Bismarck

PS: The restraint relationship in the air battles of World War II: fighter > interceptor > bomber > fighter. One of the main reasons why the German fighters suffered heavy losses in front of the Mustang after 44 was that in order to cope with the bombing of thousands of planes, they were all changed to interceptor configurations, which greatly increased the weight and seriously reduced the performance. So in 1944, when the engine performance gap was not too big (the real gap between the German piston engine and the Allies was the Griffin, but the Mustang H equipped with the Griffin engine was not until 45. At that time, the only single-engine fighter that the Allies could escort the European bombing was the Mustang), the German air force interceptors were restrained by fighters like the Mustang...

Chapter 797: Facing missiles, cover your head and crouch down to defend!

The sea and air missile battle in the dark night was as fierce as ever.

In the past hour or so, the fleet has not suffered much loss in three large-scale air strikes. But this does not mean that the anti-ship missiles of the Allies are soft persimmons.

The previous losses were not great because the fleet at that time was sailing towards the northwest, trying to distance itself from the airports in the UK and the Shetland Islands. In order to have the greatest universal mounting performance, the Bat anti-ship missile was simply improved on the basis of the 454KG penetrating bomb. Apart from a seeker and a glider, it did not have any complicated power equipment, and at most had only two small booster rockets.

Such a missile that glides without power is difficult to "chase" from behind. Not to mention that the sisters installed the jammer on a small boat and towed it more than 500 meters behind their tails. In the previous air strikes, most of the missiles were deceived by such "towed jammers". Even if there were a few that slipped through the net, most of them fell into the sea because of insufficient "energy to support gliding" - don't look at the more than 200 bombers, but the real threat is far less than this time.

In order to break through the GIUK blockade before the Norwegian Air Force loses its combat effectiveness, this time everyone must face the saturation attack of missiles head-on.

The jammer was dragged behind him, and the missiles were facing him head-on. Even if the jammer could still affect the signal of the seeker, the azimuth angle would make the trajectories of these missiles almost like Brownian motion, just like the Eastern barrage!

The most troublesome thing is that these missiles are too small!

Not only are ordinary anti-aircraft artillery attacks completely ineffective, but even the muzzle flash when the anti-aircraft artillery is fired will "provide" the position of those infrared-guided missiles!

Looking at the missiles swaying left and right in the sky like headless flies, and thinking of the barrage of comments she had seen in her "previous life", Bismarck, who was once a stay-at-home girl, felt that her head was getting bigger and bigger.

"The first batch of missiles is 8000 meters away from our ship, at 1100 to o'clock in the left front, the missile altitude is meters, and the glide angle is to degrees... All irrelevant personnel on the deck retreat to the shelter, and the damage control team is ready... Wait! Their track has changed! They are intertwined with other batches of missiles! Damn it..."

As Bismarck looked as if she was facing a formidable enemy, the first batch of missiles that slowly turned around and dispersed in front of the jammers and jammers actually intertwined with the trajectory of another batch of missiles that were turning to the other side behind them - if her perception was correct, these intertwined missiles would form the most difficult to defend against cross-attack firepower!

This is a real "fire net"!

"Everyone, right full rudder, turn together, sideways to the enemy! Jammers ready - Bismarck, calm down, be at ease. Tell a few of them, when the missiles come, you will be responsible for judging the distance and launching jammers in a unified manner according to the predetermined order!"

Lütjens, with an unchanged expression, sat upright in his command seat, issuing combat orders to Bismarck - except for the small gesture of Bismarck raising his eyebrows when he saw his captain, even the tone of the orders sounded as expressionless as usual.

However... seeing the captain's calm face, Bismarck felt a little more reassured for no reason.

After all, in the previous missile training subjects, how to arrange the interference and avoidance sequence more effectively was also one of the subjects of research and training at that time.

"Come to think of it, it's really thanks to Eugen and Top that they started researching missile countermeasures right from the moment they entered the dock..."

Under the barrage of missiles, Bismarck, who was giving orders to several of her "sisters" through radio channels and WIFI, and Lütjens, who continued to sit upright behind her, and even Lindemann and Bonte, who were receiving orders, all had the same somewhat deviant idea in their minds, although they were already under great pressure due to the severe enemy situation.

