Chapter 871: Sinking the Ruihe II

readx; This attack stance is also a more commonly used attack method in dive attacks, entering from above the rear of the enemy ship to avoid the enemy's anti-aircraft fire to the greatest extent, and at the same time can obtain a large hit rate. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The two-plane formation can also ensure that an aerial bomb can hit the enemy ship to the greatest extent, because no matter which direction the enemy ship maneuvers, it will not escape the attack of the aerial bomb.

The members of the anti-aircraft artillery crew on the Zuihe below also spotted the two B18 bombers almost vertically above the Zuihe, and soon those anti-aircraft guns began to rapidly shift the firing angle, and the raised muzzles were raised high and quickly sprayed shells into the air.

In terms of the quality and quantity of the air defense artillery itself, in fact, it is said that the strength of this navy is not much weaker than that of the US Navy or the Chinese Navy, but the greatest impact on the efficiency of air defense in recent years is not the factor of the air defense artillery itself, but the air defense shells and air defense fire control radar.

It is said that the air defense efficiency of ordinary anti-aircraft artillery shells in this navy is far inferior to that of radio proximity fuse shells commonly used in the Chinese and US navies, and it is even worse in fire control radar. When the air defense fire control radar of other countries was still in the initial stage of application, the Chinese Navy was widely used, including the 127 mm high-level dual-purpose gun and the 40 mm anti-aircraft gun. In air defense operations, fire control radar guides and fully automated firing is implemented.

Although this mode of fully automatic shooting has been partially realized by the British side, it is far less mature than that of the Chinese Navy, after all, this air defense combat mode is too dependent on the radar surname, and if the radar surname can not pass the test, it is not as efficient as manual operation.

The fully automatic shooting guided by fire control radar in artillery air defense has appeared in World War II and has continued until the twenty-first century, almost all of which have been in this mode for half a century, such as the Soviet 630 air defense artillery system that many people are widely familiar with in later generations, and the 730 air defense artillery system of the Chinese Navy is no different from the quadruple 40 mm air defense artillery system in service in the Chinese Navy in terms of firing mode, the difference is that their rate of fire is higher, more accurate, and the reaction speed is faster, but the mode is still the same.

The reason why I say this is because I want to say that the 'multi-unit 40-millimeter anti-aircraft artillery system' and 127-millimeter anti-aircraft guns equipped with fire control radars to achieve fully automatic shooting in the Chinese Navy are epoch-making products.

The combination of radar fire control automatic shooting and radio fuse proximity is the fundamental reason for the Chinese Navy's strong anti-aircraft firepower.

However, he himself lacks these, so although their anti-aircraft artillery is not inferior in quantity and quality, it still cannot compete with the anti-aircraft firepower of the Chinese Navy.

When a large group of B18 dive bombers launched an attack on the "Fleet", although the "Say" himself resisted desperately, bombs still fell one after another.

The B18 bombers in the two-plane formation dived all the way to a distance of only 700 meters behind the Zuihe, and at this time, the dive speed had reached the limit that the B18 bombers could bear, and the pilots inside even felt the trembling of the plane in the high-speed dive.

It was already 700 meters, and the pilot stared at the aircraft carrier below, taking a deep breath, and then pressed the bomb drop button without hesitation.

The Chinese Navy does not have a tradition of suicide attacks, and it will not dive all the way to the tail and crash directly into an enemy ship like the pilot said.

The current altitude of 700 meters is already a relatively dangerous altitude, don't look at the 700 meters seems to be very high, but the speed of the bomber in the dive state is extremely fast, and the distance of only 700 meters is not much time left for them to flatten the fuselage and climb.

The two B18s in the two-plane formation dropped bombs almost at the same time, and the two 900-kilogram aerial bombs sped towards the Zuihe at higher and higher speeds under the action of both dive speed and gravitational acceleration.

On the Zuihe below, a captain shouted: "Left full rudder!" ”

With the order of the helmsman, the Zuihe, which was galloping at a speed of more than 30 knots, made a beautiful C-shaped turn in the sea, and under the sharp turn, in addition to the white waves in the sea, the Zuihe was seriously tilted, and a comet bomber on the flight deck that was not fixed directly broke free from the shackles of a fixed rope, slid out directly to the right, and then fell into the sea from the starboard deck of the Zuihe.

Although the Zuihe had made an emergency maneuver to evade, it was destined to be able to completely avoid one of them in the face of two aerial bombs, and the other was a matter of luck.

