In fact, in the two battles in history, most of the war sinking of the US fleet aircraft carrier was due to torpedo aircraft. The 25okg bombs dropped by Japanese dive bombers were too powerful. Think about the repairs a week after York City returned home. To put it bluntly, the Japanese dive bomber pilots had their blood in vain in the first year! If there were aircraft that could carry 5okg-level bombs and use them in large quantities, the US Navy would pay a greater price.

After the performance of the first wave of bombers can be described as a simple blunt, the torpedo planes in the fleet attacked again under the cover of fighters, while the remaining bombers carried bombs to attack seaplanes and destroyers. At this time, perhaps because the remaining power was exhausted, or perhaps because the previous attack of the dive bomber had overdrawn the Constellation's luck. In the following battle, the time for Constellation's survival can only be calculated in minutes!

Compared with dive bombers, torpedoes are easy to deal with, because the latter is slow, low in height, and almost cannot effectively dodge. Especially before throwing a torpedo, the aircraft must fly at a fixed altitude, otherwise the torpedo may fail due to impact if it is thrown... The Japanese and Americans also know this, so when anti-torpedo aircraft, the anti-aircraft artillery sets special parameters, specifically targeting your degree and altitude range... Therefore, under normal circumstances, the torpedo aircraft will pay a huge price regardless of whether the attack is successful or not. (You can refer to the three American torpedo teams that were almost wiped out by the team in the Midway Naval Battle.)

Therefore, in order to reduce the casualties of torpedo aircraft and improve the lightning strike effect, the Japanese also decisively used fighter jets to provide fire cover. Before the torpedo aircraft entered the attack channel, at least 2O fighter jets launched attacks around the huge aircraft carrier like piranhas, and dozens of large-caliber machine guns frantically straited the air defense firepower of the US aircraft carriers on the surface.

I have to give a thumbs up to the design of the US Navy aircraft carrier. The new US aircraft carrier is designed to pay great attention to air defense firepower. Because of the particularity of the aircraft carrier, you cannot arrange a lot of anti-aircraft guns on the deck. This problem was solved by the Americans in this way. There is actually a certain gap between the top floor of the hangar and the deck. There is a layer of inconsistent deck. This deck is lower than the flight deck and higher than the hangar deck. It is specially used by the Americans to place anti-aircraft guns, called anti-aircraft gun decks. It is on the anti-aircraft gun deck of the Constellation. On this deck, the Americans deployed 7o guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of various caliber. These weapons have indeed brought great trouble to the Japanese fighter jets that penetrated!

"The Americans' air defense firepower is very strong. Although we mentioned in the mission briefing that our 6-based bomber unit paid a heavy price to rush the American fleet to air defense, only after experiencing it can you know how dangerous this short few minutes of attack is." A Japanese pilot commented on the US military's air defense firepower after the war.

Accompanied by the roar of machine guns and guns, dozens of anti-aircraft guns sprayed 4ooo of various ammunition into the sky every minute, driving away the Japanese attack aircraft crazy. The Americans first faced the Japanese fighter jets. These flexible little guys were equipped with 3 machine guns, two 13.4mm large-caliber machine guns and a 6.5mm machine gun. The Japanese fighter jets and artillery on the anti-aircraft gun deck launched a crazy attack!

Thousands of bullets were flying in the air. The fire snake composed of tracer bullets twisted its deadly body in the air. The fan-shaped air defense firepower fired by the US fleet formed a dense fire net on the two layers of the warship. Especially after approaching 3 ooo meters, the crazy firepower of a large number of twin 4omm machine guns and 4-connected 28mm machine guns made the Japanese feel quite difficult. In less than 2 minutes of fire exchange between the two sides, three Japanese fighter jets were shot down one after another. Some of them were directly torn into pieces by shells fired from multiple directions, and some fell into the sea due to damage to their motivation or partial damage.

However, nearly 100 Japanese machine guns also rage on the American anti-aircraft gun deck. The dense bullets smashed the simple steel plates in the front of the anti-aircraft gun, or drilled directly into the defense gap, and then easily swept out a flesh-and-blood alley in the crowd.

After 20 minutes of fire between the two sides, the Americans' defense power was significantly reduced. On the one hand, it was because of the casualties, and more importantly, the ammunition attack was somewhat unable to keep up. There was still a long distance from the lifting well of the ammunition depot to the artillery position, and this distance required people to transport it. With the casualties of a large number of auxiliary personnel, the supply of ammunition for the anti-aircraft artillery in front would naturally decline. After all, people know how to be afraid. When watching the people around them were alive well a few minutes ago, they instantly turned into pieces of minced meat with the smell of blood, the impact of this death was stronger than any stimulation! Looking at the comrades who died beside them, watching countless bullets flying in the distance, and listening to the roar of guns and cannons in their ears like the call of death. Many people collapsed!

The so-called long-term guard is very reasonable. Later, the Japanese bomber troops joined the battle again, with fighters responsible for suppressing, and then the bombers threw a large number of small bombs on the constellation. If the bulletproof steel plate in front of the American anti-aircraft gun could barely withstand the bullets of large-caliber machine guns, then when the bombs weighing 5okg or 1okg landed on the deck, the flying shrapnel would be a complete disaster for the anti-aircraft gun operators!

In the following period, the bomber that participated in the attack again dropped more than 20 small bombs, and these bombs emptied the anti-aircraft gun deck on one side! More than half of the anti-aircraft firepower on the other side was also cleared. Rolling smoke covered the anti-aircraft guns that were blown into a ball of scrap iron and blood all over the ground. The Americans used water dragons to try to destroy the fire on the platform. However, just as the constellation was busy, the real killer came on the stage. The 2o torpedo aircraft were divided into 5 groups and launched lightning strikes from both sides of the constellation at the same time.

When the escorted destroyer was killed and injured, the Japanese lightning strikes seemed calm when the air defense firepower of Constellation was less than 30%, and some Japanese torpedo planes even released torpedoes at a distance of about 50 meters! When the plane was pulled up, it almost collided with the bridge of the US aircraft carrier! And the dense lightning strike effect at such a close distance is naturally very good.

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