Volume 8 A Hundred Years of Grudge Chapter 98 The Final Blow
Thousands of kilometers away, Mu Qingyun looked at the image of the long-range sea patrol in amazement. [Full text reading]
Although the images of the battlefield taken by the synthetic aperture radar are very blurry, and it is impossible to identify the battleship by its appearance, and only some battleship symbols that have been converted by computer processing can be seen, the incident still shocked Mu Qingyun, as if he had experienced it himself.
The Japanese fleet turned out to have "electromagnetic"!
More than 200 missiles are gone!
Shock to shock, now the question is, how can the Japanese fleet be annihilated?
If the Japanese fleet has several "electromagnetic", it will be difficult to pose a threat to the Japanese fleet, even if more carrier-based fighters are dispatched. In other words, all the anti-ship missiles equipped by the Navy of the Republic have become ornaments, and unless the combat distance is shortened and ordinary shells are fired at the Japanese battleships with the large-caliber naval guns of the escort warships, Mu Qingyun and the others can only watch the Japanese fleet move away.
There is simply no way to fight this battle!
Zhu Ronghui was the first to suggest that the strike aircraft group be divided into at least three waves and bombed the Japanese fleet in turn.
There is no way to do this.
According to Zhu Ronghui's analysis, the Japanese team must have lost its air defense capability, and not only were the fighters remaining on the aircraft carrier unable to take to the air for combat, but even the air defense radars of the warships could not work normally. As long as the number of attack waves is sufficient and the "electromagnetic" of the Japanese fleet is exhausted, the Japanese fleet can be killed with limited anti-ship missiles.
In the absence of selectivity. Mu Qingyun could only accept Zhu Ronghui's suggestion.
The first attack was divided into 2 waves. Because long-range maritime patrol planes have already appeared in attack groups sent by the Japanese fleet. Therefore, Mu Qingyun did not recall the ground air defense fighters who were carrying out interception missions. Rather, it is to prepare the three aircraft carriers to carry anti-ship ammunition for the returning fighters.
The Japanese fleet could only move one round of attack. Just withstand the attack. You can fight back as much as you want!
Mu Qingyun had just given the order, and before giving the order, the reconnaissance plane, which had lost contact with the fleet, returned more accurate information.
The Japanese fleet Satoji warships were evading at high speed. It is judged by the circumvention situation of each warship. The Japanese fleet was attacked from the sea!
There are already submarines arriving on the battlefield. And the Japanese fleet is being attacked!
Mu Qingyun's mood suddenly changed dramatically, happy and depressed.
Happily, the submarine was not affected and was still able to attack Japanese battleships with torpedoes. In this way, the Japanese fleet would have suffered heavy losses before the fleet's attack group arrived. The depressing thing is that the submarines are coming too fast, and the Japanese fleet has basically lost its defense capability, and I am afraid that the Japanese fleet can be killed without the need for carrier-based fighters!
Anyway, it's a good thing, a great thing!
It's just that the battlefield information returned by the reconnaissance plane was soon interrupted again.
It was later learned that the reconnaissance plane, which flew over the Japanese fleet and turned to fly into the air of the Japanese fleet again, was attacked by an "electromagnetic" attack and finally crashed about 30 meters southeast of the "Akagi" aircraft carrier. Because the electronics were completely out of order, the firing seat failed to wave, so the pilot of the reconnaissance plane did not survive.
Less than 1 a.m., the 3 aircraft carriers turned again and let the fighters parked on the flight deck take off in turn.
At 1:15 a.m., the two groups met approximately 550 meters north of the Republican Navy fleet.
The air battle was fierce, but not tragic, at least not at all for the carrier-based fighters of the republic.
The Japanese attack aircraft group is not supported by AWACS aircraft, and the F35J's fire control radar can only show the J15D fighter at a distance of 120 kilometers at most, and in the case of using the fire control radar, the passive detection equipment equipped with the J-15D can appear at a distance of 250 kilometers F35J fighters.
Behind the J15D group there are 9 carrier-based AWACS aircraft. Using the battlefield information provided by the carrier-based early warning aircraft, the 15D can launch interceptor missiles at F35J fighters 200 kilometers away without the use of fire control radars, and only at the last moment can fire control radars be activated to intercept missiles to provide fire control parameters.
Past air battles have long proven that a side without AWACS will be useless no matter how many fighters it has.
Only 2 intercepted, all 50 Japanese fighters were shot down, and 1 dropped anti-ship missiles.
After the end of the air battle, with the exception of the 24D, which did not participate in the battle, the J15D, which continued to perform perimeter air defense patrol missions north of the fleet, the rest of the J15D fighters returned to the fleet in two batches. The main reason is that the speed at which aircraft carriers recover fighters is limited, and it is difficult to accept all the returning fighters at once.
At 1:25, the first wave of attack aircraft, consisting of 36 fighters, left the fleet airspace.
Because the Japanese fleet also had 1 fighter in the air to carry out the task of air defense of the fleet, the first wave of attack aircraft had 12 escort fighters in it, and only 24 fighters carried out attack missions. In order to support the operation of the aircraft group, Zhu Ronghui let the 2 AWACS planes, which were carrying out patrol missions in the north of the fleet, take the lead in the north and approach the Japanese fleet.
At 1:30, the second wave of attack aircraft grouping consisting of 24J15D took off from the aircraft carrier.
