Shiren would not sit back and watch himself suffer huge losses, and the Japanese counterattack was swift and sharp.
605 F-15J, 504 F-2A, 578 F-35A, and 198 F-35B fighter jets launched a desperate assault on the coalition fleet in a thousand-plane formation.
Among the coalition fleet, only the "Bazin" class destroyers are capable of long-range air defense. Most escort ships, including the "Glorious" class cruisers, are unable to stop the enemy hundreds of nautical miles away.
It's not that the "Glorious" class cruisers don't have long-range air defense missiles, but the stealth capabilities of fifth-generation aircraft like the F-35A have greatly exceeded the detection capabilities of their shipborne radars.
The search for the F-15J coming from high altitude was pretty good, and the F-2A could barely be seen. For the F-35A, the "Glorious" class and most combat ships were blind.
The AS-3 air-launched anti-ship missile with a range of 400 kilometers can be launched from a long distance, while the NS has to get closer to launch it.
This creates a time difference, which prevents the optimal saturation attack state from being formed.
More than a thousand AS-3 anti-ship missiles are a huge threat to any fleet, and the coalition fleet is no exception.
However, as the fleet commander, Huang Ting had previously used more than a dozen air defense systems and hundreds of anti-aircraft guns deployed on Crete as a shield for the fleet.
The coalition fleet is hiding in the northwest corner of the island. If the opponent's anti-ship missiles want to hit them, they have to go around in a circle.
But if we want to implement the bayonet tactics of hand-to-hand combat, we can no longer use this trick, and the fleet must all rush forward.
Affiliated to the Ming Navy, there are 18 aircraft carriers, 6 amphibious assault ships, 6 cruisers, 60 destroyers, 72 frigates, 72 conventional submarines, 33 landing ships, and 66 supply ships.
The Ottomans dispatched 4 aircraft carriers, 5 amphibious assault ships, 8 battleships, 13 cruisers, 29 destroyers, 34 frigates, 63 missile boats, 18 conventional submarines, 121 landing ships, and 15 supply ships .
Ibrahim also wanted to dispatch more battleships to avenge his shame. Unfortunately, many battleships had been turned into aquariums. Apart from being repaired in the port, they were basically deployed to participate in the war.
The long-term fight with David caused the Ottoman navy to lose a lot. Then the Japanese army suddenly came uninvited. The two combined, Ibrahim had a headache for a while.
Now an old friend finally came forward to regain his position. After the war, he had to buy a batch of advanced combat ships, but that was a story for another time...
Egypt, as a strategic location connecting the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, is naturally extremely important to the Ottoman Empire. The loss of the two river basins is not as serious as the immediate imminence.
In addition to the canal, Egypt's cotton cultivation and service industries are pretty good. In fact, the tax revenue is lower than that of provinces with large oil and gas resources.
In the territory of the Ottoman Empire, the European part included Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania, Hungary, and the Danube That is, the former Austria.
Taken together, none of these places contributed as much to the empire as Nejd and Waijd (Saudi Arabia), which produced light oil and were dotted with spouting wells. The cost of oil production was extremely low, and the proven reserves were particularly huge.
Petroleum and refined oil products were the empire's number one industry and the main source of foreign exchange. The Ottoman Empire's national power was able to advance by leaps and bounds and it was gradually realizing modernization. Most of the credit was attributed to the exploration and smelting of oil.
The most important thing is that the native people of many provinces in Europe are different, which makes management extremely troublesome. Ibrahim can be thankful that the local areas can be self-sufficient and prevent the empire from backing down.
Just in case, Ibrahim placed the pillar industries, such as aviation, shipbuilding, automobiles, machinery, electronics and other industries, mainly in Anatolia, which is the central and western region of the Asia Minor Peninsula, which is the heart of the empire. zone.
Only industries such as metallurgy and chemicals that rely heavily on resource extraction will be placed elsewhere, but
A large portion of local revenue must also be turned over to the state treasury.
Any attempt to use industry profits to arm local private soldiers will be unanimously suppressed by the empire.
Because this is everyone’s cake, only the local indigenous people cannot take the lion’s share. Giving them some soup is a gift.
This is not excessive at all. Without His Majesty the Sultan’s wisdom and prowess, those natives would still be grazing and surviving!
Especially after the great rebellion occurred in the Pan-Balkans, Ibrahim increasingly felt that it was an extremely wise decision to adopt the advice of his old friends, otherwise he would have suffered heavy losses this time.
