All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

After the transaction was completed, Ye Bai finally breathed a sigh of relief. Especially when Freighter 4 was driven back to the dock by the crew, Ye Bai could no longer suppress the smile on his face and immediately ran to the small space in the logistics cabin. middle.

Experts from the shipyard were found and a new round of warship construction plans were formulated for them, including three Brooklyn-class light cruisers and three Fletcher-class destroyers. The remaining four docks were used to build Type 4VIIC submarines.

This time Ye Bai is planning to expand the size of the light cruisers to 4, the size of the destroyers to 8, plus 2 heavy cruisers and the super-standard aircraft carrier Yanhuang, an aircraft carrier fleet is barely formed. It's just that it still lacks sword-carrying guards like battlecruisers and battleships.

With such an expansion of the army, more than half of the raw materials Ye Bai exchanged from Yixin Island were consumed. The remaining raw materials could still be used to build several more destroyers, but Ye Bai did not choose to do it anymore. He was planning to build another destroyer. Reserve a batch of raw materials.

He also did not build the Linxian-class light cruiser that he used for the next trade. It was not that he did not want to continue the arms business, but that he took over a mission from Ixin Island.

A fierce battle was going on between Yixin Island and the pirate forces. Without more warships, Ye Bai's fleet was naturally targeted by them, and they directly offered high rewards, hoping that Ye Bai could join this war. middle.

These guys discovered some of Ye Bai's pain points through this transaction, and directly promised that the final mission reward would be exchanged for raw materials. This made Ye Bai, who had originally intended to refuse, immediately speechless.

It just so happened that he was still very curious about where these pirates got so many destroyers, light cruisers, and even two escort aircraft carriers, so he simply got involved.

Early the next morning, Ye Bai took the entire Chinese fleet and left from the port of Yixin Island. Because he wanted to participate in this war, the temporary intelligence team originally set up on Yixin Island still had not been withdrawn. It was urgently needed to stay behind and be ready at any time. Provide war intelligence.

Although Yixin Island has specially established a communication channel with the Chinese fleet to show its importance to Ye Bai and will report the war situation to the Chinese fleet at any time, Ye Bai is not 100% assured of these aboriginal forces and still has to stay. Last hand.

However, with the communication channel with Isin Island, it will be much more convenient after the fleet goes to sea. There is no need to dispatch carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft to conduct reconnaissance everywhere, and the location and movements of the pirate force's fleet can be directly obtained.

The fleet of Isin Island and the player fleets hired by them are fighting with the pirate fleet everywhere. It is extremely simple to obtain information about the pirate fleet.

After wandering all the way out of the effective control range of Isin Island, Ye Bai immediately transferred the warships of his subordinate fleet into the small space of the logistics cabin. On the sea dock in the small space, he was responsible for operating four cargo ships. All the crew members left and returned to the warships.

After completing this, the battleships were teleported out again. Without the drag of slow freighters, each battleship was fully staffed. Except for the two heavy cruisers, the other battleships were all freshly released and cutting-edge battleships. At this time, The Chinese fleet is at its peak.

The communications troopers used earphones to communicate with Isin Island to obtain the whereabouts of various pirate fleets that had been discovered so far. Lütjens led people to put this information and the conditions detected by the search radar on the navigation map. Mark them one by one.

Ramsay has given orders to the hangar, and all carrier-based aircraft are fully fueled and loaded with ammunition, and are ready to attack at any time.

Under normal circumstances, because the hangar transformed from space crystals is quite stable and safe, some of the carrier-based aircraft inside are always filled with fuel, loaded with ammunition, and are ready for all battles.

Only at night will the ground crew unload the mounted ammunition and release the fuel in the tank again. Although this is quite troublesome, it allows the Yanhuang to maintain combat effectiveness at all times. If anything happens, the ship will The carrier aircraft can take off and take off immediately.

However, after this transaction, the carrier-based aircraft fleet on the Yanhuang has shrunk somewhat, leaving only 32 SBD carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, 64F4F Wildcat carrier-based fighters, 64SBD Dauntless dive bombers, and 64TBF Avengers. There are half as many torpedo bombers as there were before.

Although Ye Bai only has the construction drawings of the SBD fearless dive bomber and does not have the construction drawings of the SBD carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, there is no difficulty for the scientific research center that has achieved considerable results, and there is no need to make any big plans. Action, just add a few high-altitude reconnaissance cameras and you're done. It's quite simple and convenient.

The SBD carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft has a flight speed of 410 kilometers, which is much faster than the Hawker Osprey carrier-based combat reconnaissance aircraft's flight speed of about 300 kilometers. Even the firepower is much stronger, with two 12.7mm air Machine guns and a 7.62mm gun allow the SBD carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft to have certain self-defense capabilities when encountering enemies.