Maybe it won't hit, maybe it will fall on the sea near Zuihe and form a near miss, maybe it will be unlucky enough to be hit directly!

I have to say that the life of the Ruihe is still very large, after an emergency evasion, it completely dodged the aerial bomb on the right, and then the other aerial bomb on the left also fell near the Ruihe, just a near miss. Although this near-miss bomb caused a violent shock to the Zuihe, it is said that the distance from the sea surface was relatively far away, and the pressure wave from the sea water did not squeeze and deform the Zuihe's underwater armor and cause a crack.

However, the fate of the Zuihe is tragic, although he escaped these two aerial bombs, it does not mean that he can avoid more aerial bombs.

As the only intact large aircraft carrier in this fleet, the Zuihe was also the most intensively attacked, almost a dozen B18 dive bombers launched attacks on the Zuihe in a short period of time, and several B14 torpedo planes that had finally broken through also fired torpedoes at the Zuihe.

In the face of such a dense attack, the Zuizuru could not escape the fate of being hit even if it was possessed by Amaterasu!

After the Zuihe dodged an aerial bomb with an S-shaped maneuver again, the water column set off by the explosion of the aerial bomb in the rear sea water had not yet reached the highest point, and a 900-kilogram aerial bomb fell from the sky, but it smashed into the flight deck of the Zuihe. Normally, this bomb would explode in the first hangar of the Ruihe at this time, but unfortunately this 900-kilogram aerial bomb is a semi-armor-piercing bomb, so it unfortunately penetrated the armor deck of the first hangar of the Ruihe again, and penetrated a gap several meters wide and penetrated deep into the internal cabin!

In the next moment, this 900-kilogram bomb set off a wave of explosion, and the huge shock wave formed by the huge explosion power extended outward along the nearby passage and all the space, and the heat wave of impact and explosion destroyed everything nearby!

If this is the case, although this 900-kilogram bomb has severely damaged the Zuihe, it is still not enough to destroy the main aircraft carrier of the Chinese army. But the location of the explosion was close to the fuel tank, and this fuel tank was not stored with heavy fuel oil for ships, but aviation fuel for the flight wing, which was all high-grade gasoline, and only one spark could make them burn.

When the aviation fuel in the fuel tank was ignited, it was almost doomed to the tragic fate of the Zuihe, and it took almost ten seconds to burn a large amount of aviation fuel before the explosion heat wave of the aerial bomb had passed, and then the Zuihe turned into a fire.

Looking from the outside of the Zuihe, I saw that the Zuihe suddenly shook violently, and then the middle of the hull seemed to be about to break and there was a violent vibration, and in the next moment, the entire Zuihe was in a violent fire!

After the aviation fuel leaked out, the fuel flowed all the way down, and the flow of fuel made the fire of the Zuihe unable to be effectively controlled!

Just a minute later, the fire spread to the first hangar, and when several aerial bombs stacked in the first hangar were detonated, the second explosion of the Zuihe hit the Zuihe even harder!

At this time, the Ruihe has become a hell on earth, a large number of people who say "this crew doesn't even know what happened, they are swallowed up by the heat wave used, and some of the officers and soldiers who tried to extinguish the fire said" This officer and soldier were burned to death by the sea of fire before they could extinguish the fire, and in just a few minutes the Ruihe became a sea of fire!

The fierce fire caused a number of aerial bombs inside the Zuihe to explode!

Three minutes later, the captain of the Zuihe had already given the order to abandon the ship, and a large number of crew members jumped into the water to escape!

At this time, the Zuihe is no different from being sunk!

In order to attack the Ruihe, the Chinese attack formation hit at least 30 planes in turn, and although the Ruihe was able to dodge some of them, it was destined to not be able to dodge all the bombs!

Looking at the appearance of the Ruihe, Fu Changpeng knew that this aircraft carrier was already finished, and such a fierce fire would definitely cause more violent detonation and fuel burning, even if those martyrdoms did not blow the Ruihe directly into two, but the fierce fire would definitely burn the Ruihe from beginning to end, and the Ruihe that had experienced such a heavy blow would not even have the possibility of repairing it.

Under such circumstances, Fu Changpeng did not direct the attack group to continue to focus its main forces on the Zuihe, but shifted the main direction of attack to two other small aircraft carriers, namely the Maya and the Torikai, which were converted from the hulls of heavy cruisers in the Second Sino-Chinese War.