The "Silver Death" missile, jointly produced by Henschel, Germany and Rolls-Royce in the UK, is actually a small jet aircraft, which is not too small, with an empty weight of up to 1.8 tons and a total weight of up to 2.8 tons. It is also equipped with 2 20mm cannons (the optional cannons were not purchased by the Japanese, but after the "Silver Death" was transported back to Japan, they were equipped with Japan's own 20mm cannons), and the firepower was not weak.

In addition, there is also a "coach version" of "Silver Death", which has larger wings and tail wings, and a landing gear that can be retracted.

Now, as long as other "Silver Death" are modified in the form of the "Coach Version", all 180 "Silver Death" missiles can be turned into high-altitude interceptors. They can be brought from me264 to a height of more than 12,000 meters, and launched after approaching the American bomber group, using their own high speed and firepower to attack American high-altitude bombers.

After completing the attack, these "Silver Death" aircraft can also use the landing gear to land at nearby airports.

The idea of ​​using some "Silver Death" as a high-altitude fighter was first proposed by Minami Genda, who had personally piloted this kind of missile (coach bomb). It was soon supported by Takeo Yasuda, the head of the Army Aviation Headquarters. In the face of huge expenditure of 120 million European marks, the dispute between land and sea is no longer a problem. The investment of 120 million European marks is really "too Japanese" to use it up at one time.

At least it should be used before the service life of these "Silver Death" engines expire, and finally used to impact...

"We still have 53 me264s," said Takeo Yasuda. "That is to say, we can launch 53 'Silver Death' jets at a time. The third-type 'Flying Swallow' two can also prepare 70-80 aircraft in the short term. In this way, we can dispatch more than 120 high-altitude interceptors at a time. If the number of long-range bombers in the United States is less than 120, it is entirely possible to destroy them at once."

Army Chief Sugiyama Moto laughed a few times after hearing this: "If you can really kill a complete annihilation, American bombers will never dare to come again."

"The navy... is there no problem?" Hideki Tojo looked at the tired Navy Minister Ioroku Yamamoto and Nagano, "Now the Navy is not in a hurry to launch a special missile attack, right?"

Nagano Cunny and Yamamoto Iroku looked at each other, and Nagano said: "There is no need to launch a special missile attack within 3 months."

"Missile Special Attack" is the end and most important thing of the "Jet One Operation". According to the plan, 180-200 silver Death missiles will cause a devastating blow to the aircraft carrier forces of the US Pacific Fleet!

After the "special missile attack", the joint fleet's large counterattack will be launched, giving devastating blows to the remaining US Pacific Fleet and landing fleet. The US ground forces that have already boarded the islands of the Hawaiian Islands will be wiped out after losing the cover and support of the fleet.

However, it is not the time to launch a "missile special attack", because the Americans have just hit Palmyra Atoll and have not even touched Christmas Island, let alone landing on the Hawaiian Islands.

"How is the battle over the Palmyra Atoll?" At this time, Hideki Tojo turned the topic to the ongoing Battle of Palmyra Atoll.

The area of ​​Palmyra Atoll is nearly twice as large as Midway Island, and it is also an atoll that cannot be defended. However, the Japanese army resisted there, because the reason is very simple that it was an atoll.

The so-called "atoll" is a circular island, as its name suggests, with a circle surrounding it being a coral reef island that surfaces, and a lagoon in the middle.

This special terrain can be used as a natural anchorage, and the "Trook Anchorage" of the Japanese United Fleet is a large atoll.

Of course, Palmyra Atoll cannot be compared with Truk Atoll. The latter is much larger and can load the entire joint fleet. The area of ​​Palmyra Atoll is limited and can only accommodate a dozen ships at most. For the huge four American special-mix fleets, it is really too small.

But Americans can put floating dry docks into Palmyra Atoll!

A floating dry dock is a dry dock that can float on the sea, which can move on the sea, and can load battleships and aircraft carriers with displacement of tens of thousands of tons at sea for overhaul, just like in a port. In order to complete the ship repair task, the floating dock cannot be just a dock, but must also be equipped with a power station and workshops such as mechanics, electricians, carpenters, etc. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mobile sea repair yard.

This kind of thing is a treasure for a fleet that operates in the ocean. It can give its side the ability to quickly repair battleships near the battlefield. The current European Combined Fleet has 4 large floating docks, each of which can load a "Hindenburg"-class battleship into it.

Japan does not have such "luxury goods". The strength of the Japanese navy is in the combat fleet and aviation. Various auxiliary ships, transport ships, and work ships cannot be compared with the United States, and they are even much worse than that of Europe. Not to mention floating docks, even the much cheaper repair work ships are only one of the Akashi.