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While Bismarck and her captain were giving orders to the other warships, in the time measured in seconds, these relentless missiles had already quickly rushed through the eight-kilometer distance line of one minute, dragging an irregular S-shaped trajectory and gliding to a closer distance - and this was only the first wave! Behind this wave of missiles, more missiles drew the same strange trajectory and rushed towards the four evil sisters!

Seeing the missile approaching so close, Eugen on the right wing became impatient:

"Sister Bismarck, they are coming!"

"Got it. We are now six kilometers away... Attention everyone. Plan No. 2! Everyone, port side, infrared decoy flares, fire in salvos from the beginning to the end!"

"Bontai got it!" "Eugen understands!" "I know, I know, sister, my jammer is ready..."

"You're the only one who talks too much!" Bismarck always felt that his fingers were itchy and he wanted to grab the hamster and tap it on the forehead or something.

As soon as he finished speaking, on the originally quiet and deep dark sea, as the four warships in the fan-shaped formation turned to the right as planned, Bismarck, Tirpitz, and Prince Eugen and her sister looked at each other, and in order from front to back and from right to left, they fired the rockets on both sides of their ships.

Cluster after cluster of jammers, like fireworks, bloomed into clusters of orange-red fireworks in the dark night sky!

The strong signal of the jammer's heat source on the originally pitch-black sea surface was undoubtedly a strong stimulus to the poor performance of the first-generation infrared search and guidance head. Large areas of missiles with infrared guidance heads were confused by these "projections".

Under the direction of the infrared jammer "from right to left", the missiles that were originally flying around like headless flies immediately found their targets. The missiles equipped with infrared seekers turned their tail rudders one after another, turning the direction of the trajectory to the left side of the entire fleet. Even the refraction and reflection projection of the jammer's heat source on the sea surface could pull out a large area of ​​anti-ship missiles that were originally interfered with and changed their angles - these seekers that had no ability to distinguish regarded the projection on the sea surface as a target, then lowered their heads and plunged straight into the sea!

However, there were still many missiles flying towards the battleship Tirpitz on the left side of the entire formation - whether they were caused by infrared deception, attracted by Tirpitz's jammer, or even hit by chance, there were quite a few!

Looking at this situation, Bismarck's heart suddenly tightened!

The previous jamming bomb delivery strategy was to "lead" the missile net that was originally flying directly towards the entire formation to the side, in order to ensure the safety of the entire formation - especially the Zeppelin - as much as possible!

The fleet was heading southwest, and the British bombers dropped anti-ship missiles in the south-southeast position. Theoretically, the most "safe" approach was to pull the anti-ship missiles to the left wing of the entire fleet, which would have the highest probability of "missing".

But... such a tactic would put Tirpitz, who was insisting on staying on the far left wing, in a very dangerous position!

After all, the entire defensive fan is six or seven kilometers wide. Even if the missiles have caused the ship to be dizzy, the huge number and almost disordered trajectory still pose a great threat to the warship, which has a speed of only 35.6 knots and is only making two-dimensional evasive movements. At this moment, even if Bismarck only took a cursory observation, he found that there were at least thirty or forty missiles heading towards Tirpitz!

(In the late stage of the Vietnam War in 1972, even though the US jammers had completely suppressed Vietnam’s air defense missile forces, 930-950 air defense missiles still “hit” nearly 2 US aircraft - aircraft are at least targets moving at high speed in three-dimensional space, and the probability of being “hit” by a low-speed two-dimensional maneuvering target like a warship is undoubtedly more dangerous and more likely to be “hit” than an aircraft with a nearly % loss rate even with complete interference!)

"Tizi, the missile is heading towards you! Be careful!"

On the WIFI, Bismarck shouted to Grape - now she was so flustered that she could only shout like this!

At the same time as she shouted, forty or fifty missiles were coming towards her in front of her - the main body of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier was less than five kilometers behind her iron body!

"I know, I know. We just need to wait for them to get close and then throw a bunch of jammers at them... But if the ones who slipped through the net come to me, I'll be very unhappy!"

