316 Midway's Heavenly Sword
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The air raids of the Naval Resistance Army began with dive bombing. The piercing screams of dive bombers, amid the dense artillery fire of the Japanese army, were still terrifying.
The first dreadnought dive bomber to bomb the Wyvern smoothly entered the dive orbit from high altitude, and when the pilot adjusted the attitude of the fighter plane, it smoothly entered the dive.
No dodging -- this is the bombing rule that every pilot of the Navy's resistance army has gone deep into his heart. At this moment, the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery had just opened fire, and it was the moment when the fire was most intensive. But it was not the devil's artillery fire that interfered with the bomber, but a layer of fog on the scope as it passed through a warm layer.
A thin layer of fog seriously interfered with the dive bomber's aiming. The pilots had no choice but to dive on the basis of experience until they were only 300 meters above the surface of the sea before dropping bombs. Japanese anti-aircraft fire hit the bomber almost at the same time as the pilot dropped the bomb. The bomber, which lost control, plunged headlong into the sea less than 100 meters from the Wyvern, and then vanished.
The Navy's first fighter plane was lost in less than thirty seconds of the attack, killing two fighters.
The Japanese aircraft carrier Wyvern slid in a light arc and dodged the bomb.
Yamaguchi smelled in the bridge, and his facial muscles tensed. Although the dive bomber of the Naval Resistance Army failed, the bomb entry point was only less than 30 meters from the starboard side of the Feilong, which was already an extremely thrilling thing.
The general can not play a role at this time, and whether he can prevent dive bombing depends on the level of the gunner and the level of the navigator. The training of the Japanese Navy is quite strict, and the captain of the ship has absolute confidence in the level of ship management. Although Yamaguchi Tabun also has a considerable level of ship management, he is not Nagumo Tadaichi, and he does not personally master the steering gear. The navigator under him, although the rank was only a lieutenant. But the sixty-year-old lieutenant has been on the ship for more than forty years. Captain Yanagi has a great reputation in the Japanese Navy as a master of ship manoeuvres, and his stunt is that he can maneuver an aircraft carrier with a displacement of 30,000 or 40,000 tons, without tugboats, broadside or docking. At such a level, even the old maritime powers, the British Imperial Navy could not find one. This is the foundation of the Japanese Navy, and this is also incomparable to the new navy such as the Naval Resistance Force.
Surrounded by noisy human voices, outside was a dense cannonball. Yamaguchi Tawen is still quite satisfied with his subordinates. The Second Air Force is the elite of the Japanese Navy, and the crew of the Flying Dragon is the most well-trained in the Japanese Navy. In the event of a surprise attack, the counterattack on the aircraft carrier is busy and not chaotic. Compared with Yamaguchi Tafu, he is more concerned about the condition of the aircraft carrier Hiei, and you must know that this midway naval battle is the first time that the Hiei has participated in the battle. Although the pilots on the Hiei are also veterans, nearly half of the crew survived the sunken Soryu. The other part is the veterans of the Hiei's original use as a battleship. Even so, the quality of the officers and men on the Hiei, which had only been installed for a few months, was still difficult to compare with that of the Wyvern. Just a few dozen minutes ago. The engineer and crew on the Hiei were clearly not able to repair the Hiei quickly enough. The Hiei was only a little bit of a problem with the bomb, and it took more than an hour to repair the Hiei with only a few water and air leaks. In the past hour or so, Yamaguchi has made up his mind countless times to intensify the training of the officers and men of the aircraft carrier Hiei after the war.
In the lower ranks of the Japanese Navy, especially the air force, Yamaguchi Taruma did not have a very good reputation. His training of his air force was strict and almost impersonal, and several pilots even died in training accidents while trying to complete Yamaguchi's demanding and difficult training courses. Yamaguchi Tawen also received the infamy of [Commander of the Murderers] as a result. However, Yamaguchi's harshness also made his Second Air Force's combat effectiveness definitely not inferior to the First Air Force, which Nagumo Tadashi had always belonged.
For nine o'clock, the intelligence sent back by the Japanese reconnaissance plane. Yamaguchi Tashi judged at the time. The unknown aircraft carrier should be the aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Army.
After the fatal blow to the Kaga and Shozuru, Yamaguchi Tawen strengthened his judgment that there was definitely a naval resistance force in this battle.
As early as in the Battle of Ceylon, after the sinking of the Soryu, Yamaguchi Tashi had already determined that the Maritime Resistance Army had an aircraft carrier. Don't look at the Freedom Dragon of the Naval Resistance Army, which has been fighting in the Pacific Ocean for half a year, there are actually very few Japanese troops who have actually seen the face of the Liberty, and few people in the outside world know the news.
