The escort fighters of the Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet were spread out widely and flew at very low altitudes, hoping to avoid detection by search radars. However, the three anti-aircraft missile battalions deployed by the Anjia Army on the west island of the Cocos Islands were still on alert.
With the help of target designation radar, these fighter jets were locked.
As mentioned earlier, a complete air defense missile system includes a command center, guidance station, surveillance radar, missiles and launchers. Each missile battalion includes twelve systems. One system can command twelve missiles to attack six at the same time.
Targets, each target can be attacked with one missile or with a salvo of two missiles, with a launch interval of three seconds.
Therefore, a total of thirty-six systems from three anti-aircraft missile battalions can attack 216 targets at the same time in one salvo, posing an extremely great threat to the Japanese escort fighter jets.
When the Japanese escort fighter escorted the fleet to safely arrive fifteen nautical miles southeast of the East Island of the Cocos Islands, General Nagumo Chuichi ordered some escort fighters to be sent to conduct reconnaissance over the Cocos Islands. The remaining escort fighters covered the bombers as they took off to attack the Anjia Army.
Deployed for bombing of facilities on the east and west islands of the Cocos Islands.
At this moment, a blow that no one had expected suddenly came.
In the dense forest in the southern part of the West Island, following an order from the command center, hundreds of "Houyi" i-e anti-aircraft missiles rushed out of the launcher and flew away. Under the guidance of warning and target designation radars, one after another air defense missiles
The missile trailed a long tail flame and white smoke, and at a speed of Mach 1.6 per second, it flew toward its prey like an eagle soaring in the sky.
The Japanese escort fighter jets were stunned when they saw countless plumes of smoke flying towards them at high speed. They didn't know what they were. After asking the fleet aviation command to no avail, they had to hurriedly fly fighter planes to evade them.
After continuous improvements, the hit rate of the "Houyi" I-type air defense missile has now been improved a lot, at least when the opponent has no preparations and is shocked and hesitant when seeing the missile for the first time. Chapter 2199 Missile hit before the victory
The rate is astonishing.
While the Japanese pilots were desperately pulling up or diving, the missiles accurately self-destructed as they approached their respective targets.
The first three models of the i-type anti-aircraft missiles all have built-in rod-shaped preset fragments in the body. After actual combat testing, although the irregular damage caused by such fragments to the body is huge, the effective distance is limited, and the maximum killing radius is less than 100 meters.
Starting from the i-d type, technical experts from the Air Defense Missile Research Institute have tried to replace the rod-shaped preset fragments in the missile warhead with steel ball-type preset fragments of the same weight. After many experiments, it has been proved that although the streamlined round steel balls are less powerful
decreased, but the killing radius suddenly increased to 200 meters, and the unit strike density also increased a lot. After that, the i-e air defense missile officially adopted this design.
"Boom boom——"
The fire flickered, and countless unlucky Japanese escort fighter jets became the result of the I-E anti-aircraft missiles. One after another, the "Zero" fighter jets exploded in the air, with flames sputtering everywhere, and "zero" fighter jets were everywhere dragging thick smoke and whimpering into the sea.
Gale fighter jets are nothing more than a terrible nightmare for the Japanese.
Except for the "Gale Wind", the Japanese carrier-based fighter planes overly pursued the characteristics of small, fast, agile, and light. The missile bodies that exploded at a distance of one or two hundred meters from the Japanese fighter planes almost destroyed the Japanese troops.
The "Zero" fighter was torn to pieces. Even the "Gale" fighter with an all-metal structure could not withstand the destruction of dense steel balls. Either the wings were broken, the engine was damaged, or a gap was opened in the belly of the aircraft.
, only a few lucky ones escaped the blow, but they had basically lost their combat effectiveness and could only return in a hurry.
The three anti-aircraft missile battalions did not even launch a second round of missiles, and the escort fighters above the Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet were basically cleared.
After seeing the target in the sky disappear, the two shore-to-ship missile battalions acted quickly and soon launched twenty-four "Seahawk" H-I shore-to-ship missiles. These missiles climbed to an altitude of fifty meters at an angle of fifteen degrees.
Then it dropped to a cruising altitude of thirty meters. During the flight, the seeker continuously corrected the course, aiming directly at the Japanese fleet.
The distance of twenty kilometers is less than two minutes of flight for the "Seahawk" h-i shore-to-ship missile with a cruising speed of Mach 0.85. When it is less than ten kilometers away from the Japanese fleet, twenty-four
The shore-to-ship missile climbed to 350 meters again, turned on the radar and locked the target, then accelerated beyond the speed of sound to Mach 1.1 and entered the final sprint attack stage.
Although the lookouts in the Japanese fleet were shocked by the loss of carrier-based fighter jets overhead, they still fulfilled their duties and stood on the highest point of the ship to observe the situation on the sea in the distance.
"What is that?"
On the destroyer Teruzuki, the westernmost destroyer on board, lookout Hachiro Takeda immediately discovered the traces of shore-to-ship missiles. He was puzzled and did not hesitate, and quickly transmitted the situation to the command module through the intercom: "Over the northwest sea.
