929 Battle of Jutland (4)
Lin Huansheng, as the commander of the fleet, was not on an aircraft carrier, and there was not a single aircraft carrier in the Fourth Task Force of the Tang Navy, which was preparing for a decisive battle with the German Navy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThis seems to be very paradoxical, because the tactical core of the Datang Navy has long been turned into an aircraft carrier, and the aircraft carrier is the absolute center point of the Datang Navy's strike. But Lin Huansheng commanded on the battleship Yamato, and he was not false at all, the Germans did not have aircraft carriers, but a fleet led by seven battleships.
However, this did not mean that Lin Huansheng was planning to play the fist-to-flesh close-the-flesh artillery battle with the Germans, and at a distance of more than 100 nautical miles from the German fleet of the Fourth Task Force, the real striker that Lin Huansheng was waiting for arrived at the battlefield.
A large-scale fleet of shore-based aircraft from Datang Air Force and Datang Navy participated in the event!
The Datang Air Force controls all the bombers, while the Datang Navy does not have bombers, and the main shore-based aircraft is still the second-generation heavy aircraft Flying Leopard. The bomber unit of the Datang Air Force also shoulders anti-ship missions. As the most frequently used bomber on the front line, the H-6 can not only carry six cruise missiles on a daily basis, but can also be replaced with heavy supersonic anti-ship missiles, YJ-12 anti-ship missiles.
These anti-ship missiles are extremely expensive to build, because they are not only large in size and powerful in their warheads, but also use composite guidance, which is a combination of inertial guidance, relay guidance, and terminal active radar guidance. After the successful development of the Eagle Strike-12, it has been regarded as the treasure of the Tang military, although the cost is expensive, but the first batch of orders is as high as 1,400 pieces.
The H-6 air regiments of the two air forces, a total of 36 bombers, each did not carry 6 bombs but 4 bombs, not that the H-6 could not be carried, but there were not so many YJ-12s that could be used at the air bases in Belgium. The Flying Leopards that escorted the bombers also carried anti-ship missiles, but they carried medium-sized anti-ship missiles YJ-8. There are also flying leopards that only carry air-to-air missiles and are specially used for escort. The Flying Leopard of the Navy Air Force with anti-ship missiles and the Flying Leopard of the Air Force for full-time escort are also two aviation regiments and 48 fighters.
In order to save fuel and energy for striking fighters to the greatest extent, the Air Force dispatched two more air regiments of J-7s to deal with Danish and German interceptors over Jutland. In other words, in the past few days, the frequency of sorties of the Datang Air Force and the Navy in the direction of Belgium is extremely high, although the battle damage is not high, but it has also brought a lot of trouble to the ground maintenance, and the proper rate of many military aircraft is declining, and Datang is also transferring some military aircraft from North Africa to Belgium through France to replenish. Both the French Air Force and the Luftwaffe attempted to intercept them, but to no avail, and instead lost a lot of fighters. And in this process, it is inevitable that there will be a very small number of Datang military aircraft lost. The French dragged away some of the wreckage of the Tang Dynasty military planes as if they had obtained a treasure, and prepared to unite European scientific research forces to carry out research and reverse engineering.
The intensity of the air battle over Denmark is not very large, and the German ground radar has been completely destroyed by the Datang Air Force in the low-ground campaign, and the German army is not a battlefield radar with operational capabilities like the Datang, so the alertness for air threats at this time is actually very low, and it has basically been reduced to the need to rely on visual confirmation.
The speed of the Tang Air Force and the Navy was very fast, and after breaking into Danish airspace, it took a long time for the Danes to take off the fighters and inform the Germans, and by that time, the Tang Army planes had already flown over the peninsula and came to the skies over the Kattegat Strait.
It didn't take much effort for the Datang fleet to determine the location of the German naval fleet. The overall combat concept of the German Navy was still relatively old-fashioned, and the fleet was relatively concentrated, and such a position was not very effective for defending against incoming targets in the air, but it could better protect the capital ships from damage from enemy artillery warfare.
Like a swarm of wasps with deadly stingers, the H-6s have set their sights on their prey. The seven battleships of the German Navy, the Deutschland-class light battleships, the Nassau-class battleships, and the Marens-class leader-class battleships, were the primary targets of the Datang military aircraft. The second is the dozens of cruisers of the German Navy, the Germans' investment in the navy is not as good as that of the British, and the technical level is slightly worse, but even if the technology is advanced for 20 years, I am afraid that it is still not the opponent of the Datang ships.
The H-6 was not launched at the maximum range of the anti-ship missile, but shot at a position of about a hundred kilometers or so. Although theoretically the strike effect of a saturation attack may be the best, in practice the German Navy does not have the ability to intercept anti-ship missiles, and the effect of a saturation strike is not as good as that of a split wave, and a strike that repeatedly confirms the results of the attack is more effective.
Large ship targets of tens of thousands of tons on the sea surface clearly made it difficult for anyone to miss on the radar, and large anti-ship missiles shot straight out and flew at the German warship at a high speed of Mach 2. The German ships also have radars, but the performance is not something that can be compared with Datang's radar, and even the missiles approaching at high speed, these German radars have not captured them at all.
By the time the rapidly fired anti-ship missiles appeared in the sight of the Germans, it was too late. Haier Lansing asked his sailors to be ready to respond to the Tang attack, but he still did not expect the attack to come so suddenly. The German sailors in the anti-aircraft artillery positions struggled to turn their guns in preparation for the defeat of the missiles that were clearly "suicidal" attacks, but the rate of fire of their anti-aircraft guns could not keep up with the high-speed anti-ship missiles.
The first ship to be hit was the Germanic Ambition, the second ship of the largest Marens Leader, and as its name suggests, the battleship was shot into the soul as if the ambition of the Germans had been at the heart of the matter. The powerful anti-ship missile directly broke through the armor of the battleship with a displacement of nearly 50,000 tons, and exploded inside, directly destroying a large compartment in the ship's interior and destroying one of the battleship's steam turbines.
Immediately afterwards, the German-class battleships that originally belonged to the Datang Hawaiian-class battleships were also attacked by the missiles of the mother country, and these warships, which were only more than 10,000 tons, had completely lost their combat capability after being hit twice in a row, and the hull of the ship entered the water in large quantities and began to sink at a speed visible to the naked eye. Nearly a quarter of the hundreds of German sailors on board were killed in the violent explosion triggered by the anti-ship missile. (To be continued.) )