readx; In 1941, at the beginning of the Pacific War, it was said that the navy's carrier-based aviation was in the limelight, and its influence in the world even surpassed that of the Chinese navy's carrier-based aviation. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the most critical moment in the first half of 1942, the U.S. Navy was supported by only a pitiful aircraft carrier in the Pacific, and it can be said that it was completely suppressed by the Navy, while the British Navy was forced to retreat to the waters of western India after suffering heavy losses in the Battle of Singapore and the Battle of Ceylon, and even withdrew from the Indian Ocean for a time.

It can be said that that time was the most glorious period of the navy.

However, with the passage of time, the defects of the weak strength of the country have been fully exposed, although the number of aircraft carriers is not small, but the number of carrier-based aircraft and pilots cannot be replenished after the war is consumed, and this has directly reduced the strength of the carrier-based aviation, resulting in the situation of the navy after 1943 has been defeated and retreated, and then after the Battle of Midway, the Second Battle of the Coral Sea and many other naval battles, it is said that theThe shortage of carrier-based aircraft and pilots in the Navy is even more alarming.

In the entire course of World War II, except for the fact that the carrier-based air force was able to maintain a full strength at the beginning of the war, the naval air force in the following period had a very embarrassing situation, that is, the carrier-based aircraft unit was far from being able to meet the establishment of aircraft carriers.

During World War II, all countries were vigorously developing more advanced weapons, and fighter planes have been surging in just a few years, and the propeller aircraft of various countries have actually developed to the limit that propeller fighters can reach.

For example, the German BF109 and FW190 and the British Spitfire and Hurricane that confronted each other in the European war can be described as the continuous confrontation and famous models in the European battlefield, and these four aircraft have undergone a lot of modifications throughout World War II, in fact, in 1944, today's latest model of BF109 and the Spanish Civil War BF109 are no longer the same concept.

The same goes for China's F4 and F5 and F8 series, why are they a series rather than a single model, because these three aircraft have a large number of improved models, among which the F4, as the main fighter of the Chinese Navy and Air Force in the mid-to-late thirties, has taken on almost all air supremacy tasks in China's sky, including homeland air defense, fleet air defense, escort and other tasks related to air supremacy. Although it gradually withdrew from the front line in 1940, a large number of F4 fighters were not directly retired from active service, but were successively converted into training aircraft and fighter-bombers, and its superior medium and low altitude combat surname can lead to some F4 later models have been staying in service in some air forces and navies, used as a specific area and period of low-altitude air supremacy contention tasks, the Air Force is now still retaining the later model F4 as a supplement to the F5 fighter.

Although the F4 gradually disappeared from people's attention in 1940, its more than 40 modifications made the F4 fighter a series, and it is also the most modified fighter among many Chinese aircraft.

And the same thing happened to the F5 and the Navy's F8 fighters, speaking of China's F5 fighter jet service earlier, between 1940 and 1941 has become the absolute main fighter of the Air Force, the following years in the development of jet fighters at the same time try to develop a new propeller engine, but found that even the newly developed propeller fighter is difficult to compare with the F5 fighter, because the F5 fighter does not even need to make significant changes, As long as you replace the high-power engine and adjust the weapon and some details, you can directly improve the surname by a large margin.

The huge improvement space of the F5 series fighters has almost made the Chinese Air Force focus on the improvement of the F5 in the past three or four years, ready to squeeze the last trace of potential out of the F5 fighters, until the time of the full replacement of jet fighters, although the modified models are not as many as the F4 series, but the range is wider, almost covering air supremacy fighters, fighter-bombers, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, radar reconnaissance aircraft, etc., and even the Navy has tried to modify the F5 fighter on the ship. Although it didn't make the trip in the end, it can still be regarded as one of the modifications.

Compared with the Navy's F8 fighter modifications, there are relatively few modifications, and the modifications are also concentrated on air supremacy fighters, and there are no examples of modifications to fighter-bombers or other types, but from the original model of F8, after several modifications, to F8G, the surname can be greatly improved every time.

China, Britain, Germany, Britain and the United States have developed fighter jets very rapidly, and their surnames can be improved very quickly, but for the sake of saying, "Although they also have modifications and the research and development of new models, they are limited to the lack of domestic aviation technology, and it is difficult to develop aircraft that can counter the advanced fighters of China and the United States."

