Chapter 499 - A Way Can Always Be Figured Out!
The British Royal Navy voluntarily gave up the struggle for sea supremacy, which also meant that the air supremacy of the English Channel was also completely controlled by the Royal Air Force of East China and the Luftwaffe. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hitler's "Sea Lion Plan" in 1940 for operations on British soil failed mainly because the Luftwaffe and navy were ineffective, making it difficult for the German landing force to cross the English Channel and land on the British Isles.
And this time, the "New Sea Lion Plan" revised by Cheng Gong for Hitler not only included the main team of the Royal Navy, Army and Air Force of the Donghua Empire participating in the battle, but also 500,000 African Union servant troops to fight together. Even the main fighters of the Luftwaffe will no longer be able to stay in the air for a long time in the air over London because of their "short legs" as they have been for three years.
Since Germany obtained the complete set of technology of the J-5 and J-6 jet fighters provided by Cheng Gong two years ago, Hitler categorically ordered to abandon the follow-up research and development of the ME262 and go all out to produce the German-made J-5 and J-6.
The five and six masters made by German workers and processes are obviously better than the original five and six masters.
In addition, the German-made B29 long-range bomber is slightly better than the comprehensive performance of the American version of the B29.
Nowadays, the sky of Europe is already the world of the five masters and the six masters. This is one of the main reasons why Stalin pinched his nose and recognized that Germany occupied half of Ukraine and half of Belarus.
Although Britain developed the "Hunter" jet fighter on the basis of the F86 "Sabre" fighter technology imported from the United States and achieved mass production, in the face of the overwhelming attack of the F-4G and F-4H supersonic fighters of the Royal Air Force and the Hainan Airlines, as well as more than 500 German-made Jian-5 and Jian-6, in addition to increasing the casualties of British pilots, it could only cause a little trouble to the Luftwaffe at most.
The over-the-horizon attack tactics displayed by the pilots of the Donghua Royal Air Force in this large-scale air battle that attracted the attention of the whole world made Germany, the Soviet Union, Britain, the United States, the new Japan, Italy, and other countries soberly realize that it is not enough to develop jet fighters, but also to develop air-to-air missiles that match jet fighters.
Although Britain lost sea and air supremacy, the anti-landing operations carried out by relying on ground fortresses still caused heavy casualties to the landing troops in Donghua and Germany.
The combined forces of the Donghua Empire and Germany did not play any surprise attack tactics and tactics with the British, but chose Plymouth Military Port as the landing ground with absolute strength.
The shore-based rocket, heavy artillery and anti-aircraft positions deployed by the British Defences at the Plymouth Naval Harbour Fortress were destroyed within an hour of the outbreak of the war by Royal Tung Wah fighter jets, attack aircraft, and Luftwaffe B29 bomber fleets.
After Cheng Gong started the war against the British, he flew back to Nairobi from Crete. On Crescent Island, the satellite live broadcast displayed on the smart watch provides timely battlefield intelligence to the coalition command while keeping an eye on the progress of the battlefield.
In Cheng Gong's view, this war has a bit of the rhythm of the Gulf War in the later generations.
In the Gulf War, the multinational forces led by the United States and Britain crushed Iraq with absolute military strength and scientific and technological strength.
The ongoing land, sea and air integrated landing operation, which the international community called the "Great Patriotic War of England," was a coalition force led by East and Germany beating the British Empire in the form of "strong men bullying sick and weak old women."
Although the British army's anti-landing operations were very heroic and tenacious, in the face of the leapfrog attack of the 3rd Air Cavalry Division of the Royal Marines in Donghua, the so-called fortresses were basically useless.
From the very beginning of the battlefield, the entire defensive line of the Plymouth anti-landing operation battlefield was soon in disarray. The combination of several defensive forces was broken through by the interspersed blows of the air cavalry assault groups of the Donghua Empire, and was immediately divided and surrounded by the coalition landing force that followed.
It was the third day of the outbreak of the war.
The blue sky was intertwined with jet fighters, cannon sprays, and air-to-air missile tailfires.
The ground was filled with smoke and debris of burning armored vehicles.
Although the British Air Force's Hunter fighters were not as good as the F4 fighters in Donghua and the Jian-5 and Jian-6 in Germany, the pilots of the British Royal Air Force still took to the air to fight even though they knew that they were invincible, and they only wanted to provide a little air support to the ground troops, so as not to let the Germans' bombers unscrupulously bomb various defensive positions.
"Fack! Damn Donghuayan! Damn the Germans! ”
Seeing one after another RAF fighter jets being shot down in the sky, Gerald was half exposed outside the tank turret, his eyes red and he roared angrily and swung his right fist at the control.
As a well-equipped armored unit, Gerald's tank regiment was deployed in the flank and rear of the entire frontal line, acting as a mobile counterattack force at opportune times.
With the T34/85 tanks and Type 59 main battle tanks exported by the Donghua Empire to the outside world, the United Kingdom and the United States have also obtained a lot of physical objects as technical references.
It has to be said that the United States and Britain still have quite strong research and development capabilities for tank armored vehicles.
In mid-1942, the United States successfully developed the M48 series of tanks ahead of schedule, and along with the United Kingdom, it also obtained a full set of drawings and production processes for the M48 series tanks.
The M48 medium tank, with its 105mm rifled tank gun, performed very well against the German-made Type 59 tank. It's just that the Mi-28 armed helicopters of the Shangdonghua army immediately became live targets moving on the ground.
As a result, the British front-line commanders became more and more cautious about the use of the limited armoured forces at their disposal, avoiding tank battles with the enemy as much as possible.
Of course, there is no shortage of high-ranking people in the RAF. After carefully studying and analyzing the operational characteristics of the armed helicopters that Donghua and Germany put into the battlefield, they came to a conclusion: propeller aircraft can be used against armed helicopters!
As early as when Cheng Gong took out the Mi-4 helicopter for sale, Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, Germany, Italy and other countries all made breakthroughs in the field of high-power radial piston engines.
In this way, countries are naturally constantly launching a variety of excellent new models in the research and development of piston aircraft.
Although the use of jet fighters has caused countries to eliminate piston fighters and replace them, countries have not completely abandoned the use of piston aircraft.
Excellent piston engine fighters such as the F4U Corsair, F8F Panda, and P51 Mustang are still in service with air forces around the world.
For example, the Royal Air Force now has a large number of P51 Mustang training pilots as trainers.
Therefore, when the production of Hunter jet fighters could not meet the battle damage, the British Air Force was forced to reluctantly use the P51 Mustang fighter as an auxiliary force.
As long as the F-4, Jian-5 and Jian-6 of the Royal Donghua Air Force and the Luftwaffe can be avoided, and the P51 Mustang with extremely simple requirements for field airfields can be used to surprise attack the helicopter gunships that are raging at low altitudes on the battlefield, the results are very obvious.
War has always been the best place to experiment with all kinds of new weapons suitable for the battlefield.
As the British Air Force put piston planes with various air-to-ground attack capabilities into the battlefield, the battlefield activity area and space of the 3rd Air Cavalry Division of the Royal Marine Corps in Donghua were gradually limited.
It is obviously unlikely that the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe will discover, find and destroy all the field airfields in the British Isles in a short period of time.
As a result, the landing operations units of Donghua and Germany have become more and more cautious about the use of helicopter gunships and utility helicopters. (To be continued.) )