Chapter 1227: Melee in the port
Chapter 1227 the melee in the port
"Firstblood!" This shell went directly into the body of the O-400 bomber, and then blasted the miracle of the wooden structure to pieces! The power of the 88MM high-explosive bomb is absolutely terrifying. After the whole body is blown up, a dangerous area with a diameter of tens of meters is formed. Any flying object entering the area will be severely damaged, and another aircraft is also very sad. Several holes were punched in the body by the wreckage of the friendly forces. The violent shaking forced the plane to give up its attack. The torpedo was hurriedly dropped and then climbed to escape.
As time went by, more and more air defense firepower was activated. Not only the British who came here were surprised, even the Turks did not expect such a powerful firepower in their ports! Surrounding the immovable battleship San Esteban, anti-aircraft machine guns, machine guns and large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery of various calibers exceeding 3 digits crazily tilted around the bullet rain, looking from the air, even forming a funnel Shaped barrage! Continue to extend to the surrounding.
"Fuck!" Lieutenant Colonel Sauls was a little confused. The whole plan was demonstrated for a month, including Lieutenant General Trenthard did not expect that in Constantinople, this forgotten corner would encounter such dense Anti-aircraft firepower! Of course, you can also say that the British underestimated the enemy. In any case, this is also the capital of the Turkish Empire, the largest naval port of Turkey, and the home port of the second largest fleet of the Allies... The British Air Force is more of a bombing of front-line targets, and the front-line anti-aircraft firepower cannot be compared with a fortress.
The British did not consider how to suppress it, when the second bomber dragged flames and smoke and hit a warehouse next to the port. Lieutenant Colonel Sauls finally couldn't help it. "Order the bombers of the fourth and sixth squadrons to kill the anti-aircraft artillery positions next to me! All the bomber units that have completed the attack are suppressed with machine guns!" And with some red-eyed lieutenant colonel commands loudly!
However, it is a pity that the bomb chosen by the British this time is very unsuitable for this task. Although the 500KG high-explosive bomb is powerful, it is obviously overpowered in the face of the anti-aircraft artillery position. At this time, what you need is a large amount. For the small-yield bombs, what you want is the coverage area, which is a face-to-face kill, not a strong point kill! The machine guns equipped on British bombers are just the opposite. The 7.7MM machine gun is too powerful and can be blocked by a piece of steel plate, so the air defense suppression effect this time is really not good.
This time the British encountered more problems. When the third team of torpedo planes successfully threw three torpedoes over, the British watched as one of the torpedoes sank sharply, white made of exhaust gas. The track stopped abruptly, and then, with a loud noise, a water column rose into the sky 70 meters away from the San Esteban.
"Madan, the Germans not only set up lightning protection nets, but also fishing nets!" A savvy British pilot instantly discovered the problem... In the face of lightning protection nets, you can add a cutter to the front of the torpedo. However, in the face of fishing nets, this is definitely not strong, but it can be soft and low in cost. It is troublesome to deploy several layers at once. After all, during World War I even the propellers of submarines were entangled in fishing nets and lost power. Submarines were like this, not to mention a torpedo! This kind of flexible thing cannot be solved by a cutter alone. And because of this, it indicates that all attempts to use torpedoes to attack the San Esteban will hardly work!
But this time it was a fixed target after all. Although the Turks tried their best to shoot tons of shells into the sky, without the help of radar and more advanced fire control systems, the hit rate was still quite touching. The British used two shots. After the precious 1000-pound bomb blasted two high-explosive positions into deep pits, the subsequent bomber troops finally rushed in through the cracks in the dense fire web!
At 8:50, it was the saddest moment in the life of the battleship San Esteban. Two 1000-pound bombs fell from the sky, one bomb fell in the middle of the hull, and the huge bomb just hit the side of the ship! At the moment of the explosion, a huge orange-red fireball burst out. The shock wave generated by the explosion of hundreds of kilograms of explosives instantly swept over half of the deck, and the surrounding superstructure was swept away by a quarter. There were fragments of partitions and scaffolding. Shattered by the bomb, the fire spread rapidly under the blowing of the sea breeze. A few minutes later, the battleship was plunged into a sea of flames and thick smoke.
However, the damage caused by the third blockbuster is greater than the first two shots combined! This bomb entered the water about 15 meters away from the tail of the hull. The sensitive fuze exploded violently when it collided with the water! Hundreds of kilograms of explosives were detonated 5 meters underwater! At such a distance, the damage caused by nearly 300KG of high explosives is almost comparable to two mines hitting the same location! A water column up to a hundred meters high rises into the air! The energy produced by the explosion is continuously transmitted to the surrounding through turbulent waves! Under the impact of high temperature and high pressure bubbles and water currents, the armor belt on the side of the San Esteban hull was torn and collided by tremendous force!
Accompanied by the sound of distorted and fractured metal, a large hole measuring more than ten square meters appeared on the side string, and the surrounding hull plate was dented inward, and even the entire armor was torn off. In just a few minutes, thousands of tons of seawater poured into this hapless warship~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The whole warship gradually lost its balance, and the hull began to sink slowly at a tilt of 10 degrees.
After all, this is an unrepaired battleship, and some of the water discharge doors have not been closed, and in the case of being unable to seal the leaks and drainage, the back half of the San Esteban finally bottomed out! (The water depth of the berth is not great) The smaller half of the stern was submerged in sea water, and even the bow, which had begun to sink due to flooding, was slightly upturned!
"We seem to have killed this battleship?" Lieutenant Colonel Sols looked at the battleship San Esteban, which was caught in a sea of flames and smoke. He almost didn't believe his eyes. He had a foreboding that he would achieve great results. , But it is still unbelievable to see a battleship fall in front of me like this!
"We made history, and we almost repeated David's feat of killing Goliath with a sling!" Lieutenant Colonel Sols said excitedly. However, what he said this time is not entirely correct. It is true that if the battleship bottomed out as the standard, the British bomber group could barely sink the St. Esteban, but this time the sinking water was relatively large because it was not complete. Destroying and repairing are not as difficult as the British imagined!
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