Chapter 357: Single-handedly Yamato
Staying in the sea where the air force was destroyed, the Japanese Combined Fleet Headquarters fleet quietly waited for the arrival of the enemy.
No one doubted this order, even if it seemed to be meant to send the fleet to its death.
The Xuanwu fleet did not let the Japanese headquarters fleet wait too long, and in the face of the two battleships of the Yamato-class class, Long Yun did not let the carrier-based aircraft be dispatched, as the last glory of the Japanese Navy, the Red Alert Navy did not mind giving the Japanese Navy a fair chance.
In the sky, the roar of fighters appeared, a large number of missiles flew towards the headquarters fleet, and the air defense alarm of the Japanese headquarters fleet sounded, but it was already too late.
In addition to the two battleships, the other cruisers and destroyers in the main fleet were either out of combat or in the process of sinking.
Take modern anti-ship missiles to attack these World War II ships, it's simply not too bullying.
On the sea, there were two lone Yamato-class battleships left, which even gave the Japanese Navy the illusion that the enemy was trying to capture these two battleships alive.
However, this is not possible, how could the battleship be captured alive, there are many means to resist this assumption.
Open the canal, and the two warships will quickly sink into the sea, not to mention the thousands of soldiers on board.
What was incomprehensible to the Japanese soldiers on the two battleships was that the enemy's attack was simply brutal, but why leave two battleships behind?
The formation of carrier-based aircraft, having completed the attack, swept directly over the two battleships and then went away without dropping any bombs.
And the answer to the doubts of the Japanese soon appeared, and the newly installed sea radar on the Yamato and Musashi detected two obvious warship signals.
The distance is almost thirty-five kilometers away in the sea area, and according to the highest observation tower of the Yamato-class class, the people on the Yamato can see sea targets twenty-four kilometers away at the farthest.
The newly installed radar system has an observation range of about 35 kilometers for battleships and 20 kilometers for cruisers.
It is undeniable that Japan's radar technology has lost a lot to the Western world.
You must know that in the late stage of World War II, the US Navy battleships not only had sea search radars, but also fire control radars, although they were very rudimentary, but in naval warfare, especially night naval battles, they had an advantage, that was obvious.
Although Hasegawa Kiyoshi had already cut his stomach, the Japanese officers on the two battleships had no intention of giving up.
The captain of the battleship Yamato, Yukisaku Ariga, gave the order to turn around and approach the target position displayed by the radar.
The Musashi, which was not far away, also acted together, and the battle alarm sounded on the ship, and in the last battle, everyone on the Yamato stayed quietly at their posts.
When it comes to the decisive battle of battleships at sea, the Yamato-class battleships are not afraid of any warship in the world, which is the glory of the Yamato nation.
When the distance between the two sides reached twenty-four kilometers, the people on the Yamato saw two super battleships appearing in the distance.
The Hades-class battleship, with a displacement of more than 100,000 tons, when this sea behemoth appeared in front of the Yamato-class, the Japanese sailors on the observation tower were stunned.
Two Hades-class battleships, with no escort ships in sight, just like the Yamato and Musashi.
"Report to the captain and find enemy battleships, they are too big."
When Yusaku Ariga received the report from the observation tower, he did not pay attention, but gave the order to turn the rudder to the left, and the two Yamato-class battleships traveling from west to east, one in front of the other, all turned the rudder on the left and then turned the bow to the north.
When the two Yamato-class battleships turned to the left, the two Hades-class battleships also turned to the right, and the warships of both sides completed the turn almost at the same time, facing each other sideways, and the direction was due north.
Battleship main gun fire.
By the time the Yamato and Musashi completed their left turn, they had already completed the turret turn, and the left turn was complete, and the turrets were aimed at the two Hades-class ships twenty-four kilometers away.
The fire of a salvo of nine main guns, the recoil of up to 8,000 tons, and the battleship with a full load displacement of 70,000 tons, were translated out a short distance.
Shells weighing 1.5 tons streaked across the sky.
On the opposite side of the Yamato-class battleships, the phased array radar on the Pluto-class battleships caught the Yamato-class shells for the first time, the ballistic computers were activated, and four interceptor missiles were lifted into the air on the two Hades-class battleships.
Two missiles intercept one shell, intercepting only the most threatening moment.
Only one of the main artillery shells in flight posed a lethal threat to the battleship, and the interception was completed one second after the missile was launched.
For a Yamato-class shell to hit two Hades, the shell would have to fly in the sky for nearly thirty seconds, which was enough time for a missile to intercept the shell.
Of the eighteen shells in total, two were intercepted, and the remaining sixteen shells all fell in the distance of the two Hades-class battleships.
In the Hades-class fire control headquarters, the phased array radar had already locked on the two Yamato-class battleships, and the main guns of the Hades-class battleships rotated.
The shells, which weighed more than two tons, had been loaded into the breech, and the relatively cheap short-range guided shells quickly locked onto the two Yamato ships in the distance.
It's just that the two Hades-class warships, all locked onto the Musashi, and the twenty-four 510 mm caliber main guns roared at the same time.
On the battleship Musashi, all the Japanese sailors, who did not know what class of battleship they were on, had just fired their main guns once, and were hurriedly loading shells.
The salvo of the Hades-class main cannon was amazing, and the disemboweled shells flew towards the Musashi with a muzzle velocity of more than 1,500 meters per second.
On the observation tower on the Musashi, the observation group shouted, "The shells are coming." ”
Shells that exceed the speed of sound are faster than sound, and the sound of shelling can only be heard after the shells arrive.
But the eyes were able to see farther, and the helmsman on the Musashi immediately began to maneuver to evade.
However, the extremely fast flying shell approached the Musashi in just a dozen seconds.
On the Yamato in front, Kosaku Ariga was standing on the open-air bridge, and vaguely saw a large number of black spots in the sky, which were falling towards the Musashi.
For the two Yamato-class battleships, the Hades-class battleships did not bully people, nor did they use expensive shells such as expensive extended-range guided shells,
Otherwise, more than two hundred kilometers away, two Hades-class battleships would be able to launch an artillery bombardment on these two battleships.
After all, early warning aircraft and radars in the sky can provide data support for naval artillery guidance, and the probability of hitting is not lost to missiles.
But this so-called fair heads-up is still very unfair.