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Post by colprice on Nov 8, 2023 7:50:30 GMT -6
South east asia
Local time 12:20
Dusk in 5 hours 45 minutes.
Launching a strike from CV to target about 24 miles away.
Warning that the strike will land at night causing high risk of losses.
It's 1949, aircraft are > 200mph so where are they going?
Colin
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Post by oldpop2000 on Nov 8, 2023 9:41:23 GMT -6
South east asia Local time 12:20 Dusk in 5 hours 45 minutes. Launching a strike from CV to target about 24 miles away. Warning that the strike will land at night causing high risk of losses. It's 1949, aircraft are > 200mph so where are they going? Colin Well, let's see.
1. It will take about one hour to launch the strikeand for it to join up and fly to the target.
2. It will take at least one hour to recover the strike provided there are no damaged aircraft. This could slow the process.
3. A torpedo bomber fully loaded will have a cruising speed of about 150 MPH. It will take probably at least one hour to coordinate the strike, if they can find the target. Dive bombers first then torpedo bombers.
4. After the strike, all aircraft will fly to the collection point, then fly back to the carrier.
All in all, the strike might take three hours or four for the mission. This might leave about one hour of daylight, with no clouds to conduct the mission. If they are lucky.
I don't believe that an aircraft carrier would move that close to a target, it would stay at least 150 miles away. The target might be a land based gun emplacement or an airfield. What is the target. |
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Post by colprice on Nov 9, 2023 14:17:18 GMT -6
The scenario started with a BC scouting force ahead of 2xCVs & 1x CVL before dawn…
As usual, I had a dawn naval strike ready for action, and the enemy force was detected by radar just before morning twilight. Hence the short ranges for the strike force.
The scouting force decoyed the enemy force from the Carrier group, then the strike was launched.
The aircraft involved attacked, landed, rearmed and attacked a couple of times after the first strike.
The possibility exists that the estimated return from attack was still in morning twilight…
Colin
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Post by oldpop2000 on Nov 10, 2023 8:48:20 GMT -6
The scenario started with a BC scouting force ahead of 2xCVs & 1x CVL before dawn… As usual, I had a dawn naval strike ready for action, and the enemy force was detected by radar just before morning twilight. Hence the short ranges for the strike force. The scouting force decoyed the enemy force from the Carrier group, then the strike was launched. The aircraft involved attacked, landed, rearmed and attacked a couple of times after the first strike. The possibility exists that the estimated return from attack was still in morning twilight… Colin First, surface search radar range is about 100-150 miles but it can't really tell you exactly how many enemy ships are present. It can give you lat/long and heading. The information you provided is not very accurate, so I can't really explain but the range rate of the target must have been decreasing. If the enemy fleet was detected at 100 miles with a heading towards your carriers, then if the enemy fleet was moving at 20 mph, it still would have taken four to five hours for it to get close to your ships. Sorry, I am not helping much. |
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