Chapter 836: Landing in Australia

readx; Although helicopters, missiles and other weapons are still in the initial stage of development, it is difficult to affect the development of the overall war situation, but throughout World War II there are still a large number of new weapons that can determine the direction of the war, such as semi-automatic rifles, China, the United States and Soviet Russia have been large-scale service semi-automatic rifles, and jet aircraft, although this thing has not yet attracted the full attention of various countries, but in China has developed quite maturely, And it is undeniable that the impact of this jet on the entire world war is definitely not an ordinary weapon that can be compared, even though the F10 twin-engine jet fighter currently in service in the Chinese Air Force has a general surname, which is similar to the German ME262, but the single-engine swept wing jet fighter with high hopes by Chen Jingyun, such as the Navy's X11 program, the Air Force's X12 program, once these two plans can be completed, it will not be a dream for China's air power to sweep the world, once it controls air supremacy, Then the outcome of the war can be concluded. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

For the development of various new weapons throughout the war, there is another type that has the same status as jet fighters, and that is radar!

In the thirties, Britain and the United States in the world had already planned and even small-scale equipment, and in 1940, British air defense radar was the first to be put into actual combat and played an important role in the air battle of Britain. But this is not to say that the British radar is the most awesome, it can only be said that he got the earliest opportunity to fight.

As the most important R&D project of Chen Jingyun in the thirties, the R&D progress of radar in China has been very fast. To be honest, there were few R&D projects that could still make Chen Jingyun pay attention in the thirties, the first was a nuclear bomb, and the second was a nuclear bomb carrier, including rockets and ultra-long-range bombers. The third is the development of new fighter jets. In addition to the above three, the only one that can get Chen Jingyun's great attention is radar.

Before the radar was used, Chen Jingyun funded the construction of a radar research and development laboratory, and then relied on this laboratory to form the Hanzhong Electronics Company, which then became China's largest and only radar supplier, and began to provide a large number of shipborne radars in the thirties to equip various combat ships of the navy, and also provided the Air Force with a large number of ground air defense warning radars for deployment in China's coastal areas and some important areas.

All of the above are considered large radars, but Hanzhong Electronics Company has not forgotten to develop miniaturized radars, and has successfully equipped a small number of bombers in the Navy as warning aircraft.

Speaking of these radars or other electronic products, we cannot fail to mention Fule Electric, because a large number of basic electronic components such as electronic tubes used in the radars produced by Hanzhong Electronics Company have to be purchased from Fule Electric. You must know that the electronics industry is the old business of Fule Electric, at the beginning Fule Electric was playing electricity, and later although it caused a forced split, the power department under Fule Electric was spun off and split to form two major power companies, but Fule Electric still retains a large number of departments in electronics-related industries.

Moreover, in the follow-up development, Fule Electric has paid little attention to the manufacturing of finished products, but focused on the research and development of basic industries, they want to control the source of industrial manufacturing, and even sold a very profitable and promising home appliance manufacturing department. Today, Fule Electric is a R&D enterprise involved in a number of basic industries, with a variety of products, including the most basic tubes, display screens, jet engines, and even screws

For example, in the design and construction process of Tianshan-class aircraft carriers, the integration of electronic systems is responsible for the integration of electronic systems by Föhler Electric, including power transmission, communication, radar and other electronic systems are integrated by Föhler Electric.

In addition, in the late thirties, the coastal air defense system led by the Chinese Air Force was composed of various types of chain radars, including medium and high altitude long-range radar warning systems, low-altitude radar systems, ultra-low-altitude radar systems, communication systems, command systems, and air combat guidance systems. Here, Fule Electric occupies a major position in the formation of the entire Chinese local air defense network.

Therefore, although China's radar development is dominated by Hanzhong Electronics, the weight of Fule Electric in the whole radar development process is heavier.

In World War II, radar and jet fighters were two conventional weapons that could greatly change the course of the war, while nuclear bombs were unconventional weapons and could not be confused, while missiles, helicopters, and so on had not yet developed maturely and had little impact.

As China began to equip itself with helicopters, the navy began to test anti-ship missiles, and at the same time began to test television-guided bombs, time passed bit by bit, and the world situation was changing every day.

In June 1942, it was said that "the navy and the navy cooperated with each other to launch a large-scale landing operation against Australia, and in order to enable the landing force to land in Australia smoothly, it was said that the navy had taken great pains."

In March and April, the Navy engaged in a number of encounters with the Combined Fleet of the U.S. Navy and the Australian Navy in the waters northeastern Australia, in the Coral Sea, and inflicted heavy damage on the U.S. Navy, sinking an aircraft carrier and many other ships. Then he said, "This navy has made a high-profile announcement of the eastward expansion plan, that is, it is preparing to capture Midway." For this reason, the US Navy mobilized a large number of troops to gather in the waters around Midway, just waiting for the time for a decisive battle with the Navy, but the Navy did not launch the Battle of Midway as the Americans expected, but went south to Australia and launched a large-scale landing operation against Australia.

