bookbashuk #361 - Aerial Competition
#361 - Aerial Competition
Faced with the densely packed ground battle formations, even though Zhang Dabiao's 100th Division was advancing smoothly, it was still not as fast as fighting an encounter battle.
Faced with the crisscrossing trenches, there was no way to rush it; they could only advance line by line.
Fortunately, Zhang Dabiao and his men had planned ahead and were not eager for quick success, constantly advancing towards the depths of the Rogue Eagle Allied Forces' positions according to their established plan.
Since Anzhou was not very far from Pingcheng, the Rogue Eagle's reinforcements arrived at the position about three hours after the battle began, and the new 1st Cavalry Division's heavy tank units even launched a counterattack!
They wiped out an M3 tank company of Zhang Dabiao's vanguard.
If they hadn't been equipped with vehicle-mounted recoilless guns this time, taking advantage of the Rogue Eagle tanks' unpreparedness to attack within sight of the recoilless guns, the vanguard's several recoilless guns would not have launched a wave of counterattacks, destroying more than a dozen Rogue Eagle M46/M26 heavy tanks. This counterattack by the 1st Cavalry Division almost enveloped an A-class regiment of the 100th Division that was charging!
However, after the recoilless guns revealed their targets, they were quickly exchanged with a heavy tank company of the Rogue Eagle 1st Cavalry Division. Zhang Dabiao took the opportunity to withdraw the leading regiment, consolidating the few kilometers of captured ground.
The troops who had been fighting fiercely for almost a night were gathered for rest and reorganization, treating the wounded and replenishing ammunition, etc.
The Allied Forces were in even more disarray, with more casualties and their positions riddled with holes. With the arrival of the 1st Cavalry Division's main force, they began frantically digging with excavators, bulldozers, and other engineering vehicles to rebuild a new line of defense.
Anzhou was a key strategic point in the north, and the Allied Forces led by the Rogue Eagle would naturally not easily relinquish it.
The arrival of the 1st Cavalry Division gave the Rogue Eagle-led Allied Forces another shot in the arm.
More importantly, it was dawn!
The sky gradually brightened, and the Rogue Eagle carrier-based aircraft wing couldn't wait to take off one after another. They were closest to the battlefield, and after taking off, they were basically near the battlefield.
However, this time, as soon as the Rogue Eagle's carrier-based aircraft took off, the Zhishen Radar Unit captured the shadows of the Rogue Eagle's planes taking off!
The 1st Air Regiment scrambled upon alert. Although the airport was a little farther away, it was much faster than the Rogue Eagle F4U carrier-based aircraft. After taking off and forming up, they advanced at full speed, and the 1st Air Regiment could reach the battlefield even before the Rogue Eagle's carrier-based aircraft.
As soon as the 1st Air Regiment moved, the Rogue Eagle's ground radar and naval fleet radar immediately reacted.
Didi Didi began to frantically sound the alarm.
On the Antietam aircraft carrier.
"Report, sir, our radar has detected a large number of enemy aircraft taking off!" The radar operator, facing the radar with the Didi Didi prompt, was nervously performing chart work. The current display screen could not accurately display the location of the targets detected by the radar, but could only roughly display their area.
Because the computer was still a fairly primitive first-generation transistor computer, the Antietam aircraft carrier's radar could only roughly detect airborne targets, but could not accurately locate the distance.
Compared to the new embedded computer single board that Long Guo now had through cheating, the computing power was several orders of magnitude worse.
Not to mention that there was also a big difference in the display. Long Guo had completed the research and development of the new CRT, and the display screen size had broken through 15 inches.
In addition, the new materials were first applied to the radar, which allowed Long Guo to gain a leading position in radar in the Bright Sword world.
"Don't worry, our F4U carrier-based aircraft wing are all elites. Let the young men who take off work harder and shoot down more of Long Guo's rookies!" Faced with the reaction of the Long Guo Air Force, Rear Admiral Smith, the commander of the task force, didn't take it seriously.
