The second wave of attack aircraft composed of various types of carrier-based aircraft such as Hawk-Sea Hawk, Marauder, and Vampire that took off from the British C Fleet almost brushed shoulders with the Brute Dragon aircraft group of the Gongjin aircraft carrier fleet.

In fact, from the formation of the shipboard mechanism, it can be seen that the British Empire was powerless at this time of the war.

In an aircraft carrier battle group, it is not that the more carrier-based aircraft there are, the better. On the contrary, the greater the variety of carrier-based aircraft, the greater the pressure on the logistics and command system.

Therefore, in the Royal Navy of the Han Empire, each fleet has only three main battle carrier-based aircraft at most. Moreover, the latest carrier-based aircraft being developed by the base laboratory has left behind the concept of having a separate design for fighters.

Not only carrier-based aircraft, in His Majesty's vision, the next generation of fighters of the empire will be inclined to the research and development of multi-functional fighters, that is, not J-type fighters, nor G-type attack aircraft, but J/G multi-attack fighters that can take on both air supremacy and ground attack functions, just like the F/A-18 Hornet of the United States in the previous life.

In the meantime, there will be only one type of main combat carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier, and the space saved will allow for the placement of more special fighters indispensable in modern air warfare, such as early warning aircraft, electronic aircraft, and anti-submarine aircraft.

Of course, this is just a long-term plan. Even with the current level of technology at the base, it is impossible to build such an advanced fighter. Don't underestimate the production of a fighter, it involves the production level of many basic industries, the base is not drawn out of thin air, and the scientific research of the war laboratory also needs the support of multidisciplinary theory.

However, even the Raptors and Fire Phoenix have appeared, will those be far away?

His Majesty, who was enjoying the sauna with Mu Yu in Lanfei Spring, a satellite city of the capital, sat on a recliner made of red nanmu and suddenly shivered in the dozens of degrees of heat in the sauna room.

Hell yes! Zhong Yi suddenly had a feeling, "This is not a good sign!" "This phenomenon has only occurred during the battle of the Yellow Sea, when His Majesty slept with Hainie in his arms, but suddenly woke up in a dream. Soon after, a telegram was received that the Battle of the Yellow Sea was a great victory, but the aircraft carrier Zijing, the battleship Fengxian, and the heavy patrol Ziyi were all sunk by the Japanese.

Although the empire already has several shipyards capable of building large ships, the warships built by those shipyards are all export types, such as Soyuz-class aircraft carriers. The Royal Navy has not yet procured ships from homegrown shipyards, with each of its main ships coming from the shipyards on Kangaroo Island and Fremantle Base.

There are many times when Zhong Yi feels that the large-scale equipment produced by the base is connected with his own blood.

It's a, but it's magical. Maybe Zhong Yi is the supreme commander of the base, maybe that plane and every warship are his own hands...... Click on the command to build.

Just like this moment, you can shiver in the sauna, that's not God...... That's not psychological...... How to say it, that's not what, what can it be?

In the Mediterranean, one hundred and twenty nautical miles southwest of Sardinia, the burning aircraft carrier Gongjin is slowly sinking.

The crew had already dispersed and moved, and Zeng Baojian, who was rescued on the Zijing, gave the order to abandon the ship twenty minutes ago.

After being wounded in the first attack, the sluggish male was targeted by the second wave of British attack. But what was really lethal was not the British "Martel" missiles flying over the sea, but the three semi-armor-piercing aerial bombs dropped by the A-37 "Dragonfly".

The second wave of the C Fleet's attack, although there were more planes and the offensive was more fierce, the Allied defense, which ate a trench and was wise and wise, was also significantly more targeted. Against the most threatening "Martel" air-to-surface missiles, the protective ring of the aircraft carrier group was rearranged. Several light cruisers and anti-submarine destroyers with the most intense near-fire protection power were arranged in the middle of the circle-shaped protective ring to shoot down sea-skimming missiles with dense close-fire resistance, and even "block the bombs with their bodies."

Coupled with the massive release of cover smoke over the fleet, and the start of more Sparrow-7-mounted "Eagle" escorts, the Marauder attack was no longer as effective as the first wave.

What's more, there are not a few ships that were shot down by the Sparrow-7 from afar.

However, before Zeng Baojian could breathe a sigh of relief from the adjusted aircraft carrier protection circle, he sadly found that after being intercepted by the raptor and dealt a heavy blow, the land-based attack group of the multinational force air force still had a lot of fish that slipped through the net...... "Nima, what kind of fish is that that slipping through the net, it is clearly a group of deadly sharks!" ”

The American A-6 "Intruder" attack, which looks similar to the British "Marauder" attack aircraft, is covered with high-explosive and armor-piercing aerial bombs under the wings, and some carry an AGM-16 Cowboy air-to-ship missile.

Anti-ship missiles of any country in this era face the same problem, the contradiction between weight and destructive power.

The AGM-16 is the latest anti-ship missile developed by the United States, and contrary to the Hong's Penguin-3, it is destructive enough to destroy any battleship of this era, but its air launch platform A-6 "Intruder" attack aircraft can only carry one at a time. This is no different from the clumsy torpedo machines of the auger era.

The actual combat also proved that the AGM-16 cowboy is a design that has failed to the extreme. Of the 8 A-16 attacks carrying AGM-6s, none of them were able to escape the "Hawk" interception. The "cowboys", who claimed to be able to blow up and sink a small island, simply left its launch frame and sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where they were slowly corroded in the world's salinity seawater.

