The effectiveness of high-altitude interceptions is not very good, and the effectiveness of low-altitude interceptions is even worse. Another Red Squadron Leader, who was responsible for low-altitude interception, wrote in the report.

"And our brothers who are responsible for intercepting the low-altitude group are even worse. They faced more than 30 Mosquito fast bombers, and the opponent entered the battlefield at an altitude of about 3,000 meters. In the eyes of many comrades-in-arms, the other party's choice of this height to enter the battlefield is simply looking for death, but as a squadron leader, especially an ace pilot who has experienced at least 20 air battles and achieved 10 downed, I realized that this was definitely a conspiracy! To be honest, this height makes me uncomfortable, and the other party has too many choices! We could not see the opposing fighters, only a large group of bombers in a box formation accelerating through our defenses. ”

"The side with the height can choose to dive and attack, and then disengage after shaking off the opponent. This is the tactic written in the tactical manual. Any pilot knows it, but it's very difficult to master it, first of all, you have to choose a suitable engagement position. The best-case scenario is when you get to the end of the dive and are almost at the same height as the opponent, and then use the machine gun to destroy it from the front, yes, you read that right, when facing a Mosquito plane, even if it has a load on it, we still have to destroy it from the front! Because entering the battlefield from behind means a long chase! The Mosquito's large fuel capacity and low-altitude engines mean that he can always sprint at around 550 kilometers at the end of the attack, and the Seagull in my hand is no more than as fast at low altitude, even if I am only 2 kilometers away from the opponent at the same altitude, if I want to close the attack distance. Then you need to chase it for at least 3 minutes or so! And if the Mosquito plane wants to pass through the last interception, it will take only 10 minutes! We only have one chance to intercept! ”

"That's good. Now do the math, the two sides meet at 80 kilometers. And then from diving, chasing to design detachment, not to mention novices, even those pilots who have more than 800 hours can hardly say that they can complete the attack in 10 minutes, maybe some people say that we can dive to provide speed, that's right, we can do that, but because there is a limit to the speed of the aircraft, we have to control the speed of the aircraft, so the dive distance is too long and will not increase the terminal attack speed. And the other party is at a low altitude. But the same can dive! We want to just stop the opponent by feeling and experience! We had to visually measure the distance and altitude difference between the two sides to determine the speed of the other party and the meeting point where we met. Even without adversary interference, at least a third of the pilots of my squadron missed the interception point and flew headlong behind the opposing crew. And the opportunity to intercept is lost. ”

"The Blues were very cunning, and just as the remaining planes were about to enter the final stages of interception, they suddenly flew out of the clouds in front of us and attacked us with a dive attack, we were inferior in speed and altitude, and we were under the onslaught of the opposition. Our attack formation was broken up and we were forced to meet the opposing twin-engines in small groups. At this time, the opponent has entered the end of the lightning strike, and the entire group has turned into an attack group to carry out a simulated attack. We walked into the scattered flock like a hound, not knowing which one to fight. Under the attack of the opposing fighters, our interception efficiency is extremely low. More than 70 percent of the opponent's 30 high-speed twin-engine aircraft have been successful in raids, if this is in real combat. Then 4 of our armored aircraft carriers could be sunk by 2-3! If the other side has guided bombs, I'm afraid it is possible that the whole army will be wiped out! ”

The attack is not over yet. When the RED commander asked about the fleet's losses, the commander next to him who was in charge of recording the damage said, glancing at the BLU planes flying over the RED airfield. "If this is actual combat, I'm afraid you're already in a lifeboat or in the water." "The blue side may not be fighting my flagship, or we can change ships after the flagship sinks." The commander said with some disbelief.

"Impossible, judging by the current enemy aircraft attack situation and damage test table, all your battleships have been sunk 3 minutes ago! So you must be in a lifeboat or in the sea! Of course, the situation is the same for the blue side, they were also destroyed by your group, although your tactics are rougher than the blue side, and the attack effect is weaker than the blue side, but the attack of both sides is far stronger than the defense, and the final result is the same, and even if it is not for the director's request to continue, I think the exercise can be terminated now, because the remaining bombs are thrown in the water, and there is no need for the war to continue! The pilot shrugged and said apologetically.

