Six Hundred and Forty-Two Successful Landing

"This is not the style of the Japanese! I think it should be a good thing done by the small German fleet in Australia!" Nimitz stared at the report in his hand, and complained to General Spruance beside him: "Destroy the transport The method of threading is very similar to the wolves in the Atlantic, I bet it must be done by Dönitz's men!"

Spruance had already read the report, and he sighed helplessly before he said: "People from the Foreign Ministry said that German diplomats flatly denied that their submarines attacked American transport ships in the Pacific Ocean, and asked us to take Show evidence before speaking."

"Evidence? I have sunk 150,000 tons of transport ships and fishing boats in the past ten days! What more evidence is needed? The merchant ships we lost in the past ten days are the tonnage of all supply ships lost since the war with Japan Sum! If the Japanese have this ability, why didn’t they show it before?” Rao Nimitz, who is more self-cultivated, couldn’t help cursing after seeing the purely official standard speech of the German diplomat—it seems that the diplomat also It is not a job that everyone can do, at least if a soldier speaks nonsense in front of him, he can greet him with a fist, but a diplomat cannot.

General Spruance pointed to the chart and said to Nimitz: "Let's study how to deal with the Japanese soldiers on Kauai Island. According to the report from the speedboat on Kauai, the other party is replenishing supplies on the island through submarines. See Our plan to trap each other to death is a bit taken for granted."

"The combined Japanese fleet has now returned to the mainland to rest. The source of this information is still very reliable, so I decided to let the fleet go south to attack the Japanese maritime supply line near Darwin port!" Nimitz stopped the meaningless abuse, Said to General Spruance: "Anyway, it is impossible for the Japanese fleet to fly back to the waters near Oahu Island. We have a huge time difference to use!"

"You mean, let the entire fleet go south?" Spruance asked, frowning. He was worried that his fleet would be blocked by the Japanese in Southeast Asia, where there are many islands, and he would be forced to engage in a decisive battle with no chance of winning. . If the Japanese navy succeeds, the U.S. Pacific Fleet will be wiped out again. Even if the U.S. has the most powerful industrial productivity in the world, it cannot withstand such large-scale consumption.

Moreover, the U.S. fleet went south, almost a month later than the Japanese fleet left. After a while, the Japanese fleet has recovered and can continue to fight. If the U.S. fleet raids Darwin Port for a long distance, the exhausted one will become the U.S. fleet , the situation will once again be unfavorable for the US Navy. So Spruance spoke again: "General, our fleet has never rested. Under such circumstances... a hasty attack, isn't it safe?"

Nimitz nodded, and then expressed his thoughts: "Hawaii's military port has been almost demolished by us, and most of the remaining fuel has been consumed. Now we will lead the fleet to the south for a sneak attack to take advantage of it." Then retreat and leave the Hawaiian Islands to the Japanese!"

The fundamental core of this plan is to exchange land for the opponent's elite troops,

Relying on the advantage of strategic space to annihilate the opponent's vital forces as much as possible, consume Japan's war potential, and make a big gamble to win the maritime initiative faster.

"I took the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and USS Raider to the south, and you, USS Yorktown and the fleet stayed at Pearl Harbor... Is this safer?" Spruance's suggestion was better than Nimitz's. It is better, after all, the loss of Pearl Harbor has a great impact on the United States, and it will definitely not be easy for the United States to counterattack without Pearl Harbor in the future.

"Are you sure, come back before that guy Yamamoto comes back?" Nimitz looked at his old friend, the leader of the commanders of the US aircraft carrier fleet, General Spruance, if Patton is the best fighter If he is a general of the US Army, then Spruance may be the most powerful general in the US Navy.

"When the Germans dealt with the Royal Navy of the British Empire, they set a good example for us. They proved that relying solely on aircraft carriers can gain an advantage in naval battles!" The commander of the aircraft carrier fleet, who once specialized in the rise of the German Navy, can be said to be the American who knows the history of the German Navy best in recent years.

When he saw the German navy cleverly using radar and aircraft carriers to form a technological advantage, dealing with the British Royal Navy in the narrow North Sea, and winning a decisive victory, he seemed to see a ray of dawn, a ray of light shining on the U.S. Navy fleet The dawn of future development just shot into his mind.

Germany's radar advantage, now the U.S. Navy also has the Japanese Navy! The US aircraft carrier can definitely rely on the aircraft carrier fleet to deal with the Japanese battleships in the wider Pacific Ocean! Spruance decided not to let Lütjens specialize in the front, and he was determined to become the world's leading aircraft carrier command expert.

