Chapter 254: The Destruction of the U.S. Atlantic Task Force
As we all know, in World War II, there was no such thing as precision-guided weapons, and there were no precision-guided bombs.
So in order to ensure accurate bombing, the concept of dive bombing appeared.
Dive bombing uses high dive velocity to get as close to the target as possible and aim to drop bombs to ensure the accuracy of the attack.
And such an attack, on the land battlefield, against fixed ground targets, such as roads, bridges, ground military command, or moving tank targets, has a very good effect.
However, when used against a fleet group with dense anti-aircraft firepower, there is one inevitable result of such an attack, and that is the probability of loss.
Against sea targets with dense anti-aircraft firepower, this kind of dive bombing is really a bit inadequate.
The reason is very simple, it is impossible for any carrier-based aircraft to rush straight into the dense air defense network, and most of this attack is an attack with life.
This is also the reason why the Japanese kamikaze in World War II had a high hit rate, but the actual effect was very unsatisfactory.
A prepared fleet, in the face of this kind of attack, fights for whose luck is good, but in fact, it is all about killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800.
And for dive bombers, this kind of attack requires great courage to support, after all, every dive bomber pilot is ready to return to the aircraft carrier alive, not to die here.
Therefore, better tactics are needed to support this attack.
High-altitude vertical dive is the best angle of attack against sea warships, because under the vertical angle, it can avoid the dense firepower network of the sea surface fleet as much as possible, and will not be easily covered by a large amount of firepower.
And the carrier-based bombers of the Red Alert Navy are capable of performing a variety of bombing tactics, and dive attack is only one of them.
In the bomber's sighting system, it was possible to avoid having to dive to a very close distance in order to ensure an accurate hit on the target.
Even at a height of thousands of meters from the target, it is possible to aim and drop bombs.
This can greatly reduce the loss rate caused by this dive attack tactic.
Under normal circumstances, the Red Alert Navy's carrier-based bombers will not use dive bombing tactics to attack enemy warships.
However, in order to destroy the enemy's warships as much as possible, in order to destroy nearly 40,000 tons of warships, or more than 40,000 tons, bombs are often dropped in an ordinary way, and the maximum lethal effect cannot be achieved.
The tactic of dive bombing can greatly increase the speed of the bomb falling, and ensure that the bomb can cause the greatest lethal effect under the bomber's dive acceleration.
The use of dive bombing against large warships is not a desperate effort, but the most appropriate means of attack calculated after detailed calculations compared with the losses caused by normal bombing.
Although dive bombing is more dangerous, as long as it can hit the target, the target has little ability to continue the operation.
If it is a normal bombing, it will often take two or three attacks, which makes the attacking bomber expose to the attack range of the enemy fleet for a longer time, and the danger factor is higher.
The attacks of the Red Guard Corps, no matter what kind of troops, often carry an unstoppable domineering and indomitable offensive momentum, and all the troops who have learned it feel deeply troubled.
The U.S. Army has profoundly understood this, and today, the U.S. Navy on the sea is also fully aware of the enemy's terribleness.
With just one bomb, an aircraft carrier of nearly 40,000 tons sank directly, and there was no chance to struggle.
Most of the sailors on the Intrepid did not have time to escape from the aircraft carrier, and the aircraft carrier whose hull was blown off was already sinking.
And the Hornet next to the Intrepid, although it is a large circle smaller than the Intrepid, but people are lucky, the dropped bomb did not directly hit the center of the aircraft carrier, nor did it invade the oil depot below, the dropped bomb entered the front deck of the Hornet, and on the Hornet, a gap dozens of meters wide was blown up.
The huge shock of the explosion caused the sailors on the aircraft carrier to be seriously injured, and there were no deaths except for the people affected by the explosion.
However, this aircraft carrier, which is nearly 30,000 tons, has also lost its combat capability, and the entire deck of the bow has been blown open, and the hull of the bow has been cracked.
If it weren't for the lack of damage to the basic structure, I'm afraid the Hornet would have had to choose to sink.
One-ton attack bombs are weapons of mass destruction that cannot be seen on aircraft carriers and aircraft of various navies.
