Chapter 117
The Navy Air Force dispatched a total of 300 peacekeeping bombers this time, divided into 5 attack waves.
Each attack wave consists of two squadrons.
Each wave is divided into two squadrons, launching attacks from two directions.
The bombers in the first two attack waves carry Firefish acoustic self-guided air torpedoes.
The bombers in the last three attack waves carry Fritz X-ship missiles for precise targeting.
At the same time, the submarine force also dispatched 32 Akula submarines to participate in this operation.
It's not that they don't want to mobilize more, but there is no need.
If the density of submarines is too high, it will be detrimental to the operation.
"Buzz......."
At an altitude of 8,000 meters, 30 peacekeeping bombers were flying in a dispersed formation.
On the navigator, the captain who was also the captain was staring at the oscilloscope in front of him.
The peacekeeping bomber is equipped with a sea detection radar.
Not only can it know the location of ships on the sea, but it can also be used for distance measurement.
The principle is also very simple.
The distance between the two sides can be known by the time difference between two pulse scans.
But in this case, the error will be relatively large, and the time error of a few microseconds will reach several kilometers.
Therefore, a new radar ranging device was installed.
It is no longer an analog conversion method, but a frequency counting method is used to judge the distance.
In this way, the error can be reduced to less than 10 meters.
This error is still very critical for bombers.
"Captain, the Japanese fleet is clustered, the short distance is 45 kilometers, the long distance is 67 kilometers, the total number is...56 ships."
The destroyers and cruisers of the Japanese Combined Fleet built an anti-submarine air defense circle with a diameter of 22 kilometers with the main battleship group as the core.
"Find the location of the enemy battleship"
"Report, we have found it, a strong reflective source at a distance of 53.4 miles"
"Keep staring at each other"
"Yes!"
The range of the Firefish air-guided torpedo is 20 kilometers. If it is thrown at an altitude of 8,000 meters, the maximum range can reach 25 kilometers.
If the bomb rack of each peacekeeping bomber is modified, each can carry 4.
If the combat radius exceeds 1,000 kilometers, then only two can be carried.
This time it is within 1,000 kilometers, so all bombers are fully loaded.
The peacekeeping bomber flies at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour. Twenty or thirty kilometers only takes less than ten minutes.
"Report to the captain, we are still 20 kilometers away from the Japanese battleship group."
"Report to the captain, the Japanese outer ships have discovered us."
The captain's eyes condensed, and he said:"Order all fighters to drop torpedoes at once according to the coordinates provided by the pilot."
The pilot aircraft began to drop bombs first.
As the door of the magazine opened, one after another Firefish aviation-guided torpedoes fell.
At an altitude of more than 7,000 meters, the installed solid rocket booster began to start.
It immediately spewed out orange-red flames.
It pushed this heavy aviation torpedo weighing 3 tons to fly at a speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour.
The solid rocket engine works for a very short time, only about ten seconds.
Then it separated from the torpedo and fell into the sea.
The powerful thrust gives the torpedo powerful energy.
Let it continue in the air Continue to glide at high speed.
The inertial device is also constantly correcting the flight direction of the torpedo.
The Japanese destroyers on the periphery saw black shadows passing over their heads.
Their eyes were full of confusion.
Then came panic.
Although they didn't know what this thing was, it was definitely not a good thing.
Then these ships reported the news to the flagship battleship Nagato.
At this time, Admiral Kobayashi Ichizo and a group of fleet commanders on the Nagato came to the outside of the command tower and looked up at the sky.
At the same time, they ordered the battleship to speed up and be able to perform high-speed maneuvers to evade at any time.
"Boom boom boom......"
The destroyers and cruisers in front that had already reacted kept firing at the black shadows passing through the sky.
The Type 96 anti-aircraft guns kept spitting out shells.
Black mist exploded in the sky.
But they were helpless in the face of aerial torpedoes that flew at speeds of over 800 kilometers per hour.
They could only watch these black shadows break through their air defense circle and fly in the direction of the battleships.
Now even a fool knows that this unknown mysterious weapon is aimed at the battleships.
The two Japanese aircraft carriers, the Hosho and the Kaga, have begun to prepare to launch fighter planes to intercept these unknown black shadows.
But all this was of no avail.
The speed of the aerial torpedoes was getting faster and faster, and the altitude was getting lower and lower.
At this time, the battleship Haruna in front could already clearly see these black shadows.
"Torpedoes? Aerial torpedoes?"
After the captain saw these things clearly, his eyes widened with disbelief.
He knew about aerial torpedoes, but could a torpedo fly so fast? And fly so far?
Soon he saw a scene that shocked him even more.
When more than a dozen aerial torpedoes were two or three kilometers away from them, a parachute suddenly released from the tail.
The speed of the torpedo dropped sharply under the effect of the parachute.
Then it fell directly into the water.
The parachute also fell off before entering the water.
The Firefish aerial guided torpedo successfully entered the water.
The rest of the aerial torpedoes also plopped into the surrounding sea.
Then the engine at the tail started working.
As an electric torpedo, although the speed is not fast, However, due to the lack of tracks, they are difficult to be found.