The Long Guo Air Force mainly had two types of fighter jets. The rest of the miscellaneous brands seized from the Little Devils could now basically only be used as trainers.
A few were their own so-called J-5 jet fighters. Although they were fast, their handling was obviously average. Compared with the P51 and F4U, the Long Guo Air Force did not dare to bring them out for direct combat, and would only bully bombers. In the subsequent mixed collisions, they did not suffer too many losses.
As for Long Guo's other fighter jet, the P51D Mustang fighter, which was even more numerous, Smith was very familiar with.
After all, in the case where the hardware level of the fighter jets was almost the same, the key role was played by experienced pilots.
Although in the previous collisions with the Long Guo Air Force, the Rogue Eagle's naval aviation and air force did not gain any advantage, and were caught in a stalemate by the Long Guo Air Force's close-quarters combat tactics.
However, this was not a true contest of the pilots' actual flight skills. The Long Guo Air Force used their extremely tenacious will and spirit of sacrifice to achieve a balance from asymmetry.
Now Smith's carrier-based aircraft pilots had practiced several ways to get rid of the Long Guo Air Force's close-quarters dogfight!
Instead, they would distance themselves and launch long-range attacks using their technology!
Just like flying a kite, they would exhaust their opponents, who were far fewer in number!
More than 60 F4Us took the lead in entering high altitude. Facing the 44 Long Guo Air Force fighters coming head-on, the Rogue Eagle's naval aviation classes were now limited by the clouds in the sky.
Today was a cloudy day, with dark clouds and thick clouds in the sky. For the 1st Air Regiment, this was simply a perfect climate match. After all, with the fire control radar, they could now completely ignore the cloud cover.
But for fighter jets that relied on visual combat, this was extremely bad weather. Therefore, most of the Rogue Eagle's carrier-based F4U fighters, after taking off, found that it was all white and they could not see anything beyond 100 meters ahead.
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In this way, some F4Us had to descend to below 3,000 meters below the clouds and constantly search for traces of the enemy with their eyes based on radar information sent from the aircraft carrier headquarters.
Now the F4U had not yet evolved to the point where it could accurately lock the distance of the opponent's airborne radar.
In the dense clouds, they were like blind people.
"Enemy targets have appeared 10 kilometers ahead. Each squadron pays attention to dispersing. We will still adopt a two-on-one tactic."
In the clouds, Wei Yongguo and his fighters had a clear understanding of the Rogue Eagle's fighter positions. Although their current fighters theoretically had very accurate air-to-air missiles (relative to the cannons of this era, a hit rate of more than 30% was a product of a completely different era).
However, Wei Yongguo and his men did not have the burden of experts and the idea of fair competition. Without truly understanding the power of the new fighter jets, they still adopted a conservative two-on-one tactic, even though the capabilities of their fighter jets were now superior to those of the enemy's fighter jets. However, two-on-one could solve the opponent more safely, so they did so without hesitation.
The 1st Air Regiment began to disperse in groups of two. They each bit a target, preparing to lock onto the enemy aircraft, and then launch a concentrated attack with two aircraft within 5 kilometers.
Now that they had missiles, the dual-aircraft tactic was more flexible. They did not need to get close to the enemy aircraft to output damage at close range, so they did not have to worry too much about the missiles hitting their own aircraft.
Almost all of the Rogue Eagle's fighter jets deployed to the peninsula were propeller-driven. The engine was placed at the front of the fuselage, so for the infrared-guided Pili-1 air-to-air missile, face-to-face attacks were the most efficient. At this moment, the Rogue Eagle's fighter jets took off from the sea and did not go straight to the sky over Anzhou.
Instead, they flew towards the 1st Air Regiment. Although they did not know why the opponent was operating in this way, Wei Yongguo and his men would certainly not miss such a great opportunity!
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