Of course, it is impossible to attack a country by relying only on the fleet. Even if Chen Mo has the Space Marines and the Krieg Death Corps in his hands, it is impossible to attack a country by relying on the army alone.
No matter how useless Italy is, it is still one of the great powers. It has at least hundreds of thousands of modern troops. If you want to occupy the entire country in a frontal attack, you will definitely need the navy and air force as assistance.
The navy is assisted by the British Mediterranean Fleet, and the Egyptian navy itself also has a certain degree of strength. Whether it is attacking ports, covering landings, or transport escorts, it can basically handle it.
But the Air Force was not so calm.
To attack a country across the sea and also want to provide air support to seize air supremacy, even in later generations, the United States will have to dispatch the aircraft carrier formations it relies on to dominate the world, and it will still fight a battle with considerable asymmetry in strength.
Even if it is as powerful as the US emperor, I dare not say that I can challenge the airspace of the other five good people or first-class powers with only one aircraft carrier formation.
This has nothing to do with the combat power of the aircraft carrier formation, it's just that the number of carrier-based aircraft is not enough to seize a country's air supremacy.
After all, as long as a country with sufficient strength has a complete air defense system and air force, quantitative changes can still lead to qualitative changes before a technological generation gap is formed.
An aircraft carrier with twenty or thirty carrier-based aircraft is indeed very powerful and can easily crush the airspace of a small country. But when faced with a big or powerful country, the other party can also pull out dozens of fighter jets with good performance to compete with the aircraft carrier formation for the airspace.
When setting up an air defense network on one's own country's territory, no matter how powerful the aircraft carrier fleet is, they dare not say that they can capture a country.
With the development of science and technology in later generations, when the gap in weapons power between large countries and small countries has become wider and wider, aircraft carrier formations alone cannot capture a country's airspace, let alone it is still only during World War II.
Unless Chen Mo is willing to pull out the jet aircraft that are still in the trial production stage and invest them in the attack on Italy, otherwise, if he relies only on piston aircraft, the total of more than 70 Skyraiders on the two Egyptian aircraft carriers will really be
Can't beat the Italian Air Force.
After all, people can rely on land-based airports and take off a fleet of aircraft several times the number of aircraft carriers to conduct air combat.
Therefore, if you want to engage in air combat, you must increase the number of fighter planes put into the battlefield.
And land-based aircraft are undoubtedly an important factor.
In this era, although the aircraft carrier had just carried out a beautiful raid, which proved the practicality of the aircraft carrier, the UK had no way to increase the number of aircraft carriers in a short period of time, let alone invest in this war.
As for fighter jets taking off from an airport controlled by the British and flying to Italy to engage in air combat... based on the performance of piston aircraft, such a long-distance flight is not yet possible.
It seemed that there was no choice but to rely on more than a hundred fighters from two Egyptian aircraft carriers and one British aircraft carrier to fight the air battle. But for Chen Mo, the matter was not without a solution.
Of course, the jet he put in his hands or simply asked the Space Marines or Krieg to perform an orbital airborne landing would definitely solve all problems.
However, the investment in doing so is a bit too high, and it is suspected of using the east wind to ward off mosquitoes.
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The most important thing is that once he does this, I am afraid that all countries in the world will regard Egypt as a life-and-death enemy, and this world war will immediately turn its finger on him.
Although he was not afraid and could defeat all countries, Chen Mo did not intend to play like this.
At this time, the three aircraft carriers were not operating together with the Mediterranean Fleet. They were traveling alone as a formation in the waters between Italy and Egypt, about one-third of the way to the entire voyage.
The fighter jets taking off from Egypt and surrounding British airports are flying over the fleet in batches as planned, and then landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier to refuel and hang bombs. After the preparation is completed, they take off immediately, and then engage in the attack on Italy.
Airspace is in contention.
This is Chen Mo's plan to use three aircraft carriers as temporary sea airports to prepare and refuel shore-based aircraft. In this era when there are no tankers yet, complete a refueling relay, allowing these aircraft to gain a longer range and be able to fly from
The Egyptian mainland flew to Italy to fight.
Of course, this plan itself is extremely dangerous and uncertain, and it is also very difficult to implement.
The shore-based aircraft is not a carrier-based aircraft, and the pilot has never taken off and landed on the aircraft carrier deck. Even though in theory, the low-speed performance of the piston aircraft is not bad, it can take off and land in short distances, and can land on the aircraft carrier deck, relying on the catapult.
Can take off.
However, trying to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier that is almost the size of a washbasin in the vast ocean is a matter of risking one's face and one's life. The aircraft carrier's carrier-based aircraft themselves have a high probability of failing to land, let alone never.
The Army Air Force has landed on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
Even if hooks can be temporarily installed on all Army Aircraft aircraft and short-term training can be conducted on land, how to coordinate such a large-scale transfer is still a huge problem.
You must know that in this era, not every aircraft had a radio. Communication and coordination between pilots usually relied on hand gestures and other signals.
However, these problems are not unsolvable for Chen Mo, and they are not very troublesome.
The temporary modification of aircraft is naturally not a big problem. It is nothing more than adding a landing hook to each aircraft and installing a set of radios. Before the operation begins, make a rigorous enough plan and do a good job of coordination to ensure that all fleets
They arrived at the location of the aircraft carrier in batches, then landed one after another. After preparations were completed, they quickly took off and regrouped for combat.
As long as everything goes well, this plan is actually very feasible. The only problem may be that the plane lands.
After all, even for the aircraft carrier's carrier-based aircraft, in daily training, almost one-third of the aircraft were damaged due to various accidents during landing, and the proportion of losses was even comparable to that in wartime.
Moreover, the sea environment is far more complicated than that on land. Just like a joke goes, for two pilots with 4,000 hours of flight time, the Army pilot only needs 1,000 hours to train and learn, and the remaining 3,000 hours can be used
To accumulate flight experience, carrier-based aircraft pilots need to spend two thousand hours learning how to land on an aircraft carrier.
But there is no absolutely perfect plan in the world, so Chen Mo finally decided to implement this plan.
At his insistence, the British had no choice but to dispatch the aircraft carrier Glorious to cooperate, and also dispatched a large transport fleet to provide fuel and ammunition for the aircraft coming to transfer.
Relying on the coordination of radio communications that were ahead of the times, although there were still some minor disturbances, in the end a huge fleet of aircraft appeared in Italian airspace.
