Chapter 498: The Fleet Sets Out

Britain has always done what it says, although it is not as good as the time when the sun never sets to hit whoever it wants, but, after all, Britain does not allow a third-rate country to bully itself!

The more dangerous you are, the more you need to raise your fist and beat each other bravely, only in this way can you overcome the crisis!

Britain looks at its arsenal, there is indeed nothing good, and it has followed the United States over the years, continuing to fake its might, but the decline of Britain's national strength is already an indisputable fact.

If it were the United States, it would be able to fly over directly with B-52 bombers.

However, they did not, in the hands of the British Navy, there were only Vulcan bombers.

Vulcan bomber, a bizarre-shaped delta-wing bomber produced in the 50s, with air intake at the root of the wing, like a big bird flying in the sky, is a Vulcan bomber for medium-range long-range European nuclear warfare missions, which can carry 21 1,000-pound bombs plus four Shrike anti-radar missiles. The amount of ammunition is definitely not small, however, the range of this kind of aircraft is not high, and it only flies 4,000 kilometers with no load, and now it takes more than 6,000 kilometers for a single trip, and at the same time, because it is fully loaded, the entire flight must be refueled at least 4 times in the air. However, their air tankers are modified Victory bombers with insufficient fuel capacity, so they also need to carry out multiple in-flight refueling with Victory tankers of the same class when carrying out support. In this way, a spectacular spectacle was formed, and two Vulcan bombers needed eleven air tankers to support one mission. At the same time, a single raid took 16 hours and a total of 120,000 kilometers round trip.

Even with all kinds of difficulties, the British army will do its best to overcome them! This is a war that Britain cannot afford to lose! If it loses, Britain will completely lose its status as a great power and will lose any right to speak in the international community!

Just as the air force began its air strikes, the British Navy was ready to go.

In Portsmouth, the British military port, countless people were crowded, and the British Navy's fleet had exhausted all British capabilities this time.

Ark Royal, just a few years ago, there has been a lot of noise in Congress about decommissioning this warship, for them, the aircraft carrier is too expensive to equip at all.

But now, completely supported by this aircraft carrier, which is almost the core of the British naval formation.

On the deck of this aircraft carrier, the number of carrier-based aircraft carried is not large, and a considerable number of Tomcat carrier-based aircraft have not yet been delivered, and when they sail to the vicinity of the equator, there will be Tomcat carrier-based aircraft that have taken off from the mainland of the United States and land to directly participate in the war.

At the same time, the aircraft carrier, which was converted in the United States, will also pass through the Panama Canal and join them.

The Invincible-class aircraft carrier, the latest aircraft carrier built in the United Kingdom, adopts the method of leaping and taking off and landing, which can be regarded as completing the requirements for operating the Tomcat, but unfortunately the number is not very large, on the contrary, it carries a certain number of anti-submarine helicopters, and for the aircraft carrier formation, air defense and anti-submarine are eternal topics.

In addition to these two aircraft carriers, there is also an old-fashioned aircraft carrier, the Athletic God.

This aircraft carrier has the same name as an aircraft carrier that was sunk in World War II, but this aircraft carrier can be regarded as famous, after all, it is covered with a lot of brilliance and has many firsts.

For example, it took the longest to build.

At the end of World War II, it was still lying on the slipway, and it was lying down until 1953, and after that, it was not considered to be in service until 1959, and it went through 15 years.

At the same time, slow work makes meticulous work, although this is a light fleet aircraft carrier designed in World War II, but because of the slow construction period, it is a blessing in disguise. The British, in their slow grinding, applied many of the latest technologies directly to the Athletic. This includes an angled flight deck, a steam catapult and, crucially, a Fresnel lens landing system.

Therefore, when it was born, it was already a modern aircraft carrier in the true sense of the word.

Since then, it has carried many carrier-based fighters and has undergone many modifications, and historically, it should now also carry the Sea Harrier carrier-based aircraft, which is a take-off platform.

However, relying on the powerful performance of the Tomcat fighter, the Sea Harrier is no longer favored by the Navy, so this aircraft carrier is still the original role, a helicopter assault ship.

Due to the rapid development of helicopter technology after World War II, the amphibious landing operation of the Navy has also moved from a flat to a three-dimensional operation. The Americans began to carry the first generation of Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ships in the late 50s. However, this early product did not have the dockyard equipment that was later standard. The whole ship is basically a helicopter carrier carrying the Marine Corps, and it cooperates with the dock landing ships in the fleet to fight together. The British do not have the deep pockets of their American allies, but they also do not lack platforms suitable for modification. The Athletic God underwent such a transformation.

The helicopters and marines on board are the first choice for the UK to deal with emergencies. If a large-scale war really breaks out, then the Athletic God will cooperate with the Wuderror-class dock landing ship to support the brigade-level landing operation. The experience of this stage became the technical blueprint for the later construction of the Oceanic helicopter carrier.

In later generations, it was equipped with a leaping deck and became a light attack carrier like the Invincible class, and now, it still functions as its own helicopter assault ship.

At this time, on this aircraft carrier, countless marines are saying goodbye to their relatives on the shore, they will cross thousands of miles, expedition to the Falkland Islands, if the battle starts, they will definitely be the first troops to go ashore.

These three warships are the most dazzling, and at the same time, there are a lot of escort fleets.

A Type 82 destroyer is the largest air defense destroyer, and the sea mark bridge system on the ship is the main force of their air defense, and at the same time, there are several Type 42 destroyers, which will take on the task of mid-level air defense of the fleet.

In addition to military ships, on this voyage, they also requisitioned a large number of civilian ships to deliver supplies to the fleet, etc., and even the decks of some civilian ships were welded to take off and land ship-based helicopters.

Britain is united in hatred of the enemy, and must retake the Falkland Islands that belong to them!

One warship after another, the whistle sounded, and in the whining sound, one after another the warships emitted billowing black smoke and drove out of the port, and many of the people in the port began to wipe their tears.

This distinction may be goodbye, but they will not prevent their relatives from fighting, for them, although it is unfortunate, it is also glorious!

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