Chapter 22: Sortie
Time flies, and after a month of intensive training, these recruits already have basic combat effectiveness, at least they can do what they order. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoThis is already an acceptable standard in Zhang Fan's heart, after all, what can you ask too much for a recruit who has just entered the army?
In addition, the German side has repeatedly urged Zhang Fan's fleet to carry out operations, and has been playing soy sauce for more than a month, and the German military department has also begun to get impatient!
After receiving the telegram from the German headquarters again, Zhang Fan impatiently said to the communications officer: "Reply to the naval headquarters, our fleet will start action immediately, let them wait for good news!" ”
After the correspondent returned this information to the Navy Headquarters, Zhang Fan began the fleet transfer!
The first choice was the air carrier Adeline, which was floating at an altitude of 5,000 meters above sea level, and began to move rapidly. The name of this newly born air carrier is still zero, and whoever wants Zhang Fan has a certificate of difficulty in choosing a name, so he has to let zero randomly select a name.
At this time, Major Dylan, the captain of the air carrier Adeline, had just received an order from the fleet commander, Commodore Zhang Fan. Major Dylan was a standard German soldier with a high degree of obedience and a great deal of receptivity to new things. This is also the reason why Zhang Fan was specially promoted to Lieutenant Commander Dylan to captain of the air carrier Adeline. After all, the combat method of the air carrier Adeline is completely new, and many senior officers will be at a loss for the sudden transformation from a naval battleship to an aerial battleship! And a young commander who is more receptive to new things is undoubtedly more suitable!
"This is the captain of the air carrier Adeline, Major Dylan, who has just received an order from Commodore Zhang Fan, the commander of the fleet, that this ship will serve as a pioneer and transit base to conduct fire reconnaissance and mobile strikes in the depths of the Atlantic. Please be on guard in wartime! ”
After Major Dylan gave the order to attack, the massive mid-mothership Adeline began to slowly advance into the depths of the Atlantic. Although it seemed to move slowly, the air carrier Adeline still reached a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, which was much faster than the movement speed of the battleship, and soon left the large force behind without a trace.
At this time, the Atlantic route is the life supply line that Britain depends on, more than 50% of Britain's supply comes from this route, and there are more than 1,500 transport ships and a large number of escort formations on the entire route to continuously transfuse blood to Britain! Otherwise, the island nation of Britain would have run out of ammunition and food long ago!
The huge air carrier Adeline has been floating at an altitude of 5,000 meters, using air superiority and high-power radar to detect British transport ships in a large area.
"Radarman, did you find a target?" Major Dylan asked.
"No targets have been found, Captain!"
Major Dylan thought for a while and ordered: "After all, the accuracy of the radar is limited, and we can't rely on the radar all, so send all 12 planes to attach auxiliary fuel tanks, take the ship as the center of the circle, and the radius of 800 kilometers as the reconnaissance range to start reconnaissance in turns, and 4 planes as a group, divided into 3 groups, take turns to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance!" ”
"Yes! Captain," replied the flight dispatch officer
Soon the order reached the flight group. Squadron Leader Parker began to announce the combat order to all the flight crew: "Young men, the captain has given the order just now, the entire squadron is divided into 3 detachments, each team of 4 fighters to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance in turn, I need you to be vigilant in pairs, as the first batch of pilots on the air carrier, elite German pilots, if anyone deserts during the mission, I will train him for another week!" ”
“yes! sir! The crowd replied loudly.
After the order was issued, a large number of logistics personnel began to attach auxiliary fuel tanks and install weapons and ammunition for the first batch of fighters that took off first.
Soon 4 warplanes were raised from the hangar to the deck of the carrier Adeline, ready to take off.
Taking off and landing on an air carrier at an altitude of 5,000 meters is more complicated than taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier, after all, the wind speed at high altitude is very high, so every time a fighter takes off and lands, the air carrier Adeline must be in the stratosphere at 5,000 meters to reduce the impact of high-speed airflow aircraft taking off!
Soon the propellers of all the fighters were activated, making a buzzing sound.
"Hey, Ban, do you think we're the real Sky Knights now!" A pilot in his 20s who was preparing to set off said to his co-pilot.
"Thomas, concentrate, we're on a reconnaissance mission! Not here for air tours! Ben replied.
"Hey, buddy, you're just too serious, don't you feel shocked when you look at this huge magical air carrier? This is a big guy that the Imperial Shipyards can't make! And thanks to Commodore Zhang Fan's blessings, our Valkyrie fleet was able to transform a zeppelin into an air carrier! And we had the honor of being the first pilots in history to actually take off on an air carrier! I'm so excited when I think about it! ”
"Hurry up and take off, the pilot plane has already taken off, we have to follow quickly." It's a pity that the class will only pour cold water on him!
“ok,ok! Take off now! Thomas suddenly saw the flight dispatcher staring at him with an unkind face, and quickly kicked the accelerator, and the whole plane accelerated violently, rushing out of the deck of the air carrier Adeline like an arrow from the string!
"Oh! What a spectacular fortress in the sky! Thomas piloted the fighter plane and circled around the air carrier Adeline before catching up with the pilot and starting to fly towards the mission area!
Seeing a plane flying around the mothership, the curious Major Dylan not only asked, "Who is flying this plane, the pilot seems to be a very interesting person!" ”
Hearing the captain's inquiry, the flight dispatch officer, Pete's face turned green! "Captain, that's the No. 3 plane, the pilot is a newly promoted flight cadet, and his skills are still good, but he always likes to show off his flying skills in the sky, and the other is that the execution of orders is always not in place. If it weren't for the very high quality of the carrier-based pilots of the air carrier Adeline, I would definitely kick him back to the sea carrier! I'll have a good talk with this bastard kid when I get back! What is discipline! ”
"Huh! Pete, you're too nervous, I think this young man is very good, you see our fleet commander Commodore Zhang Fan is also a very young person, he never looks at people by seniority, he values the potential of talents more. For example, I myself was valued by Commodore Zhang Fan and was fortunate enough to be the captain of the air carrier Adeline. So I don't resent talented young people! Major Dylan said
"Thank you, Major Dylan, for your understanding, but military discipline is military discipline, Second Lieutenant Thomas did not strictly abide by military discipline, and when the mission is completed, I will punish him!" Pete replied.
Hearing Pitt's reply, Major Dylan did not object, after all, even if the young pilot was talented, he strictly abided by military discipline after all, which is the basic rule of German soldiers.