In another time, the Lighthouse State built hundreds of aircraft carriers in World War II. However, three-quarters of these aircraft carriers are such escort carriers.
The Borg-class aircraft carriers, which are only the first escort carriers of the Lighthouse Navy and have only 11 built.
Next, Lighthouse State will also build Sangamon-class aircraft carriers. However, this aircraft carrier Lighthouse State has only built 4. Mainly because there are not enough carriers available for modification.
The lighthouse country later found that there were many weaknesses in the aircraft carrier converted by merchant ships. Therefore, after refusing merchant ships to modify these two aircraft carriers, they began to directly build new escort aircraft carriers.
This is the Casablanca-class escort carrier. This class of escort aircraft carriers, the lighthouse country has built “980” fifty ships.
It can be seen that the lighthouse country has achieved the ultimate in escorting aircraft carriers.
In this time and space, after the lighthouse country found that the escort aircraft carrier was indeed useful, I am afraid that it will build escort aircraft carriers in large quantities. And this is undoubtedly a big threat to the Russian Empire.
After all, the Russian Empire accelerated the pace of construction of aircraft carriers. But the construction period of large fleet aircraft carriers is too long. It takes a lot of time to build and put into service.
If escort carriers are built in large quantities, a lot of time can be saved.
“Your Excellency, in addition to aircraft carriers, we must also catch up with the Russians in terms of carrier-based aircraft. If there are no powerful carrier-based aircraft, even with a large number of aircraft carriers, I am afraid it will be difficult to exert their strength. Admiral Harold Stark reminded.
Franklin agreed.
Now the carrier-based fighters of the Lighthouse Navy are mainly F3F fighters and F2A fighters. It’s just that the performance of these two carrier-based fighters is not very good. The former has a maximum speed of only 425 kilometers per hour, and the latter has a maximum speed of only 517 kilometers per hour. Compared with the maximum speed of nearly 700 kilometers per hour of the MiG-37 fighter of the Imperial Russian Navy, there is no comparison at all.
In terms of dive bombers, the dive bombers of the Lighthouse Navy are mainly SBD2 dive bombers, which are the dive bombers of Lighthouse Country in another time and space that run almost throughout World War II.
The performance of the SBD2 dive bomber is indeed good, with a maximum flight speed of 394 miles per hour, a maximum range of more than 1,700 kilometers, and a ton of bombs. Among them, bombs weighing up to 726 kg can be carried under the belly. The wing is capable of carrying two bombs weighing up to 147 kg.
This kind of performance is already very good.
And the torpedo attack aircraft of the Beacon Country are TBD torpedo attack aircraft. This torpedo attack aircraft, with a maximum flight speed of 331 kilometers per hour and a maximum range of more than 1,100 kilometers, is capable of carrying torpedoes weighing up to 500 kg.
This torpedo attack aircraft does not perform well. This is also the reason why in another time and space, the Lighthouse Navy later changed to TBF torpedo attack aircraft. TBF torpedo attack aircraft, the performance is much more advanced than TBD torpedo attack aircraft. It has a maximum flight speed of 414 miles per hour and a maximum range of 2236 kilometers, capable of carrying heavy torpedoes weighing 907 kg, or four bombs weighing 227 kg.
Of course, at this stage, the Lighthouse Navy has no way, it can only pay attention to the use of TBD torpedo attack aircraft.
“The Navy should increase research and development efforts to develop more advanced carrier-based aircraft. Strive for our carrier-based aircraft, able to confront the Russians, and not be easily defeated by the Russians! Franklin ordered.
“Yes, Your Excellency!” Admiral Harold Stark replied.
As another naval power in the world, it is also the Eastern Empire that helped the Sun Never Set Empire contain the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Imperial Navy in this naval battle. After learning the news of the disastrous defeat of the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Empire that never sets, he was even more frightened. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）
The powerful Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy was easily taken out by the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy.
So, does this mean that the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy can also solve them?
Although, the overall strength of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy was somewhat weaker than that of the Black Sea Fleet. But the problem is that the strength of the combined fleet of the Eastern Imperial Navy is not comparable to the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy!
Besides, the aircraft carriers, which served as the main force in this battle, the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy were also equipped with four ah!
This can scare the Eastern Empire enough.0.
The combined fleet of the Imperial Navy of the East Ocean immediately withdrew to the mainland, and directly returned to the Sasebo naval base at the southern tip of the mainland. At the same time, the Imperial Eastern Army Air Corps and the Naval Air Force were put on full alert to prevent surprise attacks by the Russians.
Mitsumasa Minouchi, Prime Minister of the Eastern Empire, summoned senior officials of the Imperial Cabinet and military to discuss countermeasures.
“Gentlemen, the Russian navy easily defeated the great fleet that never sets, demonstrating the strength of the Russian navy. In a short time, it is better for us not to provoke the Russians. Prime Minister Mitsumasa Minouchi said.
“Hi, Your Excellency Prime Minister!” The cabinet ministers of the Eastern Empire all answered.
In addition, the Russians invested heavily in aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft in naval battles, which undoubtedly brought new enlightenment to the Imperial Navy. Yoshida-kun, what is the plan of the navy here? Prime Minister Minouchi asked.
Prime Minister Mitsumasa Minouchi was originally from the Navy. Therefore, within the scope of duties, it is natural to try to take care of the interests of the Navy.
“Your Excellency, Prime Ministers. Originally, the Russians were weaker than the anti-Russian alliance in terms of naval strength. However, the Russians are now using powerful aircraft carriers to crush the Royal Navy of the Empire. At the same time, this makes the Russians have surpassed the anti-Russian alliance 2.3 in terms of naval power, which undoubtedly poses a great threat to the empire. Senior Admiral Yoshida Yoshigo, Minister of the Navy of the Toyo Empire, said.
Prime Minister Mitsumasa Minouchi and the other cabinet ministers nodded their heads one after another.
“But it also gives us direction. That is, aircraft carriers have replaced capital ships and become the main force of naval warfare. If the Imperial Navy could build aircraft carriers on a large scale. Well, this can not only further enhance the strength of the Imperial Navy. At the same time, it will also give the Imperial Navy the strength to reverse the current situation. It even made the Imperial Navy one of the most powerful navies in the world. I think we have to seize this opportunity. In that case, we will not only have a chance to defeat the Russians, but also achieve our goals. “General Yoshida Yoshida’s eyes are full of ambition and the flame is burning.
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