And just half an hour before they fell, two other U.S. reconnaissance planes had taken off. After refueling and conducting simple inspections, the two planes would fly into the sky again to perform reconnaissance missions.
This kind of continuous reconnaissance mission for more than ten hours during the day makes the US pilots feel very tired, but the war is imminent. It is better for them to stay on the ground and nervously wait for the enemy to come for air strikes. Two US pilots took advantage of the While the ground crew was using a refueling gun with a long hose to refuel the plane, they ate a few pieces of bread with butter, nibbled on a few deep-fried chicken wings produced in the United States, wiped their mouths, and flew into the sky again. .
They didn¡¯t want to have the South China Sea Fleet aircraft break through a certain airspace during the few minutes of delay, pick up a loophole, and bring a catastrophic blow to Pearl Harbor.
At this time, there are still two squadrons of torpedo planes at Pearl Harbor Airport that have not taken off. They have just completed their mission and need to wait for half an hour before they can continue to take off.
In the sky over the western waters of Hawaii, U.S. military planes crisscrossed the waters about 300 kilometers away from the Hawaiian islands, conducting intensive and non-stop searches.
However, because the waters in the Pacific are too vast, the US military does not have airborne radar as a search instrument. They can only rely on visual photography for reconnaissance. Therefore, with more than 20 aircraft, the US military wants to cover the vast sky of the entire western Hawaiian sea. It's almost an impossible task.
The northern, southern, and eastern waters of Hawaii are areas that the US military cannot take care of. The US military estimates that the South China Sea Fleet is unlikely to enter Hawaii from these areas, because it will take a detour and cause a lot of delays. The South China Sea Fleet will not look far away until they They were chased by the Adel fleet to Hawaii and then launched an attack.
This is indeed true. In order to fight for it, the South China Sea Fleet is preparing to directly break through the US military's aerial reconnaissance network and enter the Hawaii area to conduct air strikes, instead of taking a long way to attack Hawaii from the east or north and south, which would indeed cause a lot of delays.
The US military has divided the waters west of Hawaii into a fan-shaped area, allowing aircraft to make circular motions along the fan-shaped area and fly back and forth, thus reducing the possibility of missing South China Sea Fleet aircraft.
However, although this method of search increases the density of the US military's search, there are always airspace missed by aircraft that can exploit loopholes. However, seismic aircraft do not have this loophole. If they want to continuously break through the US military's hundreds of kilometers of territory, Range search is probably not an easy task either.
The South China Sea Fleet has no intention of relying on luck to break through the search of the Hawaiian Air Force. They are already prepared for a head-on air battle with the enemy. Moreover, these US military aircraft are the biggest threat to the aircraft carrier fleet. Zhennan must find them, annihilate them, and then send another Bombers conduct air raids on Hawaii.
In the early morning of October 8th, a red sun rose from the eastern horizon like a blazing fire. The entire sky over the sea gradually became tinged with a fiery red color. The entire sky quickly became brighter, and a group of seagulls flapped their wings on the sea. Flying leisurely, a huge fleet below was quietly approaching in the direction of the rising sun.
Li Guoqiang and fleet staff officer Huang Shusheng stood on the deck of Poseidon, holding binoculars and watching the sunrise scenery on the seaside. In the distance, the four aircraft carriers Shenzhou, Taishan, Nanjing and Huangshan were lined up in a horizontal formation and were moving forward slowly. , the Poseidon is protected by the entire fleet in the middle, and it is also the safest core area of ??the entire fleet.
Li Guoqiang had just issued a combat order. He and Huang Shusheng stood on the deck with great interest and watched the aircraft taking off from the four aircraft carriers.
Li Guoqiang ordered three fighter squadrons on four aircraft carriers to set sail, preparing to break through the Hawaiian aviation network and conduct the first round of air strikes on the US military base in Hawaii. Only one fighter squadron on the Shenzhou was left to patrol in the nearby airspace and perform warning missions.
The main target of the three squadrons that carried out the first wave of attack missions was not the warships and construction facilities of the US military base. Their main goal was to annihilate the US aviation force, trying to wipe out all the US military's control forces in one battle, creating a foundation for the second round of air strikes. good conditions.
As for using three squadrons of forty-five J-2 fighters to deal with the US military's 24 Dark Horse fighters, 24 torpedo planes and several reconnaissance aircraft, Li Guoqiang believed that it was more than enough, because the J-2 aircraft were equipped with aviation radars. Quickly locate the opponent, approach the opponent from the best angle, and execute a sudden and unexpected strike.
The vast Pacific airspace gives the J-2 aircraft ample room to maneuver. If it is a one-on-one battle, the J-2 aircraft is almost difficult to defeat. In order to increase the reconnaissance range, the US military aircraft dispersed the aircraft over multiple targets. area, almost every squadron's aircraft were divided into four strands, with only three aircraft per strand.??This creates favorable conditions for Zhen** to carry out individual defeats.
If the U.S. military concentrates its forces to engage in close-range air combat with Zhenjiang aircraft, their chances of winning will be greater. If they disperse, they will be slowly cannibalized by the Zhenjiang aircraft that have an absolute advantage. Until the last one, the U.S. military will not be able to win. For this reason, if they want to be the first in a group of aircraft, they will gather all the aircraft in an area for defense. However, the backward radio communication capabilities of the US military prevent the US pilots from notifying other pilots more than five kilometers away. It still takes a long time for most U.S. military aircraft to receive information from their teammates. They are far away from the command center in Hawaii and cannot receive information about enemy attacks at the same time. This has caused great inconvenience to U.S. military aircraft in joint operations.
The tactics of Zhenying are very simple. The aircraft of the three squadrons will gather together, break through from one airspace, and then go straight to Hawaii, annihilating the US military aircraft that come to block the attack along the way. After other US military aircraft receive the message, they will definitely return. To defend against Hawaii, then the vibrating aircraft will launch a battle of annihilation against US military aircraft in the Hawaiian airspace.
The U.S. military aircraft have no choice. They must concentrate on defending the skies of Hawaii, because the aircraft will definitely use the Air Force Airport in Hawaii as the focus of bombing. Once the airport runway is blown up, this will