"Ye Ming! You're so cruel! After the exercise, the commander of the red side gritted his teeth and gave Ye Ming a hard look. And the latter showed no weakness: "Each other." "Because his fleet was also beaten to ashes by the other side! In any case, this exercise has made it clear to everyone that in a Grand Fleet engagement, such an attack cannot be intercepted by the current anti-air command and defense structure! As long as the Germans don't show off their brains, then they can at least guarantee that the spear in their hands can stab the opponent to death, if they are facing the Allied Navy, then the other side may not even have a chance to shoot, and if they face the Chinese Navy, the result of both sides is to die together!

"The rules of the second exercise have to be changed, because it is impossible for the red side to defend against the opponent's attack at the same time, and the red side is not doing everything perfectly, but the general direction is correct. So in the second exercise, we changed the rules to see if the red side could block the attack of the opponent's high-speed group with full defense! To verify this, we did a second exercise. - Ye Ming

In this exercise, the red side will abandon the offensive and go all out on defense, for which the red side has prepared up to 180 fighters on the four large airfields used to refer to aircraft carriers, plus the number of fighters hovering in the air, the number of fighters used for defense reaches more than 220! This has almost emptied all the fighters of 4 aircraft carriers! After the start of the exercises, a huge group of aircraft began to rise into the air, and then a barreled defensive barrier was formed over the airfield. From high altitude to low altitude, the aircraft of a whole 12 squadrons cruised with ground guidance.

"I'll go, it's a wall. Even in the Iranian war, such a dense defense was encountered. It's just impregnable. A Blue Army pilot who rotated back from the battlefield in Iran looked at the rolling group of planes in the distance and said with some humility, I have to say. The Huaxia Air Force lineup under full defense is strong, but can such a defense block the opponent's attack? No one said it clearly!

"Red's second defense is indeed much stronger than the first. At least they have enough planes, and there are a lot of them, and it's hard to find opportunities for a simple head-to-head encounter, but as the number of planes increases, the difficulty of air coordination will skyrocket. Most importantly, fighter jets have a limited amount of time in the air, and the personnel also need to rest. In a sense, Red is cheating when it makes this decision, because it is difficult to do so on the battlefield. But even so, Red's defenses are not invulnerable! In the battle evaluation, Ye Ming wrote that in the subsequent exercises, the blue side's attack did break down the opponent's defense.

The Blues did not release their fleet in full force in the first wave of attacks, and their first wave was also a fighter jet, but the scale was limited, only about 50 aircraft. After the release of these aircraft from the four simulated aircraft carriers, the full rearmament of the attack aircraft began. This time, Ye Ming ordered the hangar and deck to prepare the planes at the same time, and the first wave of fighters was to directly release the planes that were left on the deck, so it didn't take much time. Attack aircraft, on the other hand, are refueled with bombs in hangars, and under normal circumstances, this situation should be avoided as much as possible. After all, the hangar is closed, and if any bomb is fired into it, the result will be very terrible. The degree of tragedy is a fight with the absolute history of Akagi!

However, this method of extreme rearmament does increase the speed of the carrier-based aircraft fleet. Dive bombers and second-wave fighters were refurbished in two hangars below deck. The twin-engine aircraft were reconstituted on the deck, so in less than an hour and a half after the first wave of aircraft was released, the attack aircraft group was ready. When the 160 or so various aircraft were lifted from the hangar to the deck and positioned. The first wave of fighters has already collided with the Red team's defense group. 50 against more than 200 aircraft, this seems to have no chance of winning. However, for the Blues attackers, they don't have to fight each other. You don't even need to break through, just keep trying to attack and harass your opponent around.

