788 carpet bombing

In the sky, the dense German bombers, like a flying wasp, make people's scalps tingle when they look at it.

Some of the Soviets on the ground had already seen the German horizontal bombers, some had not, but everyone knew that they would not be able to withstand more attacks.

Vatutin looked in the direction of his staff officer's finger and saw the bomber formation, which was very deadly for him.

Some planes were blocked by black smoke, while others were not. The planes have already begun to descend in altitude and are ready to drop bombs.

"The smoke was so thick that I could only see part of the city!" High in the sky, in the cabin of a JU-88 bomber, the bombardier's eyes rested on the bomb sight.

The scale of the bomb in the eyepiece is very clear, but the city below is not very clear: there is now thick smoke billowing there, and many places are obscured by black smoke.

Through the precise scales, the earth beneath his feet seemed to be very close to him. He could even see the details of the burning buildings on the ground, and the streets where he didn't know if it was a man or a horse moving and running.

The precision bombsight from the United States is a kind of precision aiming equipment, which is very accurate, and can allow the aircraft to maintain a fairly high bomb delivery accuracy at an altitude of about 5,000 meters.

It was thanks to this advanced bomb-targeting equipment that the B-17 bombers were able to use high-altitude bomb-dropping tactics to bomb Germany's industrial areas at high altitudes in real history.

At an altitude of 10,000 meters, at least for targets of the city level, such a bomb sight is effective, or at least somewhat effective.

Today, the Germans have copied the sight and improved its performance, taking advantage of the strengths of others and perfecting its design and precision.

So the bombing accuracy of German bombers can be said to be the best in the world, and German pilots and bombardiers are also the most professional in the world!

The direct effect of the combination of the two powers is that the combat effectiveness of German bombers is very strong, and often a single air attack can paralyze a small and medium-sized city.

"JU-87, those guys, have blown this place to ruins! Damn it! What other targets do we have to bomb? Another bombardier was on the radio, whining loudly.

Under their feet, there were indeed explosions and black smoke everywhere, and Vladimir could not be seen at all.

"Navigator! Pilot! I can't see the ground references! The smoke is too thick! The driver also confirmed on another channel.

They couldn't see the original appearance of the city on the ground, so they had no way to determine if it was the target area, so they had to check as they got closer.

"There was nothing wrong with radio navigation! Here is indeed Vladimir! Set up a new bomb reference! Get ready to start dropping bombs! "After the front-line commander and the pilot aircraft confirmed, the order to drop the bomb was given.

"Quick! Start dropping bombs! Start dropping bombs! In the midst of the hurry, the command came from the radio headset, and everyone was repeating the command over and over again, and there was a cacophony in the headset.

"Click......!" The machinery began to roll, and the hatch of the bomb bay under the belly of the aircraft opened, revealing the bombshell hanging inside.

There is a difference between the design of the German bomber and the bomb hanging of today's bombers, and all the bombs inside the bomb bay are hung with the warhead facing up.

After these bombs are separated from the bomber, they will be turned around due to the influence of the air current, and then the air flow will be sorted out with the tail fin, and finally form a downward falling posture.

"I'm starting to drop bombs!" The bomber bomber flying in front shouted loudly, and then pressed the bomb drop button.

Carpet bombing is a new type of bombing technology summed up by the Luftwaffe in actual combat, and the formation of tactics was generally formed when supporting the Franco regime in the Spanish Civil War.

At that time, Luftwaffe planes always flew over the target area together, agreeing to drop bombs together, a tactic they called "dwarf bombing carpet".

Who knew that nowadays, carpet bombing is officially classified as a bombing technique by the Luftwaffe, and it is used in combat to destroy enemy targets in large cities.

This tactic matured during the bombing of Britain, and the Luftwaffe carpet bombed many cities in southern England.

"Bomb dropping begins! Bomb Dropping Begins! Inside the headset, the command to drop the bomb sounded over and over again, and the bombardiers on the German bombers had already pressed the bomb drop switch.

Inside the magazines behind them, one bomb after another had broken away from the pylons, and then fell into free fall to the ground, forming a dense scatter in the air.

The bomb has a beautiful aerodynamic shape, and because it has to adjust its attitude in the air, it is also quickly dispersed due to the disturbance of the air current.

The bombs then formed a parabola and ended up inside the city of Vladimir, which was emitting smoke.

"Boom!" When the first explosion sounded, the whole earth trembled, and Vatutin, seeing the bombs scattered in the sky, knew that the suffering of the whole city was coming.

At this time, all he could do was to be dragged by his subordinates and escape as much as possible from the area covered by German planes.

When the second bomb exploded, the interval was not obvious, the explosion was also in the same direction, and then there was a loud sound of a third explosion.

It was as if a giant was smashing the dwarf's house on the ground with its huge feet, and the explosions were one after the other, destroying all the houses it encountered into fragments.

It was a terrible thing, but what was even more terrible was that the explosion was getting closer and closer to him, and there was no way to escape.

Vatutin is so desperate now, because he sees the explosion in the distance, and he sees the explosion getting closer and closer to himself.

"Boom!" The explosion was a little closer, and the roof of the house a few blocks away from him was blown off.

There were even people in the room, who were blown into the sky by the explosion. The cries and cries for help in the streets had stopped, for the landslide-like sound of the explosion had drowned out all other sounds.

Vatutin's eyes closed in despair, and he also felt that dying in battle at such a time might be a good destination for himself.

There is no longer any need to worry about someone slandering him for holding Stalin hostage; There is no longer any need to worry about Stalin's safety and Stalin's untimely demands.

Just as he was thinking about this, he was knocked down, and then the huge explosion and suffocating smoke rolled in, causing Vatutin to lose consciousness.