readx; Fu Changpeng looked at the "Ben Fleet" on the sea, and his face couldn't help but show joy, because in addition to seeing the two "Ben aircraft carriers" that had been heavily damaged, he also saw more than three other aircraft carriers, and one of these three aircraft carriers was obviously a Xianghe-class aircraft carrier, but he didn't know whether it was the Xianghe or the Ruihe. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Attention squadrons, give priority to attacking enemy aircraft carriers, and 75 squadrons pay attention to suppressing enemy ship anti-aircraft fire!" Fu Changpeng didn't hesitate too much, and immediately gave the order to attack, and the priority target was still the aircraft carrier!

Of course, in order to suppress the anti-aircraft fire of the fleet, he also specially sent a squadron of dive bombers to suppress the anti-aircraft fire of the enemy's air defense ships, and the B18 bombers of the 75th squadron did not carry those heavy aerial bombs up to 900 kilograms, but carried a 500-kilogram aerial bomb plus two 250-kilogram aerial bombs. Naturally, the 250-kilogram aerial bombs could not be expected to sink the enemy's capital ships, but they were still very useful in suppressing the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower.

In the dive bomber sortie of carrier-based aircraft, it is generally not said that all of them are equipped with 900 kg of heavy aerial bombs, but some dive bombers are equipped with 900 kg of aerial bombs, while some are 500 kg and 250 kg of mixed equipment, and some F8G fighters will also carry a number of 100 kg or 250 kg aerial bombs depending on the situation to suppress the enemy's anti-aircraft fire.

These F8G fighters equipped with aerial bombs are used as small dive bombers when they are not in combat, and if they are attacked by enemy ships, they will drop the bombs and carry out combat missions.

At this time, the thirty F8G fighters in Team B were carrying a number of aerial bombs, and because there were no more fighters to entangle, these thirty F8G fighters could continue to carry aerial bombs and drop them at this time!

The first to attack this fleet were these thirty F8G fighters, who were able to approach quickly with their superior maneuverability, and then launched a dive attack! Compared to the bulkiness of the exclusive dive bomber, the F8G fighter is more dexterous and can effectively evade enemy anti-aircraft fire!

When the first 250-kilogram bomb was dropped, it announced that the air raid had entered the most critical stage!

When dozens of F8G fighters took the lead in plunging into the sky over the fleet, they were also counterattacked by the most fierce anti-aircraft fire of the fleet!

Although the F8G fighter has a relatively large mission bomb surname, it can also carry bombs for ground or ship attacks in addition to fighting for air supremacy, but in any case, it is always less efficient than a professional dive bomber like B18 in ground or ship attack, and it is far inferior in terms of bomb load alone.

However, the F8G fighter also has its own advantages when performing an attack on the ship, that is, the mobile surname, the F8G fighter is an aircraft designed to compete for air supremacy, and the most important thing is the superior mobile surname, even if it is equipped with a bomb, its mobile surname is still beyond the B18 dive bomber, so that the F8G fighter can skillfully evade the enemy's air defense fire under the fierce anti-aircraft fire of the enemy fleet.

With the successive dropping of light aerial bombs, the ultra-high hit rate of dive bombing was once again demonstrated, and this most accurate attack mode before the guidance era was even able to achieve a hit rate of about 30 to 40 percent when it went well. Of course, this refers to the hit rate without too much influence after a successful penetration, and the most difficult thing for most dive bombers in actual combat is to break through the air defense network, and in the process of penetrating the defense, they are shot down or forced to change direction by the barrage of anti-aircraft artillery, and even cause the bomb to fall off.

Even the F8G fighters that are far more mobile than the bombers are not exempt from vulgarity, under the fierce anti-aircraft fire of the fleet, especially at the beginning of the attack, the anti-aircraft firepower of the army has not been suppressed, and it is maintained at the peak, so that when these F8G fighters launched the attack, they were inevitably hit by the fierce anti-aircraft fire of the fleet, and soon an F8G fighter did not have time to drop bombs in the dive, that is, it was hit by the anti-aircraft fire of the "Ben." Then he fell into the sea like a seagull that had lost its wings.

However, the F8G fighter was followed by another F8G fighter swooping down and successfully dropping a 250-kilogram aerial bomb.

The bomb exploded on a cruiser below, and the violent explosion directly destroyed most of the anti-aircraft gun positions on the left ship island, killing and wounding a large number of members of the anti-aircraft artillery crew, and directly turning the cruiser into a sea of fire.

The same situation happened in the skies over other warships.

The suppressive attack of the F8G fighter group did not last long, they hurriedly dropped bombs and then quickly pulled up and fled, but the attack of these F8G fighters was only a prologue for today's air raids, their task was only to suppress the anti-aircraft fire of the enemy fleet at the very beginning, and create opportunities for subsequent dive bomber groups and torpedo group attacks, and the real lethal attacks also came from these dive bombers and torpedo planes.

