The US military took the initiative to fight. It was naturally the best thing for the Republic fleet.

On the surface, the US Navy can make full use of the advantages of aviation in combat radius, that is, when carrier-based fighters perform sea attack tasks, the maximum combat radius is basically more than a thousand meters. In addition, long-range anti-ship missiles with a range of more than 1,000 meters can attack enemy ships from the same ports. Therefore, in combat with the main ship, they have the absolute advantage of preemptive attack and unilateral attack. The problem is that to achieve this advantage, many prerequisites are required. Not to mention the search and reconnaissance work before the attack, just in terms of how to break through the opponent's air defense line, carrier-based fighters are difficult to achieve the maximum attack distance in actual combat, especially when facing even opponents.

As mentioned earlier, the Republic's Navy spent a lot of effort to develop blades specifically used for air combat before the outbreak of the war. Interestingly, the Republic's Navy did not develop a multi-purpose fighter that was used to be used as before. Judging from the situation at that time, the main reason was that the logic itself was not a heavy air combat fighter, but a "professional air combat aircraft", so there was no need to be equipped with a low-grade multi-purpose fighter. The problem was that the workers should definitely need a multi-purpose fighter that could cooperate with them.

Fighter. Otherwise, even if it wins air supremacy, it will not be able to use air supremacy. Affected by this, the Republic Navy decided to choose one of the multi-purpose fighters used in combination with small force and traction and force, and make large-scale improvements to become a multi-purpose fighter that is matched with logic. After weighing the pros and cons, the Republic Navy chose a smaller force with larger body and sufficient room for improvement, rather than a cheaper traction. This is why the Republic Navy can give priority to production work and use a knife to perform ground and sea strike missions.

Affected by this, the combat effectiveness of the US Navy Air Force has been greatly reduced.

According to statistics from the U.S. Navy, after the Joker entered service, that is, after the end of the year, the air-war exchange ratio of the U.S. Navy aviation on the Pacific battlefield was reduced from 07 to less than enough, that is, for every loss of fighter aircraft, the enemy fighter aircraft can be shot down reduced from blade frame to still frame, which is equivalent to a reduction of 60%. More importantly, the attack obstacle rate of the U.S. Navy aviation also decreased from cooperation to below 40%. In this way, in order to increase the attack obstacle rate, in addition to investing more combat forces and escort forces, the attack distance must also be shortened. This is the establishment of the U.S. Navy carrier-based aviation force.

The above is very clear. It is time to participate in the war. There is only one air-based fighter brigade in the US Navy's carrier-based aviation gang, and it is accompanied by two multi-purpose fighter brigades. By the beginning of the fourth year, the number of air-based fighter jets doubled to reach the base, but the number of multi-purpose fighter jets has not changed, and it is still a Zhaohang; by the end of the year, the number of air-based fighter jets has increased to a must-have. The number of multi-purpose stations has decreased to the de-speed. If it were not for the timely service of a magazine that could compete with a ugly attack, the US Navy would probably cancel all carrier-based multi-purpose fighter jets at the beginning of the year and deploy all heavy air-based fighter jets on aircraft carriers.

Relatively speaking, the air combat tactical changes brought by the Joker have a greater impact on the combat effectiveness of fighter jets.

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Although the power was for many years before the birth of the Joker, the proportion of external interception in air combat began to decline. Since the beginning of the old, heavy air combat fighters have paid more attention to fighting capabilities, and thus gave birth to a large number of new weapons and equipment, including airborne tactical defense systems, before the Joker, external interception was still effective and an indispensable air combat method for fighters. Take Xiaoli as an example. Even if the air combat has taken up more than 70% of the results, when performing air combat missions, they will still carry up to strong interception missiles, and often use all interception missiles in one or two battles before entering the fight. Affected by the performance of the airborne tactical defense system, if they are attacked by a large number of interceptor missiles, even the best performance is difficult to avoid. Affected by this, neither the Republic nor the United States has given up external air combat, and there is no way to ignore them.

The impact of visual range-of-view outer air combat. In other words, in air combat, not only the disadvantaged party can choose to actively evacuate the combat airspace after launching the intercepting missile and not fighting with the opponent. Even the advantageous party will try to intercept at a distance from the enemy instead of fighting with the enemy. Under the guidance of this basic idea, there is no fundamental reform in air combat tactics. In fleet air defense operations, air defense fighters are often at distances.

