Chapter 17 The Scream of Death (Part 2)

If the German ground armored forces are compared to the land representatives of the Blitzkrieg, then there is no doubt that the most outstanding representative of the Blitzkrieg from the sky is the Luftwaffe's JU87 Stuka dive bomber.

This type of low-wing, single-engine dive bomber designed and manufactured by the German Junkers Company had been secretly transported by the German army and put into the battlefield for actual combat testing as early as 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, and was finally completed successfully.

After the success of the actual combat test in the Spanish Civil War, the Germans immediately began a series of subsequent improvement and upgrade plans for the Stuka dive bomber, and developed a series of subsequent sub-models with numerous branches, and The BF109 series of fighter jets are collectively known as the two most outstanding representatives of the German Air Force.

By the time the Germans launched Operation Barbarossa, the B-series variants of the JU87 Stuka dive bomber had been installed in large-scale batches in front-line units of the German Air Force. Its latest JU87D Stuka has also been finalized and put into production, and it will not be long before it will be mass-produced to enhance the combat strength of the German Air Force's front-line troops.

Strictly speaking, the six Stuka dive bombers that were swooping towards Malashenko and the leading troops of the Soviet 20th Tank Division at this moment were not actually coming specifically to intercept Malashenko. The institute takes the lead in leading the team.

About ten minutes ago, these six Stuka dive bombers, which had just been refueled and loaded from the rear airfield at the Soviet-German border, were tasked only to move to the frontline field airfield and then wait for orders to remain on standby. That’s all.

But just when these six Stuka dive bombers were approaching the German frontline field airport and preparing to land, a transfer order from the superior air command department changed their direction and immediately moved to the front line.

"The reconnaissance plane reported that a Soviet mechanized mixed force was moving in the direction of our Army Group South in the following area, carrying an unknown number of tanks and a small amount of heavy equipment. We now order your troops to immediately go to intercept and bomb."

In this way, before the six cutting-edge JU87B-2 Stuka dive bombers that had just departed from Germany had time to land, they swung their wings under orders from their superiors and began to head towards the German city just tens of kilometers away. Malashenko's troops rushed straight away.

As the latest improvement to an existing old model, the performance design of the B-2 JU87 Stuka dive bomber can be said to be the culmination of the highest technology of the current German Air Force, and it is fully worthy of its terrifying title of "Screaming Death".

Compared with the previous model A Stuka, the biggest difference of the JU87B-2 Stuka dive bomber is that it is equipped with a Junkers JUMO 211D 12-cylinder in-line water-cooled engine, which can The entire Stuka dive bomber outputs a surging power of up to 1,200 horsepower.

With this powerful new heart, the maximum level flight speed of the JU87B-2 Stuka dive bomber has been increased from the original A-type 310 kilometers per hour to 383 kilometers per hour.

Despite this, such a flying speed is no longer excellent when facing the mainstream fighters on the battlefield of World War II in 1941, but under such a premise, it brings powerful mounting capabilities to the B-2 Stuka dive bomber. But it's obvious.

In addition to retaining the two 92mm MG17 wing aviation machine guns on the original A model, the B-2 Stuka's aerial bomb mounting capacity has further increased from 250 kilograms to 500 kilograms on the original A model, and can carry up to one A 250-kilogram aerial bomb and four smaller 50-kilogram aerial bombs were used for ground air strikes.

If necessary, the B-2 Stuka dive bomber can also carry a 1,000-kilogram super-heavy aerial bomb against the enemy's solid defensive positions or fortifications without the rear seat gunner and carrying a minimum amount of fuel. He is an all-round bomber who carries out targeted air strikes on large ship targets.

In terms of body design, the B-2 Stuka dive bomber retains the automatic speedbrake technology and the classic "Jericho Trumpet" sound device on the original A model.

The automatic airbrake technology, which was still advanced even in 1941, brought unusually powerful performance to the Stuka. This automatic airbrake could cause black vision or even complete loss of vision when the pilot dived to the ground at high G. With visual capabilities, the large and heavy Stuka can automatically recover from a dive without manual operation, thus fundamentally avoiding aircraft crashes and fatalities caused by pilot overload and black vision.

The latter is the Jericho trumpet device. This device uses the high-speed airflow flowing through the Stuka's body to produce a hair-raising and terrifying scream when the Stuka dives, thus shocking the enemy and causing The strong sense of psychological oppression and fear is the fundamental origin of Stuka's rumored nickname of "Screaming Death".

At this moment, the six B-2 JU87 Stuka dive bombers rushing down from the sky towards Malashenko's vanguard troops all used conventional ground attack mounts without exception.

The ground attack mounting scheme of a 250-kilogram heavy aerial bomb and four 50-kilogram small aerial bombs not only allows these weird big birds, which are painted with the unique dark black paint of the Luftwaffe, to deal with heavy armored targets on the ground It is handy at all times, and can even use 50-kilogram-level aerial bombs with a smaller yield to carry out large-scale destruction of unprotected soft targets in batches.

As a future time traveler, Malashenko is naturally well aware of the terror of the German Stuka dive bombers. It is no exaggeration to say that in the absence of complete air defense positions or fighter cover, Next, the Stuka is the most real god of death in reality for any ground force.

Because of this, Malashenko, who had never thought about resisting, immediately stuck his upper body out of the turret and shouted loudly at all the entourage and tank crews around him.

Not all vehicles are equipped with inter-vehicle radio stations and are still using the rather primitive "semaphore" method for inter-vehicle communication. The Soviet armored forces did not pay attention to the timely communication and coordination between the various vehicle crews. The hidden dangers laid finally emerged at this moment. It caused a catastrophe.

In addition to several tank crews closer to Malashenko who stopped in time after hearing the shouts, several vanguard tank crews slightly further ahead were stopped because of the noisy engines in the vehicles. Noise, but Malashenko's loud shouting was not heard at all and he continued to move forward.

After seeing this scene, Malashenko felt anxious and helpless. He was about to jump off the tank and run forward to call out the crews who were still ignorant of the danger. But above his head, there was a shrill scream like hell. The sound came one step ahead of Malashenko.