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Chapter 555: Discovering that the German aircraft carrier fleet is ready to go to war

The United States does not want to increase its land area because its area is already large enough and its population is not too large. Look at Mexico now, I don’t even want it to give it to the United States. The United States has already obtained what it wants. Who wants the remaining poor people? Why is Germany fighting World War II? It has a small territory, rapid industrial development, insufficient resources, and no colony dumping. The markets between Britain, the United States and France cannot enter. If the land area is not large, it will sooner or later be threatened by major powers and cannot speak.

Moreover, even the domestic employment problems are waiting to be solved.

If the United States is vast and sparsely populated, and rich resources, it would be fine if it was spent some effort to weaken its opponents during World War II. What kind of land do you have? There are hundreds of thousands of lands and no resources. Coupled with the restrictive treaty brought by World War I, Germany was in great shame and dilemma. Therefore, under such a premise, Hitler was able to take office and launched a war.

But no matter whether these things are in this way or not, Chen Yanlong now has made up his mind to make himself live, survive, live better, or at least better than in his previous life.

Of course, by the way, he also led Germany to rise and embarked on the road to becoming a strong country.

So as soon as the naval meeting was held, he ignored the opposition from the German Navy Committee and issued strict orders to all of them. No matter how difficult it was, he must complete the production mission of the 300 U-XXI type submarines he deployed and the development mission of the nuclear submarine "Nautilus".

When Chen Yanlong held a meeting, the aircraft carrier fleet led by Denitz was also in the Mediterranean, preparing to fight against their first British and American fleets.

At 1:45 pm, Reeves, one of the commanders of the British and American aircraft carrier fleet, with the consent of Commander Cunningham, sent reconnaissance aircraft to search again, so 20 torpedo aircraft and 12 fighter aircraft were searched at a radar with a radius of 350 nautical miles in front of the 250-degree and 268-degree angle.

After these units take off, every two torpedo aircraft must be searched at least 5 degrees apart.

But before they searched for a long time, they immediately encountered a small team of German reconnaissance aircraft in the area between 15 degrees N and 135 degrees E.

So in order to wipe out this batch of German reconnaissance aircraft, the British and American aircraft carrier group took off another 8 SB2C and a batch of F6F reconnaissance aircraft. At the same time, they also formed a small team of bombers and fighters to form a team of search and attack formations, and rushed towards the German reconnaissance aircraft discovered in a murderous manner.

However, when the German reconnaissance aircraft group was discovered from a distance, they had turned around and evacuated. As fast as they were, they had no intention of evacuating air battles with British and American reconnaissance aircraft and fighter units.

Because these German reconnaissance planes are more than 560 nautical miles away from their aircraft carrier fleet.

At this time, Denitz's vanguard fleet was divided into three large fleets. The first aircraft carrier fleet had 206 carrier-based aircraft, the second aircraft carrier fleet had 138 carrier-based aircraft, and the third aircraft carrier-based aircraft owned 108 carrier-based aircraft.

In addition, more than 480 nautical miles in the nearby area, two other German aircraft carrier fleets were preparing for battle on the flanks.

The German carrier-based aircraft are all F-8D fighters. The F-8 fighter is the first truly supersonic carrier-based aircraft of the US Navy, the last naval fighter with machine guns as its main weapon, and the last carrier-based single-engine fighter.

The F-8 is characterized by a variable-mounted angle wing. During take-off and landing, the hydraulic self-locking actuator on the aircraft can increase the wing installation angle by 7°, which not only increases lift, but also keeps the fuselage basically parallel to the flight deck or runway, avoiding the pilot's vision being affected by the nose being swung. When flying in a flat position, the wings return to their original position. In addition, the outer section of the wing can be folded upwards to facilitate parking on the ship.

Moreover, the F-8 has a low accident rate and good maneuverability. It was one of the main carrier-based fighters of the US Navy from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s.

The nose is equipped with 4 20mm "Corte" cannons, each with 85 rounds of ammunition. There are 2 weapon mounts on both sides of the fuselage, which can hang 4 "Saturday" air-to-air missiles, or 8 127mm "dampening" rockets...

The wings equipped with these fighters include KG50, KG1, KG100 and KG40. In addition to these carrier-based fighters, the other two aircraft carrier fleets, the fourth German fleet, and the fifth German fleet, are equipped with Do 217 and He-177 heavy bombers, a total of 300 aircraft.

"The British and American aircraft carrier fleet has appeared, and all the flight brigades are in their place and ready to attack!"

When the German reconnaissance aircraft group discovered the emergence of British and American reconnaissance aircraft and fighter aircraft group, they immediately sent a telegram to inform them.

So soon all the aircraft carrier fleets commanded by Denitz knew about the news, and immediately let all the German aircraft carrier fleets sound an alarm for combat instantly, and all pilots were also prepared to gather in the aircraft carrier flight conference room for a brief pre-war speech.
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