Chapter 473： Take off at night

Although Britain still claims to be a veteran capitalist country, it is already on the decline. For example, most of the British Fox warships were built during the First World War.

The same is true for the current HMS Competitive God, which is an aircraft carrier ordered by the Royal Fox in 1917. Due to various reasons, it was not completed until 1923, so that the first specially designed aircraft carrier also fell into the hands of Fengxiang.

The previous aircraft carriers were all modified with other warships, but this aircraft carrier was an aircraft carrier with a completely new design.

For example, it has an all-pass flight deck; the closed bow has strong wave resistance; the bridge, buzzer and chimney are combined into a large island on the starboard side of the hull on the right side of the all-pass flight deck. For the first time, an aircraft carrier adopts an island-style superstructure design.

Especially the design of this ship island has been passed down to later generations, becoming the pioneer of various aircraft carriers. It is not only beneficial to flight and navigation command, but also has higher strength than side chimneys and tiltable chimneys, and is beneficial to ship hull sealing.

This 10,000-ton aircraft carrier had 20 aircraft at the time. However, as the size of carrier-borne aircraft increased, the number of aircraft carried dropped to 16.

After serving, the Athletic God was sent to the Far East, and it has been cruising in Southeast Asia and the Chinese Sea. Until now, after the airstrike in Scarpa Bay, the Athletic God was hurriedly transferred back to the Atlantic Ocean, assuming the importance of revenge. task.

These days, the British foxes have been searching for the whereabouts of the German foxes, but they have found nothing, and now that they have the whereabouts of the German warships, of course they will not let it go!

"Take off the carrier-based aircraft and immediately launch an attack on the German ship!" Tovey said to Onslow.

"Yes, we will execute the attack mission immediately!" Onslow was confident.

This is the foundation of the veteran fox!

Generally speaking, the Fox carrier aircraft cannot be dispatched at night. For example, in later generations, even if the Americans are proud of the world, less than 50% of their Fox carrier aircraft pilots are capable of flying at night.

But now, the British fox is going to fight at night!

Their biggest support, Joe because of their backward carrier-based aircraft, sword torpedo aircraft.

Taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier is very risky. The vacillating deck and crosswinds that may come at any time make takeoff and landing full of risks, especially when landing, even if the deck lights are on. For a flying aircraft, the deck It is still a small place.

The greater the take-off and landing speed, the greater the risk of night operations.

In this comparison, the swordfish is a perfect match, because the swordfish is a biplane. A great advantage of the biplane is its low speed, which is good. Here, the low speed is an advantage, which makes it an advantage. Take off and land easier!

In history, the British have done this more than once.

In Taranto, Britain successfully used swordfish for night torpedo warfare. In the subsequent Yuyang naval battle, Somerville also planned to use large mackerel to attack the Japanese fleet at night.

The biplane is so confident.

And now, the attack of the British fox has begun again!

All the deck lights were turned on to illuminate the flight deck. On the take-off line, a sword torpedo was ready. Under the belly, the torpedo over six meters long was so conspicuous.

Pilot Ted, sitting in the open cabin, his back seat empty, the gunner jammed.

At night, air combat is almost impossible, so the rear seat gunner is purely redundant, and an additional fuel tank is installed in the rear seat to carry more fuel.

Now, at 8:30 in the evening, looking at the runway lights ahead, Ted shouted on the radio: "Swordfish asks to take off."

"You can take off, good luck." The voice of the bridge came from the headset.

Pushing the throttle to the maximum, the 750-horsepower Bristol Sagittarius XXX9-cylinder air-cooled engine roared, and the fully powered sword torpedo torpedo machine slid on the small deck, before it reached the forefront of the deck, it took off.

The advantage of the biplane is its low take-off and landing speed. As long as there is a flat piece of land, it can take off!

Behind, one after another swordfish took off. This first wave of attack consisted of 12 swordfish.

6 each carry a torpedo, 4 carry bombs, and 2 carry bombs and flares.

The Germans would never expect that they would launch an attack at night. When the flares are on, it is when the Deutsche Deutsche is sunk!

Ted looked at the dark night sky around him. Now he is flying entirely on instruments, which only the most experienced and sophisticated pilots can do.

And the biggest advantage of this attack was that it was very close. The German warship was only 30 monkeys away from its side. Even if the swordfish's flight was slow, it flew up to 20 minutes.

The task of one's own side is not necessarily to sink the opponent, as long as the opponent is injured and the opponent loses the ability to move, several cruisers in the fleet will be able to come up and sink the German with naval guns.

Must do well!

They did not know that their whereabouts had been discovered by the Germans.

Deutsche Bahn.

On a huge hemispherical screen, bright lines are rotating in circles. Those bright spots are almost always present The radar soldiers are fully engaged. They know that battle will come at any time, and they are The eyes of the Deutsche Bahn.

Suddenly, on the radar screen, a few extra light spots appeared!

These light spots are very small, almost looming on the screen, but they are definitely not interfering echoes, but airplanes!

Among the several British fleets at sea, there are actually aircraft carriers!

"The report found that the British took off the carrier-based plane and it is expected to arrive in fifteen minutes!" On the bridge, Colonel Stanger received the news.

"For the whole ship, sound the air defense alarm, turn off all the lights, and the anti-aircraft gunner is in place." Colonel Stanger said: "Let us use fierce gunfire to welcome the arrival of the British."

In the original time and space, the Deutsche Vessel was equipped with a pitted 37mm hand drawn machine. It did not have enough firepower to face the swordfish attack aircraft. But now, the Deutsche Vessel is a very powerful air defense ship!

It has three double-mounted 105mm anti-aircraft guns and sixteen 40mm Bofors antiaircraft guns. This kind of firepower is enough to make the opponent tremble. No matter how many planes come, it is sure to shoot down the opponent!

The sharp air defense alarm sounded on the entire warship. Hearing the sound of the air defense alarm, the anti-aircraft gunners quickly ran towards the position of the antiaircraft gun.

"What's going on outside?" Bruce asked.

His attitude is quite good, so he received a good treatment. The cool breeze was blowing on the deck. This was also because the space inside the warship was not enough. And beside him, the German fox soldiers who took care of them with submachine guns treated him very much. Polite.

"There was an air attack," the German fox soldier said to him.

"I request to join the war." Bruce said: "During the American Fox service, I also operated antiaircraft artillery, especially the Bofors antiaircraft artillery."

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