Chapter 962 The Enterprise 2)
The Enterprise aircraft carrier sailed through the wind and waves and was sailing on the sea.
This warship is quite glorious. In history, in the glorious life of the Enterprise, it sailed 442,475 kilometers, sunk 71 enemy ships, injured 192, and shot down 911 enemy aircraft. No warship in the US Navy can compare with it. The Enterprise symbolizes the fighting spirit of the US Navy.
At the same time, this warship was only put into service in 38 years and is a relatively new aircraft carrier. Due to the deterioration of the situation in the Western Pacific, it was deployed to the Pacific at the end of last year.
But now, the missions performed by the Enterprise account have made the sailors less passionate.
As the situation in the Pacific worsens and conflicts with island countries may break out, the Enterprise began to travel between Pearl Harbor and the West Coast of the United States in accordance with President Roosevelt's orders, transporting the P-39 "Flying Snake" fighter jets and P-40 "Tomahawk" fighter jets, as well as a large number of troops and arms of the Army Aviation Forces.
In other words, the US Navy's loud aircraft carrier was actually used to perform the mission of a sea jeep!
When returning to the United States, the deck was still empty, and when it came back, the entire aircraft carrier's deck would be densely covered with fighter planes.
It is not considered when the aircraft takes off and lands on the aircraft carrier, hundreds of fighter jets can be loaded on the flight deck alone. It can be said that transporting aircraft and aircraft carriers are really suitable.
However, no one likes it. It is obviously a combat ship, but it is used to perform such transportation tasks!
On the bridge, Captain Colonel Charles-a-Bonal also had a kind of doubt.
According to the plan, they will have to finish Sunday and not set sail until next week. After all, the journey on the sea is too boring.
But now, they set out for a few days in advance, so they could only spend this weekend on the sea, without beaches, without beautiful women, and only the endless sea.
The sky is pretty good, it's a nice weather for sailing.
"Do you want a glass of juice?" asked the first mate Thomas Hamilton, behind him.
He was holding two glasses of juice.
Charles took the juice and just put it to his mouth when he heard a sharp alarm sound.
"What's going on?" He was splashed with juice halfway through his face and shouted loudly. Then, someone hurried over to report: "Dimmer bomber, our watchtower, discovered the diving bomber in the sky!"
Diving bomber? When I heard this news, Charles instinctively wanted to say that today is not April Fool's Day!
However, when he looked up and looked out through the bridge window, he saw a bomber with an inverted seagull wing that was diving towards his warship.
"Damn it, it's Stuka!" Charles shouted loudly: "The Germans are starting a war against us!"
In the consciousness of the US Navy, Germany was their biggest enemy. Some time ago, they were searching for traces of German submarines on the sea. Now, after visually identifying the model, Charles made a judgment, although at this time, there were still countless doubts in his mind.
It was not Junker-290 that came, but Stuka. The range of such an aircraft was extremely limited. How did it fly over? Could it be that the German aircraft carrier came?
How is this possible! The German aircraft carrier circled most of the earth and ran to the Pacific Ocean? If they dared to come, they would definitely not be able to go back!
However, he had no time to think about this, and the well-trained crew played a decisive role at this time.
In this era, battleships with huge caliber cannons have always been the mainstream of the navy. Compared with charming four-fire battleships, aircraft carriers are like poor street beggars. In their eyes, aircraft carriers are "large bathtubs covered with barn doors". The aircraft carrier officer is the "brown boot navy" and ordinary sailors are called "flat-top sailors".
However, the sailors on the Enterprise, under Charles's men, strictly demanded themselves. Their training was the most hard-working. At this time, their training played a role.
The lookout was loyal to his duties. When he saw Stuka diving from the clouds, he immediately issued an alarm. After the entire ship sounded the air defense alarm, the anti-aircraft gunner quickly ran towards his gun position.
The Enterprise's main anti-aircraft weapons are 1.1-inch caliber anti-aircraft guns and 5-inch/38 caliber anti-aircraft guns. These anti-aircraft guns fired within a few dozen seconds.
"Boom, boom, boom!" One anti-aircraft gun was shot into the sky. Although the anti-aircraft gun had a long range, the firing rate was too slow. In the eyes of the pilots in the sky, there was not much threat.
And those Browning m2.50 caliber heavy machine guns, although they have sufficient firepower and are too small, can at most drill a few small holes in the skin of the plane.
Saburo Kondo pushed the operating rod, and he felt his bomber trembling increasingly in the dive, and glanced at the speedometer from the corner of his eyes. At this time, the dive speed had exceeded 500 kilometers per hour, almost on the verge of losing control.
The whistle on the fixed landing gear whistled. As the whistle was whistling, the target became bigger and bigger!
Saburo Kondo aimed not at the middle section of the opponent, but at the rear section of the aircraft carrier, where the power compartment was located. Now, he was not sure how powerful the bomb he was carrying was, and he had to attack in the most conservative way.
"Boom!" A shell almost flew past his plane. He didn't care at all. He continued to dive and dive. As a soldier of the island country, at this moment, he was not afraid of death at all. He was only thinking about his own goal!
Countless anti-aircraft guns were shooting at him, his fuselage continued to tremble, and more than a dozen small holes appeared on the wings, which were the firepower of the opponent's anti-aircraft machine gun.
If it is a Zero fighter without any protection, even if it is hit by a 0.50 anti-aircraft machine gun bullet, it may be ignited, but a solid dive bomber like Stuka has no effect at all.
Drop the bomb! Kondo Saburo pressed the button, and the height at this time was only five hundred meters. As he dropped the bomb, he felt a trembling under the belly of the machine, and Stuka's whole body eased.
Then, a hot flame came into his eyes.
pc1000, this number is complex. pc represents anti-armored bombs. The walls of the bullet are quite thick. The material of the bullet body is high-quality steel. It specifically destroys enemy heavy armor protection targets and permanent fortifications such as warships. The one behind is the meaning of rocket boosting. The extended tail wing is equipped with rocket pushing devices and is only used during dive bombing.
Now, when the bomb is thrown down, the rocket booster ignites correctly, pushing the warhead to further speed up! Speed is energy!
Chapter completed!