The unidentified object was found, which is similar to the weapon that attacked our carrier-based fighter jets, but is faster and larger, and is currently five kilometers away from us!"
"Baga, it must be another mysterious missile from the Chinese!"
After receiving the notification, Captain Nagayama Seiichi of the "Teruzuki" destroyer felt nervous and cursed in a low voice. While ordering the warship to enter air defense mode, he reported the situation to the headquarters of the flagship "Akagi" aircraft carrier.
The lookout's timely discovery seemed to give the Japanese fleet some reaction and buffering time, but in fact it had little effect. For shore-to-ship missiles that had already accelerated to a sprint speed of Mach 1.0, this was
A distance of five kilometers actually left the Japanese commander only more than ten seconds to react.
Moreover, at this time, the Japanese army's command department was already in chaos.
While the escort fighter jets were hit by anti-aircraft missiles, the high-power air search radar installed on the aircraft carrier "Akagi", the flagship of the Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet, discovered a large number of bright spots in the western sky. The combat staff quickly determined that this was
The carrier-based attack aircraft group of the Anjiajun Navy arrived, but at this time, our own escort fighter jets had been wiped out by the opponent's mysterious missiles. It would still take time to send a second batch of fighter jets into the air to fight.
The Japanese aircraft carrier group had to turn quickly and head into the wind. The fighters and bombers parked on the flight deck and ready for departure took off as soon as possible.
Unlike the combat methods of the Anjiajun Navy aircraft carrier formation, the Japanese aircraft carriers are not equipped with catapults, so the lightest "Zero War" and "Gale Wind" are always at the top, followed by those carrying 250 kg or 500 kg.
The "Nine-Nine Ship Explosion" of aerial bombs is followed by the "Nine-Seven Ship Attack" of aerial torpedoes. This order will never change, because fighter planes need to glide on the flight deck to take off, and the more cumbersome aircraft will be ranked next.
As far back as possible to ensure sufficient taxiing distance for takeoff.
As a result, before the Anjiajun navy's air strike group arrived, the Japanese fleet had already welcomed an even more terrifying guest.
Amidst the shrill sound of air defense sirens, before the Japanese ship's air defense personnel could complete turning their artillery, machine guns and large-caliber machine guns, twenty-four "Seahawk" H-I shore-to-ship missiles had already penetrated to a distance of less than one kilometer.
High-speed attacks that broke the speed of sound made traditional human-powered air defense equipment extremely incompetent. Faced with this high-speed attack that exceeded imagination, even if the Japanese army opened up all kinds of anti-aircraft fire of various calibers, the rain of bullets fell behind the missiles.
"boom--"
When the first missile penetrated the left front armor of the 24,580-ton "Skyhawk" aircraft carrier in the western part of the fleet, which can carry 90 carrier-based aircraft, the delay fuze delayed the explosion of the missile until the missile
The explosion occurred only after entering the cabin inside the aircraft carrier. The 550 kilograms of high explosives carried by the missile released the boiling power inside the aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier body withstood the power of these 550 kilograms of high explosives.
Like fragile paper and bamboo strips, it quickly twists and even breaks.
Before the "Skyhawk" aircraft carrier could react to the explosion of the first missile, the second shore-to-ship missile struck the stern of the ship again. The powerful impact of the explosion directly completely destroyed the aircraft carrier's transmission system.
The aircraft carrier lost power and its speed dropped rapidly.
The third shore-to-ship missile was as if it had eyes. It penetrated through the hole made by the first missile. It was so powerful that it reached the boiler room amidships before exploding. The violent explosion blew the boiler to pieces.
The spilled fuel quickly ignited the aircraft carrier, and the high temperature caused more explosions.
As a result, the power generated by the multiple explosions directly blasted a huge hole in the middle of the "Sky Eagle" aircraft carrier. Seawater rushed into the aircraft carrier and began to slowly sink.
While the aircraft carrier "Sky Eagle" was under attack, the "Shenlong", "Xianghe", "Sanglong", "Yulong", "Qilong", "Feilong", "Ruihe"
and the flagship "Akagi" aircraft carrier were both attacked by three missiles.
The "Qilong", "Yulong" and "Sanglong" aircraft carriers, which were transformed from large fast cruise ships, were unable to withstand the fierce attacks of missiles. After three consecutive missile hits, the penetrated hull was directly broken into two pieces.
, the three aircraft carriers were connected together only by the upper bridge. A large amount of seawater rushed into the aircraft carrier at the fastest speed. Five minutes later, the three thin-skinned aircraft carriers had disappeared on the sea.
Other main aircraft carriers had better luck and did not hit critical points or explode. However, the damage to the boiler system also slowed down the aircraft carrier, and the high temperature generated by the explosion ignited the internal facilities of the ship, and the violent combustion produced thick smoke and
High temperature filled the interior of the aircraft carrier.
The Japanese fleet was in chaos, and the aircraft carrier as the defense center was hit so intensively that it was beyond everyone's expectations. Just as the light and heavy cruisers and destroyers were calling the flagship to inquire about the damage, the Anjiajun Navy's First Task Force
The bombers have arrived.
