readx; As the air defense situation became more and more tense, Rear Admiral Hong Ronghan was also a little unable to sit still, his 73rd Squadron had already lost a Zisong after the torpedo boat raid launched by the Germans before, and now it was under intensive attack by dozens of German bombers, although these German bombers were not as crazy as the kamikaze suicide planes called 'Ben', but it was obvious that this operation was the last desperate resistance of the Germans, and the pilots of those dive bombers simply ignored the intensive anti-aircraft fire of the ships of the 73rd Division. All of them took a risky and daring way of attacking. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although the German dive bombers' similar suicide attacks also gave the 73rd Squadron remarkable results in shooting down, one German bomber after another was hit, either falling into the sea with a tail of smoke or being hit in a volley. However, the intensive dive attack of the Germans was also an air defense operation of the 73rd Squadron, which was greatly interfered with, and huge water columns were set off around each ship, and a few ships were hit by aerial bombs.

Even the rear deck of the Hindu was hit by a 500-pound aerial bomb, fortunately this aerial bomb was not an armor-piercing aerial bomb, but a high-explosive bomb, and it was not able to penetrate the rear horizontal armor of the Hindu, but the huge power of the explosion still damaged many anti-aircraft gun emplacements on the rear deck of the Hindu.

Just as the German dive bombers launched an intensive attack, the German twin-engine bombers carrying TV-guided bombs at high altitude also began to drop bombs one after another.

Among the 1943-type TV-guided bombs currently in service in the Chinese Navy, the 1943-type G-guided bombs that participated in the operation last year were called the G-type aerial bombs in the Chinese Navy. At the beginning, because the combat target was the navies of Britain and the United States, and the navies of these three countries all had a large number of warships with thick armor, it was required that the modified bomb has excellent armor-piercing ability, and if the armor-piercing bomb is dropped horizontally at high altitude, the greater the weight, the greater the armor-piercing ability, so the weight of the G-type bomb is as high as 2,000 kilograms, which is converted into pounds commonly used in Western countries, that is, 4,500 pounds, and you must know that the aerial bombs commonly used by the navies of various countries in World War II were actually mainly 500 pounds and 1,000 pounds in the early stage. Later, countries successively adopted 2,000-pound bombs.

For example, the 1942 K1000 bomb in the Chinese Navy is the main bomb used by the Chinese Navy in the past few years of World War II, with a nominal weight of 1,000 kilograms, but the actual weight is only more than 900 kilograms. In terms of power, it is actually of the same level as the 2,000-pound aerial bombs of Western countries. Others, such as the 39-year K500 bomb and the 41-year K250 bomb, have actual weights that do not reach the nominal integer, but in fact the integer is calculated in pounds, which are 500 pounds, 1,000 pounds, and 2,000 pounds respectively. The reason why the unit of pound is not directly used is because the naval bombs in the early years were inherited from the air force, and the air force and army are different from the navy, and the air force and army use the metric system. However, the navy was in the imperial system.

The difference can be seen from the caliber of their main guns, the army artillery is 75 mm, 105 mm, 155 mm, etc., but the naval artillery is divided into inches, such as 16 inches, 12 inches, 8 inches, etc. The few things they have in common are probably a few types of anti-aircraft guns, such as 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, and 75-mm anti-aircraft guns.

The weight of the 1943 G-type bomb in service in the Chinese Navy gives it powerful armor-piercing and destructive power, and at present, no warship in the world, including the latest American Iowa-class battleships, can withstand the blow of the G-type bomb.

The Chinese Navy hopes that this bomb can deal an effective blow to a large number of cutting-edge battleships and large aircraft carriers in the US military.

In fact, the reason why it is so large is that in addition to the demand for armor-piercing and explosive power, it is also related to the relatively large weight and shape of the TV guidance and guidance system, and the second is that the cost of the TV guidance system and the modified bomber are extremely high, and the navy hopes that the G-type aerial bomb will have enough power under the huge cost, otherwise I am really sorry for the high cost of the entire system.

After part of the technology of China's G-type aerial bomb was acquired by the Germans, the TV-guided bombs they copied were naturally equally huge.

Those two-ton television-guided bombs slipped down from the sky, and their huge size was even comparable to that of some light fighters, and the weight of fighters in those days was only about four or five tons, while some relatively simple light fighters were only two or three tons.

When the Germans dropped more than a dozen of these huge television-made navigation bombs, they were immediately discovered by the 73rd Squadron on the sea, and at first they thought they were German fighters, but it didn't take long to find out that they were not, but a kind of guided bomb that could be used for maneuvering landing.

In the joint operations room of the Hindu, looking at such an obvious signal on the radar, Hong Yonghan also guessed what the Germans had dropped.

"I didn't expect the Germans' guided bombs to develop to this point, and they couldn't interfere with it!" Hong Yonghan said.

