Chapter 777: Sky Lightning II
However, what Ruprecht and the senior German army officials did not expect was that the biggest loss in this attack was not the long-range artillery units of the Allies, but the immature British and French air forces, facing the Germans’ first large-scale air offensive. , The British and French air forces were battered in the air.
"God! Could it be that our group of sparrows can kill those geese from above?" When Lieutenant Mundell led his squadron to the battlefield according to the ground guidance, he stopped in front of a formation of squadron bombers. At least 18 bombing crews on the opposite side became 6 three-plane teams. These teams formed a strange shape in a three-dimensional space. How to say it looked like a wall from the front and a multi-layer cake from the side. But it is such a group formation that makes Mundell a little helpless!
Not everyone has Mundell's mind, and realizes that there may be a mystery in this unseen formation. It is absolutely bragging to say what Mundell can see. After all, this K-4 bomber It was the first large-scale use. It was the first time that Mundell appeared sporadically. It was the first time to see this twin-engine bomber. I didn’t understand the performance, let alone the famous box formation and the machine gun **** of later generations. I could realize that there was a problem. It can be said to be the sixth sense.
Just when Mundell hesitated, a large group of Farmand F20 fighter jets rushed into the battlefield. This kind of aircraft is considered to be an early fighter. The engine is rear-mounted and there are two pilots. One of them controls the aircraft and the other The man controls the machine gun... In an era when the engine power of fighter jets has not yet reached three digits, you dare to arrange two pilots on an aircraft used for air combat! What kind of spirit is needed for this? If it was a war in history, it would be fine to do this. After all, everyone has done such a thing.
But now, after the little butterfly flapping its wings, this design is backward, with extremely poor perception, speed is less than three digits, and the target is big, if the firepower is not strong, if the guy is on the battlefield, Then it can only be described as tragedy!
When this group of planes flew at a speed comparable to a car’s 60 kilometers, they were greeted by an overwhelming bomb rain. This is a real bomb rain. The French chose to charge head-on so desperately, it seemed to be to play. The advantage of the front seat shooter? However, 36 12.7mm large-caliber machine guns of 18 planes in the front fired thousands of bullets in a very short time at a distance of less than 500 meters.
The readers present here can imagine the current scene. The two sides are basically moving at a height, and then you drive a car and the other car on the opposite side is directly facing each other, and the relative speed of the two sides is about 130 kilometers. Then the other party suddenly took out dozens of large-caliber machine guns to design for you! This feeling is simply sour!
The bullets like a sandstorm instantly covered the front hemisphere of the entire bomber formation. The 10MM bullets effortlessly tore a plane without protection, even three-ply panels spliced into pieces, many bullets. Even after passing in from the nose and killing two pilots in a row, the engine was broken. The M2 heirloom that can be used after the second battle is a brutal attack on fighter-level units in the first battle!
Armor-piercing incendiary bombs were originally used to deal with cars, and it is easier to hit planes. As long as one hit, the whole plane will turn into a burning fireball! Even ordinary bullets can easily dismantle these aircraft into fragments. With the movement of the bomber formation, the bullets fired are like the cone-shaped flames spitting out of a dragon and easily burn all enemies blocked in front of them to ashes! In just a few minutes, a French aircraft of a squadron was crushed into slag!
"We dive from above or attack from below!" Mundell ordered to his subordinates. The layout of Farmang fighters finally showed some advantages when attacking from bottom to top. Compared with planes with fixed machine guns, The Farmand F20 fighter can shoot the machine gun diagonally upwards, thus eliminating the need for climbing. But even so, they are also very difficult to hit the relatively lethal cockpit position of the K-4 bomber, and the bomber in the middle can also control the machine gun to shoot downwards, plus the bread-like formation, these aircraft In the case of complementarity, the French still suffered heavy losses.
"Damn, our Shaosha machine gun is not powerful enough!" Mundell couldn't help cursing after seeing the shooter in front of him opening a few holes in the huge K-4 bomber body. Although the wooden structure is the main body, it is undeniable that for this multi-ton aircraft, the power and firepower of the Shaosha machine gun are both problems. You know, although the early models of the Spitfire were also ordinary machine guns, there were 8 of them! Moreover, it is still a bullet chain, but the Shaosha machine gun is a 30-round arc magazine... This firepower is not at the same level at all.
And what makes Mundell feel even more frustrated is that after their plane missed the head-on attack, it was difficult to launch an attack from the back, not because of the deadly machine gun like a scorpion tail, but because of the face The K-4 bombers with bombs and the two-man Farmang F20 fighters were not fast enough....
The performance of the British De Havilland fighters was pretty good~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but they were first intercepted by the Peripheral Sparrowhawk fighters. Thanks to a better engine and a lighter burden brought by a driver, the British have much higher combat effectiveness than the French.
"Don't circle with the opponent. Our advantage is speed. We fight when we have a chance. It doesn't matter if we don't have a chance. It is difficult for them to knock down those big things." After killing a British fighter with a shallow dive and precise shots, the Red Baron Said to his deputy Green.
"I promise, if the bomber pilots heard you say this, they would definitely beat you up!" As he approached again, Goring shouted to his lead plane.
The two-aircraft formation of the German fighter force is obviously more suitable than the British three-aircraft formation or single-headed singles. It is maneuverable and flexible. The interaction between the leader and the wingman, coupled with informative and rich experience, is in this round of air combat. Even the exchange ratio between China and the British fighter force is very favorable.
In the end, some cunning pilots also learned to use bombers. Sometimes they will deliberately let go of some opponent's fighters. After the attack of the opponent's fighter force is completed and the energy is at the lowest level, these cunning pilots swarmed to solve it. . Although this violated the regulations, this practice was acquiesced before the firepower of British and French aircraft came up, and even the bomber troops believed that it was their own business to cut off a few fighters.
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