Chapter 627: Interception

To tell the truth, Otowa now uses fighter jets, which can already make the person who wrote the air combat textbook tear up the book.

What? Biting the back hemisphere to launch an attack? No, I'm going to use the fighter as a turret today, and I'm going to put you in the aiming ring and wait for you to die.

If you have to make a metaphor for Otoba's behavior...... It's probably a phalanx inserted in the center of the battlefield, aiming at whoever is going to get pregnant.

What Su Baiyu said to Otoyu at that time was not mixed with water, the so-called war girl is an existence that can change the course of the war by herself.

After being shot down several warplanes in succession by Otowa, the Nazi pilots were also frightened and unknowingly slowed down the pace of their attack.

The pilots who participated in the operation were not recruits, and after Otowa gave them a little respite, the Allied side quickly began to counterattack.

"Don't fall in love with the war, give priority to attacking bombers. ”

After checking the reading on the aftermath indicator, Otoha spoke unhurriedly.

Although the Nazis sent out horizontal bombers, Otowa could feel it...... These bombers are equipped with very dangerous weapons that can pose a threat to the mothership.

Bombers are theoretically much more difficult to fight than fighters, but the F8F-1B's four cannons are still the same as playing.

Dada

After about half a second of pulling the trigger, Otowa let go of his finger.

Four or five of the more than twenty shells fired made hits, which didn't seem like a lot, but it was enough for Otowa.

The right wing of the Ar234C broke in two on the spot, and the fuselage immediately lost its balance and began an unstoppable fall.

Otowa ignored the fateful enemy plane, and quickly aimed the nose of the plane at the other enemies.

The bomber, which was targeted by Otowa either, did not escape its doom, and was soon broken by Otowa and quickly crashed to the ground.

Other fighters also began to intercept, but the results were not very good.

Even if the speed of the Ar234C drops greatly after the bomb is mounted, it is still not something that the piston fighter can catch up with in level flight, at least not the panda in their hand.

In the case of inefficient interception by fighters, air defense can only be handed over to artillery on the ground.

These bombers are cruising at altitudes above 6,000 meters, and the only thing that can threaten them in the fleet is twin 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns.

The fleet dispatched by this high-jump operation is much larger than in history, or much larger than it has been announced in history, and the air defense network of the fleet will naturally not be much worse.

The first to fire were the Kiring-class destroyers on the periphery of the fleet, which were armed with a total of six 127mm guns, all of which could be used for anti-aircraft fire.

After the elementary school students, the USS Philippine Sea and the two Baltimore-class heavy cruisers escorting it also began firing, using the same 127mm high-level dual-purpose heirlooms.

The 127mm high-level dual-purpose gun has an extremely fast rate of fire and can fire 15-22 shells per minute. Moreover, it has the ability to reload in all directions and angles, and still ensures full-speed shooting in air defense operations.

A large number of "black clouds" immediately appeared around the bomber group, and due to the use of VT fuses, the location of these black clouds appeared in a dense and terrifying place.

A 127mm shell exploded near a bomber, and countless fragments flew out at a high speed, many of which hit the bomber.

Although it did not have the effect of instant killing, the fragments managed to damage one side of the engine of the Ar234C, forcing it to break away from the team.

Black technology is available in many countries in World War II, and VT bombs are one of the signboards of US imperialism.

After all, these Nazis had not experienced the Pacific theater, so they miscalculated the anti-aircraft fire of the US imperialist fleet, and thought that they could do whatever they wanted by hiding at an altitude of 6,000 meters.

After being baptized by VT bombs, only about ten bombers finally broke through the air defense network and successfully dropped the bombs mounted under the belly.

Each bomber carried only one bomb, but each bomb weighed 1.5 tons.

Moreover, these are not ordinary bombs.

The front end of the bomb is equipped with a cross-shaped wing with a wingspan of up to 1.6 meters, and the tail also has a set of ring-shaped combination control wings, with four rudder surfaces even moving on their own.

Well, in fact, they are not self-propelling, they are remotely controlled by bombardiers on bombers.

These Ar234Cs are apparently improved models, with the original cannon in the nose removed, and the cockpit has been changed from a single seat to a two-seater, and the extra member is the bombardier.

With constant correction by the bombardier, the bomb finally hit the target accurately.

The kinetic energy of the bomb falling from 6,000 meters was quite terrifying, and with the time-delay fuse, the bomb directly penetrated the deck of a Baltimore-class ship and entered the interior of the ship's hull.

Boom –

A mushroom cloud rose in the center of the ship's hull, and the Baltimore-class ship even instantly sank a considerable distance under the effect of the explosion, and only regained its draft after the explosion was over.

After such a powerful impact, the anti-aircraft fire of this heavy cruiser also came to a standstill, and it seemed that it would be difficult to recover in a short time.

Just one bomber and one bomb severely damaged a heavy patrol with a displacement of 17,000 tons, and this was the Fritz-X radio-guided bomb.

Design began in 1939, testing began in 1942, and production reached 300 pieces a month in 1943. Of these, 100 were used for training, and the other 200 were put into real combat.

By the end of production in 1944, a total of 2,500 "Fritz-X" radio-guided bombs had been produced, and only 100 were actually put into actual combat.

In the spring of 1943, after the production of such guided bombs, two squadrons of Dornier DO-217 bombers were first equipped, the 2nd and 3rd squadrons. The DO217 bombers of the second squadron are also equipped with HS293 gliding bombs, which can carry one under each wing after modification, and the DO217 bombers of the third squadron are equipped with "Fritz-X" anti-ship missiles, which can be modified to carry two "Fritz-X" to an altitude of 6,096 meters for dropping.

Now the remnants of the Nazis in Antarctica have apparently modified their Ar234 to give it the ability to drop guided bombs.

The 1.5-ton weight of the Fritz-X is there, and the power of this thing is naturally quite terrifyingWhen the Allies landed in Salerno in September 1943, a "Fritz-X" hit the U.S. Navy light cruiser "Savannah", nearly 200 sailors were killed, and the cruiser was also undergoing a 12-month overhaul in the shipyard.

Shortly thereafter, the battleship "Fritz-X" was also heavily damaged by several "Fritz-X". During the battle, one "Fritz-X" hit and penetrated the sixth deck of the "War Wey", and two more exploded in the sea next to the ship, destroying the mine protection protrusion on the side of the ship's hull, causing the "War Wey" to enter 5,000 tons, a boiler room was destroyed, 9 crew members died, and was forced to overhaul in Malta for 9 months.

However, the most famous result was the battleship Rome, and the day after Italy announced its surrender and withdrawal from the German-Italian Axis, 12 German DO-217 bombers carrying the "Fritz-X" attacked it, and finally sank it with only two bombs hit.

This Baltimore-class ship can pick up a life in the explosion, and it can even be considered lucky.