Chapter 730: The Iron Blood's Mighty Fleet

After the landing, the Iron and Blood Army quickly formed several formations, and they divided their forces and drove to important positions in several directions. At this time, the Bostonians were completely crazy, not only did they all go into the army, but even the scientists fell into madness, and all kinds of incredible weapons came out of the cage. At the moment of war crisis, they did not have much time to test at all, and after the new weapons were developed, they were directly put into mass production, and as for whether they were easy to use, they could only go to the battlefield to test.

At an airfield in the Kharkiv region of the Cossack Empire, the tower commander looked at the strange scene in front of him in amazement, a fighter with a large delta-wing canard layout landed lightly on the runway, and the plane only taxied for 800 meters during the entire landing process, which was at least two-thirds shorter than the landing distance required by other fighters in service in the Chinese Air Force.

"This ......, this ......, is the wing of this plane reversed? Why is its tail in front. The tower commander stammered.

Behind him was a liaison officer of the Predator, who smiled: "This is the latest Golden Eagle 6 fighter, which is only equipped by the Predators, and has not yet been equipped with the Wehrmacht and Guards. This wing is not reversed, this is called canard wing layout, this kind of aircraft has excellent flexibility in the air, and the take-off and landing distances are much shorter, it is quite advanced aircraft. ”

It was not only the tower commander of the Air Force who was surprised, but also caused a commotion among the Imperial Chinese Army when the huge 60-ton body of the Grizzly 5 approached. Although this tank is much smaller than the Mouse tank of the Boston Empire, given its flexibility and thick cannon caliber, I am afraid that its power is still above that of the other side.

"Commander Gao, we meet again." Liu Mingzhao, the commander-in-chief of the Iron Blood Army, walked in front of him with a smile.

Gao Deyu came specifically to greet Liu Mingzhao, this time they came to four group armies, more than two million troops, this is the first time in the history of the Iron and Blood Army, it can be seen that Fang Xiaoyu attaches great importance to the Western Continent front.

Gao Deyu is also from the Iron Army, when he saw his old friend Liu Mingzhao jump out of the chariot and come over to greet him, he also strode forward and hugged him excitedly: "I haven't seen my old comrade-in-arms for a long time, you are finally here, we can launch a counterattack." ”

The two old comrades-in-arms who had been reunited after a long absence, hugged warmly and then separated, accompanied Liu Mingzhao on the way to the headquarters, and asked in a high voice: "The young master is in good health, since the young master abdicated, I haven't seen him for many years." ”

Liu Mingzhao nodded: "Very good, the young master's body has always been the best, and he has never even been sick." Now even several other young masters and young ladies have come out to do things, and they are all very capable, just like Your Majesty. ”

Gao Deyu nodded and said, "Young Master's child, which one will be worse." Are you going to start a big move this time? ”

Liu Mingzhao nodded: "Yes, the young master sent us here to end the war as soon as possible." Not only the Western Continent, but even the Boston Empire sent a large number of troops on the battlefield, and this time the Boston people were in trouble. ”

The arrival of the Predator made Howell nervous, and he knew exactly what that meant. Fang Xiaoyu's return meant that the Chinese Empire had once again regained its god, and the strong intervention of the Iron Army marked that the Axis bloc had no chance of victory. What's more, in the investigation of the intelligence system, the Iron and Blood Army not only used a large number of unheard of new equipment, but also dispatched four huge aircraft carrier fleets and at least five million army forces, with this force, it can be said that the Axis group has no hope of victory.

To Howell's surprise, it was not his Center Army that was the first to suffer, not even any of the Axis Army units. When a large number of the Predator's army and air force rushed to the battlefield, the Predator's huge home fleet, along with the six aircraft carrier formations of the Eastern Ocean Fleet, passed through the canals of the Central Continent and entered the Storm Ocean, and then they sailed all the way north, soon to the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.

Both sides of the strait were under the control of the Axis powers, and not only did they have a large number of aircraft to carry out air strikes on the fleet, but even shore artillery could block the strait, so in the previous years, except for submarines, the Chinese navy fleet would not have come to this place, but the iron-blooded fleet did not have any scruples about coming here.

The responsibility of this operation was heavy, and as the commander of the Iron-blooded Navy, Admiral Peng Dechao, as a matter of course, personally sat on the flagship 'Haitian' aircraft carrier. The "Haitian" belongs to the eighth aircraft carrier of the "Sea King" class, which is a new generation of aircraft carriers designed by the Iron Army for itself, and because it is not equipped for the imperial army, it is named without using the national common naming method. It has a full load displacement of a staggering two hundred and thirty thousand tons, and the reason why it is so large is because the aircraft carrier uses an unprecedented catamaran design.

