"Dive bombers will not work, so what about horizontal bombers and torpedo bombers?" , Chongren continued to ask with an ugly face.

Yamamoto Fifty-six immediately shook his head and replied, "In the face of the fleet's anti-aircraft fire, which has been greatly strengthened by close-in fuses and gun-aiming radars, the survival rate of these two bombers is also very low, and the hit rate of horizontal bombing is too poor, basically it can only bomb ships at anchor, and torpedo planes are too easy to shoot down, if dive bombers are like targets, they are targets at all, and those previous examples during the Sino-Japanese War fully prove this." However, in the Battle of Toulon Bay, the French Air Force used dive bombers to destroy the British aircraft carrier, and then used torpedo bombers to sink the British ships that had lost their air defense capabilities.

"However, the losses of dive bombers under this tactic are still very large, and we in Japan do not have as many reserve pilots in the West as cannon fodder." , Chongren sighed, and then suddenly thought of a question, "The French Air Force's dive bomber bomb load is far less than the Empire's Zero bomber, and it can achieve good results. Since it is enough to destroy those anti-aircraft weapons on enemy ships that are not protected by strong armor, then a bomb load of 500 kg is enough"

Yamamoto Fifty-six hurriedly bowed down and explained, "Bixia." The Imperial Navy needs to sink not only battleships, but also other ship types, including aircraft carriers, the effect of 1.8 tons of super-heavy bombs is unparalleled, and if you hit directly, warships under 20,000 tons will surely sink with only one (exaggerated, but this is a common technique to convince others). ), even large armored aircraft carriers with a larger displacement and armor protection. It only takes two or three to ensure that it will be blown and sunk. This is incomparable to those light dive bombers with insufficient bomb load, but what Bixia said is also reasonable, and the 1.8-ton Zero heavy dive bomber, unless it is a Yamato-class aircraft carrier that is about to enter service, it is slightly difficult to take off and land on other relatively small aircraft carriers, and it is necessary to reduce the amount of fuel carried to ensure safety. But that's it. The combat radius has been greatly reduced. Chen thought that he might as well improve a relatively light model on this basis. The standard bomb load is 800 kg, and it can carry a 500 kg aerial bomb or a torpedo, which is more economical and convenient."

"This is my negligence, so follow your words. The carrier-based version of the Zero heavy dive bomber is only allocated to the Yamato-class giant aircraft carriers, and the other aircraft carriers will temporarily use the models we have produced before, and then gradually replace them after the Zero light aircraft (later known as the "Type 1 carrier-based bomber") begins mass production. Chongren patted his head lightly and said with a smile, and then he suddenly remembered something, "According to the report of the personnel in Germany, although the Germans won a great victory in the Danish Channel, their flagship battleship Bismarck was hit by an aviation torpedo, but fortunately it was not seriously injured. But it is worth noting that only one squadron of bombers of the British attacked three German warships, of which only 9 torpedo machines "

"It can't be!" , Yamamoto Fifty-six immediately exclaimed, and then realized that he had lost his manners, and quickly calmed down and explained, "The British torpedo planes are slower than the Imperial ones, with the anti-aircraft fire of two German battleships and a heavy cruiser, how can they have the opportunity to drop aviation torpedoes?" Could it be that the Germans were 'careless in Jingzhou'? ”

After hearing this, Chongren said noncommittally, "Maybe there are factors in this regard, but this reminds me of the examples of imperial torpedo planes during the Sino-Japanese War in the past, if I am not mistaken, only a little more than half of them were shot down by large-caliber anti-aircraft guns at a long distance at that time, and there are still many torpedo planes that successfully approached the Chinese warships, but they were basically shot down by the dense and accurate small-caliber anti-aircraft shells of the Chinese warships. Neither could be applied to small-caliber anti-aircraft guns responsible for close-range air defense. ), and not enough to completely render the torpedo machine completely useless"

"yes, why didn't I think of this before", Yamamoto Fifty-six's eyes lit up, but soon became more confused, "But, this is not logical! The torpedo aircraft are larger than the dive bomber, and the speed and agility are inferior, so how can the loss rate be smaller than that of the dive bomber? Well, it may be that the dive bombers enter the attack position from a high altitude, while the torpedo bombers approach the enemy ship from a low altitude, and the dive bombers are fast and rush into the effective range of the enemy's large-caliber anti-aircraft guns first, so they objectively attract most of the enemy's long-range anti-aircraft fire for the torpedo planes."

"Could it be that the British torpedo planes dropped torpedoes at a long distance and did not approach the enemy ships according to the traditional methods of warfare, so that the German small-caliber anti-aircraft guns did not work because of their insufficient range? Although the hit rate will be much worse in this way, it is not absolutely impossible to hit, as long as the luck is good enough or the number is large enough, in the current situation of the fleet's rapid improvement in air defense capability, this option may be better than the traditional method", Chongren proposed another possibility, and quickly added, "If the torpedo is projected outside the range of the enemy's small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, the enemy ships can only rely on large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, but our torpedo planes are located at low altitudes, very close to the sea surface, even if the sea conditions are good. The enemy's artillery sighting radar will also be greatly interfered with, and the accuracy of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns will inevitably be significantly reduced, which will undoubtedly greatly improve the survival rate of our torpedo planes when penetrating defenses. ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six nodded yes as he listened, but it didn't take long for his eyes to suddenly widen, and he began to repeat two words in his mouth, "Low-altitude penetration, it turns out that the key to dealing with radar detection is low-altitude penetration!" No, to be more precise, it should be ultra-low-altitude penetration! ”

Chongren's eyes also lit up when he heard this, he naturally knew the influence of the earth's surface on the radar's detection distance, "Yes, if you penetrate at ultra-low altitude, on the one hand, there is the influence of the earth's surface, and on the other hand, it will be affected by clash on the surface or sea surface (in fact, there is also a terrain multipath effect, but this phenomenon should not have been discovered during World War II, and it should also be regarded as the influence of clutter.) If the flight altitude is less than 100 meters, the detection distance of the shipborne long-range search radar is only a fraction of that of a high-altitude target, and the large-caliber anti-aircraft gun is not easy to hit the target flying at ultra-low altitude in the sea, and the necessary deceleration before the torpedo machine drops the torpedo is basically a direct aim (because the distance is short, the advance is small. ) will increase the hit rate of small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, but large-caliber anti-aircraft guns will be more difficult to aim accurately" (to be continued......