Gliding bombs are not a new technology. They invented them as early as World War I, but before they could use them, the war ended. Although countries did not take it seriously at the time, as the Sino-Japanese War entered a white-hot stage, the Zhu family army used it several times, allowing the Japanese to completely drive the Japanese. The reputation of this fast and powerful bomb with the aerodynamic shape of the aircraft and the elders with wings spread like wildfire.

With the Japanese intelligence, combined with the current research and use of bombing against Britain, the Americans quickly figured out what it was and relying on their powerful technological capabilities to create their own version of special bombs.

Compared with the Germans, Americans, who had great advantages in aircraft and aerodynamics, made extraordinary moves. The first gliding bomb broke the Germans' rigidity and made the main wing longer. The appearance of the bomb was also modified similar to the type of the fighter. Therefore, based on the original accuracy control, the advantages of gliding distance and trajectory control were greatly increased, thus turning the bomb that could only be dropped from a large angle near-air into an epoch-making product that could be thrown out across more than ten kilometers.

Although it cannot reach the advanced things that can glide for 50 kilometers in Zhu Bin's hands, it completely draws a line with the airdrop weapons of the old era!

When Doolittle Air Force received a gliding bomb, the Pacific War had already begun. When they transferred to the Muckerlo Air Force Base, Zhu Bin's bombing destroyed San Francisco and Los Angeles and defeated the Pacific Fleet. Only after Nimitz decisively retreated did they land on the aircraft carrier.

So, today is the first time it has been used since the birth of the gliding bomb.

I have to say that Doolittle's tactical qualities are extraordinary, bold, meticulous, and imaginative. This is also the key factor in his ability to take charge of the commander and command of the front-line attack.--If you want to step forward from the US Navy, which has many talents and gain the favor and trust of Nimitz, you can't do it without two tricks!

Thirty-two gliding bombs on the front foot left the hanger, and then the other two looked the same, but the fakes with empty shells inside were thrown out, and sixty-four identical targets suddenly appeared in the sky, causing considerable interference to the radar signal of the intelligent defense system of the sea-surface ring base.

This is not finished yet!

Just as the bombers began to drop bombs, the fighters carefully hovering on the 15-kilometer border line at low altitude also started to move. Some high-speed fighters such as F4u threw out all the small bombs mounted. Although they couldn't fly far with just a little inertia, they successfully involved some radar scanning.

The other part of the torpedo attack aircraft simply throws mounted torpedoes against the water surface.

Those airborne torpedoes with a range of only 3 kilometers were also specially modified for the enemies they faced. The warhead was greatly reduced, and only a few dozen kilograms of high-explosive charges were installed. The extra space was designed to propel the fuel compartment, extending the range by more than 10 kilometers, barely reaching the target. After all, it is a dead target that will not move. As long as the torpedo floats along the water, it will always reach the end point.

As a result, the total number of US fighter jets, flying objects and surface attack objects in the sky suddenly increased by more than twice! From less than one hundred, the number of true and false mixed together. The high, medium and low altitudes plus the water surface underwater is equivalent to the five-layer attack array. It is so complex that it is dazzling!

On the radar screen of the control center of the island-round intelligent defense system, various shining light spots of various sizes were rising one after another. The twelve electromagnetic turrets suddenly seemed a little stretched. The shore-based turret, which had been silent, started in an emergency. The twin-mounted cannons that were originally bombarded at the destroyer, immediately rose. First, they beat the target's largest bomber with a bang!

The three-kilometer-diameter roundabout is divided into six continuous surfaces, with at least six double-speed fire guns on each surface as the main firepower hands. All wireless near-explosion fuses plus intelligent fire control, radar correction and wireless guidance, at a rate of 25 rounds per minute. In a blink of an eye, the shells fired easily reach every 4-8 rounds to lock a target. With continuous explosions, even the thick-skinned b-25 can't withstand a few moments!

The four bombers bravely leaned forward as a target to attract firepower were caught off guard and were swallowed by dense explosions in a blink of an eye. When they rushed out of the smoke, they were already full of holes, covered with fire and smoke, their wings were broken, the engine was damaged, the cabin was broken, the pilot was bleeding, and the crashed tragically towards the sea!

Dulite's landline was slightly behind. He stared at the white umbrella flower that popped up in front of him with a blank expression on his face. Less than one-third of the people who survived were killed on the spot! This was all the heavy price paid to fulfill his bold plan!

However, the sacrifices of these people are obviously worth it, and they are by no means the only ones.

At low altitude, after dropping the bomb, the f4u fighter with a sudden reduction in load decisively and quickly broke through the blockade line, acting as bait without fear, attracting the opponent's terrible air defense weapon that is everywhere and without traces.

On the water surface, the attack aircraft that dropped the torpedo raised its abdomen clumsily, and while climbing slowly, it bravely crossed the sideline and tried hard to show its existence!

