Chapter 550: Raid on Nagasaki Airport
Nagasaki Air Base.
Originally, this was just an ordinary base, and the scale was not very large, but after the official war with China, it suddenly became important, it was in the mountains, it was geographically safer, and it was relatively close to the front line, if needed. The Japanese Air Force could take off from here and attack Jeju Island and the Ryukyu Islands, making it a very suitable place.
Therefore, in the recent stage, this base has been greatly used, a large number of Zeros and Gale have been stationed in this base, and the base, which originally had only about 20 hangars, was soon insufficient, and some fighters had to be parked in the open air.
In fact, the Nagasaki Air Base and the Jeju Island Air Base in China have long been the air bases on the Ryukyu Islands, and they have long intersected. Because from time to time, the warplanes of both sides will meet on the sea. And every encounter represents a sudden air battle.
It's just that what makes the Japanese Air Force crazy is that the Chinese fighters can always find them quickly. Every sudden encounter in an air battle took place with the reluctance of the Japanese pilots.
As the war progresses from time to time, the ground crew is working tirelessly to maintain the normal combat of the fighters, but every time the fighters go on the voyage, there will be some fighters that will never come back, and they have begun to despair about the future.
In particular, the news on the front line that the defense of one's own troops has failed one after another, and there is news that the troops have been wiped out by the Chinese army every day, and sometimes one division or several divisions have been annihilated every day. That's not hundreds, thousands. It's tens of thousands! In particular, in every battle, the air force suffered the fastest losses, and in every attack by China, Japan meant that a large number of fighters were destroyed.
They just dream that one day they must wash away their shame, they must be.
But no matter how good the extravagant hope is, what you get every day is still disappointing. The Chinese fighters are too powerful, not because the Japanese fighter pilots are not powerful, but because of the generation gap in science and technology, they have nothing to do.
They have been discouraged though. But. Still working hard, they need to keep the Air Force running, and just last night, there was more exciting news. A large number of American warplanes will start to be stationed here. Especially American long-range heavy bombers. That's an air fortress that is not weaker than the Chinese bombers.
Although the news is quite positive. But, as they all know, now bombing. How much meaning can it be? Is China so easy to be raided? Their defenses must be very well-developed, and attacking means that they will have more casualties.
Warriors are proud of dying on the battlefield, but it also depends on whether such a death is meaningful.
The pilots of the Japanese Air Force were making the final preparations for the routine departure, and the ground crews began to load the ammunition needed for the attack onto their fighters.
The daily routine sea patrol is actually a journey of death for these pilots. Because they don't know when they will meet Chinese fighters coming from high altitudes. However, if you don't patrol, you can't do it, and it's impossible to let China enter and leave a large area of sea at will.
On one side of the airport, a radar antenna is rotating, monitoring the situation around the airport and preventing attacks from the other side.
Suddenly, the radar operator noticed four strange signals, rapidly approaching.
Looking at the altitude, it is already at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and many fighters can reach this altitude, but looking at the speed, it is not something that ordinary fighters can reach.
Suspicious targets are speeding towards the airbase!
Suddenly, this signal on the radar screen disappeared.
The radar operator was shocked, he knew that the disappearance of this signal did not mean that the other party had disappeared, but because the other party flew diagonally above him, exceeding the maximum elevation angle of the radar, the radar beam could not reach, so during this time, the radar could not capture the target.
In general, such a fast target, in a few seconds, will reappear on the radar screen, and as soon as the opponent flies directly above the radar, it can be captured by the radar again. However, I didn't expect that after a few seconds, the target was still not found.
Just as the radar operator was about to sound the combat alarm, a terrible siren was already sounding at the airport.
"Air raids, air raid alerts, the Sasebo naval base and shipyards were subjected to massive air strikes by China, and now all the fighters are immediately ready to take off, take off immediately. This is not a drill. ”
In the airport, everyone stopped what they were doing and listened to the sound of the siren. When there was a loud warning among the lamas, everyone reacted. The whole airport was suddenly busy, and everyone began to hurry.
The radar operator knew better, because he could already be sure that the Chinese fighter was almost at the airport. And the alarm has been raised, but it is not at all a warning that the Chinese fighters are coming.
Hurriedly picked up the phone and connected to the headquarters of the airport.
"Dazuo, no, this is a radar station, and the Chinese fighters have already rushed to our airport."
"Nani, Yaga!"
The radar operator had just said a word, and then only a curse was heard, and before he could react, only a busy tone remained on the phone.
However, he couldn't think about it, because several black spots had already appeared on the horizon, and they were getting bigger and bigger, and there were more and more black spots. Doom is already on the horizon.
In the group of planes that came to attack the airfield, the four Black Hawk fighters leading the group had already begun firing YJ-to-ground missiles. Bombing Sasebo is not really enough just to attack Sasebo, because around Sasebo, there are still good defenses. In particular, the Japanese Air Force, in order to prevent these pesky mosquitoes from coming out and causing trouble, the attack aircraft group specially flew out part of its strength and destroyed the Japanese air base around Sasebo.