In order to cover the landing of its own marines and army units, the navy sent almost all the aircraft carriers that could move and a large number of escort ships to the south, while the mainland left a vote of battleships to contain the US Navy.

The Navy's strategic deception strategy was almost a complete success, and they succeeded in attracting the small number of existing main fleets of the US Navy to the Midway side, resulting in the fact that the Australian side, that is, the Coral Sea and the Java Sea, did not have much strength, so that the landing operation was not intercepted by the US Navy.

As for the British Navy, they are still cowering and licking their wounds, they once gave up even the Indian Ocean east of Ceylon, so don't expect them to have the courage to return to the South Pacific waters, and the current British Navy is still counting on using the Chinese Navy to block the westward advance of the Navy.

After the Americans reacted, they hurriedly dispatched the fleet to reinforce the direction of Australia, and at this time, it was said that "the main fleet of this navy has already completed the cover of the landing force, and after rushing to replenish the supplies, it will meet the attack of the US navy."

In the Coral Sea, a US aircraft carrier was sunk, two escort aircraft carriers were sunk, and several cruisers and destroyers were sunk. The most important thing is that there are too many carrier-based aircraft in this navy, and the pilots cannot be effectively replenished.

After more than half a year of sea and air warfare, the navy was no longer able to replenish all aircraft carriers with sufficient carrier-based aircraft, and still less could it replenish those elite carrier-based aircraft pilots in a timely manner, and as a result, the fighters of the carrier-based aviation unit, which was highly combat-ready in the early stage of the war, were rapidly declining, and even the aircraft carrier Dafeng, which was said to be the most powerful aircraft in the navy, could not get enough carrier-based aircraft, and the carrier-based aircraft on other aircraft carriers were also seriously insufficient.

In June 1942, it was said that the production of planes was low, and the training of pilots was too slow, which showed a serious negative impact, so that today, in June 1942, it is said that "the navy actually has no shortage of aircraft carriers, and now it is said that the navy's problem is that there are not enough carrier-based aircraft and pilots."

"In this battle of the Coral Sea, although the Americans did not achieve their strategic goals and were unable to break through the blockade of the Navy and attack the landing force, they were not as passive as in the past, and could not fight back!" Chen Shaokuan said to Guan Shijie: "It's good to say that they finally sank an aircraft carrier of their own, and it can't be said that there are still zero eggs on this record table!" ”

Guan Shijie said: "I look like I'm about to start going downhill!" It's all pretty good now, but once a large number of new aircraft carriers are put into service on the US side, I'm afraid I won't even be able to defend myself!' ”

Don't look at the Americans now, they seem to be very unlucky, they have been defeated in several successive naval battles in the Pacific Theater, losing many battleships and aircraft carriers, and now in the Pacific Theater, only a poor aircraft carrier Yorktown is left to support.

Before the war, the U.S. Navy had a total of four aircraft carriers, one air warship, two of which were sunk in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, and in the first Battle of the Coral Sea in March 1942, the Air Battleship Raider was heavily damaged, and finally the U.S. Navy had to launch its own torpedoes to sink it. In the second Battle of Coral Song, which had just taken place, the U.S. Navy used the only two remaining aircraft carriers with a number of converted escort aircraft carriers to block the landing in Australia, and another one was sunk. By now, the US Navy had only one aircraft carrier left in the fleet USS Yorktown.

The serious shortage of aircraft carriers forced the US Navy to refit a large number of other ships for use as aircraft carriers, and it was in this situation that the Read-class light aircraft carriers entered service with the US Navy and became the main combat force of the US Navy in a short period of time.

However, no matter how bad the current US Navy looks, no one can deny that the US Navy still has the greatest war potential, and even the US Navy, which has defeated the US Navy several times, is pessimistic that its superiority over the US Navy will last only until the end of 1942 at most.

Reason? Quite simply, because at that time, the Essex-class aircraft carriers of the United States will be commissioned one after another, no matter how bad the US Navy is now, but after 1943, the US Navy will unsurprisingly change and have an overwhelming advantage over the so-called "Navy."

The dozens of aircraft carriers on the slipway are not for nothing, as long as they say, "Ben does not have the ability to carry out large-scale bombing of the US mainland and completely destroy the industrial capacity of the United States," then it is a matter of time before Ben fails, and it will not be very long.

"To deal with the Americans, we have to come!" Chen Shaokuan said.

"But!" Guan Shijie said: "It's good to let me go and take the lead first!" Otherwise, we will always have no good excuse to get involved in Australia in the future! ”