"Okay, let's talk about the second question. It is impossible for battleships to not install air defense weapons. How do you plan to balance this? After all, it is impossible for us to really use shells to knock down the Imperial Air Force aircraft." Admiral Boer said after a different topic.

"Air defense? If the information you provide is correct, the number of artillery that can be used to air on a British capital ship does not exceed double digits. You would not think that the anti-lightning gun with a maximum elevation angle of not even 45 degrees can be used to air defense, right? If you have this view, I will arrange for you to visit and study at the Army Air Defense Artillery Force."

"Even if, by the standards of our German warships, the number of 2-pound guns and machine guns is too small, and the response of the anti-lightning gun is too slow. It was not that British aircraft entered the fleet from low altitude in the last battle. So good, let me ask, which warship shot down the British aircraft?!" the prince asked.

It is difficult to use anti-aircraft guns to hit the plane, and it is even more difficult to use anti-aircraft guns at sea. It is even more difficult to hit the plane when there is not enough number of anti-aircraft guns at sea! Even if the 1-War Plane is not good, if you want to shoot an aircraft with anti-aircraft guns, you have to use 4-digit shells or bullets. When you get to the sea, you don’t even have a stable design platform, and you basically rely on the aim. When the number of anti-aircraft guns is very rare, do you want to shoot the plane? This is too difficult? Don’t you see, the Bismarck battleship has 105mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 37 hand-pulled guns, and 20 guns to shoot the swordfish? Although the swordfish is much stronger than the current torpedo aircraft, Bismarck’s air defense effect is even more incomparable to modern battleships. The prince even doubts whether there are air defense regulations on the British battleships now.

Although it sounds a bit unpleasant, the current German Navy's air defense mainly relies on the seaplane version of the K-1 fighter. You can't say it, it's really useful. As for ship-to-air firepower, for experienced pilots, they can't even disperse it. Thinking that people know that you can't hit it, they are not afraid at all. As for whether the anti-lightning gun can be directly up to deal with the aircraft? It is actually impossible. Because the anti-lightning gun shells also trigger fuses. Do you want to use the shells to directly hit the aircraft? The probability is too small. If you can let the shells of the 88mm cannon directly hit you, you can buy a lottery!

In fact, medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns are all killed by shrapnel. They will bind the fuse according to the altitude and distance of the incoming aircraft, and then detonate the shells within the approximate interception range, relying on a large number of shrapnels to kill. Direct impact to destroy the aircraft is just the killing principle of small-caliber hyperbolic anti-aircraft guns. Medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns are killed by shrapnel formed after explosion. Now, the corresponding equipment has not been popularized on German naval warships and have not been trained, so the attack efficiency is naturally very low.

"Then you can't ignore the anti-aircraft firepower of the warship, right? Even if the carrier-based artillery is not good, a main battleship still has about 4 seaplanes. You can't ignore this, right?" Please ask both parties to be reasonable. It's useless to continue to entangle with factual basis. So General Boer turned in again and decided not to worry about the anti-aircraft guns on the warship, and directly talked about the seaplane.

"That, this is very easy. There are not only attack aircraft on the aircraft carrier, but also fighter aircraft. I really want to know how a small number of seaplanes deal with the J-1 fighter. If you arrange 4 seaplanes to intercept, I can provide 8 combat escorts. We have seen the huge hangar of the Vittersbach. You will not think I will be missing a plane, right?" the prince asked back.

"But what we have to face is a fleet. Almost every British capital ship has a small number of seaplanes, and they also have seaplanes and aircraft carriers. The total number of seaplanes such a fleet has a very terrible number. When they get together, there will always be more aircraft on an aircraft carrier!" said Tirpitz, who was standing beside him.

However, he felt as if he had said it, he seemed to be saying something wrong. Look, according to logic, because the British had many seaplanes, they could intercept air strikes. If you want to solve this problem, Germany only needs to add aircraft carriers. After all, aircraft carriers are warships specially loaded with aircraft, which are much better than those of the main ships and seaplane carriers, such as those of half-way monks!

"As long as we have three aircraft carriers, as long as the British did not build a regular aircraft carrier like us, the seaplanes of their entire fleet will not be able to intercept our air strikes. So, we need to increase the number of aircraft carriers now." The prince said with a smile.

As a time traveler, the prince was very considerate about his possible situation. When he decided to deal with the Vittersbach, he considered the issue of penetration. As Tirpitz said, the number of British fleet seaplanes in this plane is a bit large, and there are several on each main battleship. In addition, a special seaplane carrier, it is not a problem for a fleet of seaplanes to exceed three digits.

Then the problem is now. Even if the pontoons and other devices limit the performance of the aircraft, the bomber carrying torpedoes is also a stupid bird. According to the experience of the second battle, as long as the attack aircraft can be shot down, who usually cares about the fighter aircraft! If the British have a plan, or the commander suddenly gets out of his way and attacks the attack aircraft at all costs, then the long sword attack aircraft group of the aircraft carrier may be broken.

But in fact, after deduction and exercise, the prince believed that the probability of this situation was not high. For this reason, the prince even organized more than 100 aircraft for offensive and defensive drills! However, the result of the exercise was that when the number of defense parties was advantageous, the defense line was riddled with holes...

This result is actually expected. If you clean it up, let alone now. Even before World War II, there is still no good way for the fleet to defend against aviation strikes. Because the aircraft is too fast and comes too suddenly, without radar, and without complete guidance and interception measures, how do you deal with groups of aircraft? When aircraft carriers were first used, they were all formed separately, in fact, to prevent being taken away by the other party in one pot. As the saying goes, you cannot put all eggs in one basket. This is what it means.

If it is put into the environment of Battle 1, it will be even more so. The aircraft carrier concentrated in the aircraft has not been able to catch the opponent's large-scale air strikes. Then relying solely on the seaplane on the warship is like stopping the aircraft carrier's attack? What are you thinking?! Small fleets are also possible, but you must know that once the large fleet is deployed, they are more than 10 kilometers long. At this time, you have to mobilize the seaplane to take off and concentrate in one place, and then determine which warship the opponent attacks, and deploy interception when the radio is unreliable? This tm is simply the difficulty of the zenith star! How about you have 100 seaplanes? It's not OK to have 200!
Chapter completed!