While sending a group of aircraft to bomb the opponent's aircraft carrier, both sides made the same move around their aircraft carriers, so that the fighter jets would take off and cooperate with the warships to form a sea and air defense circle around the aircraft carrier to resist the opponent's possible attack.

The characteristic of the Japanese defense circle is... Because the Japanese communication equipment is relatively weak, in order to maintain good contact and cooperation with various warships, the Japanese army had to distribute long-range Zero fighter jets into airspace more than ten miles away from the aircraft carrier. A little further apart, all the communication equipment of the Japanese fighter jets could hear was a bunch of noise.

Therefore, the Japanese army's defense circle is not difficult to break through.

This is a characteristic between the US and Japanese aircraft carriers, and it can also be said to be a characteristic of the US and Japanese navies.

For example, the US fighter jets have strong defense but their offensive performance is not as good as that of the Japanese fighter jets, while the Japanese fighter jets simply emphasize offense and basically do not consider defense.

This may be because the US military pays more attention to the lives of soldiers, while the Japanese army always regards the lives of soldiers as grass because of their respect for the spirit of Bushido.

The same is true for aircraft carrier defense.

The defense of the Japanese aircraft carrier is simple and rigid... If the enemy aircraft dives at the highest speed at a distance of more than ten miles, it will break through and dive over the Japanese aircraft carrier in just a few minutes, so this is simply a waste of Zero fighter jets' long-range and high-speed speed.

In addition, the Japanese army's radar performance was unreliable and the zero-dive performance was very bad. Therefore, in this kind of defensive war, the Japanese army often had no response time and had no time to intercept it. They could only kill as many enemy aircraft as possible before the enemy aircraft launched a crazy dive bombing.

This time it's the same.

The first wave of US aircraft fleet effortlessly used its dive advantage to break through the defense circle of Zero fighter jets and launched a bombing of the Japanese "Shokhe".

With a harsh roar and fierce air fight, the "Xianghe" was hit by at least four bombs, and the "Xianghe" aircraft carrier suffered a catastrophic blow:

A bomb hit the starboard island object on the stern of the ship, and the rest hit the lifts in the center of the aircraft carrier and the stern of the ship. The flight deck was destroyed, and the central lifts were also blown up. The stern of the starboard ship was shot.

Fortunately, although the damage was serious, it was not fatal... The big reason was that the plane of the "Shokhe" had already flew away, and the explosion caused a small fire on the "Shokhe". Five hours later, the loss management team successfully extinguished it, and the Japanese army lost 130 soldiers.

If Kincaid did not hold the view of "striking the enemy first", then "Shokha" would be sunk in this battle.

But there was no war. The second wave of aircraft group unfortunately encountered a group of Japanese aircraft groups. Japanese fighter jets couldn't help but attack the second wave of aircraft group of US troops... The Japanese army should not have attacked them according to the order, because their mission was to cover their bombers and torpedo planes to bomb US aircraft carriers, rather than intercept US military aircraft groups.

However, no one knows whether the Japanese army's approach to deviating from their mission is right or wrong.

It was wrong, but this attack caused heavy losses to the second wave of the US military and deviated from its own route. In the end, it was unable to find the already injured aircraft carrier "Shokhe".

Say it right. Japanese bombers and torpedo planes suffered heavy losses in the subsequent battle because they lost the cover of Zero War.

Until now, the US Navy won all the battle, and it was severely damaged by two Japanese aircraft carriers as soon as it started.

But the U.S. Navy's nightmare has just begun...

Compared with the weak defense circle of Japanese aircraft carriers, the defense of US aircraft carriers should be said to be very strict.

The most important role of this should be the advanced sea-to-air radars on aircraft carriers, which can detect targets 80 nautical miles away. Therefore, in principle, US warships and air forces can extend the defense circle to 80 nautical miles.

In this 80 nautical miles of airspace, the US air force can even hide behind the clouds and "wait for the rabbit"... because the US radar can clearly detect Japanese fighter jets, even at altitude, while the Japanese fighter jets know nothing about US fighter jets. So the US military can calmly set up ambushings.

In the end, when the Japanese fighter plane flew over the US aircraft carrier, there was probably not much left.

This is also one of the reasons why Halsey has been emphasizing the attack and dares to drive the aircraft carrier out of the land-based air force on Saint-Espiritu Island to fight against the Japanese aircraft carrier. He is very confident in the US radar and the air defense machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery on the US warships.

Those who are confident in radar are also Kincaid and Major John Griffin, who was appointed as the commander of the fighter jet.

Major Griffin believed... Anyway, before the Japanese attack aircraft group approached the aircraft carrier, the radar system would issue an alarm, so they had enough reaction time to intercept the Japanese attack aircraft group.

So Major Griffin raised the fighter to an altitude of 10,000 feet. At this altitude, the fighter can save fuel and oxygen and increase the air stagnation time of the "Wild Cat" fighter with a short range as much as possible. At the same time, once an enemy plane is discovered, the "Wild Cat" fighter can also use its dive advantage to dive towards the enemy plane.

However, what everyone did not expect was that the Japanese attack aircraft fleet used lower altitude flight to effectively avoid the detection of most of the US radars... Yamamoto Iroku once studied in the United States. It can be said that it is an American master, and he knows how to avoid American radars.

In fact, the US fleet discovered the Japanese fleet.

When the Japanese fleet was 70 miles from the US fleet, the cruiser "Norampton" discovered the Japanese strike group on the am radar, and then it reported the information to the "Hornet" in flags.

But Kincaid believes that the radars on both the Enterprise and Bumblebee aircraft carriers did not find the target, which is likely to be a false alarm of the radar, so they did not take it seriously.

Major Griffin, who was 10,000 feet above the fleet, did not receive this information at all.

It was not until the Japanese attack aircraft fleet was only 35 miles away from the fleet and began to climb that the radars of the Enterprise and Bumblebee discovered the Japanese aircraft fleet.

Kincaid was shocked and hurriedly ordered Major Griffin to organize the interception, but it was too late... 35 miles were only ten minutes for the Japanese aircraft fleet flying at the highest speed. When Major Griffin hurriedly turned around to face the Japanese bomber fleet, he barely met the Japanese aircraft fleet ten miles away from the fleet, and then the same scene happened when the US Navy air force broke through the Japanese defense circle. The Japanese attack aircraft fleet broke through the US Navy's defense circle and reached the air above the US aircraft carrier "Bumblebee".
Chapter completed!