Chapter 1859: Air Raid
It is precisely because these fighters do not need to replenish weapons that most of the fighters with sufficient fuel do not land on the aircraft carrier, even if the fuel is about to run out, after they land on the aircraft carrier, they only need to add a part of the fuel, do not need to fill up, not even half of it. At this time, the aircraft carrier is only more than 100 kilometers away from the west coast of the United States, and it will not exceed 400 kilometers if it goes to the target location, that is to say, the escort mission of the fighter can be carried out as long as it is 1200 kilometers, and the combat effectiveness will be slightly improved under the premise of half a warehouse, and they will follow the bombers to escort and do simple bombing.
As a result of this, not only can the combat effectiveness be strengthened, but the maneuverability of the fighter is directly related to the load capacity, and in the case of full load, or even overload, the fighter cannot achieve the specified performance, and the half-position, or even under the premise of light oil, both maneuverability and fighting ability have been greatly improved.
Before the jet, to be precise, before the radar and guided weapons cooperated, the most important thing for the aircraft was its fighting performance, maneuverability, and the maneuverability that could burst out in a short period of time, which directly showed his combat effectiveness, and he could choose a variety of methods to avoid the opponent's attack.
Why did the Su-27 appear at the beginning, it showed terrible power, is because he can easily make cobra maneuvers, and even the later super cobra, they are not only a stunt action, accompanied by stunt action, but also the characteristics of use, at some specific times, using these stunt moves, you can get rid of the enemy's attack, and achieve a favorable combat position, this, after the Su-27 debuted, almost made the Su-27 become a star.
However, after the eighties and nineties of the 20 th century, the entire world pattern has undergone tremendous changes, and the industrial revolution with microelectronics and new materials as the main body has gradually developed to a deeper level, and the power of fighters has begun to increase significantly, and the performance of fighters is no longer determined by guns and mobility, but by missiles.
All kinds of missiles, combat missiles, long-range missiles, medium-range missiles, and even ground-to-sea missiles, a variety of missiles, so that the aircraft has become an armed platform similar to the aircraft carrier, multi-purpose aircraft began to appear, an aircraft with different missiles, after using different accessories, it can be transformed from this one use, to other uses, which greatly enhances the combat effectiveness of the aircraft, but also greatly weakens the importance of the aircraft's maneuverability.
Especially with the development of missiles and stealth performance, in the fourth generation and even the fifth generation of fighters, maneuverability has been placed in a secondary place, supersonic cruise, stealth performance, and changeable missile cooperation have become his key, which is also the fundamental reason why the fourth generation fighter far exceeds the third generation.
When one side can only reach supersonic speed with afterburner, one side can carry out supersonic cruise anytime and anywhere, when the powerful radar and missiles are added together, and can be carried out over-the-horizon attacks at a distance of 300 kilometers, the maneuverability can really be placed in a very insignificant range, after all, 300 kilometers away, even the plane can not be seen, who do you maneuver to, and to deal with missiles, there are many ways to evade and induce, and do not need to consume the maneuverability of the aircraft, as long as the plane is fast in and out, It would be nice to guarantee stealth performance.
The ability of aircraft carriers to accept and release aircraft is limited, and the new aircraft carrier does not use a straight-through deck, but a deck similar to that of later aircraft carriers, and at the same time of releasing aircraft, it can also recover aircraft, which greatly increases efficiency, and reduces the premise of reducing most of the fighters, and the efficiency has been greatly improved.
It took less than 1 hour for the well-trained aircraft carrier to complete the whole process of release and recovery, 250 aircraft, including 100 fighters and 150 bombers, of which 30 medium bombers, basically met the requirements of the fleet.
In addition to carrying a large number of 50-100 kg bombs, they also carried a part of incendiary bombs to deal with fixed targets such as villages, of course, it is better to deal with ordinary aerial bombs, but to deal with the army, especially the army with munitions, of course, it is best to use incendiary bombs, once the incendiary bombs detonate those arms, the resulting detonation is enough to turn the barracks into a sea of fire, which will cause huge lethality.
