Chapter 1639: Dive Attack
In air combat, the right formation can bring out the greatest power.
Experts in air combat noticed this very early on and came up with a variety of formation schemes, ranging from four-plane formations to three-plane formations, and so on.
The four-machine diamond-shaped formation looks good, but the one at the back is almost useless, and the three-machine formation is gradually popular. As the speed of the aircraft is getting faster and faster, it is already very difficult to continue to maintain a dense formation of multiple aircraft, and it will cause a collision in the air.
If the orientation is appropriate, the wingman can switch to attack at any time, so that the two sides cooperate with each other and strike the enemy together, which is the best tactic for jets.
Although there are still 50 kilometers, it is only a matter of minutes for a fighter plane flying 1,000 kilometers per hour.
The two Junkers turbojet engines roared, and the aviation fuel flowed through the fuel pump into the combustion chamber, turning into a hot gas that propel the fighters forward, and the engines in the tail brought about the optimization of efficiency, and the 24 silver-white fighters, like tigers descending from the mountains, headed towards the formation of American fighters.
At this time, the 339 fighter squadron was still flying smoothly at an altitude of 10,000 meters, Major Michael looked at his compass, looked below, and shouted on the radio: "Attention, in the airspace ahead, prepare to turn, fly south through Svalbard, and turn to an ultra-low-altitude flight state after two minutes." ”
Svalbard, an archipelago in eastern Greenland and northern Finland, was planned to be a turning point for them.
As long as they enter the ultra-low altitude, no one will be able to spot them, and the only thing they need to worry about is that they are on the right course and do not fly in the wrong direction.
No one looked backwards.
Any fighter in this era almost does not have a backward vision, even if it is a Mustang fighter, which raises the cockpit so that the pilot's vision is good, and the observation behind it is still futile and belongs to the absolute blind spot.
Maybe many people won't understand, but when the plane was built, it was like this, the pilot was behind the seat, and if you want to look back, how many degrees does your neck have to twist? Those who have practiced acrobatics since childhood are almost the same.
At the same time, no one will bother to look backwards, in the air, if you want to look backwards, then just push the lever, kick the rudder, and fly over?
It's like an airplane slowing down in the air, and there is no braking in flight, but as long as the pilot pulls up the plane and the fuselage is erected, he can use the air resistance to quickly slow down, it's that simple.
Now, the pilots of the entire formation, still immersed in the excitement of the imminent performance of the great combat mission, especially, before disengaging from radio contact, they received confirmation from the intelligence system in the rear that Ciric was already at the Berlin airfield, taking off on a plane! The time, the route, was almost exactly the same, exactly as they had deduced.
They can definitely succeed!
Eighteen Mustang fighters were scattered in the sky in a large formation, flying in the dark.
Pilot Wren, piloting his own Mustang fighter, flew at the end of the formation, he was the last to take off, and at the same time, he was in the flight mission, belonging to the substitute type, and would only play at the last moment.
At this time, his heart was not nervous, as a pilot who had only joined the U.S. Army Air Corps after Pearl Harbor, he was already a veteran of flying before he joined the army.
And the fighter in his hand also made him full of confidence, all aspects of the data prove that the performance of this aircraft is definitely not worse than the most advanced F190 of the Germans, even if it is a struggle with the advanced fighters of the Germans, he can bravely shoot down the opponent's plane!
At this time, at the end of the formation, he was a little idle, and he actually remembered his lover in New York, since he entered the army, they have gathered less and separated more, especially after piloting the Mustang fighter, he can hardly even make phone calls.
After so long, I wonder if my lover has changed her mind?
At that moment, he felt something unusual on the top of his head.
Two white smokes extended from the top of his head, and although he was thinking, after feeling something strange in the corner of his eye, his brain still used the idle process to complete the transmission of signals.
So, he looked up, and in his retina, it was already that terrible fighter!
The first characteristic of the other party is that there are no propellers!
Although the Germans had been developing jets for several years, the secrecy was well done, and after going to war, almost everyone who saw it, whether it was a jet fighter or a bomber, died.
So until now, the German jet is still a top-secret existence, and for most people, when they see an airplane without a propeller, the first glance is surprise, the second glance is surprise, and the reaction at the third glance is still surprise.
The opponent swooped down from a higher airspace, and when it swooped down, it did not attack the enemy aircraft in the tail, but rushed directly towards the center of the formation.
Blossom in the center!
To deal with a dense formation, as long as you smash down from the middle and break the middle one, then the entire formation will be scattered.
This is the most common way to deal with bomber formations, after all, bombers need to rely on their own intensive self-defense firepower to fire to complete the task of defending themselves.
A number of bombers, densely leaning together, forming an air fortress, using self-defense weapons to fire, turned into hedgehogs, making it impossible for enemy aircraft to attack at all.
At this time, it is most appropriate to smash this hedgehog from the middle and smash it open.
And against this fighter formation, this way is not the most perfect, but now Walter, I can't think too much, when they come down from a high altitude, they are facing such a huge group, so Walter came down in the middle.
Inside the aiming ring, the target grew bigger and bigger, and Wren reacted when Walter pressed the red button on the joystick, shouting loudly over the radio: "Attention, German fighters!" ”
"Tom tom!" Walter's fighters, under the nose and on both sides of the wings, 20 mm cannons made an earth-shattering sound, each gun was a three-point shot, and nine high-explosive 20 mm shells flew out of the muzzle and flew towards the target!
The whole storm bird has now become a raging bird, and the 20mm cannon it uses is even more frenzied.