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Chapter 2159 The air battle lasted only 3 minutes
Nyasaland University's deciphering of the German code was a great success, so Feng Fu can be sure that Italy will not take the initiative to launch a large-scale offensive in North Africa before occupying Greece.

Italy has been preparing for war against Greece for a year and a half. In order to occupy Greece, Italy did not even participate in Operation Sickle, and an attack on Greece is imminent.

The fat and bald head doesn't seem to know what a long way to go.

If Italy attacked Greece after the annexation of Algeria, or at the same time as Operation Sickle began, then the outcome is really hard to say.

Now that southern Africa has joined the war, and Britain has withdrawn from France, it is capable of providing more support to Greece. It is not a good choice for Italy to attack Greece at this time.

But there is no other better choice for a fat and bald head.

At the level of the head of state, no one wants to be inferior to others.

Rock was unwilling to submit to the British Empire, so Southern Africa broke away from the Commonwealth and became an independent country.

The mustache was unwilling to succumb to the "Contract of Versailles", so Germany made every effort to return to Germany's due international status.

The fat and bald head is also unwilling to succumb to the moustache. The Germans are killing all directions, and Italy has to show up occasionally, so as to maintain Italy's position in the alliance.

The fat and bald man looked around. France has surrendered, Switzerland is neutral, Austria has been annexed by Germany, and only Greece, which has a territorial dispute with Italy, is left standing on Italy's side like a thorn.

Just now, the cruiser "Eli" of the Greek Navy was sunk by the Italian submarine "De Ferno". This is a signal that Italy is finally going to attack Greece. The Greek government has urgently called London and Pretoria , hoping to get Allied reinforcements.

Therefore, it is unrealistic for Weaver to hope to send a force from Cyprus to help defend Alexandria, because Cyprus will also send troops to Greece.

If Greece falls, Cyprus will face the attack of the Italian navy.

At the same time that Wei Weier and Feng Fu met, the Indian Ocean Fleet was already approaching the waters off Mogadishu.

Mogadishu is the center of Italian rule in East Africa. In the battle plan of the Indian Ocean Fleet, Mogadishu is in the first sequence.

The location of Mogadishu is very important. Merchant ships traveling between the mainland of southern Africa and Port Elizabeth must pass through Mogadishu. Before the war broke out, all the combat plans formulated by the Indian Ocean Fleet used Mogadishu as a The first target of attack.

The Italian fleet in Mogadishu originally consisted of only two old cruisers and several destroyers.

Before the war, Italy sent emergency reinforcements to Mogadishu with six submarines, which were the biggest threat to the Indian Ocean fleet.

This is the first time the Indian Ocean Fleet has participated in a war since its establishment.

Jackson Marshall went all out with the momentum of a goshawk fighting a rabbit, and dispatched an attack fleet consisting of 23 warships, including the battleship "East India", the battleship "Mozambique" and the "Cape Town" under the Indian Ocean Fleet. Aircraft carrier, "Salisbury" aircraft carrier, and "Nyasaran" aircraft carrier, which was commissioned just before the outbreak of the world war.

The "Cape Town" and the "Salisbury" both belong to the "City" class aircraft carrier, and the "Nyasaland" is the second ship of the "Island" class aircraft carrier.

In addition to the three aircraft carriers, the fleet also has a third-tier aircraft carrier converted from a "Table Mountain"-class supply ship, including anti-submarine aircraft carried by battleships and cruisers. All the aircraft in the colony combined are more.

Most of the aircraft in the Italian colonies in East Africa were biplanes with backward performance, and there was a huge gap in performance between them and the new fighters in southern Africa.

On the night of August 8, the fleet departed from Diego Garcia, its home port in the center of the Indian Ocean, and arrived in Seychelles on the morning of the 2th. After a short stop for supplies, it continued to set off for Mogadishu. On the morning of the 6th, the fleet arrived off the coast of Mogadishu.

The Italians did not expect the Indian Ocean Fleet to come so quickly and were defenseless.

When the fleet arrived off the coast of Mogadishu, a destroyer of the Italian Navy was cruising off the coast of Mogadishu.

A reconnaissance plane that took off early spotted the destroyer of the Italian Navy.

Six "Goshawk" carrier-based fighter jets and four "Sea Harrier" torpedo bombers took off from the "Nyasaran" and "Cape Town" respectively to attack the Italian destroyer.

When the "Sea Harrier" flew over the Italian destroyer, the sailors on the Italian destroyer actually waved to the "Sea Harrier". They didn't seem to realize that the war had broken out.

"Sea Harrier" is now equipped with the latest torpedoes.

After the Brazilian Civil War, southern Africa improved the performance of torpedoes.

Although the remote-controlled torpedo promised by the Tesla Research Institute was not successfully developed, the reliability of the torpedo has been greatly improved.

Don't worry about might.

The 533 torpedo weighs 2.9 tons, has a charge of 800 kilograms, and has a range of 50 meters at a speed of 15000 knots. It is the soul of a heavy cruiser.

Two "Sea Harriers" dived quickly and fired torpedoes at the same time when they were 500 meters away from the Italian destroyer.

