readx; In the jungle of Singapore, several F6D fighter-bombers are cruising in small formations, and one of the pilots is in contact with the air command. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Understood, the headquarters is expected to arrive in three minutes!"

Immediately after turning off the communication with the air command, the pilot of the long plane said through the intercom: "Immediately turn left and follow me!" ”

Then these F6D fighter-bombers turned quickly, and then went straight to the southeast, and that direction was the direction in which the 4312 Infantry Battalion was fighting!

The F6D fighter-bomber, positioned as a ground support bomber with certain self-defense air combat capabilities within the Air Force, is one of the modifications in the F6 fighter series, and it is also the most produced modification of the F6 series.

The B13 front-line bomber was originally responsible for ground support missions in the Chinese Air Force, and the B13 front-line bomber was a more traditional dive bomber, and its combat effectiveness and positioning were similar to those of the Stuka bomber in the German army. But with the progress of World War II, after the progress of technology, the simple dive bomber has become extremely dangerous when the ground support operation, the bomb hit rate is not high at the same time, the range is too short, of course, these are not too big problems, the real problem is that the power of the B13 front-line bomber is enough, but the self-defense ability is too poor, in the face of the enemy's ground anti-aircraft firepower is good, but in the face of enemy fighter interception, it is basically a dead end, during the Russian campaign, A large number of Air Force B-13 bombers were shot down while carrying out ground support missions, and in the first two months of the war alone, B-13 bombers were shot down as many as 100 planes, accounting for the largest number of aircraft losses.

The huge losses caused the Air Force to revisit the front-line bomber program, and even grounded all B13 bombers before the end of the war, and switched to F5 fighters, F6 fighters and even F4 fighters with a small number of bombs to support ground forces.

After the war, when the Chinese Air Force was preparing to develop a new generation of front-line support bombers, it found that the temporary modification of the F6 fighter was quite good when it was used to carry out ground support missions, with a good hit rate and bomb load, and at the same time, it could also have considerable air combat capabilities.

After further research and modification by the Air Force, a special F6 fighter ground bombing model appeared, that is, the F6D fighter-bomber.

This F6D fighter-bomber has stronger self-defense firepower and surname ability than pure dive bombers, and the bomb load and range are also acceptable. Compared with other fighters that temporarily add bombs to ground support, the F6D fighter-bomber has a larger bomb load and fuselage protection, the reinforced fuselage can resist the strafing of ground anti-aircraft machine guns, and the optimized low-altitude and low-speed capabilities can make it better at performing ground support missions, and the ground firepower is also quite fierce.

Unlike the 12.7mm aircraft guns, which are commonly used in the Navy and Air Force, the F6D fighter-bombers are equipped with 20mm aircraft guns, in order to enhance their ability to strafe the ground.

The F6D fighter-bombers approached quickly at a low altitude, and then when they were about to cross the battlefield, rockets under the wings were launched, and more than a dozen rockets exploded one after another, forming clouds of smoke and dust on the ground.

These rockets are air-launched rockets specially developed by the Chinese Air Force for ground support, and although they are not guided weapons, they are relatively simple and have a poor hit rate, but they are still effective when used for ground support.

In recent years, basically all airdrop weapons have not hit well, and the dive bombing mode with the highest hit rate in the traditional mode is the one with the highest hit rate, and when those elite pilots of the navy fly dive bombers to attack enemy ships, the hit rate can be as high as 30 percent or more, of course, this is talking about the kind of super-large warship, an aircraft carrier is dozens of meters wide and hundreds of meters long, if it is placed on land to hit a tank, the hit rate of dive direct bombing will be much lower.

In the whole World War II, the lost tanks were mainly destroyed by ground fire, and the number of tanks destroyed by aircraft was not much, which was mainly a problem of hit rate, and the hit rate of rockets attacking tanks in these years was about five percent, and the hit rate of machine guns was higher but not much higher, and as for aerial bombs, the hit rate was even lower.

At the same time, the 20mm cannon on the plane also began to strafe the ground!

Circling and dive, bombing and strafing, pulling up and turning and diving again, until the ammunition is almost all the ammunition before returning one after another!

In order to cover the army's attack on Singapore, the Second Air Force, which is in charge of the South Pacific Theater, has drawn six wings of air force units to participate in the operation, three of which are fighter wings and three are bomber wings, and there are more than 600 planes of all kinds participating in the battle.

The establishment of the air force is much simpler than that of the army and navy, and the Chinese air force has a total of five major air forces, namely, the First Air Force in charge of Korea, Ben, and the Ryukyus region, the Second Air Force in charge of the Indochina Peninsula and the Philippines, and the Third Air Force in charge of Central Asia and the Fourth Air Force in Siberia. The above four major air forces are all aviation forces responsible for foreign operations, in addition to the Fifth Air Force, which is specifically responsible for the task of domestic air defense.