Yamaguchi Tashi judged from the tactics of striking the aircraft carrier Soryu, because without the army, there was simply not much need to specialize in training for precise dive bombing. The level of German dive bombing was quite high, and the main reason for this was also to deal with the British warships. The dive bombing of the Canglong was, according to the aftermath of the fact, more than 50 percent of the hits. Although this level may not be comparable to that of the First Air Force and the Second Air Force, it has surpassed Hara Tadaichi's Fifth Air Force. If there were no aircraft carriers, there would be no need for the Naval Resistance Force to train pilots of such a level, and this is the basis for Yamaguchi's judgment.
You must know that it is definitely not a simple matter to train pilots who can dive and bomb ships, and Yamaguchi Tabun is known as the commander of murderers because of the rigorous training. Looking at the hit rate of the US dive bombing, you can see how difficult it is to train qualified carrier-based aircraft pilots.
The United States has a lot of money, and there is no shortage of people or materials and equipment.
It is also extremely difficult for the Japanese Navy to train several hundred elite carrier-based aircraft pilots, and Rear Admiral Yamaguchi Tawen and Rear Admiral Onishi Takijiro have put in and overcome many difficulties in the process of training the Japanese Navy's air force, Yamaguchi Tawen knows very well. And the fact that the Naval Resistance Army was able to train a group of elite pilots was a little unbelievable to Yamaguchi.
If there is a reason, it is science.
The scientific nature is first and foremost reflected in the selection and training of soldiers. Don't look at Li Guang, he didn't know much about the Air Force before the crossing, but he once participated in the country's recruitment physical examination. And those few simple items of recruiting and flying physical examinations are actually the results of decades of development of the world's air force.
If you know how Japan recruits pilots, you will know how big the gap is. Japan recruits pilots, in addition to simple blood pressure measurements, visual physical fitness items. One of the most important is fortune telling. This is simply a ridiculous joke, but it is absolutely true.
Because the performance of aircraft before World War II was relatively backward, whether it was Japan, the United States or Europe, the crash rate of aircraft was extremely high. Major General Takijiro Onishi, who was in charge of training the aviation at the time, really couldn't find a way, so he later asked a friend to find a way. And this friend is also a rear admiral of the Navy, Kuwabara Torao, who is also one of the founders of the Japanese Naval Aviation, but this guy's family business is more special - opening a shrine. Seeing the family origins, the first solution he thought of was not science, but palmistry and bone physiognomy. Therefore, Onishi Takijiro Tokuwahara Torao found a master in the industry. It is said that the level is quite high - a well-known demi-immortal called Yoshito Mizuno.
Who knew that after this half-immortal fortune telling, the plane crash rate dropped significantly. To put it bluntly, fortune-telling is actually a kind of psychological suggestion, and the aviation has received a psychological hint and increased confidence. The drop in the crash rate is also a success. Therefore, the Japanese army has always had such a superstitious procedure for selecting pilots.
Pick pilots by superstition. How can it be compared to the success rate of scientifically selected pilots. Compare with the training of the Japanese aviation forces. There is not much science at all, as can be seen from the fact that there was a glass of wine in the pilot's meal before the war.
In the entire Naval Resistance Force, the first priority in selecting new recruits is the Air Force, which is more priority than submariners. After the selection of new recruits, the training subjects of the Naval Resistance Army have become more scientific, and several of the items are obtained by Li Guang from movies or the Internet in the 21st century. As for the fact that pilots are not allowed to smoke and drink, this is common sense that Li Guang does not need to use his brain at all.
And in terms of the level of equipment and material supplies. Although Li Guang's work is difficult to compare with the US army, it is definitely beyond the Japanese army. In terms of equipment, don't look at the fact that the Japanese army is equipped with fighters made in Japan itself, but the cost is actually not low. For example, the Japanese Army's Zero fighter. Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, the scale of production did not go up, and the cost was about 100,000 US dollars each, which was much higher than the cost of the P40 fighters purchased by the Naval Resistance Force. According to the statistics of the Naval Resistance Force, an elite pilot consumes at least two engines in terms of equipment. The life of an aircraft engine in this year is generally only three to five hundred hours. It can be seen from this that the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army have consumed a huge amount.
The training of pilots of the Naval Resistance Army seems to have invested a lot, but if you really count it, the success rate is definitely higher than that of the Japanese army and higher than that of the US army. And the consumption of funds is also lower than that of the American army and lower than that of the Japanese army. The technical and tactical level of the Naval Resistance Force has reached a considerable height, and it is almost a matter of course.
As for the supply of materials and food, the Naval Resistance Force is definitely the best supply for air force pilots. And although the diet of the Japanese air force is also good, it is for the other branches of the Japanese army. The traditional Japanese diet has a high proportion of vegetarian diets. And the proportion of air force pilots in the naval resistance army who eat meat is extremely high. The higher the proportion of meat, the faster the human body's muscles react, which is the conclusion of later science. In Japan, however, there is no such awareness, and it is only believed that delicious is good.
