Chapter 247: Air Battles in Latin America
When the U.S. homeland was threatened, the U.S. Congress and government erupted in unprecedented efficiency.
The Caribbean Command was abolished at the first time, and the Southern Theater of Operations was formed, and all Army Air Forces and Army forces in the southern United States were under the jurisdiction of the Southern Theater, and a Southern Fleet was formed to be responsible for military operations in the Caribbean.
The framework of the Southern Theater of Operations was established in three days on the basis of the Caribbean Command, and the large number of Army forces, relying on the train carrying capacity of the continental United States, quickly assembled in the southern United States.
U.S. diplomats have also arrived in Latin American countries to lobby.
Under the deterrence of the United States' heavy troops, Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala immediately opened their borders to the US military, and the hundreds of thousands of troops gathered by the United States on the Mexican border began to enter Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala in an orderly manner, advancing toward southern Latin America.
Although the United States did not persuade Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala to join the Allies, Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala were unable to prevent US military operations in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala.
In a week's time, with the help of the powerful military forces of the United States, the United States leased more than 200 military bases in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, and these military bases had to be returned to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala after the end of the war.
The railways connecting Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala have continuously transported a large amount of material resources from the United States to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala.
Airfields were built, and a large number of fighter jets of the U.S. Army Air Force were stationed in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala.
The United States cannot quickly seize Panama, so it can only take it step by step, after all, the current United States still needs time to train the army and put the weapons from the factory into the hands of the army.
Moreover, the Southern Theater Command, which has been established, still has a lot of work to complete.
These are not tasks that can be accomplished in a short period of time.
And the Americans also know that the enemy's capture of Lower Panama will also strengthen the defensive line, the United States is preparing, and the enemy will not relax.
However, U.S. fighter jets cannot take off from the mainland to attack Panama, and the nearest distance also needs to take off in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala.
A large number of airfields have been built in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, and US fighter jets are eager to be stationed in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, along with a large number of bombers.
Every day, a large number of trains enter Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, and fuel, weapons and ammunition are in place.
In 20 days, the United States already had a preliminary air force in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, capable of taking off hundreds of fighter planes at the same time to conduct air combat.
The US Army Air Force stationed in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala also has as many as 1,000 fighter planes, and the United States, which has reduced its military equipment assistance to Europe, is rapidly equipping thousands of fighters on its own territory.
The Americans, who could not wait, began to organize fighter jets to attack the enemy in Panama after the airport facilities in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala were almost completed.
The Red Guard Corps in Panama quickly delivered a large army with far more efficiency than the United States had estimated.
In just 20 days, the base has built a large number of military facilities in Panama, a huge air base, a war factory that directly replenishes ammunition to the front line, and a large number of radar and anti-aircraft fire networks.
Walls have been raised in Panama, and anti-aircraft guns have covered the airspace north of Panama.
Hundreds of thousands of troops, successfully landed in Panama, and a steady stream of tanks and armored vehicles, are also being delivered into place.
Tank factories were built, tanks and armored vehicles were produced, and soldiers began to be recruited in the barracks.
The Red Guard Corps was in no hurry to launch an offensive at all, but did everything in its power to gain a foothold in Latin America.
This is also the reason why Fan Yize accepted Panama, this kind of cross-sea delivery attack, the most important thing is to quickly gain a foothold.
Fan Yize did not want to enter Latin America, so he first fell into the war with the Panamanians.
A huge convoy of convoys, a large number of tanks and infantry vehicles, hundreds of thousands of troops who landed in Panama, began to receive subsequent shipments of equipment, and new troop numbers also appeared in Panama.
The United States is preparing, and the Red Guard Corps is also preparing, and directly facing the United States, the Red Guard Corps is also under tremendous pressure.
The U.S. war potential is so strong, with enough people to arm a large army, and with its industrial heritage, the Red Guard is not without pressure.
After all, in Latin America, the size of the Red Guard Corps is only one million in the plan, and the United States, which is about to face, will have several times its superior strength.
