Chapter 1,110 Worry
Chapter 1110 Worry
"The UK seems to already know about our previous frequency band, but knows nothing about our new frequency band, and their aircraft already have an endurance close to that of an airship. This aircraft should have flown from the mainland and has probably already flown It must have been at least 300 kilometers." Scheer said with some worry.
And the trouble has just begun. The interference of this V1500 is already very uncomfortable if the German Navy starts the backup band communication early. When this guy continues to fly for half an hour and appears over the High Seas Fleet, the entire fleet is I feel extremely unhappy! No one can bear to have a plane hovering above them and constantly informing their opponents of their whereabouts.
"Send a seaplane to deal with it." Looking at the black figure in the sky in the distance, Lieutenant General Scheer frowned slightly and said.
"Whatever, if anyone can defeat this thing, I will upgrade him to 3 levels in a row!" The prince said nonchalantly. It was not that the prince really regarded the V1500 as nothing. But there is really no other way. After adding pontoons, the performance of the J-1 fighter jet is greatly reduced. There are twin-engine seaplanes, but they may not fly as high as the V1500. What's more, what if you can catch up? If you want to rely on one aircraft and two machine guns to kill a big guy with a maximum takeoff weight of nearly 14 tons, this requires more luck, right? !
The two Helgeland-class battleships located at the rear of the fleet launched four J-1S seaplanes. As captain, Homan guided his teammates to attack this behemoth. Control your speed and climb slowly, using the cover of the clouds to get closer to this big guy.
"This is simply a legendary dragon." Only when Hohmann's plane approached did he really feel the pressure of the British plane. The airfield of my K-1S aircraft is less than 7 meters, and the wingspan is only more than 9 meters. The guy opposite is more than twice as long and four times as wide as me! It is impossible to say that Homan is not afraid. Looking at the machine guns and the gleaming metal parts on the plane, Homan feels a sense of tension and excitement coexisting!
Although this guy is big, it doesn't fly slowly. Four 320-horsepower engines allow this aircraft to fly at a speed of about 170 kilometers per hour (history originally used a 275-horsepower engine, with a maximum speed of 159 kilometers per hour. rice). This speed is not much different from that of a J-1S seaplane equipped with floats. The two aircraft that tried to attack from the rear ultimately missed their target.
Another plane trying to attack head-on hit the V1500's nose machine gun tower, and the flames from the four 7.7MM machine guns directly shattered the plane into pieces. Captain Homan used the cover of clouds and the dive of the aircraft to successfully launch an attack.
Captain Homan entered from above the opponent's front, and the nose of the aircraft was slightly depressed. A 12.7MM machine gun and a 7.92MM machine gun poured hundreds of rounds of bullets into the huge fuselage of the V1500 in less than half a minute.
Bullets like locusts landed on the behemoth one after another, tearing open several holes in the top skin. However, this was of no use. Under attack from the two machine guns on the top machine gun tower, Captain Homan could only pull up immediately to avoid the opponent's attack. However, it might not be that easy to attack again after dodging, and the other party decided to run away.
"The British should already know about our situation, right?" Scheer said worriedly.
"Let the light cruiser detachments on both sides expand the warning area, and then ask Hipper to move faster, and we will expand the warning area," the prince said.
At this time, Hipper, who was in the front, also encountered trouble and managed the first air raid in history! A V1500 bomber flew over Hipper's fleet from an altitude of 2,500 meters and symbolically dropped five 250-pound bombs on the fleet! Although the battlecruiser detachment with a speed of about 24 knots had almost no hit rate at this altitude, there was an exception to everything. One of the bombs landed less than 50 meters next to Hipper's flagship Seydlitz. The place! The huge water column caused by the bomb made people feel like a large-caliber artillery shell falling! Looking at the dozens of meters high water column that exploded next to him, Hipper's face turned pale.
To be fair, the charge of such a bomb is generally more than 60KG. This thing can't fight a battleship, but if it were photographed on a light cruiser, it would be no joke. Looking up at the huge body of the British aircraft, Hipper believed that this thing could carry 500KG or even larger bombs! As the saying goes, don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the eventuality. If by any chance a 500KG bomb hits your ship, the situation will be really difficult to predict.
In fact, even if it cannot penetrate the armor box, a 500KG-level high-explosive bomb can still cause a lot of damage to the battleships in this plane. If nothing else, at least the explosives are enough... Hipper does not have enough seaplanes like the main fleet. It can also fight twice when necessary. The three battleships only have a total of 9 seaplanes, 6 of which have been sent out for reconnaissance, and the remaining 3 are in reserve.
"This feeling of not being able to see and fight is really bad!" Hipper felt very unhappy as he watched the V1500 bomber swaggering over his head. Although the 88MM anti-aircraft guns on ships such as Seydlitz also fired into the air, the air defense in this era was not very reliable. Especially when the warships were moving at high speed, the anti-aircraft shells fired like fireworks and were of no use.
"If the British can send bombers here, then it won't be difficult to bomb Wilhelmshaven from the south of England, right? From now on we may have to face a completely new combat situation." Hipper thought as expected. More, looking at the bombs falling from the air into the fleet, Hipper had already thought about what to do if one day, British bombers came to Wilhelmshaven. You know, German warships are stationary in the port. !
This is not Hipper's unfounded worry. In fact, in history, the British naval aviation did carry out air raids on German ports. The most unbearable thing was that two less advanced bombers bombed the airship warehouse in the German military port. It only weighed tens of kilograms. The bomb actually burned down two airship hangars more than 200 meters long... Then all the British planes had to go back in full flight.
However, in today's aviation duel, the German Navy was not defeated throughout. Among the seaplanes that came out ahead, two J-1S seaplanes successfully killed a British seaplane and discovered the British seaplane approaching at high speed. Vanguard fleet. When it was around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the vanguards of both sides finally came into contact!
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