Although the torpedo has a long range, in order to ensure the attack efficiency, it must be as close as possible to the enemy ship.

But it can't be too close. After the torpedo is launched, it will sail for a certain distance under the water surface, and then gradually rise up. If the distance is too close, it will pass under the enemy ship, which will be embarrassing.

500 meters is just right, even if the destroyer has a shallow draft, it can still guarantee the attack effect.

At such a short distance, the destroyer could not escape even with full power.

What's more, two "Sea Harriers" attacked at the same time.

The displacement of Italian destroyers is only a pitiful 1500 tons, a standard treaty-class destroyer.

The speed of the "Sea Harrier" was very fast, and it was pulled up immediately after launching the torpedo. One "Sea Harrier" even brushed against the mast of an Italian destroyer at high speed.

Only then did the Italian sailors clearly see the southern African tricolor flag under the wing of the "Sea Harrier".

In fact, there is no need for a tricolor flag. The metal fuselage and single-wing shape of the "Sea Harrier" have clearly indicated its identity.

When the "Sea Harrier" passed over the Italian destroyer, the anti-aircraft weapons on the Italian destroyer did not even fire.

Here I have to focus on the Italian Navy.

Many people may not know that in 1940, Italy, with a total population of 4400 million, had only 85535 college students, of which engineering students accounted for only 13.56%.

Compared with Japan, after the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, it carried out compulsory education with the indemnity paid by the Qing Dynasty. By 1900, the enrollment rate of school-age school children had exceeded 95%. Italians need to reflect.

The number of officers in the Italian Navy is seriously underrepresented, accounting for only 5.4% of the total number of the navy, while in the French Navy and British Navy, this proportion is 7.5% and 9.2% respectively.

The machine gunners of the Pola Naval Academy in Italy can only fire two magazines before participating in actual combat, and the time is less than four seconds.

Before Italy entered the war, the Navy’s heavy oil reserves were seriously insufficient, so that during the North African campaign, when the North African Army commanded by Rommel needed fuel, the Italian Navy was unable to escort the sea due to lack of fuel. die of thirst.

There are still many people talking about the Italian Navy.

How to blow?
The pilot of the "Sea Harrier" is still trustworthy. A torpedo hit the middle of the Italian destroyer, and the violent explosion tore the Italian destroyer in two.

Neither of the two "Sea Harriers" preparing to replenish mines got a chance to participate in the battle.

The pilots on these two Sea Harriers should be very depressed.

When the torpedo bomber lands, the torpedo must be thrown away to ensure safety.

Regardless of whether there is a target or not, it must be thrown away.

So the two "Sea Harriers" unfortunately flew several laps around the rapidly sinking Italian destroyer, and then reluctantly left.

Italian destroyers sink really fast.

The destroyers of the Indian Ocean Fleet who came later released the small boats as usual to salvage the Italian sailors who fell into the water.

Only three people were picked up.

One of them is a member of the Italian national swimming team.

After the episode, the fleet continued to move towards Mogadishu.

Jackson Marshall did not issue an ultimatum to Mogadishu first as usual, but sent a minelaying ship to lay mines in the port of Mogadishu and block the port. Give up resistance within an hour, otherwise the Indian Ocean Fleet will launch an attack on Mogadishu.

At this time, a large number of fighter planes had already taken off from the aircraft carrier and launched the first round of attacks on Mogadishu Airport.

That's right, regardless of whether the Italians surrender or not, the airport will always be the first target of attack.

Mogadishu Italian Air Force hastily took off to meet.

Now it was finally the turn of "Goshawk" to show his power.

This is also the first time that "Goshawk" has officially participated in a battle since its birth.

As mentioned earlier, the southern African military has extremely high requirements for pilots.

Pilots that the southern African military doesn't like can become ace pilots in the UK.

The high quality of military pilots in southern Africa can be seen.

There is no comparison between the Italian Air Force and the Southern African Air Force.

In terms of pilot ability, the Southern African Air Force far surpasses the Italian Air Force.

In terms of aircraft performance, the "Goshawk" far exceeds the old biplane.

Even in terms of the number of aircraft, southern Africa has an overwhelming advantage.

How is this played?
Even though the gap was so large, the Italian Air Force did not let it go, and even took off two bombers in an attempt to attack the Indian Ocean Fleet.

The aerial bombs loaded on these two planes are only a pitiful 50 kilograms.

A 50kg aerial bomb is fine for bombing civilian targets, but it is not even a tickle for attacking the fleet. It only poses a certain threat to aircraft carriers and has to be thrown on the aviation deck.

Italian planes had no chance of dropping bombs.

Just after taking off, two Italian bombers were shot down by swarming "Goshawks".

It is really swarming. The efficiency of the Italian Air Force is a bit low. When the airport was attacked, there were very few planes that took off to meet them, so that the "Goshawks" were like a pack of wolves who found their prey. Every Italian plane that took off , are subject to

The key care of the "Goshawks".

The air battle lasted only 3 minutes.

If this counts as air combat.

(End of this chapter)