At this time, the U.S. government not only has to deal with the attack from the South China Sea Federation on the west coast, but also transports war supplies to Europe. It also has to cooperate with the British Royal Navy in the North Atlantic to suppress the harassment of German submarines. Therefore, the U.S. government and the U.S. government very much hope to be able to attack on the west coast
Give the South China Sea Federation a lesson so that it can stabilize the war on the Western Front and re-inspire the fighting spirit of the American people, especially the people on the West Coast.
War is always subject to politics. Mitchell and Nimitz could not compete with the U.S. government and the Navy. They had to follow the federal navy's sneak attack model and copied such a sneak attack plan, preparing to retaliate.
With the feeling that I can't get it and you can't get it, I launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
As the sky slowly turns white, the U.S. fleet begins to turn to the windward direction. The fleet is currently 350 kilometers away from Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor is completely within the attack range of the U.S. Navy's carrier-based aircraft, so the four aircraft carriers begin to prepare for takeoff.
, the planes on the deck also started to start.
At 4:50 a.m. on April 12, 1941, the first wave of 50 Dauntless dive bombers and 30 Devastator torpedo attack aircraft completed their respective formations, escorted by 30 Wildcat fighter jets, and began flying towards Pearl Harbor.
Go, according to the fully loaded flight speed of the Dreadnought attack aircraft, the fleet will arrive over the target in 1 hour and 11 minutes, and according to the flight speed of the Devastator torpedo attack aircraft, they will arrive at the port 14 minutes later than the dive bomber.
Due to the safety of the U.S. sneak attack fleet, the take-off point of the attack fleet is more than 300 kilometers away from Pearl Harbor. In addition, the performance of the U.S. Navy's carrier-based aircraft is not very good, the speed is a bit slow, and among various types of aircraft
The speeds between aircraft are still different, so the American bomber fleet is not arranged in a relatively close large formation like the federal fleet, but is dragged into a linear formation, and the gap between the front and rear can be
There are dozens of kilometers.
At this time, Pearl Harbor was still quiet. There were several destroyers and logistics ships parked on the berths and piers in the port. The lights above were reflected in the undulating water, making them even more brilliant. For the incoming U.S. bombers.
The federal navy and air force on the island don't know. They are not gods and cannot guess people's hearts and predict what will appear in the sky hundreds of kilometers away.
However, the federal navy and air force have set up their own radar systems throughout the Hawaiian Islands, and they have been operating normally for a long time. The closest to the south of the islands are two naval radar stations and an air force radar station at the southern end of Hawaii Island. These three radars
The stations are all located on a mountainside more than 200 meters high, tens of kilometers apart. Two of them are radars mainly responsible for air search. The remaining one is a radar for sea search.
Among them, the "Poseidon-2" radar system can detect large ships within 200 nautical miles, but this is only a standard parameter, and it is also affected by factors such as temperature, humidity, climate, etc. Therefore, the United States should have been within its detection range.
The sneak attack fleet did not appear on its circular display.
The two external air search radars are the "Poseidon-10" type of the Federal Navy and the "Skynet-3" type of the Federal Air Force. In fact, these two radars are the same model, but they are named by the Navy and the Air Force respectively.
.They are already the federal third-band radar system. They only officially entered service in the federal army in 1939. They are the latest federal air warning radars.
These two radars use the latest magnetrons and work in the S-band. The high-frequency pulse signals they emit can detect flying objects with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters away from 170 kilometers away, and objects with an altitude of 100-100 kilometers away.
Flying objects within a range of 1000 meters, while for
For those low-altitude targets below 100 meters, the detection distance of this type of radar is also about 80 kilometers, which mainly depends on the height of the radar antenna. In addition, these two radars also use rotating antennas for the first time, making the detection angle of the radar from
The original 120 degrees has become 360 degrees.
Although the Poseidon-2 road-based sea search radar did not detect the U.S. sneak attack fleet, the remaining two air warning radars discovered the American bomber group early. Perhaps out of habit, the U.S. fearless flying at the front
The flight altitude of the dive bomber formation was about 1,000 meters. After entering the 200-kilometer range of the federal radar, their figures quickly appeared on the radar screen.
