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- After a few minutes of silence, Lukins suddenly asked Mountbatten: "Did your previous air battles with the Chinese have the same result?"
Mountbatten's cheeks twitched and he said firmly: "The Americans have launched more than one attack with more than a thousand aircraft, and each time more than 80% of them were killed! In the war against China, their total losses were no less than 30,000 aircraft. That¡¯s the number they announced! Yes, General, in the face of the absolute technological gap, the temporary advantage in quantity is meaningless!¡±
"Understood!"
Lukins could imagine that the truth might be more cruel than what he heard. Just imagine, a powerful United States with an annual output of more than 50,000 fighter jets cannot even seize air supremacy. You can imagine how big the gap is. And as far as he knew, that was mostly the result of the Chinese passively counterattacking.
I can¡¯t believe that after only ten years, the Chinese have developed to such a point. I wonder what kind of miracles they can create in the future. At least for now, they have become a serious problem for Germany! This battle is becoming increasingly pessimistic!
Ordering the fleet to suspend the attack and only hover around the fleet on alert, Lukins took a deep breath and resolutely ordered the fleet to advance in the direction with the most enemy aircraft, and ordered the fleets on both wings to start outflanking the target sea area.
Fighters can¡¯t even fight This battle is really getting harder and harder to win!
Admiral Lukins thought that in this battle, Zhu Bin would adopt pre-emptive tactics again, waiting for his own side to make a move before calmly responding to it, attacking key points, and winning without losing any blood or at the minimum cost - ¨DHe's always done this.
"It's not surprising that the comprehensive strength and foundation of small and weak countries are ultimately limited, so use good steel on the edge. Maximizing the combat effectiveness of existing equipment is the best choice. The German Navy has been doing this for the past few years, and he can understand Zhu Bin.
But this time, he guessed wrong!
In the south, the troops were divided into two groups and inserted into the ocean fleet between the two German formations. The formation changed again! The fighter planes that had finished killing missiles and artillery shells in the air changed shifts and returned to the aircraft carrier to replenish ammunition. However, groups of attack planes roared into the sky in the dawn light and pounced diagonally towards the encircling Italian battleship group on the right!
Because of the early clearance of the field, the detection range of the formation on the right side was extremely short. No matter how wise General Cunningham was, he could not match the deceptive performance of his teammates. In order to take care of the outdated battleships and cruisers, their too slow movements and speed of change seriously hindered them. This was the juncture when the formation was scattered. Who would have expected that the opponent would start to play cards out of common sense!
Looking down from high in the air, you can see the mighty black sea. A large area of ??at least two hundred large and small battleships were scattered into a patchwork of bright colors. The five particularly majestic "Veneto" class battleships were mixed together with several battleships that the British had managed to save. They looked like housewives. The mud particles thrown out casually were scattered in the core in a radial pattern.
A large number of heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers are scattered around in layers. The longest distance can be about a hundred kilometers, entirely because the power gap is too large. The speed cannot keep up, and we have never conducted such a large-scale swarm operation. The slumped Italian Navy has completely exposed its true nature as an inland sea fleet, leaving the British anxious and helpless!
At this juncture, a large, sharp roar suddenly came from the sky!
A total of 24 "Skyhawk" attack aircraft, loaded with 96 light supersonic anti-ship missiles, were suddenly released from a maximum distance of 80 and a minimum of 30 kilometers. In an instant, patches of white contrails filled the sky, rushing towards the surrounding ships at lightning speed close to Mach 2!
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? A style of attack that exclusively targets the outermost lanes and defensive light warships, and does not seek to kill the battleships in the core position at all, catching the British and Italians off guard! It's changing. Unable to use radios, they could only use high-power microwave communication and flags that were not working at all to transmit commands. They sent them down layer by layer and reacted in waves. Before they could complete a round trip, missiles came over unexpectedly, and even Fighters staying on alert in the airspace 100 kilometers away, the wreckage shot down by air-to-air combat missiles has not yet fallen to the sea!
quick! It¡¯s so fast that it¡¯s hard to keep up!