However, although the Japanese Navy does not have a floating dock, its generals know that there is something.

Moreover, there is also a small airport on Palmyra Atoll that can park more than a dozen or twenty single-engine aircraft. It is enough to deploy a squadron's p51b/. Although it is not many, it is enough to provide some air cover for the floating docks in the atoll.

Therefore, Palmyra Atoll, which is suitable for placing floating docks, must be guarded no matter what, even if it delays a little time, it is good.

In addition, the Japanese defense of Palmyra Atoll can also attract the U.S. Navy's landing fleet and create opportunities for attacks from submersible ships and heavy minecraft ships.

"Prime Minister," Yamamoto Iroji took over the topic and said, "The Central Pacific Fleet reported that the U.S. assault ship group had arranged in a 88-square-mile square array on the sea near Palmyra Atoll, and the gun shooting had already begun this morning."

A landing ship with an area of ​​88 square nautical miles? Tojo Shin said: Japan's landing ship is in units of "bars", and the American landing ship is originally calculated in units of how many square nautical miles...

"Then the 8th Fleet won't do anything, right?" Tojo asked.

Yamamoto replied confidently: "The 8th Fleet's heavy mine assault force has set out and will soon launch a heavy mine assault on the US landing fleet! At the same time, the submarine ships will also launch a sneak attack... Tonight, Hawaiian time, dozens of American ships will be sunk around Palmyra Atoll!"

...

"Ali, our people have already boarded, do you know what that means?"

Seeing amphibious tanks leading the Marine Corps infantry to the beach of Palmyra Atoll, Lieutenant General Kincaid, the commander of the 31st US Special Mixed Fleet, put down his telescope and asked Brigadier General Aly Burke, who was standing beside him in a military uniform.

Arley Burke was promoted after the last "Pacific Parade" of the 58th fleet and became a brigade general. His daily position also changed from chief of staff of the aircraft carrier brigade to commander of the commander of the pilot brigade.

By the way, this Arley Burke is actually the commander of the US Navy's best destroyer force. He has become famous in the Atlantic battlefield and the Caribbean battlefield. Even the German Navy knows that there is such a guy who makes good use of the destroyer force. The destroyer squadron he commands has won 11 operations in total when fighting in the Caribbean Sea, sinking 12 European lightning strike ships (8 are German "Beast" class, and 4 are Italian "Lightning strike" ships) and 4 destroyers, including one of which is the terrifying French "Imagination" class destroyer!

In addition to his amazing record, he also invented a trick specifically for dealing with 93 oxygen torpedoes, which is to fire mk11 or mk15 torpedoes before the enemy ship fires 93 torpedoes. The purpose is not to use torpedoes to destroy the enemy, but to force the enemy ship to avoid and delay the torpedo launch, winning time for his own artillery attacks. Because in the process of confronting the lightning strike ships of the European Combined Fleet, he has discovered that the enemy's torpedoes are prone to explode. Therefore, when the torpedoes are not as good as the opponent, he simply uses precise artillery bombardment to explode the opponent's torpedoes.

With this move, many European lightning strike ships were lost in his hands, and later he was nicknamed "Thunderstorm Killer".

However, what he had to deal with in the Pacific was not the European lightning strike ship with poor firepower, but the powerful Japanese heavy-thunder-mounted destroyers and cruisers. After the "first Midway Night Battle", the Americans had realized that the Japanese would use torpedo night battle, a daunting method on the Caribbean battlefield, to deal with themselves.

"Sir, the landing fleet will be attacked by Japanese destroyers tonight!" Ali Burke replied, "But I will let the Japanese destroyers coming to the night attack know that they are powerful."

"That's great," Kincaid patted Ali Burke on the shoulder. "Ali, I must lead the main force of the 31st TCM fleet to hide to the far sea tonight, so the landing ships near Palmyra Atoll and the Marines on the atoll can only rely on your patrol formation."

He paused, "Ali, are there enough troops?"

"Enough!" said Aly Burke. "Four treaty heavy patrols and 16 Gridley-class heavy-thunder destroyers are enough to deal with the Japanese devils."

The United States also has heavy mine destroyers! It is the Gridley-class designed and built in the 1930s. It has a theoretical maximum speed of 38.5 knots, but it can actually run upwards of 40 knots, which is only slower than the French "Imagination" class. The torpedo firepower is 4 seats, 4 seats, 533mm torpedo tubes, which cannot be reloaded again. It is incomparable to the island wind class that has 3 seats, 5 seats, 610mm torpedo tubes, and can also be reinstalled once.
Chapter completed!