of the fleet is very tight, if the Chinese fleet enters these areas, it should be discovered, but in fact no, Spruance does not doubt the ability of his subordinates,
Spruance concluded that the planes must not have flown from the North Fleet, nor from Wake Island, for there was no need to bypass them, and it would not have been better to fly them directly.
The U.S. fleet is 600 kilometers away from the Beiyang Fleet and 750 kilometers away from Wake Island.
Spruance didn't have time to think about where these planes came from, the Chinese planes arrived in the blink of an eye, of course, Spruance was absolutely sure that this was a Chinese plane, as for why he was so sure that only he knew,
In the blink of an eye, more than 100 Chinese planes arrived, and more than 150 aircraft took off from the 7 US aircraft carrier fleets, although they did not plan to attack at night at all, there were not many planes on the deck, but they had a large number of aircraft carriers, so a large number of planes soon took off, if it was not too dark at night and the runway was longer, they would definitely take off more planes,
There are only 120 Chinese planes, but there are 80 fighters, and the Chinese Air Force has not yet reached the skies above the US aircraft carriers, and the US planes have already pounced.
Naval aviation is selected from the army aviation, so it can be said to be elite, but the Chinese army aviation is not garbage, although such a large aircraft carrier has been built, but after all, it is still not as easy to take off as on land, so the best pilots in the army aviation are transferred,
However, the performance of the Chinese aircraft is much better than his aircraft, and it is also a family, in the United States, the J-1 is the P51, and his range is 4000 kilometers, while the range of the F6F is only 1700 kilometers.
After more than ten minutes of fierce fighting, US planes were driven down one after another, and at night, some advantages would be infinitely magnified.
"Drop the bomb." The captain of the bomber, who finally escorted the bomber to the aircraft carrier, shouted,
"Whew...... Shout...... On the H-1 bomber, 30 tons of bombs were dropped in an instant, in fact, the maximum load capacity ......of this aircraft can reach 54 tons.
The white searchlight of the Americans only felt that these bombs were like their talismans, and when these bombs fell, they formed a face, and the American fleet would be hit by several of them,
However, their anti-aircraft fire is also very fierce, although the heavy bombers fly high, they will still be hit, but fortunately, they are rough and thick, and they are not destroyed.
The two US aircraft carriers were soon bombed and could no longer take off and land planes, and at this time, more than 100 planes from the Beiyang Fleet that took off from Wake Island also arrived over the US aircraft carriers.
Although the U.S. fleet is relatively concentrated, it is still very large, every two fleets are separated by 50 kilometers, and the seven fleets are now divided into three large fleets.
After the planes took off, they all went to the fleet that was attacked by the Chinese planes, and the fleet closest to Wake Island had just taken off at this time, and there were only a few planes, and when the planes of the Beiyang Fleet arrived in the sky, they understood, because the battle in front was too fierce.
"Attack." With the sound of an order, more than 100 planes immediately launched an attack formation, except for more than 10 planes to destroy the American planes, all the other planes participated in the attack on the American aircraft carriers.
The US aircraft carrier became the first target of the attack, and the planes on the aircraft carrier were about to take off, the lights were bright, and the huge outline of the aircraft carrier was clearly seen by the pilots on the Chinese planes.
The bomber dived down directly, then opened the engine room, and thirty tons of bombs were dropped at once, directly at the American aircraft carrier,
The U.S. troops on the aircraft carrier watched the bombs overwhelming and fled in all directions,
"Run, run." Although these bombs are only 250 kilograms, their power should not be underestimated, let alone such swarms of bombs,
Not long after, the bomb fell on the US aircraft carrier, the planes on it were blown up instantly, some bombs fell on the runway of the aircraft carrier, and soon the six aircraft carriers of the two US fleets were bombed without offensive power, and then he could only wait to be sunk, of course, if he was lucky, he could escape, but I am afraid that there is no such opportunity, China's early warning aircraft can easily find them,
"Damn it, fire it, fire it."
The commander of the U.S. fleet was sweating heavily at this time, and had just come to report that although their aircraft carrier was not much damaged, the deck was all destroyed, and they had no attack capability, and this fleet had become a waste fleet in front of a large number of aircraft.
The anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine guns on the surface ships of the US army fired fiercely in the direction of the Chinese planes in the sky, but it was difficult to get the fur of the Chinese planes, let alone easily kill the Chinese planes.
The planes in the sky were quickly killed, and the Chinese planes did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and still launched an attack on the US fleet in an orderly manner.
There was no threat from the air, everyone was more calm, and the American fleet was quickly killed one by one, and after 15 minutes of attack, the planes began to return.
Just as the U.S. fleet was breathing a sigh of relief, planes from Wake Island had already flown over them, most of them carrying torpedoes.
Forty bombers carrying fish and forty planes carrying rockets launched an all-round attack on the American fleet.
Burning American ships, burning napalm on the sea surface gave direction to the torpedo machine, and the Americans were completely invisible to the torpedo in the dark, they could only shoot bullets everywhere,
One by one, the fish hit the US ** ship, the explosions sounded one after another, and every explosion, the heart of the US commander was tight, and his heart was dripping blood, there was no doubt that with every explosion, a warship was killed,
The J-1 fighter attacked the U.S. boat, and a 250-kilogram bomb carried on it could destroy a destroyer or something like a small boat.
The officers and men of the US fleet are really in a mess now, and they are abandoning ships and ships except shooting.
Spruance received all bad news in just half an hour, either the aircraft carrier was blown up and lost its combat effectiveness, or the battleship or cruiser was blown up, but then the aircraft carrier was sunk, or the battleship cruiser was sunk.
"It's over, it's over." Spruance can only say this sentence now,
I am afraid that the 7 aircraft carrier fleets are in calamity today, and the Chinese do not know that so many planes flew from there, and in just half an hour, all the aircraft carriers of the United States were destroyed,
And the United States has fewer and fewer planes in the air, and if it does not evacuate, it will only be completely wiped out.
"The order is to go down, all ships turn off the lights and evacuate." The last command of Spruance in this matter,
The U.S. fleet is no longer thinking about destroying the Chinese fleet at this time, at this moment they are thinking about whether there is a chance to escape back, Spruance's order, everyone is relieved,
The captains of each ship immediately ordered their respective evacuations, and the crews of each ship extinguished the fire one after another, and the warships that were not hit no longer opened fire, but quickly turned off the lights and set sail to evacuate.
The Chinese planes soon discovered their intentions, taking advantage of the burning warships on the sea, the burning napalm on the sea, the weakening of the anti-aircraft fire of the US warships, the frantic attack of the Chinese planes, the number one target of the large warships, of course, the aircraft has an airborne radar, and it is not a big problem to attack these large warships.
After the J-1 fighter launched rockets and dropped bombs, it began to attack those warships with the cannons on the planes, and attacked the US Navy that fell into the water without warships.