The aircraft carrier was brewed to the 1,000-meter-long patrol, and after discovering the enemy plane, it intercepted, and then ended the combat operation after the enemy plane retreated. For the attacking party, the most effective way is to send forward escort fighters, use escort fighters to entangle the air defense fighters, and then let the fighters performing attack missions launch anti-ship missiles at a distance of 1,000 meters from the target. When the air defense fighters deal with the escort fighters, the attack is basically over.

The appearance of the clown completely broke this air combat mode.

From the design idea, it can be seen that the Republican Navy did not expect the Joker to use interceptor missiles to deal with incoming enemy aircraft. In view of the unique tactical performance of ?2, the Republican Navy adjusted the fleet's air defense tactics, which would increase the range of the fleet's outer air defense circle from brewing kilometers to sacrifice kilometers. If necessary, it can also be extended to more than 1,000 meters. When intercepting incoming enemy aircraft, the Joker's primary task is not to attack escort fighters, but to intercept attack aircraft groups. Of course, maybe someone may be

I would like to ask. How to distinguish between escort "fighters and attack fighters? To this end, the Republic's Navy has formulated a very simple tactic, that is, in a certain direction, the logic is only responsible for intercepting aircraft groups with a scale above the blade frame. If the enemy aircraft group is smaller than the blade frame and there are no other aircraft groups nearby, there is no need to intercept. This is also a more reasonable arrangement, because the blade frame fighter can only project at most, and it is difficult for the missile to pose a substantial threat to the fleet.

Of course, the key to being able to adopt this air defense tactic is performance.

The first is the tactical problem that the air defense range generated by the expansion of the interception radius, the increase of interception distance, the shortened interception time, etc. will have a significant impact on interception efficiency. You must know that the range of the ship... square air area is proportional to the square of the air defense interception radius. And Danbeijunhe is three times the air defense radius. It can be seen that in the case of limited detection methods, especially when the active radar cannot be used, they can only rely on the fuzzy data provided by the passive detection system, if there is no sufficiently high cruise speed and maximum speed, it will be difficult to intercept suddenly appearing enemy aircraft in time. If the enemy aircraft cannot be intercepted in time, no matter how good the other performance of the air defense fighter is, it is not useful. This is precisely because the flight speed of the small force is not fast enough, before it was launched, the Republic's Navy could only set the air defense interception radius to assist kilometers according to previous tactics, until it became the main force of the fleet's air defense, and the interception radius was increased to more than four kilometers.

The impact this can be imagined.

To put it bluntly, in addition to expanding the proportion of escort fighters, the US Navy Air Force also needs to shorten the combat radius of escort fighters to leave more air combat time.

It can be said that this is also the key.

When fighting with Yili air, the US Navy's escort fighter generally reserves only minutes of combat air combat time. As long as the attack aircraft group moves fast enough, the escort mission will be over before the minute is used up, and the escort fighter can also withdraw from the battle with peace of mind. When fighting with Xiaoya, the US Navy's escort fighter is not so lucky. Not to mention whether Logic will deal with escort fighter jets, even if it does, because the US fighter jets have no speed advantage, it will be difficult to evacuate the battlefield when needed. More importantly, most of the time, Logic is direct and direct.

Fighting the attack aircraft group following the escort fighter jets forces the US escort fighter jets to pursue faster air defense fighters or change their escort tactics, both of which require more air combat time. As we all know, the energy consumption rate during combat air combat is far greater than that of cruise and over-visual air combat, and the average is about 3 times. In some extreme cases, it is even twice. In other words, fighting minutes is equivalent to cruising flight minutes. It can be seen that extending the fighting time is equivalent to shortening the cruise flight distance, which is equivalent to shortening the combat radius of the escort fighter jets.

The combat radius of the escort fighter jet cannot be increased, and the attack distance of the attack aircraft group cannot be increased.

It is precisely this that the US Navy retained a squadron of concave multi-purpose fighter jets in the carrier-based aviation wing, because under the limited combat radius, multi-purpose fighter jets can also carry 6 long-range anti-ship missiles, and their attack capabilities are no worse than those of heavy fighters.