However, the Israeli army's previous fierce attack on the Kayseri area also frightened Ibrahim. After the empire lost 300,000 troops, it stopped the opponent's attack momentum.
Seeing that the Ming army was victorious on the Persian battlefield and was rapidly squeezing the enemy's living space, Ibrahim thought that his allies would soon be able to flank the Israeli army with his own side.
I never expected that Egypt would fall at this time. Fortunately, my old friend came up with a package solution, which gave me some peace of mind.
It's just that this kind of back-and-forth is relative. It's not that Zhu Cixiang is not interesting enough, but that the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, and his own fleet is not in an invincible mode.
When it's time to get beaten, even if you fight back with all your strength, you can't avoid combat losses, and that's the case now.
Even though the coalition fleet deployed all its air defense firepower and tried its best to block the incoming missiles, more than a hundred missiles still slipped through the last air defense net and got in.
The coalition fleet suddenly had five aircraft carriers, six battleships, nine cruisers, and more than fifty destroyers and frigates hit.
This means that the fleet lost nearly one-fifth of its combat effectiveness in a short period of time, and the Japanese army should have attacked more than once.
Since the weight of the warhead of the AS-3 air-launched anti-ship missile is not large, the large tonnage can still hold up, but the small tonnage frigate was blown into two pieces after only one shot.
Unless the Inca Navy and Zheng Chenggong's fleet can quickly rush to the rescue and greatly enhance the air defense capabilities of the coalition fleet, such a saturation attack will be impossible to prevent.
There was nothing he could do if he was beaten, so he could only speed up as much as possible. The distance of 400 kilometers could be covered in less than nine hours at a speed of 25 knots.
Before this, the fleet had shot down more than 500 enemy planes, but a certain master had told Huang Ting before leaving that destroying the Japanese fleet would be considered a great achievement.
Fighters can only be regarded as low-end consumables in front of battleships. After all, battleships can scurry around. Once they enter the Atlantic Ocean, the consequences are unimaginable. Most fighters without vertical take-off and landing capabilities will be useless without an airport.
As a battle-hardened veteran, Huang Ting was not an unkind master. He ordered everyone in the fleet to jump into the sea and escape as soon as they were hit by bullets to the point of abandoning the ship. There was no need to sink with the battleship.
The sea water at this time is not cold at all. As long as you wear a life jacket and carry self-defense weapons, you don’t have to be afraid even if you encounter a shark even if you stay in the water for a long time.
The Mediterranean is basically the territory of the coalition forces, and the soldiers who fell into the water will be fished out in the end, it is just a matter of sooner or later.
This is the situation now. Any ship that can survive being shot does not need to continue southward and can just fish for people where it is. The main force of the fleet must continue to move forward and must not give up halfway.
Whether the previous losses can be recovered directly depends on this one-shot deal!
Whatever the Japanese fleet is afraid of, we will send it to you!
Although we have entered the missile age and the combat distance has reached beyond visual range, the navies of several major powers in the world all retain a considerable number of battleships.
Firstly, this thing has a strong anti-strike ability and is not easily destroyed. Secondly, it can also provide good anti-aircraft firepower after modification. Thirdly, it can also cover the landing of the Marines on the beach.
It's just that the main fleet of the Ming Navy has gathered in Jiexuan's hands, and is now stuck in the Red Sea south of the Sudan Canal, unable to move.
The Ottoman navy liked close combat, which was an act of heroism, and most importantly, the territories of the Ottoman Empire were all connected together and there were no overseas enclaves.
That's it
This means that offshore landing support is one of the main training projects of its navy. Basically, most of the battleships are retained. This can also save the cost of purchasing capital ships.
It was not easy to engage in close combat with the Japanese army. Soon the second batch of attacks from the enemy came suddenly, with the number of incoming missiles exceeding 1,200.
In order to fit into the belly bomb bay of the F-35, NS is naturally much smaller than the external AS-3 anti-ship missile, and its power and range are also reduced.
Whether this kind of anti-ship missile can succeed in a sneak attack mostly depends on the assault distance of the F-35.
If the F-35 is shot down before it reaches the distance to launch the NS, then the NS will be truly stillborn.
The F-35 is a true stealth fighter, and the detection distance of the shipborne radar will not exceed 200 kilometers.
Therefore, the Japanese F-35 can generally launch NS from a safe distance, unless...
The reason why Huang Ting released all carrier-based aircraft, as well as the aviation units of Crete, was to give the fleet an early warning.
