AWB Chapter 454 Matsushita Kawaichi, who came to our doorstep
Chapter 454 Matsushita Kawaichi, who came to our doorstep
"Little Blue, what happened?"
Bai Luo, who had just entered the Silly Bear's combat information hall, immediately asked the question.
As soon as Bai Luo finished speaking, Xiao Lan's emotionless electronic voice rang out in the empty hall of the information warfare center.
"Commander, we have detected 14 fighter jets 25 nautical miles northeast of the USS Silly Bear, flying at high speed toward our direction."
It is expected to arrive over the area where the Silly Bear is located within 15 minutes.
There is a 90% chance that it was a Japanese fighter jet.
Commander, shall we initiate a lock-on attack now?
After hearing Xiao Lan's emotionless electronic voice, Bai Luo couldn't help but ask with some confusion.
"Little Blue, how did you determine that it was a Japanese fighter jet and not a Russian or any other country?"
"Commander, Xiao Lan will compile and analyze the data based on the geographical location of the area and the battles that have occurred before and after it."
Based on the direction of the enemy aircraft's flight and the possible response plans that Japan might take after we bombed the Japanese aircraft carrier, Xiao Lan judged that these 14 fighter jets belonged to Japan.
And the target is very likely us.
After hearing the assessment from the AI system Xiao Lan, Bai Luo nodded in agreement.
I think Xiao Lan's analysis makes a lot of sense.
After all, countries rarely send out fighter jets at night during this time of year.
Unless there is an emergency or a special mission is required.
Otherwise, they would basically not send fighter jets out at night.
Thinking of this, Bai Luo asked with some curiosity.
"Little Blue, why did you only issue a warning when the Japanese fighter jets were 25 nautical miles away? I remember the active radar of the Silly Bear has a range of 130 nautical miles, right?" (One nautical mile is roughly two kilometers.)
"Report, Commander, the radar on the Silly Bear has two operating modes."
When activated, it can retrieve all ships within 130 nautical miles and aircraft flying below 5000 meters above the area's altitude.
However, the credit consumption is huge. Passive radar has a monitoring range of 25 nautical miles and the credit consumption is smaller for aircraft flying below 1000 meters in the area.
When the active radar is activated, it will consume a large number of points.
10,000 points per hour.
Commander, would you like to activate the active radar now?
"It won't turn on, it won't turn on. It can't be turned on."
Upon hearing this, Bai Luo immediately shook his head frantically in refusal, and then continued to ask.
"Little Blue, what about this passive radar..."
Although Bai Luo didn't continue speaking, as a mature intelligent system, Xiao Lan accurately understood Bai Luo's meaning.
"Reporting to the commander, the passive early warning radar earns 500 points per hour."
Upon hearing this, Bai Luo's lips twitched uncontrollably. Now he understood why the system required him to reach 50 points before he could use it.
This thing is useful, but it costs money everywhere!
Bai Luo couldn't help but glance at the points balance on the Silly Bear account.
Well, I now have 457000 points left out of the original 50.
He hasn't done anything yet.
A total of 8 shots were fired.
Bai Luo spent 4 points. As for the remaining 3000 points, he figured they were most likely for fuel costs and the usage fees for the active and early warning radars.
At the same time, he secretly vowed to himself that he would definitely earn more points after arriving in the Japanese capital.
Otherwise, he wouldn't dare use the Silly Bear account much anymore. It's powerful, but it also consumes points rapidly.
While Bai Luo was still plotting in his mind how to eliminate more Japanese soldiers after landing on the island...
The electronic voice of Xiao Lan, the intelligent system of the Silly Bear, rang out again in the combat information hall.
"Commander, the Japanese fighter jets are 20 nautical miles away from us. Should we launch an attack now?"
Bai Luo's thoughts were interrupted by Xiao Lan, and he looked up at the large screen in the combat information center.
At this moment, 14 red dots are approaching the direction of the Silly Bear at an extremely fast speed.
At this speed, it should take no more than 10 minutes to spot the Silly Bear.
However, Bai Luo did not order an immediate attack; he wanted to test the Bear's own close-combat defenses.
It's important to understand that in modern naval air combat, fighter jets are basically engaged in close-quarters combat, dropping bombs at close range.
Moreover, hundreds or even thousands of planes would come down at once to attack you. If Bai Luo used all of them to fight them off with anti-aircraft missiles...
He probably ran out of points before he even finished shooting the planes.
Thinking of this, Bai Luo immediately gave the order.
"Don't attack for now. Let them come over and take them out with close-in weapon systems."
"Yes, Commander."
Xiao Lan did not hesitate at all after hearing Bai Luo's order.
He responded immediately.
At the same time, the USS Silly Bear began to slowly decelerate, and the muzzles of the two close-in weapon systems at the front of the bridge and at the stern moved rapidly.
It was aimed directly at the direction of the Japanese plane.
We will open fire as soon as the Japanese planes enter our attack range.
Meanwhile, in the night sky less than 20 nautical miles away from the Silly Bear.
Matsushita Kazuo was also extremely anxious.
Because the eight pillars of smoke in front of him had been blown almost completely obscured by the cold sea breeze.
It turned out that less than 10 minutes after he took off, the Imperial pilots who had spread out to search quickly discovered the eight strange columnar plumes of smoke.
Upon receiving the report, Kazuo Matsushita immediately rushed over and, after seeing the eight plumes of smoke, concluded that they were caused by artillery shells fired by the enemy.
He then directly ordered all Imperial fighters to fly at top speed and pursue the smoke column.
They have been flying for more than 10 minutes now, but they still haven't spotted any ships on the sea below.
This made Kazuo Matsushita both anxious and angry.
At the same time, he was secretly alarmed by the range of the missiles that attacked his aircraft carrier.
This distance is almost 100 kilometers.
Their longest-range naval guns have a range of less than 50 kilometers, not to mention accuracy.
However, this only strengthened Kazuo Matsushita's resolve to find the ship.
The unknown enemy that attacked his aircraft carrier posed a huge threat to the Imperial Navy's aircraft carriers. Even if they couldn't be eliminated now, he needed to find out who did it.
This way, we can at least give an explanation to headquarters.
Thinking of this, he immediately gave an order to the Japanese planes following behind him via radio.
"Everyone, keep your direction unchanged and descend to a height of 100 meters above the sea surface."
"You must find that warship that bombed the naval port!"
"Hi!"
Upon hearing the order over the radio, all the Japanese pilots responded in unison.
Then we began to descend.
What Kazuo Matsushita didn't know was that as their altitude decreased...
Under Little Blue's control, the Silly Bear also spun sideways.
The barrel angles of the two close-in weapon systems also began to gradually decrease.
It locked onto the direction of Kazuo Matsushita's fighter plane.
At this point, the two sides were less than 10 nautical miles apart.
Matsushita Kazuo, eager for revenge, could not have foreseen the terrifying firepower he would face five minutes later.