The lightweight supersonic missile weighs only 350 kilograms, and is loaded with 60 kilograms of high-explosive tandem armor-piercing bombs. The swords usually pounce down in pairs from a height of 1,500 meters. In the blink of an eye, they plunge deeply into a strip. Gorgeous explosions exploded from the hulls of the weakly armored destroyers and light cruisers!
High-speed kinetic energy, sharp armor penetration, violent crushing damage, and a blow many times more brutal than a 406mm battleship grenade. For a ship with only a thousand tons or several thousand tons, it is simply devastating. Strike!
When one missile hits, the entire battleship will jump up and burst into flames, and the hull will shatter. If two missiles hit, it will be torn apart without any chance of rescue!
In less than a minute, thirty or forty warships erupted with an earth-shattering roar. The dazzling fireballs expanded rapidly, swallowing up the slender hulls and spraying tons of steel garbage onto the sea. Some of them were too weak. The battleship even disintegrated in the air after being exploded, and the people and steel were torn into pieces and thrown into the sea!
The entire sea surface is like a burning crater! The series of explosions caught everyone off guard! The already messy formation was suddenly torn open with a huge hole up to 20 kilometers wide, exposing all the battleships and heavy cruisers at the core, without any obstruction!
At this moment, 24 attack aircraft turned on full power and swooped from high altitude at a speed of nearly 800 kilometers. Brushing the tip of the boiling pillar of gunpowder smoke, they passed over the shattered ship with lightning speed and drove straight in to kill it. The volley aircraft His body shook, and he threw down the last two laser-guided bombs!
These big guys, with a dead weight of nearly 450 kilograms, are equipped with a full 200 kilograms of TNT and 20% thermite mixed with high explosives. The streamlined projectile is three meters long. With the help of diving speed, it can be fired accurately. After gliding, he hit the chaotic enemy ship with extremely precise accuracy!
Their targets are mostly heavy cruisers and old British battle cruisers, which are bulky. Slow, even if the anti-aircraft firepower is modernized and modified, it can still only effectively damage conventional propeller fighters. Facing the sudden attack of jet-type high-subsonic attack aircraft, it will basically not have much effect, let alone. They are not prepared at all!
The heavy laser-guided bombs that were dropped one after another fell so fast that they reached an altitude of more than a thousand meters in the blink of an eye. The ship's anti-aircraft firepower operators didn't even understand what was going on. They all fell with a bang!
Boom!
More than 200 kilograms of explosives exploded near the upper and lower sides of the ship, setting off a circular impact zone of two to three hundred meters, instantly releasing thermite at a temperature of thousands of degrees, rendering the fireball into a blazing white interior and orange exterior. Bright colors, wrapped in countless wreckage, rushed hundreds of meters into the skyline!
This strike is different from the light anti-ship missile!
? Simple low-speed impact. There is no ability to penetrate the side armor, main gun, and bridge face armor of the battleship. Even if it is only 150mm, it is enough, but it is too great to be prepared for the explosive power! Even if it penetrates even a little bit, a full two hundred kilograms of mixed explosives will completely cover more than a hundred meters around the impact point of the entire battleship, and everything it touches will be torn into pieces!
Even if it falls in the water on the side of the battleship, the impact of the explosion will be water pressure. It is also enough to crush the side armor of the ship and form a large number of holes filled with water. The shattered fragments swept across the buildings above, turning people upside down wherever they went. It was so tragic!
The force of the explosion on the surface can lift or push an armored heavy cruiser of more than 10,000 tons into the water. The violent fire flow swept across the buildings on the deck, and the main turret, secondary batteries and anti-aircraft guns were completely damaged. The casualties are countless!
The most terrible thing is the 20% thermite mixed with it, which not only creates an instant lethal high temperature, but even more terrible is the arson after the explosion. It burns wherever it is sprayed. No one can withstand the deadly high temperature. The cleared damage control personnel could not be replaced. By the time they staggered out, the fire had begun to spread throughout the ship!
