Chapter 338: Stratofortress Bomber

At Saipan Air Base, a busy fleet of aircraft is preparing for takeoff at three airfields.

Busy fuel trucks, roads to and from the airport, satellite-guided napalm bombs loaded into the belly of a huge bomber.

The three airfields at Saipan Air Base are all filled with super bombing, and the stratofortress bomber, a super bomber of one level larger than the air fortress bomber.

Eight huge turbofan engines, two in combination, arranged on a wide wing, each with nearly nine tons of thrust, eight engines, propelled this aerial monster with a total weight of two hundred tons to take off.

The huge body has a wingspan of 55 meters alone, a fuselage length of nearly 50 meters, a height equivalent to a four-story building, and an empty weight of 65 tons.

It can carry 60 tons of oil at a time, has a practical ceiling of 18,000 kilometers, a combat radius of 8,000 kilometers, a range of 18,000 kilometers, and a high-altitude cruising speed of 1,150 kilometers per hour, which is close to subsonic speed.

It has many external hardpoints and built-in magazines, which can carry a total of more than 60 tons of bombs, and the external hardpoints can also carry 24 missiles of various kinds, as well as large cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles.

The crew, with only four people, is able to make this super bomber carry out bombing missions covering the whole world.

With a single refueling, you can even take off directly from Guam, bomb Europe, and land inside the Red Alert airbase in Iceland.

At this moment, in the three airfields on Saipan, there are 180 stratofortress bombers, their bellies already filled with explosives, and their wings are also full of missiles, all of which are V-1 cruise missiles, striking key targets.

These 180 bombers are the strategic bombing force of the Fourth Theater of Operations under the Expeditionary Corps.

The Fourth Theater has a total strength of 500,000 troops, with the Xuanwu Fleet and the Army and Air Force under its command, plus a group army of the Marine Corps, which is powerful enough to dominate the entire Pacific region.

The theater system is only a temporary one, and in order to better enable the sea, land, air, and space missile units to conduct joint operations, this theater system will be revoked at any time after the war ends.

At present, the Fourth Theater is mainly responsible for combat operations against the Japanese mainland and the Far East, while Southeast Asia is handed over to the Third Theater, which also has 500,000 troops.

And now, the Red Guard Corps has more than three million troops in this time and space, and in addition to the first-line expeditionary corps, there are also millions of World War II troops as regional stabilizing forces, guarding various occupied areas.

So far, the Fourth Theater is the only one of the four theaters with standing nuclear weapons, and in the Mariana Islands, there are eight nuclear bomb silos that have been built, as well as two Typhoon-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines with standing nuclear warheads, which are also under the command of the Fourth Theater.

The strategic bomber force also prepared a certain number of nuclear cruise missiles, and these nuclear bombs, without exception, were all aimed at the Japanese mainland.

However, at present, the Fourth Theater has not yet reached the point of using nuclear weapons, and if the war can be won by conventional means, there is no need to use nuclear weapons.

After all, for Fan Yize, he wants Japan to be a slave for generations rather than destroying Japan.

What's more, quite a lot of people in the Red Police Corps are big men, and they also need to start a family.

Moreover, it was not too difficult for the Red Guard Corps to conquer Japan.

As night fell, bombers loaded with ammunition took off from three airfields on Saipan.

Two hours earlier, more than 500 Air Fortress bombers had taken off from Guam and Tinian Islands, and had already set off ahead of schedule.

Two groups of bombers will enter Japanese airspace at the same time.

The group of bombers that took off slowly climbed to an altitude of 18,000 meters, the air was thin in the air, the drag was reduced, and the speed of the bomber group was slowly increased to close to subsonic.

Saipan is less than 2,400 kilometers away from the target of this bombing, and for the stratofortress bombers, it only takes 150 minutes of flight, which is completely sufficient.

In the crew compartment of the bomber, two pilots, a weapon operator, and a comprehensive information processor can complete all bombing tasks.

Satellite signals and all-positioning systems make the plane completely unmistakable, setting destinations, and autopiloting the bomber without even the need for manual operation by the co-pilot.

The two-and-a-half-hour flight is not boring, there are a lot of entertainment on the plane, and there are even four beds, so you can take a break during the flight.

There are separate galleys and bathrooms in the cabin, and you can even watch movies and play games in them to pass the time of boredom.

In fact, in addition to arriving at the destination and starting the bombing, only two people are needed on the plane to operate freely, and four people also make up a double shift.

Of course, this is when the mission is going on an ultra-long-distance voyage, like this mission, there is no need to rest at all, and there is no need to pass the time, take a look at the mission briefing, understand the target information of the attack, and the time is almost over.

As the time approached 10 p.m. Tokyo time, the bomber fleet officially entered Tokyo Bay.

On the ground, the Japanese radar also discovered the target in the sky, the piercing air defense siren sounded, and the Japanese air defense troops preparing for air defense helplessly found that the enemy's flight altitude was beyond the reach of the ground air defense guns.

During this period, although the Japanese anti-aircraft guns had the warning of the American war, it was quite difficult to develop an air target capable of striking at an altitude of more than 12,000 meters.

Of all the Japanese air defense forces, there are few anti-aircraft guns capable of attacking more than 10,000 meters.

Not to mention attacking these planes flying at an altitude of more than 15,000 meters, the Japanese native air forces, which were flying in the air to intercept them, could only look up at the starry sky and curse, helplessly accompanying these bombers to fly.

In Tokyo, air raid sirens sounded, and many Japanese who were asleep woke up in a hurry and prepared to assemble at the nearest bomb shelter.

The bomber, which had descended at a reduced speed, also dropped to an altitude of 15,000 meters as it entered the sky over Tokyo.

At this height, it is enough for satellite-guided bombs to accurately hit ground targets, and all the target information has already been determined, and the dropped bombs will be under satellite guidance to find targets to attack.

In the sky over Tokyo, several Japanese fighters that took off in the dark had no choice but to return home, otherwise they would be shot down by their own anti-aircraft fire at any time.