On the contrary, the light A-37 "Dragonfly" attack aircraft rushed into the protective circle of the Allied aircraft carrier formation at the moment when the attack aircraft group of the C fleet was about to return.

In the face of the dense close-fire force of the Allied fleet, the "dragonflies" began the dance of death in the smoke and streamers.

Although many dragonflies were injured and shot down, the successive explosions proved that this seemingly outdated dive attack was still effective.

Courage seems to have triumphed over technology in this moment.

The Harrier Eagle and the Wenju were shot one after another. The Wenju was blown up with a catapult on the straight deck and could only use a runway on the beveled deck to continue taking off fighters, while the Harrier Eagle of the Italian Navy paid the price for the Italians to pursue an aesthetic design on the battleship - a hole was torn in the thin side chord, and at the same time as the sea water poured in, the aircraft carrier suddenly tilted, and the two He-181 "Viking" fighters whose decks were already full of ammunition and ready to take off slowly fell, and the huge splash of water also drowned dozens of aircraft carrier air crew members who fell into the waves together.

But the Wenju only decreased in combat power, and the speed of taking off fighters was much slower. The Harrier also regained its combat strength after balancing the water chamber on the other side. For insurance reasons, Zeng Baojian ordered the Harrier to slowly sail out of the battlefield and return to the Bay of Cagliari in Sardinia, under the protection of the destroyer Kiriani.

Gong Jin is no more!

In the first round of attacks, the two "Martels" failed to destroy the design of the marshal-class dense water chamber, and in the second round of attacks, the rear rudder hit another "Mart", but the Gongjin was still stubbornly flying the fighters.

It's just that when the "Dragonfly" began to dive, the sailors on the Gongjin had no good way but to strafe frantically -- the rear rudder was damaged, so that the flagship of the Allied aircraft carrier formation lost the ability to maneuver. The Gongjin, which could only go slowly and straight, undoubtedly became the priority target of the multinational air force.

Three successive "Ruby" semi-armor-piercing aerial bombs hit the middle and tail of the Gongjin respectively. The most lethal thing was that the third bomb actually pierced through the large hole that the first one blew out, and if there were successive hits in a boxing match, this bomb would penetrate several decks and explode in the power compartment of the Gongjin.

Tens of thousands of tons of giant ships seemed to jump on the surface of the sea, and the red and black flames formed by the incompletely burned heavy oil suddenly burst out dozens of meters high, and the huge column of smoke seemed to connect the heavens and the earth, adding a touch of hideousness to the already irritable Mediterranean. The iron red flying in the black smoke was like the bloody mouth of the demon, which made the pilots of the fighters flying up and down in the air tremble, clenching the lever in their hands, and avoiding the frightening column of smoke left or right.

On the Zijing aircraft carrier, which took over the command of the flagship of the formation, Zeng Baojian, who had a blue face, has been expressionless since he got off the lifeboat, and the continuous orders he gave made others feel very relieved! There is no problem with the command, at least the thinking is clear, the combat order is clear.

But the attentive staff officers found that the general's eyes flashed to the Gongjin floating on the water from time to time, gently swaying in the fire. It wasn't until the last surviving sailors on the Gongjin jumped onto the lifeboat and left that the general turned his head and secretly wiped the corners of his eyes.

Well, after several hours of fighting, there was too much smoke on this water, and the billowing smoke from the Gongjin raised too much dust and scattered it in the air.

"The general specified that he was blinded by the dust."

At about 7 o'clock in the morning, the British carrier-based planes and the fighters of the multinational air force withdrew from the battlefield one after another and began to return home. The Allied aircraft carrier formation was missing the Gongjin, which had sunk under the sea, and the Harrier, which had withdrawn and returned.

There were not a few escort ships that were wounded, several frigates on the outermost part of the protective ring were sunk by air-to-ground missiles, and two light cruisers carrying out anti-missile missions were also in danger, and emergency repairs were being carried out with the help of rescue ships.

The Brute Dragon Attack Group that had returned from the attack mission also gradually appeared in everyone's sight, only the Brute Dragon Squadron of the Gongjin found that they could not find their mothership.

Also sympathetic was the G-4 squadron aboard the Harrier Eagle.

Happy people generally don't just look at people who are better than themselves, they will often pity those who are not as good as themselves, or even down, so they feel happy.

The pilots of the Gongjin and Harrier, who could not find their motherships, had at least other carriers to alternate into, but for the pilots of the C Fleet, who had achieved considerable success, they were told on the way back that most of the carriers in the fleet were no longer equipped to land safely, and that they were to fly directly to the coastal airfield in Tunis, although it was also unsafe.

Allied bomber forces in Sardinia and Sicily, already before sunrise, began strikes on the coastal airfields of the multinational forces. This time, although there was no dragon in the sky of Tunisia that made the Allied air force incomprehensible, the overwhelming Cerberus and the German Me-283 Yellow Rose brought them the same terrible disaster.

The multinational forces in Africa no longer have too many triangular javelins to take off, and the German sea wolves in the Atlantic, under the command of Dönitz, have brought the wolf pack tactics into full play, and the unlimited attack on ships has made it not so easy for the United States to supply on the African battlefield, and sometimes, within a week, a transport ship of nearly 100,000 tons can safely reach Morocco, less than three layers.

The withdrawal of the Atlantic Fleet from the Mediterranean after the defeat at the Battle of Malta also had a lot to do with it - the United States had to devote more naval forces to escorting convoys.