When the Axis bombers were only more than 80 kilometers away from the port, the second batch of Yaman fighter jets took off and rushed towards them, instantly disrupting the formation of the Dauntless dive bombers. The second batch of fighter jets were not Lightning fighters.
This formation was composed of the later imported Golden Eagle 3 fighter jets and the domestically produced BF109e fighter jets of the Yaman Empire. Facing the slow dive bombers, these single-engine fighters were more flexible and they quickly pounced into the opponent's fleet.
, and a massacre began.
The Dreadnought bomber's speed is only 341 kilometers per hour, and its weapons only have two 7.7mm machine guns that shoot backwards. Such weak armaments face a machine with large-caliber cannons whose speed is at least half as high as it.
The enemy planes had absolutely no power to fight back.
Facing the menacing Yaman Air Force, they could only throw away bombs randomly to reduce weight, and then fled in all directions. The Yaman Air Force did not intend to let go of these enemies who had begun to escape. They relied on their own speed advantage
, began to chase and kill.
The Avenger torpedo fleet at low altitude saw that no one was paying attention to them, so they thought they had a plan. They still rushed towards The Hague Port at low altitude. The harbor was gradually approaching. When these aircraft rushed through the clouds towards the dock area,
They were immediately dumbfounded.
The warships that were supposed to be parked neatly on the pier actually disappeared. The entire pier was empty without the slightest trace of a target. Before the pilots of these torpedo planes could react, anti-aircraft fire from all directions had already covered them.
Caught off guard, the torpedo planes flying at low speed and altitude were shot down one after another before they had time to evade.
Seeing that there was no trace of the enemy fleet, and the torpedo planes were equipped with aviation torpedoes, which were not suitable for bombing port targets, they called the fleet on the radio and quickly turned around to evacuate. With numerous scars, the torpedoes
The aircraft formation left more than thirty comrades behind, then broke out of the fire net and evacuated towards the main fleet.
Hearing that the opponent was ready, the bomber group that had already scattered also wanted to escape from the fleet. Even the fighter force broke away from the opponent. With a higher speed than the Lightning fighter, the F4U Corsair fighter group also
They started to retreat, but they didn't know that the danger had just begun.
When the carrier-based aircraft of the Axis Third Fleet exchanged fire with the land-based air force at the port, Major General Bastian telegraphed the situation to Lieutenant General Dönitz, who immediately received the news.
Six BF109T fighter jets equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks were allowed to take off. They flew towards the sea outside The Hague Port and launched a search for the Axis fleet. However, the Yaman people's luck was not good. Until the end of the air battle, they also
The opponent's aircraft carrier was not found.
When Major General Bastian reported again that he had repelled the enemy's incoming fighter jets and was pursuing them, Lieutenant General Dönitz felt that an opportunity had come. While he ordered the long-range Lightning fighters to continue the pursuit, he ordered all ships to
The aircraft took off with all their bombs fully loaded and flew in the direction pointed by the Lightning fighter.
Dönitz did not know the specific location of the Axis fleet, but he knew that as long as he got closer to the opponent, the chance of success would be greater. He was making a dangerous gamble. Once the plane consumed too much fuel, it would still be
If they fail to find the opponent's fleet, they will have to return. If this happens, not only will they lose the opportunity to attack the opponent's fleet, but they may also be attacked by the opponent's fleet.
Many of the Axis planes, who were as aggressive as bereft dogs, were seriously injured. They were afraid that they would not be able to fly back to the ship and land on the ship and crash on the sea. With the fighter jets behind them chasing closely, how could they have thought that they would attract ghosts to their doorstep, like a lightning strike?
When the fighter jet saw the opponent's fleet in the distance, the coordinates were immediately reported to Dönitz.
With accurate coordinates, the Yaman carrier-based aircraft group immediately rushed towards the Third Fleet of the Axis Powers. At this moment, the fleet commander, Lieutenant General Brinston, did not know that the danger was approaching. He just ordered the fighter jets on alert above the fleet to
They chased away the Lightning fighter jets that were chasing them, but those Lightning fighters had completed their mission and were about to run out of fuel, so they chose to return without fighting those pirate fighter jets.
Seeing the opponent leaving, Lieutenant General Brinston immediately ordered the returning planes to land. Just as the planes were landing one after another, the air defense alarm of the Axis fleet sounded. The Yaman carrier-based aircraft mixed formation finally arrived at the Axis fleet.
in the sky, and because the No. 1102 Black Feather reconnaissance aircraft finally completed the lock on the radars of both warring parties, he had turned on his own radar jammer at full power. Under its interference, the radars of both sides were like snowflakes.
It had no early warning effect at all. All radars failed, and the Axis fleet could only rely on lookouts to detect the enemy's situation. However, the speed of the aircraft was too fast, and by the time the lookouts issued a warning, it was already too late.
