On the morning of March 1, 1840, the Strait of Gibraltar.
The Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Sun Never Set Empire has completed its assembly here, and the most elite warships from the Home Fleet of the Sun Never Set Empire and the Atlantic Fleet have all gathered here.
Thirty capital ships, three aircraft carriers, plus a large number of heavy cruisers, cruisers and destroyers. There are more than one hundred and twenty warships under the jurisdiction of the entire Grand Fleet.
It can be said that some of the most elite forces of the Royal Navy are gathered here.
If the sun never sets, the Royal Navy of the Empire loses again in this battle, or even loses everything. Then, the remaining warships of the Royal Navy will only be some old capital ships built before the last world war.
The strength of the Royal Navy will also fall rapidly, and I am afraid that it will rank behind the “560” navy of the Tsarist Empire, the navy of the Beacon Country, the Oriental Imperial Navy and the Third Reich Navy.
This is undoubtedly a devastating blow to the Sun Never Sets Empire.
And this, naturally, is not what the high-level of the Sun Never Sets Empire and the high-level of the Royal Navy see.
It is precisely because of this that the Royal Navy of the Empire attaches great importance to this operation. They hope to win a brilliant victory in this battle and prove to the world that the Royal Navy is still the best to fight. The Royal Navy still has the majesty of hegemony.
The battleship Trafalgar, the flagship of the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet, is also the lead ship of the Royal Navy’s N3-class battleships. This is definitely the most powerful capital ship in the world.
After improvement, the N3-class battleships had a displacement of more than 65,000 tons, were equipped with three triple 45-caliber 457-mm guns, and had a maximum speed of up to 27 knots. Moreover, changing the traditional shipbuilding concept of the Royal Navy’s battleships with thin skin, the defense of N3-class battleships is also very strong. The waterline armor thickness reached 430 mm, the frontal armor thickness of the main turret reached 550 mm, and the commander’s tower frontal armor thickness also reached 550 mm.
After this battleship entered service, the Royal Navy even claimed that it was the capital ship that would never be sunk.
After all, the waterline armor after 430 mm, to a certain extent, can even withstand the attack of 533 mm heavy torpedoes.
Of course, this is only at its best. In fact, the powerful warhead of the 533mm heavy torpedo was able to blast through the waterline armor of an N3-class battleship once it hit it. It’s just that the damage caused will not be too great.
Plus the huge displacement of the N3-class battleships, huge reserve buoyancy. Therefore, one or two 533-mm heavy torpedoes, even if they hit, are like being bitten by a mosquito for them, no big deal.
But if there are more torpedoes and bombs, naturally they will not be able to carry it.
Wasn’t the Yamato-class battleship of the Toyo people also killed by the carrier-based aircraft of the Lighthouse Navy in another time and space?
On the battleship Trafalgar, the commander of the Grand Fleet, Marshal Charles Forbes, was in good spirits.
In his view, this is not only a battle for revenge for the Royal Navy, but also a war for the revival of the Royal Navy. If he can lead the Royal Navy to victory in this battle. Well, he will go down in history. It will even become the same spiritual belief of the Royal Navy as the legendary Marshal Nelson.
This makes Marshal Charles Forbes very attentive to this battle.
“Your Excellency Marshal, the country orders us to set out quickly, rush to the Eastern Mediterranean as quickly as possible, defeat the Black Sea Fleet of the Russians, and provide support to the Greek Wax Kingdom. The Greek wax people were defeated again and again, and they could no longer withstand the attack of the Russians! Admiral Andrew Cunningham reported.
Marshal Charles Forbes nodded: “Order the fleet, head east.” For the benefit of the empire, and even more for the glory of the Royal Navy, the Royal Navy must win this battle! ”
“Yes, Your Excellency Marshal!” Admiral Andrew Cunningham replied.
The huge fleet, lined up in a neat line, headed for the eastern Mediterranean.
At the same time, the Kingdom of Caesars also fulfilled its promise. One by one, CR.42 fighters and G.50 fighters arrived at the airfield located in the southern part of the Kingdom of Caesars, ready to provide anti-aircraft cover for the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet.
It’s just that the strength of the Air Force of the Caesar Kingdom is not very good. The number of aircraft they were able to assemble was only more than three hundred0.0
Of course, these fighters are mainly CR.42 fighters and G.50 fighters. Although in terms of performance, compared with the MiG-37 fighter, that is, the carrier-based version of the MiG-36 fighter, of the Tsarist Imperial Navy. However, when dealing with dive bombers and torpedo attack aircraft, it can still have no small advantage.
Little by little, the Royal Navy Grand Fleet is getting closer and closer to the Eastern Mediterranean.
In order to grasp the traces of the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet, the Russian Navy’s long-range reconnaissance aircraft deployed in the Kingdom of Libia constantly searched the Atlantic. Plus the submarines of the fleet also flew.
So much so that the trail of the Grand Fleet was almost completely under the control of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy.
On the morning of March 6, 1840, at this time, most of the territory of the Greek Wax Kingdom had fallen, and it was about to be unable to hold on. The Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy has finally arrived in the western Peloponnese Peninsula of the Greek Wax Kingdom for more than two hundred kilometers. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）
At this moment, the main forces of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy have also moved to the sea area more than two hundred kilometers west of Crete.
The straight-line distance between the two sides is only about 260 kilometers.
Even, if the distance is closer, it can enter the maximum detection range of the anti-air search radar on the warships of the Russian Navy.
Admiral Nobergatov, commander of the Black Sea of the Russian Navy, after receiving the order, decisively gave the order for carrier-based aircraft to take off and launch the first round of 0.9 attacks.
“Order the aircraft carrier formation, immediately take off carrier-based aircraft, and launch an attack on the sun does not set. Strive to destroy the aircraft carrier that never sets, and shoot down as many capital ships as possible! Admiral Nobergatov ordered.
“Yes, Your Excellency Commander!” The Chief of Staff of the Fleet, Vice Admiral Isakov, answered.
After the order was issued, the four aircraft carriers of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy immediately took action.
One after another, MiG-37 fighters, Tu-34 bombers and Tu-35 torpedo attack planes took off from the aircraft carriers.
After taking off, these carrier-based aircraft formed in the air, and then went straight to the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Empire without setting the sun.
A naval battle that has attracted worldwide attention has already broken out.
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