Across the world today, almost every country was doing its best to avoid landing operations with no way out, whether in terms of strategy or tactics.
Because of aircraft.
The combat radius of aircraft was simply too large. It was not just a matter of range—their firepower was also extremely powerful.
Combined with coastal fortifications, amphibious assaults were a nightmare for any country! The beaches would become meat grinders, while artillery fire and bullets could tear every vulnerable human being to pieces!
It was precisely because aircraft had been introduced into warfare that the nature of war had changed.
Aircraft were far too important, whether to the army or the navy! While the Federation, Gefra, and the Peng Joe People were all studying methods of air-dropping torpedoes onto ships, the decisive factor determining the final outcome of naval battles had already begun shifting from battleships toward aircraft.
When large numbers of Peng Joe Sea Fortresses began entering service, how would anyone deal with them when they encountered Gefra's Invincible Fleet?
This question plunged everyone, including Gefra's Navy Minister, into silence, because he truly... had no idea how to answer it! There was no solution!
That was what he wanted to say!
According to the intelligence they had obtained from Peng Joe, its navy had already halted all battleship construction and was devoting its full effort to producing destroyers and Sea Fortresses.
It had also built a large number of aircraft production lines. Many aircraft were being assembled and test-flown every day before entering combat readiness.
It was said that, by now, the Peng Joe Empire had trained no fewer than five thousand pilots. Under its plans, at least twenty-five thousand pilots were to be trained before the war began.
By the middle of the war, it intended to maintain no