The bridge of the aircraft carrier is set in the middle, with a main deck and an angled deck on each side, which can be used independently for aircraft maintenance, loading and take-off, and each deck has three elevators for independent use, plus eight of the latest electromagnetic catapults, which more than doubles the efficiency of the aircraft carrier.

In the empty space in front and behind the bridge, ten new Type 1040 Dense Array rapid-fire guns were installed, as well as three experimental laser cannons, but their range was too short, less than three kilometers, and could only be used as close fire guns. In addition, a number of Hongqi-4 anti-aircraft missiles are placed around these close defense guns, which are also used for short-range air defense within tens of kilometers, and these weapons are controlled by multiple radars installed on the bridge, especially the active phased array radars installed on the upper part of the island.

In addition to these equipment, there is also a two-deck in the stern, these two decks are specially used for helicopter take-off and landing, and they take advantage of the height difference with the main deck to set up the door of the helicopter hangar, so that the hangar can be used to carry a full eight anti-submarine helicopters on the aircraft carrier, and at the same time, they do not have to compete with the fixed-wing aircraft for the main deck to land, affecting the efficiency of flying fixed-wing aircraft.

The large deck enhances take-off efficiency, and the use of metal-hydrogen fusion reactors saves a lot of space for fuel and boilers, which allows the aircraft carrier to carry a staggering 147 aircraft, which will be guided by more efficient autopilots, which greatly improves the safety of aircraft landing.

Each of the Iron Army's aircraft carrier formations is equipped with four 'Sea King' class aircraft carriers, and the 16 such aircraft carriers are protected by 64 15,000-ton Canberra-class guided missile destroyers and 96 5,300-ton Moore-class missile frigates, heading towards the east coast of the stormy ocean.

Both the Canberra-class guided missile destroyers and Moore-class missile frigates are equipped with active phased array radars, a radar system known as the Aegis of China, which can scan a variety of air and sea targets over a radius of more than 300 kilometers, and can simultaneously track 100 of them and strike at the most threatening 20 offensive strikes.

Both warships also use a vertical missile launch system, with the difference that the Canberra-class guided-missile destroyer has 192 launch cells, while the Moore-class guided-missile frigate has only 48 cells. At the same time, due to their different combat missions, the types of missiles they carry are also different.

The Canberra-class missile destroyers carry anti-aircraft missiles, anti-ship missiles, cruise missiles, and anti-submarine missiles, of which anti-aircraft missiles are the mainstay, while the Moore-class missile frigates not only have stronger sonar systems, but also carry anti-submarine missiles, and in addition, it also carries a lot of anti-submarine equipment such as anti-submarine torpedoes and rocket depth bombs in other places on the ship.

Despite the fact that the Moore-class missile frigates have quite powerful anti-submarine capabilities and even have towed array sonars, the real anti-submarine workforce of the fleet is not it, because under the invisible water, there is also the presence of Seawolf-4 nuclear submarines.

The 138-metre-long nuclear-powered submarine has an underwater displacement of 14,335 tons, and a fusion reactor and two steam turbines provide 70,000 horsepower, allowing it to reach speeds of up to 29 knots underwater.

The six launch tubes in the bow can fire a mix of guided torpedoes, anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles, which makes it possible to attack all kinds of enemies, and even more terrifying, the submarine has a near-infinite endurance, and even with the help of an electric oxygen generator, it can split water into oxygen and hydrogen, allowing the submarine to sail at a depth of 600 meters below the surface of the sea even when it is underwater, without supplementing oxygen at all. At this moment, thirty-five Seawolf 4 nuclear submarines are spreading a huge anti-submarine network a hundred nautical miles around the fleet, monitoring possible Axis submarines.

In addition to these main battle ships, there are more than 200 warships in the iron-blooded fleet, including integrated supply ships, electronic command ships, hospital ships, amphibious assault ships, etc., in addition to these, there are many warships that Feng Ju can't even name. Looking at the huge and sci-fi iron-blooded fleet, Feng Ju let out a burst of emotion, for the first time, he felt that the performance of the imperial navy's warships had lagged behind, and there was a big generation gap with the iron-blooded army.

"Report to the commander, the satellite positioning has been successful, we have arrived in the open sea three hundred nautical miles from the Strait of Gibraltar and requested the start of combat duty." The communications staff officer informed Peng Dechao of the satellite data.

"What? The attack began from 300 nautical miles away, and our planes did not have enough time to stay in the air, so should we get closer. Feng Ju, who was also on the flagship of the Iron Army, proposed.

Peng Dechao smiled and said: "Lao Feng, you still don't know the power of the new warships of the Iron and Blood Army, this distance is already quite close, if you get closer, you may be detected by the shore-based radar of the Axis countries, and then the other party's bombers may come over." ”