After releasing a round of torpedoes, the two destroyers who came over turned their heads and rushed in without hesitation, one left and one right, like a warrior launching a desperate charge, fearlessly facing the sudden explosion of the attack firepower with a sudden density of several times!

This scene was faithfully recorded by the observers behind them with film and cameras. The young photographer was even full of tears and his hands trembled slightly. This was an unforgettable heroic scene. Everyone in front of him was the hero of America! It was their sacrifice that brought about the eternal survival and prosperity of the entire country, the free people and the civilized world!

How might it be!

The hearts of countless witnesses were filled with blood. At that moment, it was simply possessed by the souls of all the great figures in the short history of America.

On the opposite side, on the boiling roundabout, no one appreciates or appreciates the rare brave actions of Americans. In other words, Americans are actually glaring at the blind man. In the seemingly huge artificial building, there are not many serious living people at all!

When the Pacific War officially broke out, this huge base, which originally had only some technical personnel and rotated scientific researchers, was immediately withdrawn, leaving only a small number of amphibious elite troops as daily guards. Even the maintenance work was carried out by the military engineers. Compared with the huge security area with a radius of 150 kilometers, it was pitiful.

Now, due to the migration of more than 20 peripheral platforms, the outer defense network has temporarily withdrawn, exposing the middle base, and of course they are ready for battle. When the Nimitz formation crossed the sonar array, only a few people on the outer ring defense line have simply retreated into the center. Even if the outside is full of spectators, they can at most be a long-range spectator from the tightly protected security center.

And as the defensive artillery fire was opened, the smoke everywhere and boiling water vapor simply blurred the camera, and only the drone in the air could barely send back a few decent scattered images.

Even more dense than Americans imagined, the terrifying defensive artillery officially revealed prototype!

The two destroyers had just crossed the edge and immediately triggered the priority judgment of the intelligent defense system. The huge hull showed a threat among all attack units to the highest level. So six double-mounted 203mm cannons immediately turned around, and the fierce artillery fire bombed a rapid-fire group at a speed of 8 rounds per minute. As a result, the two warships failed to hold on for even three minutes. After being beaten up with seventeen or eighteen holes on the spot, they exploded and caught fire, and sank crookedly!

The torpedo aircraft that rush at low altitude, together with the torpedo they release, are intercepted as secondary threat targets. In addition to the automatic loading of anti-submarine rockets, the two electromagnetic guns were added to the sequence of precise bombardment of the sea, destroying seven torpedoes continuously at 5,000 meters to ensure that there are no fish that escape the net.

As for the fighter jets, they were shot down one by one by one by the air defense missiles flying over the center after they rushed in just a few kilometers. Ensure that there were no fish that slipped through the net.

The small bombs that were scattered were simply abandoned as no threat. Sixty-four real and fake gliding bombs were relatively lagging as secondary threat targets before they were determined to be a little behind. But at this time, they all accelerated to Mach 0.65 and took advantage of the fireworks to sweep into the low altitude within one minute!

As the primary defense weapon, the electromagnetic cannon was mobilized and destroyed more than 30 consecutively in rapid fire mode. Then the six-tube 20mm dense array that was triggered nimblely locked the near-empty units and broke them one by one at a speed of three seconds.

In short, the density of intercepting firepower has become so large that it is hopeless, but Zhu Bin's subjective mistakes have led to a lot of secrets! He seriously underestimated the speed of technological development and learning ability of contemporary people. In the 1930s, even if it was just a little creativity, without absolute technological obstacles, the rapid development of military technology stimulated by the world war was simply incredible!

Today's attack was led by Nimitz and planned and personally implemented by Doolittle, an unprecedented integrated supersaturation attack tactic for air-ground! Although the Americans did not have a clear definition of "super saturation", they also figured out that if they wanted to break Zhu Bin's desperate dense defense line, the only way was to concentrate various weapons and a huge number of military units at one point, either making wave-like impacts or a critical blow!

The wave-like impact was proved by the Japanese that in addition to causing huge casualties, the chance of success was too small. The last Chelsea mixed fleet attack fully proved that when the enemy's defense ability exceeded the standard, multiple waves of attacks were just tactics to add fuel to death.

So Nimitz decisively agreed to Doolittle's so-called "storm" attack mode. Although the breakthrough tactics of hundreds of fighter jets before also failed, he believed that time was different from the target, and the possibility of success was the greatest!

The bold idea really worked here! Although the defense line around the island was so dense that it was cruel, there were still more than a dozen gliding bombs mixed with real and fake, and finally successfully bombed on a floating platform of four or five hundred meters wide! There were six bombs that were broken at close range, and finally rolled down under the action of inertia. As a result, there were eleven final explosions and exploded on the platform!

"Boom-Boom!"