Based on past practical experience, especially the combat situation in the Mariana Navy, when threatened by ugly forces, the attack radius of the US Navy's carrier-based aviation is generally about 1,000 meters. This includes the maximum range of long-range anti-ship missiles.

It can be seen from this that the combat radius advantage of the US Navy aviation is not obvious.

This does not mean that the US Navy has no other advantages. If you only need to attack targets that are 1,000 meters away, in addition to carrier-based aviation, the US fleet can also make full use of heavy anti-ship missiles on escort warships and long-range cruise missiles with the ability to attack maritime targets. Of course, the prerequisite is that the US Navy has sufficient confidence in the fleet's air defense capabilities, reduce the amount of air defense missiles carried by escort warships, and increase attack ammunition.

In any case, it is definitely not easy for the U.S. Navy to deal with the Republic's Navy fleet that is operating in the northern waters of New Zealand.

If some unavoidable problems are taken into account in actual combat, the US Navy has no advantage.

Not to mention, the dispatch of a carrier-based aviation force is a process and cannot be achieved overnight. Generally speaking, "If an aircraft carrier is dispatched, it takes about old minutes to force minutes, and it takes about minutes to form a formation to launch an attack, that is, it takes at least half a time to organize an attack. For the main ship with the maximum navigation speed of our festival, half an hour can sail in the stone sea, that is, about a thousand meters. Generally, when a carrier-based aviation force attacks a fleet of kilometers away, the arrival time is Feng minutes, and the main ship can sail about 7 kilometers within Feng minutes, and it takes several minutes to complete the attack of anti-ship missiles. Therefore, the main fleet has sailed to the west kilometer before being attacked. From this, it can be seen that even if the US Navy fleet does not intend to recover the attack aircraft group, when the attack is completed and the attack begins to identify the attack results, the main fleet has shortened the distance to a strong kilometer.

The result can be imagined that the main guns of the Qin-class and Tang-class have devastating strikes on aircraft carriers at this distance. In fact, this is exactly what the US Navy has been trying hard to avoid the main fleet of the Republic's Navy.

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You should know that in the third fleet of the Republic's Navy, the main force of the four carrier-based aviation gangs are small intercom fighters, that is, each aircraft carrier is equipped with hundreds of clowns, "Chongqing" class, which can carry force blades, and the "Shanghai class can only carry gantry frames. According to the calculation of half of the fighter jets at a time, it can also send fat-induced air defense fighters in a battle. So many sluggish can intercept three to twice the enemy aircraft in an air battle. According to this calculation, the US Navy needs to invest

The battle escort fighter jets can ensure that the attack aircraft group can launch a smooth attack, and the US Navy's wing carrier-based aviation wing only hopes to build heavy fighter jets at most. Even if the heavy combatants deployed on Lord Howe Island and the sea base are too far from the battlefield, the combat efficiency of heavy fighters deployed on Lord Howe Island and the sea base is very limited, and the US Navy will find it difficult to ensure that the US Navy will seize air supremacy during the attack, even if it is temporary air supremacy.

For the US Navy, which does not have a main fleet, if it cannot seize air supremacy, it can only avoid the opponent's main ship.

In this way, the US Navy can only choose to start when the main battleships of the Republic Navy cannot fight, that is, when they use up all shells in the battle to shell New Zealand and have to carry out supply operations.

Will the actual situation be so ideal?

The Republic's Navy dared to go south to compete for sea control without the deployment of the shore-based aviation force. The key is to have two main fleets. It has the ability to wipe out the US fleet in "hand-to-hand combat". That is to say, even if you need to destroy New Zealand's threats before fighting with the US fleet, you should really use the carrier-based aviation escort warships to compete with weapons. Instead of using decisive combat power from the beginning, you can gain absolute initiative in a truly decisive naval battle.

The problem is that the main fleet bombardment is indeed the main fleet. This can be seen from the explosion at the shell site, that is, the damage caused by the shell explosion, which is a masterpiece of the kilogram-class electromagnetic gun, and the power of the locking kilogram-class electromagnetic gun and the dog kilogram-class electromagnetic gun are not that great at all. More importantly, this is indeed from the two main fleets, and the main fleets of the two main fleets consume more than 60% of the ammunition. This can be seen from the scale of the shells, that is, the number of shells landed in New Zealand. In any case, the "Tang" class is just a small-scale improved type of the "Qin" class, and the two main guns have not much difference in the amount of the main guns.

