Chapter 1478: 1479 Divine Light
Chapter 14781479 Divine Light
That's right, a speedboat attack seems to be a good idea.
And they don’t have to use speedboats full of explosives to carry out suicide attacks like the Mirage, because their technology has indeed improved, and they have many more trump cards than the Mirage at the time.
First of all, Mirage did not have any so-called torpedo weapons back then. Nowadays, all countries in the world have their own torpedoes. It seems that speedboats are equipped with torpedoes and turned into torpedo speedboats.
At that time, hundreds of torpedo boats can launch torpedoes and attack from a distance of seven or eight kilometers. This will obviously have a higher success rate than rushing up and making a desperate collision.
By extension, would it be more efficient and more likely to succeed to fill some jets with explosives and allow jet fighter pilots to carry out a large number of suicide attacks from the beginning?
As long as the Tang Empire's fleet suffers losses, will the cross-sea landing fail? As long as the Tang State's attack is prevented, the Tang State will definitely become more cautious in the future, and it is very likely that the Tang State will give up the idea of invading the Eastern Continent without worrying about losses.
In short...the plan works!
At least it is more exciting than building so-called destroyers and cruisers.
"Torpedo speedboats, as well as large torpedo destroyers, torpedo attack aircraft... and even jet fighters... We are producing more decisive weapons, Your Majesty... there is still hope." The prime minister tried to comfort the somewhat irritable Dorn with slim hope. A generation.
As the original chief of staff of the main navy fleet, Mike Ravel is still somewhat capable. After repeated thinking, he also believed that similar small ship plans were more promising than other plans in the past.
At least, if the Tang army wanted to sink 100 speedboats, the difficulty would be completely different from that of sinking 578 destroyers. Creating some trouble for the Tang army's landing is actually the only thing the Dornish navy can do now.
"I don't agree with letting pilots fly jets to carry out suicide strikes. I think there is no point in doing so. However, I very much support the torpedo boat plan." The former chief of staff of the main fleet took over the topic and advised Dorn I Admonition: "Instead of wasting precious pilots, it is better to develop our own missiles."
With the efforts of many technicians, and inspired by certain technological spillovers from the Tang Empire, many countries on the Eastern Continent are developing their own missiles.
After all, the Tang Empire had exported Scud missiles to them before, and some things like gyroscopes and steering gears were no longer a secret to these countries.
Dorne also has research in this area. This is one of Dorne's top secrets, code-named "Divine Light". King Dorn I hoped to use this secret weapon to give the people of Tang a small surprise.
Unfortunately, similar research and development did not go smoothly. Under electromagnetic interference, radio-guided gadgets such as Shenguang missiles cannot be used at all. As long as it is subject to electromagnetic interference after launch, it will definitely fall like a headless fly, without exception.
Dorn’s technical staff could not think of using equipment such as radar to correct missile trajectories, so similar efforts came to a standstill.
After all, Dorne's radars are not small enough to fit into the front end of a missile. Even if there were similar radars, Dorne would not be able to link them with the steering gear for a while.
Recently, there has been some breakthrough in this research. Within a huge missile, Dorn has achieved autonomous control of the missile.
However, most of the internal space of this missile is reserved for the huge radar and corresponding control devices. Its range is limited, its power is average, and its size is seriously excessive. The final compromise was that Dorne would develop a huge vehicle specifically to launch this divine light missile.
What the Navy wants to do is to make use of those newly launched small destroyers without much weapons and equipment: their tonnage is large enough and there is a lot of space, so they can be converted into guided missile destroyers.
The Air Force also came up with its own "platform". They expanded the largest bomber they could find and created a monster with 6 propeller engines.
●This super giant bomber is called "Big Mountain" by Dorne, which seems very appropriate. However, this aircraft is not a qualified bomber, and it is thought that it has almost no way to mount other types of bombs.
The Shenguang missile is really too big to be mounted on the belly of a bomber: the landing gear is not long enough and the ground clearance is not large enough.
So this bomber was specially designed for the Shenguang missile. The bomb bay in the belly was recessed and could not carry other bombs at all.
In fact, Dorn did not expect it to be used as a strategic bomber: under the premise of fighting against the Tang Dynasty, a heavy bomber that could not fly to the Tang Dynasty's mainland had no meaning at all.
"If you don't know what tactics will work, you can't give up on any tactic! So training new pilots, selecting warriors among them, and letting them fly planes to ram Tang ships is also a plan that must be carried out!" Dorn I said indifferently, ignoring Mike Ravel who was eager to give him a few more words of advice.
"We hope that our preparations can severely damage the Tang Navy and allow the arrogant Tang people to return to the negotiating table and give up the crazy idea of continuing to attack the countries in the Eastern Continent." The prime minister also supported the emperor even more, because in his view, anything that could force Tang to make peace All methods should be tried.
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“Hit!” The referee’s voice came from the earphones. Wang Hai knew that the Thunderbolt infrared guided combat missile he had just “launched” had killed the target.
The two aircraft had been locking each other before, and Ying Long showed amazing maneuverability in the close combat. In the end, Wang Hai was superior in skills and retained the dignity of the veteran pilot. The new students were defeated once again, but they did get better and better.
Wang Hai, who shot down the "enemy plane", breathed a sigh of relief and then leveled his plane. The two Yinglong fighter jets that were still fighting fiercely just now merged with the Yinglong that was shot down before, and returned to the exercise base together.
All pilots participating in the confrontation exercise will gather there and discuss the gains and losses in the previous simulated air battles. Everyone must summarize their own mistakes and then talk about the advantages of others, then write a report and submit it to the Air Force staff for correction.
There is no way. Since the enemy cannot provide more data for the air force to study, they can only create more data themselves to build a data database for new aircraft.
(End of this chapter)