The American sailors on the other warships nearby looked unacceptable, tasting the incomparably terrifying effects of the attack.
Five aircraft carriers, in the blink of an eye, one sank, one floated on the surface of the sea and burned.
The other three aircraft carriers were lucky enough to dodge the first round of attacks, but the dense anti-aircraft fire could not stop the equally domineering attacks that followed.
Through the layers of anti-aircraft fire nets, a carrier-based bomber pulled the attack button of the large rocket launch nest under the belly, and the large-caliber rockets instantly poured on the deck of the USS Essex.
Dense explosions covered the entire wide deck of the aircraft carrier, only hateful, there were no anti-ship missiles yet, otherwise one round of attacks would be enough to destroy the aircraft carrier.
However, the fire caused the USS Essex to withdraw from the battle, and even became the target of more carrier-based aircraft.
Two bombers that skimmed over the sea to attack dropped large-caliber attack torpedoes on the sea near the USS Essex.
The USS Essex, which was in a mess, had no time to dodge at all, and there was no one to control the aircraft carrier on the burning island, and the dense explosions exploded underwater, and the huge aircraft carrier shook violently on the sea surface, and the water column that rose into the sky rose against the hull of the aircraft carrier.
The American sailors on other warships nearby knew quite well that the USS Essex was finished.
At the same time, the other two remaining aircraft carriers also burned. Although the aircraft carrier was not fatally attacked, it was no longer operational.
The task force in the Atlantic has lost its core combat capability.
In addition to the aircraft carriers, only four main battleships still had some combat effectiveness, and many destroyers and cruisers were all sunk in the attack.
In the first round of attacks, the US task force was already scarred and lost 60 percent of its combat effectiveness, and then there were no carrier-based aircraft capable of taking to the air for combat.
The Red Alert carrier-based planes that returned from the first round of attacks also suffered losses of nearly 30 carrier-based aircraft, most of which were bombers.
Compared with the victory, this loss of the Red Alert Navy is completely acceptable, and it can even be said to be a complete victory.
Because of the next attack, the US Atlantic task force will be in a situation of being passively beaten.
Reason allowed the U.S. task force to withdraw from this sea area at full speed, ending the act of going to the Gulf of Mexico to die.
However, the Southern Suzaku Fleet will not let go of this fleet so easily, and at the cost of thirty carrier-based aircraft, its core goal is to completely destroy this fleet.
When the first round of air raids was launched, the Southern Suzaku Fleet was also approaching the US task force at full speed, and the distance between the two sides was only about 300 kilometers.
Thrown at the forefront are the two dreadnought second class battleships, although with the advantage of carrier-based aircraft, there will be no chance of a decisive battle between the battleships, but the two dreadnought second class battleships are still menacing.
On the way back from the attack of the first wave of carrier-based aircraft, the carrier-based planes of the second wave taking off and attacking were already on the way to approach the US task force.
The U.S. Navy, which had made an emergency U-turn and left, had not yet gone 20 kilometers before it was found by the second wave of incoming carrier-based aircraft.
Another round of attacks was launched, and without the interception of US carrier-based aircraft, the escorting carrier-based fighters also joined the attack on the fleet.
Although the escort carrier-based fighters did not carry attacking bombs, the 30-millimeter cannon could easily inflict huge damage on the 3,000-ton destroyer.
With the assistance of carrier-based fighters, the second round of attacks became even more effective.
Dense fire cover is no longer a time when the US fleet's air defense artillery is attacking unscrupulously, and in the face of carrier-based fighters and defending warships that are roaring close to the sea surface attack, they have suffered heavy losses, and the anti-aircraft fire has weakened a lot when carrier-based bombers attack.
In particular, the dense rocket attack carried by carrier-based fighters, a destroyer of 3,000 tons, was completely insufficient to fight.
These targets, which were not worthy of bomber strikes, became the targets of competition for carrier-based fighters.
A large-caliber rocket, covered in one go, can destroy a destroyer, and there is no higher efficiency than this means of attack.