This series of attacks blew up nearly twenty enemy ships into smoke and pieces. After losing their load of ammunition, the attack aircraft, which was relaxed, happily dived and swept out the explosive ammunition as quickly as possible. Finally, they turned around sharply and took off to escape, leaving no opportunity for the battleships and battlecruisers at the core to open fire with their anti-aircraft guns.
Behind them, a large burning sea area with a radius of more than ten kilometers was left. The raging fire swallowed up the towering bridge, and the smoke column formed went straight into the sky for thousands of meters, swept by the cold wind, rising like a dragon!
A piece of the huge fleet array was forcibly chewed off, resembling an incomplete piece of pie, and formed an unimpeded air corridor, completely exposing the heavily protected battleships!
It was at this moment that the "Thunder Dragon" fighter jet, which had been holding back, finally showed its fangs!
On the belly of the huge machine, the magazine doors all opened, and clusters of supersonic anti-ship missiles, lightweight and heavy, were spilled out one after another. There were only four of them, but they fired more than thirty missiles at once. Wave after wave roared from the sky towards the sea, aiming directly at the core fleet!
General Cunningham¡¯s head is about to explode! The enemy's attack came so fast, so fiercely, and so accurately, completely beyond his experience. Looking out from the towering bridge, the swarms of fireworks indicate that swaths of warships have been damaged. The efficiency is so high.It was just like cutting grass, something he had never seen in half his life. Not only was he frightened, he felt like the sky was about to fall!
As for the Italian Augustus, he was completely panicked and grunted without knowing what he was talking about. command? Pull it down!
Just looking through the telescope, he discovered the target of the opponent's one-sided attack like peeling an onion. Cunningham loudly ordered the core ships and wing ships to concentrate their anti-aircraft fire towards the gap as much as possible, regardless of whether the incoming attack was a fighter plane or a warship. Missiles must be intercepted first! Otherwise, the consequences will be disastrous!
But the radio is disrupted, so relying on flags alone is too inefficient! Even if they were on alert before, when coordinated operations are needed, the delay in communication is worrying!
Time, it¡¯s too late!
The smoke screen drawn by the dazzling missile trails from high altitude stretched rapidly, and the supersonic anti-ship missiles fiercely penetrated into the battleships under the wide eyes of the keen-eyed observation posts!
Two old-fashioned British battlecruisers, their armor was damaged and they were seriously injured in the explosion!
The two Veneto battleships are each equipped with four heavy anti-ship missiles. The terrifying tandem armor-piercing warhead ignores the heavy protection of the horizontal deck 162.5mm, the main turret 350mm, the command tower 260mm, and the total weight reaches 13,545 tons. Everywhere they went, they penetrated one after another!
"Subsequently, the crazy destructive power of the terrifying high-explosive warhead spread out in all directions from the hole where it was poured in, destroying everything it passed. No matter how exquisite the Italians' construction technology is, they can't stop the explosion that destroys everything. As the last missile falls, eight battleships are submerged in fireworks!
The flagship where Cunningham was located was a priority. Four heavy-duty anti-ship missiles swarmed it all over the ship and exploded to the point where no good spot could be seen.
The missile that hit the stern not only shredded all the ejection mechanisms and carrier-based aircraft. It also destroyed the stern rudder and a propeller; the missile that hit the front deck uprooted a main battery turret, and another one blew away an entire steel plate, secondary battery, and anti-aircraft gun device from the side. By the way, a four to five meter deep crack was opened from the hull!
The last one exploded against the right midship, crushing the armor and pushing the more than 40,000-ton warship sideways for several meters. The terrible force hitting the keel from below caused irreparable damage. Not only the power The delivery system is greatly affected. The keel was also deformed, as was the entire battleship. It immediately became a dead fish unable to move!
The other warships are basically paralyzed!
A series of air strikes, combined in just a few minutes, paralyzed half of the main force of the mighty coalition fleet!
Such high efficiency makes everyone in the present generation stunned. I don¡¯t know how to describe it, but the heavy damage to the flagship has completely paralyzed their command system! The menacing fleet has become a wasp without a queen bee, only the spikes all over its body are missing. But I don¡¯t know how to use it, and the function it is supposed to play is completely useless!
