Chapter 1205: Nitrogen Accelerates
The news of the sneak attack on the airbase reached Pokryshkin's plane, and when he heard the news, he immediately felt a burst of anger.
The Germans checked and balanced all the Soviet countermeasures, and the MiG-3 fighters were completely designed to deal with the Junkers-290 bombers, who would have thought that all these valuable fighters were blown up to the base, and Germany, the opponent, was really terrible.
Now, only their two MiG-3 fighters were flying in the sky, and by this time, Pokryshkin had already seen the black and crushed group of planes in the opposite sky.
According to the plan of the Soviet side, it was to wait until the two reconnaissance fighters and the German bombers met, and then take off in a large group of planes in the rear, and hundreds of MiG-3s would intercept those German bombers, so that they could not get close to Petersburg.
And now, it is no longer possible to take off new fighters in the rear, and these two fighters can only fight to the end for the honor of the Soviets.
"877, keep up, let's go intercept the German swarm!" Pokryshkin shouted over the radio.
Kararixin also knew what was happening in the rear, and now, too, he did not flinch, intercepting the German fleet, it was enough to shoot down a few planes, even if only one was down.
Almost at the same time, the opposite group also spotted these two lone Soviet fighters.
"035, 036, expel these two Soviet fighters." It was already 10,000 meters in the air, breathing the oxygen inside the oxygen mask, Heinz Barr, the commander of the escort fighter unit, said over the radio.
This is not the first time to fight with the Soviets, last year's military parade in Moscow, Heinz once escorted the Führer's special plane, and at that time he had an intersection with the Soviet air force that came to escort him, but at this time Heinz did not expect to meet an old friend.
Last time it was Pokryshkin, and this time it was him.
Hearing the order, Merritt immediately became excited and happily replied, "035 received." ”
Pushing the throttle stick, the throttle is full open, and the engine in front of him is roaring, but Merritt is clearly not happy with this, and he presses a button on one side.
Accelerate, climb!
As he flicked the switch, nitrous oxide gas was rapidly vaporized in a cryogenic cylinder behind the cab, and was sprayed into the engine cylinder in front of him along the pipeline.
In later racing scenes, it is common to see such a situation, by adding nitrogen to the engine to achieve a terrible super power output, this nitrogen, in fact, is nitrous oxide, and this technology, in fact, has been mature during World War II.
Germany's aircraft engines are already quite against the sky, and they are invincible in this era, but as a country of mechanical geniuses, of course, they will not be willing to do so, and tapping the potential of aircraft is what they are most passionate about.
In fact, nitrous oxide can increase the power of the engine is also very simple, because it can play a role in combustion, and at the same time, the amount of fuel injected into the engine will also increase, in fact, the use of superchargers is the same result, but this is more violent, more direct.
As he started the nitrous oxide acceleration, the nozzle of the engine directly spewed flames, and the whole plane quickly jumped upwards and climbed rapidly.
The F190 fighter is powerful, and one of the most common tricks used by fighter pilots is to dive down from the air to attack, and then pull up, the opponent can only be beaten, not fight back, this kind of scene is the most pleasing to the eye.
And now there is a high-altitude fighter flying on the opposite side, and the altitude has actually reached 12,000, and the F190 at this time can only climb to a higher altitude by increasing the power extraordinarily.
The two German fighters sped away from their formation, and as they climbed, they swooped down fiercely on the Soviet fighters.
"Ignore the German fighters, our target is the bomber." Looking at the two German fighters that pounced on them from the formation, Pokryshkin shouted over the radio.
Now the two sides are flying against each other, and there is only one chance to attack, and when the other side finishes attacking and comes back in a circle, they have already drilled into the opponent's bomber group.
When attacking head-on, it looks terrifying, but in fact, the relative speed of the two sides is very large, and it passes in a flash.
If it's a tail chase attack, then it's different, and the two sides can fight for a long, long time.
Pokryshkin looked at the two enemy fighters flying over, he was ready, and at this moment, his adrenaline began to secrete, and his chest was full of fighting spirit.
Pokryshkin has been able to clearly distinguish the other party's model, F190, the main fighter of the Luftwaffe, according to the different production batches, the performance is also very different, the latest batch, is simply a full airspace fighter, from high altitude to low altitude has good performance, it is said that the horsepower of the engine can reach 2500 horsepower, absolutely strong.
At this moment, he had already seen the trajectory of the other party, the other party was climbing, what did they want to do? Don't you plan to intercept your own side?
If you want to intercept it, you have to be in the same airspace and at the same altitude, and the height of the other side has obviously exceeded your own altitude.
The two sides are approaching at high speed, and at this time, the F190 is already about 800 meters higher than the flight altitude of the MiG-3.
Pokryshkin's head was raised higher and higher, and then directly above, his eyes were on the two enemy planes, which actually flew over his head, what were they going to do?
"They're going to tail up and attack us!" At this time, Kara Riksin, who was behind him on wingman duty, shouted: "They are diving down!" ”
Just after flying past the Soviet fighters, Merritt pushed his own lever and dived downward.
When turning in the air, you can circle horizontally, or you can fly in a vertical direction for half a circle to turn, and in these ways, you can turn down vertically for half a circle, which is the fastest.
Because not only does he not consume energy, but he also increases his speed due to the dive, although this radius is somewhat large, but when it comes down, it is still the fastest.
At this time, after half a circle in the vertical plane, Merritt's plane flew right behind the other party.
The big overload maneuver just now made his vision blurry, and after a brief blackout, he was able to see everything in front of him.
Sure enough, the Soviets' fighters did not maneuver to dodge, and they were still rushing forward.
The Soviets had no choice, they couldn't fight the German fighters, they had to fly into the German bomber fleet as quickly as possible and take out the German bombers.
If they had made evasive flights, they had fallen into the hands of the Germans, and while they were engaged in each other, German bomber groups had already flown by.
If there were enough Soviet fighters, then it would have been possible to split into two parts, one to dogfight, and one to attack German bombers, but now there are only two of them.
Not afraid of the German fighters who followed behind, they had to rush forward bravely!