Chapter 1065 Air Showdown
"The quantity can change the ending!" Meng Xiang had to admire this.
In the past life, China relied on its large population and large population, which made Japan unable to swallow it, and it was difficult for it to reach the final moment of victory in the War of Resistance.
Sometimes, as long as you are willing to pay the price, quantity can also save the advantage of quality.
When the Americans who were repeatedly frustrated made up their minds and relaxed the shackles of casualties, the numerical advantage of Americans' powerful industry was quickly reflected.
The United States and China have fought so many times. From the Australian conflict, the losses of all kinds of aircraft on the battlefield against China have exceeded 7,000. But this is nothing to the huge number of more than 210,000 aircraft produced by the United States during World War II. What they are even more afraid of is the number of more than 5,000 pilots and flight crews.
Even though China did not have the deeds of machine gun shooting pilots, the increasingly fierce firepower made the Americans no longer firm in the airframe that Japan once proud of, and the casualty rate increased sharply. Moreover, the catapult devices of that era were still a little behind. Under the fierce firepower of close combat, many times, there was no chance of parachuting.
Sometimes even if you skydiving, you can easily be captured by China or become a member of the missing group, and you will also be listed on the loss list.
Of course, this number is not very conspicuous compared to the total number of 100,000 pilots participating in the war in the United States. However, compared with the data of more than 600 Chinese fighter jets in the United States, Americans always feel that it is a bit unprofitable, so they have never adopted the tactics of relying on quantity and are more inclined to develop better aircraft development.
But after the Americans worked hard for a long time, they suddenly found that they wanted to break through the supersonics and catch up with the newly emerging J-6 and MiG fighter jets in China. There were many problems and it might take a long time to overcome them.
The frontline war was urged to rush. Americans could not afford to wait at all. Even Chinese fighter jets could fly to the United States, and Americans could not wait for a year or two leisurely, praying every day that Chinese bombers would not arrive again.
So different voices began to appear within the United States. Using the existing quantitative advantages to overwhelm the performance advantages of defeating Chinese weapons has become a solution that more and more people agree on.
The US Navy used their dual advantages of quantity and performance to jump out of cramped areas such as Hawaii and expand to a broader space in the world for strategic deployment. This is one of them. This is easier to exert the navy's maneuverability advantages, avoiding the disadvantages of fighting against Chinese people in Hawaii and competing for China's aviation. It opens up the gap in China's defense and makes it easier to find China's weaknesses.
The plan to fight the number of Americans should have been proposed earlier.
Americans themselves also understand that China's advantage over the United States is basically based on air superiority. Air supremacy is the focus of the competition between the United States and China. Hawaii is an example. Under the constraints of China Airlines, it is difficult to compete for air supremacy, and the US Navy can only stare at it. Even if the US Navy tests to Australia and other places, it is still at a disadvantage due to the lack of air supremacy.
Even if Americans are self-aware and cannot compete with China for quantity in land warfare, the numerical advantage of China's land warfare will be reduced when they obtain air supremacy.
Ultimately, the advantage in the air is where Americans hope for victory.
But the command of American air power has always been embarrassing.
The Americans were similar to the Japanese. During World War II, all the air forces were either to the navy or to the army, and were under actual combat needs of the navy and the army. However, large-scale air operations were widely involved and various forces were not easy to coordinate. Therefore, the air forces of the Americans also made a request to establish the US Air Force very early.
The success of the Americans in the battlefield of World War II in their previous lives led to the plan of the Air Force to form a separate army until 47 years after the war.
And now, the Americans’ defeat in front of the Chinese Air Force has made the Americans’ calls for air force reforms increasingly high. Especially when the US mainland was bombed and the repeated failures in the Battle of Hawaii, the Americans began to learn from the so-called China’s air force system and to list such a branch separately to meet the combat needs of modern air combat.