Of course, some people are skeptical about this.

According to the combat record of the U.S. Third Fleet, before the fleet commander made the decision to fight the Republic's Navy fleet, a staff officer raised questions. He believed that the bombardment of New Zealand was not the main ship, because the Republic's Navy had no reason to consume the kilogram-class electric bombs developed to deal with maritime targets when attacking ground targets. In fact, when dealing with ground targets, there is little chance of using kilogram-class shells, which can deal with almost all ground targets. According to the staff's judgment, the Republic's Navy is willing to

Decided to develop some kind of powerful ammunition, which makes the explosion effect of the kilogram-class shell look not much different from that of the kilogram-class shell. In other words, the escort warships in the main fleet are bombarded in New Zealand, not the main battleship. Let’s not talk about whether the staff’s judgment is correct. That is, whether the Republican Navy has developed new ammunition, at least his tactical view is correct. That is, the Republican Navy has no reason to use the ammunition against large warships to deal with ground targets. There is no need to let the main battleship participate in the combat operations of shelling New Zealand.

The problem is that the staff officer's judgment does not support it, that is, the US Navy does not have any relevant evidence.

Report.

Unfortunately, this US Navy staff officer who almost turned the situation around the war did not receive God's favor and did not live until the end of the naval war. He was not able to become a great figure who rewrites history.

In fact, the US military staff member was not completely accurate.

Although developing new ammunition is not a problem. However, due to the influence of the "military restriction negotiation", when the new explosion principle can only be used to improve the power of ammunition, the Republic's Navy has no way to make the power of kilogram-level shells reach the level of 0 kilogram-level shells in the form of chemical energy.

In other words, the shelling of New Zealand was not an escort warship, but indeed a warship equipped with kilogram-class electromagnetic guns.

Of course, it is definitely not the main ship.

This is the new firecraft invested and developed by the Republic Navy to attack Australia. To be precise, it is a new firepower module. Because the navigation speed of the firepower ship is much more full than that of the warship. Especially when it is fully loaded, the maximum navigation speed is only Fengjie, so in order to meet the tactical needs, the Republic Navy has also specially improved four firecrafts, equipped them with a propulsion system with a higher power, and through the reduction of load, the maximum navigation speed reaches Qinjie. Fortunately,

Yes, even under the condition of load reduction, the amount of ammunition of the firepower ship is much more than that of the main battleship, and the shells carried by the firepower ship are equivalent to those carried by the main battleship. Because when the main battleship performs combat missions, it is impossible to carry all the ground attack ammunition, and it is even impossible to focus on the ground ammunition. Therefore, throwing in a battle is equivalent to the old one. Breaking the shells carried by the main battleship can make the US military believe that the two main fleets are bombarded in New Zealand, rather than the main fleet.

It can be said that these four firecraft also determine the time for the naval fleet to move south.

It is precisely because these four firecraft arrived in Vanuatu at night on the moon and the Republic's Navy fleet went south in February and early in the morning. In order to avoid alarming the snake, all firecraft were disguised as fast supply ships. The supply ships also adopted modular design and construction methods. Therefore, only a few supply modules were added to disguise the firecraft as supply ships and all were organized into the supply fleet. More importantly, the supply fleet must be provided with supplies, so the scale of the supply fleet is very large. No more supply ships and less four supply ships will cause suspicion from the US military.

Interestingly, even the Republic's Navy did not expect the bold actions of the US military.

According to the combat plan of the Republic Navy, the purpose of shelling New Zealand was to let the escaped Tihong Fleet return to the battlefield, that is, to fight the Tihong Fleet in the waters near New Zealand. In this way, after shelling New Zealand, a major fleet must be left in the shelling waters, and even to try to go south to intercept the Tibi Fleet returning to New Zealand. Another main fleet interspersed southwest under the cover of the aviation force to intercept the third US fleet that came to reinforce. Although the Qin class defeated the Long Beach class of the US Navy in the Yap Navy and proved its combat effectiveness with practical combat, from tactics, the second main fleet, that is, a fleet dominated by eight "Tang" class main ships, should also be allowed to move south to deal with the Timing Fleet. Let the first main fleet intercept the third US fleet.

