Chapter 800： silent night

The arrival of this battle group has not only greatly increased its own strike force, but also brought new aircraft and pilots! In the last battle, the USS America lost a dozen A-7 attack aircraft, and before the Carl Vinson set off, ten A-7 attack aircraft flew from the US Naval Air Base and landed on Carl Vinson. On the Vincent, when the two sides are close, these planes will take off and fly to the USS America.

Although the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is also fully loaded, there is still room on the deck.

On the TV, you can see that every time the US aircraft carrier is dispatched, the carrier-based aircraft are full, as if the Americans are deliberately showing off their force. In fact, this is a last resort for the Americans, because their hangars below the deck Can't hold it!

For example, regarding the number of aircraft that the Nimitz class can carry, some say 70, some say 80, and some say 100. This is a general number. After all, a giant with a displacement of 100,000 tons There is only one layer of hangar below the aircraft carrier, with an area of ​​208*33 square meters. In this place, even if the United States eliminated the Tomcat in later generations, and only bugs are left, it can only be stuffed into a maximum of 36 aircraft. Full, it is troublesome to schedule.

Now, the Tomcat in the United States is still in service. This aircraft takes up more space. Usually, it is loaded with 26 aircraft, two helicopters and four lifeboats, and the rest are all placed on the deck.

The rest of the planes are placed on the deck and into the hangar, mainly maintenance fighter planes, American fighter planes are used to being stored in the open air on the aircraft carrier.

Therefore, it doesn't matter how many more planes there are, it just takes up more space on the deck. For example, if you can fill the bow deck with all fighter planes, you can fit a hundred planes, and take off, then only the angled deck is left. of the catapult.

Now, the Carl Vinson is in this state, sending new A-7 attack aircraft and pilots to the US to supplement their attrition, which makes the deck of the Carl Vinson very full, and the USS America goes north to meet, also for the purpose of Receive these fighters earlier, so that the Carl Vinson can vacate the deck, adjust the state, prepare to enter the strike state, and wash away the shame!

The route to the north needs to pass hundreds of kilometers away from the Argentine oil platforms. To be on the safe side, during the daytime today, a cruiser that went north first had already sent a helicopter to search here and found nothing unusual.

So far, the Soviet Navy has not joined the war, but some Soviet weapons must have reached the Argentine army! If the Soviet Union takes out those big killers, the American aircraft carrier formation will still be in danger!

During the day, the helicopters come to search these oil **** to see if supersonic anti-ship missiles are deployed. Those big guys with a range of 500 kilometers are the nightmare of the US Navy.

Fortunately, those are ordinary oil platforms, and some have already produced oil! This makes the American high-level more anxious, this battle must end as soon as possible!

Although there are some concerns, it is not too exciting! Taking off the AWACS at any time, the precious e-2 must be kept in good condition and used for the next offensive operation. Besides, it's dark now! Even if the Soviets have reconnaissance satellites with synthetic apertures, it is not easy to find their own maritime formations!

So, don't be too nervous, take off two carrier-based aircraft, and air patrol is enough!

Huge warships are cruising at sea. On the deck, the lights are flashing. In the distance, the navigation lights are flashing. Those are two cruising Tomcat fighter jets back!

Take off and land at night, are the most experienced pilots! Even on the USS America, only half of the Tomcat pilots are qualified to take off and land at night, and now, the two attacking planes are obviously flown by the most experienced pilots, and the other side's landing , simply in one go! With a chic glide line, the wheel touched the deck, hooked the first arresting cable, and stopped like this!

On the bow deck, two second-wave Tomcat fighter jets were also catapulting into the air, and white steam flew past. The two Tomcat fighter jets flew away from the aircraft carrier deck within a few seconds.

Inside the tall bridge, Captain Harold, the captain, has fallen asleep in his room. He slept peacefully. This is a normal night!

On the sea, the huge roar will spread far away, but on the vast sea, no matter how far away, it doesn't matter.

At a height of only five meters above the sea, Flower-tailed Pigeon No. 1 was flying smoothly.

As the driver, George Colombo, who was holding the joystick, felt sweat slowly seeping out of his palm.

After receiving the order to start, he operated the ground effect aircraft, rolled, took off, and flew at the maximum cruising speed at an altitude of five meters above the sea.

This first aircraft training is about to go out! While he was nervous, he was also proud in his heart! Although this thing looks like a plane, its attack power is definitely like a warship! The six supersonic anti-ship missiles at the top are sharp weapons for attacking aircraft carriers!

At the same time, the others were not idle either. As the captain of this aircraft Marchestan needs to plan this attack!

The six anti-ship missiles on the top have all completed their self-checks, and the six missiles are in good condition. Now, the most important thing is to find the American aircraft carrier formation!

How to find it? Before departure, the information obtained from the oil platform was only a speculated approximate position of the American aircraft carrier formation! The last time they attacked the British aircraft carrier formation, because the British did not have early warning aircraft and could effectively control the area of ​​the sea area, the Soviet Navy aircraft carrier formation was just a few hundred kilometers away. It monitored the British Navy through early warning aircraft and directly notified Argentina. The target information is very accurate.

And now, in the face of the American aircraft carrier formation, the Soviet aircraft carrier formation has been temporarily shielded, and the search for the American aircraft carrier formation can only rely on itself!

How to rely on? It is the upper part of the vertical tail of the aircraft, that ball-like thing, the radar equipped inside! This is the Mineral-Me radar system used in conjunction with the Sunburn anti-ship missile, the western code name Bandstand!

The radars equipped by general warships will not search for more than 50 kilometers in the sea, while the anti-ship missiles on warships have a range of hundreds of kilometers, such as Huaxia's c801, which uses rocket engines, just like Feiyu missiles, tens of kilometers. However, the radar of the warship will not increase the distance along with it. The earth is round, and the curvature determines this distance and cannot be changed.

Therefore, if the c-802 is launched, it will require the warship to take off the carrier-based helicopter to relay guidance for the missile.

This is also the case for the Flying Fish missile, and the same for the Harpoon missile. However, the missiles of the Soviet Navy did not use this scheme because they have a radar beyond the visual range!