Chapter 291: The Theory of the Uselessness of Aircraft Carriers

The reason is very simple, in the final analysis, the combat power of aircraft carriers depends on the aircraft, and if the aircraft is not powerful, the aircraft carrier will naturally be of little value.\\ From these recent battles, the elites of the navies of various countries have come to the conclusion that as long as the restrictions on torpedo aircraft dropping torpedoes cannot be solved, then they will always be a live target for anti-aircraft fire (but except for the uncertain speculation of Japan, which has experienced it firsthand, the top brass of the navies of various countries did not expect that the anti-aircraft firepower of Chinese warships would be more than ten times stronger than theirs; And the power of dive bombers is too small, and they can't help the battleships with rough skin and thick flesh; As for horizontal bombers, on the one hand, the hit rate of high-altitude bombing is miserable, and a very large number is required to have practical significance, and an aircraft carrier can carry less than 100 aircraft if it reaches the sky, on the other hand, heavy horizontal bombers cannot get on the aircraft carrier, and medium-sized horizontal bombers can only carry 800-1000 kg of aerial bombs, if you want to sink a battleship, unless you are lucky enough to hit the ammunition depot, a dozen may not be able to sink a battleship, Considering the pitiful hit rate of less than 1 percent of the horizontal bombers (Note 1), especially the insufficient weight of the bombs, it was necessary to fly higher to have enough kinetic energy to penetrate the horizontal armor of the battleship, so the hit rate became more and more miserable, and it would take at least a dozen aircraft carriers to blow up and sink a battleship

In this analysis, although the air force is worthy of attention to ship-to-ship combat, it is limited to land-based air forces, and aircraft carriers still seem to be unable to compete with battleships. As soon as this conclusion came out, even the Japanese Admiralty, which had been completely dominated by the air carrier faction, was shaken for a time; if it were not for the fact that the warship faction at the top of the Japanese Navy had been almost completely wiped out, the air carrier faction in power would have to always adhere to the aircraft carrier line even if it was purely out of political considerations, and Japan would have gone back if it did not do well. However, even so, some people at the top of Japan, including Emperor Hirohito (mainly the army, which always likes to find faults), questioned the Japanese Navy's choice to build aircraft carriers. It was only after Japan acquired from the Germans the latest Stuka bomber (Note 2) with a huge bomb load and the 1.8-ton new armor-piercing and semi-armor-piercing bombshells that produced the Jishu, and transformed the former into a carrier-based version, that the Japanese were able to move quickly along the aircraft carrier route wholeheartedly. It is also worth mentioning that the Japanese, out of habitual economy, did not completely abandon torpedo bombers, believing that even if the main attack did not work, after blowing up the enemy's battleships to the point of losing the ability to counterattack, torpedo bombers were used to complete the Zuihou blow, which was much more economical than the other two, and much more convenient than destroyers and submarines

In addition to the air defense forces, the fighter pilots of the North China Air Corps also performed well, and the young men shot down more than 500 Japanese planes with a loss of less than 100 aircraft (including 38 Chinese planes). The outstanding performance of the second batch of Soviet aid air teams was an unexpected surprise.

Hu Weidong didn't go this time, but although Pokryshkin was not as prescient as Hu Weidong, his vision was sharper, you must know that in history, in addition to his outstanding contributions to the strategy and tactics of the Air Force, he was also an instructor who trained the most ace pilots, and at the same time killed the most ace pilots (the standard for German ace pilots is to shoot down more than 10 planes), reaching as many as 20, and there are probably few people in the world who have more vision than him in this regard. In addition, due to the outstanding performance of the North China Air Corps since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Stalin did not do as perfunctory as the first batch this time, although they are still all aviation cadets, but most of them have at least half a year of military aircraft flying experience, which is much better than the situation when the first batch of people came were basically rookies, and among them there is a super ace of the Soviet Union's fighter with the largest number of downed fighters in history, which undoubtedly surprised Hu Weidong.

It is precisely because this group of Soviet aid air forces has a good foundation that Hu Weidong directly let them fly the planes after a brief understanding, and the results are quite good compared to their flight experience, especially the performance of the first battle of Kozhdub is even more dazzling, and he quickly became the most eye-catching existence in this group of young Soviet pilots with his excellent record of shooting down one plane alone and shooting down two planes together. But the most outstanding performance of the Soviet aid air force was always their boss Kryshkin, who shocked the newcomers with a record-breaking record of 9 enemy planes shot down (both alone and together).

Note 1: I apologize to you here, I couldn't find out the hit rate of horizontal bombers at all stages of World War II before, so I mistakenly used the hit rate of horizontal bombers in the late stage of World War II, but later found that in just a few years from 39 to 43 years, the hit accuracy of horizontal bombers has increased by hundreds of times, so it is a big mistake to be able to hit 1-2 by more than a dozen horizontal bombers to ship bombing written above, in fact, with 38 years of shijie science and technology level, Even if the Chinese and Japanese horizontal bombers were equipped with Shijie's advanced optical sights and mechanical computers, the hit rate of horizontal bombardment battleships at an altitude of 4,000 meters (800 kg of armor-piercing aerial bombs could penetrate the horizontal armor of most battleships) was only one in a thousand, even if the target was moored and motionless

During World War II, the accuracy of horizontal bombers increased so quickly, firstly, because of the improvement of sights and bomb delivery computers, and secondly, because of the improvement in the design of aerial bomb armor-piercing warheads, and the fact that the Allies had already controlled air supremacy at that time, so that their horizontal bombers did not need to fly so high when dropping bombs, and the accuracy was naturally greatly improved

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Note 2: In fact, the performance of the Stuka bomber is average, but the structural strength is very large, so it can carry a bombshell for dive bombing, and will not disintegrate when changing out and pulling up, which is not possible for several other light bombers on Shijie in the same period, and it has therefore become the only dive bomber in Shijie history to blow up and sink the battleship by itself, but because of the ultra-short range of German fighters, there are not many examples of Stuka bombing large warships, if you can get on the aircraft carrier, This shortcoming can be largely compensated, but the fat man made the Zeppelin scrap metal

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