"When our attack aircraft group was about 15,000 yards away from the German fleet, the opponent's large-caliber anti-aircraft shells were intensively shot at us; and what shocked everyone was that these shrapnel bombs did not explode early or delayed detonation at all. ∈♀ Their explosion location was less than 70 feet away from our fighter jets, as if the Germans directly sent the shells to us to detonate! Within just two minutes, I saw four unlucky guys flipping downwards in a black bomb explosion smoke.

When we rolled down, it was because the opponent's small-caliber air defense gun did not join the battle. After this attack, our army quickly disbanded the formation and attacked the opponent's aircraft carrier with all its might according to the scheduled tactics. However, those large-caliber air defense shells were always around us, even when the distance was close to 4,000 yards. There was no doubt that the Germans greatly upgraded their air fire control, which was an extremely unfavorable situation for us." Captain George of the United States Air Force responded to the senior general of the fleet after the battle.

After experiencing the trek of the enemy, and the head-on interception of a large number of fighter jets, the US pilots who finally appeared above the German fleet suddenly found that the difficulties they faced were not over at all; on the contrary, the harsh naval and air war had just begun. Although there were no battleships in the opposite fleet, the dozen "porcupines" (the name of the US Navy for German air defense cruisers) with more than a dozen air defense firepower (the US Navy's name for the German air defense cruiser) had air defense fire that was no less than the former. In addition, the dense air defense artillery fire of the aircraft carrier itself and the extensive support of destroyers made the US pilots' attacks stun their heads in front of the god of death. It would be fine if this was the case. After all, the 128mm artillery equipped by the opponent was of great use in close air defense. But at present, these artillery has a powerful efficiency that makes every American pilot tremble in his heart!

Compared with the 40mm caliber anti-aircraft guns below 40mm caliber that must be directly hit to produce damage, the 128mm cannon can cause fatal damage to a fighter aircraft through the close detonation of the shovel. A large number of fragments burst into the surroundings at extremely high speeds, and the body will instantly become out of shape under the blow of this rain of bullets. For German gunners with new shells, all they have to do now is to aim at the target as much as possible. With the addition of the German fleet's 128mm heavy anti-aircraft guns of more than 400 pieces, the pressure on the US military aircraft group has increased sharply. They soon discovered that their side's use of new torpedo aircraft to improve offensive capabilities. It still seems invisible in the face of the sudden improvement of the opponent's air defense efficiency!

After thirty minutes of fierce fighting, the US aircraft finally returned after throwing out high-risk explosives; they hit 4 bombs in a total of 2 aerial torpedoes hit the target. Under the early interception of German fighters and the fierce attack of massive anti-aircraft artillery, this is the best result of this US attack wave composed of 186 fighters. For the German heavy aircraft carrier with better air strikes than its own battleships, this level of strike will not cause fatal damage at all. The Markenson ate a bomb on the stern deck, and the explosion hit the non-armored parts.

The effective length of the flight deck was shortened from 276 meters to 252 meters, and the ability of a single-wheel release fighter jet was reduced by one squadron; Hoffman and Richthofen were each flooded into nearly 1,000 tons of seawater, and the heavy oil used to absorb the impact of the explosive energy was leaked a little. This was the case with the entire damage of the German aircraft carrier team commanded by General Karls. Through the efforts of the damage control troops, the two aircraft carriers in the middle of the lightning took the damage without pressure with their own deep internal force foundation; when the warships soared at a high speed of more than 30 knots, the inlet volume did not intensify at all due to the rupture of the watertight tank structure.

In order to achieve this battle, the US military aircraft fleet paid an extremely heavy price. The number of attack waves released by 3 Essex class and 2 Hornet class seemed to be invisible in front of the iron walls in the air formed by the opponent's seven heavy aircraft carriers, and the air defense firepower of the German fleet shocked the Americans. A total of 76 US fighter jets were shot down in battle. If the number of injuries was included, the damage rate of US attack waves would reach an astonishing 50%. On another battlefield, the massive German attack aircraft fleet also ended its battle with the opponent, and the loss of US aviation power would undoubtedly reach a peak under the flapping of these German war eagles!

