Chapter 895: The Coming of the Guidance Era
readx; These dozens of aircraft are divided into two formations, one is the escort F8C fighter formation, the F8C fighter is one of several early modifications of the F8 fighter of the Chinese Navy, and in the early days, together with the F8A, it became the main aircraft of the carrier-based aircraft wing, and later after the F8G fighter was put into large-scale service, the F8C fighter was withdrawn from the carrier-based aircraft unit and fell into service with the shore-based troops. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Not far from the F8C fighter formation is the B14 bomber formation, the B14 bomber, which is the first specially developed horizontal bomber in the Navy. However, the B14 bomber has a longer range than the Air Force's tactical bombers because it needs to fight against the sea.
When the group of dozens of planes arrived over the port of Singapore, the ground anti-aircraft fire of Ben also opened fire one after another, and according to the traditional mode of air raid on the port, it should be the dive bombers of the attacking group at this time, and then the torpedo planes took the risk of lowering the altitude to drop torpedoes.
However, to my surprise, these Chinese planes in the sky did not have the slightest intention of lowering their altitude, and remained above 10,000 meters in the air.
"Are they going to drop bombs from 10,000 meters in the air?" In recent years, the hit rate of high-altitude horizontal bombs has been extremely tragic, and if this is the case, basically this air raid can only be used for useless purposes.
High in the sky, the pilot of an F8C fighter jet said through the radio: "Spot the enemy group in the lower left, follow me and stop them!" ”
"Roger!"
Immediately after that, more than a dozen F8C fighters rushed down, and in the lower left of them were four or five Zero fighters called "My own."
While the fighters were fighting together, a B14 bomber had already opened its magazine, and then a huge aerial bomb was dropped!
However, this aerial bomb is different from the traditional aerial bombs in the past, and it does not make a regular free fall movement after being dropped, and it actually changes course slightly in mid-air.
At the same time, on the B14 bomber that dropped the bomb just now, a bombardier held a longitudinal pole in his hand, and his eyes were staring closely at a monitor in front of him, although the picture on the monitor was blurry, but it could still be seen that the picture was changing rapidly, and the top view of the port could already be vaguely seen from the picture, the port was getting bigger, and slowly you could see the many ships moored in the port.
With the movement of the bombardier's hand, the screen of the monitor also suddenly moved, and then the picture was headed straight for a large warship in the harbor.
If you look at the dropped aerial bomb from the air up close, then you can find that the tail of the aerial bomb is actually changing, and the course of the bomb has changed through the change of the tail fin.
As the warship in the screen in the monitor gets bigger and bigger, the bombardier can also throw it out, it should be a cruiser or destroyer or something, as for the specific is unknown, and as the picture gets closer and closer, it doesn't take a few seconds for the screen to suddenly go white.
And looking at the harbor, a Yanyang-class destroyer called Ben suddenly exploded violently, and a huge ball of fire seemed to be about to soar into the sky.
"Hit! I knew it was going to work, haha! "The bombardier looked down from 10,000 meters in the air and could clearly see the flames rising below.
"This thing is so expensive, if you can't hit the top, how can those people be willing to buy it!"
The thing they are talking about is the latest aerial bomb in the Chinese Navy, which is not a traditional aerial bomb, but a television-guided bomb. To paraphrase a fashionable phrase in later generations, it is a type of precision-guided bomb.
China's research on guided bombs began very early, mainly in the development of the Navy, which had previously developed visual wireless guided bombs, but later found that the results were not ideal, so it later switched to television guidance. However, this new technology, which can be regarded as the most cutting-edge weapon, is very technically difficult, and the Navy only purchased a small batch for service last year after several years of research and testing, and officially named the Type 1943 aerial bomb.
And this is also China's first massively equipped guided bomb, and those test models of previous years are not counted. Guided bombs have also been developed in other countries, such as Germany and the United States, but their guided bombs have average surnames and extremely poor reliability, that is, they are similar to those test models of the Chinese Navy in previous years. Picking up mature surnames and reliable surnames is far less than the 1943-style bomb.
Speaking of guided bombs, we have to talk about missiles!
However, guided bombs and missiles are two different things, because the Chinese navy currently uses a television-guided bomb and is a non-powered bomb. The missile is a powered rocket, and then a guide head is installed, and radar guidance or infrared guidance is used.
As for the research and development of missiles, they are basically split from China's nuclear bomb project, which has been developing ultra-long-range missiles in order to obtain the vehicles used to deliver nuclear bombs, and the rocket engine technology fired in them has also promoted the development of tactical missiles.
The navy wanted to develop an anti-ship rocket at the beginning, and according to the domestic technical strength at that time, the rocket itself did not have too many technical problems, and those domestic rocket experts could come up with a rocket at will, and the range was no problem if you wanted dozens of kilometers, hundreds of kilometers, or even thousands of kilometers. But for today's China, the difficulty of missiles is not in the rocket, but in the guidance part.
If it is a nuclear bomb carrier, you don't need to think too much about the accuracy of hitting, it is enough to use customary guidance, but if it is used for anti-ship, you need a very high-precision guidance system, the most promising of which is naturally radar guidance.
