Naval Warfare for All: From Patrol Boats to Carrier Fleets

“Commander, there are two options now, one is to maintain surveillance and wait until tomorrow to launch an air raid on the pirate’s lair, we have enough time to solve the battle, or we can only release more carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft to maintain monitoring of the surrounding sea area at all times.”

Ramsay was not the slightest moved by Ye Bai’s somewhat unhappy tone, and still gave his own suggestions in a flat tone: “But Commander, I personally recommend taking the first method, the pirate’s lair needs to be destroyed, but the safety of the fleet cannot be ignored, especially at night, we can only detect the situation in the surrounding 40 kilometers of sea, once something happens, the time we can react is too short.” ”

Ye Bai’s face changed, and he glanced at Lu Teyansi with some reluctance, and asked: “Lu Teyansi, what do you think of Ramsey’s suggestion?” ”

Lü Teyansi has not opened his mouth just now, and now he is named by Ye Bai, he is not polite, nodded and said: “Commander, this small island that is not on the navigation map appears inexplicably, the reason behind this is worth our deep consideration, in the absence of detailed information, I agree with Colonel Ramsay’s suggestion, safety first.” ”

“If there is even one battleship in the fleet now, I am sure that the safety of the Yanhuang will be guaranteed at night, but it’s a pity, let’s not talk about battleships, even heavy cruisers don’t have one, just Dongyang, this light cruiser, the escort force is too thin.”

Neither Lütyans nor Ramsey suggested attacking now, or that they did not agree to let the fleet attack the island too close to it, there were too many uncertainties.

In fact, in the end, the strength of its own fleet is too weak, as Lüttyans said, if there are battleships in the fleet, Ramsay’s worries are not a problem at all.

I thought that if the Yanhuang was successfully upgraded to an escort aircraft carrier, he would no longer be fearless in the great navigation world, but now it seems that he thought too well, not to mention the others, at night, almost made the Yanhuang lose all its combat capabilities.

Until the successful acquisition of airborne radar, carrier-based aircraft with night take-off and landing and combat capabilities, battleships still cannot be eliminated, and even a large number of them must be equipped as sword guards for aircraft carriers.

“Well, since you are all against it, then I can’t go my own way, let the fleet stop advancing, moor on the spot, send out all carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, closely reconnoitre the surrounding seas, especially the island side, and can’t let them break away from our reconnaissance.”

Since the two professional admirals of Lütyans and Ramsey are unanimously opposed, even if Ye Bai is unwilling, he can only be as good as the flow, after all, in the end, these two are the most professional, and he is just a layman.

Lütyans and Ramsey looked at each other and said in unison: “Please rest assured that according to the intelligence information we have now, as long as there are no major accidents, this victory will eventually belong to us.” ”

Now that he had made the decision, Ye Bai’s originally anxious mood had eased a lot, the expression on his face had become better, and he said in a soothing tone: “You guys go to work, I’ll go to the hangar, to maintain comprehensive monitoring of the surrounding seas, our current number of reconnaissance aircraft is not enough, we need to replenish it.” ”

After speaking, Ye Bai turned around and left the bridge, anyway, there will be no attack on the pirate island in the remaining few hours, he has nothing to do here, it is better to go to business first.

The Yanhuang was originally equipped with only 16 Hawker Osprey carrier-based combat reconnaissance aircraft, which was generally sufficient for reconnaissance of the enemy, but this time, a small island that did not appear on the nautical map upset this balance.

This kind of unexpected situation can happen, and it is not impossible to have more unexpected situations, not to mention that this is the first time Ye Bai has discovered the pirate’s lair, and it is also the first time to prepare to attack the pirate’s lair, and the preparation work is too much.

And in order to detect the situation in the surrounding sea areas as much as possible before dark, the requirements for reconnaissance aircraft are relatively high, and in the absence of improving the performance of carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, increasing the number of reconnaissance aircraft is the only way.

Anyway, the price of this Hawker Osprey carrier-based combat reconnaissance aircraft is not expensive, 80,000 yuan can buy one, plus the pilot does not cost much, after all, it is not a combat carrier-based aircraft, and the consumption of ammunition is not large.

Moreover, with the existence of a transmission platform, the problem of attendance efficiency of carrier-based aircraft has been greatly improved, and it is only a matter of time before the scale of carrier-based aircraft is increased.

Unlike the original Earth and the Blue Star world, even in wartime, the dangers they need to face and the enemy are relatively fixed and the number is limited, so there is no need to equip too many reconnaissance aircraft on the aircraft carrier, just enough.

However, in the great navigation world, there are countless enemies, alien players, pirate forces, and even players belonging to the Blue Star camp, which may become enemies, which puts forward higher requirements for the reconnaissance ability of the fleet.