Today, in July 1944, due to the demand for operations, the First Air Force has the most abundant troops, concentrating most of the strategic bombers and a considerable number of fighters in the Chinese Air Force, because they need to be responsible for the strategic bombing mission against the Chinese Air Force, followed by the Second Air Force, which will be responsible for combat missions in the Philippines, Malaysia, and other regions. Considerably speaking, the air force in Central Asia and Siberia, which have no combat missions, has been significantly weakened, and a large number of combat wings have been transferred to the First and Second Air Forces.

As for the Fifth Air Force, it has not changed much, because their mission is quite fixed, that is, the local air defense, and will not directly participate in foreign operations, and even the aircraft equipped are mainly patrol and interceptors.

However, it is worth noting that in addition to the above five major air forces, there are actually quite a few reading wings and reading aircraft units stationed abroad. These include China's military bases in Burma and several concessions in Iran, these two countries due to the presence of the British side, can not do the same as several other countries in Southeast Asia can let China station troops at will, so far China has no formal troops on the territory of Iran and Burma, can only send a small number of troops stationed on several naval military bases, and these military bases are naturally equipped with combat units of the air force, the number is not much, basically a mixed combat group, the size of dozens of aircraft.

In addition to these troops stationed abroad, there are also quite a few wings that are not under the management of the five major air forces.

As of June 1944, before the outbreak of the war, the Chinese Air Force had a total of more than 8,000 large strategic bombers such as B11, B16, and B19, more than 10,000 tactical bomber groups dominated by B12 and B17, more than 20,000 fighters of various modifications in the F5, F6, and F7 series, and more than 1,000 B10 jet fighters. As a result, the active workhorse of the entire Air Force is about 40,000 units.

In addition, the Air Force also has about 10,000 training aircraft of various types, of which in addition to some full-time training aircraft, there are also a large number of aircraft that have withdrawn from the front line, such as most of the Air Force's F4 fighters have been transferred to the training units as training aircraft. And then there are thousands of chaotic aircraft, including patrol planes, transport planes, and so on.

If all the aircraft in service are counted, the total number of aircraft owned by the Chinese Air Force as of June 1944 was about 60,000.

That's a pretty frightening statistic, more than the total number of planes in the U.S. Army Air Corps today!

The main reason for this situation is that China basically did not fight before 1944, that is, after a war with Russia, it lost hundreds of aircraft, but on the whole the losses were not large, so the aircraft in service in the early stage can be effectively retained. Unlike the United States and Britain, although the total number of planes they have today is not as large as that of the Chinese Air Force, at that time because of the very large losses of their planes, the United States lost more than 30,000 planes in the European theater and the North African theater and the Pacific theater combined.

Therefore, the Chinese Air Force has more aircraft than the Americans, not that China has more aircraft than the Americans, but because China has suffered little losses. Even in the past few years, China's aircraft production has been maintained at a relatively low level, and it does not want the United States and Ben to produce tens of thousands of planes a year.

Also due to the problem of war damage, the old planes of the Americans have almost been spelled out, and the current ones are basically new aircraft, but there are a large number of old aircraft in the Chinese Air Force, although the Air Force has upgraded some old aircraft such as the early models of the F5, but in terms of quality it is still inferior to the latest batch of F5 fighters produced in 1944.

To change this situation, it will have to wait a few months after the outbreak of the war for the Air Force to be replenished with a large number of new domestically produced aircraft.

After all, since 1944, China has carried out a large-scale wartime production program and greatly increased the production of various aircraft in order to supplement the consumption in the war.

Faced with this situation, the solution of the Air Force and the Navy is the same, which is to draw as many new aircraft as possible into the war, while leaving the old ones in the country or transferring them to Central Asia and Siberia.

Therefore, don't look at the huge scale of the Chinese Air Force, but the number of planes that really participated in the war is not large, it is by no means that tens of thousands of planes are crowded to the front line.

In order to support the Singapore operation, the Second Air Force dispatched six wings is not small, after all, the Second Air Force is not only responsible for the Singapore direction, but he is responsible for the entire Indochina Peninsula, and the subsequent Philippine direction is also within their responsibility.

But China's air power is not only the air force, but also the naval aviation! The number of aircraft of the naval aviation was quite large, and a wing was also sent to the battle in the direction of Singapore.

However, the combat mission of this wing's shore-based air unit is not to support the ground forces, but to prepare for an attack on Singapore's naval vessels to support the naval forces.

While the bombers of the Air Force were launching operations against the ground forces, dozens of planes of the Navy's shore-based carrier-based aircraft unit were also flying in the sky, and their mission was to go to the port of Singapore and attack the naval forces in the port.