Moreover, they are passive acoustic homing torpedoes equipped with guidance devices.
The battleship Haruna is closest to the first batch of torpedoes that entered the water.
It is only two or three kilometers away.
As the acoustic homing device was activated.
The huge noise of the battleship Haruna was captured by the torpedo acoustic homing device.
It turned a corner and headed straight for the Haruna.
At this time, the speed of the torpedo was also increased to 40 knots per hour.
This scene made the Japanese soldiers on the Haruna scared.
One by one, the soldiers leaned out of the deck railing, staring at the sea below with dead fish eyes. (To read the exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)
They wanted to find these torpedoes that suddenly flew over.
""Right rudder to evade."
The captain of the battleship Haruna shouted frantically.
This huge battleship was like a flexible fat man, drawing an arc-shaped wake on the sea.
The hull tilted to the starboard side, and no one could stand firm in this high-maneuver turn.[]
If the wind and waves are strong, this behavior is likely to cause a capsizing.
At this time, the captain can only pray that these torpedoes will not hit them.
He saw that many torpedoes entered the water at wrong angles.
Only a few torpedoes were heading straight towards them.
They should be able to avoid them.
However, what happened next made him envious and desperate.
The stern with the loudest noise attracted the most torpedoes.
These torpedoes plunged into the underwater part of the tail compartment.
"boom.....boom.....boom......"
Suddenly, a huge explosion swept the tail of the Haruna battleship.
In the violent explosion, even the tail was lifted several meters high.
Even a huge tail propeller flew out directly in the explosion.
Then several torpedoes hit the Haruna, which was still exploding.
Explosions came from the bottom of the ship one after another.
Even the Haruna battleship with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons could not hold on.
15 torpedoes, a total of 14 hit.
One of them passed through the bottom of the ship because it was lifted out of the water by the explosion.
The torpedo did not stop, but continued to sail.
With a speed of more than 10 kilometers, it can continue to look for the next target.
This is also the reason why this torpedo is designed with such a high range.
If you miss the first target, you can continue to look for the next target.
At this moment, the bottom of the Haruna battleship has been blown up.
The engine room, boiler room and other bottom compartments have been severely damaged. With a large amount of seawater pouring in, there is no possibility of rescue.
You must know that this is a torpedo weighing 3 tons.
Even the Yamato battleship would have to kneel down after being hit by ten torpedoes, let alone it.
The first wave of 120 Firefish aviation-guided torpedoes sprinkled all over the sky.
They began to run around in the fleet.
As long as they found the source of the noise, they would rush over directly.
And it was still uncontrollable.
If there were too many targets, it was impossible to specify an attack on a certain target.
This is why the Fritz X-ship missile was needed to accurately make up the knife.
These 120 torpedoes running around were quite fatal to the main fleet of the Japanese army. The second Japanese aircraft carrier to suffer was the Fengxiang aircraft carrier. This aircraft carrier, which was launched in 1921, was also the first aircraft carrier of Japan.
The full load displacement was only over 10,000 tons, and it could carry a total of 15 fighter planes.
Because it was also in the front of the periphery of the main fleet.
It was directly locked by more than 20 torpedoes.
When these torpedoes came all at once.
The entire aircraft carrier experienced a series of extremely violent explosions.
In less than two minutes, the keel of this 10,000-ton aircraft carrier was directly broken by the continuous and violent explosions.
It broke into two pieces on the sea surface, and sank into the water one step ahead of the Haruna battleship.
This is also the defect of the current self-guided torpedo.
It cannot allocate targets autonomously.
Whoever is found will be unlucky.
These scenes frightened all the Japanese troops.
Now this sea area is full of torpedoes.
And they are electric torpedoes that are hard to find.
So a surprising scene happened (Wang Qian Zhao).
A sailor stood on both sides of the ship's side deck, sticking his head out to search for traces of torpedoes.
Two more explosions came one after another.
It was the last surviving battleship of the Kongo-class battleship, the Kirishima, and the first ship of the Ise-class battleship, the Ise battleship.
These battleships are also in the front position.
So they also attracted a lot of firepower.
A total of more than 40 torpedoes rushed towards them one after another.
These torpedoes are like a crazy pack of wolfhounds, biting whoever they catch.
And the hit rate of these torpedoes is extremely high.
Before there is a way to interfere with it, the hit rate is as high as 99%.
And there is only one way to deal with this kind of torpedo.
That is to use noise-emitting devices to lure away torpedoes.
For example, let the warship tow a device that can produce huge noise to make the torpedo deviate from its course.
This is also the fatal flaw of this kind of acoustic self-guided torpedo, which is easy to crack.
Obviously, the current Japanese army does not have it.
These scurrying torpedoes also posed a fatal threat to the main fleet of the Combined Fleet. In less than a minute, the battleships Kirishima and Ise exploded continuously and intensively.
Although these battleships have heavy armor and watertight compartments.
But they can't withstand the continuous explosion of a dozen torpedoes.
The bottom of the ship was blown to pieces, how could it escape the fate of sinking.
Admiral Kobayashi Ichizo was sweating profusely at this moment, and his heart was filled with infinite panic.