Only half of the planes took off, and some of the planes will do simple training on the aircraft carrier, waiting for the planes to return from a mission in the distance, but because the entire battle plan has been executed, these planes are also on the way back.
At night, when the group of planes took off towards the continental United States, the sky was gradually dark, and the U.S. troops in El Dorado did not realize that they would be attacked, and they were still immersed in the next operation. For the time being, there is no way to deal with those Japanese armored forces, but they will not be allowed to continue to wreak havoc, and the US military is quite confident in this.
The Central Mountains, as the largest mountainous area in the central United States, are not only long, but also steep, even the Pacific Railway, tunnels, winding mountain railways and the like are very many, not suitable for tanks at all, if Japan wants to enter the Central Mountains, there is only one choice, that is, to give up armor and enter on foot.
When an armored force penetrates the hinterland of the United States, the reason why the Americans are so helpless is very simple, that is, in the hinterland of the United States, on the vast plains, there are very few armies that can deal with these armored forces, but if Japan really gives up its armored superiority and chooses to walk, it will simply make the Americans too happy, 5,000 tanks, at best, are only 30,000 or 40,000 troops, and it is not a big impact at all for the US troops who can mobilize hundreds of thousands, or even millions of US troops at any time.
These U.S. troops are stationed in Eldorado with confidence, and are preparing for the next operation, they don't know that just today, all their internal supports, those small towns located in the interior of the central mountain range, have been cleared by China with air strikes, and the closest to them is only a few tens of kilometers, because of the barrier of the mountains, they have not seen these fires and gunpowder smoke on the Great Plains like Salt Lake City, even if there is smoke coming, dozens of kilometers away, they don't know where it happened.
Even, because of the premise of air raids on those small towns, through reconnaissance planes, their traces were discovered, and the aircraft carrier was pushed, and a terrible decision was made to use the air force to solve them, the American troops.
The U.S. troops who entered Eldorado were all regular troops, and the regular troops of the U.S. Army were quite well trained, and they tried to arrange their positions as well as possible on top of this temporary camp, because the Sacramento bridge was blown up, which also made their actions shift from railroads to water transportation, until the interior of the Central Mountains, and then turned into railroads, they didn't know that the threat to them had begun, and this time, the threat came from the air.
The power of the Air Force, starting from the airship, but the airship is rarely able to attack at night, the danger of the airship itself is greater than the aircraft, it is OK during the day, it can also barely fly at night, it can be used as a ground attack, a little careless, it is possible to even the airship has fallen, generally speaking, it is safe at night, and this is in the United States, the airship is amazing to be able to fly hundreds of kilometers, it is good to be able to have thousands of kilometers, this is the hinterland of the United States, there are people around, the airship can not come over, This is also something they didn't expect.
The group of aircraft that took off from the aircraft carrier was slightly concentrated, and this was not aimed at ordinary houses, but against the real army, and it was necessary to keep hitting, and the concentration and discipline of the army were much stronger than that of civilian facilities, once the first wave could not cause a devastating blow, then it would be much more difficult to attack them again, the army would not wait for you to attack, they would flee from the dangerous place for a while.
The aircraft carrier is about 400 kilometers away from the place where the US military hit, the plane maintained enough speed, and flew over them in 1 hour, at this time it was already more than 9 o'clock, the US camp and Eldorado had fallen into darkness, tomorrow is the day of departure, except for some senior officers, in addition to making the final preparations before departure, the rest of the personnel have already rested, and next, to rush 400 kilometers, arrange a defensive line near the Rocky Mountains, They need to seize this rare break.
In the night sky, 8000 meters in the air, all the planes have been in place, although the city below has fallen into darkness, this era is not the United States in the 21st century, electric energy has not been used endlessly, for most American cities, into the night, rarely lit up, this is not a light control, but public resources are not so developed, El Dorado is just a very small city, not to mention compared with New York Washington, even compared with Sacramento, It's a lot worse, and in this case, there are not many lights, but here, with a railway junction, and some mountains, these are all landmarks, and even before night, there are 4 planes hovering nearby to ensure that the group is guided to the position, all of which can help the bomber group not to get lost.