Just like the later generations of the US Air Force mainly separated from the land aviation industry, there must be reasons why the rapidly expanding army caused some people's concerns, the emergence of a brand new military branch is always inevitable to fight against interests of all forces. This interest battle also delayed the plan for all-round air test attacks proposed by the US Air Force.
After all, if you want to test in all aspects, there are too many things to prepare. Without unified command, it is definitely the worst. If you don’t act in unification, don’t say that you can test anything, it is possible that you can even be defeated by China in turn.
This unified command ultimately fell on the upcoming US Air Force. Unfortunately, the establishment of the US Air Force was tripped by the Americans themselves.
Even the US Navy's test operations in Australia, the Philippines and other regions chose to temporarily stagnate due to the matters of the Army Aviation and the Air Force. It was not until Japan had a clear idea and the Navy wanted to make efforts that the establishment of the Air Force accelerated and accelerated the preparation of the all-round air test attack plan.
Thanks to the previous delays by the Americans, China has more time to respond.
"We almost fell into a state of doom!" After learning about some of the US's plans to attack China, Fan Zong was already amazed.
Even if there are cloned spies, radars and even satellites in advance, China will find it difficult to deal with it.
With Meng Xiang's strong support, China has trained more than 30,000 pilots over the years. However, there are many novice rookies and various students, while qualified pilots are just over 20,000.
Among them, HNA accounts for 4,000 people, and there are only more than 1,000 aircraft carrier pilots that can board the aircraft carrier.
More than 6,000 qualified pilots in the Air Force were also hovering around 10,000. Among them, less than half of them could fly jet fighters, and the J-5 was mainly the J-5.
Under normal combat, those qualified pilots are enough to deal with battles on various fronts. They can even support another battlefield after one battlefield is over.
But this time the Americans adopted a full-scale suppression.
Therefore, they are not worried about part of the plan being leaked. This time they are taking a pure plot, targeting China's short foot with their sufficient foundation and short-term development, using space deployment to offset China's fighter performance advantages, and relying on their strength to fight China's head-on battle.
Although China has also focused on developing air power over the years and leveraged the advantages of fighter jets, it has created more than 1,500 trump cards in the traditional sense, which is more than 1,300 trump cards in American history, but the total number of more than 20,000 is still much worse than the base of pilots in the United States that are often more than 100,000.
When the US Air Force was established in advance on August 6, just three days later, the Americans' large-scale air strike plan began to be implemented. A week later, on August 16, American fighter jets that had been arranged in advance flew up in groups around the world, and launched a general air attack on all fronts in China.
It was not just the Americans' own attack, but with the lobbying and support of the Americans, the British, the Soviets and many Allied countries participated in this air attack against China.
They also knew that apart from this method, it was difficult to deal with the advantages of China's fighter jets. This time, they also spared no effort to invest in it, intending to pull China's air defense into larger air and make China's air defense force eventually collapse.
From Australia, the Philippines, to Alaska and Ural Mountains, from the Hawaii front to Turkey and Tunisia fronts, from the aircraft carriers on the ocean to China's homeland, the Allied forces directly invested more than 40,000 fighter jets to press all over China.
If it weren't for the airport and ground staff, as well as the limitations of distance, Americans who have prepared for a long time would probably invest more, but this number is unprecedented.
Compared to the attacks of jet fighters in a certain era in later generations, when the attacks of jet fighters were calculated in single and ten digits, the dispatch of ten thousand was definitely a miracle.
Many years later, people also called this day the World War II air battle day.
Because it was not only the United States and China that dispatched a huge fleet of fighter jets on this day.
The Americans' intentions were not concealed at all, and China quickly united with Germany, mobilizing the power of the entire Axis power to reduce pressure from the side.
So when China dispatched 17,000 fighter jets, the Germans and other Axis powers also dispatched more than 10,000 fighter jets of various types in various places to assist. Correspondingly, the prepared Allies also sent more than 10,000 fighter jets to fight.
All parties understood the significance of this decisive air battle and started preparing for it very early. When the Americans launched an attack signal, they immediately went out in a series of ways.
Chapter completed!