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Chapter 1051 American Air Wheel Battle

The American bombing of Hawaii officially began on June 12.

For this bombing, the European bomber group specially transferred a lot of bombers and pilots...

But it is almost 3,890 kilometers from Huwai Island in Hawaii to San Francisco, the United States. It is impossible for bombers such as the B17 to fly directly from the United States. Even from nearby Marshall Islands and Ryan Islands, it is a bit troublesome, far less than that of Europe. Even if you set out from Midway Island, which was raided by Chinese bombers, you still need various preparations such as ship transportation and restoration of the airport, so time may be delayed.

Americans can only transfer b29 and b32 rulers from Europe and are arranged at home.

Since the last time China bombed the American mainland, Americans have been crazy about creating b36 intercontinental strategic bombers that can be bombed directly from Hawaii to the hinterland of China.

Perhaps the cost of $360 is a bit expensive, but the maintenance cost and performance are enough to overwhelm the b29 and the modified version of the b32. This has led the Americans to invest more than one billion dollars in one go and build more than 300 aircraft.

Cooperating with the collection of more than 400 b29 and b32, the Americans dispatched more than 800 strategic bombers this time.

But when the base radar station has been deployed to the United States, it is impossible for Americans to attack.

After being intercepted and killed more than 20 bombers by Huaxia at the beginning, the Americans gave up the idea of ​​a surprise attack and instead relied on their huge strength to attack.

"Five hundred fighter jets are definitely the limit of the Chinese! Three major airports in Hawaii have been damaged and have not been completely repaired yet. Even with the newly opened temporary airports by the Chinese, it is difficult to ensure the command and maintenance of more than 300 fighter jets. You must know that they still need to be responsible for the busy takeoff and landing of many transport aircraft and bombers." Li Mei, who served as the commander-in-chief of this bombing, analyzed in the summary of intelligence collected from various places.

"The Chinese people's three aircraft carriers can provide about 200 fighter jets to take off and land. Perhaps they have more opportunities to fight, but their oil and ammunition supply restricts their number. Most of the oil depots we built in Hawaii were taken over by the Chinese people. Maybe they have no shortage of oil for the time being, but how do they replenish ammunition?"

Although Washington did not accept Nimitz's suggestion to postpone the attack, it still accepted Nimitz's blockade advice, ordering the US military from the Philippines to Guam to strengthen the maritime and air blockade of China's mainland to Hawaii. The waters slightly farther near Hawaii were directly besieged by a large number of American warships.

The two main aircraft carriers and eight escort aircraft carriers gathered there. Although they were not enough to support the backbone of the counterattack of Hawaii, they were enough to block the surrounding airspace, making it difficult for China's transport fleet to break through.

The oil problem can be temporarily dealt with after seizing several oil depots stored in the United States, but the ammunition depots of the Americans who were also captured may not be used on Chinese weapons. Especially the Chinese fighter jets, there are many Soviet or base systems. When the external transportation channels were blocked by the Americans, they could only rely on the base.

Under the range restrictions, few fighter jets can fly directly from China, and those short-footed jet fighters can only be transported by ships. However, under the layers of interception by the Americans, the number of fighter jets on the island of Hawaii can only rely on bases if they want to increase.

However, fighter jets need airports, maintenance and command, which makes the number of fighter jets that can be accommodated by the sub-base at this time is also limited.

Even if the airport is located in the air finger center of the sub-base reaches level 3, an airport can only control one brigade. If all are calculated according to fighter jets, there will be no more than 108 aircraft.

There is only one third-level air finger center in the Hawaii sub-base, and only five second-level air finger centers that command up to 36 fighters, and two first-level air finger centers that command 12 fighters. There are only 300 of them that can command and maintain.

Airports all over the Hawaiian Islands were once again seriously damaged due to this raid. Even if they were repaired overnight, they would be unable to withstand many fighter jets. Moreover, ground crews and commanders were the most lacking.

The air finger center of the sub-base can automatically solve most of the problems of maintenance and command of the fighter jets under its jurisdiction by relying on the intelligent brain. However, the take-off and landing and maintenance of fighter jets in ordinary airports. Without the participation of the base, a large number of ground crew members and command personnel are required.

Those American prisoners dare not use it at all. And even with the fleet and the relevant Chinese professionals who came from the airborne, even if they received support from the aircraft carrier, they could only ensure the normal use of 200 fighter jets, and they would still have to be busy with the bombers and transport aircraft.

The number of two Red Alarm aircraft carriers in China and one revised Midway-class aircraft carrier is greatly limited because it is to carry jet fighters. Even if reserves are added, the number of fighters does not exceed 60.

