"Sir, the plan for the air attack on the US military base in Bermuda has been drawn up."
On the island of the USS Zeppelin, Rear Admiral Hersman Jr., Aviation Staff of Task Force 21, handed over the air attack plan that had just been prepared to Rear Admiral Christiansen, Chief of Staff of the Fleet.
Rear Admiral Christiansen was a torpedo boat commander, and although he himself had a certificate as a carrier aircraft pilot and served as a captain of an escort aircraft carrier, he was not proficient in air stations.
And the young Hersmann Jr. was recognized as an expert in aircraft carrier air warfare, and was naturally entrusted with the important task by Rear Admiral Christiansen.
"Oh, you suggest concentrating on the use of aircraft carriers" Rear Admiral Christiansen took the plan and read it carefully, "Isn't it good that the Japanese used aircraft carriers in a scattered manner during the Battle of Midway?"
Although the European Community now has more aircraft carriers, it has little experience in using aircraft carrier formations in air warfare.
Therefore, tracking the situation of the US-Japanese aircraft carrier battle in the Pacific Ocean has become the main way for the German Navy to understand the tactics of air warfare.
Otherwise, Hersman Jr. would not have become a recognized expert in aircraft carrier air combat.
"Sir, in terms of the effect of air strikes, a large group of concentrated aircraft will definitely outweigh a small group of aircraft that arrive on the battlefield in turn."
"According to intelligence, the U.S. military has deployed only 200 planes in Bermuda, including up to 100 fighters, and if we can concentrate five aircraft carriers, we can dispatch up to 180 fighter-bombers at a time, which is enough to suppress enemy fighters," Hersman Jr. said. ” According to the "Atlantic Storm" plan developed by the Atlantic Front and the European Community Joint Fleet Command, the 20th and 21st Task Fleets leaving the port of Brest will join the 401st and 402nd Carrier Groups, as well as the 491st and 492nd Submariner Hunting Groups, which have been operating in the North Atlantic, and the 1st Submarine Group Home Port will also meet with 16 Type 21 U boats in the Azores and then regroup.
Among them, the 401st and 402nd Carrier Groups will join Task Force 20, and 80 carrier-based aircraft on two Kesselring-class light aircraft carriers will provide air cover for Task Force 20.
The 491st and 492nd Submarine Hunting Groups, and the 1st Submarine Group will all join Task Force 21.
However, these two submarine hunting groups and one submarine group will not form a large formation with the other ship groups of Task Force 21, but will set up a search screen for the main force of Task Force 21.
Incidentally, the submarine hunting group under the European Combined Fleet has extremely strong reconnaissance capabilities, and the core Rhine-class escort aircraft carrier C is generally equipped with 16 Fokker Zero D fighter-bombers and 9 Fokker 100C reconnaissance bombers.
The 491 Brigade and the 492 Brigade are strengthened submarine hunting groups, in addition to having 1 C ship and 6 Type 1936D destroyers, there is also a D ship This is a standard displacement of 12,000 tons of seaplane carriers, which can carry 5 BV138 large seaplanes.
As for the main force of the 21st Task Force, there are four aircraft carrier groups, namely the 221st Aircraft Carrier Group with the "Zeppelin" aircraft carrier as the core, the 222nd Aircraft Carrier Group with the "Prussia" aircraft carrier as the core, the 223rd Aircraft Carrier Group with the "Bohemia" aircraft carrier as the core, and the 224th Aircraft Carrier Group with two "Seidlitz" class aircraft carriers and the US Navy with only one type of ship.
The main combat groups, such as the battleship group and the missile ship group, are all mixed with various ships.
In the case of an aircraft carrier group, for example, an aircraft carrier group usually includes 13 aircraft carriers, 12 cruisers and usually air defense cruisers, 610 destroyers, and supply ships.
Such a mixed group can not only be incorporated into the task force, but also have the ability to fight independently, and is very flexible.
"But aircraft carriers that are concentrated in action are also very easy for the enemy to detect and strike."
Rear Admiral Christian frowned, he really had little experience in aircraft carrier air warfare, and now he was really incapable of serving as the chief of staff of a task force with aircraft carriers as the main force.
"Sir, I think it's highly probable that we will be discovered and attacked by the Americans first," Hesman Jr. said with a shrug, "There are American B29 reconnaissance models in the Atlantic, and intelligence says that there are such planes in Bermuda."
In addition, the Americans have deployed long-range reconnaissance planes modified from B17 and B24 on the Bermuda Islands, and it is estimated that many submarines will operate in the Atlantic waters east of Bermuda.