And in the past period, the situation on the European battlefield was also full of twists and turns, problems from within Germany, and the mistake of the mustache's strategic vision, which led to the stalemate in the Battle of Stalingrad, which delayed the offensive in other directions.
Over the past twenty days, the Battle of Stalingrad had been fought by Germany, which had not resulted in the defeat of the Soviet army as expected.
The two sides fought hand-to-hand in the ruined city, and the Soviet Union, which firmly controlled the riverside port, continuously sent troops into Stalingrad, and the city was full of battlefields.
The snipers of the Soviet army inflicted heavy casualties on the German army, and the investment of troops and logistics forced Germany to postpone the offensive in other directions.
To this end, Germany mobilized a large number of fighters on the Western Front to the Eastern Front, and in the words of the Germans, Britain was no longer a threat to Germany, and Germany should concentrate all its forces to defeat the Soviet Union.
Strictly speaking, there was nothing wrong with the tactics, after all, in the North Atlantic, there were still a large number of submarine forces blocking British supply lines at sea.
And the bombing of the British mainland will not make much sense in a short time.
But in any case, the cessation of the bombing of the British mainland was indeed a wreck for the British respite.
And the submarine forces, unable to completely intercept all the supply ships.
The British also made full use of the colony of Iceland, hoarding large quantities of supplies, building factories, and secretly recuperating.
Qiu Fatzi sat in London, and when Germany stopped bombing the British mainland, he also quickly issued a statement, telling all allies and the British people that the time to counterattack Germany was not far away, and the final decisive moment would soon come, asking the people of the world to unite to resist Germany's aggression and expansion and defeat the fascist camp.
Stalin in Moscow, naturally, did not lag behind, and stood up and called loudly that the Soviet Union's war against Germany, the source of capitalist evil, had been fully launched. All the people of the Soviet Union were required to fight to the end, fearless of sacrifices and hardships, and fight to the end against the German invaders.
The Battle of Stalingrad quietly changed the tide of the war in Europe, giving the Soviet Union a breathing time, and the Soviet Union's huge industrial base was put into operation, and soldiers from all over the Soviet Union arrived at the Stalingrad front by train, and under the supervision of the law enforcement team, launched a desperate charge against the German army in Stalingrad.
In Latin America, the Americans, who are poised to go, are also beginning to take it back after a month-long preparation.
A fleet of hundreds of P-40 fighters flew straight to Panama.
"Approaching Panama, all eyes wide open, pay attention to the sky, enemy fighters may appear at any time."
In the blue sky, on a pilot plane painted in a shark suit, a US colonel ordered his own fleet.
Blue sky and white clouds, with a clear Nicaraguan lake below.
The US P-40 fleet flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters has a speed of more than 450 kilometers, and in terms of performance, this fighter can only be regarded as second-rate.
But this fighter has a huge advantage, and that is the extremely efficient production capacity.
It is possible that other advanced fighters have produced five, and the P-40 has already produced five hundred aircraft.
At the same time, only the P-40 was able to mass-produce the US fighter jets, and the output reached a very astonishing level.
And this fighter is also a model for the United States to support its allies on a large scale.
The Thunderbolt fighter that the United States is currently preparing for mass production is the fighter that the US Air Force itself most wants to prepare, and of course, the Mustang fighter in the verification stage is also the main force of the US Air Force in the future.
At present, the only P-40 that can be used on a large scale by the US Air Force is used, and the US military has no choice, so it is used.
Hundreds of fighter planes, densely packed with fighter jets, flew across the blue sky, attracting the Latin Americans below to keep looking up and pointing, making exclamatory sounds.
The main combat mission of the American warplanes, which were ordered to go to Panama for a tentative attack, was to cover military operations on the ground.
The U.S. Army, which has established itself in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, is fully entering Nicaragua and will soon be able to reach the Panamanian border.
If the first air raid can occupy air supremacy, the follow-up bombers will quickly destroy the airfields in Panama, and the military offensive on the ground will also be in full swing.
In order to quickly recapture Panama, the United States has sent more than one million troops to Latin America, and there is still a steady stream of troops from the United States into Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, more than 200 military bases, and fresh blood is constantly replenished.