It is not easy to put the radar into the rocket, so so far, the ship-to-ship missile developed by the Chinese Navy for many years is still in a state of experimentation, and has not yet entered the stage of large-scale practical application.
However, there is also a very important branch of missiles, that is, anti-aircraft missiles, which are also facing similar problems, whether it is radar guidance or infrared guidance, there are considerable technical difficulties, at least in the short term, they will not be in service.
Chen Jingyun does not have much urgency for new weapons such as missiles, although the technology of these weapons has actually exceeded the current technical level, don't look at the World War II countries have similar missile plans, but in addition to the Germans' V1/V2 these customary guided surface-to-surface missiles, or guided bombs, other radar-guided missiles or infrared-guided missiles are basically still in a state of preliminary research and development, and the two weapons in service in history are basically after the fifties. And the time when missiles matured and were used on a large scale was already after the sixties.
And China has Chen Jingyun's premise guidance and attention, and has increased its efforts to develop research and development in advance, and it is good to be able to get it out in the next few years.
However, although it has not yet been officially put into service, some high-level officials of the Navy have high hopes for anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles, and neither of these missiles has officially completed research and development, and the Navy is eager to refit a destroyer Zidan, equipped with a test model of anti-ship missile system and air defense missile system for various tests, although Zidan does not have actual combat capability, but theoretically speaking, Zidan is already a serious missile destroyer.
To some extent, the Zidan is also an epoch-making warship, the world's first guided missile destroyer, which sounds good.
Not only was the Zidan refitted for testing, but the Navy's internal Ship Administration Department had even begun to study the question of how to design warships in the missile age.
Although it is said that the navy cannot get those epoch-making radar-guided or infrared-guided missiles for the time being, there is still no big problem in getting a television-guided aerial bomb, and the 1943-style aerial bomb is in service in such a large number as desired.
However, due to the relatively large weight and volume of the 1943 bomb, it also needs a system to drop the bomb, not to say that the bomb can be carried onto the plane and dropped, and the plane must have a special console and bombardier to guide the bomb when dropping the bomb, and the whole system is more complicated, so it cannot be equipped with those carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier for the time being. At present, the 1943 type of aerial bomb is equipped in a small number of naval shore-based aviation units, and is used with B14 bombers.
The entry into service of the 1943 type of bomb is also to give the navy's B14 bomber a new life, and the traditional bombing hit rate at the high altitude level has been low, so that the navy's B14 bomber has no chance to participate in the support of sea surface ships, and the original scheduled combat mission is only suitable for bombing ground targets, and now the service of the 1943 type bomb can also make these B14 bombers have anti-ship capabilities.
World War II was the era of the big bang of technology, all kinds of new technologies were developed, missiles, nuclear bombs, radars, jet planes and other weapons were developed successively, and many of the parts involved here are also derived from many civilian products, such as monitors, televisions, etc., were originally developed as military products.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the outbreak of World War II directly contributed to decades of technological progress in human technology.
The Navy's shore-based aviation used 1943-style aerial bombs to attack the port of Singapore, and achieved the result of sinking a number of warships and many other ships, and this was also the first result of China's guided weapons, which was of great significance to the development of guided weapons in China as a whole.
It's just that this kind of meaning is still invisible for the time being, and one or two new weapons will not determine the outcome of this war, and what can really make the two sides decide the victory or defeat is still relying on large-scale traditional army battles.
The 4312th Battalion, with the cooperation of a tank company, concentrated more than 10 tanks and more than 10 armored vehicles, and successfully broke through the position of the "Ben section".
Sergeant Li opened the hatch cover, jumped out of the tank, and was already soaked in sweat, he didn't have time to feel the coolness brought by the summer breeze, so he circled around his tank.
"It's unlucky, this track is too easy to break!" Sergeant Lee cursed.
At this time, the other three people of the crew also jumped out of the car, and a young loader looked at the several craters where the car body was going and said: "Four craters, our luck is so good, none of them have not been pierced!" ”
"It's four, it's five, there's a crater in the turret!" Sergeant Lee said.
The young loader looked up at the turret and saw a fist-sized crater in front of the turret: "This should be a fifty-seven mm armor-piercing bullet!" ”
Over there, Sergeant Li didn't answer but said: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and take the guy out and prepare to repair the tracks, I have already called the maintenance vehicle, and I will be there soon!" ”
"Alas, I guess I won't be able to participate in the later battles!" Sergeant Li sighed a little as he looked at the vehicles of the other brother troops passing by on the side of the road.
The driver next to him said: "There should still be a chance, but the one in front is 'my main force, it won't take long for us to repair a track, and we will be able to catch up after repairing!'" ”
Sergeant Li nodded and stopped talking, took out a cigarette and lit a cigarette and waited for the arrival of the maintenance vehicle, if it was only a small problem, their tank crew could also repair it, but now the track is falling off, without the help of special tools and repair soldiers, they alone can not be repaired.
They didn't have to wait long, a few hours later the T16 tank was already restarted, and then headed south, and more fierce battles were waiting for them!