904 Destruction of the Black Sea Fleet
A wave of night bombing immediately brought great losses to the Russian army, and the bombs carried by the Datang H-6 were all guided weapons, and the strike effect was better. At least 5,000 Russian soldiers were killed and wounded in the airstrike www.biquge.info and the morale of the troops was severely damaged.
The military operation of the Tang Army continued, and after the night air strikes, the Mediterranean Fleet of the Datang Navy sent a Texas-class aircraft carrier battle group into the Black Sea to strike at the Russian army in the direction of Ukraine. The first wave to be hit was the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
The development of the Russian Navy after the Istanbul War was not particularly rapid, since the advance of the Russian Navy was greatly affected, both in the Baltic and Black Sea directions. Moreover, in terms of military cooperation, the European Union has emphasized that Russia strengthen its own army construction, while the navy is strengthened by Britain and other countries, so the Russian Navy does not have a few ships that are particularly handy. In the Black Sea Fleet, even the largest is a few cruisers, which can exceed 10,000 tons.
At the time of the strike, these ships were still in the harbor, and the land-based and carrier-based aviation of the Tang Army launched air strikes on the Black Sea Fleet in the military port. The Russian army has not yet reacted from the attack last night, and the backward transmission of information makes the Black Sea Fleet not even very clear about the attack on the Russian army last night, and it itself is not ready to defend, so when the Tang military aircraft attacked, it was in a state of confusion.
The land-based aviation is still the H-6, an all-round tactical bomber, while the carrier-based aviation uses a new generation of weapons. Datang's carrier-based aircraft development and Air Force fighters have taken two paths. The first generation of Datang Air Force fighter jets is J-6, and J-6 came out a few years after it came out. First of all, this type of fighter is a ****** layout, and the earliest J-7 is different. The air intake ducts are also air intakes on both sides, and the position of the nose is left to the radar, and the J-7 uses Datang's first-generation turbofan engine. These improvements make the Datang J-7 and the Seven Masters in the other plane more powerful. The first generation of the Navy's carrier-based fighter jet is the J-5, which can not find an obvious similarity in the other plane, it is a high subsonic fighter, and the number of production is not much, even less than 1000, which is extremely rare in the history of Datang's air force equipment, because Datang even builds thousands of bombers.
The reason why the number of J-5 is small is because the performance is not particularly satisfactory to the Navy, and the Navy's piston carrier-based aircraft J-4 Hellcat at that time was not much worse than the J-5, and the Navy aimed at the next generation of carrier-based aircraft, so it did not build more.
The Navy's second-generation jet fighter is directly on the heavy aircraft, which is actually the first heavy fighter in the history of Datang Aviation Equipment, the J-8 codenamed Flying Leopard. That's right, the appearance is very similar to the J-7 in the other plane, and the big guy with a maximum take-off weight of 29 tons is a heavy carrier-based fighter made by the Navy. The Flying Leopard is similar to the F-4 Phantom II of the US military in terms of positioning, with some adjustments in aerodynamics and a more powerful engine, making this heavy aircraft not much inferior to the light J-7 in terms of combat. The most satisfying thing for the Navy is the ability to carry almost 8 tons of ammunition for strike missions. This carrier-based aircraft is also the most expensive fighter in history, but the Navy still placed an order for more than 2,000 aircraft.
Somewhat similar to the fate of the F-4, the Datang Air Force then also took a fancy to the Flying Leopard and ordered more than 1,000 aircraft to enrich the combat power of the Air Force and form a high and low match with the J-7. The J-7 is high-altitude and high-speed, and is good at volleying, while the J-8 Flying Leopard is good at low-altitude subsonic combat, and has a large bomb load, which can perform multi-purpose missions. Of course, compared with the piston fighters of the European Union Air Force, the seventh and eighth masters of Datang are very lonely.
In the bombing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Texas-class aircraft carrier of the Datang Navy sent more than 20 Flying Leopard fighters and more than 10 Qiang-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft. The Texas-class tonnage is more than 40,000 tons, and the standard mission carrier capacity is between 45 and 55 aircraft in today's Datang carrier-based aircraft is getting larger and larger. General carrier-based aircraft include J-8 Flying Leopard, J-4 Skyhawk or J-6 Intruder, Air Police-2 early warning aircraft, Y-12 carrier-based transport aircraft, Z-16 heavy anti-submarine helicopter, Z-20 utility helicopter, etc.
The Flying Leopard attack is actually the way of a fighter-bomber, and the usual mission is to carry four air-to-air missiles and two anti-ship missiles. Although the weight of the air-launched YJ-5 anti-ship missile used by Datang is not too large, it uses a shaped energy armor-piercing warhead to deal with armor. The warships of the European Navy now have thick armor, unlike the other side of the ships with thin skin and big stuffing after the Cold War, so it is better to deal with this kind of warhead.
The Flying Leopard swept across the sea and soon locked onto the battleship in the enemy's harbor. The anti-ship missile was fired at the sound and hit the Russian warship, which had no one on board at all. In the huge explosion, large openings were made in the hull of the Russian warship. It is simply impossible for these anti-ship missiles to lose their targets at such a close distance, so the Russian warships will not escape their fate.
The same strikes were carried out by the J-4 Skyhawk, which also carried anti-ship missiles, and some of the Skyhawks carried guided bombs and attacked some anti-aircraft guns in the harbor. Strikers remove these anti-aircraft guns to facilitate the next bomber strikes, which are a little more dangerous than fighters and fighters that fly faster and more agile. The range of guided bombs used by bombers is also relatively long, ranging from a few kilometers to more than ten kilometers, while the range of Russian antiaircraft artillery is sometimes unattainable. However, the bombers will definitely fly back and forth, and it will still be more dangerous if the enemy's anti-aircraft weapons are not completely destroyed.
In such a dense and sudden air raid, the destruction of the Black Sea Fleet was only at the snap of a finger. In just a few hours, the Datang Navy completely mastered the sea supremacy of the Black Sea, so that it could sail in the sea area without any scruples and organize carrier-based aircraft to strike at Russian ground targets.
The air raid was by no means the whole of Datang's intervention, but only the beginning. The Datang Army and Marines have assembled in the port of Thrace, ready to board amphibious ships, and their destination is none other than Ukraine in the north. The first batch of Tang troops to carry out landing operations had more than 20,000 troops, and they also occupied the entire capacity of the Tang Amphibious Fleet in the Mediterranean. Obviously, Datang is ready to directly send troops to Ukraine to destroy the Russian army there. (To be continued.) )