"I think it is possible! General. The German Navy has had examples of such battle victories before. I have carefully studied the methods they used in battle. It is simple to attack during the day and retreat at night. As long as you strictly avoid the risk of aircraft carrier night battles, you can win Victory in the naval battle!" Spruance finally said firmly to Nimitz.

"The aircraft carrier...is really a useful weapon. But why? Is it true that the aircraft carrier cannot conduct night battles?" Nimitz looked up regretfully and asked General Spruance beside him.

"Is it true that aircraft carriers can't fight at night?" On the other side of the world, Lütjens, who can be said to be the world's number one aircraft carrier command expert, is asking the same question, and a German naval technical expert beside him is Looking anxiously at the flight deck outside the bridge.

How to make the aircraft take off from the aircraft carrier is a question worth thinking about. If this short board can be connected to allow the aircraft carrier to fight at night, then this weapon is the well-deserved king of naval warfare, and no ship can shake it. Its dominance. On that day, the shitty battleship will be kicked out of the stage of history and become a souvenir docked in the port!

Numerous methods have been developed, such as erecting tall poles around the deck of the aircraft carrier, and then installing lighting equipment on the top of the poles to illuminate the entire deck of the aircraft carrier to provide a safe environment for takeoff and landing-but in the dark night With such a bright light, there is definitely a possibility of being discovered by the opponent and used as a target. It is not a good way to hurt yourself before hurting the enemy.

However, another good solution was thought up by the head of state, Akado. In other words, Akado drew on the technological crystallization of his previous life on the American aircraft carrier, and easily thought of a simple way for the plane to take off and land safely at night. As long as a set of lights of different colors is installed somewhere at the end of the deck of the aircraft carrier, the aircraft can be safely landed on the dark deck.

The principle is actually to simply rely on blocking light to allow pilots to obtain reference information, but many times people have to struggle with such a simple problem for more than ten years without enlightenment. On the new German aircraft carrier Prussia, this kind of light set is installed, and it is undergoing night landing experiments of carrier-based aircraft.

According to the time when this aircraft carrier was equipped with night takeoff and landing equipment, in fact, the Germans have already experimented with the problem of night fighter takeoff and landing, but this time the fighter jets in the experiment are somewhat different. It can be said that the German Navy and even the whole of Germany The new weapons that the Air Force keeps strictly secret.

The reason why the German Navy has not opened the prelude to the night battle of the aircraft carrier is that although taking off and landing aircraft at night is a technical problem, what is even more troublesome is how to make the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier find what they need to attack on the dark sea. The goal.

Now, this technology has been solved by German scientific and technological personnel. After unremitting efforts, they have finally made advanced equipment such as radar into a size that can be stuffed into an aircraft. After such a long period of evolution, the size of the German radar can be packed into a twin-engine aircraft, giving the aircraft the ability to find targets at night.

Therefore, there is this sea experiment that has attracted the attention of the navy and air force today, and this dialogue between Lütjens and the technicians around him. As long as this experiment can be successful, the German Navy will have an aircraft that can perform sea strike missions at night, and the aircraft carrier fleet can truly carry out night attack operations at sea!

In order to take off and land on the aircraft carrier, Germany redesigned a twin-engine aircraft, which is much smaller than the normal twin-engine bomber, and the wings can be folded. Sometimes it is used as an early warning aircraft and a reconnaissance aircraft. The most important thing is that it can carry torpedoes and bombs to attack enemy warships.

In order to cooperate with this new type of aircraft with radar, 10 FW-190 naval fighters were even cut down on the Prussia aircraft carrier, and 7 of this new type of owl multi-purpose aircraft were equipped with space. At the same time, this aircraft will produce two models in the future, including the Air Force's night interceptor Owl A, and the Navy's night multipurpose aircraft Owl B.

"Nighthawk 1, the radar shows that you are approaching the aircraft carrier, you are approaching the position of the aircraft carrier! Confirm the angle of the light, confirm the angle of the light!" The air traffic controller on the side is holding the walkie-talkie and confirming the position of the aircraft over and over again. This is the first time in human history Take off and land night-only fighter jets on an aircraft carrier at one time.

"I'm Nighthawk 1! I'm Nighthawk 1!" The pilot's voice came clearly: "I see the landing light is on! I'm adjusting the angle! I'm adjusting the angle!"

Soon, a black shadow rushed from the sky onto the runway of the aircraft carrier, and the German Navy's night fighter landing experiment was a complete success!