"Boom, boom......

December 9, 14:40. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The rumbling of artillery rang out over the North Atlantic, 300 nautical miles west of Iceland, but it was not the 406mm or 380mm battleship guns that fired, but the battleship's anti-aircraft guns.

Comrade Bulganin looked up at the dazzling white light outside the bridge and involuntarily narrowed his eyes. Now there are German planes circling in the sky and dropping flares! The anti-aircraft fire on the USS Soviets and 10 other battleships, as well as other cruisers and destroyers protecting the battleships, was in full swing, weaving a web of fire over the battleships, and from time to time German planes were hit and caught fire!

But the flares kept dropping, enveloping the fast-moving battleship in an uncomfortable white light.

What did Nazi imperialism want to do? What's the conspiracy?

Bulganin turned his head to look at Kuznetsov, who looked heroic and stood straight, as if he was a naval god.

"Comrade Military Commissar, the enemy may want to launch an air strike!" "But rest assured, we have been prepared for a long time. All ships were equipped with jammers supplied by the Americans, which could jam the radio signals of remote-controlled gliding bombs, so this weapon of the Nazis was no longer a threat to us. ”

The "radio jammer", as Kuznetsov called it, is practically useless. Because of a naked Jewish beauty Heidi. Rama is now an honorary Aryan and a baroness of the Croatian-Hungarian kingdom - her husband is an Austrian arms magnate, also an honorary Aryan, and was made a baron by King Otto (Habsburg) for helping the Croatian-Hungarian kingdom build an arsenal. So Heidi. Rama's spread spectrum technology (frequency hopping) did not make its way to Britain and the United States.

Therefore, American scientists do not yet know the principles of communication technology for the Germans' radio-controlled bombs, and naturally there is no way to develop an effective jamming device. The radio jammers provided by the Americans can only interfere with radio signals in a single wavelength, which is actually a psychological consolation.

However, the Germans did not drop the remote-controlled gliding bombs, because the battleship was a high-speed moving target, and the flares hung on the parachutes could not follow the movement of the battleship. So the battleship was illuminated only occasionally, most of the time it was still in the dark, and the operator on the JU288 bomber had a hard time finding targets on the surface.

"The enemy wants to determine the order of our formations," Admiral Ingersoll corrected, knowing the conversation between Bulganin and Kuznetsov through an interpreter, "and then they decided on the order of the shelling." ”

Now the two fleets have met on a narrow road at sea! Although the ship-based sea-to-sea search radars of both sides have not yet detected each other, they are followed by seaplane carriers that can carry medium and large seaplanes on both sides, and the Germans have released He-115 and BV-138C long-range seaplanes. The Americans released the Catarina seaplane, and the British also had several Sunderland "Short" seaplanes available.

So when the two fleets were still more than 100 nautical miles apart, the two sides had already discovered each other's positions. However, radar detection alone could not determine the type of ship and the order of the queue, so the German He-115 seaplanes would risk lowering the altitude to drop flares.

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"Your Excellency Marshal, the enemy's battleship and battlecruiser forces seem to have formed two columns, advancing in parallel." Inside the bridge of the battleship Hindenburg, Wilhelm. "One column consisted of 2 South Dakota-class and 4 Soviet-class ships, and the other column consisted of 3 King George V-class ships and 2 Kronstadt-class ships," said Lieutenant General Messer, holding the report he had just received. ”

"What is the order of the queue?" Marshal Lütjans asked.

"The first column was 2 South Dakota-class ships in the front, and 4 Soviet-class ships in the rear. In the second column, 3 King George V ships were in the front, and 2 Kronstadt were in the rear. ”

"This is for the sake of unified viewing, right?" Lütjans said to himself, "The Soviet-class and Kronstadt class were originally installed with the Soviet Union's own radar and fire control system, which should be a very bad thing. Although American goods were redressed in New York, it was impossible for the Soviets to master American goods so quickly...... So the solution is to have one South Dakota class and one King George V-class ship in charge of sighting. ”

His analysis was absolutely correct, the Soviet optics and sighting equipment, fire control equipment and radar were poor. So in New York they were replaced with the best American goods, but the quality of Soviet sailors was not high, and it was impossible to master American equipment so quickly (the two types of equipment were very different, even the size was different, one was metric and the other was imperial). Fortunately, this problem has little impact on naval warfare, and the tactics of unified sighting and concentrated fire can be adopted, so that as long as the South Dakota class and the King George V class find the right target, the Soviet class and the Kronstadt class can hit the target -- in fact, the European Combined Fleet also does this when firing with concentrated fire.