On the top of the bridge, Tirpitz, wearing a cloak and gritting his teeth, stared against the wind with wide eyes at the missiles that were already close at hand and arranged in a fan-shaped concentric attack posture. While muttering to himself, he grabbed the Gatling machine gun in front of him and pointed it in the direction of the incoming missiles!

The cloak fluttered, and the fire from the machine gun completely illuminated his figure in the night sky, like a witch controlling the god of fire, spewing a series of tongues of fire into the distance.

At the same time, the moment the missile flew towards the battleship Tirpitz, the five multi-barrel jammer launchers on the port side that had been deliberately reserved and not fired suddenly sprayed out a large area of ​​brilliant fireworks one after another, just like the rockets during the Chinese New Year that Bismarck had seen in his previous life! Even the dark Arctic Ocean seemed to be lit up!

The special fuel developed for the infrared band burned fiercely in the night sky, and the bright red light illuminated the dark sea! For the infrared-guided anti-ship missiles that were close at hand, "the flowers gradually dazzled the eyes, leaving only dizziness and turning." Under the deception of the jammers, the anti-ship missiles turned their rudders and rushed towards the direction of the fireworks.

"Very good, the infrared jammer should have fooled them! Then according to the plan, the next step is... Grapes, scatter chaff from the front, and at the same time, turn the towed jammer to maximum power!"

On the bridge of the Tirpitz, although he could not see the specific location of the anti-ship missiles outside the window, he saw the flashes of a series of jamming bombs being thrown out on the left side. Lindmann raised his eyelids slightly and reached out to pick up the microphone in front of him.

"I know, I know. I'm so fed up with it... Lindeman is such a bad guy. He just keeps pushing me!"

Right above Lindemann's head, a hamster wearing a cloak and baring its teeth was holding a Gatling gun and firing wildly into the night sky with a look of impatience, its mouth tilted to the side.

Amid the light of the infrared jammers and the glittering reflections of the foil strips, dense tracer bullets were seen streaking across the night sky, accompanied by a hissing sound. Two missiles were heading straight for the Tirpitz bridge and exploded on the spot.

However, under this explosion, the infrared seekers of several missiles turned towards this side - even the missiles on the other side that were originally in front of Bismarck and even Prinz Eugen, several missiles that were positioned behind and had messy turning trajectories, suddenly flew over from the side far away...

At the same time, on the bridge of the Bismarck battleship, which was also emitting dense fire and had just fired an anti-ship missile, another focused and strong female voice rang out: "...The main force of the missile wave is 1,500 meters away from me...Attention all ships, except for the Zeppelin, everyone, turn on the jammer!"

Before she finished her words, a soft but unambiguous voice came from the bridge of a warship that looked almost a size smaller than her on the starboard side behind her: "Sister Bismarck, Eugen understands!"

Between the order and the answer, both sides of the Bismarck battleship and the Bismarck heavy cruiser instantly scattered brilliant red flames, and beyond the red light, there were erratic flashes like stars.

The missile swarm in the sky was already very close, but under this sudden interference, the tail rudder couldn't help but turn a corner...

And in the next moment, in front of the three crimson warships, which were silhouetted against the red flash of the jamming bombs in the dark night, one black shadow after another, with irregular tracks, flew in twos and threes, in groups, or passed closely by the three warships, or plunged into the sea beside the warships!

But even so, the situation of dozens of anti-ship missiles almost simultaneously killing people was still very chaotic. Prince Eugen, who was protected by his two sisters on the flank, was fine, but Bismarck and Tirpitz, who had to face at least 30 missiles, faced completely disorderly attacks from all directions, and even the firepower of the mm machine guns was stretched!

"Damn it, the detonation distance is too close... Oops! Left side of the front bridge, pay attention to hiding... (Boom!)"

"(Boom!)... Ouch my old waist... Lindemann! Water is coming in the middle of the port side! Hurry up and call the damage control team! Ugh..."

"Eugen, watch out for the rear bridge!"

"Top, hold on tight, full left!"

"Unlucky, it was a near miss. It exploded fifty meters to the left and front. Water is entering the bow. Damage control team..."

"Ms. Bismarck, your towing jammer was blown over!"

"Damn it! I was wondering why all the missiles were coming at me... Damn it! I can't dodge this one (boom!)... Damn it! The rear main turret ring of the Caesar is stuck!"