Thinking about it this way, the number of carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft on the Zengyan seems to be a rather cost-effective deal.

When I came to the hangar, because there was no battle, the soldiers in the hangar seemed a little idle, most of them were resting in their dormitories, and only a small number of ground staff and mechanics were on combat readiness duty.

The area of the hangar transformed by using space spar is very large, and the increase in the number of carrier-based aircraft has also greatly increased the number of personnel on the Yanhuang, and the original crew cabin on the battleship naturally cannot accommodate so many personnel.

Therefore, when Ramsey planned the hangar, he deliberately set aside an area to be used as a dormitory, canteen, etc., and all the personnel in the hangar could be solved inside the hangar, without the need to compete with the crew of the Yanhuang for limited space.

Looking at the hangar that still had a large blank area, Ye Bai pouted and directly purchased 48 Hawker Osprey carrier-based combat reconnaissance aircraft directly from the system mall, making the number of carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft equipped to the scale of 64 in one group.

This number of carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft to cope with daily reconnaissance tasks is more than enough, in the final analysis, reconnaissance aircraft can only be reconnaissance aircraft, not the main combat aircraft, even because of the special situation in the world of navigation, so that the number of reconnaissance aircraft needs to be increased accordingly, but can not be increased indefinitely, need to master a degree.

There are 48 more Hawker Osprey carrier-based combat reconnaissance aircraft, and the area of the hangar still has a large gap, and more carrier-based aircraft are needed to fill it, but Ye Bai does not want to buy too many carrier-based aircraft from the system mall.

For no other reason, the carrier-based aircraft sold in the system mall are only the basic plate, and they belong to the level of the early World War II on the earth, and the gap is still very large compared to those carrier-based aircraft in the middle and late stages of World War II.

If this is too much equipment, it will be a rather troublesome thing to deal with at that time, don’t look at the number of Blue Star players who are regarded as leeks by him, but there are not many players who can upgrade the ship to the aircraft carrier level.

Without an aircraft carrier, no matter how many tasks Blue Star players have, there will be no demand for carrier-based aircraft, which if Ye Bai can one day obtain a more advanced carrier-based aircraft, the elimination and processing of these old-fashioned carrier-based aircraft will be quite a headache. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）

Therefore, Ye Bai made up his mind, the total number of carrier-based aircraft equipped in the current hangar of the Yanhuang will not exceed 500, this scale is already quite terrifying, even if it is a heavy aircraft carrier, the number of carrier-based aircraft that can be accommodated will not exceed 150, and the Yanhuang escort aircraft carrier is equivalent to having the combat effectiveness of 4 heavy aircraft carriers.

Until the other types of warships in the Huaxia fleet had not yet formed a scale, there was no need to continue to expand the scale of the Yanhuang’s carrier-based aircraft.

Ramsey’s orders had been conveyed to the hangar through an internal communication channel, and mechanics and ground crews on combat readiness were busy, loading the newly emerged carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, checking the status of the airframe, and then assisting the pilot in entering the cockpit and then pushing down the lifting platform.

Although there is a transmission platform, the original two centerline lifting platforms on the Yanhuang have not been abandoned, but in the case of large-scale dispatch of carrier-based aircraft, the carrier-based aircraft in the hangar are still lifted to the flight deck through these two lifting platforms.

After expanding the carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft unit again, Ye Bai came to the small space of the logistics cabin again, first went to the shipyard, inspected the modification progress of the Zhiyuan, and chatted with Deng Shichang and the engineers by the way.

Thanks to the perfect construction drawings of the battleship, the skill level of these engineers and shipbuilding experts is not low, and it took less than a day to come up with a complete (Noli good) modification plan.

Now in the shipyard of the shipyard, the modification of the Zhiyuan has begun, a large number of mechanical equipment purchased from the system mall surrounded the Zhiyuan, and more shipbuilders under the command of engineers and shipbuilding experts operated various equipment and began to operate on the Zhiyuan.

Throughout the whole modification process, Deng Shichang and his crew participated almost the whole process, and occasionally put forward some small suggestions of their own, and the cooperation between the two sides was quite pleasant.

After inspecting the shipyard, Ye Bai went to the military factory again, as an important building in the small space of the logistics cabin, the military factory covers a very wide area, and a large number of factory buildings have been built.

Although so far, due to the lack of production line equipment and related technical data, a large number of factories in the military factory are idle, but several production lines that have been used have begun to produce.

I will not mention several shells, originally for the purpose of training personnel, the output is not high, it can only be said that it cannot be wasted.

But the 533mm mine production line is working at full strength, compared with ordinary shells, steel accounts for a large proportion of the raw materials for making torpedoes, and it just so happens that the last small space upgrade, the system rewarded an iron ore resource point.