"We're going to meet it in four columns!" Lütjans thought for a moment and said, "The first team has the Hindenburg as the flagship, and the order is the Admiral Hipper, the Ludendorff, the Hindenburg, the Veneto, the Litorio, the Roma, and the Imperial, against 4 Soviet-class ships and 2 South Dakota-class ships; The second team took the Bismarck as the flagship, and the order was Prinz Eugen, Tirpitz, Bismarck, Jean. Bar, Napoleon (Clemenceau), Barbarossa (O-class), Schlieffen (O-class); The third team is led by the Gneisenau, and the order is Blucher, Gneisenau, Dunkirk, Europaburg (Strasbourg), Kaiser Wilhelm II (P-class), Frederick I (P-class), Theresa. Maria (P-class).

In addition, a heavy patrol was formed, with the Lützov as the flagship, and the order was Lützov, Foch, Colbert, Fum, Golicia, and Bora. ”

"Marshal, let the Heavy Patrol take the lead?" Lieutenant General Messer asked.

"No, go hand in hand." "Our Admiral-class heavy cruisers were often mistaken for battleships, precisely to confuse the enemy. ”

The German Admiral-class heavy cruisers were massive, with a superstructure very similar to the Bismarck-class, and a turret of 4 twins. As a result, it is often misidentified in past engagements. The German Navy also discovered this, so it liked to put the Admiral Hippel class in the position of the head of the battleship formation, and used it to lure the enemy ship formation to fire first - this was very advantageous in fleet artillery battles, because if the wrong target was found, several rounds of shells would be missed, and it would take time to re-aim and shoot, which would delay the time when the battleships on the German side were hit by the enemy.

Therefore, the treacherous and cunning Marshal Lütjans set up four columns marching in unison today, and the first ships were all Admiral-Hipper-class heavy cruisers that looked very much like the Bismarck-class, in order to confuse the other party.

"The vanguard arranges reconnaissance cruisers and light cruisers?" Vice Admiral Messer was a little uneasy, "The other side is likely to dispatch heavy cruisers, and they have an advantage in the number of heavy cruisers." ”

There must have been more heavy cruisers in Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, after all, Germany was limited during the interwar period, and the naval reconstruction started late, and only 4 heavy cruisers were built. And the French and Italian heavy cruisers were not many, 7 each before the war, and after the outbreak of the war, the Italian heavy cruiser Zara sank. As a result, the total number of heavy cruisers in Germany, Italy and France now stands at 13.

And the United States had 18 heavy cruisers before the war, Britain had 19 heavy cruisers, and the Soviet Union had 7 heavy cruisers, for a total of 44 ships! Although after the start of the war, the British and American heavy patrols lost 11 ships one after another, and some American heavy cruises went to the Pacific. But on the Atlantic side, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union still had as many as 23 heavy cruises.

"Use the Thunderbolt to deal with them!" "The T-93 torpedo, which we spent a lot of money to get from the Japanese, should now play a role." ”

The T-93 torpedo is the famous Japanese Type 93 torpedo, also known as the spear torpedo. With a super large caliber of 610mm and a weight of 2.7 tons, it also has an ultra-long range, which can hit 20,000 meters away at a speed of 48 knots! And the warhead charge is also up to 490 kg. As long as one hits, even a battleship will have to be severely damaged.

This sharp torpedo was noticed by the German Navy personnel at the end of 1941 when the guided missile cruiser Emperor Fitreik I went to fight with the Japanese Combined Fleet.

Soon someone realized the value of this super-torpedo and put forward a request for its introduction. And Hersman, because he had heard of the notoriety of this torpedo being unsafe, was reluctant to introduce it at first.

But he soon changed his mind, because at this time the German and Italian navies had a very suitable type of ship for the use of 93 spear torpedoes - thunder strike ships (which can also be called torpedo boats)! Germany has the T series, and Italy has the famous Constellation series. They are all small ships of several hundred tons to more than 1,000 tons (Germany's T series also built more than 2,000 tons of big guys, basically destroyers), and the power of 533mm or 450mm torpedoes is really limited, so the German Navy has been looking for high-power torpedoes to equip mine-striking ships. The development of V-type missile boats on the basis of mine-striking ships is one way, and the replacement of mine-striking ships with Japanese 93 spear torpedoes is another way.

So from the beginning of 42, Germany exchanged part of the technology of V3 man-operated missiles and remote-controlled gliding bombs (excluding spread spectrum communication technology) for the technology of 93 spear torpedoes. And also part of the T-type mine-strike ships were upgraded, and from the 3rd quarter of 42 onwards, T-93 mine-strike ships armed with T-93 torpedoes appeared in the combined European fleet. (To be continued.) )