If it is an aircraft, the federal radar soldiers stationed at the radar station may have to check whether it is their own aircraft according to the aircraft control list in their hands. However, with the appearance of such a large group of aircraft, the radar observation soldiers of the two radar stations
Without thinking, he immediately used radio to send an incoming alert to the naval base headquarters and air force base headquarters on the island, and reported in detail the approximate number of aircraft, flight altitude, flight speed, and direction of the aircraft.
And it will be revised every 5 minutes.
After receiving the early warning from the radar station, air raid sirens immediately sounded in Pearl Harbor and Oahu, and all ground lights began to go out. The destroyers in the port area began to activate, and the preparation personnel immediately carried out air defense maneuvers;
All the high places on the island
There were also people in the artillery positions. The gunners rushed to the gun positions and took out the shells from the bunkers. The commander used the radio to contact the air defense headquarters of the Navy or Air Force to obtain the approximate flight parameters of the enemy aircraft and then notify the gunners.
Perform advance targeting;
The four federal air force airports on the island also suddenly woke up from their slumber. The fighter jets on combat duty have begun to taxi and take off on the runway. Some of the fighter jets parked in the hangar are refueling, some are loading bombs, and some are refueling.
The pilots had already been towed onto the reserve runway with a trailer by the ground crew. The pilots also trotted towards their cars. With the help of the ground crew, they climbed into the cockpit, put on their headphones, and listened to the takeoff orders issued from the control tower.
At this time, the U.S. bomber group had just arrived 200 kilometers south of Pearl Harbor. Since the southernmost tip of the Hawaiian Islands on Hawaii Island was still more than 200 kilometers away from Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military planes were intercepted by federal forces not long after they took off.
The radar discovered it, and they still had more than half an hour at this time
They must have a certain range to enter the sky above the target, but what they don't know is that the federal air force road-based fighter jets on Oahu are taking off one after another and are preparing to intercept them on the sea about 60 kilometers south of Pearl Harbor, and several federal navy ships
The destroyer also sailed out of the port and headed for the air combat area.
At 5:43 a.m. on the 12th, the land-based fighter jets of the Federal Air Force first discovered the formation of the US Navy's Dauntless bombers on airborne radar. Since they knew the opponent's flying altitude in advance, the Federal Air Force's fighter jets had climbed to 2,000 meters and quietly
close to the target.
The first batch of the U.S. Navy's Dauntless bombers totaled 23. A little below them, there were 10 Wildcat carrier-based fighters escorting them. Just when they had seen Oahu from a distance, suddenly
A bomber burst into flames in the air and then fell to the sea. Other pilots and crew members in the formation were still
Before he could realize what went wrong, two more Dauntless bombers emitted flames and black smoke. Then, several small gray-white figures rushed over from the top of the bomber formation, heading towards the Wildcat fighter formation below.
Flying away, sparks shot out from both sides of the aircraft, and strings of cannon shells were fired at the Wildcats below.
In just one encounter, seven of the unsuspecting American bomber groups and their escort fighter jets were shot down. From above the group's heads, a group of two federal fighter jets would swoop down from time to time, chasing them with cannons.
Those hulking Dauntless dive bombers.
The remaining Dauntless dive bombers were like a group of frightened birds. They dropped their mounted aerial bombs one after another and began to use various flying postures to evade the pursuit of these federal fighters. The other bombardier in the cockpit also
The telegraph operator quickly sent a wireless telegram to his own fleet, announcing that the attacking fleet had been intercepted by federal fighter jets.
Wave after wave of federal air force fighter jets flew from the airport on Oahu to the air combat airspace. They were guided by their own radars, divided into several formations, and pounced on different U.S. fighter jets flying towards Oahu.
In the fleet, since federal fighter jets are equipped with airborne radars and can also receive help from their own shore-based radars, federal fighter jets take the initiative in most air battles, while American aircraft are always attacked from overhead. (To be continued...
