Chapter 1166: Shifting Targets (Add. 2)
Under the huge inertia, the nose of the Stuka bomber was flattened, and in the raging fire, the bomb under the belly that could not be separated finally hit the armor of the turret.
Rocket-boosted bombs, in addition to allowing the bombs to fall on the warship faster, thereby reducing the chance of the warship maneuvering to get rid of, is more important, is to make the bombs accelerate, after all, battleships are armored, the speed is large, can increase the probability of penetration, explode on the surface of the opponent, and explode inside the opponent, this effect is very different.
Now it doesn't get out of the pylon, the bomb won't unlock, and it won't activate the rocket booster, so it's just an ordinary bomb, but this bomb is a bit heavy.
The bomb alone is one ton, and if you count the plane, the weight is already more than five tons, and the force of such a bomb falling and hitting the battleship is quite strong.
Under the violent impact, finally, the pylons were unhooked, and the rocket engine in the tail was ignited according to the program just designed, and the bomb only had time to continue to move forward for one meter before it made close contact with the turret.
At this time, the surface of the turret had begun to burn, and the high temperature made the armor of the turret soft, and in this case, the one-ton bomb actually effortlessly smashed open a large hole and fell from above into the interior of the turret.
The rocket booster engine in the tail was still ignition, and the whole bomb was like a rocket, and it swooped in.
"Boom!" The turret was blown away by the loud explosion, and this explosion was likely to have even more terrible consequences, as the detonation of the ammunition depot would make it sink into the sea in a matter of minutes, just like the Marat.
However, its fate is actually better than that of the Marat.
With the sound of the explosion, the entire battleship shook violently, and the bottom of the ship, which had been damaged, instantly appeared in a large area of cracks, and countless seawater poured in, rushing to the various compartments, and also covering the ammunition compartment at the bottom of the turret.
The propellant and warhead in the ammunition compartment were soaked in seawater, and there was no way to detonate at all.
The October Revolution as a whole is still intact, except for the devastating destruction of the turret, which makes people look a little devastation, at least there is no difference in the head.
However, it is sinking as a whole.
The first bomb had already damaged its bottom, and the shock caused by the explosion of the second bomb made his bottom irretrievable, and the sea water was constantly pouring in through the cracks below, and it was only a matter of time before the battleship sank.
The number of Stuka bombers was small, and the two Soviet battleships they focused on had been scrapped, and at this time, in the clouds, there were dive bombers constantly jumping out.
These two battleships are the main ships of the Soviet Baltic Fleet, and the rest of the warships have a displacement of no more than 10,000 tons, just some destroyers and frigates, and there are not too many targets worth attacking.
After a circle around the sea, the remaining pilots reluctantly prepared to find their targets and dive, ready to drop their bombs on those small targets.
At this moment, an order came from their headsets: "Attention, change the target, attack the shore defense guns on the shore, and leave the other warships to our fleet." ”
At this time, in the distance, where the sea and the sky meet, a fleet can already be seen arriving, and it is our own fleet coming.
Leave these small warships to your own warships to bombard, the cost of shells is very low, and they want to hit more effective targets, that is, those cannons on the shore.
Coastal artillery is the most effective way to control the coast, especially in waterways like Kronstadt, where many of these are located in fortified communities on both banks.
The largest of them, with four triple 305 mm cannons, is almost like the guns of battleships, and only one turret can be seen from the outside, but each tower fortification is a whole underground city.
Each fort is built with a 3-metre-thick concrete shell, and some fortifications are as long as 7 floors. The interior is fully equipped with facilities including: hospital, showers, kitchen, dining room and living room. Each fort had its own diesel generator with an autonomous power and water supply system. In addition, special filters and ventilation systems were installed, which guaranteed personnel to hold out in the fortress for 1 week in conditions of toxic contamination.
Such a colony of shore defense guns would be a great threat to the German battleships, and now the remaining bombers should attack these shore fortifications instead of attacking the small ships.
"Understood." As soon as they received the new order, they were immediately renewed. Each shore defense artillery position is as spectacular as a battleship, except that a considerable number of anti-aircraft guns are deployed on these coastal defense artillery positions.
Adding anti-aircraft guns to their warships requires a ship repair yard for refitting, which is very costly, almost tied to the mid-term improvement of the battleship.
However, to add anti-aircraft artillery to the shore artillery positions, it is simple, just push the towed anti-aircraft artillery over and deploy it.
At this time, the shore defense artillery positions were also in full swing.
They were very worried, they watched the German bombers wreak havoc in the sky, watched their own battleships sunk, but they just couldn't help.
Their guns couldn't hit the planes, and their anti-aircraft guns weren't in range, so they could only watch as the German bombers blew up their two capital battleships, their eyes burning with rage.
Just when they were full of fighting spirit, the Germans actually gave up bombing other warships, and actually came towards their shore defense artillery positions, which was simply looking for a fight.
"Attention, target, 2-7-0 direction, distance eight, height 37, aim." On the anti-aircraft artillery position on the side of the shore defense artillery, four 37-mm M1939 anti-aircraft guns had been deployed, and on the lookout in front of the anti-aircraft artillery position, the commander of the artillery company shouted loudly, holding his binoculars and looking at the German bomber that was flying over.
World War II was quite tragic, the Soviet-German battlefield was even more tragic, on the land of the Soviet Union, Germany lost tens of thousands of planes, countless pilots spilled blood in the sky, but what really made the Germans suffer heavy losses was not the Soviet air force, but the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery.
The current anti-aircraft gun, which shot down more than 15,000 German aircraft, is Stuka's number one opponent.
Now the Soviet anti-aircraft weapons were preparing to attack the German bombers.