Chapter 155: Can the Air Force Really Defeat the Navy?

"Seahawk 102, Seahawk 102, this is the Eagle's Nest, are you engaging with Australian naval aviation, please reply clearly!"

Hearing the call from the headset of the flight helmet, Marseilleu, who had just shot down two British carrier-based aircraft, was obviously a little excited at this moment, and he replied loudly while hovering in the air with the fighter plane:

"Eagle's Nest, Eagle's Nest, I am Sea Hawk 102, the Australian Navy's carrier-based aircraft have maliciously provoked our formation, in order to defend the unsurpassed honor of the Donghui Air Force, we have shot down six Australian fighters, and none of our side has been damaged!"

"Marseillo! You're just fooling around! As for the kind of junk carrier-based aircraft carried by the British Navy Athletic, how can it be a threat to the P51 fighters in your formation! I see that you kid is clearly anxious and wants to grab the first credit! ”

The laughter and scolding of Le Yiqin, the commander of the Air Third Division, suddenly came from the in-ear wireless intercom, and Marseyu hurriedly replied with a smile: "Report Master, didn't you explain before, saying that our formation can launch an attack on the enemy as appropriate!" I'm doing exactly what you commanded! ”

"You kid is a careless lord!" Le Yiqin said solemnly: "Since the fight has started, if you can't play the majesty that belongs to the Donghui Air Force, don't come back to see me!" The support fleet is coming soon, give me a good call! I'll personally celebrate you when you come back! ”

"Please rest assured, resolutely complete the task, and promise not to disappoint the teacher!" Marseilleu shouted excitedly.

Originally, I thought that he might really have caused a big disaster this time, but I didn't think that Master Shiza didn't seem to blame him. Now it seems that he did not grasp the instructions of the master seat wrongly. Now that the 3rd Air Division has attacked with all its forces, it seems that His Majesty the King has made up his mind to teach the Australian Navy a hard lesson.

If anyone does not offend me, I will not offend, but if anyone offends me, I will offend. This purpose is the fighting idea that Cheng Gong, the king of Donghui, has always lost to the Donghui National Defense Army. According to Cheng Gong's original words, the Donghui soldiers resolutely should not shrink their heads and turtles! For any hostile acts that infringe on the territorial security of Donghui and the personal safety of Donghui citizens, Donghui soldiers must give a resolute and powerful counterattack!

It was in this kind of combat thinking that Marseilleu decided to fire at the "Darwin" without giving the other party time to think about it after seeing the scene of Donghui fishermen being maliciously bullied by the Australian Navy at the first glance.

At the same time, Marseilleu received a briefing from his companion in charge of guarding the perimeter, and learned of the sudden situation that an Australian mixed fleet was conducting military exercises not far from the area where the incident occurred. Marseilleu soon realized that the collision of the destroyer HMS Darwin with the Donghui fishing boat was certainly not an accident, otherwise the Australian Navy's mixed fleet with one battleship, two battlecruisers, and a light aircraft carrier would not have been so coincidental in conducting military exercises in nearby waters.

After knowing that two destroyers of the Donghui Navy would immediately arrive at the area where the incident occurred, Marseilleu immediately ordered the other three companions of the formation to quickly fly to the airspace over the sea area where the Australian Navy's mixed fleet was exercising, and closely monitor the opponent's every move.

The situation is obvious, without the cover and response of the Air Force, it is entirely possible that the two "Keeling"-class destroyers of the Donghui Navy would have been dumpled by this mixed fleet of the British Navy dressed in the coat of the Australian Navy.

What made Marseilleu even more frightened was that another XXI submarine of the Donghui Navy was diving towards the area where the accident occurred.

Marseilleu, of course, would not have known that in space outside the atmosphere, several military reconnaissance satellites were locking onto the area. He still thinks that the reason why the 3rd Air Force Division will be dispatched to meet the battle is that the sudden battle report he sent back to the division headquarters has played a role.

At this time, the British Navy's mixed fleet of aid to Australia, with the battleship "George V" as its flagship, had advanced 120 nautical miles to the northwest, less than 200 nautical miles from the sea area where the battlecruiser "Counterattack" was located.

The black-pressed Donghui Air Force fighter and attack aircraft group that flew from the northern sky also entered the early warning range of the battleship "George V" at this time.

In the bridge command room of the battleship "George V", Vice Admiral James Somerville, commander of the East India Fleet of the British Royal Navy, stood in front of the radar display with a frown, looking at the dense red dots on the screen representing the Donghui Air Force fleet, and suddenly a sense of foreboding suddenly arose in his heart.

Whether torpedo-mounted bombers could pose a threat to battleships is still a definite debate in the Royal Navy. However, Somerville knew very well that if the Royal Navy's newly developed Swordfish torpedo bomber could seize the opportunity to dive and drop torpedoes, it would be a disaster for any warship.

The AD-1 Skyraider attack aircraft deployed by the Donghui Air Force is an advanced fighter that can project torpedoes, and MI5 has obtained accurate information from Japan on this. Unlike the Swordfish torpedo bomber, the Skyraider attack aircraft drops torpedoes horizontally, which is obviously much more advanced than the Swordfish torpedo bomber.

It has long been an open secret that the spear-torpedo technology supplied by Donghui to Germany and Japan, with a maximum speed of 50 knots and a maximum range of 20 kilometers. Attacking a battleship from multiple directions with multiple Skyraider attack planes, and losing a certain number of planes in exchange for the sinking of the opponent's battleship, is a good account.

Although so far, there has been no case of the spear torpedo carried by the Sky Raider attack aircraft sinking a warship in real combat, all this is still theoretical. But Somerville believed that as long as the Skyraider attack aircraft could break through the battleship's anti-aircraft fire network, there was every chance that the horizontally projected torpedoes would hit the battleship.

Not long ago, the "Darwin" sent a message saying that the Donghui Navy had a terrifying torpedo with a speed of more than 150 knots. Somerville didn't know whether he should believe it or not.

Reason told Somerville that this telegram was the last incomplete telegram sent by the officers and men of the "Darwin" before they died, and that it should be impossible for the sender to make a mistake in the numbers 150 and 50 knots if he could have issued this warning on his deathbed.

If this information is true, this kind of terrifying torpedo possessed by the Donghui Navy will be a huge threat to the navy of any country!

Somerville could not have imagined how terrible it would be for a group of torpedo boats with a speed of more than 45 knots to fire such a terrifying torpedo attack group with a maximum speed of more than 150 knots at a distance of 20 kilometers from all directions at a distance of 20 kilometers from all directions!

If you mount this kind of terrorist torpedo to the Skyraider attack aircraft to attack the target battleship, you will sell cakes! Somerville can be sure that it will be an unprecedented catastrophe.

And the only way to deal with this mode of attack is to equip all warships with intensive anti-aircraft fire.

Only with intensive anti-aircraft fire can it be possible to shoot both torpedo attack aircraft from the air and torpedoes from the water.

However, at present, the navy of any country has specially added a dense anti-aircraft fire network for warships.

Somerville suddenly realized that with the improvement of aircraft and torpedo technology, the mode of modern naval naval warfare will inevitably change dramatically!