Chapter 473 (1/2)

Although Britain still regards itself as an old capitalist country, it is already going downhill. For example, most of the warships of the British Navy were built during World War I.

The same is true of the current competitive God, an aircraft carrier ordered by the Royal Navy in 1917. For various reasons, it was not completed and put into service until 1923. In this way, the first specially designed aircraft carrier fell into the hands of Fengxiang.

Previous aircraft carriers were refitted with other warships, while this aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier with a new design.

For example, it has an all-round flight deck; The closed bow has strong wave resistance; The bridge, mast and chimney are combined into a large ship Island, which is located on the starboard side of the ship body on the right side of the all-round flight deck. This is the first time that the aircraft carrier adopts the island superstructure design.

In particular, the design of this ship island has been handed down to later generations and has become a pioneer of various aircraft carriers. It is not only conducive to flight and navigation command, but also has higher strength than lateral chimney and collapsible chimney, and is beneficial to ship body sealing.

At that time, the number of aircraft carried by this 10000 ton aircraft carrier was 20. However, as the size of carrier aircraft increases, the number of carrier aircraft decreases to 16.

After its service, the competitive God was sent to the Far East and has been cruising in Southeast Asia and the China Sea. In this way, until now, after the air attack on Scarpa Bay, the competitive God was hurriedly transferred back to the Atlantic Ocean to shoulder the important task of revenge.

These days, the British navy has been searching for the whereabouts of the German Navy, but nothing has been found. Now, with the whereabouts of German warships, of course, they will not let go!

”Take off the carrier plane and launch an attack on the German warship immediately!” Tovi said to Onslow.

”Yes, we will carry out the attack mission immediately!” Onslow is confident.

This is the inside story of the Old Navy!

Generally speaking, naval carrier aircraft cannot be dispatched at night. For example, in future generations, even if Americans are swaggering around the world, less than 50% of their naval carrier aircraft pilots have the ability to fly at night.

Now, the British navy has to fight at night!

Their biggest dependence is precisely because of their backward shipborne aircraft, swordfish torpedo aircraft.

The take-off and landing on the aircraft carrier are very risky. The unstable deck and the possible crosswind at any time make the take-off and landing full of risks, especially the landing. Even if the deck lights are on, the deck is still a small place for flying aircraft.

The higher the takeoff and landing speed, the greater the risk of night operation.

In this way, swordfish is a perfect match, because swordfish is a biplane. One of the great advantages of biplane is low speed. Yes, here, low speed is an advantage, which makes its take-off and landing easier!

The British have done this more than once in history.

In Taranto, Britain successfully used swordfish for torpedo warfare at night. In the subsequent naval battle in the Indian Ocean, samorville also planned to sneak attack the Japanese fleet at night with big blue and white fish.

Biplane, that's so confident.

Now, the attack of the British navy has begun again!

All the deck lights are on, illuminating the flight deck. On the take-off line, a swordfish torpedo aircraft is ready. Under the belly of the aircraft, the six meter long torpedo is so conspicuous.

Pilot Ted, sitting in the open cabin, his back seat was empty and the machine gunner was cancelled.

At night, air combat is almost impossible, so the rear seat machine gunner is purely redundant, and an additional fuel tank is installed in the rear seat to carry more fuel.

Now, at 8:30 p.m., looking at the runway lights in front, Ted shouted on the radio, ”swordfish, please take off.”

”You can take off. Good luck.” The sound of the bridge came from the headset.