readx; At the same time, on the Songshan, Major General Zhao Zidong was sitting, and a colonel in front of him was saying: "The first wave of aircraft has returned, and in the sortie group, three B18s, two B14s and one F8G were shot down, and one B18 was lost because it could not land on the sea surface. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 INFO The rescue of the pilots of the downed fighter has been carried out by the 25th Squadron, and the specific pilot casualties are not yet known. In addition, there are many injured fighters, most of which can continue to fight through emergency replacement parts and repairs, but there are also a few that are seriously injured and cannot be repaired in a short time. ”

The colonel continued: "According to the reports of the squadrons that went into battle, they sank nine transports, three destroyers, two cruisers, and damaged many enemy ships! ”

The losses of the own side are a definite number, but the results of the battle are estimated, because in the course of the air raid, there are situations where multiple fighters attack an enemy ship at the same time, so it is somewhat difficult to calculate the results of the battle, and it is difficult to be completely accurate, in fact, this data is only an estimate.

In fact, there is a big gap between the results reported by the first attack group and the reality, and the results sunk by the first wave of aircraft are only the Nazhi and the two destroyers, and the others are all injured but not sunk, and it is even more difficult to determine the transport ships.

Zhao Zidong frowned after hearing this, the losses of this sortie were even greater than he imagined, and the results were not great, but thinking that this was the first large-scale actual combat in the navy in more than ten years, and the pilot's experience was still lacking, it was already rare to be able to do this under such circumstances.

He believed that after a period of sharpening, the carrier-based aircraft pilot would accumulate enough experience, and the situation would be much better.

"Order the Third Air Group to prepare for the attack on the third wave of aircraft, be sure to complete the rearmament work within an hour, and use spare aircraft and reserve pilots if the number of fighters and pilots is insufficient!"

After Zhao Zidong led the 21st Squadron to accept the first wave of aircraft returning home, he immediately carried out intense preparations for the third wave of aircraft. At the same time, Vice Admiral Lu Jian had already received the news that the 25th Squadron had been attacked by the local group.

On the Shiguang No., Rear Admiral Yang Kunlin looked at the dense air in the sky and said, "This aircraft is in the middle of a dive attack, and the dive altitude is very low, it is no longer the kind that is commonly used to rise at a dive height of six or seven hundred meters, but has been diving to five hundred meters and even in the dive.

"These people are really dead!" A lieutenant colonel next to him looked at the sky and was about to rush down regardless of life or death, and said, "This plane." It is clear that at the moment these attacks by these pilots are no longer conventional air raids, but suicide attacks.

At this time, the Shiguang had stopped setting up its main guns, and on the deck, many anti-aircraft guns on the bridge were already in full swing, and many members of the anti-aircraft artillery crew were shooting anti-aircraft guns of various calibers in the open air.

On a quadruple 40mm anti-aircraft gun, the crew members are in a tense cycle of loading and firing, and there is a small circular radar next to it. And this small radar is officially the fire control radar 39D radar developed by the Chinese Navy for small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns, this radar is one of the many microwave radars developed after the breakthrough of China's microwave radar technology, which is different from the requirements of the sea search microwave radar with a long distance, and the fire control radar, the requirement is that the radar of the anti-aircraft gun requires fast response and high accuracy.

So don't look at the small size of this 39D radar, but the surname Neng is not bad at all, and even the main fire control radar of many quadruple 40mm anti-aircraft guns in the Chinese Navy.

Guided by fire control radar, the quadruple 40mm anti-aircraft gun was even capable of fully automatic fire, a technology that was already extremely advanced in World War II.

Similarly, the 40mm anti-aircraft gun guided by the fire control radar was also the main air defense component of the British and American navies in World War II. Because the 40mm anti-aircraft gun produced in Sweden is superior in its surname, it has become a unified anti-aircraft gun of all countries participating in the war, whether it is the Axis or the allies, or China or even the Soviet Union, the 40mm anti-aircraft gun developed by Sweden is used, of course, the countries only introduced the most basic technology and structure, and then the countries develop different anti-aircraft guns according to their different situations, and the 40-mm anti-aircraft guns of various countries still have many differences in some details.

Like other Chinese naval warships, the Shiguang is also equipped with a large number of 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, and 20-mm anti-aircraft guns and 127-mm high-level dual-purpose air defense networks form a long, medium and near-range air defense network.

