Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

The German fleet retreated at full speed, but no matter how fast the surface ships were, they could not outpace the planes in the sky.

Colonel Bergmann ordered all capable fighter jets on the two aircraft carriers to take off to meet the enemy, and the fleet prepared for air defense operations.

100 carrier-based fighter jets took off one after another, forming a huge combat formation to intercept the enemy aircraft group. But when they came into contact with the opponent's fleet 200 kilometers away from the fleet, they couldn't help but be stunned. These fleets of aircraft that appeared menacingly on the radar were all old-fashioned fighters that had fallen behind and had no combat effectiveness at all. There were also many biplanes among them. It's just that each of these fighter planes is dragging strange aircraft models, some are dragging two or three, and some are even dragging six or seven, as if they are flying kites.

"What?!" Colonel Bergman was shocked when he received the report, and an ominous premonition emerged deep in his heart. "Radar man, what's unusual in other directions?!" He instantly figured out the Americans' trick. These "aircraft models" must be made of metal such as aluminum or tin. They are both lightweight and can reflect a large amount of radar beams, allowing them to The miscalculation resulted in a fleet of hundreds of aircraft. "These cunning Americans are actually playing such a trick!" Of course, no one stipulates that all kinds of conspiracies cannot be used in war. After all, this is not a fair showdown between medieval knights.

"Report, the radar found no abnormalities." After a moment of hesitation, the radar operator added. "Commander, the radar has a blind spot."

Radar is famous for its "clairvoyance". Unfortunately, this "clairvoyance" also has some "invisible" aspects. For example, an aircraft flying at an altitude of 12,000 meters is 400 kilometers away from the radar, and the radar has already seen it. However, when the same aircraft dropped to a flying altitude of 200 meters and was 50 kilometers away from the radar, the radar could not detect it. If the flight altitude is only a few dozen meters, the radar will be even less able to see it. Even if it is very close, the radar soldier can even see the aircraft with the naked eye and hear the roar of the aircraft with his ears, but the radar can see nothing.

One reason for the low-altitude blind zone is that the earth's surface is spherical. The farther away it is, the more downward it curves, creating an unavoidable arc. The electromagnetic wave forms a tangent line with the earth's surface. Below the tangent line becomes the blind spot of the radar, and nothing can be seen. Another very important reason is that the ground or sea reflects electromagnetic waves. When the electromagnetic waves emitted by the radar reach the ground or sea surface, they will reflect the radio waves back. When the reflected electromagnetic waves and the electromagnetic waves projected to the ground (sea) surface come together, they will cancel each other out, causing the ground (sea) surface to There are basically no electromagnetic waves within a certain range, or only very weak electromagnetic waves. Therefore, in this ultra-low altitude range, a radar blind spot is formed. Aircrafts that use this blind spot to fly at ultra-low altitudes will naturally be invisible to radar.

Although early warning aircraft were invented in later generations, a complete set of detection systems were placed on the aircraft to search for various air, sea or land targets from the air based on the flight altitude, providing better early warning and search effects, but now there is no such High-end gadgets.

Colonel Bergmann asked hastily. "What about our patrol plane?!"

"The patrol planes No. 11, 15, and 16 are returning. Because the fighter jets took off first, the patrol planes that replaced them failed to take off in time."

"!!" Colonel Bergman was really anxious now. "Leave ten fighter planes to destroy those damn decoys, and the rest of the fighter planes will return immediately! Let all attack aircraft take off and prepare for air defense operations!!"

In addition to 100 fighter jets, the two aircraft carriers also have more than 70 A-1 attack aircraft. Although they are attack aircraft, they are equipped with four 20mm cannons, and their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated. In the Vietnam War in the original time and space (the A-1 had a very long and successful service career, serving from the late 1940s to the early 1980s), two A-1 attack aircraft of the US military worked together to shoot down a Vietnamese MiG-17 fighter jets (many people think that the MiG-17 fighter jet is just a simple improvement on the MiG-15 fighter jet. In fact, it is almost a completely new design that integrates aerodynamics and other improvements). Throughout the Vietnam War, the CCP There were two battles in which A-1 attack aircraft shot down MiG fighters. A propeller attack aircraft shot down a jet fighter, which shows its powerful combat effectiveness. Moreover, these attack aircraft pilots have also received combat training on daily basis.

Just as A-1 attack planes were taking off one after another, news came from the outer destroyers that the fleet discovered a large number of aircraft groups at nine o'clock.

"Damn it!!" Now that we have discovered it visually, it can be said that we are close at hand!

"Ready to fight!!"

As the black U.S. military aircraft fleet approached, hundreds of large- and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns in the fleet sprayed rain of bullets into the sky like crazy. Various large and small artillery shells continued to explode in the U.S. military aircraft fleet. The whole sky is like a basin of boiling water with foam. The A-1 attack aircraft that took off also flew beyond the range of the fleet's anti-aircraft guns to intercept those endless enemy aircraft.

One after another, US military fighter planes were hit by anti-aircraft artillery, caught fire, and crashed.

Colonel Bergman's frown never relaxed, because the Americans sent too many fighter planes. Moreover, these US military pilots did not seem to be afraid of death at all. Regardless of their own dense anti-aircraft artillery firepower network, they risked their lives one after another, just like moths flying into a flame.

boom! !

Suddenly, an outer destroyer was hit by an aerial bomb, bursting into flames; then another destroyer was hit by a torpedo.

There were inevitable loopholes in the fleet's air defense firepower. U.S. fighter planes seized the opportunity and raided toward the center of the fleet.

The "Warrior" anti-aircraft battleship has full firepower, including 11 twin-mounted 128mm anti-aircraft guns, 12 single 128mm anti-aircraft guns; 24 twin-mounted 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns; and 50 20mm anti-aircraft guns desperately attacking US fighter planes. Downpour of shells.

It's a pity that two fists can't beat four hands. Such abnormal firepower is somewhat powerless in the face of the swarm of enemy planes.

Dive bombers and torpedo planes dropped dozens of bombs and torpedoes.

However, the German fleet was sailing at high speed, making tactical evasions from time to time, and avoided most of the bombs and torpedoes.

But it was only "most". A bomb dropped from the sky and hit the flight deck of an aircraft carrier at an almost vertical angle. It easily penetrated the not-thick deck and penetrated into the hangar below. It exploded, and the entire hangar was immediately in a mess, and a raging fire broke out at the same time.

Fortunately, all the fighter jets and attack aircraft originally carried on the aircraft carrier had already taken off, and no major losses were caused. The damage control team on the aircraft carrier put out the fire in the hangar without much effort.