Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!

Before the torpedo crew entered the harbor, the British reconnaissance aircraft dropped three flares at an altitude of more than 100 meters, which immediately illuminated the entire port even brighter, which could be described as a tiny bit.

The torpedo aircraft group locked in the port more accurately and arranged in several teams to launch a formal attack.

During World War II, the torpedo speed can be done relatively quickly, at least much faster than the speed of warships, but at this speed, the aerial torpedo has a range of only 4-5km.

Moreover, in order to improve the hit rate, reduce the reaction time and avoidance distance of warships, torpedo aircraft often need to be thrown.

Therefore, it is crucial to choose an appropriate angle and bomb drop point.

Generally speaking, the torpedo opportunity chooses to drop bombs close to 1,000 meters, and the reaction time left for the warship is very short at this time.

An ideal bomb drop point, whether the warship is ruddering to the left or right, it is impossible to avoid the hit of torpedoes.

Of course, it is actually difficult to do this, so there is a safer way to make the torpedoes marshalling from the two sides of the side, so that the target can't escape.

However, it is also very dangerous for torpedo attack aircraft, because the torpedo attack aircraft is very slow and has a very low altitude before releasing the torpedo. This distance can be easily hit by small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns and large-caliber machine guns.

Therefore, the damage rate of torpedo bombers during World War II was amazing. Those who could serve as torpedo pilots were naturally elites and death-seekers in the army.

In short, whether it is the party that is deployed or the party that avoids the torpedo, it is a battle of courage and decision!

Only by staying calm and facing the threat of the enemy can you find a way to survive!

Plop! Plop!

The brave ones win when they meet on a narrow road. The British torpedo pilots who are determined to die all sacrificed their lives and advance rapidly in the face of the dense metal storm.

One man was desperate and was invincible. After paying the price of several torpedo planes being exploded again, the remaining 22 torpedo planes finally came to an end and successfully threw a deadly torpedo into the sea.

After the torpedo is released, one torpedo machine will start to quickly pull the head. When it reaches a certain height, it will turn the head at the fastest speed to start returning.

And at this moment, a torpedo was advancing rapidly in the sea, aiming directly at the enemy ships in the harbor.

"I'm damn!"

"Shet!"

"Switch the rudder quickly to avoid it!"

"It's over! It's over!"

The Italian naval officers and soldiers could only watch waves coming towards them quickly, but they had no way to stop everything in front of them.

When the torpedo is put into the water, there will be a period of time when it is lowered first and then climbed, so the bomb dropping distance should not be too close.

At this time, the torpedoes usually sail at depths below the waterline or below the waterline, and trigger the fuse located at the head of the torpedo by direct impact.

Because of this, the tracks of torpedoes are visible to the naked eye.

Therefore, after being attacked by torpedoes, the warship can yaw in the direction of the torpedo attack for emergency avoidance, so that it is possible to pass by the torpedo.

But unfortunately, the bomb drop points of these torpedoes in front of them are very close and traveling very fast, while the extremely bulky ship moves too slowly in comparison.

If you want to avoid these torpedoes through full rudder steering, the difficulty coefficient is not average.

The only thing they can imagine is that these damn torpedoes fail to hit the target, or that the fuse suddenly fails to work and turn into thunders that will not explode after hitting one by one.

This is not because these Italian naval officers and soldiers were delusional. In fact, there were cases of torpedoes off-targets and hitting targets but not exploding during World War II.

When torpedoes and torpedo aircraft were first invented during World War II, there was no essential difference except for a higher firing rate and a slightly longer range. It was amazing that it could make the tracks straight, so no one dared to say that torpedoes could accurately hit the target.

Moreover, after being put into the sea, the torpedo will have a deep sailing depth, and there is a process of slowly climbing. Sometimes, because it is too close to the bounce, the torpedo will not be hit.

However, at this time, the torpedo bomber appeared a simple aiming device, which could help bomb droppers easily aim at the target during relative movement.

This greatly improves the hit rate of aviation torpedoes, reduces operational difficulty, and no longer relying solely on pilot experience.

In addition, there are two main types of torpedoes in World War II: blasting fuze and magnetic fuze. However, both fuzes are not very stable at present and have a certain chance of failure.

Unlike torpedoes nowadays, they generally use a mix of trigger fuses and magnetic fuses, which can not only ensure that they explode when hitting the target, but also explode according to the target's most effective kill range.

The Italian naval ship pilots tried their best to turn the rudder and avoid it, while the rest of the navy could only pray to the sky, hoping that miracles would happen.

But miracles are miracles after all, not normal. The scenes that the Italian naval officers and soldiers imagine in their minds are not so easy to appear, after all, those are just low-probability events.

It quickly passed in just a few dozen seconds, and one torpedo after another hit one Italian warship after another.

Bang bang bang bang, a series of shocking explosions rang one after another.

1,2,3,4,5,…16,17,18!

Eighteen sounds!

Well, it’s awesome number to compete with the Eighteen Arhats.

In this wave of fast and fierce torpedo projections, 18 of the 22 torpedoes successfully hit, and 4 torpedoes did not explode, and the final hit rate was frozen at 82%.

A hit rate of 82%, which is already a very amazing data.

If the previous six torpedoes were successfully detonated by the frogman troops, the Italian naval fleet alone ate as many as 24 torpedoes.

If more than half of the torpedo planes had not been destroyed before, the Italian warships anchored at the port of Tobrook would have been wiped out.

But even so, the Italian naval fleet docked at the port of Tobrook was extremely severely destroyed.

The final statistics result was that 2 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 3 light cruisers, 4 destroyers were sunk, and another battleship, 2 heavy cruisers, and more than ten other ships suffered heavy damage!

Although the Italian Navy currently has 3 battleships, 12 light and heavy cruisers, and hundreds of other types of ships, it still occupies an advantageous position compared to the three battleships, 2 aircraft carriers, 22 destroyers and 12 submarines of the British Mediterranean Fleet.

But it is obvious that this battle greatly damaged the Italian fleet and greatly reversed the balance of power between the enemy and our naval forces in the Mediterranean, at least not as absolute as before.

At the same time, Allied pilots also hit rabbits and attacked a large number of ground military targets such as anti-aircraft guns, radar stations, and oil depots, achieving very good bombing effects.

"I, yes!"

"Nice!"

“Beautiful job!”

Seeing the burning enemy ships and the flames soaring into the sky on the shore further away, the Allied pilots screamed in excitement.

"Hurry! Everyone returns quickly!"

"Dog! Dog! Dog!"

After successfully completing the bombing mission, the Allied Fighter Group did not dare to stay in the port too much, because no one knew whether the German Fighter Group would come back slanted and intercept it on the sea.
Chapter completed!