A fleet of US Navy air warships flew from Britain over the airspace of the French colony, a fleet of two air fleet squadrons. And its commander was Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey, Lieutenant General Chester William Nimitz, who lost his rank of lieutenant general, promoted him to Lieutenant General just one day later.

But this must be a warning, and then he was transferred from the Pacific Fleet. Only this time, he became the US Mediterranean Fleet. He will work with the British fleet on Maltese Island to support the British Mediterranean Fleet's operations, and at the same time, he will keep crude oil transport open.

It is impossible not to mention that World War II was the most dependent on oil in military history. I don’t know what the war will be like in the future, but now the war has forced the United States to exploit its own coastal oil resources.

In this matter, almost all the world envies the Federation of China because their civilian transportation almost does not use oil. It seems that the huge oil pipelines have been pouring oil from the Middle East into the "Honey Hive Great Wall" near the seabed of the Federation of China. Moreover, under the squeezing of airship transportation, most of the ships with almost no business operations are also carrying out this business.

God knows how much oil reserves the Chinese Federation has under its sea in the past ten years. Some people say it was a big incendiary bomb, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Federation immediately spoke out that it was the umbilical cord of human beings. Some people throw weapons there, and different Chinese defense forces will immediately use thermonuclear weapons to carry out devastating strikes.

In fact, there is no such possibility. Even if there is a cruise missile, there is still no such possibility. There is no possibility of strikes in the sea, under the sea, or in the air. It is not just a problem with nuclear Weihe, but the Chinese Sea is really a forbidden zone for life for foreign military organizations.

Sicily's disadvantages have attracted great attention from the US government. They cannot lose the power there. Even if Sicily is defeated, the Mediterranean cannot lose control. This is the most basic requirement of the US government for crude oil demand.

As mentioned earlier, the United States was actually a country controlled by some super chaebols. Perhaps after Franklin Roosevelt completely completed the reform of the stock market, the chaebols' control over the United States would have a tendency to thaw. But before that, this was the reality of the United States.

The defeat of the Sicily War caused an immediate uproar in the US Congress. People mainly composed of energy and industrialists began to accuse the government of saying that the government condoned the military to replace competent generals who had connections with competent generals. This was a completely wrong move. Even racists in the United States accused the government of discriminating against the "Chinese Hall".

The reason is that the Chinese are almost all races in the world at this moment. After all, no race in the world will be as strict and powerful as they protect the citizens of the Chinese Federation, expatriates and blood-related ethnic groups. Even when the Nazis in Germany proposed their theory of the best race in the world, they would not forget to add a "group with the Chinese, including the Chinese, only the Chinese and the citizens of the Chinese Federation, which they selected from the elites all over the world."

Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey, probably with the support of the chaebols, was promoted from major general to lieutenant general in one day. At this moment, he, as commander of the Allied Mediterranean Joint Naval Command, appeared over Africa with two air fleets...

Both fleets are already brand new equipment. They use hard airships developed by the United States, and the engines of the spacecraft are replaced by turbofan engines like the Global Hawk of the China Federation. This new type of air warship is a large flying wing, which is wider than the arrow shape of the "Global Hawk" of the China Federation.

Large-scale hard aluminum alloy and fiberglass are used to make the materials. Of course, there is no need to worry that the United States will surpass the Chinese Federation in the technology of airships. The next generation of airships of the Chinese Federation are in the design and manufacturing process. The resource strategy of the Chinese Federation is not much to say here. With sufficient raw materials, the next generation of airships are mainly made of composite materials, titanium, high-hard aluminum alloys and other materials.

In addition to the fact that the Chinese Federation's airship manufacturing technology cannot be surpassed by the United States, the US airship technology has surpassed other countries in the world. However, it will take a very long time to form a sufficient scale. This is especially true in the competition of many large aircraft manufacturing consortiums.

Therefore, the main purpose of the US airship is military use. This "Washington-class flying wing air warship" is like a huge bat. It can carry 300 tons of payload and has 20 air aircraft carriers. At the call of the chaebolists, Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey brought his air fleet to the Mediterranean.

The number of ships in the two air fleets under him increased from the past 30 to 45 respectively. Among them, the carriers of the air aircraft carriers are P-51 Mustang-style aviation loading type. They not only used the folding wings of the navy, but also made more emphasis. They also removed the equipment needed for surface aircraft carriers such as corrosion protection and other anti-corrosion and other equipment needed for surface aircraft carriers on the warships. The weight was reduced, and the maneuverability at the peer power was better than that of the fighter aircraft on land and surface aircraft carriers, and it was close to the performance level of the Seraph-Sarav Piston Fighting Attack Aircraft.

The 20 air aircraft carriers were loaded with 400 P-51 Mustang fighters, and the other 15 air warships were loaded with 4,500 tons of long-range attack ammunition. From rockets to the "Paving Stone Series", there were even rotor-type TV-guided bombs produced by Germany. However, in the US military, this type of bomb that relies on rotor control is called the "needle-tip series". It also includes a considerable number of "magic arrow series air defense missiles" and Vi-S-type ground missiles.

This can only show that when air warships have relatively air supremacy, their huge ammunition load capacity and combat platforms with higher maneuverability than warships have good application prospects in the war at this time.

In addition to guiding, there are also a new generation of reconnaissance/command/electronic warfare airships modified with the "Washington-class Flying Winged Aircraft" in the fleet every day called "Sentinel". Each air fleet is equipped with 5. The rest also includes two "Elephant-class transport airships" that also use the "Washington-class Flying Winged Aircraft" and three low-resistance refueling airships. The "Sentinel" - 1 of the reconnaissance/command/electronic warfare airships, which exists as a command boat. Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey's seat was built on one of them.

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More supplies were now being used to come from the sea with fleets. This shows that the Americans would not give up on their battles in Sicily, they would fight until victory.

At this time, Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey was sitting on a comfortable single sofa. The display he faced was an LCD monitor. Before officially turning against the Chinese Federation, he purchased the last batch of civilian-grade monitors. All of them were installed on the "Washington-class Flying Wing Air Battleship".

As before, his three adjutants were in front of his console. It is gratifying that these three adjutants are still the three female majors in the past, and they did not leave because of the demotion of Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey.

"Sir, we just received a video signal from the battlefield near Palermo. Do you need to watch it?"

The three of them competed very fiercely with each other as before. Although they were very good friends when they were off the job, they were very happy when they were on the job.

"Okay, put it on my display!"

The use of "sentinel" at this moment - reconnaissance/command/electronic warfare airship as the command ship, the ability to process information is many times faster than in the past. Moreover, the higher degree of automation has also reduced everyone's workload a lot. Although the automation equipment of the US military is still just analog signals, far from meeting the standards of digital signals of the Federal Defense Forces of China.

On the plains near Palermo, the attack of the elite Italian troops was subjected to strong counterattacks by the US troops commanded by Omar Nelson Bradre. The firepower of light weapons, as well as relying on explosives and mines, American soldiers were using their lives to stop the advance of the elite Italian troops.

At this time, Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey saw a surprising scene from the display screen. What flew into the air was obviously the "Divine Arrow Series Air Defense Missiles". But their targets were not some air fighter jets. On the contrary, they rushed straight to the ground.

Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey shook his head slightly at the scene in front of him.
Chapter completed!