Chapter 1185: Boom
Chapter 1185
The position of the British bomber squadron was very good. They had their backs to the sun and kept the same direction as the German fleet. Before the bombing started, the huge fleet was broken up into four squads to carry out air strikes. Three of the teams targeted Hipper’s flagship, while the other team targeted the light cruiser.
"16 O-400 bombers, carrying 20 500-pound bombs and 24 250-pound bombs. You should be able to achieve some results, right?" Lieutenant Colonel Henry looked at his most proud bomber team and said in a low voice.
When the second wave of British bombers approached the target, the anti-aircraft artillery of the entire German fleet opened fire for the first time in actual combat! There are a total of 18 88MM anti-aircraft guns, 46 2-pounder guns, and a huge number of 12.7MM machine guns on the 5 battleships of 1 large, 4 small. 88MM anti-aircraft guns and 2-pounder machine guns are generally placed on the deck, while a large number of machine guns are placed on all the areas where the firing range is fairly good. For example, on the top of the main turret, for example on the mast, or on the front and back decks of the battleship...
Many of the heavy machine guns were taken out of the warehouse before firing. A squad composed of twelve people would have a double gun rack, 2 machine guns, boxes of bullets, and sights, just like an army machine gun group, within a few minutes. Complete the hypothesis, and then aim the machine gun into the air under the guidance of the officer holding the telescope. As for the actual effect. Wait for the actual test!
The roar of guns resounded through the entire battleship, and the 88MM gun crew fired frantically at targets in the air. With the efforts of a 10-man gun crew with a division of labor, each gun fired a rate of more than 10 rounds per minute. With orange flames ejected from the muzzle, a brass shell was quickly thrown out, and then the auxiliary loading device located next to the breech block pushed another shell into the barrel.
The 2-pounder and 12.7MM machine guns can shoot more easily. The former can theoretically fire 8 rounds per second, while the latter’s rate of fire is more than ten rounds. A 1-meter-long fire snake ejected from the 2-pound muzzle. The drum on the side of the artillery was lit up almost instantly, and a dozen people lined up to transport the shells from the ammunition bay below. In just a few minutes, the yellow-orange-orange cartridge cases were piled up next to the artillery!
When the British flew in, more than three-digit anti-aircraft artillery and machine guns fired from the air really bluffed the British, especially Hipper’s flagship was very outstanding in this air defense operation, with dozens of artillery pieces. The ammunition projected into the air every minute with the machine gun is even more than a ton! Hundreds of cannonballs and bullets danced in the air to form a funnel-shaped barrage. This barrage swayed in the air with the movement of the battleship, like a sickle of death, harvesting any object that dared to approach it. Cannonballs were splashed into the sky like a tide. Even more beautiful than the grandest fireworks display in the festival, but under the splendid flames, death is hidden!
"As we approached the target, fragments of shells flew above, below and beside us, and shells exploded around us from time to time. We could hardly hear each other’s voices. Shrapnel and flames were flying around us. We It seemed to have entered a world of flames in an instant.” At that time, a British pilot described the scene with lingering fear.
Faced with an unprecedented level of anti-aircraft firepower, the first group of British bombers started to climb, and then flew from a relatively safe altitude of over 800 meters, and then dropped bombs in a covering manner. (The effective shooting height of the 12.7MM machine gun is very limited. Only the 88MM gun and the 2-pounder gun are threatening at this height)
"Right full rudder!" The giant Weimar fast battleship drew a huge arc on the sea. The four rudders were hit to the largest. Even the hull wanted to tilt 10 degrees to the right, like a giant whale. A huge trail was left on the sea. In this evasion, relying on the deterrence of air defense firepower, no more than a dozen bombs hit. A column of water once again surrounded this huge battleship. But like the first time, there is no use for eggs...
"They're flying back again!" Moments later, the watchman at the top of the mast noticed that the first wave of attacking aircraft had returned again. This time, Hipper felt that something was not good because Hipper found that these aircraft were directly Dispersed, abandoned the original formation bombing, and rushed to the Weimar from all directions! In response to the scattered bombers, the Weimar’s air defense firepower was also forced to disperse, and the long-range dense barrage instantly became fragmented. Facts have proved that such air defense firepower is concentrated together and it is okay to intimidate it. Can't intimidate opponents!
"We can't stop them!" A German naval soldier fired by a laborious operator with a 2-pounder gun looked at the British bomber approaching with some panic. The British bomber that had thrown away part of its load quickly moved from the stern position. Approaching, after approaching to a certain extent, the four Vickers machine guns in the nose of the aircraft ejected deadly fire snakes, and fragments of bullets began to sweep the deck. Bullets like migratory locusts jumped between the deck and the hull, occasionally harvesting those unlucky lives. After the anti-aircraft fire was dispersed, a British plane finally passed from a height of 300 meters, and then dropped a 500-pound bomb onto the aft deck of the Weimar!
How powerful is a 500-pound bomb? If the bomb weight itself is converted into kilograms, it is ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ However, such a bomb with a weight that is not too large is actually loaded with explosives above 130KG! What is this concept? If converted to a 15-inch armor-piercing ammunition, it would look like 4 to 5 rounds. If calculated in time with the grenade charged by the British University, that is also the standard for more than 2 rounds!
The grenade dropped at a height of 300 meters easily pierced the uppermost deck, and then exploded in the upper compartment of the hull! A huge fireball directly lifted the deck within a radius of tens of square meters! A large hole with a diameter of more than 3 meters appeared in the rear of the battleship Weimar. The huge explosion force pushed the shrapnel to penetrate the middle deck below the upper deck! Many fragments even fell on the lower deck before being blocked by the main horizontal armor!
Countless fragments swept across a large number of cabins on the two decks, and also swept away many anti-aircraft machine guns deployed in the open! Although it did not penetrate the core layer, the energy after the explosion of hundreds of kilograms of picric acid explosives was still terrifying. The several 20-meter-long passages at the rear of the hull and the cabins next to it turned into a sea of fire in an instant. Fires caused by bombs are much larger than shells!
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