Face these fighters who haunt them like vultures that smell rotting flesh. The defender tries to disperse the opponent. Because the red side is worried that if the opponent's two attacks overlap together, then the red defense line will definitely not be able to hold up, and the 220 fighters are almost all the fighters of the red side, and this level of defense will not last long, so the red side would rather use its own defense to offset the opponent's escort force than let these planes hovering in the air end up in vain because of fuel problems.

But in reality, this defense is not very effective. A feint may force a large number of fighters to throw away their fuel tanks to fight, for example, if you see a 4-plane formation rushing out in the clouds and then launching an attack on a certain squadron, what will your squadron do? Is it to send 4 planes to meet it? Or 8? In the case of the former, you may have to worry about the ambush of the other side. In the case of the latter, no matter what, you have already exchanged 8 auxiliary fuel tanks for 4 auxiliary fuel tanks of the opponent, and if the opponent wants to go, you still can't catch the opponent. This teasing lasted for about an hour, and although many fighters threw away their drop fuel tanks, they could still support it by relying on internal fuel, and the real threat came after an hour and a half!

"The other party is coming!" When the AWACS aircraft on the periphery suddenly found themselves on their radar with a dense snowflake, they knew that the Blues had finally launched an attack, and the opponent's electronic jamming greatly shortened the radar's warning distance. "Although we tried to counter electronic interference by changing the frequency and increasing the power, the effect was limited, especially if the opponent was attacking extremely fast. In order to ensure that we can obtain information about the enemy's attack, we have to send some fighters and early warning planes to conduct a visual search of the perimeter, and the efficiency of this search is far less efficient than that of radar, and we have used up a lot of resources but have achieved little results, and what is even more odious is that when we locked on to the source of interference through the radio side, our fighters flew over, only to find that the opponent's attack planes did not accompany this wave of electronic warfare planes at all, and they used the method of diverting the tiger from the mountain to involve a lot of our energy. A Red Dispatcher wrote in the report.

And this is just the beginning, when the sudden interference caused confusion in the formation, the first remaining fighters of the Blue Army launched a fierce attack on the defenders at high altitude, this kind of attack at any cost in the eyes of the superior Red Army is just a death, but their efforts are not without reward, a large number of Red Army fighters are attracted to the high altitude, without realizing that the main group of Blue forces entering from a low altitude of 1000 meters! This time Ye Ming also took a risky move, his attack route selection is more complicated, before entering the detection range of the opponent's radar, his group is flying at the most suitable altitude at high altitude, and when it reaches a distance of about 150 kilometers from the target, the group begins to descend in altitude, and then approaches the opponent with the help of the cover of the sea, at this time the opponent's reconnaissance force and main interceptor group should remain in the air, and the forces that originally stayed at low altitude will also be diluted. When the opposing fighter finds itself, the escort fighter will do a limited climb, although the climb at this time will lead to tactical disadvantage, but at this time, the distance between the two sides is already very close, and the task of the fighter is to cover the attack aircraft to complete the last part of the attack route!

An AWACS aircraft deployed at a low altitude finally burned through the interference of the opponent's accompanying electronic warfare aircraft at a relatively close distance, and when a large group of dense optoelectronic appeared on his radar, the target was only about 100 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier formation! And at this time, if the aircraft are concentrated to intercept, the distance between the two sides will be compressed to a distance of 50 kilometers from the aircraft carrier! This distance is undoubtedly extremely close for a fast bomber. In a maximum of 6 minutes, they can penetrate the air defense circle of the fleet, and at this distance, the defender's fighters must give up the attack, because if they get closer, the nervous and unrecognizable anti-aircraft artillery units may break their own interceptors to pieces!

In the end, the result of the battle was very tragic, more than half of the more than 200 planes involved in the attack were shot down, but before the attack planes were shot down, most of the planes still managed to drop bombs or torpedoes, and according to the judgment, the number of weapons thrown out multiplied by the hit rate was enough to sink two aircraft carriers and seriously damage one. In other words, the attack was still deadly, and although the Red side relied on strong defenses to make the opponent pay a heavy price, it still failed to stop the attack.

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