In this way, the number of fighter jets that China can produce is only 700.

Among them, they are also responsible for escorting bombers and transport aircraft, and dealing with the besieged US HNA fighter jets.

The number of fighters that can be used to deal with American bombers is really similar to Li Mei’s guess.

Since the last bombing of China, Li Mei has been much more careful about China. Even if she guessed that China had insufficient fighter jets, she would not dare to be careless. The plans made were arranged according to China's strongest strength.

But even so, the Americans' 800 bombers and more than 2,000 arranged escort fighters are enough to overwhelm the number of Chinese fighters.

If it weren't for the airports on the nearby islands that could not accommodate more fighter jets, I'm afraid the Americans would have sent more.

"Our bomber formation can be arranged in three groups to bomb Hawaii continuously!" Li Mei took advantage of the large number of American fighter jets to arrange a strategic arrangement for wheel battles.

No amount of fighter jets may congestion the sky of the Hawaiian Islands and fail to achieve the best results.

In addition to the first round, the 350 bombers were dispatched, the next few rounds were generally less than 300, and they were pressing towards the sky of Hawaii.

Relying on the early preparations of radar warning, the Chinese fighter jets successively repelled the Americans' rounds of bombing day and night, and survived the first day. However, the bombing and attack that had not stopped still allowed Hu Wen, who was in charge, to see the signs.

Sure enough, the continued attack the next day made the Chinese air force exhausted.

No matter how flying a plane can fly, it cannot be able to fly in the sky all the time.

Although the Chinese fighter jets have excellent performance, they always need to rest and maintain. Pilots need to rest.

Even though China had reserved fighter jets and pilots, the Americans did not expect that the unstoppable attacks and the two consecutive days of resistance had already made everyone exhausted.

"It is difficult for a jet engine to last for a hundred hours. Although the Chinese fighter jets have superior performance, they lack supplies. Over time, they will collapse!" Seeing that they were unable to quickly resolve their opponents in the first two days, Li Mei also proposed to her superiors and launched a preparatory plan for extended bombing.

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"We can't stick to it like this!" After receiving an urgent call from Hu Wen, at the emergency meeting of the Chinese giant, Fan Zhong looked at Meng Xiangdao with concern.

The islands around Hawaii are basically under the control of the Americans. Under the interception of the Americans, the replacement pilots and aircraft are difficult to support from China. However, the Americans can have sufficient manpower and fighter planes to take turns to rest, and the continuous bombing is enough to drag China's air power to death.

"How is the effect of air defense firepower?" Meng Xiang asked first.

This is one of Meng Xiang's reliances. The base, including the warning cannon, produced a large number of anti-aircraft artillery, and an interception network was shrouded in the Hawaiian air.

All kinds of key facilities in Hawaii such as airports, oil depots, docks, power plants, water plants and even fortifications were built by Americans. The coordinates, including the surrounding environment, have long been in the minds of Americans and cannot be concealed at all.

It is impossible to achieve foolproof only by intercepting fighter jets. Only by combining the ground firepower can all defend those key facilities tightly.

"This time the Americans attacked HNA and Land Airlines together, and the attack was very fierce. It was okay on the first day, but if it weren't for the cooperation of ground air defense firepower on the second day, many key facilities would probably be blown up!" Fan Zhong still mentioned his concerns about Hawaii's air supremacy. "Air defense artillery alone cannot save this passive situation! If we lose air supremacy, the American naval attack will be enough to put the entire Hawaii into a sea of ​​fire."

The US Navy is still coming. As long as there is no support from China Airlines, relying solely on China Airlines and the Hawaiian fleet, it is unlikely that it will not be able to deal with the attacks of so many warships.

"We should start the backup plan in advance?" Fan Zhong looked at Meng Xiang and said.

In such a bad situation, before attacking Hawaii, the General Staff had a preview, and finally gave up the plan to attack Hawaii with several other reasons. But Meng Xiang took it over.

The secret of the base cannot be told to outsiders, Meng Xiang can only take over the big things.

Fan Zong didn't know the specific content of the reserve plan very well, so he could only look at Meng Xiang who was confident and Shu Yi who was responsible for deduction and command.

Many times, Meng Xiang used the same promise method, and then used countless miraculous facts to give Fan Zong enough confidence. This time was no exception. Even though he did not participate in the deduction arrangement, Fan Zong still believed Meng Xiang and Shu Yi's guarantee together.

"Well, it seems we are going to start the T plan ahead of time!" Meng Xiang pondered for a while before finally speaking to Mo Yi in a deep voice.
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