Including the fighter planes sent by a certain master and a certain sultan, the total number of coalition fighter planes exceeded 2,000, which was more than the size of the incoming Japanese military aircraft group.
The performance of the F-35 is definitely better than most of the fighters on both sides, but the F-15J and F-2A are obviously holding back the former.
The coalition's "Typhoon", "Rafale", Su-35, and Su-30 cannot defeat the F-35, but they can still handle the F-15J and F-2A.
A certain master has figured out the mounting situation of the F-35. Each F-35 is only equipped with two AI-120 and two NS as standard.
In other words, there are only two air-to-air missiles. If they are used up, they will either turn around and run away, or they will have to fight with machine guns.
The long-range air-to-air missiles mounted on the fourth-generation aircraft alone are enough for the F-15J and F-2A to drink...
The same is true in actual combat. Many F-35s are discovered by the opponent before they can fly to the distance of launching NS.
Before carrying out the anti-ship mission, you must first conduct an air battle. If you win, you can continue to act as ordered.
The Japanese army also wanted to do this before, but unfortunately the coalition launched too many long-range cruise missiles.
This means that the coalition aircraft fleet can launch cruise missiles from seven to eight hundred kilometers, or even one thousand kilometers away.
It is difficult for Japanese fighter planes to intercept them because there are not enough numbers and the combat radius has reached its limit.
This is not something you can hit if you want to fight...
Even so, the Japanese fighter planes still achieved good results, shooting down more than 200 coalition fighter planes and more than 100 bombers.
But compared with the huge losses of our own fleet, this record was somewhat disproportionate, which was also the reason why Shiren was angry.
If the air force fleet cannot stop the incoming enemy fleet this time, then our own fleet will be annihilated again.
Shiren didn't want what happened in New Zealand to happen again, so he had no choice but to fight to the death.
The two attacks sank or severely damaged 7 coalition aircraft carriers, 4 amphibious assault ships, 4 battleships, 9 cruisers, 25 destroyers, 33 frigates, and 51 landing ships.
Huang Ting's fleet suffered unprecedented losses, but it could still continue southward. It was not possible to turn back due to heavy losses.
A certain master asked Huang Ting to command this fleet. His purpose was to kill the Japanese fleet in one go. If it was just a joke, anyone could be his replacement.
Another reason is that Huang Ting already knew that the Japanese fleet in Port Sudan had been severely damaged.
As the saying goes - When encountering each other on a narrow road, the brave will win!
Now the competition is about who is more disabled than who!
Although I am in a wheelchair, you are lying on a stretcher.
If you compare like this, I am better than you!
Huang Ting is going to drive the wheelchair and run over the guy lying on the stretcher to death today!
Is there some victory without force?
On the battlefield, as long as you can win, you can say whatever you want after the war!
If I lose, I'm afraid I won't even be qualified to live.
Got it!
The Ming Empire and even the Ming Navy are what they are today because they have been working hard to win!
All non-seriously damaged warships that can still move in the fleet, whether they are from the Ming Dynasty or the Ottomans, must move forward bravely!
The Ottomans had no objections to this. How could they report to His Majesty the Sultan when he went back in such disgrace?
Now that the Ming Navy has come to help, as the host, of course I cannot be afraid at critical moments.
In this situation, you can either kill the enemy or be killed by the enemy. You can only choose one of the two!
Maybe the Japanese army will attack a third time, but it doesn't matter anymore.
Huang Ting also has 15 aircraft carriers, 7 amphibious assault ships, 4 battleships, 10 cruisers, 64 destroyers, 73 frigates, and 103 landing ships.
Not a single submarine was lost, there were still 90 submarines at the time of departure, and the captain was able to go on a killing spree...
When the war has reached this point, there is no need to mobilize again temporarily, it is to fight to the death.
Reinforcements arrived soon. The Inca naval fleet was still three days away, but the Zheng army fleet had already entered the Mediterranean.
This time, at all costs, we must block the Japanese fleet in the Mediterranean Sea and feed them all to fish!
At this moment, the ships in Shiren's fleet that can still operate include 12 light aircraft carriers, 8 amphibious transport ships, 14 Aegis ships, 22 destroyers, 39 frigates, and 37 submarines.
The strength is still not to be underestimated, but compared with before the attack, the prestige has been lost.
After receiving reports of the loss of thousands of fighter planes, Shiren suddenly had a feeling that the situation was over...
It had only been a short time since I had set foot on the land of Egypt. How could I have ended up like this? ? ?
From this point of view, the unparalleled tyrant Zhu Cixi really did not intend to let him go!
