Chapter 964 Aircraft Carrier Enterprise (Plus 2)
The aircraft carrier Enterprise, riding the wind and waves, sailed at sea.
This warship is quite glorious. Historically, in the glorious life of the Enterprise, it sailed a total of 442,475 kilometers, sank 71 enemy ships, damaged 192 ships, and shot down 911 enemy aircraft. No warship in the US Navy can In contrast, the Enterprise symbolizes the fighting spirit of the U.S. Navy.
At the same time, this warship was only commissioned in 38 years. It is a relatively new aircraft carrier. Due to the deterioration of the situation in the Western Pacific, it was deployed to the Pacific at the end of last year.
And now, the mission the Enterprise is carrying out has left the sailors with little passion.
Due to the deterioration of the situation in the Pacific and the possibility of conflict with the island countries, the Enterprise began to travel between Pearl Harbor and the West Coast of the United States in accordance with the order of President Roosevelt, transporting Army Air Corps P-39 "Flying Snake" fighter jets and P -40 "Tomahawk" fighter jets, as well as a large number of troops and ammunition.
In other words, the famous aircraft carrier of the US Navy was actually used to perform the mission of the jeep at sea!
In the process of returning to the United States, the deck was still empty, and when it came back, the entire deck of the aircraft carrier would be densely covered with fighter jets.
Regardless of the take-off and landing of the aircraft on the aircraft carrier, hundreds of fighters can be loaded on the flight deck alone. It can be said that the aircraft carrier is really suitable for transport aircraft.
However, no one likes that it is obviously a combat ship, but it is used to carry out such transportation tasks!
On the bridge, Captain Charles-A-Bonnard, the captain, also carried a doubt.
According to the plan, they will finish Sunday and will not set sail until next week, after all, the journey at sea is too boring.
However, now, they have set off a few days in advance, so this weekend can only be spent at sea, there is no beach, no beautiful women, only the endless sea.
The sky was fine, and it was a good weather for sailing.
"Would you like a juice?" behind him, Chief Mate Thomas Hamilton asked.
In his hand, he held two glasses of juice.
Charles took the juice and just put it to his mouth when he heard a sharp alarm sound.
"What's going on?" He was splashed with juice on his face and shouted loudly, followed by someone hurried over to report: "Dive bomber, our lookout post, found a dive bomber in the sky!"
Dive bombers? When hearing this news, instinctively, Charles wanted to say, today is not April Fool's Day!
However, when he looked up and looked out the bridge window, he saw a bomber with inverted seagull wings, diving towards his warship.
"Damn it, it's Stuka!" cried Charles, "the Germans are at war with us!"
In the consciousness of the U.S. Navy, Germany is their worst enemy. Some time ago, they were still searching for traces of German submarines on the sea. Now, after visually identifying the model, Charles made a judgment, although in this At that time, there were still countless doubts in his mind.
It's not the Junkers-290 that came, but the Stuka. This kind of aircraft has an extremely limited range. How did it fly here? Could it be that the German aircraft carrier came over?
how can that be! The German aircraft carrier, which circled most of the world, came to the Pacific Ocean? If they dare to come, they will never go back!
However, he had no time to think about these, and the well-trained crew played a decisive role at this time.
In this era, battleships with huge caliber cannons have always been the mainstream of the navy. Compared with glamorous battleships, aircraft carriers are like poor street beggars. In their eyes, an aircraft carrier is a "big bathtub with a barn door." The carrier officer is the "brown boot navy", and the ordinary sailor is called the "flat-top sailor".
However, the sailors on the Enterprise, under Charles, are strict with themselves, and their training is the most assiduous. At this time, their training has played a role.
The lookout was loyal to his duty. When he saw Stuka swooping down from the clouds, he immediately sounded the alarm. After the whole ship sounded the air defense alarm, the anti-aircraft gunner quickly ran to his gun position.
Enterprise's main anti-aircraft weapons were 1.1-inch caliber anti-aircraft guns and 5-inch/38 caliber anti-aircraft guns, which fired within tens of seconds.
"Boom, boom, boom!" The anti-aircraft guns shot their own shells toward the sky. Although this anti-aircraft gun has a long range, the rate of fire is too slow. In the eyes of the pilots in the sky, there is not much threaten.
And those Browning M2 .50 caliber heavy machine guns, although the firepower is sufficient, the power is too small, at most can drill a few small holes in the skin of the aircraft.
Saburo Kondo pushed the joystick. He felt his bomber tremble more and more during the dive. He glanced at the speedometer from the corner of his eye. At this time, the dive speed had exceeded 500 kilometers per hour, almost 500 kilometers per hour. It's on the verge of getting out of control.
Fix the whistle on the landing gear and let out a whistle, and in the whistling, the target is getting bigger and bigger!
Kondo Saburo is not aiming at the middle section of the opponent, but the rear section of the aircraft carrier, where the power compartment is located. Now, he is not sure how powerful the bomb he is carrying, and must attack in the most conservative way.
"Boom!" A cannonball flew by almost right next to his plane. He didn't care at all, and continued to dive, dive. As a soldier of the island country, at this moment, he was not afraid of death at all, he was only thinking about his own Target!
Countless anti-aircraft guns were shooting at him, his fuselage continued to tremble, and a dozen small holes appeared in the wings, which were the firepower of the opponent's anti-aircraft machine guns.
If it is a Zero fighter without any protection, even if it is hit by a 0.50 anti-aircraft machine gun bullet, it may be ignited, but a sturdy dive bomber like Stuka has no effect at all.
bomb! Kondo Saburo pressed the button, and the height at this time was only 500 meters. As he dropped the bomb, he felt the belly of the aircraft tremble, and the entire Stuka lightened.
Then, a fiery flame came into his eyes.
PC1000RS, this number is complicated, PC stands for anti-armor projectile, the wall of the projectile is quite thick, and the projectile material is high-quality steel. The RS in the back means rocket booster, and the rocket booster is installed on the extended tail part, which is only used during dive bombing.
Now, after the bomb is dropped, the rocket booster fires correctly, pushing the warhead even further! Speed is energy!