The Germans' guided bombs were developed very early, and there were still a lot of actual combat effects in the past few years, but their guided bombs were too poor in anti-jamming, and after the Allied navies operating in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean were equipped with high-power jamming equipment, the Germans' guided bombs were useless.

The large and small ships in the Seventh Mobile Fleet were also equipped with jamming equipment, but Hong Ronghan found that his jamming equipment failed to jam Germany's guided bombs. And this already shows that their guided bombs have achieved achievements that are not inferior to those of China in the field of anti-jamming.

As time passed, the altitude of the dozen or so bombs in the sky became lower and lower, and at least four of them were aimed at the Hindu.

At this time, under the command of the air defense command room, a large number of 75-mm and 40-mm anti-aircraft guns tried to intercept this batch of aerial bombs under the guidance of the fire control radar.

"Hit one!" The people in the air defense command room looked at the sudden burst of violent explosions in the sky and clenched their fists.

"Well, I don't believe they can break through our air defense network!"

Although this oversized TV-guided bomb is said to be powerful and can be remotely controlled, for the Hindu, hitting them is equivalent to intercepting the enemy's fighter jets, although they are so large.

Seconds later, another explosion sounded, and another volley exploded.

At this time, many fully automatic anti-aircraft guns guided by fire control radars on the Hindu also exerted their peak combat power.

However, to tell the truth, the threat of the TV-guided bomb attack dropped by the Germans was not as great as that of the kamikaze attack plane that was originally said to be many, and the attack angle was even more tricky.

However, the air defense standards of the Chinese and US navies operating in the Pacific waters were built in accordance with the principle of "kamikaze attack planes," and at the beginning, it was said that "my tens of thousands of kamikaze attack planes have not been able to block the attack of the Chinese and US navies."

It would be wishful thinking for the Germans to say that they wanted to stop the Seventh Mobile Fleet only by virtue of this small television-guided bomb.

However, it could not stop the pace of the entire 7th Mobile Fleet, but the Germans could still bring considerable damage to the 73rd Fleet!

In the extremely short firing window, the anti-aircraft fire on the Hindu was to hit the two German guided bombs in a volley, and after the short firing window was over, there was a sudden 40-degree left turn, and then the right side of the Hindu was to lift a drop of water more than 100 meters, and the third guided bomb missed.

However, the god of fate did not continue to favor the Hindu, and only a few seconds later, although the fourth guided bomb did not directly hit the Hindu, it landed only five meters to the left of the Hindu.

What is the concept of this distance, which means that this bomb has become a powerful near-miss bomb, this bomb exploded in the seawater, and many fierce explosives loaded in the two-ton bomb body exploded in an instant at this moment, and the 100-meter water column set off almost shrouded the entire Hindu in a torrential rain.

However, this is not important, what is important is that after the explosion of this bomb, the huge shock wave after the explosion was guided by the seawater, and the huge water pressure formed directly acted on the underwater part of the port side of the Hindu.

Almost instantly, the crew inside the Hindu could hear the sound of the steel twisting of the ship's hull, and in the next moment, countless seawater poured into the interior compartment of the Hindu.

This kind of close-range aviation miss, which is not much less powerful than a direct torpedo hit, can blow up a huge underwater part of the hull, which will lead to the infusion of seawater.

And even if it is a huge warship, once it enters too much, it will be a sinking fate.

Hong Ronghan had clearly felt two huge bumps in the joint operation, the first time was the third German bomb, but the bomb was too far away, and it just made the Hindu shake and there was no follow-up, but this time the Hindu's violent shaking meant that the Hindu was either directly hit or hit by a near-miss bomb.

"Commander, our ship suffered a near miss, and a crack appeared in the underwater position in the middle of the port side, causing sea water to pour in!"

Hong Ronghan was already a little flustered in his heart, he didn't expect that there would be such a big loss in his mission this time, according to the uneasiness in his heart, Hong Ronghan said: "Then what are you waiting for, immediately carry out a management damage operation, turn on the pumping machine to drain the water, and make every effort to control the speed of water intake!" ”

"In addition, I immediately reported to the mobile fleet, saying that the fleet was fiercely attacked by German aircraft, and I was convinced that the Germans had used new guided bombs in the attack, and that the Zisong had been martyred, and the Hindu had been severely damaged, and I hope that the mobile fleet will give the greatest support!"

Hong Ronghan didn't have the heart to stay in the joint war room at this time, but said, "Colonel Qin, you watch the war room!" Immediately, Hong Ronghan took the adjutant out of the joint operations room, and he wanted to confirm that the damage to the Hindu was like this, and whether the water ingress was within the tolerance of the Hindu. If everything can be controlled, it is naturally good, if not, then Hong Ronghan will probably have to order the abandonment of the ship.

Even if the Hindu sank, he couldn't let the more than 1,000 officers and men on the ship die in the Mediterranean!