Eleven super bombs with a charge of more than 500 kilograms were scattered in an area of ​​about 600 meters and exploded one after another. Each of them smashed the composite material and steel plate base of the platform, and exerted the maximum destructive power from the depths, and immediately raised eleven terrifying jet flames with a diameter of 100 meters into the sky!

All the explosion points shattered the surrounding steel structure on the spot, the modular buffer belt on the top was blown to pieces, and the entire piece of loose paved plate on the top was lifted without any resistance. So the platform as big as a village was thrown away, tens of thousands of tons of steel plates and composite materials were all overturned like shreds of paper and hundreds of meters away!

I don’t know if it was due to the luck of the Americans, but this attack actually caused a wide gap to blow up the island. Most of the defensive artillery units set up on the edge were affected. They were either blown up, seriously damaged, or disconnected from the intelligent control center and lost their effect. In short, the firepower of this area suddenly disappeared!

Of course, the price is also huge! Not to mention that the Doolittle bombing brigade lost one quarter and all the bombs were lost, the remaining flying units lost more than two-thirds, and the three warships sank. It can be said that the price paid for his offense is within an hour, so no one can start a second wave! The power left by Nimitz was also damaged by one-third!

On the other hand, the other party's platform is a huge figure with a diameter of three kilometers! A gap of only a few hundred meters is just an inverted triangle defense belt with both sides and core. If you want to pass safely? It's not that easy!

Doolittle returned to the aircraft carrier with the rest of the fighter jets unwillingly. All the fighter jets took off in the second wave, replacing them as the main force for guidance and testing at the moment.

Nimitz also rushed to the vicinity at this time. After receiving the report from the front, he couldn't help but sigh secretly. The strength of the target was even more than he had imagined. He could have tried all his strength. He had only achieved such results. It seems that it is far from as simple as he imagined to break through defense and obtain what he wanted!

What's worse is that according to calculations, Wang Wenda's squadron should have moved to about a hundred kilometers away from him. With the opponent's technical and weapon abilities, he should have clearly discovered the situation here. It can be imagined that in more than an hour, the opponent's ultra-long-range shells or rockets may fall on the fleet's head!

"Can't wait any longer!" Nimitz suddenly made up his mind and immediately ordered the remaining warships to "stop the strong attack on the targets in front of him, and the ships immediately followed the flagship to turn northwest. The three platforms that had been occupied were immediately taken off and towed away!"

"Ah?!Don't you fight?"

Not only Doolittle, but other personnel were also stunned by the order, especially those who followed the implementation of the secret plan and the people from the research institutions, who were even more dissatisfied. One of the representatives could not help but object: "General, you should be clear that the goals of our combat this time are far from enough! It's a pity to retreat like this!"

Nimitz responded coldly: "As the commander, I know best what to do is in the most interest of everyone! If you don't want to be surrounded and eliminated by the Chinese here, just do what I said!"

"You are running away at the last minute!" The representative was furious. As agents launched by the large consortium, they have always been sidelined around the world. What kind of military generals, they still have to rely on their expressions when they retire?

Nimitz did not intend to explain too much to them. He was the boss in military operations! He was too lazy to even reply, and waved his hand to ask the soldiers to immediately ask these gentlemen to "rest", and then decompose further orders.

Originally, his actions were planned to not only break the sea base, but also robbing all important things. Although the unmanned platform discovered before was cut off from wireless transmission, it had a complete battery system and electric driving force system on it. After the two warships leaned on it, they could drive their generators through cables. The structure of those platforms itself is a hollow shell similar to a catamaran, which not only provides huge buoyancy and stable wave resistance, but also facilitates rapid drag or independent action.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Bin's design, which was considered in advance, also facilitated the Americans. Nimitz originally planned to drag it away, but now it seems that there is not enough time, so he had to move away the good things he had removed first. The remaining huge platform could not be dragged, so he had to throw it away temporarily.

In addition, after using a winch and a giant anchor to wrap the group of seaweed, a huge floating culture medium was pulled down from the seabed! Although this thing was basically hundreds of tons of seaweed, the structure of the base itself, the ropes that were more than 2,000 meters long, the sonar wrapped, the power supply, signal transmission system, etc., were all invaluable good things!

I have to say that Nimitz's head is too useful. If he doesn't become a navy general, he will definitely achieve great success when he goes back to do business!

After snatching these things, although it is only a drop in the bucket compared to the huge platform's internal things, it is better than having nothing!

The three warships that performed the above mission immediately broke away at full speed to the northwest without hesitation, and were expected to drive at least 500 nautical miles before turning to Mexico.

The main force of the aircraft carrier he personally led turned around and rushed straight to the north. If nothing unexpected happens, Nimitz firmly believes that he will most likely encounter the enemy's blocking force--he will never think that since the opponent intends to encircle him, he will only send a fleet to intercept from behind! If it were him, if he met the enemy in the Halsey formation, he would probably have already entered the battle radius!
Chapter completed!