Considering the limited number of air defense fighters remaining in the Japanese fleet, Zhu Ronghui did not equip the second wave of attack aircraft with escort fighters, but let the escort fighters in the first wave of attack aircraft perform cover tasks. To this end, Zhu Ronghui asked the aviation service personnel to prepare 12 "partner refueling pods" for the fighters that were about to return, ready to prepare for the first wave if necessary
12 escort fighters in the air provide in-flight refueling.
At 1 o'clock, the second wave of attack aircraft left the fleet airspace.
Subsequently, the first fighters who carried out the interception mission returned and began to land on the aircraft carrier.
The work was carried out in an orderly manner, and immediately after landing, the fighters were sent to the hangar, where they were to be carried out by the service personnel for necessary maintenance and inspection, replenishment of aviation fuel, and loading of anti-ship missiles, while the pilots went directly to the aviation operations center to receive a new combat mission.
Just after 2 o'clock, the second group of returning interceptor fighters began to land.
While the freshly landed fighters were being sent into the hangar, the aviation crews sent the overhauled and takeoff-ready fighters to the "waiting area" on the flight deck in preparation for the third wave of attacks.
The aviation combat efficiency of the 3 aircraft carriers is often high, and the logistical support is also very difficult.
No one rushed the aviation service personnel, and all the service personnel involved in the support work knew that the fighter would be fleeting and could not afford any toss.
At 2:15, the first wave of attack aircraft groups arrived in the sea area where missiles were launched.
24 J-15Ds carrying anti-ship missiles immediately turned back after firing their missiles. 12 fighters on escort missions, supported by AWACS aircraft, actively searched for the "surviving" Japanese carrier-based fighters. All fighter pilots were ordered to fly into the airspace of the Japanese fleet and to maintain a distance of at least 1 kilometer from the Japanese fleet!
There was still not much suspense in the battle, and the air defense fighters of the Japanese fleet had no intention of fighting at all.
At this time, the "Akagi" suffered at least nine fish, the "Kaga" suffered torpedoes, and it was later proved that only one of the torpedoes fired at the "Akagi" and "Kaga" missed the target, and in addition, the torpedoes did not explode, and the hit points of the torpedoes were exactly the same, resulting in an undercount of 6 torpedoes in the calculation of the results, 2 cruisers each suffered 2 torpedoes, 5 of the destroyers were torpedoed, and 2 frigates that were closer to the voyage were also torpedoed.
The fleet has already been destroyed, and are the Japanese fighters still in the mood to stay?
Before the arrival of the attack aircraft group, all the 1 F35Js that had previously patrolled near the Japanese fleet turned to the Japanese mainland, which was more than 00 kilometers away, and even the 2 early warning helicopters, which were on the air defense alert mission of the fleet, also turned to the Japanese mainland. It's just that the helicopter's range is very limited, and the remaining fuel simply can't make it to the Japanese mainland.
Because the "Akagi" and "Tone" were heavily damaged, the "electromagnetism" of the two battleships failed to detonate.
At least 24 of the 96 missiles fired by the 15J7D fighter hit the sinking 2 aircraft carrier and 2 cruiser, completing the final lethal attack.
At 2:30, the second wave of attack aircraft arrived.
Before 3:50 a.m., the third and fourth waves arrived.
Because the first two waves of attack aircraft annihilated the main warships in the Japanese fleet, the third wave of attack aircraft concentrated on attacking the frigates that turned to escape, and the fourth wave of attack aircraft had to return with missiles and abandon anti-ship missiles before landing, and the fighters could not land on the carrier while carrying heavy attack ammunition.
No, Mu Qingyun had good news.
The key question is, how do you calculate the results?
This matter later went to the General Staff.
Although all the results of the battle were attributed to the naval fleet, the naval aviation was very dissatisfied with this, believing that it was impossible for the 9B aircraft group that was not the HNA to know that the Japanese fleet possessed "electromagnetism", and therefore could not successfully annihilate the Japanese fleet.
The proposition of the submarine forces is very clear, even if there is no fleet, at most the frigates will be sunk by submarines. It is also true that by the time the first wave of carrier-based fighters arrived, the other warships in the Japanese fleet were torpedoed, and it was only a matter of time before they sank.
The fleet, for its part, insisted that without the support of the fleet, the frigates would not be easily withdrawn and would inevitably pose a mortal threat to the submarines that ambushed the Japanese fleet.
The fleet not only completed the final fatal blow, but also covered the submarine in disguise, so the fleet took the greatest credit.
Of course, Lin Xiaolei leaned towards the fleet.
Under the strong protest of the submarine force and the HNA team, the matter was finally decided by Xiang Linghui.
In the end, the submarine forces were divided into the lion's share, and the fleet played only a supporting role. The problem is not over, Liu Haifeng and Du Xinghua also have differences on the issue of sinking the Japanese battleship, both of them think that they have killed 2 Japanese aircraft carriers, even if the other party does not intervene, they can sink the main battleship of the Japanese fleet.
Of course, the dispute between the two is not to be worried about Xiang Linghui, under the auspices of Hua Jianfeng, Liu Haifeng and Du Xinghua finally reached a settlement agreement, and shared the results of the submarine force with Xiao Jingbo, Le Jiacheng and other captains.
In any case, this unprecedented naval battle achieved both expected and unexpected results.
For those who pay attention to this naval battle, the complete victory of the Republic Fleet over the Japanese Fleet is not worth paying attention to, and what really makes the world's naval powers pay attention to all kinds of high-tech weapons, especially the brand-new use of "electromagnetic weapons" in war, has opened a small window in the tactics of future naval warfare, so that more people can realize that the future naval war will not be as ordinary people imagine, and it is not only air supremacy but also electromagnetic supremacy that determines the victory or defeat of the sea!