Chapter 559: Coral Sea Aircraft Carrier Battle III
After the Japanese army successfully landed on Tulagi Island, the Shoho and the escort ships responsible for covering it would immediately sail westward and directly join the naval forces covering the landing. However, after learning that the Typhoon-class submarine of the Far East Navy appeared, the Japanese army
He immediately fled north, hoping to head to the waters near Hawaii and join the Japanese first formation.
Because the kid knows very well that the Typhoon-class strategic submarine of the Far East Navy is the deadly killer of the aircraft carrier battle group.
But just as the Shoho sailed north, the air force of the Hawaiian Islands had already begun to launch the first wave of air battles in the Coral Sea against the Japanese First Air Force. The famous Coral Sea aircraft carrier battle in the history of world naval warfare officially began.
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At present, the J-11 and J-13 of the Far East Air Force have obvious advantages in aircraft performance compared to the R-31, P-5, P-6, B-92 and other aircraft of the Japanese and American armed forces. In addition, the Far East Air Force
The technical and tactical levels of the pilots are high, and the final results are very obvious. However, the numerical comparison between the enemy and ourselves is currently 1:3, which means that one Far East fighter has to face three Japanese and American fighter jets.
The J-11 is the first generation fighter of the Far East Air Force, and the J-13 is the second generation. The Japanese R-31 fighter is a mixture of the first and second generations. The U.S. Air Force’s P-5 and P-6 are the second generation.
The second-generation model is an aviation weapon of the same level as the Far East J-11 fighter. After all, the Far East Air Force is technologically advanced, but the two sides have different aerial tactics and fighter performance.
In terms of maximum speed in the air, the Far East and American fighter jets are almost the same. However, the J-11 is a weapon for low-altitude combat, and the two models of the U.S. Air Force can take advantage of the ascending efficiency at various altitudes. When the altitude exceeds 3,000 meters
As mentioned above, the U.S. Air Force's fighter aircraft have an overall advantage in maneuverability, but the U.S. does not have an absolute advantage in altitude, because the Far East Air Force also has the J-13 specifically designed for medium and low altitudes.
As for the J-11, when the altitude is below 3,000 meters, the dive speed increases very quickly and can be controlled within the radius of horizontal hovering. It has good aerial deceleration performance. Otherwise, it is easy to crash the aircraft in low-altitude operations. Moreover, the fighter rolls very fast, and in terms of firepower, the J-11 can defeat -
11 is equipped with one 32-meter and two 17-millimeter aircraft cannons. The shells of these two calibers are extremely powerful. However, the US military P-5 and P-6 fighter jets will hit one 32-meter shell or two 17-mm shells.
If hit by a millimeter shell, it will inevitably fall.
The B-92 bomber only needs to be hit by 3 rounds of 32mm bombs or 8 rounds of 17mm bombs, which is enough to destroy it in the air. However, the firing speed of these aerial cannons equipped by the Far East fighter aircraft is relatively low, firing every second.
The number of artillery shells is very small, 7 rounds per second for the 32mm gun and 14 rounds per second for the 17mm gun, so you must aim to hit.
U.S. fighter planes are generally equipped with six 12mm machine guns, which have a high firepower density and can fire 120 rounds per second. They are very easy to hit the target. However, due to the low power of the bullets, according to analysis, U.S. fighter planes want
To destroy a Far East Air Force fighter, you need to hit an average of 15 bullets or more before it is possible to destroy the Far East fighter. The Japanese fighter is also the same as the United States. After all, the Japanese technology is learned from the Americans.
This naval battle in the Pacific is of great significance to the future course of the Japanese army, but for the Far East Army, this is just a matter of convenience. Since the armistice in 1902, the Far East Group's blockade of little Japan has been going on, especially
It was a Japanese destroyer that sank last year while laying mines at Darwin Harbor, the Japanese naval base.
However, the Far East Navy subsequently used a small submarine operation boat carried by the Typhoon class to retrieve the latest Japanese code book from the Japanese Ito Uemoto. In the following ten months, a large amount of Japanese military intelligence accumulated, especially in
Before the air attack on the Japanese island, any excessive reaction made by Japan would fall in the eyes of the Far East Army, because the Far East intelligence department had begun to gradually decipher the special code of the Japanese military, and used scattered intelligence to gradually map out this incident.
The spearhead of the Japanese offensive.
The secret of all this is also one of the important foundations for the Far East Navy to finally fight with the Japanese and American combined fleets in this Pacific War. Although all the movements of the Japanese military were obtained by deciphering the code, they knew that the Japanese army was about to attack Mo.
Landing will be carried out at Erbiz Port, and at the same time the advance team of the Japs will first occupy Tulagi Island. After the Far East Army has basically grasped the total force invested by the Japanese.
Li Ningyu decided to give the Japs a show of strength first, mainly to prevent the Japanese troops from landing at the Port of Morbizi, but this was not a Coral Sea aircraft carrier battle group, the main military operation of the war.
Because it is not easy for the Far East Army's military power in the Pacific region to assemble the necessary forces to deal with the enemies of Japan and the United States, because this time the Far East Navy's Pacific Fleet cannot provide too many
Help, after all, the main mission of this fleet is to protect Alaska and other American islands belonging to the Far East Group.
Fortunately, the USS Enterprise and the USS Hornet are still being repaired at the West Coast dockyard of the United States and are not participating in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Therefore, the only ones available to the US Navy are the Pacific Fleet's 8th Task Force Lexington.
Task Force 17 and the aircraft carrier Yorktown, as well as 8 cruisers and 13 destroyers, are under the unified command of U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Fletcher. The two fleets have entered the Coral Sea area.
So after the first battle began, U.S. Navy Commander Fletcher received a notification from the Japanese army and clearly knew the news that the Japanese army had successfully landed on Tulagi Island. He immediately ordered the U.S. medium aircraft carrier USS Yorktown to remain
Standby on the sea more than a hundred miles west of Buttercup Point.
However, he immediately ordered the two aircraft carriers of the U.S. fleet to be filled with fuel immediately, and all carrier-based aircraft were also immediately on standby. He also ordered the Lexington to sail north to the central Solomon Islands at a speed of 26 knots per hour.
sea area, so that the U.S. Navy formation was divided into two, forming a northwest corner, while the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet assembled in the northeast corner.
In the first battle, the Far East Air Force dispatched from the Hawaii Islands base, thirty-three J-11s and twenty J-13s, formed a huge air fleet and went straight to the two light aircraft carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku of Japan.
The battle group left.
When this news was discovered, it was immediately known to the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet, so more than fifty R-31 fighter jets on the Japanese Shokaku immediately took off for combat. However, the Zuihe had no carrier-based fighters and could only attack the American aircraft carrier.
The Lexington retreated.
But the Far East Huadong aircraft carrier battle group, which had been waiting for the opportunity for a long time, immediately took action. So the four Yanhuang class light aircraft carriers from Fujian, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Jiangxi, and all fighters and bombers took off for combat. Their goal was only one, and that was the small aircraft carrier.