Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1746 Quantitative Advantage
Unexpectedly, as soon as Wang Xuexin proposed this plan to Colonel Tarn, he immediately opposed it, and he opposed it with an extremely firm attitude.

"That's impossible, Comrade Commander!" Colonel Tarn said. "This is suicide!"

"Tell me your reason, Colonel!" Of course Wang Xuexin would not give up easily.

"This needs a reason?" Colonel Tarn replied without thinking: "They have only just trained for a few days. It may be possible to take off, but landing is impossible, even during the day, let alone at night!"

As we all know, landing on an aircraft carrier is much more difficult than taking off. Even skilled eagle pilots can't guarantee that it can be done, let alone night landing is required.

But Wang Xuexin has already considered this point.

"They may not need to land!" Wang Xuexin said: "Just take off is enough!"

"What do you mean?" Colonel Tarn's tone changed from doubt to anger: "You mean, in order to complete this task, sacrifice them?"

"No, of course not!" Wang Xuexin replied: "Look at the nautical chart, Colonel Tarn! The straight-line distance from the target to Dalian is about 800 kilometers, and even if it goes around Weihai, Shandong, it is only 1000 kilometers. I mean, the carrier-based aircraft took off After completing the mission, instead of landing on the aircraft carrier, we will return directly to Lushun Airport and land!"

The Eighth Route Army pilots have not yet started landing training, and it is obviously unrealistic to directly ask them to land at night, so Wang Xuexin has no such plan at all.

Colonel Tarn still objected: "If you do this, it's better to send Mosquito fighter jets to carry out this mission. You should know the difference in range between them, right?"

"Yes, Colonel!" Wang Xuexin replied.

Wang Xuexin understood what Colonel Tarn meant.

The furthest range of the Mosquito fighter is more than 2300 kilometers, while the furthest range of the Wildcat fighter is only 1239 kilometers.

In other words, the 1000 kilometers of fuel that the Mosquito fighter deducted to fly to the destination is still slightly larger than the 1000 kilometers that the Wildcat fighter takes care of by the aircraft carrier.

So, why not just use the Mosquito fighter?

What's more, the Mosquito fighter is also equipped with a radar for night combat!

But Wang Xuexin still insisted on his point of view.

Colonel Tarn asked suspiciously: "Give me a reason, Comrade Commander! Otherwise, I will definitely think you are crazy!"

"Because there are a lot of aircraft carriers!" Wang Xuexin replied: "The aircraft carrier can carry 37 carrier-based fighter jets, which is our advantage!"

(The aircraft carrier modified by the Eighth Route Army can carry 47 carrier-based aircraft, of which 37 are "Wildcat" fighter jets and 10 are "Avenger" torpedo bombers)

"What's the use of numerical advantage?" Colonel Tarn yelled angrily: "Are you crazy?"

"Of course it is useful!" Wang Xuexin replied lightly: "After the aircraft carrier arrived at the destination, we took off the first batch of eight carrier-based aircraft in four different directions for reconnaissance, and returned to Dalian before the fuel consumption reached the upper limit, and then we took off eight more . . . in this way, we can maintain aerial reconnaissance and interception at target locations for at least a few hours!"

Colonel Tarn fell silent upon hearing this.

There is nothing wrong with Wang Xuexin's analysis.

The aircraft carrier can carry 37 fighter jets, and each batch of 8 fighters means that at least 4 batches can be taken off.

Deducting the 1000 kilometers of fuel needed to return to Dalian, the "Wildcat" fighter can consume 239 kilometers of fuel, and if the fuel is used to fly at an economic speed of 300 to [-] kilometers, it can fly for half an hour.

In other words, only these 4 batches can guarantee 2 hours of continuous reconnaissance and interception in the air, and there are 5 remaining for maneuvering.

In fact, this is not entirely the case, because Wang Xuexin bought a surplus of "Wildcat" fighters, and it is entirely possible to replace all the shorter-range "Avenger" torpedo bombers with "Wildcat" fighters for this mission.

By then there will be not just [-] batches, but nearly [-] batches.

However, Wang Xuexin thinks that this is not necessary, because if the two-hour reconnaissance and search can't find it, it basically means that the mission has failed, and it is meaningless to add another hour of reconnaissance and search.

Of course, the Mosquito fighter jets can also do the same, that is, they will send out missions in batch after batch rotation.

But as I said before, if the Eighth Route Army dispatched so many mosquito fighters, it would be easy to be detected by the devil's radar.

Once it is detected by the Devils radar and knows the flight direction of the Mosquito fighter, and then matches with Guga Fengyi's flight path... Immediately know that the information has leaked, Guga Fengyi's trip will definitely be cancelled, and the Eighth Route Army will then It's just a waste of time.

Colonel Tarn was silent for a long time before slowing down his tone: "Even so, Comrade Commander...you should know that the 'Wildcat' fighters are not capable of fighting at night. shoot down!"

"You don't need to worry about this, Colonel!" Wang Xuexin said: "Our pilots know what to do!"

Colonel Tarn could only answer: "Okay! This is your aircraft carrier and your aircraft, you can do whatever you want!"

After finishing speaking, Colonel Tarn hung up the phone angrily, and cursed: "A group of lunatics, they think war is too simple!"

Colonel Tarn would have no problem thinking so.

Because fighting at night is not only a matter of hit rate but also very dangerous.

For example, if an enemy plane is found at this time, the standard combat mode is to bite the tail of the enemy plane and shoot it down with a machine gun.

It might be possible to bite the tail of the bandit when the line of sight is good.

But enemy planes cannot sit still when they find their tails bitten. They will make various dangerous actions such as diving to the sea and pulling up at the last moment...

At this time, the fighter jets following behind it are quite dangerous.

Because the fighter is the tail-biting party, it has to react according to the actions of the preceding aircraft. It may be observed in time during the day, but it will be delayed by two or three beats at night... This is fatal, and it is likely to cause the fighter to plunge into it. nautical mile.

But what Colonel Tarn didn't know was that most of the Eighth Route Army didn't have such worries in air combat, because they used air-to-air missiles.

Air-to-air missiles can shoot down enemy aircraft from a long distance, which makes the "Wildcat" fighter have a certain night combat capability.

Colonel Tarn wanted to persuade Wang Xuexin to hand over the information to Yingjiang and let them complete this task.

After all, Yingjiang's "Hellcat" fighter has a range of 2462 kilometers, which will make the task much easier.

But Colonel Tarn soon discovered that this was not realistic.

The Eagle Sauce Fleet is more than 3000 kilometers away in the Philippines, and it is the main direction of the Devils' defense. As soon as their fighters approach the coastline, the Devils will immediately detect them.

As for the Eighth Route Army, they set off from the interior of the Chinese mainland and dispatched more secretive aircraft carriers, so the probability of being discovered is very low.

(End of this chapter)