"Your Excellency, the Island Nation is coming at us like a tidal wave! Our air-search Radar has detected more than four hundred carrier-based aircraft in their formation!" Lieutenant General George Fredberg said.
"More than four hundred? So what? After being intercepted by the Imperial Navy's carrier-based fighters, how many will they have left? Order the fleet to shift into an air-defense formation!" Marshal Rolf Kars ordered.
Lieutenant General George Fredberg nodded repeatedly. He also believed that after being intercepted by the German Navy's air-defense fighters, the Island Nation Navy's carrier-based aircraft group would not have many carrier-based aircraft left at all. The German Navy's fleet air-defense firepower alone would be enough to shoot down the Island Nation Navy's carrier-based aircraft. Moreover, the German Navy had made breakthrough progress in air-defense weapons. The shells for the 105mm Anti-aircraft Guns and 88mm Anti-aircraft Guns had all been fitted with Proximity fuzes, further strengthening the fleet's air-defense firepower. The 40mm and 20mm Anti-aircraft Guns could not yet use Proximity fuzes because their shells were too small. But as technology continued to advance, shells for these two Anti-aircraft Guns would soon be fitted with Proximity fuzes as well. Then the German fleet's air-defense firepower would be raised even further. It would become even more impossible for enemy carrier-based aircraft to break through the German fleet's air-defense firepower and launch attacks against it.
"Have our Reconnaissance Aircraft still not found the Island Nation fleet?" Marshal Rolf Kars asked.
Compared with the large-scale aerial battle about to erupt between the two navies, this was what concerned him more. Only after finding the Island Nation Navy's fleet could the German fleet launch its carrier-based aircraft to attack.
"Your Excellency, we have not found them yet."
"Then expand the search area. No matter what, we must find the