Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

"What do they want to do?!"

On the ground anti-aircraft position at the Newport News Shipyard, the US anti-aircraft gunners stared dumbfoundedly at the huge fleet of aircraft hovering in the sky around the Newport News Shipyard. It looked like there were at least seven or eight hundred aircraft! It's not that they don't want to fire, but these aircraft groups are thirty kilometers away from them. Even if they fire, it will only be a waste of shells and cannot damage them at all. They could only look around nervously, fearing that a German bomber would come over and drop bombs on their heads if they were not careful.

"Have all the workers entered the air-raid shelter?" Major General Torres, commander of the air defense force, asked. Shipyards are not like factories on land. When a ship is launched, only the overall structure of the ship is completed. There is still a lot of follow-up work to be completed. How can it be said that it is dispersed?

Since the 150MM anti-aircraft guns were deployed here, German bombers have never come here again, but today I don’t know why I’m crazy, such a large group came all of a sudden! It's terrifying to look at.

"Yes, they have all entered the air raid shelter. What do these German bombers want to do? Do they want to drop bombs 30 kilometers away? Is it a gliding bomb?" Gliding bombs are not a secret. Someone has proposed the concept as early as World War I. What matters is its guidance system. "Commander, do you want to release smoke?" At this time, there were several battleships and aircraft carriers parked in the port, three of which were newly completed ships. If they were hit by German bombs, the losses would be huge; the higher-ups would blame them. They can't afford it either.

Major General Torres shook his head. "If we release smoke, our gunner's sight will be disturbed. Maybe they are waiting for us to release smoke." With such a large fleet, there is no need to specifically search for targets. A carpet bombing can blow the place into ruins. "If it's a glide bomb, it won't fly too fast, and we can shoot it down."

At this moment, the adjutant who had been observing the distant fleet with a telescope exclaimed. "They dropped a bomb! What a big bomb! It must have exceeded 1 ton!"

The bombs dropped by the German army were not ordinary aerial bombs, but specially made glide bombs. The tail is equipped with a rocket thruster. Although it is only a small section, it is enough to propel the gliding bomb to a speed of more than 700 kilometers per hour. At this speed, and its size is much smaller than that of ordinary fighter jets, the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground It's hard to shoot it down.

There are also several pairs of wings on the missile body, which can be used to change the course.

The front end of the warhead is equipped with a "TV guidance system". This is not an overly advanced technology. Several major countries have studied this during World War II. The principle is very simple. Take the TV-guided missiles of later generations as an example. There is a round transparent glass at the front end of the missile. A miniature camera is installed inside. After the missile is launched, the operator can see what the missile sees on the screen and use the joystick to control the missile to accurately hit the target. Unlike other missiles that do not require control, TV-guided missiles are more like operating a drone.

This time, each bomber was equipped with an additional missile operator. They were facing a TV screen and carefully controlled the flight of these bombs.

Theoretically speaking, television guidance should not have appeared much later than television. In principle, the advanced TV-guided weapons of later generations are not much different from those during World War II. If there is one, it is that the image has changed from black and white to color.

It’s just that this guidance system has too many limitations. For example, it can only be used during the day. If it cannot be seen at night, there is no way to guide and control it; the control distance is limited, and it cannot conduct beyond-visual-range strikes, etc.

Fortunately, it was sunny and clear in Newport News at the moment. Although there were many snowflakes (radio transmission signals) on the TV screen, the operators could still see their targets clearly.

Seeing those gliding bombs heading straight for the port, Major General Torres' eyes widened suddenly. "Quick, the anti-aircraft guns fire immediately and shoot them down!"

Anti-aircraft guns of various calibers on the ground continued to fire shells into the air. Clouds of black and silver-gray smoke exploded in the air, and the scattered shrapnel formed a barrage.

Suddenly, a flying bomb that was about to dive was knocked into the air and exploded, turning into a ball of fire and falling to the ground from the sky.

Major General Torres's face did not relax at all, because it looked like there were at least 100 flying bombs launched by the German army!

"Tsk, these guys have quite a lot of firepower." On a bomber, the operator looked at the black smoke that almost filled the entire screen and muttered, but he still locked onto his target tightly. "Baby, don't move!" His target is the battleship "Indiana", which is the No. 2 ship of the "South Dakota" class battleship. This cutting-edge warship, which had been in service for just over half a year, became the first victim.

boom!

The gliding bombs swooped down from high altitude and slammed into the B turret of the battleship "Indiana". The thickness of the armor on the top of the turret of the "South Dakota" class battleship is 184mm, but at this moment it is as fragile as a piece of paper and can be easily torn into pieces.

The glide bomb stumbled all the way into the propellant magazine.

Although it is currently an "existence fleet," the battleship's ammunition depot is still fully loaded. So, with an earth-shattering noise, the entire battleship was blown into two pieces from the B turret as the dividing line!

"Oh God!" Major General Torres, who witnessed this tragedy with his own eyes, almost fainted.

But this is just the beginning.

Another gliding bomb that followed was originally intended to hit the battleship "Indiana", but it didn't expect that it would be blown into two pieces with just one. The operator quickly shook the joystick and let the gliding bomb hit the battleship. A frigate not far away. The frigate, which was not large in tonnage, was also blown into two pieces.

The third glide bomb was aimed at the Essex-class aircraft carrier "Essex". The 24-meter-long flight deck could not be more eye-catching. The bomb hit steadily in the center of the deck.

The main deck armor of the Essex-class aircraft carrier is 38 mm thick, and the hangar deck armor is 76 mm thick. The total is only 114 mm, which is much thinner than the turret top armor of the "South Dakota" class battleship. The terrible kinetic energy caused the bomb to penetrate all the way into the cabin near the bottom of the ship before exploding with a bang, blowing most of the "Essex" to pieces and setting many miscellaneous things on fire. The fire began to burn raging.

Then came the Essex-class aircraft carrier No. 2 ship "Yorktown", No. 3 ship "Dreadnought", No. 4 ship "Bumblebee", etc. The Germans launched a total of 100 TV-guided armor-piercing high-explosive missiles. Of the bombs, only a dozen or so were shot down by US ground anti-aircraft guns. The remaining gliding bombs destroyed all the large warships parked in the port, and even many cruisers and frigates of all levels were sunk.