The British Royal Air Force scrambled more than 200 fighter jets from the mainland and tried their best to cover the ships performing transportation missions. However, in the face of the Luftwaffe's more superior FW190 fighter jets and a team of pilots with higher average quality, the British fighter jets were quickly overwhelmed.
It was a disastrous defeat. 179 aircraft were shot down in one day, but the loss of German aircraft was only 41, including only 18 fighter jets.
After discovering that the German Air Force was so powerful, Churchill once even had the idea of giving up those 400,000 people and defending the homeland with all his strength. However, the pride in the bones of the British aristocrats still made him decide to give it a try. So Churchill immediately ordered the domestic air force to use the best possible force.
Enter the battle state as quickly as possible, and at the same time
At that time, the Royal Navy was also asked to provide strong support for the Dunkirk evacuation operation. On the one hand, it was hoped that naval ships could help transport personnel to speed up the withdrawal. On the other hand, it was because the air force could not defeat the Germans.
, Churchill could only place his hope on the Royal Navy's fleet air defense capabilities.
On July 28, a total of 1 cruiser, 8 destroyers and 26 other ships rushed to the English Channel. However, that night the German Navy's submarines, torpedo boats and minesweepers also dispatched from the newly occupied ports of the Netherlands and Belgium in an attempt to use the night
"Color" covered the attack on the British ships responsible for retreating. At the same time, in order to prevent the British from seeing their true intentions, Mustache canceled the order for the armored forces to stop advancing, causing the most frightened armored division of the British and French allied forces to enter the battle again.
On the morning of July 28, the Dunkirk area was filled with smog (at that time, the air pollution of the Western powers was worse than ours now. This is how London got its name as the "Smog City". Relatively speaking, the United States has a higher share of the energy structure due to oil.
(the proportion of them among them was very large, so the situation was relatively better.), but with the help of airborne radar, the German Air Force dispatched several times more sorties that day than the previous day. At the same time,
At that time, the Navy's submarines and torpedo boats also took advantage of the thick fog to attack decisively. Although due to the shallow depth of the English Channel, ordinary torpedoes were used, but under the cover of the fog, the effect was still quite gratifying. But more importantly
The reason is also that the crazy bombing of the Luftwaffe completely attracted the attention of the British fleet, thus giving German submarines and torpedo boats more opportunities to fish in troubled waters.
Although the Air Force suffered a heavy loss the day before, Churchill knew very well what the consequences would be of relying on ships alone to deal with German aircraft. Therefore, the number of aircraft dispatched by the Royal Air Force increased or decreased on July 28. The total number of sorties exceeded 1,500, and the result was a loss ratio of 27
The sun is bigger, more than 300 were shot down during the day
Planes, and the losses at night exceeded 500. Even if there were a large number of British ships in the strait, less than 30% of the pilots survived in the end. The British pilots wrote suicide notes in advance before boarding the plane, because they were very
It is clear that there is a 10% chance that he will not come back [
On this day, the exchange ratio of fighter jets between the two sides was still as high as 1:10. You must know that the losses of German fighter jets were also included in the results of the Royal Navy. From this point of view, the Royal Air Force simply lost everything.
The reason why the results of the war are so disparate is that, in addition to the performance gap between the two fighters themselves, the radar technology of the two countries is also a very important reason. Although the British radar technology as a whole has barely caught up with Germany, Germany has
Since China's radar technology is more advanced in concept, the selected waveband is more capable of dealing with severe weather.
Strong anti-interference ability, and the English Channel was filled with thick fog on this day. Because German fighter jets were escorting dive bombers, and British fighter jets targeted them, most of the battles took place at low altitudes and were more affected by thick fog.
Large. Therefore, German fighter jets with stronger all-weather combat capabilities also took advantage.
In addition to the Royal Air Force, the ships of the Royal Navy also undertake heavy air defense tasks. Due to the greater power of shipborne radars, although the British Navy has only invested a small number of ships for the time being, it has achieved certain results, and
Because there are a large number of people in the strait
It is difficult to distinguish a ship by airborne radar in dense fog. Therefore, the British Navy lost relatively few ships. Among the combat ships, only the cruiser was sunk (because the German aircraft must have picked the larger ship to bomb first.
), at least compared to the Air Force, the losses were much smaller.
However, more than 200 civilian ships were bombed and sunk, and nearly 20,000 soldiers and civilians were killed and missing. The British Royal Navy, which had become a laughing stock due to repeated defeats in the past two years, was not deeply ashamed. In order to prove itself, later
In the past few days, the British Navy has continued to increase its troops in the English Channel, and the Canadian Navy, which belongs to the Commonwealth, has also extended a helping hand and tried its best to help.
Capable of dispatching various air defense ships to help the sovereign country, they also urgently ordered a large number of ships from the United States. The total number of Allied warships in the English Channel reached an astonishing more than 120 ships at its peak, of which they only have three-dimensional air defense capabilities (both large-caliber and high-caliber weapons).
There are more than 80 cruisers and destroyers with anti-aircraft guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns.)
As the number of ships continued to increase, the air defense capabilities of the British naval fleet, which already had gun sighting radars and proximity fuzes, began to increase exponentially. Facing the British fleet's hundreds (later, more than a thousand) large-caliber
The large-area screen blasted out by the salvo of anti-aircraft guns was the slow-flying Stuka dive bomber (although the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns were basically effective during the dive attack, but after the dive,
Before the attack, the Stuka needed to rise to an altitude of 3,000 meters. At this time, large-caliber anti-aircraft guns equipped with proximity fuzes still posed a great threat to it.) After suffering extremely heavy losses, the Luftwaffe was forced to switch to
A large group of horizontal bombers carried out high-altitude bombings, but in the later stage they were still unable to defeat the increasingly strong anti-aircraft firepower of the British army, which finally forced Fatty Ge to ask Xiaohu to suspend the air attack on British ships.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that because there are more and more British surface ships in the English Channel, and most of them have strong anti-submarine capabilities, the German submarine force, which had achieved considerable results a few days ago, also suffered heavy losses (
As for the torpedo boats, which were originally meant to exchange lives for one life, the German navy did not have much equipment and had basically lost all of them at this time.) After being bombed and sunk for nearly 20 years,
After that, the submarines decisively evacuated, seizing the opportunity when the main force of the British navy was concentrated in the English Channel, and the escort force on the trade routes was therefore insufficient, they went deep into the ocean to carry out extensive sabotage battles, causing greater losses to the British (to be continued. If
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