Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1820: One Domain, Multiple Layers, Four-Four System
"I think we can adopt the 'one domain, multiple layers, four-four system' tactic!"

"Multiple layers of four-four systems in one domain?" The pilots looked at Wang Xuexin with confused expressions, and then looked at each other.

No matter where the pilots were transferred from, whether they were from the Army Air Force or the Navy Air Force, whether they had more or less combat experience, none of them had heard of this tactic.

Wang Xuexin explained: "A domain refers to an airspace, which refers to the combat tasks to be completed or the strategic goals to be achieved in this airspace; the upper, middle, lower, left, and right three-dimensional distribution of the multi-layered fighter aircraft formation can also be flexibly adjusted according to the actual situation. ;The four-by-four system refers to a small formation of four machines for every one!"

Then Wang Xuexin explained: "This four-machine formation does not necessarily have to maintain the formation completely. They can convert to a two-machine formation at any time, and then return to the four-machine formation after completing a certain mission or a single combat!"

The pilots were silent for a while, and then Pan Wenli asked with a somewhat uncertain tone: "Captain, is this okay?"

It is normal for pilots to have reservations about the tactics proposed by Wang Xuexin.

Because any new tactics proposed on the battlefield must be cautious again and again. Once the tactics fail, the advantage will be reversed into a disadvantage and the troops will suffer heavy casualties.

In contrast, the old tactic is safer because it has been proven effective on the battlefield by personal testing.

Even if we now know that the old tactics are no longer applicable at the speed of the "J-2", we still have to fight a few battles before deciding.

Pan Wenli then asked a few questions:

"Captain, what if the small formation of four aircraft is insufficient in combat effectiveness?"

"The enemy in front of us has dozens or even hundreds of fighter planes, but our army faces it with four or eight planes!"

"And the distance between formations is still very far..."

"Will it turn into a refueling tactic, with four planes flying up and letting the Japanese attack them?"

The pilots nodded in agreement.

Wang Xuexin understood why they had such an idea. They were used to flying propeller fighters to fight the enemy.

In their battles, being able to shoot down one or two enemy planes in a battle is pretty good.

Now even if it is replaced by the fast "J-2", the results will be almost doubled, right?

If one aircraft shoots down four enemy aircraft, then the eight-plane formation can only shoot down more than [-] aircraft.

In such a comparison, is the strength of the Japanese fleet still much stronger than that of the Eighth Route Army?Is the Eighth Route Army going to lose the battle?
Wang Xuexin smiled and said: "Comrades, this is the combat thinking and force comparison model of propeller fighters. You should change this inertial thinking. We should understand that quantity only has an advantage when the performance of enemy and friendly fighters is similar. Once When the performance of our fighter planes improves to a certain level, the enemy's numerical advantage is not only no longer an advantage, but may actually become a disadvantage!"

The pilots were afraid to speak for a moment. It was still hard for them to believe this: four to eight fighter planes, or one or two more formations, could fight against hundreds of enemy fighter planes. It was really hard to imagine.

But Kang Zheng agreed: "Speed, comrades! The speed of the 'J-2' has increased to a level that the enemy cannot match. As long as we always maintain this speed, the enemy will have basically no chance of shooting down our fighter plane. Then , does the enemy’s numerical superiority of fighter jets still make sense?”

After being reminded by Kang Zheng, the pilots felt that this was indeed true.

Fighters cannot be imagined as bicycles chasing jeeps. If bicycles have a numerical advantage, they can really surround the jeep and kill it.

Fighter planes often have speed differences of hundreds of kilometers per hour. Even if the "J-2" flies over the nose of the enemy fighter plane and flies past its muzzle and muzzle, since human reaction takes a certain amount of time, the Japanese pilots will not have time to fire bullets to kill the "J-2". 2” shot down.Unless it is very accidental, the Japanese have opened fire on the "J-[-]" and hit its firepower.

"So!" Wang Xuexin concluded: "What we need to consider is how to destroy the enemy faster and more effectively! In other words, kill those 'targets'!"

Wang Xuexin was certain from beginning to end that this tactic was useful because it was a tactical formation commonly used by first-generation fighters.

Yingjiang calls it "small formations with large depth": every four aircraft formations are called "small formations", each formation is far apart, and when there are more fighter planes, they are spread out widely, which is called "large depth".

China calls it the "One Domain, Multiple Layers, Four-Four System". This tactic has been used by the China Air Force for a long time, and its shadow can even be seen in modern times.

Wang Xuexin said while playing with the model: "We can try to place the fighter planes around, that is, up, down, left, and right, leaving the middle empty!"

Pan Wenli asked strangely: "Captain, what does the space in the middle mean?"

"It is best not to arrange a formation at the middle position!" Wang Xuexin said: "The middle position is quite special. It has to face the enemy's large aircraft group head-on, and once it breaks into the enemy's large aircraft group..."

When it came to this, Pan Wenli understood: "It is very likely that it will be up, down, left and right, and even be surrounded by enemy planes in front and behind!"

"Yes!" Wang Xuexin nodded: "This is very dangerous. The enemy's large group of aircraft adopts a dense formation. They may crash due to collision at any time. At the same time, they can only move towards the opposite direction of the enemy aircraft and basically do not fire. Opportunity!"

Wang Xuexin straightened up, glanced at the pilots, and asked: "The formation in the middle has no chance to fire and can easily crash. Why do we risk putting a formation in this position just for the sake of the so-called formation?"

The pilots nodded in agreement.

However, one pilot still raised a question: "But commander, our formations in other directions are also heading towards the enemy planes. Don't they also have no chance to fire?"

Wang Xuexin expanded the model representing our fighter planes to all sides, pointing a diagonal line at the four sides of the enemy aircraft group, and asked: "What if this is the case?"

Now the pilots all understood.

If our fighter planes are in the same straight line as the enemy fighter planes, such a move towards each other will not only give us too little time to react, but also risk a collision. This has been expressly prohibited before.

But if our fighter plane's route is to insert diagonally into the flank of the enemy fighter plane, that's a completely different story.

The diagonal route has a greater distance and almost no risk of collision: by the time the "J-2" reaches the designated position, the enemy aircraft group has already flown past the position where the aircraft can collide.

"What's more important!" Wang Xuexin extended his fingers from the nose of the "J-2" to the enemy aircraft to show the impact surface of the artillery shells.

The pilots looked at it and nodded in agreement.

The "J-2" takes a diagonal path, and the shells it fires can form cross fire in four directions: up, down, left and right.

In this way, even if it is not accurately aimed, the artillery shell has a high probability of hitting the enemy aircraft like a "blind cat meets a dead mouse".

(End of this chapter)