"General, Colonel Hugo sent back a telegram. They severely damaged 2 large and 1 small US aircraft carriers at the cost of losing 11 fighter jets, 8 bombers and 5 torpedoes on the spot. A total of no less than 8 bombs and 3 torpedoes hit the core target directly!" The adjutant with a happy face ran quickly from the radio room to the navigation room and reported loudly to General Karls who was waiting for news. With the advantage of the number of attack waves, the German carrier-based aviation once again damaged the opponent, which also made Karls' heart suddenly relax.

Through the adjutant's subsequent words, Karls also had a more detailed understanding of the sea and air battlefield 300 kilometers away: the HS-293 guided bombs fired by his side seemed to be disturbed by other signals, and half of them failed to achieve normal control, and the opponent's speed of pulling smoke was quite fast. Almost immediately after the aircraft carrier was damaged, he opened the cigarette tank and shrouded himself in the smog, regardless of the outside world. It was precisely because of these two reasons that the attack lineup was twice the opponent's German aircraft group, which was twice the opponent's opponent, failed to achieve greater results. Judging from the number of hits obtained by this attack aircraft, the ideal situation is that the enemy has lost most of its aviation combat power. If it wants to completely eliminate it, it will have to carry out at least two waves of attacks.

"It seems that in the past six months, the Americans have not been idle at all, but have created quite a few gadgets to resist the German soldiers." Karls held his chin with his right hand and murmured to himself. In the battle that had just ended, the new torpedo aircraft of the US military changed its previous speed and still made an effective hit in the face of his significantly improved air defense efficiency, which was completely beyond his expectations before the war. If the German Navy did not launch this preventive war with a huge advantage of first move, but waited until the other side completed its war preparations before starting the war, the outcome of the sea might still be unknown!

"Transfer to let each ship prepare for the second round of attack waves. We must leave some American aircraft carriers." Karls lowered his head and glanced at the clock on his wrist and immediately ordered. Although the first wave of attack aircraft will land in less than an hour, theoretically, it is not very time for German aircraft carriers to prepare, under the action of the oblique deck, this obviously cannot be a factor restricting them from releasing fighter jets. In the daily training of German aircraft carriers, using the oblique deck to take off and land fighter jets at the same time has long been a very familiar project for officers and soldiers. Although the aircraft carrier's release ability of the aircraft carrier in this situation is far less than that of a normal wave of flow, it is already an extremely valuable existence with this ability.

Just as the adjutant bowed to Karls and was about to turn around and leave, the phone connecting to the radar room suddenly made a harsh buzz. Karls frowned slightly, grabbed the receiver and put it in his ear; when he had just reported his identity, a nervous voice came from the other end of the phone. A number of air targets with a number of about 200 had already appeared at 11 o'clock 170 kilometers away from the fleet, and these fighter jets with speeds above 300km per hour were flying towards their fleet!

"I knew that the Americans would not only send such a little force into the Atlantic Ocean, they must have sent other fleets!" Karls put down the phone and said loudly, "Each ship canceled the second wave of attack preparations and immediately ejected the fighter jets and took off; the fleet turned left by five compass points, and the speed increased to 30 knots!"

Fortunately, perhaps due to the poor communication caused by division of troops, the US fighter jets that appeared later did not effectively grasp their position. They rushed to a place more than 90 kilometers away from them, which was exactly where the fleet was when the US plane just discovered it nearly two hours ago. Although this distance was only more than ten minutes for the aircraft, the key point was that the fleet did not know which direction the target fleet was running! If the direction was wrong, the fleet would not expect to achieve any results: because the fleet was also maneuvering at a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour, the chance of discovering the enemy ships the further they went, and the attack aircraft with bombs and torpedoes was limited due to the range, so the time left for them to patrol was actually extremely limited.

Due to this factor, the US commander who realized that he had lost the air chose to disperse the aircraft group and go to multiple directions to carry out search responses. The advantage of this is that it is almost inevitable that the escaped enemy fleet can be found, and the disadvantage is that the aircraft group can only invest part of its strength in the attack: because some of the troops have been invested in searching in the opposite direction, and it is urgent to recall them for formation reorganization. In the end, the fleet commanded by Karls defended the opponent's better lineup attack with a more relaxed attitude. More than 30 US fighter jets were shot down, but did not cause substantial damage to the target aircraft carrier.

"Perhaps we should pull out this new US aircraft carrier fleet." Carls, who breathed a sigh of relief, thought to himself. Compared to the US fleet that had been hit hard at the beginning, another fleet that was still hidden in the fog of the battlefield is obviously a more threatening and difficult existence. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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