The city of Sasebo itself is one of the jurisdictions of Nagasaki Prefecture, and the Japanese Army Air Force Airfield in Nagasaki is the most powerful air force around Sasebo. Naturally, it has also become the preferred target of the Chinese Air Force.
The four Black Hawk fighters that took the lead, with the help of fire control radar, especially after the already familiar Japanese air defense positions had been entered into the computer. Each of the YP's missiles went to the air defense positions of little Japan.
Like Sasebo, the spies have a clear picture of these air defense positions. Of course, this will take a lot of time, which is one of the reasons why the cross-sea attack on the Japanese mainland has been delayed for so long. When the coordinates and positions of these air defense positions are entered into the fighter's computer, the missile can quickly capture these positions.
The eight YJMs finished their range and began their final attack, at which point their speed increased dramatically as they were lowering altitude. The maximum speed of subsonic speed was reached.
Even if it's the Hereafter. The interception of missiles is a very complicated project, and the difficulty is that the speed of the superspeed missile is too fast! Want precise interception. It's hard, it's hard.
All eight missiles flew over their destinations. The warhead rubs violently against the air. There is a sound that makes people feel like the end of the world.
The ground crew at the airfield looked up and saw eight missiles in the sky with long tails in tow.
"Bang! Boom! ......" eight huge explosions were heard in succession, and the eight anti-aircraft artillery positions arranged around the airfield were shrouded in explosions. When the smoke clears. Eight anti-aircraft gun positions, which were originally good, have been turned into a large crater, with crooked barrels and parts scattered all over the ground.
"Air strike, the air defense forces will immediately counterattack, all fighters will immediately rise into the air, hurry up." On the radio, the shouts of the airfield commander were heard again.
But it's already too late, and the speed of a supersonic fighter can make the opponent desperate in the air, as well as anti-aircraft fire and personnel on the ground.
Because the Chinese fighters, which were originally far away, had already reached the top of their heads in a few breaths.
"Brothers, let the ants below taste what Chinese power is. All, free bombing. "In the wireless channels of the dozen or so Intruders that followed behind the Black Hawk fighters, the sound of a long plane was heard.
"Head, look at us! Make sure they understand why the flowers are so red. ”
"It's all ready, four years, just waiting for this moment."
"For the sacrificed comrades-in-arms, and thousands of Chinese compatriots, ants, suffer death!"
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All the intruders were completely dispersed, lined up in a neat attack formation, and flew over the airport like eagles. With the roars of the pilots in the Intruder fighter one after another, in the back seat of the serial two-seat cockpit, the gunner had completed ground aiming. Heavy bombs hung under the wings were dropped one by one.
Under the watchful eyes of the small Japanese ground crew below, the fighters that quickly swept over the airport dropped one bomb after another. Time and space seemed to freeze at this moment, and they also seemed to see death beckoning to them. They tried to dodge, but they felt that their feet were firmly rooted in the ground, and they couldn't move half of their bodies at all.
"Whew! Shout! ......" roared, and a dense number of bombs fell to the ground, but before they hit the ground, they all exploded. Then, as if it was raining, countless small bombs flew out of the exploded aerial bombs. Then dense explosions continued to sound from all corners of the airport, and the smoke of shrapnel quickly flooded everything at the airport.
For everyone at the airport, this day is the end of the world.
Because the intruder fighters that came here were carrying cluster bombs from the No. 2 arsenal. This is the best weapon for destroying local airfields, dense small bombs, which can form a large area of explosion. As long as it explodes over the target area, many small bombs are released, covering all areas of the target.
The bombs that fell from the sky bloomed everywhere on the airfield, and the bombs that fell on the runway brought countless craters to the runway, although they were not large, but for the fighters, they were absolutely deadly.
Some of the bombs fell around the fighters, and although the explosions did not completely destroy the fighters, they brought more damage. The fragments after the bomb exploded hit some parts of the fighter, and the damage was not great, it was all small holes, but the damage was very great, and it brought greater challenges to the repair work of the fighter.
It's just that this is just the result of an attack, but China obviously won't end there. Another round of attacks took place at the airport after the intruder fighter plane had made a U-turn. The dense aerial bombs, divided into even denser small bombs, instantly covered the entire airfield. The dense explosion completely covered the entire airport in an instant.
The sound of explosions like firecrackers is constantly being heard at Nagasaki Airport. Ground Zero fighters and Gale fighters and a few bombers were detonated one after another, and fuel tanks and ammunition were not spared. Under such a dense attack, not to mention people, even ants will die.
The gradual increase in aerial bombs has completely made this air base lose its combat effectiveness, and the unexploded bomblets left behind will continue to bring new damage to the Japanese in the coming period.
In every war, the Air Force is the first to go out and should sing the leading role! The task of the Air Force is to seize air supremacy, protect the ground forces, and strike at enemy targets!
China's angry revenge has finally begun. However, for China, which does not make a move, and a shot is bound to be a big deal, this is just an appetizer. (To be continued......)