Chapter 504: Mission Plan
A lone aircraft carrier, sailing on the sea, is not easy to detect even if there is a reconnaissance satellite flying overhead, which is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
At this time, the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth was sailing on the ocean.
Takeoff!
The deck was filled with white smoke, and a Tomcat fighter plane was ejected from a catapult, and since its departure, they have been conducting high-intensity training every day, mastering the operation skills on the aircraft carrier, and ready to participate in military operations at any time.
The transformed Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, although the catapult has been updated, but because of power problems, it is still impossible to catapult the Tomcat fighter with a full load, but the Tomcat fighter is mounted with six undead birds to take off and intercept, which is also extremely special, the general mount, are two, at most four, so, with the help of headwinds, take-off and landing is no problem.
Nathan stood on the bridge and looked at the busy operations on the deck, a hundred years of navy, this sentence is true, the British navy has a history of hundreds of years, and their operations are quite in place.
"We're only a day's flight away from Chile." Lieutenant Colonel Brown said to Nathan, "Tonight, a supply ship will join us and resupply us. ”
The combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier formation is huge, and at the same time, it is inseparable from the support of logistics, if it is on a high-intensity battlefield, the aircraft carrier needs to be replenished almost once a week, and their lonely aircraft carrier is sailing, the consumption of oil and fresh water is also very large, and every time the carrier-based aircraft is ejected, a large amount of seawater must be wasted.
"Well, Lieutenant Colonel Brown, after we resupply this time, there may be a mission coming."
As Nathan was talking, he saw Emily walk in: "The CIA's reconnaissance satellites have yielded something, and in the Sapara area, there is a newly built field airfield, where huge bombers are being assembled, determined to be Tu-16s."
At present, there is no technology of digital cameras in later generations, and reconnaissance satellites still shoot film mostly and then send the film back; although this cannot receive information in a timely manner, the picture taken with film is quite clear.
After researching and judging, they finally found the target, and the latitude and longitude have been marked.
Although the image did not reach the aircraft carrier, as long as there was this information, it was enough.
Nathan looked at the large-scale map and said, "Sure enough, it's Tu-16, in that case, let's get ready for action." ”
After the flight training, the pilots gathered in the combat command room, Nathan looked at everyone and said, "Good news for everyone, we have found the Soviets air base in Argentina, and our next task is to destroy it!" ”
Nathan's words surprised everyone, since the route was modified, everyone knew that they were here to carry out a secret mission, and now, this mission has finally been implemented, which is to bomb the air base set up by the Soviets in Argentina.
Who would have thought that after the start of the war, Argentina quickly came together with the Soviet Union, and now, the Soviets actually deployed terrible bombers to Argentine territory.
If the United States protests diplomatically, it will only be to surprise the snake and make them change the place of deployment, and it is the right way for the United States to blow it up now, and everyone's faces are eager to try.
"Tonight, we will replenish oil and water, and at the same time make preparations before departure, before dawn tomorrow, we will take off from the aircraft carrier, and at dawn, we will have already entered the mountains of Chile, fly for half an hour in their mountain section, cross the mountains, fly at an ultra-low altitude, and reach the sky above the target, which is just the time for them to have breakfast." Nathan said, "Let's greet them with bombs!" ”
Everyone was eager to try.
"In this bombing mission, we used 20 Tomcat fighters and carried cluster bombs to completely destroy this place!" Nathan continued.
After the F-14 was just produced, it was an absolute fighter, and not a pound of weight was used for ground attack, until later, when the F-14D was improved, it had the ability to attack on the ground and became a bomb cat.
Although the F-14 fighters produced for Britain have been improved, they still do not have the ability to use precision-guided weapons and cannot use various air-to-ground missiles, but it is still no problem to mount bombs.
After all, the aircraft carriers of the British Navy are all small goods, and it is impossible to equip them with a variety of carrier-based aircraft, and they must have carrier-based aircraft with multi-purpose capabilities.
20 Tomcats, almost the limit of their sorties, and at the same time, cluster bombs, that is also a terrible weapon.
This kind of bomb is a small bomb into the form of a general empty bomb, each small bomb is called a subbomb, so it is also called a sub-bomb. Specifically, it refers to the loading of several to hundreds of submunitions into a bomb body of the same size as a general bomb, and each submunition is about the size of a tennis ball. After being dropped by the aircraft, it decomposes in the air and causes regional damage by dispersing submunitions to a wide area of the ground. It can be used to attack cluster targets such as cluster tanks, armored combat vehicles, and troop assembly areas, or large-area targets such as airport runways, and has a strong destruction capability.
The best way to completely blow up this airbase is to use cluster bombs, and at the same time, you can also piggyback on this kind of cluster bomb and kill everyone!
The Soviets could only swallow this breath.
After all, they were involved in secret, and all their personnel had to be dressed as mercenaries, and they had nothing to do with the Soviet government, and if this place was bombed, they would not dare to speak out.
It is to teach them a lesson, to tell them, not to interfere in this war!
On the battlefield in Vietnam, the US ** team used a large number of cluster bombs, and the effect was quite good.
Everyone was excited.
"Our early warning aircraft will support our operation and guide the whole process, but in order to achieve the suddenness of the attack, we must fly at ultra-low altitude, which is still a major challenge, so this time I will participate in this air raid operation, and I will serve as the long plane."
As soon as Nathan said this, some people immediately became unwilling.
"Nathan, your position is on an aircraft carrier, not on the front line to participate in combat." Lieutenant Colonel Brown was the first to speak: "What if you go to participate in a ground attack battle, and someone comes to attack our aircraft carrier at this time?" ”
Nathan, this guy, hasn't fought for a long time, and his hands are itchy again, after going to sea this time, he also followed the take-off and landing training of carrier-based aircraft, and he knew that he wanted to show his hand, but this is absolutely not good!