Because at this time, the Republic's Navy had not yet encountered the US Navy, so the fleet was acting according to the strategy.

Objectively speaking, there is no major problem with this tactical arrangement. From this tactical arrangement, it can be seen that the Republic Navy has a relatively clear understanding of the combat operations going south to fight for sea control, especially in the absence of support, the degree of information mastery is very clear, that is, when there is no way to accurately grasp the battlefield information, it can only make the plan more flexible as much as possible, so as not to be difficult to deal with when encountering variables. More importantly, in the case of opaque information, the US Navy is also likely to take active actions, that is, let the Dihong Fleet head north and take advantage of the favorable conditions of the complex battlefield environment to fight a raid in the waters near New Zealand. Not to mention the complete annihilation of the Republic Navy fleet. As long as it can be defeated in a battle and the main fleet is supported, the US Navy can regain the initiative. Affected by this, the Republic Navy has no reason not to put the attack on the Dihong Fleet in the first place.

Affected by this, the Republic's Navy did not expect that when he was making plans, the Dibi Fleet was not the Dibi Fleet," said several other combat fleets of the Jijia San Fleet. In this way, when facing the Dilan Airlines and Gangkou aircraft carrier battle group, the Republic's Navy only sent a main fleet, plus the "Aviation Support Fleet" composed of four aircraft carrier battle groups. Because the four aircraft carriers are all equipped with clown fighters with almost no ability to attack the sea, some people gave it this nickname. Even in the previous operations, it was to strike.

New Zealand's main purpose is to paralyze the "aircraft force of the US military deployed in New Zealand to exempt the air threat from the second main fleet, thereby concentrating the carrier-based aviation force to cover the first main fleet. In other words, when only the main fleet is used to deal with the US third fleet, the air defense intensity is increased, twice. The problem is that this is equivalent to reducing the strike capability by half. In the case that there is no obvious significance to continue to increase the air defense intensity, this will definitely not be worth the cost. It will not help the fleet's combat operations.

After the war ended, many people believed that if the second main fleet had faced the U.S. Third Fleet at that time, the results of the largest naval battle on the Southwest Pacific battlefield would have been different, and the results gained from this would likely change the course of World War III.

Regardless of whether this statement is shattering or not, the general outcome of this naval battle will not change.

The battle began at the beginning of the morning of February 2. The attack was the Third Fleet of the US military. Because when the US fleet attacked at high speed, anti-submarine warships could not effectively monitor the surrounding waters. Moreover, the noise made could be heard clearly hundreds of kilometers away, so it took about minutes before the US military's Third Fleet deployed carrier-based fighter jets. The first main fleet accelerated to advance southwest after receiving the alarm from the submarine. Judging from the combat records of both sides, the distance between the Third Fleet of the US military and the First Main Fleet of the Republic's Navy was not brewing kilometers, but about kilometers.

The attacks along with the carrier-based aviation force are also launched by the shore-based aviation force in the rear. The US Navy will also classify the aviation force deployed on the maritime base as the shore-based aviation force and the long-range sea-controlled force in the fleet. Although the flight speed of anti-ship missiles is much faster than that of fighter jets, considering that the Republic's main fleet has a forced electromagnetic interference system and the main ship has better electromagnetic shielding capabilities. It can also use the forced electromagnetic interference system more casually. Theoretically, in defense operations, the main ship can completely resist the influence of the forced electromagnetic interference system, so the US Navy fleet did not allow the escort warships to delay the launch of anti-ship missiles, but instead launched anti-ship missiles at the same time.

In this way, the first thing that arrives and launches the attack will be the heavy anti-ship missiles launched by the US Navy warships.

In fact, when intercepting heavy anti-ship missiles launched by US warships, the first main fleet did not use a forced electromagnetic interference system.

According to the combat records of the Republic's Navy, the new interception system on the eight main battleships played a key role at that time.

From the US military's combat records, it can be seen that at that time, dozens of escort warships in the three US fleets launched a total of many heavy anti-ship missiles to the first main fleet, and they were the latest generation of anti-ship missiles with a speed above Limach. Their power cannot be underestimated and their number was even more amazing.

