Chapter 1466： Shipborne early warning aircraft (1/2)
It's completely careless, not because of their lack of strength, but because of tactical problems. For the proud naval aviation forces of the island nation, they would actually make such a mistake!
Originally intended to ambush the opponent, but was ambushed by the opponent. This is simply unacceptable. Now, the American aircraft carrier formation is approaching Midway Island, wanting to retake Midway Island? No doors!
Standing on the Yamato, Pheasant Fifty-Six will not be willing to fail. With his back on Midway Island, he can continue to fight the Americans with his main fleet! He also has two **** aircraft carriers, and the base on the island can also take off fighter planes. He has definitely not failed!
The Pacific Ocean is full of gunpowder.
”The key to this battle is that the Americans first discovered the main force of the island fleet and supervised it at any time.” When the news came back to Wolf's Den, Cyric and others were also analyzing the gains and losses of this battle.
”This shows that the Americans have mastered the technology of deploying radars to large reconnaissance aircraft.” Although Cyric didn't see it with his own eyes, he could easily analyze it by looking at the battle.
The key is that the Americans first discovered the island nation’s aircraft carrier formation, especially throughout the night. The Americans have been monitoring the island nation’s formation, but the islanders were not prepared for it. Therefore, after dawn, the island nation was still searching for traces of the US fleet. At that time, the American attack had already begun.
What kind of technology can be achieved?
The Americans must have put the radar on the plane to monitor the sea. At night, the reconnaissance plane will not reveal its whereabouts, but it can firmly grasp the movements of the island fleet.
With Cyric's crossing, World War II and history began to differentiate and drift away. Many technologies, thanks to Cyric's stimulation, were realized ahead of schedule.
Even in history, after the Pearl Harbor incident, in order to solve the problem that ground and naval radars were difficult to detect low-altitude intrusion targets, the United States began to install high-power radars on carrier aircraft to enable them to detect low-altitude at longer distances. Aircraft and surface ships, and timely radio transmission of radar information to the ship.
After several years of hard work, in the spring of 1944, engineers finally installed the AN/APS-20 radar (S-band) developed by General Electric on Grumman’s TBM-3W ”Avenger” carrier torpedo.
At the same time, the radar device and its layout on the TBM-3W torpedo aircraft were modified: all weapons were disassembled, and a fairing equipped with a radar antenna was installed under the middle of the fuselage. The aircraft became a big belly; in order to maintain a stable heading In this way, an auxiliary vertical surface is installed on the horizontal stabilizer of the standard TBM-3W carrier aircraft, so that the empennage becomes a three-vertical tail layout.
After repeated experiments, this aircraft can find aircraft flying at a low altitude of 150m at a distance of 100 to 120km under calm sea conditions, and ships on the sea at a distance of 320km.
This distance is enough to track the opponent's surface formation firmly to the degree of absolute safety. If not surprisingly, the Americans must have made this thing out.
Although the clutter cannot be filtered out due to some technical problems, when the sea conditions are bad, the airborne radar cannot detect the target normally due to the strong clutter reflected from the sea surface. But most of the time the Pacific is calm and there is no problem at all.
As the world's first carrier-based early warning aircraft, TBM-3W has the basic characteristics of an early warning aircraft: carrier aircraft, high-power search radar and radar intelligence transmission communication link.