The Rise Of Australasia

The fleet released sonar to detect submarines underwater, "I don't want any more warships to be attacked and sunk by the enemy."

As the sonar was released, Australasian warships also began firing torpedoes to attack the enemy submarines underwater.

Submarines of the Pacific Squadron also began to dive one after another, searching for enemy submarines.

A large number of Australasian aircraft took off; they had only one target, and that was to pursue those already confused Islander aircraft.

Clearly, high-tech products like missiles were completely alien to the Islanders.

Although the hit rate of missiles was not high, the first salvo fired at least 200 missiles, with fewer than 30 hitting Island nation aircraft.

But to have nearly 30 aircraft destroyed without even coming face to face with them was enough to shock or even panic these Islander pilots.

Actually, if it hadn't been for the pitch-black night masking the movements of these Islander aircraft, the missile hit rate could have been further improved.

But that didn't matter anymore. The missiles had successfully bought the Australasian navy over a minute of precious time, allowing many warships and aircraft to respond and avoid being ambushed by the enemy again.

The Pacific Squadron currently had a total of 4+5+3, 12 main warships in all, including 5 aircraft carriers.

If it had been the complete Pacific Squadron, they wouldn't have feared this attack from the Island Nation at all.

But the problem was, to guard against a possible attack from the Islanders and to carry out patrolling missions, 2 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers, and 1 battlecruiser had been dispatched to carry out tasks.

This meant that, in reality, the Hawaii Naval Base had only 2 battleships, 3 aircraft carriers, and 2 battlecruisers.

Because Hawaii is a lone island in the central Pacific, with no other country's islands within hundreds of kilometers.

Therefore, there was no Air Force base on Hawaii. The number of aircraft Hawaii had depended entirely on the aircraft aboard the Pacific Squadron's aircraft carriers stationed in Hawaii.

Because there were only 3 aircraft carriers at present, this greatly reduced the number of aircraft Hawaii had.

On the Islanders' side, with 6 aircraft carriers and other various makeshift warships, they carried over 400 aircraft in total.

And, the total number of aircraft carried by Australasia's 3 aircraft carriers was just over 200, only half the number of Islander aircraft.

Although they had destroyed 30 Islander aircraft at the outset, the enemy's aircraft still far outnumbered Australasia's.

Moreover, once the air forces of both parties began to engage in battle, the Australasian missiles were of no use.

Current missiles could not accurately lock onto the enemy; in this dark night sky, if a missile accidentally hit one's own aircraft, that would be a big trouble.

The good news was that, in terms of aircraft performance, Australasia was still far ahead of the Island Nation. Although the Australasian Air Force was basically fighting two against one, with the powerful combat capabilities of the aircraft, fighting two against one was not a difficult task.

However, because the skies above the naval base were filled with nearly 600 aircraft, it was difficult for Australasian planes to take advantage of their speed and defeat the Island Nation quickly.

At 3:17 a.m., a torpedo fired by an Island Nation submarine struck one of Australasia's battleships.

The good news was that the battleship had excellent armor protection, and although the torpedo caused the battleship's armor to fall off and the hull to deform, it did not affect the battleship's combat capabilities and was only a minor injury.

After the submarine was detected, the counterattack of the Australasian fleet directly destroyed the submarine.

How do you determine whether you have sunk an enemy submarine underwater?

The principle is quite simple. Although the submarine is underwater, if it is sunk, the various living supplies inside the submarine will float on the surface of the water, and the fuel used by the submarine will also float on the sea due to the nature of oil floating on water.

Seeing that their sneaky planes were tied down by Australasian aircraft, the Islanders got a bit restless.

Many bombers hidden in the rear began to move out, taking advantage of the entire deployment of Australasian aircraft to intercept the Islander fighter aircraft and began attacking Australasian warships and the naval base in the harbor.

But what the Islanders did not expect was that Australasia had installed a large number of anti-aircraft weapons on warships and in the harbors, including heavy hitters like small-caliber machine guns and anti-air missiles.

An initial attack by bombers did not cause too many casualties for Australasia; instead, it resulted in at least 20 losses to the Islander bomber formation.

It should be noted that the number of bombers carried by the Islanders on this mission was only one-sixth of the total number of aircraft, or around 70.

Such an attack resulted in the Islanders losing almost half of their bombers, where was the reasoning in that?

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With no hope of a quick victory in a direct confrontation with the air forces, and their flank sneak attacks easily repelled by the enemy, the Islanders found themselves in a dilemma for a while.

Where was their hope? The Islanders could only pin their hopes on the fleet that was rapidly approaching.

After all, according to the Islanders' intelligence, Australasia's Pacific Squadron was not at full strength at this time. The fleet meticulously prepared by the Islanders was perfectly capable of arm-wrestling with the current Pacific Squadron.

If they could gain superiority in the sky, the final outcome of this inglorious naval battle would still be a victory for the Islanders.

That was the ultimate result the Islanders had in mind. After all, there was a two-fold gap in the number of aircraft between the two parties.

In the eyes of the Islanders, maintaining a two-fold difference in the number of aircraft was the result of the Island Nation's all-out efforts.

If a two-fold difference in aircraft could not secure an advantage, then there was nothing more the Islanders could do, as they could not compete with Australasia in terms of aircraft production and reserves.