Taking the Navy Zero as an example, due to the lack of room for large-scale improvement of the airframe, coupled with the weakness of its own aviation technology, the follow-up improved model of the Zero War was not able to resist the attack of the United States F4U and F6F, although it was said that the development of a major improved model of the Zero War has begun, that is, the A7M, and the name of the "Gale" on paper is not weaker than or even stronger than the American F4U and F6F, but the research and development plan has not been completed, and it is expected that it will not be mass-produced until the end of 1944At the same time, there are also the research and development of many new aircraft such as the Zidian fighter, but so far the research and development and mass production of these new aircraft have encountered many difficulties, and it is impossible to recover the weak situation of the navy's carrier-based fighters in a short time.

At this time, in order to recover the decline, pilots began to carry out suicide attacks, but most of the early stage were the pilots' personal actions, not to mention organized suicide attacks, but despite this, Ben began to form the first suicide attack force, that is, the kamikaze special attack team, and sent it to the Amami Islands to station.

In the previous air raids on the 24th and 25th fleets, in addition to some of the normal shore-based and carrier-based aircraft units, there were also some planes of the kamikaze, and the suicide attacks of the pilots of the normal wing voluntarily launched out of desperation or a lot of thought led to the violent suicide air attacks on the 24th and 25th fleets.

Now, flying towards the 21st Squadron is called 'the second wave of attack aircraft sent by the Daiho and Xianghe, according to normal speaking, they are not suicide attack groups, but are preparing to carry out traditional air raid operations, but just when they are about to arrive in the sky above the 21st Squadron, they received the news that their own fleet has been attacked, the Taiho and Xianghe were heavily damaged, and the Daiho is facing the danger of sinking, the two aircraft carriers have been severely damaged, and their decks have been unable to carry out aircraft landing operations, Originally, the fleet was engaged in air defense operations over the airspace, and this fighter was forced to abandon its plane and make a forced landing on the surface.

In other words, the second wave of aircraft sent out by the Daiho and Shozuru was no longer able to land on the mothership after the attack, and there was a backup option, which was to return to the land airfield in the Amami Islands.

However, the fuel on board is limited, after a long flight and a fierce attack, they will consume a lot of fuel in the battle, and after the battle, they will face only one result, that is, they will run out of fuel on the way back and fall into the sea, and there is not enough fuel to support them to land on the Amami Islands.

Under all these circumstances, the second wave of the fleet of planes called Ben decided to launch a suicide attack!

Just as these Zero fighters, Tianshan torpedo planes, and Comet dive bombers were rapidly approaching the 21st Squadron, the Yandi in the fleet directly under the Second Mobile Fleet, which existed as the air defense barrier of the 21st Squadron, was already sounding alarms!

During these several hours of fighting and mutual deployment, the direct fleet of the Second Mobile Fleet, that is, the First Battlefleet and the Sixth Destroyer Group of Vice Admiral Lu Jian's ships Yandi and Huangdi, had already moved to the northeast of the 21st Fleet, and existed as a close escort force to the deployment.

Cover the 21st Squadron and the 22nd Squadron further behind to prevent them from being attacked by the main fleet of the Expressway. At the same time, it also serves as the first air defense early warning and interception network.

When the group approached, the alarms of the ships in the fleet under its command were already loud, and the members of the anti-aircraft artillery battle groups quickly poured out of the ships, and then ran to the various anti-aircraft gun positions, preparing to carry out interception and air defense operations.

On the Yandi, Vice Admiral Lu Jian immediately issued an order: "Order the 21st Squadron to take off the direct guard fighters immediately, and order all ships to prepare for air defense operations!" ”

Although there is a radar warning, but there is still not much time left for the preparation of the fleet directly under the Yandi, when the members of the air defense artillery crew on the Yandi hurriedly prepared for the air defense operation, in the sky, more than ten fighters who were originally on duty patrol in the air were already rushing towards the aircraft group.

This squadron-sized F8G fighter is an air duty fighter sent by the 21st Squadron before, and the number is not large, but it is also the first fighter to meet it.

They sped away at high speed, and from high in the air they sped towards the group below.

Although the F8G fighter is known for its superiority in medium and low altitudes, his high-altitude surname and rapid surname are not bad, but they are not as perverted as the F5 fighter of the Air Force, but compared with the zero fighter of the "Ben", it is much better.

You know, when I first said, 'When I developed this Zero fighter, the target was the F4 fighter of the Chinese Navy, and the F4 fighter of the Chinese Navy was also known for its superiority in medium and low altitudes. Due to various reasons, the low-altitude horizontal maneuverability of the Zero fighter is very superior, but it is slightly deficient in the rate of climb, high-altitude ability, and even in the dive.