Chapter 14

On the boundless sea, several slender figures quickly crossed the sea. The sea surface under the feet of the two girls was like flat ground. When their agile figures passed over the sea surface, waves were stirred up.

One after another, carrier-based aircraft took off from the armored plates on the girls. They rushed into the sky like flying birds, and then scattered in the sky, posing a battle formation, and rushed in another direction.

The two figures alternately covered on the left and right, commanding the carrier-based aircraft to rush in the same direction. They looked very tacit, and it was obvious that such cooperation was not once or twice.

"The radar has determined the enemy's position. The other party did not deliberately interfere with the radar monitoring. It seems that they want to have a head-on battle with us, which is really exciting." In the communication channel, the voice of Bumblebee sounded in Essex's ears.

"Don't be careless. The opponent is very strong. Start conventional combat methods first. Don't be too aggressive. The current primary combat goal is to seize air superiority and suppress enemy carrier-based aircraft. The opponent is an armored aircraft carrier. In theory, the armor strength is improved, and the number of carrier-based aircraft will be less than ours. We need to expand this advantage and try to suppress it by number to gain combat advantage." Essex's calm voice sounded in the channel.

The two are already old partners. They have a tacit understanding with each other. In a few words, they decided on a combat plan. Covering each other, they rushed in the same direction.

After all, the most critical part of fighting in the sea is to search for the enemy. The so-called search for the enemy, as the name suggests, is to discover the enemy's intelligence.

Especially for aircraft carriers, the sooner the enemy's traces are discovered, the sooner the enemy can be air-strike. At the same time, it can avoid entering the range of the battleship and prevent being killed by a powerful battleship.

After all, the truth is only within the range of the cannon. In other words, as long as I am out of your range, I am the real truth.

Solving the battle outside the enemy's visual range is always the most mainstream combat plan for aircraft carriers. However, now both sides are fighting on aircraft carriers, and there is no vanguard air defense ship guarding. Moreover, it is still an exercise, which is to test the strength of both sides. Hiding the identity is not very useful, so radar search is actually meaningless.

However, it is obvious that Guanghui has given up the initiative to attack and chose defensive operations without even releasing radar interference.

"Well, the fighter formation, is it really a test at the beginning? But it is not so easy to take air supremacy so quickly in front of me." Guanghui smiled slightly at the information fed back by the radar.

Among the many aircraft carriers in the port area, perhaps her output is not as strong as Enterprise and Saratoga. She has the ability to sweep the battlefield in an instant, clear the sea, and decide the outcome with an air strike.

But when it comes to protecting teammates and seizing air supremacy, she still believes that she is not weaker than anyone else.

The commander even prepared a set of air defense equipment for her to target certain special sea areas. Although she didn't wear it for long, she quickly changed back to the regular equipment.

Her combat level is much higher than that of Bumblebee and Essex. If they cover each other in cross-defense, rely on their own air defense firepower support, and constantly use fighter carriers to fight a war of attrition, even if her strength is stronger than theirs, it may not be so easy to quickly take over the air within their defense range.

It's not that easy, it's just a little more effort, just a little bit... and now.

Bumblebee and Essex are equipped with a fighter, a bomber and a torpedo plane, and there is no special tendency in the equipment configuration. Her configuration is two fighters and a torpedo plane, which strengthens the air control capability and weakens the output capability. Therefore, under normal circumstances, although her number of carrier-based aircraft is small, her air defense capability is not weak at all.

The Hornet belongs to the Yorktown class, and is not stronger than the Glorious class in terms of basic data. The Essex class is a newer model of aircraft carrier.

Glorious recalled the situation of Essex in her own port. Although Essex joined the port much later than herself. But in terms of ship data alone, the Essex class is better than the Glorious class.

At least Essex is stronger than herself, but now it is a competition of air superiority. As long as the air superiority is firmly controlled, whether the bombers and torpedo planes can take off is a problem.

However, the level of this Essex is obviously very low. Commanders often say that if the strength is not enough, the level can make up for it, and if the level is not enough, the equipment can make up for it. Now her strength, level, and equipment are better than the opponent, so what can the opponent use to beat her!

Glorious smiled slightly and stood there motionless. The ship equipment like a ribbon fluttered behind her,Wrapped around her waist. As his mind raced, several Tigercat fighters appeared on the flight deck, bringing a golden light and rushing into the sky, facing the densely packed enemy planes.

Watching the Tigercat fighters rushing into the sky, Guanghui couldn't help but recall the F6F Hellcat fighters he had used before.

Compared to the Hellcat fighters that can be seen everywhere in the port area, almost everyone has one. The Tigercat is obviously more powerful and rare, and not many people in the entire port area can use the Tigercat fighter. For most aircraft carriers, the most used are fighters such as Hellcat and Seafire.

But I prefer the Hellcat fighter.

After all, when the port area was still very weak, it was probably when the commander had just joined the port area. I remember that the commander told me excitedly at that time. He found the strongest fighter assembly plan for me, saying that he would give me the best fighter, and then he would repeat the battle day after day in the combat area named 5-2. Just to salvage her Hellcat equipment drawings.

As far as I can remember, the commander never salvaged a specific piece of equipment for a particular ship girl. Even when he salvaged the gold servo blueprint, it was not salvaged specifically for a particular person.

So although the Hellcat has become a standard piece of equipment for everyone, I have already replaced it with a more powerful new piece of equipment. But if I say I like it, I still prefer the previous set of equipment.

It's just that after I changed the equipment, the Hellcat was given to someone else to use. And there were many major changes in equipment during that period. It's not clear who has the fighter plane now.

Retracting the messy thoughts, the Tiger Cat fighter plane has already met the enemy fighter plane in the sky. Just as soon as it came into contact, his carrier-based aircraft formation tore a hole in the enemy's formation.

In fact, no matter how perfect the formation is, it has its own flaws, so it is necessary to cooperate with companions in battle. When facing stronger enemies, the shortcomings they expose are even more fatal.

Controlling the Tiger Cat to slow down the attack a little, now I don't have to defeat them all at once, I just need to defend against their attacks first.

The tiger cats were like real tigers coming down from the mountains, flying freely in the sky. Even though they were fewer in number than the enemy, they could easily break through the enemy's air defense blockade and get behind the enemy's carrier-based aircraft with their faster speed.

They spit out fierce flames, dodging all attacks and easily defeating the locked carrier-based aircraft.

The tiger cats were flying freely, and Bumblebee and Essex commanded the carrier-based aircraft to try to encircle and kill the tiger cats that were invincible and rampaging in the sky, but they were cleverly broken out of the encirclement by the opponent, and many carrier-based aircraft were shot down by the counterattack.

They wanted to send bombers and torpedo planes to directly attack the Glory, but they could see that there was always a small group of tiger cats wandering outside the entire battlefield, obviously guarding against the entry of other fighters.

This made them even more afraid to summon bombers and torpedo planes. After all, with the air combat capabilities of bombers and torpedo planes, they would be directly annihilated if they were targeted by enemy fighters.

"It's not just the flying skills. The speed and firepower of the opponent's fighters are simply amazing. Our attacks can hardly hit her, and her firepower can easily destroy our carrier-based aircraft."

Although the two of them had imagined that the battle might be difficult. But they didn't expect it to unfold like this. The opponent even used only a small number of fighter formations to easily gain an advantage in the air.

At this time, although the battle in the air was still going on. The two of them could still continuously invest in fighters to support the battle in the air. But if the results continued like this, failure was obviously a matter of time. There was no need to continue the battle.