Chapter 2753: Fighting Shen 1
In fact, in the historical World War II, most of the sinking of US fleet aircraft carriers was due to torpedo aircraft. The 250KG bombs dropped by Japanese dive bombers were too weak. Thinking about what was repaired within a week after Yorktown returned home, to put it bluntly, the blood of the Japanese dive bomber pilots in the first year was in vain! If there were to be aircraft capable of carrying 500KG level bombs for dive bombing, and if they were used in large numbers, the U.S. Navy would pay a greater price.
After the performance of the first wave of bombers could be described as clumsy, the torpedo planes in the fleet attacked again under the cover of fighters, while the remaining bombers carried bombs to attack seaplanes and destroyers. At this time, perhaps because the remaining power has been exhausted, perhaps because the previous attack by the dive bomber has overdrawn the Constellation's luck. In the next battle, the survival time of the Constellation can only be calculated in minutes and seconds!
Compared with dive bombers, torpedo planes are easier targets to deal with, because the latter are slow, low altitude, and can hardly dodge effectively. Especially before throwing torpedoes, the aircraft must fly at a fixed altitude and speed, otherwise, the torpedo may fail due to impact... The Japanese know this, and so do the Americans, so when anti-torpedo aircraft are used, special parameters are set for anti-aircraft artillery, specifically targeting your speed and altitude range... Therefore, under normal circumstances, whether the torpedo aircraft attacks successfully or not, the price paid is very huge. (You can refer to the three American torpedo plane squadrons that were almost wiped out in the Battle of Midway.)
Therefore, in order to reduce the casualties of torpedo planes and improve the effect of lightning strikes, the Japanese also decisively used fighter jets to provide fire cover. Before the torpedo planes entered the attack channel, at least 20 fighter jets surrounded the huge aircraft carrier like piranhas and attacked. The large-caliber machine guns fired wildly at the U.S. aircraft carrier's surface anti-aircraft fire.
I have to give a thumbs up to the design of the US Navy's aircraft carrier. The new US aircraft carrier pays great attention to anti-aircraft firepower when designing it. Because of the special nature of the aircraft carrier, you cannot arrange a lot of anti-aircraft guns on the deck. For this problem , the Americans solved it like this. There is actually a certain gap between the top floor of the hangar and the deck. There is a deck that is not continuous. This deck is lower than the flight deck and higher than the hangar deck. It is specially designed by the Americans. The anti-aircraft gun deck used to place anti-aircraft guns is called the anti-aircraft gun deck. It is on the anti-aircraft gun deck of the Constellation. On this deck, the Americans deployed more than 70 rapid-fire guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of various calibers. And these weapons did bring a lot of trouble to the Japanese fighter jets that broke through!
"The American air defense firepower is very powerful. Although it was mentioned in the mission briefing before that our land-based bomber force paid a heavy price when it attacked the American fleet air defense, but only by experiencing it can you know this. How dangerous it is to attack in just a few minutes." A Japanese pilot commented on the US military's anti-aircraft firepower after the war.
Accompanied by the roar of machine guns and rapid-fire cannons, dozens of anti-aircraft guns sprayed more than 4,000 rounds of various ammunition into the sky per minute, madly driving away the Japanese attack aircraft. The first thing the Americans faced was the Japanese fighter jets. , these flexible little guys are equipped with 3 machine guns, two 13.4MM large-caliber machine guns and a 6.5MM machine gun. The Japanese fighter jets and the artillery on the anti-aircraft gun deck launched a crazy exchange of fire!
Thousands of bullets were flying in the air. The fire snake composed of tracer bullets twisted its deadly body in the air. The fan-shaped anti-aircraft firepower fired by the US fleet formed a dense fire net on both floors of the battleship. Especially after approaching within 3000 meters, a large number of twin 40MM mechanisms The crazy firepower of the cannon and the 4-link 28MM machine gun made the Japanese feel quite troublesome. In less than 2 minutes of exchange of fire between the two sides, three Japanese fighter jets were shot down one after another. Some of them were torn to pieces by shells fired from multiple directions.
Some also fell into the sea because the engine was damaged or partially damaged.
However, nearly a hundred Japanese machine guns also wreaked havoc on the American anti-aircraft gun deck. The dense bullets shattered the simple steel plate on the front of the anti-aircraft gun, or directly penetrated through the gaps in the defense, and then easily penetrated the crowd. Sweep out an alley of flesh and blood.
After the two sides exchanged fire for more than 20 minutes, the Americans' defensive strength was significantly reduced. On the one hand, it was due to the casualties, and more importantly, the ammunition attack could not keep up. There was still a long way from the lifting shaft of the ammunition depot to the gun emplacement. A certain distance, and this distance requires people to transport it. With the casualties of a large number of auxiliary personnel, the supply of ammunition for the forward anti-aircraft guns will naturally decrease, and after all, people know how to be afraid. When looking at the people next to them for a few minutes He was alive and well before, but turned into pieces of meat smelling of blood in an instant. The shock of death was more powerful than any stimulation! Looking at the dead comrades beside him, watching countless bullets flying in the distance, and listening to the roar of guns in his ears like the call of death. Many people collapsed!
The so-called long-term defense is better than losing. This statement is very reasonable. Later, the Japanese bomber force also joined the battle again. The fighter jets were responsible for suppressing it, and then the bombers dropped a large number of small bombs on the Constellation. If the Americans are high If the bulletproof steel plate in front of the gun can barely withstand the bullets of a large-caliber machine gun, then when those bombs weighing 50KG or 100KG fall on the deck, the flying shrapnel will be a complete disaster for the anti-aircraft gun operators!
In the following period, the bombers that participated in the attack again dropped more than 20 rounds of various small bombs, and these bombs emptied the anti-aircraft gun deck on one side! More than half of the anti-aircraft firepower on the other side was also cleared. The billowing smoke covered the anti-aircraft gun that was blown into a ball of scrap metal and blood on the ground. The Americans' water hoses tried to extinguish the fire on the platform. However, just when the Constellation was busy for a while, the real killer appeared. 20 torpedo planes were divided into five groups and launched lightning strikes from both sides of the Constellation at the same time.
With one of the escorting destroyers already dead and one injured, and with the Constellation's anti-aircraft firepower reduced to less than 30% of its original strength, the Japanese seemed to take their time with their lightning strikes. Some Japanese torpedo planes even came close to a distance of about 500 meters before releasing them. torpedo! When the plane pulled up, it almost collided with the bridge of a US aircraft carrier! And the effect of dense lightning strikes at such a close range is naturally very good.
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