Planes returning from attacking the ports are landing in large numbers, and the decks of several aircraft carriers are filled with various aircraft, including bombers, torpedo planes and fighter jets that have just landed, as well as other fighter jets waiting for the next wave to replace the warning aircraft.
At this critical moment, the Yaman Air Force came into the air.
A large number of Swordfish torpedo planes lowered their altitude and rushed to the sides of each large warship, desperately releasing torpedoes. However, those Junkers 87b dive bombers used an aircraft weighing 800 kilograms at a vertical angle of nearly 90 degrees.
The bomb struck the broad deck of the aircraft carrier, which was still busy.
A dozen pirate fighter jets that were on alert in the air were about to step forward to intercept them when they were stopped by as many as seventy BF109T fighter jets. The two sides started a fierce battle in the sky, while the Axis powers, which were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, quickly
The beginning of losses.
Seeing that our own fighter jets were suffering losses and were about to run out of fuel, a large number of Corsair fighter jets that had not yet landed rushed up. However, they did not have much fuel. Under the heavy overload air battle, the fuel quickly ran out.
In just seven or eight minutes, some fighter jets had to make an emergency landing on the sea. In the end, the Axis powers' bombers and torpedo planes, which had no chance of winning, also rushed up, interfering with the Yaman attack.
Each warship immediately set up its own anti-aircraft artillery fire, interweaving dense firepower into a fire net, and tightly blocking the sky above the fleet. However, the Yaman people remained unmoved and continued to attack the fleet persistently. The roar of the planes
The sound of bomb explosions and the rapid firing of anti-aircraft guns were intertwined, and the entire sea seemed to be boiling.
The torpedo planes of the Yaman Air Force are desperately attacking, but under the intensive anti-aircraft firepower, they do not have much advantage, especially when the aircraft carrier is surrounded by small warships, their torpedoes are often blocked by those destroyers who are not afraid of death.
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When all the ammunition of the torpedo fleet was used up, they only destroyed five destroyers, three cruisers and one battleship. As the aircraft carrier was the most tightly protected, none of them succeeded, and it itself was destroyed due to its slow speed.
More than twenty were shot down.
Compared with the old-fashioned torpedo planes, the performance of the Junkers 87b carrier-based dive bomber manufactured by the Yamans is much better. When diving from the air, the flat straight runway of the aircraft carrier becomes the best target.
The first plane succeeded in a sneak attack and dropped an 800-kilogram bomb on the middle of the deck of the USS Lexington.
This heavy aerial bomb penetrated the flight deck without armor protection, fell directly into the hangar and exploded, igniting several fighter jets parked in the hangar that were full of fuel and bombs. The fire ignited the aviation in the next cabin.
The violent combustion of fuel caused a big explosion in the entire aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier with a displacement of 37,500 tons immediately fell into a raging fire. It was only a matter of time before the ship was abandoned.
The Bostonians had no experience in aircraft carrier design, which made them suffer. The flight deck without armor protection became the most vulnerable target. When the aircraft carriers were set on fire, Lieutenant General Brinston even wanted to die.
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After all, the bomb load of carrier-based aircraft is limited. When the carrier-based aircraft of Dönitz's fleet began to return, there were still six aircraft carriers belonging to the Third Fleet of the Axis Powers surviving, while the other seven aircraft carriers had not much to save.
They have become the most expensive torches on the sea.
After the catastrophe, the Axis fleet was busy rescuing fallen soldiers, repairing ships and putting out fires, while the aircraft carriers began to be busy dispatching surviving aircraft to land quickly. If these aircraft did not land, they would also crash on the sea.
Most of the planes were Avenger torpedo planes with a longer range, and those fighters and bombers were already floating in the sea.
Just when the fleet was busy, the air defense siren sounded again. The confused sailors looked at the sky. They didn't know where this attack was coming from. And a dark group of aircraft in the distance was approaching. When those
When the plane took off, the Axis sailors were surprised to find that these huge figures were actually Yaman Kunpeng 2 bombers.
Major General Bastian was not a mediocre person. When he learned that Dönitz's carrier-based aircraft force was preparing to attack the Axis sneak attack fleet, he immediately forcibly recruited more than 90 Kunpeng 2 bombers from nearby airports.
Let them fly towards the same coordinate point with a large number of 500 kilogram bombs, and what protects them is a group of Golden Eagle 3 fighter jets that have been refueled.
Facts have proved that Major General Bastian's idea was very good. When the Axis fleet experienced an air attack and was trying its best to rescue the wounded and warships, the land-based bombers of the Yaman Army came into the air. The Axis sailors hurriedly
He ran towards the anti-aircraft gun emplacement, but the Yaman bombs had already fallen.