Desperate American sailors, suffering heavy casualties.
When the third wave of attacks arrived, only a few small warships were still floating on the surface of the task force, and a large number of American sailors who had fallen into the water were crowded on the lifeboats in a daze.
Five aircraft carriers, four battleships, they are no longer visible on the sea.
The Red Alert Navy, which was determined to destroy it completely, directly sent all the main warships of the task force to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
In this naval battle, the US Navy was once again crushed.
It is not that the US Navy is not strong, but that this task force is completely capable of fighting a decisive battle with the Japanese Combined Fleet in the Pacific Ocean.
The United States also has high hopes for this fleet, hoping to turn the tide on the ground battlefield.
But the Americans were wrong, and the enemy they were going to face was completely at the same level as the US military at the moment.
If it were the US Navy in the late World War II, the situation would not be like this at all, the United States was not yet equipped with carrier-based aircraft capable of decisive air supremacy, and the density of the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower was far inferior to that of the warships in the late World War II.
In addition, the Red Alert Navy, which has early warning aircraft, is like having a cheat, and the US Navy at this time is not an opponent.
And this is also an important reason why the Red Alert Navy wants to wipe out the US army.
A large number of advanced technologies in the United States are still in the experimental stage.
The core goal of letting go of Japan's Red Guard Corps is to destroy the United States in an all-round way, otherwise it will kill Japan, and in retrospect, the United States will be the real behemoth.
Fan Yize will not give the United States any chance, the Southern Vermilion Bird Fleet, after defeating the task force, the next combat goal is to protect this sea area.
In order not to make it too easy for the Germans, Fan Yize would not let his fleet enter the North Atlantic to affect the European battlefield.
Unless the United States transfers the remaining Second Fleet and the Fourth Fleet back from the North Atlantic, the Suzaku Fleet will not take the initiative to go to the North Atlantic to destroy the last US navy.
Of course, Fan Yize will not give the United States the opportunity to build a more powerful fleet, and the bombing of the US mainland will not stop unless it encounters extreme weather and the bombers cannot take off.
With a world backing, the Red Guard Corps has unparalleled attack capabilities, a steady stream of fuel and bombs, and even if 10,000 bombers are dispatched every day to raze the United States, there will be no logistical pressure.
The U.S. Navy task force was successfully eliminated, and the Red Alert Air Force accelerated the construction of more air bases in Mexico.
In the next three months, the Red Alert Air Force will build an air force airfield in Latin America that can take off 5,000 bombers at a time.
Because according to the estimates of the Red Alert Air Force, if you want to completely paralyze all industries in the United States and carry out safe bombing on the American mainland, you need to dispatch at least thousands of bombers.
This will be the largest aerial bombardment in human history, and it will also kick off the last war that completely annihilates the United States.
With the victory of the Suzaku fleet, the amphibious battle group began a military campaign to conquer the Caribbean.
The marines, who carried out the landing on all the main islands, no one could resist.
At this moment, the United States has lost the ability to interfere with the landing, the task force has been wiped out, and the US Navy has no ability to transport troops in the south.
As a result, although the United States is very reluctant to see it, it can only see the Red Alert Marines, capturing one island after another, and then unable to do anything.
The United States, which no longer has a fluke mentality, can only begin to prepare wholeheartedly for a decisive battle at home.
The only good news is that after this naval battle, Brazil, which was vacillating, finally agreed to send troops to Panama under the lure of huge American interests.
In fact, Brazil is also afraid of the Red Guard Corps going south, and other South American countries are also very vigilant against aggression and aggression of the Red Guard Corps, and under the lobbying of Brazil and the United States, they are also a little unable to sit still.
In fact, what really made Brazil decide to send troops was that the Brazilian Navy was also in the US Atlantic Task Force, and when the US Atlantic Task Force was completely annihilated, several warships of the Brazilian Navy were also sunk.
It's just that Brazil's entry into the war cannot reverse the disadvantage of the United States at the moment, and the daily bombing is causing the industrial production of the United States to continue to decline.
What worries Americans is that in another six months, American industry will not be enough to support this war.
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