In particular, the attack of the torpedo machine is the most deadly, a heavy aviation torpedo dropped, even the battleship of the "Ben Ben has to be frightened, once it is hit, it will also be hit hard, and if you are unlucky, you may even be sunk by a torpedo directly!"

The tremendous power of heavy aviation torpedoes is not comparable with those aviation high-explosive bombs under 250 kilograms, or even with those 500 kilograms and 900 kilograms.

For a Yamato-class high-speed battleship with a standard displacement of more than 45,000 tons, it is nothing to be hit by a few aerial bombs, and it is generally just a matter of destroying some peripheral equipment, such as anti-aircraft artillery, secondary guns or observation equipment, even if it is penetrated by horizontal armor to the internal compartment explosion, it is difficult to cause any sinking blow to these super battleships, unless it is really lucky, after penetrating the horizontal armor, it will penetrate all the way to the ammunition depot and explode, so that it is possible to directly sink the enemy ship.

However, in the case of torpedoes, if a torpedo hits, even the worst result can tear open a crack in the waterline of the enemy ship, and then let the enemy ship pour into the sea, once the sea water pours too much, even a super battleship will have to sink to the bottom of the sea.

Therefore, in the attack on ships in this era, the division of labor of all kinds of aircraft and weapons in the Chinese Navy is very clear, and light aerial bombs of less than 250 kilograms are generally high-explosive bombs, which are used to suppress the enemy's anti-aircraft fire and create chaos.

The higher-level 500-kilogram and 900-kilogram heavy aerial bombs are used to inflict heavy damage on enemy ships!

And the torpedo, that is the lethal killer, with the sole goal of sinking the enemy ship!

Among them, the 500-kilogram aerial bomb was the main aerial bomb of the Chinese Navy before the 40s, and the dive bomber carrying capacity before the B18 was put into service was effective, so it could only be dominated by 500-kilogram aerial bombs, but the bomb load of the B18 was greatly increased after the service, and it also complied with the development and large-scale service of 900-kilogram aerial bombs.

After all, not every enemy ship is a super battleship such as the Yamato-class battleship, and there are a large number of battleships below the cruiser in the enemy's navy, and the protection capability of these warships below 10,000 tons can be described as like paper paste in the face of heavy aerial bomb attacks, not to mention 900-kilogram aerial bombs, and even 500-kilogram aerial bombs can give full play to their destructive power.

Therefore, in the current arsenal of the navy's carrier-based aviation, the main force of dive bombers is 900 kg of aerial bombs, some dive bombers are equipped with one 500 kg of aerial bombs and some 100 kg of high-explosive bombs, and under a few special circumstances, they will also carry 250 kg of aerial bombs mixed.

The specific type of ammunition will change depending on the situation, and it is not set in stone.

But no matter how it changes, there are always two kinds of weapons: suppressive weapons and main attack weapons.

The weight of these 250 kg, 500 kg, and 900 kg aerial bombs does not mean that they are standard weights as mentioned above, but the actual weight is different. Because the caliber of the Chinese Navy is different from that of the Army, the Army uses the metric system, while the Navy uses the imperial system. The Army's main suppression gun is 155 mm, but the Navy's naval gun is a standard six-inch gun, or 152.4 mm. The Army's artillery in the four-inch class is 105 mm, while the Navy gun is a standard 4 inch, or 101.6 mm, and the Army in the three-inch class is a standard 75 mm, while the Navy's is 76.2 mm.

It's just that in order to distinguish it from Western countries, the kilogram is used to divide the grades, and the actual weight is based on the pound.

The Chinese Navy began to learn from the British Navy, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it had a close relationship with the US Navy, and the tradition that has been continued for 70 or 80 years is not so easy to change.

In terms of aerial bombs, the Navy's 900-kilogram aerial bombs are actually 2,000-pound aerial bombs, and this kind of super-heavy aerial bomb can only be carried by one B18, and the power of this aerial bomb is not comparable to those light and medium-sized aerial bombs.

When the F8G fighters completed the bomb suppression mission, a large group of B18 dive bombers in the air swooped down from an altitude of more than three or four thousand meters with huge aerial bombs.

Under the command of Fu Changpeng, several dive bomber squadrons of Team A had a clear division of labor, and each of them swooped down on the battleships below, with seven or eight or more than a dozen squadrons in each squadron, and the first priority target was naturally the aircraft carrier, and the secondary targets were the battleships.

After entering the fire suppression of the F8G fighter group, the air defense fire of the fleet below has been weakened to a certain extent, but it still maintains tenacious shooting, and the shells fired by the anti-aircraft guns of various calibers form layers of barrages in the air, and the shells continue to explode in the gap between the aircraft groups.

In the barrage formed by the continuous explosion of anti-aircraft shells, two B18 dive bombers rushed out, and these two B18 dive bombers swooped down from the rear and top of the Zuihe at a nearly vertical angle.