None of them had much range. ” The ultra-long-range reconnaissance aircraft modified from the B29 is codenamed F13A in the US military, and the range of this aircraft is greater than that of the bombing B29, with a maximum reconnaissance radius of nearly 3,500 kilometers, covering from Bermuda all the way to the Azores The reconnaissance aircraft converted from the B17 and B24 also have a great range and can search the sea area more than 1,000 kilometers from Bermuda.
Unlike the Japanese Navy's excessively long-range combat aircraft, the German naval aviation paid more attention to the performance of carrier-based aircraft in combat than to range.
This was due to the fact that German naval aviation was practically not an annex of the Navy, but a branch of the Air Force.
Therefore, they focus on the safety of carrier-based aircraft pilots rather than the safety of carrier-based aircraft.
And the "large group tactic" that Hersman Jr. is now proposing is actually from the perspective of pilot safety.
In Hirschmann Jr.'
s view, three large armored aircraft carriers are not so easy to sink, if 7080 Fokker 636 can be put into direct cover aircraft, the US military 150 SBD and TBF can not replace one "Zeppelin".
And such an exchange is nothing less cost-effective for the German naval aviation than for the European Community, the aircraft carrier is not a treasure that cannot be lost, the number of "Zeppelin" class may not be enough, but the mass-produced bargain "Kesselring" class is enough for a 150,000-ton ship, the flight deck is still wooden, the power of the diesel engine using an engine The output of the diesel engine is much larger than that of the steam turbine, the maximum power is 660,000 tons, and the speed is only 26 knots.
Such ships are the leader of the world's shipbuilding industry before World War II, and the leader of the world's shipbuilding industry is the United Kingdom, and the marine diesel engine has always been the domain of the German AN company, the Swiss Sulzer company and the Danish BAAAW company, and the European Community, which can also use the Dutch and Swedish shipyards, is not as much as it wants He said: "In the Battle of Midway, the scattered aircraft carriers and small aircraft groups of the Japanese army attacked them, although they were conducive to the preservation of the aircraft carriers, but they put the carrier-based aircraft pilots in extreme danger.
As far as I know, the pilots of the Meteor carrier-based torpedo bombers, which took off from the three aircraft carriers Daiho, Akagi and Kaga, took off to participate in the air raids, lost almost 90.
Such a rate of losses is something that our German naval aviation cannot afford" Hersman Jr.'
s last words were actually spoken on behalf of several aircraft carrier flight captains.
None of these flight captains were obedient and obedient figures, especially Colonel Heinzbar, the flight captain of the flagship "Zeppelin", who was also the flight commander of the 2nd Fleet.
According to the relevant regulations of the German Navy and the German Naval Aviation, the Fleet Flight Commander has the right to refuse to carry out air raid tasks ordered by the Fleet Commander on the grounds that the risk is "too great" or "it cannot be carried out".
Rear Admiral Christian thought for a moment, and finally signed the plan drawn up by Hersmann Jr., which was written in duplicate, one for the approval of Vice Admiral Bay, the commander of the fleet, and the other to Colonel Heinzbar.
Only when both of them agreed was the plan for an air strike on Bermuda approved.
Caribbean, USS Essex.
Brigadier Arleigh Burke glanced at the flagship flag flying from the top of the island, which had been raised an hour earlier when he and Vice Admiral Mitchell had boarded the Essex with the full command team of Task Force 30.
This means that the Essex-class aircraft carriers will play a crucial role in this naval battle that is at stake in the future and fate of the United States of America Although, in theory, the battleship was the key to the defense of the Caribbean.
However, the role of aircraft carriers in the Atlantic operation cannot be ignored, and for the United States now, battleships are actually defensive weapons, and it is better for them to stay in the Caribbean and not go anywhere.
The aircraft carrier is a weapon that can be used for attack, and it is difficult to win a war by defense alone, and it is very necessary for the United States to counterattack.
Is it really advantageous to just launch a counterattack in the Atlantic In this regard, Brigadier General Arleigh Burke's opinion is different from that of the big man above.
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In his opinion, it was quite right to attack Chile in the Pacific.
Because the Southeast Pacific is so far away from Europe, it is the home of the U.S.
Pacific Fleet, and even if the Germans send aircraft carriers to the Southeast Pacific, how long can they stay in the Southeast Pacific As long as the Pacific Fleet consumes them, Chile will not be able to take them sooner or later If Chile is taken, Argentina will be bombed all day long.
It's not a matter of time before a revolution or a coup d'état blows up With full suspicion, Arleigh Burke went up to the command center on the second floor of the island, when the fleet's communications staff officer handed him a telegram he had just received: "Chief of Staff, order from the command of the 3rd Fleet, let us approach in the direction of Bermuda. ” t1706231537: