Chapter 2743: Fight to the Death 2
Chapter 2743 Fight to the Death 2
How about it? Doesn’t the data look beautiful? Yes, the data is very beautiful, but it would be ugly if put into actual combat. Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about the process of releasing the aircraft, it is quite cumbersome! If we calculate that it takes half a minute to release an aircraft, then it would theoretically take more than 40 minutes to release all 83 aircraft at such a high speed! The actual time may be longer than this. Considering the time of aerial marshalling, the larger the fleet will be, the longer it will take. So if you want to integrate such a large fleet into one, the time will probably be hours. calculated!
How much fuel could the aircraft carry at that time? I'm afraid that when the last attack plane takes off, the fighter jets in front may have been forced to fly to the target. Therefore, the entire attack process will be delayed for a very long time, and the so-called wave can only become effective in actual operations. Several waves of attacks at certain intervals.
In order to carry out such an attack, both the supply and positioning of aircraft will take a long time. You have to add dozens of aircraft with fuel and ammunition, and then strictly push them on the deck for positioning. You know, the refueling at that time The loading of hundreds of kilograms of bombs and torpedoes, the loading of dozens of aircraft with more than five-digit bullets, and the use of manpower to push multi-ton aircraft to designated positions. However, the number of ground staff is limited, and so is their energy. In fact, after preparing for this wave of attacks, these ground crews were probably exhausted.
(What? You don’t believe this? Readers who have cars at home can push the car to experience it for themselves. For example, the more popular Lavida weighs only 1.6 tons. In this dimension, it is about the weight of a fully armed fighter jet. It is less than half the weight of a fully loaded attack aircraft. Actually push it two steps and then imagine it.)
Generally speaking, the offensive effect of this kind of tactics may not be as good as it appears on paper. It takes too long to prepare and exert force. After the attack, there is no follow-up and almost no task flexibility. For example, if the opponent discovers you first, they will The plane is in the air, what should you do with the attack aircraft on the rear deck? In fact, the best way is to throw the fighter jets on the front deck out. Don't even think about the attack aircraft on the rear deck having access to the hangar. Just push them into the sea. After all, even if your ground crew is three-headed and six-armed, you can't get rid of the enemy before they attack the air. The ammunition is unloaded, but what about the fuel inside? Whether it's taken back to the hangar or parked on the deck, it's all extra-large incendiary bombs! Don't you just throw it away and wait to be bombed?
Therefore, this very extreme fighting method has very limited significance in actual combat. During the Pacific War, the Americans also chose a half-round attack method similar to the Japanese, releasing less than half of the aircraft at a time and then continuing in a short period of time. Preparation, if you suddenly find that the opponent is coming, you can also make temporary adjustments. Release and recycling are both good, more flexible, and easier to operate.
But it is obvious that under the current circumstances, a half-round attack will definitely not work, because to be honest, even under the most ideal circumstances, it is impossible for the remaining two and one-third aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy to pass through half a round. The total number of Japanese aircraft carrier units that can be completely destroyed by the round-robin method is only 180 carrier-based aircraft.
You don't even have 90 aircraft in half a round, and you reduce the proportion of fighter jets to the lowest level. Even if you have 60 attack aircraft, can you fight 4 aircraft carriers? This is really difficult.
(Don’t mention to me that 32 SBD bombers directly paralyzed the two aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga in the Battle of Midway. Do you know what the U.S. Navy went through before dive bombers? The eighth aircraft carrier on the Hornet All 15 torpedo planes in the torpedo plane squadron were lost, and then the sixth torpedo plane squadron on the USS Enterprise also lost most of it. Finally, only one of the 12 torpedo planes in the torpedo plane squadron on the Yorktown was returned... That is to say, when the Japanese aircraft carrier at Midway only relied on its own fighter jets for air defense, the Americans launched more than 70 attack aircraft to attack!)
Under optimal circumstances, the U.S. Navy could sink one ship and severely damage one in this wave, which would be good. But what next? Sorry, there is no more. As long as the four Japanese aircraft carriers can detect the American fleet, they will directly attack with a large fleet of about 140 aircraft. The Americans will directly play GG and will not give you a second chance at all! In the end, the Japanese Navy had 2 usable aircraft carriers left, and the Americans had zero! The subsequent battle is really impossible to fight!
Therefore, now, it is impossible for Logan and others to carry out the so-called half-round attack. They can only launch almost all the attack power in the first wave, except for the unusable aircraft and a small number of fighter jets used for air defense, and directly clear the air. In the hangar, the attack time may be extended, but it is better than not being able to fight the second wave. Of the three remaining aircraft carriers, except for the Zeppelin, which can retain some fighter jets, the Constellation and the Raider do not actually need to retain any aircraft, because the Constellation has been severely damaged and will definitely die if attacked again, and the Raider will definitely die. The defensive power of the Zeppelin is not as good as that of the Zeppelin. Relatively speaking, the Zeppelin has a higher probability of survival. The US fleet must ensure that this wave of 140 aircraft can severely damage the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet!
In the American plan, one Japanese aircraft carrier can be allowed to maintain a certain combat effectiveness. If there are two, then this battle has actually failed for the U.S. Navy. Think about it, 140 aircraft, faced with one Four aircraft carriers with twice the number of carrier-based aircraft must sink or severely damage at least three. This is actually very difficult, because 140 aircraft will not go through together, and the attack time will be very long, eventually making the offensive sparse. .
The redundancy of the entire plan is very small, and any loophole may lead to the failure of the plan.
"It is actually not that difficult to release 140 aircraft from two and a half aircraft carriers. I can just leave the specific aviation operations to me. The Constellation can release all its fighter jets, which can be about 20, and then there are the Zeppelin and Conqueror. , the two aircraft carriers use all the decks, and then put the remaining aircraft in the hangar first, and then lift them to the deck during the flight. It is estimated that the problem will not be big. However, the entire flight time will be very long, and there may be one For many hours, the first plane to be released simply could not wait until the last one took off before releasing it, unless they did not plan to come back."
"So, now there is a very important question, how do we survive." Mitchell took a deep breath and said.
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