Theoretically speaking, this is the first round of planned US attacks against the enemy, and the success or failure is very crucial.
In the high altitude, all the US fighter pilots were looking at the surrounding airspace with full attention.
When the group was about to fly over Lake Nicaragua, a US military pilot quickly shouted on the group's communication channel: "Pay attention to the sky above, enemy planes have appeared, I see enemy fighters, God, they are above us." ”
The screams came from the headphones, and everyone looked above their heads, and in the blinding sunlight, a large group of fighters, with their backs to the sun, swooped down towards them from high altitude.
The air force units of the expeditionary corps have long been waiting for the arrival of the US troops in Panama, the radar is turned on 24 hours a day, and the early warning planes in the sky have never stopped their early warning missions.
When the US Air Force group appeared on the radar, the Red Alert Air Force group immediately took off to meet the US Air Force.
Under the guidance of accurate radar, the Red Alert Air Force plane group found the US plane group at the first time, and at an altitude of 12,000 meters, with the help of high-altitude clouds, it swooped down towards the enemy plane group.
"Enemy planes, enemy planes, evade, hurry up evade."
In the headphones, there were shouts everywhere, and the fighters in the middle of the US fighter fleet were about to react, and disaster had already struck.
Swooping down, at an altitude of almost nine thousand meters, the intruder group, which had air superiority, launched a frantic attack.
It was not the Intruder fighter's cannon that fired, but two rocket launcher nests located under the wings.
Large-caliber rocket launchers, each fighter can carry twelve rockets, hundreds of fighters launch rockets together, you can imagine how spectacular the scene is.
The delayed fuse caused these rockets to fly for about a kilometer and explode one after another, and the fragmentation radius of the rockets was within a range of more than ten meters.
In order to better command operations, the fighter pilots of the US Air Force group formed a dense group of planes, and arranged several bombers with decoys to fly, and in order to deceive the radar, they formed a whole four-level flight formation, each with hundreds of fighters.
This kind of flying group, layered on top of each other, can indeed confuse the enemy's radar and make the radar misjudge the number and size of the group, but once this kind of formation flight is attacked, it will also have disastrous consequences.
What's more, it was such an attack method as rockets, and the American pilots were all confused.
In an instant, the US military aircraft group was completely fried, and the dense rockets fell and exploded, and the dense explosions exploded in the aircraft group, and the flames of the explosions exploded, and the entire US military aircraft group formation instantly became a pot of porridge.
"Climb quickly, be careful with the left and right wings, and avoid ......"
The headphones were full of shouts, and in the group of US planes after the explosion of the dense rockets, the remaining US fighters made evasive actions one after another, dodging the 30-millimeter aircraft guns that followed closely behind the rockets.
Quite a few U.S. fighter jets, dragging smoke down. On the ground, countless fragments of wreckage in the sky fell to the ground.
A burning pendant. Falling out of control P-40, the cockpit was covered with blood, the pilot had been killed, the burning fighter spun and fell, and on the ground, a B-17 flying Bastion bomber, too late to dodge, fell. The falling fighter plane smashed directly into the bomber, and landed in the middle of the bomber, the fuel tank exploded, and the bomber also exploded suddenly following the weather, and another evasive fighter on the side was also affected by the explosion, and the wing was broken.
Dive into the approaching intruder swarm, in superior distance and superior altitude, frantically slaughtering the P-40 fighters below the performance of the all-round backward.
In terms of the pilots in the intruder fighters at this moment, these rookies in the US military are really too stupid, and they miss those Japanese Zero fighters, so they can finally correct with them. Wrap it up.
In just a few seconds, more than half of the fighters in the US fleet were shot down, and dozens of fighters were staggering and in the injured stage, while the group of intruder fighters that suddenly attacked received almost no damage.
At 8,000 meters in the air, the two sides immediately started fighting, and the altitude of 8,000 meters is the most favorite altitude of the intruder fighters in air combat, which can fully give full play to the superior maneuverability of the invaders.