The Argentines' revenge was fierce. When their cruiser General Belgrano was sunk, they immediately deployed them. On the second day, they began to dispatch a large number of fighters!
In the 1980s, this most dazzling sea-air battle is about to begin!
This is an era where the old and the new alternate. Various advanced guided weapons have not yet been put into use on a large scale. The most common method is still to use bombs to attack.
It is not easy to use ordinary bombs to attack the British fleet. For example, the first step is to be able to fly over.
On a land-based airport, a fighter plane that takes off needs to go through the air to refuel, but it doesn’t need to be at sea.
The Argentine Navy wants to preserve its strength. Therefore, their May 25th aircraft carrier did not intend to go out for a cruise. However, it still boldly left its own coastline, 100 nautical miles away from the coastline, in the heavy convoy fleet. In, it began to fight back!
This aircraft carrier is also the pride of the Argentine Navy. It was named this date because it is the National Day of Argentina. Ironically, this aircraft carrier was actually built by Britain.
In that precarious era, the British shipbuilding industry developed in great strides. The giant-class aircraft carrier was built in December 1942, launched on December 30, 1943, and formally joined the British Navy on January 17, 1945.
But after that, Germany surrendered, and the British navy began to shrink significantly, and the aircraft carrier was eliminated.
In April 1948, the Dutch Navy purchased the aircraft carrier and delivered it for use in May of the same year. After 20 years of use, the Netherlands resold it to Argentina in October 1968.
After many modifications, this aircraft mainly uses the A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft, the super banner of later generations, they have not had time to take over.
Not only this aircraft carrier, but also the Type 42 destroyer can be seen in the sequence of the Argentine Navy.
Yes, the main warships of the British Navy can be seen in the Argentine Navy, which is even more ironic.
For the British, there is nothing that they dare not sell. Right after World War II, they sold turbojet engines to the Soviets, and their eyes were all money.
The purchase of the Type 42 destroyer by the Argentine Navy can be traced back to the Type 3009 frigate of Vickers. The design was proposed in the mid-1960s and supported by the British Admiralty. The Argentine Navy also has a keen interest in it.
In May 1968, the Argentine Navy faced an international bid for the construction of two sea javelin destroyers. In addition to requiring the installation of the sea javelin, the bidding document contains a large number of detailed regulations.
After repeated inspections, on May 18, 1970, Argentina signed a contract with Vickers to build two Type 42 ships, one at the Barrow-in Furness shipyard in Vickers and the other at the AFNE naval shipyard in Rio Santiago, Argentina. put up. Vickers provided the components for the second ship, and the British Admiralty was responsible for the training of the Argentine Navy's crew. The total cost is 30 million pounds. This is the first time that Britain has sold new frigate and above warships to foreign countries after World War II.
The British Empire has no money, not only to sell to Argentina, but also to China for many times, but China has no money to buy it.
The first ARA Type 42 ship "Hercules" started on June 16, 1971, launched on October 24, 1972, delivered on May 10, 1976, and entered service on July 12. However, it took more than a year of testing in the UK and arrived in Argentina on August 20, 1977.
The second ship "Holy Trinity" started on October 11, 1971 and launched on November 9, 1974. Unfortunately, on August 22, 1975, it was attacked by a left-wing terrorist bomb during the shelter, causing the ship to sink. This was delayed until the beginning of 1981 before being delivered and commissioned in July. Arrived in the UK for testing on April 24, 1981. Then he stayed in England until he suddenly returned to China in early 1982.
But now, this second ship has not been built yet, but the first one is already in the Argentine Navy formation and has become the main force of their air defense.
On May 25th, the boiler of the aircraft carrier was burning in the prosperous land, black smoke continued to emerge, and the warship was working hard to accelerate to the maximum speed of 25 knots. Then, steam filled the deck, and A-4s attacked. Take off from the deck.
Heaven is beautiful today.
Ordinarily, a general military ship must be able to run to a speed of 30 knots, but the carrier’s foundation is too weak and can only run to 25 knots. In this case, it cannot meet the catapult take-off of the carrier-based aircraft and must rely on the Atlantic The sea breeze above will do.
Fortunately, in the waters of Argentina, the west wind has always been fierce. In the deck wind, fighter planes took off to attack the British navy!
At the same time, at the land airport in the rear, the air force also took off fighter planes, preparing to attack the British fleet. Compared with the navy's aircraft, because they took off from the rear, they had to carry out an aerial refueling first.
Their aerial tanker is already waiting in the scheduled airspace.
A-4 Skyhawk, Dagger fighter, Canberra bomber and Phantom fighter, the huge fleet is heading for the British fleet!
Thanks to the E-2 early warning aircraft, the Argentine fleet was discovered hundreds of kilometers away, and they immediately warned to the rear.
Take off, take off! After receiving the warning, the British fleet was immediately surprised. It was obvious that they had reached the most dangerous time!
The entire fleet is accelerating. On the Royal Ark, steam is permeating, and a Tomcat fighter jet is ejected into the air. At this time, the bow catapult and the catapult on the angled deck are almost simultaneously ejected. The fighter plane took off.
After more than a dozen of them were ejected, the speed of the aircraft carrier dropped, and they were forced to stop the ejection and wait for the boiler to provide more energy.
On its side, the Invincible number lined up in another scene.
Invincible does not have a catapult, and it does not have a boiler. It uses four Olympus TM3B gas turbines, so don’t even think about using a catapult. There is no additional boiler to provide steam.
Now, it only needs to speed up to full speed.
On the deck, the tail of the Tomcat fighter jets hot flames, soaring into the air from the deck, and when it was on the flying deck in front, it jumped off and almost fell down, which looked shocking.
Although the flying speed is slow, the aircraft carrier does not slow down, and the fighters are flying all the time. Therefore, there are advantages to jumping and launching.
But in this way, the two aircraft carriers opened a distance. The entire formation is getting bigger and bigger.
After taking off from the deck, the Tomcat fighters, guided by the early warning aircraft, rushed towards the distant target. They wanted to establish the first interception line at a distance of 200 nautical miles outside the aircraft carrier. Try to keep the opponent away from your own fleet.
The entire British naval formation has entered an air defense combat mode. (End of this chapter)