Chapter 1183: Hunting the Giants 1
As an aviation veteran, an elite who has been through nearly 3-figure battles and has never been shot down once, the captain is quite sensitive to everything that can fly! He doesn't evaluate an aircraft like some rookies just by looking at how many engines there are, and the more engines there are, the more powerful it is, what's the difference between this and how many chimneys Africans have to evaluate the performance of a battleship?!
It was the first time he had seen an O-400 bomber entity up close, and the first time he saw this guy, he could sense that the other party was not good! He was not complacent about the fact that he had slaughtered the Russians on the Eastern Front with his Izmail bomber. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info For an old bird who once fought on the Western Front and fought on the Eastern Front for half a year, he knew that the British on the other side of the North Sea should not be underestimated at any time!
"We attack the flanks of the British head-on! With the two-plane formation as the unit of action, everyone prepares. "The frontal defensive fire of the bomber was the strongest, and in the case of the O-400, the frontal fire was 3 machine guns. If he attacked from behind or from the side, he would only have the firepower of one or two machine guns, but considering that he was flying a seaplane version of the K-4S with a pontoon, the load was not low, and he could clearly feel that the O-400 on the opposite side was flying fast, and attacking from behind might delay the fighter.
Like medieval lancers, Hult and his teammates unleashed the first charge against the larger enemy planes. They first climbed to a position 500 meters above each other's height, and then began a shallow dive when they were about 1.5 kilometers apart. 6 K-4S aircraft, divided into three groups, attacked the flanks of the British in turn! The British on the opposite side also seemed to be an old bird force, 12 planes formed 4 three-plane formations, dead and not scattered, and a dozen Wicks machine guns spewed fire snakes at the German battleships that dived from the sky.
Jingle bell. Hult could clearly see a few bullets hitting the front of his plane, but luckily, the bulletproof steel plates on the front provided the cockpit with a 120-degree frontal range. For a short period of time. THESE ORDINARY 7.7MM MACHINE GUN BULLETS ARE NOT VERY LETHAL AGAINST THE K-4 AIRCRAFT, AND IT ONLY TAKES A SHORT WINDOW FOR HULT TO TAKE OUT THE OPPONENT!
AT A DISTANCE of 600 METERS, HULT ONCE AGAIN LOWERED THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT, AND THE FOUR 12.7MM MACHINE GUNS IN THE NOSE SPRAYED FOUR FLAMES OF FIRE FRANTICALLY. Flying tracer bullets flew up and down like fireflies in the night sky, and an O-400 bomber on the far left was bitten by three fire snakes at the same time, and hundreds of bullets rained down, and the powerful bullets easily shredded the wooden wings of the plane, and directly broke into two sections from the middle! Under normal circumstances, the plane could have struggled for a while, but with two 500-pound bombs on board, the plane, which had lost half of its wing, fell straight down like a scale.
Just as Hult was leveling down and preparing to pull it up again, two other colleagues also got the catch, and the crossfire of the two K-4S fighters directly formed an O-400 bomber into a fireball, and with a loud bang, the plane was directly blown into pieces by the ignited gasoline, and tons of debris spread out in all directions under the impetus of the blast wave, and even smashed the fuselage of the other plane. And this poor plane was also left alone, and was randomly picked up by the comrades in the third group.
Killing 3 O-400 bombers in one attack is already a good record. However, there were not many specially equipped and experienced interceptor crews. Just as Hult succeeded in driving this British bomber detachment away, more and more British bombers had already flown into the air, like a dark cloud gradually enveloping the German fleet!
Although the entire German High Seas Fleet brought out more than 100 seaplanes this time, the largest number was a single-engine seaplane converted from a J-1 aircraft. ESPECIALLY IN THE FACE OF THE O-400, FB27 BOMBERS OF THE SAME LEVEL AS ILYA, AND EVEN THE LARGER V1500 BOMBERS, THE J-1 FIGHTER WITH ONLY ONE 12.7MM MACHINE GUN AND ONE 7.92MM MACHINE GUN IS REALLY NOT WORTH LOOKING FORWARD TO IN THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT PROFESSIONAL FIGHTER PILOT......S.
"Damn, why is this guy so strong?" The two J-1 seaplanes almost followed a V1500 bomber to exhaust all their ammunition, and in the distance, the tail of the plane was already full of bullet holes The guy was still flying unhurriedly, the body and wings of nearly 20 meters long spread out and the huge figure of 38 meters was like a king in the air and flew towards his target, under its belly, three 1000-pound bombs made people shudder, and the black shell exuded a deadly light.
Four huge Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engines provide the beast of the sky with an incredible amount of power, each delivering a huge output of 375 horsepower. So much so that with 3 rounds of 1,000-pound bombs, it can still fly at a speed of more than 120 kilometers per hour!
"We don't even need too much firepower for self-defense, our huge airframe, our sturdy structure, and flight speed are already the best defenses. THE GERMANS 7.92MM MACHINE GUN IS TOO POWERFUL, EVEN IF IT IS A SPECIAL BULLET, IT ONLY LEAVES A FIST-SIZED HOLE IN THE BODY, AND THEN GO BACK AND CHANGE A WOODEN PLANK, THE GERMANS WANT TO USE THE 7.92MM MACHINE GUN TO SHOOT DOWN A BEHEMOTH WITH A MAXIMUM TAKE-OFF WEIGHT OF MORE THAN 12 TONS, IT CAN ONLY BE SAID THAT THEY ARE TOO WHIMSICAL. The captain of a V1500 bomber described it after the battle.
And as time went on, the situation of air interception got worse and worse, because soon the Germans found out that there were more bombers coming than fighters stranded in the air! On the one hand, the total number of British is really large, and on the other hand, the endurance of a single-engine seaplane pit daddy! Imagine the scene of the wolves facing a pack of elephants, except for those professional K-4 bombers that can effectively threaten the "air fleet" of the British, most of the planes can be shot down with the cooperation of their comrades, and it is possible to be counter-killed if they are unlucky, and the average of more than 5 machine guns on the British bombers is definitely fierce.
A group of O-400, Vix FB27 bombers, and N2B bombers, after losing more than a dozen aircraft, broke through the German air defenses and flew in the direction of the German fleet. This was not what the prince showed on the exercise ground, and it was not the fanning of some people, those huge figures in the air and the bombs carried under them hung high over the heads of the German fleet like the sword of Damocles!
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