For the spiritual education of pilots, the Japanese devils have the same bushido spirit and allegiance to the emperor in both the navy and the army. In addition to the concept of defending the homeland and defending the country, the Naval Resistance Force has added a traditional sense of national pride and the ideal of expanding the living space for China. The U.S. military, on the other hand, uses an empty sense of justice and individual heroism. Compared with the three armed forces, the spiritual education of the naval resistance army is definitely no worse than that of the Japanese army.
And there is another item in the Naval Resistance Army, which is difficult for the Japanese army to beat. That is, the improvement of the weapons of the fighter by the pilot. Of course, there were generals in the Japanese army who participated in the development of fighters such as Onishi Takijiro and Yamaguchi Tamon, but ordinary pilots did not dare to make the slightest change to the fighter plane given by the emperor. The Naval Resistance Force is completely different, and the suggestions put forward by the pilots will be fully studied by the technicians. For example, the dreadnought dive bomber, the Naval Resistance Force has at least 100 corner transformation projects for this fighter. Although it is difficult for these renovation projects to greatly improve the performance of fighters, they have also improved the performance of fighters, and their combat effectiveness has increased accordingly. For the Battle of Midway, the most obvious thing is that Shao Fuxuan has already undergone a technical transformation in the time he has been familiar with the PDF torpedo machine in just a few days.
Because the aviation torpedo used by the US military at this time is the MK13 type, this aviation torpedo has extremely high requirements for throwing. The structure of the MK.13 torpedo was fragile, requiring a throw height of less than twenty-five meters and a speed of seventy to one hundred and thirty knots. The farthest distance is 1,500 meters, and the closest is 800 meters. Moreover, the lower, slower, and closer the more reliable it is, otherwise, the torpedo will be damaged when it enters the water, or the range is not enough, and it will not hit.
In the Battle of Midway, the U.S. military threw fifty or sixty torpedoes, but none of them exploded, so you know how difficult it was to use this aviation torpedo. In the early days of the Pacific War, torpedoes were synonymous with garbage, and the MK13 aviation torpedo was even more garbage among garbage.
For the pilots of the Naval Resistance Force, it is not very difficult to strictly control the speed at 70 knots, and it is not a very high requirement to force the Japanese warships within 1,500 meters. However, it is very difficult to drop a bomb within 25 meters of the sea. The main reason is that at a height of 25 meters, you can't look at the altimeter at all, it's all based on experience. In the previous training subjects of the Navy Resistance Air Force, low-altitude penetration only required a height of 100 meters.
Due to the equipment, the pilot can only control the flight direction in the cockpit and look at the sea surface with the rest of his eyes to judge the altitude.
Distraction is not a big problem if you are proficient, but it is undoubtedly difficult to do it after only three days of exploration. More than 20 meters, for a flying fighter, a little carelessness will burrow into the sea, and a slight estimation error will be dozens of meters higher. It's too difficult to do.
During the three-day familiarization process, when Shao Fuxuan's crew dropped a training torpedo, they found that the altitude was simply too difficult to master, and sometimes just a small gust of wind could cause the altitude of the fighter plane to fluctuate greatly, and even cause a serious crisis. Shao Fuxuan and Liu Kejin, cousins, are celebrities among the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army, and both of them are nicknamed "engineers", so they naturally like to ponder and use their brains.
The clever Shao Fuxuan solved this problem in an extremely simple way after thinking. He installed two red spotlights under the wings of the TBF bomber, and the beams of light emitted by these two spotlights were directed towards the front and bottom of the nose, which coincided at a height of twenty meters above the sea surface.
This transformation is not high-tech, but a small transformation immediately makes the pilot's operation difficulty immediately reduced, and he can easily control the flight direction of the fighter and the flight altitude of the fighter.
This small modification had the potential to not only make it easier for torpedo machines to drop torpedoes, but also to develop a sharper method of attacking ships. This method of attack is called "fighting the water" in the Naval Resistance Forces, while in the US military it is called "ricocheting attack." It is also because of this small improvement that the tactic of "fighting in the water" has rapidly matured in the Naval Resistance Force, which is more than two years earlier than the US military.
In terms of tactics, in addition to borrowing many training subjects from the US and British armies, the pilots also had several unique tactics under Li Guang's prompting.
The combat effectiveness of the air force of the Naval Resistance Force has been accumulated and improved little by little. Coupled with Li Guang's investment at any cost over the past few years and the arduous training of the soldiers, it is natural that the Naval Resistance Force has a small number but a strong technical and tactical level.
And this small air force is the sword of the Naval Resistance Army, and in time, it will be invincible. (Give the counting vote, the next chapter is out of the sheath) (to be continued......)