Chapter 2739： Misjudgment Three

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As for aviation fuel? How much aviation fuel can be loaded on an aircraft carrier? According to the standards of Japanese warships, it is about 200 to 300 tons. (Don’t think it’s too small. Historically, large fleet aircraft carriers like Ruihe had only 475 tons of aviation fuel in the early stages of the war.) What about consumption? The fuel consumption of a fighter with the auxiliary fuel tank is below 500KG, and the fuel consumption of an attack aircraft is about 700KG. In this way, after leaving a 1.5 combat portion of fuel for each aircraft, the remaining fuel can be handed over to the land-based aviation team.

what? You said 1.5 combat points are not enough? This is enough, because in the Japanese plan, their engagement with the U.S. fleet is only one day. If the opponent cannot be wiped out during the day, then unless they are extremely lucky, after a night of high-speed sailing, the U.S. fleet has It is very likely to escape the pursuit of the Japanese fleet, and how much output can a daytime aircraft carrier make in a naval battle? At most, all carrier-based aircraft will be released once, and individual aircraft may have two opportunities to take off, such as reconnaissance aircraft or fighter jets responsible for fleet air defense. Considering the battle damage of the carrier-based aircraft when the aircraft carrier is engaged, it is enough to leave 1.5 combat parts of fuel for all aircraft!

In this way, Betty’s proposal optimizes the resource allocation of the Japanese combined fleet to the greatest extent. If done properly, within two days, the ammunition and materials on the battleship can be transported to the Talau Islands to supply the transitional. Japanese twin-engine bombers. In this way, the Japanese air force has about 45 twin-engine bombers out of thin air. If someone is from the perspective of God, they will find that, in fact, the regular aviation force in the hands of the Japanese It is almost twice that of the US military!

After solving the three issues raised by Yoshimatsu Shigeru Taro, the Japanese joint fleet's tactics have actually matured. That is, the Talaw Islands are the core of the entire front, and the main force of the fleet is deployed in the eastern part of the Talaw Islands. The seaplanes on board and the seaplanes in the Japanese joint fleet are used as the main reconnaissance methods to deploy a cordon, and then after the target is found at the cordon, the Japanese joint fleet selects an opportunity to attack.

As for whether the Americans will control the speed and use the night time to cross the waters near the Talau Islands? In fact, this is impossible. The current twin-engine bomber has a combat radius of at least 300 kilometers, and it is calculated at 10 hours a night, and the US fleet is calculated at a speed of 18 knots, so it can only travel at most 300 kilometers a night. Meters, it is absolutely impossible to get out of the waters surrounding the Talaw Islands, and the Talaw Islands fleet can block the entire eastern exit of the Sulawesi Sea with this as the center. As for the US fleet, if it does not take the Sulawesi Sea, it will choose a detour. Ok? This is not even a theoretical possibility, because not only the range of the destroyer is not enough, even the range of the battleship may not be enough!

The Japanese joint fleet's participation sequence was officially released a few hours later. There are 13 battleships in total, divided into 3 battleship detachments, which are the first battleship detachments, including the fleet's flagships, the Nagato, Mutsu, and Fuso. And Ise. The Second Battleship Detachment consists of four Fuso-class battleships, namely Yamashiro, Hyuga, Takaha, and Tosa. The third battleship detachment consists of five battleships, namely the fast battleship Ibuki, the battlecruisers Kongo and Zhenming, and the two dreadnoughts Hanoi and Settsu.

There are four aircraft carriers: Fengxiang, Feiying, Falcon and Feilong. These aircraft carriers Zhongfeilong were converted using relics of the British "Preparatory Aircraft Carrier" program during the war. They used a large fleet of aircraft carriers built on the basis of a high-speed merchant ship with a displacement of 22,000 tons, equipped with double-layer hangars. The upper hangar is open and the lower hangar is closed. The British believe that the aircraft carrier can carry more than 92 aircraft, and the Japanese also assigned 85 aircraft to this aircraft carrier.

As for the remaining three aircraft carriers with a displacement of between 15,000 tons and 18,000 tons, they are all single-layer hangars. Except for the Flying Eagle, most of the hulls are pure civilian ships, but they have been appropriately enhanced. Although there is a deck system, the number of aircraft carried by each warship is between 60 and 70. The four aircraft carriers carry a total of 280 aircraft. In addition to the four regular aircraft carriers, this time the Japanese joint fleet also brought out two seaplane carriers for reconnaissance and anti-submarine use.

Compared with the huge battleship fleet and aircraft carrier fleet, the size of the Japanese auxiliary fleet pales in comparison to the destroyer detachment of the US Pacific Fleet, not to mention that they are commanded by Sims. Compared with the destroyer squadrons in the U.S. fleet, the Japanese destroyer squadrons are far behind. The main force of the Japanese Joint Fleet, which has a total of 17 capital ships, is only assigned to 36 destroyers! That is, 6 6 destroyer units!

Of course, this is not to say that the Japanese combined fleet has only 36 destroyers, but because many destroyers are maintaining or performing other tasks. At the same time, this deployment must emphasize mobility and ocean-going operations, so they must be equipped with large destroyers. But no matter what, there is still a significant gap between only 36 destroyers and more than 50 destroyers in the US fleet As for the cruisers in the Japanese fleet? Sorry, there are no other cruisers in the Japanese combined fleet except for the two light cruisers that are the leaders of the destroyer fleet, and these two light cruisers with only 6-inch guns are not enough for the United States. One heavy cruiser!

Another weak link of the Japanese combined fleet compared to the US fleet is the submarine force. You must know that in order to cooperate with this operation, the US fleet has concentrated more than 40 submarines for reconnaissance and security missions! Even many submarines originally used to break the cross-traffic have been transferred. However, it is absolutely impossible for the Japanese Navy to assemble such a large number of submarine forces in such a short period of time. Not to mention that most submarines are also performing cross-traffic missions thousands of kilometers away. The Americans need weeks to arrange and deploy. How can the Japanese fleet clean up these submarines in a few days? Therefore, the only submarines that the Japanese can mobilize are a dozen submarines parked at the headquarters of the Joint Fleet.

So these fleets, together with the two land-based seaplane squadrons and three bomber squadrons deployed in the Talau Islands, constituted the entire force of the Japanese combined fleet in the Sulawesi Sea battle.

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