Romanian Eagle

On October 1, after a two-day voyage, the fleet arrived off the coast of Matrouh, Egypt. It is 140 kilometers away from Matrouh and 200 kilometers away from the target Alexandria, which happens to be not yet on the waterway, and naturally becomes the preferred location for the Romanian fleet.

In fact, at 1:00 in the morning, the fleet had already arrived here. It's just that, in order to wait for the best time to attack, he has been wandering here.

Although the fleet is wandering, the five aircraft carriers that are the core are brightly lit but extremely busy. The ground crew is busy loading various ammunition and torpedoes on deck, ready for the upcoming flight.

"There are still four aviation torpedoes missing here. Hurry up, the plane will be ready to take off in an hour. What about the tanker? I see a tanker missing."

Already, the ground staff statisticians are calling out for the lack of preparations, which naturally attracted several ground staff to immediately bring professional vehicles to pull.

In the restaurant, the pilots were sitting together and enjoying the delicious food before the expedition. Major General Fernandez, who is mainly responsible for planning the air strike plan, is condoling to the pilots who are about to go out in the restaurant.

From time to time, he chats with the pilot and pats each other on the shoulder to show encouragement. And the pilot who talked to him saw the general flower on the epaulet, and naturally it was a flattered expression.

When the hour hand pointed to four o'clock, all the pilots stopped their movements, and they immediately gathered on the deck, ready to fly their beloved aircraft and launch an attack on the enemy. At this time, the five aircraft carriers also drove their speed to the maximum to help the plane take off smoothly.

The three Bormiku-class large fleet aircraft carriers, which are the absolute core of the air raid, are the slowest torpedo planes in the first wave. This is the second torpedo machine developed by Romania, numbered H47 (the first H45 was not ideal and was abandoned directly).

The main data is that the wingspan is 15.1 meters (folded 11.09 meters), the length of the aircraft is 10.51 meters, the height of the aircraft is 4.52 meters, the empty weight is 2900kg, and the maximum load is 5100kg. Powered by a 1,400-horsepower air-cooled engine, the maximum speed is 415 kilometers per hour. The combat radius is 476 kilometers. (Maximum range 1900 kilometers) Equipped with two 12.7mm self-defense machine guns, 900kg aviation torpedoes or 900kg aviation bombs. Crew: Three (pilot, bombardier, self-defense machine gunner).

So with the help of the ground crew, the first batch of torpedo planes were already on deck ready for takeoff. For the torpedo aircraft take-off, it is the most tense moment for the ground crew, because the aviation torpedo carried by the torpedo aircraft is less than half a meter high from the deck, especially if there is an accident during take-off, it will be very dangerous. Therefore, when choosing a torpedo driver, the stable type will be selected.

I saw that under the attention of the ground staff, the torpedo machine jumped up with full horsepower,

lifted off. This caused a cheer from the deck, and the other torpedo planes followed, one after another flying off the deck.

While the three Bormicu-class carriers were releasing torpedo planes, the two escort carriers were also flying fighter jets. It's just that the fighter it is flying is not like the RH20T carrier aircraft that Romania changed from the Peregrine Falcon RF20 fighter. The main reason is that this fighter is a high-altitude fighter. Even if the air-cooled engine is replaced, its low-altitude performance will drop too much and cannot be compared with this new fighter.

If anyone who knows this fighter sees it, they will blurt out how it is Zero.

That's right, this is the Zero fighter. After the reconciliation between Luo and Ri, in order to ease the relationship between the two parties and at the same time increase the design capability of its own carrier-based aircraft, Romania specially developed its own newly developed 1200-horsepower air-cooled engine, and wanted to jointly develop one. carrier aircraft.

In the face of Romania's engine, Japan's saliva will flow out. Besides, the new fighter jets requested by the Navy are also being developed, so it is natural to agree to it. Thanks to the addition of Romanian technicians, the research and development work of Jiro Horetsu's team has been accelerated, and it has also brought European design concepts for reference.

The first prototype was developed in September 1938, using the latest Romanian air-cooled engine prototype, the performance of the test flight far exceeded the previous imagination, and the maximum speed reached 513 kilometers per hour. And because the power is sufficient, not only does it not need to punch holes, but it can also provide some armor protection for it.

In the end, this new Zero has been modified a lot, with a length of 9.37 meters, a wingspan of 12.2 meters, and a height of 3.6 meters. Empty weight: 1890 kg, maximum take-off weight: 2940 kg, maximum flight speed of 565 km. Maximum range: 3,100 kilometers (with auxiliary fuel tanks), 2,100 kilometers (internal fuel). Equipped with two 20mm cannons, 12.7mm machine guns (Romanian version), and two 30kg or 60kg bombs.

This new fighter is much stronger than the current Romanian RH20T carrier-based aircraft, so after the successful finalization in May, more than 200 aircraft were urgently produced. It's just that the current model is the HF201 fighter, and only about 100 can fly on the ship, so the priority is to equip the escort aircraft carrier. After the pilots are familiar with the carrier-based aircraft, the fighters on the aircraft carrier will all be dominated by this HF201 fighter.

Now the HF201 fighter will provide protection for the attacking torpedo aircraft. Using their taillights as a guide in the night sky, they formed a formation and flew to Alexandria in the southeast.

After releasing the attacking torpedo plane, the ground crew immediately pushed the dive bomber up. The Navy's carrier-based dive bomber is an improvement from the Air Force's RU18 dive bomber, with shortened wings and a foldable design, enhanced landing gear, and a tail hook.

This naval version of the RU18 dive bomber has a maximum speed of 420 kilometers per hour and a combat radius of 645 kilometers. It can carry two 500KG aerial bombs or one 1000KG bomb.

After hanging bombs for the dive bombers, the RU18T dive bombers also took off from the aircraft carrier one by one, and then it was the turn of the RH20T fighters.

And Midraphael and Fernandez watched the whole process of the carrier-based aircraft taking off, watching batches of fighter jets fly out of the aircraft carrier one by one. After all the planes were released, the two looked at each other. Now that all means have been used, it is only possible to see the strength of the pilots.

But speaking of Romanian carrier-based aircraft pilots, they are definitely first-class. Don't look at the fact that the Navy's carrier-based aircraft formation has been established only a few years ago, but the shortest flying time has reached eight years, and many of them have more than ten years of driving experience. Because Eder has spoken, the carrier-based aircraft pilots can be selected from the whole army, so these are the elites of Romania.

Of course, the navy also knows the proportions, it is impossible to take away all the good seedlings of the air force and the army air force, and the main selection is the personnel below the top elite. However, the quality of the selected pilots still ranks first in China. No way, the whole is better naturally than a single spike.

The fighters released this time include 94 HF201 fighters (Zero Romanian version), 114 H47 torpedoes, 78 RU18T dive bombers and 36 RH20T fighters.

This can be described as a free-for-all without success. You must know that the total number of carrier-based aircraft in the Romanian aircraft carrier formation is only about 370, and this time, 322 aircraft were released at one time, showing the meaning of breaking the boat and sinking the boat.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with Rear Admiral Fernandez, the commander of the aircraft carrier. He believes that since it is a sneak attack, the maximum combat power should be used, because the enemy lacks defenses in a wave of surprise attacks, and the response is the slowest, which can give the greatest results.

Therefore, the raid fighters, which formed a huge formation, were flying towards Alexandria under the leadership of the pilot aircraft. And Romania prepared more than this for this smooth air raid.

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