Under the guidance of the fire control radar, this quadruple 40-millimeter anti-aircraft gun sprayed a dense tongue of fire, and the dense firepower caused a fighter plane that was diving towards the Shiguang and said, "This fighter was smashed in the air, but after this fighter was destroyed, another one said this fighter rushed towards the Shiguang from another angle."

At this time, two 40-mm anti-aircraft guns and several 20-mm anti-aircraft guns on the other side of the Shiguang opened fire in unison, and hundreds of shells formed a firepower network.

Another one said: 'This fighter was hit, and then it turned into a ball of fire and rushed into the sea!'

The same happened with other Chinese naval vessels, and in fact the 25th Squadron was attacked relatively rarely, and the attack on Ben's fleet focused attention on the 24th Squadron.

Because the 24th Squadron has two large cruisers, the Emperor and the Yaodi, although the battleships of this class are classified as cruisers by the Chinese Navy and are numbered as large cruisers. However, all countries will not treat China's seven large cruisers as simple cruisers, but as capital ships, and in fact, the Chinese Navy's use of large cruisers is also used as capital ships.

Among the world's navies, the only ones in the same category as China's seven large cruisers are the Alaska-class large cruisers of the United States and the super-armored cruiser program that still exists in the design stage of this navy.

If you want to deal with large cruisers, heavy cruisers will definitely not work, and they will be completely backward in firepower and air defense. To deal with large cruisers, it is necessary to use new high-speed battleships or battlecruiser-class ships, even those old battleships, because if a large Fuxi-class cruiser fights with those fourteen-inch battleships in the British and American Navy, the speed is higher than theirs, and the twelve-inch naval guns of the Chinese Navy, which are praised as drug cannons by the world navy, are extremely powerful, stronger than those old fourteen-inch naval guns, and can even confront those old fifteen-inch naval guns when necessary. So you can have a great advantage in fighting those old battleships.

Therefore, in order to deal with China's large cruisers, in addition to building large cruisers of the same type, they must use high-speed battleships or battle cruisers to be able to gain an advantage.

It must be mentioned that in addition to the relatively high cost of the first large cruiser Shaohao, the next six ships have greatly controlled the cost and the cost is relatively low.

It has to be said that the Chinese Navy's use of relatively low-cost large cruisers not only suppresses a large number of heavy cruisers in the British and American navies, but also can contain their large number of high-speed battleship forces. In terms of strategic value, it can be regarded as a relatively successful warship in the Chinese Navy.

After all, although the cost of large cruisers is higher than that of heavy cruisers, their combat effectiveness is far greater than that of heavy cruisers, and even those heavy cruisers in the United States with a full load of 18,000 tons or even 20,000 tons cannot threaten the strength of large cruisers, after all, the protection of large cruisers is the standard for protecting eight-inch naval guns, and the firepower of twelve-inch guns can threaten the existence of a large number of old battleships.

Even if the speed is inferior to the general heavy cruisers, it is okay, because the Chinese Navy wants to suppress the enemy's heavy cruisers and contain high-speed battleships, not some heavy cruisers, as long as the speed is acceptable.

After all, the Chinese Navy will not organize large cruisers to fight hard with the enemy's battleship formations, or to lead the lightning strike fleet to launch lightning strikes well, and its essential job is only to serve as an escort ship for aircraft carrier battle groups.

The naval strategy of each country is different, which also leads to the difference in the specific shipbuilding plan, the same large cruiser, China's large cruiser is only 31 knots, but the Americans' Alaska-class large cruiser is as high as 34 knots or more.

The Americans' pursuit of high speed on capital ships had reached a morbid point, as was the case with the large Alaska-class cruisers, and the same was true for the battleships Iowa, which had a top speed of thirty-three knots.

The initial design goal of these capital ships of the Americans was not to serve as an escort ship of aircraft carriers at all, but to use them as high-speed battleship formations, and the design goal of the Alaska-class large cruisers was to be a heavy patrol killer, requiring firepower and protection to be able to comprehensively exceed the heavy cruiser, and at the same time, the speed could not be full of heavy cruises. The battleship Iowa was actually designed as a battle cruiser, and the target of the confrontation was not China's Yandi class, nor was it called the Yamato-class, which was originally only used as a battle cruiser as the flagship of the avant-garde fleet.

The battleships built by the Americans during World War II were the Montana-class, which was the official battleship of the Americans, but when the Americans designed the Montana-class battleships, it was to fight against potential new battleships. China is about the same, in the late thirties, even in the 40s, in 41 there was news that a new type of battleship would be built, but it never happened.