With the regional air defense capabilities of the first main fleet, it can only intercept anti-ship missiles in regional air defense. With the interception systems of each ship, it can deal with four. Jinmei anti-ship missiles are very good. In this way, the first main fleet can only use the forced electromagnetic interference system to deal with the remaining anti-ship missiles. Because the forced electric collision interference system will have a devastating impact on the air defense warships in the fleet, that is, it will cause the air defense warships to lose regional air defense capabilities. Therefore, when the attack fleet of the US Navy arrives, in addition to dealing with the air defense line composed of ugly fighters, it is almost unnecessary to consider the influence of the fleet air defense warships, and the attack efficiency can be maximized. More importantly, if the first main fleet can only resist with the forced electromagnetic interference system, it will definitely not be able to carry out effective counterattacks in the face of successive attacks by the US military, and it will not be able to make the kilogram-class electromagnetic guns exert their power.

Obviously, this is the US military's wishful thinking. It dragged down the first main fleet with continuous strikes.

The problem is that the first main fleet is definitely not so fragile.

It can be said that this battle most directly reflects the main reason why the main ship is not equipped with regional air defense systems.

What is important is that this battle lets the outside world know the powerful interception ability of the "Qin"-class battleship, that is, the new interception system named "Medusa" by the Republic's Navy. The use of characters from Greek mythology to name this system shows its particularity.

From this name, it can be roughly guessed. The core of the entire system is an energy distribution and control device called "intelligent reflection ball". During combat, after receiving a fleet air defense alarm and estimating that the fleet's regional air defense system cannot intercept all incoming targets, and the remaining target exceeds the maximum interception capability of the final interception system of the main ship, the central computer on the main ship will start "Medusa" and first launch the "intelligent reflection ball" to an altitude of about 0 meters. Because the "intelligent reflection ball" is equipped with a power system and a high-precision azimuth control system, it can accompany the activity of the battleship and stay above the battleship's head. After the target enters the interception area, the main ship starts the central laser generator and casts the laser beam to the "intelligent reflection ball" using the voltage controlled transmission as high as Mu Yuyu's high-transparent ear plastic lens. The "intelligent reflection ball" can guide the laser and reflect it to all directions.

.Theoretically, when the combat distance is blade kilometers, the system can intercept force targets at most at the same time. Moreover, the number of intercept targets will increase as the combat distance is shortened. For example, when the blade kilometers is broken, a target can be intercepted. If it is shortened to the old kilometers, a strong target can be intercepted. According to the interception period of one interception period, the interception starts from blade kilometers and can intercept about a few targets before being hit by a missile. Plus the warship's own final interception system.!

The main battleship can intercept more than one target in a battle, and to attack a fleet consisting of 8 main battleships, old cruisers, old multi-purpose destroyers and anti-submarine destroyers. Moreover, annihilation of the fleet must ensure that after breaking through the fleet's regional air defense system, the different anti-ship missiles of the smallest anti-ship missiles are terrible. As long as the four vertical ships are severely damaged, the ship can enter the continuous combat capability, the positive anti-ship missiles must be prepared for the final stage of attack.

There is no doubt that no fleet has such strong sea control capabilities.

That's why the Republic's Navy did not need to equip the main ships with regional air defense systems.

Of course, "Medusa" is not omnipotent. For example, its "intelligent reflective ball" needs to be launched in advance, so it must be covered by air defense warships with regional air defense capabilities. The main ships that are active individually are easily attacked. More importantly, "Medusa" only has the ability to defend against targets in the atmosphere and is a target that is sensitive to energy weapons. To put it bluntly, it can only intercept relatively fragile anti-ship missiles, but not the ability to intercept shells with much faster interception speed and not greatly affected by energy weapons. Theoretically, there was no air defense method at that time, which could effectively intercept shells with large-caliber electromagnetic guns.

In terms of the entire battle, the biggest benefit of the "Medusa" system is that after resisting the first round of attacks that the US military is determined to win, the first main fleet not only did not fall to the point where they could only use forced Xiaoxiao to interfere with the system of self-defense, but also gained a very valuable counterattack opportunity. As mentioned earlier, when the carrier-based aviation forces launched an attack, it would take about an hour and a minute to take off from the first fighter jet to the missile entering the range of the attack warship. During this period, the main ship can sail for more than four kilometers, shortening the combat distance to about ten thousand meters.