"Damage control team, damage control team! Where are you! Go and rescue! ..."

In an instant, the damage control team became the busiest personnel on all ships.

Although it was only less than a minute, in the face of the locust-like swarms of missiles with erratic trajectories, everyone could only crouch and defend as much as possible, covering the two sides of their rear bridge and the stern - in these places, there were boxes of anti-ship missiles piled up! If they exploded, I'm afraid that this day next year would be the first anniversary of the death!

However, even if you are in a rush, misfortunes never come alone!

At this critical moment, the sharp-eyed Eugen discovered that more than a dozen missiles had crossed the interception line and flew towards Zeppelin...

Chapter 798: Three Ships Into One

"Captain Bangtai! Watch out for missiles!"

Eugen's urgent voice sounded in the radio of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier. Bangtai, who was standing in front of the window with headphones on, staring at the light and shadow of large patches of jammers not far ahead without saying a word, suddenly had a fixed look in his eyes!

"Anti-ship missiles...?"

At this moment, Bangtai's mood was a little complicated.

Previously in Bermuda, although Zeppelin had experienced an anti-ship missile attack, he was still seriously injured and unconscious at that time, and had not seen the attack of this thing with his own eyes. After returning to China, he rested in bed for several months. Even though he later saw relevant information and even saw the real thing, and even from just now, he had actually been facing the attack of anti-ship missiles. But the ship girl was not around, and in the pitch-black night, he could not see the attack path of the missile by himself. In addition, in the previous battle, Commander Lütjens and his defense line also intercepted most of the missiles, so in addition to hearing the "missile air raid warning", Bontai still had some uncertainty in his heart about the concept of such new weapons.

The unknown is scary, for everyone.

Moreover, as a captain, Bangtai has always had a sense of responsibility in his heart! Zeppelin often has to go out for air combat - her safety is all tied to him alone!

The responsibility in his heart and the pressure of facing new weapons weighed on Bangtai's forehead. In this winter night in the Arctic Circle, cold sweat had already seeped out - the sister ships in front were only 5,000 meters away from his Zeppelin. Although Bangtai had a slightly poor intuitive feeling for missiles, he judged without thinking: 5,000 meters, flying head-on, for missiles, this is only a distance of half a minute!

Previously, in order to lure the missiles away as much as possible, the Bismarck, Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen in front were firing jammers, using the closer distance and greater signal strength to interfere with the missiles. The Zeppelin's jammer was only in the warm-up state and did not release any jamming. As a result, when the missile rain arrived, the missiles still broke through the interception line in front?

However, he is a seasoned soldier after all - since he can't escape, he'll just follow the operating procedures!

"The main body chaff jammer is launched! The towed jammer infrared decoy is launched, and the electronic jammer is turned on at full power!"

His mind raced in an instant, Bangtai just raised his eyelids and loudly gave the combat order.

Although Bangtai looked calm as he watched his subordinates follow orders, what he was actually thinking was...

"Eugen, Top, I'm really unsure... It all depends on whether your operating procedures will work..."

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Because Bismarck's jammer was blown up, more than a dozen missiles that had no time to deceive directly broke through the formation's defense from the position between Eugen and Bismarck, and rushed straight towards Zeppelin! And it was not known whether there were any fish that slipped through the net like the Buddha's random missiles in the direction of Tirpitz on the other side...

Zeppelin was in danger, and there was no time to think about anything else! Seeing that the missiles around him had basically flown out, Eugen, who was furious, didn't care that this was the bridge command post, and disappeared on the ship in full view of everyone. At the end, he only said one sentence: "Top, I'm going to Zeppelin to save the situation!"

Before Top could react, Eugen had disappeared from his side with a whoosh, leaving behind only the captain who was still leaning forward with his arms outstretched, as if trying to grab something...

On the contrary, the officers and soldiers around had already become accustomed to this and were not surprised.

After all, how many years have they served on this ship? Not to mention that many of them were old subordinates who were thrown out of the Arctic Fleet by Kumets along with Top.

But... with Eugen's disappearance, the radar screen on the Prince Eugen was instantly covered with snowflakes - the strong electronic interference on the battlefield was still on!

Everyone in the bridge, from Top to the sailors, looked at each other in bewilderment at the radar that had completely failed, suddenly at a loss as to what to do.

