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Chapter 1346 The Age of Sea and Air (Second Update, please subscribe)

Penas Bay is the southernmost bay located on the South American continent, bordering the Strait of Magellan to the south.In a way, this is the end of the world.

Although there are few people here, there is a naval coal water station deep in the bay that provides fuel and other materials for the navy fleet. In the past year, the navy has expanded this coal water station, not only the expanded trestle, but also in the An airport was built nearby.

In fact, the so-called airport is a flat lawn. At the end of the airport is a wooden house, with a wooden hangar on one side and a wooden dormitory on the other.

In the early morning, Lu Rende, captain of the Imperial Navy Flying Team, rubbed his sleepy eyes, washed his face casually in the basin, and brushed his teeth. Then he yawned and walked down the corridor. Standing under the corridor, he could see that the team members were all Over there at the restaurant.

The breakfast on the big plate is not much different from the past. There is a corn burrito on the plate. The burrito is wrapped with vegetables, carrots and beef, plus an egg and a glass of milk. This is the most common breakfast for the Navy. Of course, the officers and soldiers of the team also eat this in the morning.

In fact, although it is located in a remote place, the food is very rich. After all, there are farms nearby that can supply fresh beef and mutton here, and all kinds of seafood are also available.Even so, people will always miss the prosperity of the city.

But this place is far away from the city. After all, until now, the aircraft is still a weapon with a very high level of secrecy.

Holding the dinner plate in his hand, Li Tianle said as soon as he sat next to the captain:
"For example, when can we conduct the lightning strike test?"

"Our aircraft has a small ammunition load, and the torpedo is so heavy, whether it can carry it is a problem."

Lu Deren couldn't help feeling a little pity, the torpedo was too heavy, and the plane's load was too small to carry it.

"But captain, you also know that. For lightly protected and unprotected targets, bombs can usually achieve better results, but for those heavily armored warships with strong armor and thick armor, the light aerial bombs carried by aircraft are just as good. It seems insignificant, even heavy bombs, unless they can hit the vital point by chance, it is difficult to cause these iron turtles to suffer fatal damage, and torpedoes, assassins from underwater, as long as they can hit normally, can greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the battleship. damage, and even fatal injury.”

Li Tianle specially emphasized.

"It only takes one torpedo to sink a battleship!"

In the past training, he has been thinking about how to bring the greatest blow to the enemy ship, and then he thought that only the torpedo was the most suitable weapon.

"Captain, I think this is entirely possible. The height of the air-dropped torpedo should be about 3 to 6 meters. This height is about the same as the height of the torpedo launched by the lightning strike ship. The launch distance should be between 500 meters and 800 meters. When the air-dropped torpedo is The plane is like a torpedo boat, fly as straight as you can to give the torpedo an initial heading, then aim and drop like a torpedo boat."

Now Li Tianle is like a tactical expert, he has been studying for a long time.The only thing needed is - a lightweight torpedo.

"Captain, I think we can try! If it succeeds, we will have more attack methods!"

The smug Li Tianle looked at the captain and said.

"I heard from the officers and soldiers on the ship that the navy did have light torpedoes in the early days. We can apply for a trial. If it doesn't work, we can apply for a small torpedo."

"Captain, I also think we can try it. For bombing, unless the altitude is lowered as much as possible, it will be difficult for the bomb to hit the target directly. However, if the altitude is too low and the initial velocity of the bomb is not enough, it cannot penetrate the deck and cause damage to the enemy ship." After all, the losses are very limited, and if torpedoes can be used, they will definitely be more effective than bombs."

Faced with the persuasion of his comrades, Lu Deren thought for a while, and then said.

"Are there really light torpedoes in the Navy warehouse?"

"We can go directly to the warehouse to find it! They say there is, so there must be."

At this time, a soldier came over and poured a cup of coffee for each of the officers, and then left quietly.

Glancing at the coffee in front of him, Lu Deren frowned and said:
"Go to the warehouse to find..."

"Captain, we have to do something."

Picking up the coffee, Lu Deren drank it slowly.In the end he nodded vigorously, and then said.

"In that case, let's try our luck at the warehouse today."

Lifting the coffee cup, Li Tianle took a sip comfortably.

"I dare say we must have had good luck."

Their luck was really good. Although the Imperial Navy mainly used large torpedoes of 540 mm, in the early days they were limited by the size of steel cylinders, and the torpedoes produced in the early days were all light torpedoes of 356 mm.

There are indeed some light torpedoes stored in the inventory of the Naval Station warehouse. After all, when the torpedo boats in the early years were not declassified, they also conducted lightning strike training here.

Five days later, three Seaholly attack aircraft quietly parked on the lawn—this is a navy-specific biplane developed with the support of the navy. It uses a seven-cylinder radial engine with a power of up to 195 horsepower. One pylon can mount six 6kg bombs or one 50kg bomb in the belly, and the rear seat machine gunner can control a 300mm ten-year machine gun.

"299.5 kg, plus the newly welded hanger, exactly 300 kg..."

Standing next to the plane, bending over to stare at the light torpedo under the belly of the plane, Li Tianle patted it with a smile.

"It's just prepared for us, not less than a catty, not too much..."

"Haha, give yours to Midea. Be careful when you drop the bombs. These torpedoes were produced more than ten years ago. You must control the speed..."

"Captain, don't worry!"

Ten minutes later, three Haidongqing planes took off one after another and quickly formed a wedge formation to fly westward. After they flew to the target area, they soon saw a reef full of targets. Staring at the reef, Li Tianle took a deep breath In one breath, when he lowered the altitude, Lu Deren drove the plane to keep a certain distance from him. The machine gunner in the rear seat did not operate the machine gun, but held a small camera to film the test process.

"can not be lower……"

Looking from the air, Lu Deren even felt that the plane was flying close to the sea.

That is, the current aircraft altimeter has pointed to "0".While maintaining the "0" altitude, Li Tianle continued to adjust the course. For a moment, he even felt the splashing waves had landed on him.

In front of him, the black shadow of the reef became bigger and clearer, and the shape of the reef became a warship in his eyes, which was simply the perfect target!
"attack!"

When the distance was between 400 meters and 500 meters, Li Tianle pulled down the bombing rod. The moment the heavy torpedo entered the water, it first sank into the water and then floated up again, accompanied by a particularly eye-catching wave of white bubbles, heading straight towards the The target runs.

"Captain, the torpedo drop was successful, it was successful..."

There is no need for the machine gunner's reminder at all, Lu Deren can also see the white trail, and can clearly watch him running towards the target, just like running towards a warship...

(End of this chapter)