The attack aircraft group that had used up all their ammunition hovered in the air for a while, collecting the impact from multiple angles and then flew away.
On the sea, a fleet headed by four Kunlun-class battleships were swarming towards this side at full power - with an absolute superior combat power, they also beat up the drowned dogs. This despicable style is probably only what Zhu Bin can do. Come out, it¡¯s so shameless!
But, if he likes it, that¡¯s enough.
In the core formation, the Germans still don¡¯t know about the tragedy that happened over there, and General Lukins can¡¯t take care of it, because the attacks on them have suddenly become intensive!
The second wave of cruise missiles swept across the sea and swept away more than a dozen of the escorting light ships in front of the formation, followed closely by the reactivation of the electromagnetic gun! But this time, the distance between the two sides has been much closer, gradually approaching, but only 300 kilometers, the need for output power is greatly reduced, and the launch frequency has been doubled, and the warhead has been replaced with a trumpet. The high-explosive warhead's explosive bombs were fired alternately by the two ships!
Not only the two of them, but the other two guided missile cruisers also opened fire with their twin 127mm electromagnetic reconnection cannons. With low fire rate, high initial velocity, and all pure kinetic energy killing warheads, they were far away in the sea area approaching the enemy ship. He opened fire, and long special bullets soared into the sky, mixed in the middle, and fell one after another!
As a result, the density of artillery fire attacking the Germans suddenly increased several times! But compared to conventional shelling, it seems to be sparse and unsystematic, but it comes too fast, hits too far, and is too accurate, making it impossible to prevent!
The same sea-skimming attack was as precise as the precise bombing of ground artillery. The huge battleship was as majestic as a mountain, but it was the best target. They gathered together, combined light and heavy, and bombarded the German battleship. In an instant, the smallpox bloomed, brilliant and dazzling!
Electromagnetic gun firingThe previous piercing bombs had only about ten kilograms of crystalline alkyl charges in the warhead, but the explosive power of this thing was too powerful, even more powerful than a 420mm grenade. Conveniently, the violent explosion was enough to destroy all the surrounding steel structures. Therefore, one after another, after withstanding the kinetic energy damage of the initial collision, the battleships could not withstand the terrible explosion and fell apart!
"We can't continue like this! Otherwise we will all be doomed!"
Seeing that the dizzy Germans could not come up with a good idea, Mountbatten did not consider whether it was appropriate to overtake others. He made a decisive decision and issued an order for Admiral Lukins: "Let the carrier-based fighter planes carry anti-ship missiles and fire them all! Order!" Each line carrying anti-ship missiles launches an attack immediately! We can¡¯t wait any longer!¡±
Lukins frowned and said nothing, but the German staff objected: "This won't work! We haven't figured out the specific position of the enemy ship yet, and firing rashly will only waste precious missiles!"
Mountbatten sneered sarcastically: "If we wait any longer, I'm afraid we won't even have a chance to waste it! Haven't you seen clearly that the Chinese just want to use this blunt knife to cut their flesh, and use the advantage of distance to kill us bit by bit? Destroy all the vitality? We must take risks and strike with all our strength!"
Lukins finally had the foundation of a great talent and a great strategy. He made wise choices at critical moments and interrupted the dispute with a wave of his hand: "Do it! Let all the fighters rush forward to attract firepower, and then, whatever you can do, do it!"
He also felt that something was wrong. The opponent's style of play did not follow common sense at all. They did not even launch a large-scale air strike and did not care about exposing their existence in advance. What does this mean? Feel confident!
The order was issued, and in the rear, several missile ships, which had been on tenterhooks for fear of being hit, hurriedly released the V2 missiles on all the launchers!
The strong missiles, the recoil force of each shot, can shake the carrier hull with a displacement of at least 20,000 tons. Don't count on accuracy. Now they only have one idea, launch it!
The deafening roar and the screams that flew through the air were heard all at once! All liquid-propelled, high-range original versions of the missiles soared into the sky with a thick and shining trail, then bent in mid-air and pounced towards the sea area where Zhu Bin's left wing attack group was located. (To be continued) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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