Densely packed "Golden Eyed Eagle" fighters and bombers loaded with bombs swooped down and rushed towards the Japanese aircraft carrier stubbornly floating on the sea.
When 120 Golden Eagles and 80 bombers began to dive, the Japanese Navy's "Zero Fighter" and "Gale" that took off in small numbers killed them, but they were quickly attacked by the "Haitong Qing" carrier-based fighter jets that covered the bomber group.
After being greeted, the two sides quickly started fighting in the air.
The anti-aircraft fire from the Japanese warships began to roar. In the first wave of anti-aircraft fire, there were two "Golden Eyed Eagles". Six bombers were hit by the anti-aircraft fire, unable to avoid it. Six of them fell into the sea, trailing black smoke.
, the other two were knocked into the air and exploded.
When fighter planes broke through the anti-aircraft firepower of the Japanese fleet and dived less than 500 meters from the sea, the huge hull of the Japanese aircraft carrier almost filled the entire sight of the sight. As the bombs were dropped, the fuselage of the fighter planes was
With a strong push upward, the pilot immediately pulled back the control stick, and the roaring silver-gray fighter planes lifted up almost grazing the top of the Japanese aircraft carrier, leaving thick flames and gunpowder smoke from the violent explosion behind their butts.
During the bombing process, bombers were hit by anti-aircraft fire from time to time. Some turned into fireballs in the air, and some tilted their noses and crashed into the sea below. Although most pilots tried hard to fly their fighter planes into the Japanese warships, they finally failed.
It missed a lot, and very few could hit the battleship.
While the "Golden Eyed Eagle" and bombers launched attacks on the Japanese aircraft carrier, the bulky T1 torpedo bombers took advantage of the good opportunity of the Japanese warships surrounding the aircraft carrier to shoot in the air, quietly approached, and dropped bombs on the Japanese light and heavy cruisers and destroyers.
torpedo.
Explosions came one after another. Many Japanese warships were unable to evade and were hit by torpedoes. The sides of many warships stirred up huge water columns, and then the hulls began to tilt. The entire Japanese fleet was shrouded in fire and gunpowder smoke.
When large groups of flames rose around him, the commander of the Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet, General Chuichi Nagumo, was heartbroken. He never expected that the always invincible Japanese Navy would actually attack the Anjia Army, Navy, and Army.
Facing a three-dimensional attack, there is no way to parry.
The "Akagi" aircraft carrier was already riddled with holes. First, the carrier-based fighter jets were hit by mysterious missiles, and then the sides of the battleship were also hit by mysterious missiles. Finally, more than a dozen 500-kilogram bombs were fired at the bow and amidships of the ship.
The base and stern of the ship exploded. If the Akagi had not been transformed from a battleship and had thick armor, it would have fallen down long ago.
Seeing that the fleet suffered heavy losses and that there was no point in holding on any longer, Nagumo Chuichi finally gave the order to evacuate the entire fleet, and the "Akagi" aircraft carrier began to turn.
During the retreat, Nagumo Chuichi witnessed four torpedoes hitting the heavy cruiser "Tone" at the same time. The violent explosion soon caused this 15,000-ton ship, which played an important role in the Japanese navy, to flip over.
Facing the sky, the incomplete hull lay quietly in the mud on the seabed soon after.
The unsinkable aircraft carrier where Nagumo Chuichi was located also became the target of Anjiajun torpedo planes. However, the Japanese sailors piloting the battleship successfully evaded the joint attack launched by the two torpedo planes. However, they were located on the "Akagi"
The light cruiser "Yura" more than 200 meters away on the other side of the aircraft carrier became the scapegoat - a torpedo that passed by the stern of the "Akagi" hit the 5,570-ton warship without any bias.
, although the hit was not in a fatal position, the speed suddenly dropped to a level that could barely match that of a sea turtle.
This gave the Anjia Army bomber group an opportunity. As two 500-kilogram-class aerial bombs accurately hit the bow of the ship, with a huge explosion, the light cruiser "Yura" plunged into the sea, and a large whirlpool appeared where it sank.
The Japanese sailors who fell into the water nearby were swept in.
One after another, Anjiajun's fighter planes hovered over the Japanese fleet in a chaotic formation, with thick smoke everywhere and countless people drowned. When they got the opportunity, they rushed down to launch an attack. After dropping their bombs, they returned to prepare for the next wave.
Attack. The Japanese army was exhausted and fought and retreated.
During the withdrawal of the Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet to the west, the ships and carrier-based aircraft of the Anjiajun Navy's First Task Force were relentless in pursuit and fierce pursuit. Nagumo Chuichi had to give the order to abandon the ships that had lost power.
, fled to the eastern sea.
The battle lasted from morning to afternoon, and it was not until nightfall that the Japanese army successfully escaped the pursuit of the Anjiajun Navy. However, by this time, of the eight aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy, only the flagship "Akagi" and the "Zuihe" with a maximum displacement of 33,200 tons remained.
"" aircraft carrier is still alive, and the carrier-based aircraft on these two aircraft carriers have been lost. The losses of pilots are particularly heavy. The combat power of the Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet is no longer a concern.
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