Almost without a pause, the two consecutive aerial strikes not only demolished the steel battleships and the flesh within, but also the last shred of hope and obsession for victory.
Two plane groups, totaling no more than 70 ship-borne aircraft!
More than twenty days ago, in the Flame Sea, the Mobile Fleet withstood two attacks of this scale. But today, they couldn't even withstand one.
The key problem was the lack of anti-aircraft fighters!
The seventy-some ship-borne aircraft, arriving in two waves, attacked with almost no interference, not having to worry about fighter assaults. It was like a training exercise. The only difference was a need to watch out for the high-altitude guns while diving to drop bombs or flying low to launch torpedoes.