Even in an air battle with a Fulmar carrier-based fighter, it is not certain who will win or lose. Although the armor of the early SBD Dreadnought dive bombers was weak, the Fulmar carrier-based fighter jets are also well equipped. The number of 12.7mm empty machine guns is naturally inferior to the eight 7.7mm empty machine guns, but the larger caliber machine guns are obviously much more powerful in terms of bullet power.

The performance of these newly upgraded carrier-based aircraft is naturally far superior to those of the previous carrier-based aircraft, but the number is a bit less, especially when combined with a transmission platform and an angled flight deck, this number is somewhat insufficient. Saw it.

Even if this carrier-based aircraft is divided into two attack waves, it can only fly about 100 carrier-based aircraft at once. Combat preparations have been completed in advance in the hangar. The four flight runways on the oblique flight deck can be flown at once. Four carrier-based aircraft can be taken off in one go, and all the carrier-based aircraft in an attack wave can be released in 20 minutes at most.

In Ye Bai's vision, the Yanhuang's hangar transformed with space crystals should be fully utilized, and at least it should be equipped with more than 600 carrier-based aircraft, which should be divided into three batches to complete combat preparations in the hangar..

About 150 carrier-based aircraft can be launched within half an hour. Such an attack fleet can fully match 45 regular aircraft carriers. This is the best way.

(PS: There is no need to consider the wear and tear on the flight deck caused by the frequent takeoff and landing of a large number of carrier-based aircraft. This is deliberately ignored. Otherwise, the restriction will be too great, and it will not make much sense to use space crystals to transform the hangar.)

Today's The aircraft manufacturing plant is working overtime to produce new carrier-based aircraft to meet Ye Bai's equipment needs as soon as possible, but it will take some time.

Although the number of carrier-based aircraft on the Yanhuang has been reduced by half, its performance has been greatly improved, and the overall combat effectiveness has not necessarily been weakened.

What's more, although he decided to get involved in this war, in fact, Ye Bai had no intention of colliding with the pirate force's main fleet. His main purpose was to find the two escort carriers. He was lacking I’ve upgraded my props, and I don’t want to let them go easily. (To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

"｀.Report to the commander, a message from Isin Island. In the sea area 240 kilometers ahead and to the left of our fleet, a pirate fleet is attacking the Isin Island patrol fleet. I hope our fleet can go to support it.."

The communications troops translated the message as soon as they received it and reported it to Ye Bai.

Standing next to the chart table, looking at the signs on the transparent glass, Ye Bai asked loudly:"Did the Isin Island side say anything about the size of this pirate fleet and the composition of its warships?""

"There is no report to the commander yet, but it is mentioned that the pirates have air support."

Ye Bai's eyes lit up when he heard this. This is good news. If there is air support, it means that there is an aircraft carrier nearby. Although it is not clear whether it is an escort aircraft carrier or a regular aircraft carrier, you can't let go of the opportunity. ah

"Ramsey, immediately fly the reconnaissance plane and rush to the target sea area to conduct reconnaissance and find the pirate aircraft carrier for me."

"Yes, Commander."

Through the portholes of the bridge, you can see that the originally flat straight-through flight deck outside has long since disappeared, replaced by an angled flight deck used by later aircraft carriers.

Ye Bai had previously obtained the angled flight (good job) ) deck technology, and then asked the shipyard to manufacture one, but it was not installed immediately. Now that the war was about to begin, Ye Bai would of course use the battleship transformation function of the system panel to modify the Yanhuang's flight deck. It was replaced.

Along with the engineWith a sound, the 4SBD carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft jumped from Runway 4. With the power and muzzle velocity provided by the catapult, the not-so-long flight deck allowed the carrier-based aircraft to easily fly to the high altitude.

The 4SBD carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft had just left the flight deck, and it passed by the 4SBD carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft at high speed from behind again. The interval between the two was less than 1 minute. This is the extremely high take-off efficiency of the Yanhuang today.

It's just that the angled flight deck has many advantages over the original straight-through flight deck, but it also has a huge disadvantage, that is, this thing is not a wooden deck, but an armored deck.

A thick layer of steel covers it, and the temperature of the cabin below the deck is quite high, almost like a cage. The crew really can't bear to stay down there for a long time.

There was no other way. Ye Bai could only buy a large number of air conditioners from the system mall and install them in each cabin. Fortunately, the Yanhuang's power system had been replaced by a nuclear reactor. Otherwise, it would not be able to carry it at all. The power system would have been long ago. Completely paralyzed and collapsed..