The reality is that in the battle against aircraft carriers, there is no need to get the distance so close.

At 6:00, about minutes after the battle began, the first main fleet was at the forefront of the three combat fleets from the US military's First Fleet. The first main fleet was at the rear of the left and the strongest fleet was at a distance of 6,000 meters behind the right. The counterattack of the First Main Fleet began. As in the Yap Naval Battle, the first major fleet was not the main ship, but the escort warships in the fleet, and the projection was not the artillery shells. Instead, it was "reconnaissance shells".

Although at that time, the first main fleet could require the third fleet following behind to provide aviation reconnaissance, that is, send fighters to find out the situation of the US fleet. Because the maximum flight speed of the blade is much faster than that of the US fighter jets, and the reconnaissance equipment can be carried in its bullet bay, the main reason for retaining the bullet bay is to carry reconnaissance equipment, so it has sufficient ability to perform tactical reconnaissance tasks. However, judging by the situation at that time, it is not considered whether the reconnaissance aircraft can break through the US fleet air defense network, just from the perspective of time. No matter how fast the aircraft is, it is not as good as the shells.

The problem is that the first main fleet did not fire immediately after the reconnaissance shell was projected.

Given the situation at that time, the first main fleet must have been sure to defeat the Dimi Fleet in one fell swoop. The main fleet of the Zhe fights against three aircraft carriers, and the range is about 1,000 meters. From projecting "reconnaissance shells to carrying out the first round of artillery fire, there must be a few minutes interval. The two fleets sailing at the speed of the force knot can shorten the distance by dozens of kilometers in these few minutes. The volley can make the three aircraft carriers inactive, and the second round of volley can make the three aircraft carriers become iron coffins floating on the sea. At most, only Lin's shelling can sunk 3 aircraft carriers, and even the escort warships in the Dimi Fleet can be buried.

There is only one reason why the first main fleet did not fire, that is, the fifth fleet is too insignificant.

To be precise, it's very time-consuming.

In the next few minutes, the cruisers and multi-purpose destroyers of the First Main Fleet opened fire twice, respectively, and projected "reconnaissance shells to the Descendant Fleet and the Descendant Fleet. Because the Descendant Fleet was more than 1,000 meters away from the Descendant Fleet at that time, it confirmed in disguise that the "reconnaissance shells were more than 1,000 meters away from the Descendant Fleet.

It was not until 6 o'clock that the main battleship in the main fleet made a shocking first round of volleys.

From this time on, eight "Qin-class battleships launched shells at each gun with force seconds per round, and this was the necessary time for the accelerator to cool down. They fired six consecutive rounds of volleys, and stopped firing at 6 o'clock. They moved into the fleet's air defense operations again.

From a time perspective, the attack timing of the first main fleet was very accurate.

Just as the fleet was turning into air defense operations, the attack of the US Navy carrier-based fighter jets also arrived. Because it entered the air defense state in minutes, there was enough time to start the "Medusa system again. More importantly, the escort warships avoided when the main ship fired also had enough time to enter the cover range of the "Medusa" system to avoid being attacked by US anti-ship missiles.

With the help of the protection of the "Medusa system, the first main fleet once again avoided the catastrophe.

There is no doubt that the U.S. Navy Third Fleet is not so lucky.

Although there were only 6 rounds of volleys, the projected shells were only flooded with a total tonnage of less than 4.4 tons. They were not as good as the anti-ship missiles projected by the US Navy's carrier-based aviation, but the strike effect was incomparable. When the anti-ship missiles projected by US fighter jets were shot down one after another, the three combat fleets also suffered a catastrophe and did not even have the chance to resist.

It is said that the short minuscule shelling has condensed the efforts of the Republic's Navy for decades.

It can even be said that if the US Navy had not arranged the shore-based aviation to participate in the battle, and the shore-based aviation did not enter the battle with the carrier-based aviation, the first main fleet would not resist the attack from the shore-based aviation after resisting the attack of US carrier-based fighter jets, so that it would not be possible to conduct additional attacks before the US fleet was evacuated and retreated, the US Navy's third fleet would not lose the port aircraft carrier, but all the main warships!
Chapter completed!