Without the presence of the ship girls, everyone suddenly felt a little lost.

"Don't just stand there, you won't fight without her?" Top shouted, "Keep going!"

"Yes!"

-------The scene was very funny at one point---

Eugen teleported to the edge of the Zeppelin's deck, raised his eyes slightly, and discovered the clue.

Even at this moment, Captain Bonte had ordered the Zeppelin's towed jammer to be turned on and dropped clusters of chaff bombs, but among the dozen or so missiles that broke through, there were still several missiles flying towards the Zeppelin!

Moreover, on the other side, many missiles from the direction of Tirpitz flew over and out of the interference range of Tirpitz. They were attracted by Zeppelin's jammers again and were slowly turning around - because Tirpitz was holding the line in the front, the number of these missiles was even greater than the missiles that broke through from its side!

For a moment, the Zeppelin was caught in the crossfire of nearly forty missiles from two directions!

Even though Bangtai had turned on the jammer and scattered infrared jammers and chaff bombs, there were always a few smart missiles that could threaten Zeppelin's safety under such a dense attack from both sides!

Looking at the missiles flying all over the sky, Eugen, with circles in his eyes, felt a little dizzy. There were targets and enemies everywhere.

"Ah... Why are there so many... Close-in weapon systems, close-in weapon systems, where are the close-in weapon systems..."

The range of the close-in defense gun is only a little over a thousand meters, which means it will only take ten seconds to fire at the "Bat" anti-ship missile with a speed of only 480 kilometers!

The distance between the missile and Zeppelin is less than twenty seconds at most!

Ignoring the nervous damage control sailors on the deck, Prince Eugen stretched his neck, stood at the side of the ship and looked around, then ran towards the "depression" in front of the angled deck and the intersection of the bow flight deck, dragging his two long braids. A delicate figure flashed and entered it in an instant - on the ear platform below this "depression" were two fully loaded close-in defense guns!

The infrared jammers flying all over the sky illuminated the sea behind them red. In front of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier under the red light of the hot flames, dense foil strips reflected the twinkling lights. Under such fierce and intensive self-defense interference, black phantoms appeared and disappeared in the red light on the sea surface, and then every now and then, one after another, on the sea surface around the Zeppelin aircraft carrier in the polar night, dark and cold water columns were exploded. In the next moment, the hissing flames dragged out long tracers, cutting through the night sky that was already intertwined with light and shadow!

Two anti-ship missiles that Eugen identified as threatening exploded one after another under the strafing of the Gatling gun. However, the missiles from the Bismarck and Tirpitz on the other side had already dived over from another angle! And that direction was exactly the blind spot of the close defense gun where Eugen was!

Because the middle part had to make room for the huge and heavy angled deck and steam catapult, the Zeppelin's close-in defense guns on the port side could only be placed on the ears on both sides of the bow and stern. The position in the middle separated by the angled deck was the blind spot that prevented the bow machine guns from firing towards the stern.

"Oh no, this..."

Eugen was horrified, but before he could panic, he saw two blazing lines of fire suddenly appear at the position of the stern ear platform! Two anti-ship missiles attacked from the stern, and within seconds after the two Gatling guns opened fire, they were hit by 30mm armor-piercing shells one after another. The penetration and secondary explosion of 30mm armor-piercing shells that could easily tear through the side and top armor of tanks were not something that the "Bat" could withstand even with a 454kg armor-piercing shell equipped with a cap layer on the front!

"This is……"

Eugen, who was a little dazed, blinked and stretched out her perception - a secretary ship with flying blonde hair, accompanied by a pink-haired hamster with gnashing teeth, was holding a close-in defense gun and firing at the anti-ship missiles in the sky!

Under the flash of machine gun fire, another anti-ship missile turned into a bright but no longer threatening firework in the night sky. The blonde secretary ship that destroyed the missile even glanced at him, raised the corner of her mouth slightly, and even reached out her hand to straighten her hat:

Bismarck and Tirpitz are here! They must have known the crisis on Zeppelin's side, so they temporarily put down their own defenses and rushed over.

"We are here, Eugen, just watch your shooting range!"

"Yeah! Okay, okay!"