Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1647 Seaplane
Xu Huandong was actually conducting while studying.

To put it in another pessimistic way, he is commanding the fleet to fight while constantly solving troubles and problems.

Most serious is the problem of reconnaissance.

The four anger-class destroyers in the fleet do not have seaplanes, and only the "Zhenhai Ship" is the devil's Nagara-class light cruiser with its own seaplane.

Operating a seaplane is much more complicated and dangerous than taking off from land.

This is not to say that pilots cannot be found. The Eighth Route Army already has a certain reserve of pilots, and it is not a problem to transfer a few to the coastal defense regiment.

The problem is that the seaplane is ejected and taken off on the cruiser's slide rail. When it is recovered, it lands on the water and then lifts it back to the warship.

The take-off, landing, and recovery process were too risky for Xu Huandong who had never operated these before, and only one seaplane could play little reconnaissance role, so Xu Huandong resolutely gave up.

However, Xu Huandong still made some preparations. He found a few pilots flying civil aircraft in Dalian... Dalian Zhoushuizi Airport is the devil's civilian airport. It is mainly used for the transportation of important materials and personnel between Huaxia and Bangzi, including Huaxia pilot.

There were five pilots in this group, and Xu Huandong brought them to the "Zhenhai Ship" to form a flight squad, which was specially responsible for studying the take-off, landing and recovery of the aircraft in his hand.

When setting sail, Xu Huandong said to the leader, the flight squad leader named Xie Han: "We are going out to fight the devils now, and we don't know what the result will be. You know what to do, right?"

"Yes, I promise to complete the task!" Xie Han stepped forward to answer.

Xu Huandong's words couldn't be more obvious: In case of a fight, the warship may be sunk, so no matter whether it is a pilot or a seaplane, all of them may sink to the bottom of the sea to feed the sharks. Instead of waiting to die on the warship It's better to fly the seaplane into the sky, but there is still a chance of survival by flying the seaplane into the sky!
To put it bluntly, Xu Huandong was using life and death to force these pilots to learn how to operate the seaplane.

There is no problem in flying the seaplane. The Devil's seaplane is a "Zero Water Reconnaissance". It has many similarities with the civil aviation aircraft that the Devil uses.

The difficulty is ejection and recovery, which is actually a matter of mechanical operation, which is the shortcoming of Xie Han and other pilots, so Xie Han can only constantly ask the technicians on the ship for advice, and sometimes even use the excuse of maintenance to trick them to take the opportunity to learn After a while, they really understood it in the end, and then rehearsed it over and over again, waiting for the real test flight at the last moment.

Xu Huandong tried to contact Zhou Shuizi's air force to let the air force provide reconnaissance for the fleet, but it was actually very difficult.

The main reason is that the voyage of "La 5" is too short, and the scope of their reconnaissance is far from meeting the needs of the fleet. Especially if the fleet and the enemy are chasing overseas, the reconnaissance of the air force will obviously lag behind.

(Note: The maximum speed of the Wrath-class destroyer is 37 knots, which is about 66 kilometers per hour when converted into kilometers. That is to say, if the fleet sails at the fastest speed, it only takes about four hours to sail out of the combat radius of "La 5". Said cruise reconnaissance)

Wang Xuexin is also very helpless about this, because currently the Eighth Route Army does not have fighter jets with a longer range to provide support for the fleet.

"La 5" is famous for its short legs, and Yingjiang's P40 is not much better... The range of this thing is only more than 1000 kilometers, and the combat radius is only three to four hundred kilometers, not to mention that the P40 is still not self-produced. Added air-to-air missiles.

After the fleet sailed, Xu Huandong asked Wang Xuexin in a telegram: "What is the mission of our army?"

Wang Xuexin replied without thinking: "Looking for the main force of the devil fleet!"

Xu Huandong was stunned for a moment, with the current strength of the fleet, it should be about the same as the hiding devil fleet, and now he still wants to find its main force?

But after thinking about it, Xu Huandong quickly understood Wang Xuexin's intention.

The combat mode established by the coastal defense regiment determines that it needs to actively discover the location of the enemy fleet, because this represents "safety".

The reason is very simple. Passively discovering the position of the enemy ship is likely to be surrounded by enemy ships or it is too late to turn around.

This is determined by the small reconnaissance range of the coastal defense regiment. The coastal defense regiment has no seaplane coordination, so it is unlikely that the enemy will find it first.

Also due to the curvature of the earth, when the coastal defense regiment finds the enemy, it is likely that the distance from each other is less than [-] kilometers... The actual situation will be closer than this distance, because [-] kilometers is completely invisible enemy ships, and more than [-] kilometers Only a small area of ​​the top of the enemy ship can be seen.

In actual combat, when enemy ships can be observed, they are often more than [-] kilometers away.

Even if it is measured in [-] kilometers, if the coastal defense regiment passively finds the enemy ship and the enemy ship has discovered the position of the coastal defense regiment very early because of the seaplane reconnaissance.

So, wouldn't the enemy ships be able to pinch or surround?

Even if there is no pincer attack or encirclement, if the enemy and the enemy are walking towards each other at a distance of [-] kilometers, it will only take ten minutes to meet each other, right?
But the range of the enemy naval guns is twenty kilometers!

At that time, how will the coastal defense regiment keep a distance from the enemy and adopt the tactics of "fighting backwards" outside its range?

Therefore, in this passive situation of reconnaissance, the coastal defense regiment should take the initiative to find the location of the enemy fleet, so that it is possible to maintain the initiative strategically and use new tactics to attack the enemy and save itself.

After figuring this out, Xu Huandong immediately answered "Yes", and then ordered the fleet: "All pay attention, spread out and look for the enemy's main force! Repeat, look for the enemy's main force!"

After this order was issued, everyone thought that Xu Huandong was crazy, and some people even thought that Xu Huandong was commanding indiscriminately and planned to lead the fleet to die with the devils.

But what they don't know is that this is the real way for the fleet to survive.

However, that's easier said than done.

If the observation distance is only more than [-] kilometers, how can we find the main force of the enemy and turn around in time in this vast sea?
Xu Huandong immediately thought of the only seaplane on the "Zhenhai Ship".

He considered whether to let it fly and try!
But what if there is an accident if it can't fly?

When Xu Huandong was worried, Wang Xuexin sent another telegram to Xu Huandong: "Pay attention to the use of CXAM radar!"

When Xu Huandong saw the telegram, he couldn't help but slapped his thigh and shouted, "How did I forget this!"

In fact, it's not that Xu Huandong forgot, but he always thought that the CXAM radar was an air search radar, which was of no help in finding the fleet.

The CXAM radar did not find the enemy fleet.

But the question is... Will the devil's fleet have no seaplanes?

If the devil's fleet enters the combat area, will they not fly seaplanes for reconnaissance?
(End of this chapter)