Chapter 683: The Bombardment of Gao Qiangge
Enter the bombing route!
The pilot aircraft is the lead, and the bombers behind have lowered their flight altitude, and in order to complete the bombing of this factory, there are a total of 30 Junkers-290s, which is enough for a carpet bombing in the full sense!
If it was daytime, in order to avoid ground artillery fire, they could fly at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters, where even anti-aircraft artillery could not reach, but now, because it was night and the other side did not have the slightest defense, they boldly lowered the altitude to 4,000 meters.
After entering the bombing route, Ludwig became even more nervous, which meant that the bombing was about to begin, you know, it used to be during the day, but now, they changed it to night!
There was only one chance, and after this bombing, the British would definitely be on alert, and it would be impossible for them to easily bomb the aircraft factory again.
Lights have been controlled in the London area, but the factory at Bronwich Castle is still brightly lit.
Let the workers work in the dark? That's impossible! Moreover, no one expected the German bombers to patronize, and they even had the street lights shining on the roads inside the factory, after all, in the process of production, the factory needed to constantly transport various components.
"Where the idiot, put the street lamp upside down." A trailer transporting wings is passing through the road in the factory area, and wants to transport it to the factory area of the final assembly, which is a kilometer-long factory road, and he doesn't know how many times a day.
There are not a lot of street lights, but a few of them are actually installed upside down! Other street lamps are reflectors on the top and bulbs on the bottom, so that they can shine on the ground, but this street lamp is actually a reflector on the bottom and the bulb on the top, what a stupid person can do it!
The driver cursed while thinking about waiting until daytime to find an electrician to repair it, the electrician has been tired recently, and it is dangerous to work with electricity at night, so he has to wait until daytime, and the street lights will be powered off before they can be used.
He didn't know that this reversed street lamp was deliberate, the German agents who were ambushed in this factory deliberately reversed this street lamp, if a row of street lamps were reversed, it would definitely attract attention, and now, it was just a few reversed in the factory.
On the ground it doesn't make a difference, but in the air, it looks famous.
On the dark earth, there was a glimmer of light in that factory area, and now, the light of the street lamp could be seen very clearly on the bomber. Moreover, these street lamps vaguely form a cross mark!
Next, it's up to you!
After reconfirming that there was no problem with the route and that the British Spitfire factory was in front of him, Ludwig carefully adjusted the bombing sights in front of him and aimed them at the light.
Now, he can rest for a while and leave it all to the bombing sights!
During World War II, the American B-29 bomber had two secrets, the most important of which was the novel bombing sight invented by Dutch engineer Carl Norton.
The set includes a stabilizer and sights.
The stabilizer is a working platform that uses gyroscopes to keep it level, and its role is to provide a stable working platform for sights. Moreover, the stabilizer will work in conjunction with the bomber's autopilot, which can directly control the aircraft to maintain horizontal flight. The most sophisticated are sights, which include a mechanical analog computer for calculating the impact point, a small telescopic eyepiece, and a sophisticated system of motors and gyroscopes that move the telescope to keep the aiming point on the ground in view.
It is precisely because of this advanced bombing sight that the US B-29 bombers were able to carry out unscrupulous bombing at an altitude of 10,000 meters when bombing island countries, giving full play to the effect of high-altitude bombing.
And now, German bombers, also equipped with similar bombing sights, have been intensively studied in Libyan bases for five or six years, and have only recently been fully put into practical use, and only a few have been provided for each Junkers-290 bomber unit to equip the long planes.
On the side of the bombing sight, there is a cloud of thermite, and if the bomber is shot down or forced to land on enemy territory, the first thing the crew will do is to destroy this sight, which is even two or three years ahead of the current United States!
Assembled internally with more than 2,000 precision parts and using a large number of precision gears and ball bearings, this instrument is quite advanced and at the same time, it is very simple to use.
Using the telescope to find the target, that is, the light of the light bulb on the ground that is out of the line in advance, although it looks faint, can be determined.
Next, place the target in the middle of the field of view and turn on the power switch on the bombing sight.
After that, everything is automatic, the telescopic eyepiece servo motor will ensure that the eyepiece is always aimed at the selected target, and the entire aircraft is controlled by the bombing sight, and finally the bomb is automatically dropped by the sight.
The bombers in the back, as long as they keep up, are enough to bomb together.
It would be unsettling to leave everything to the machine, and after completing the aiming steps, Ludwig was still staring at the sights.
Closer and closer, closer and closer, two of them adjusted direction, and finally, before reaching the sky above the target, the cabin door slammed open.
One bomb after another, dropping, eight tons of bombs, all 500 kg of free-fall bombs, a total of sixteen, mounted on the front and rear sets of revolver pylons.
One bomb after another fell, the plane was noticeably lighter, and Ludwig shouted: "The bombing is complete, in the airspace ahead, prepare to turn around and return!" ”
Hearing this, the pilot pulled the lever and the bomber began to climb, which was also an auxiliary measure to avoid a collision with the back.
At the same time, the bombers behind also began to drop bombs in turn.
At this time, the bombs that were dropped first were flying forward and downward.
The accuracy of horizontal bombing is very poor, which is caused by various reasons, in short, even the shape of the bomb and even the paint on the surface will affect its aerodynamic performance, and in this era without electronic computers, no one can accurately calculate the trajectory of a bomb falling at close to the speed of sound.
Therefore, the plan of the German bomber fleet is carpet bombing, even if the accuracy error is three square kilometers, then cover your area of three square kilometers!
Moreover, they lowered the altitude, and the bombs dropped on four thousand meters, at a speed almost close to the speed of sound, landed, and the first bomb was only fifty meters away from the target, this street lamp!
When he heard the sound overhead, the driver poked his head out and looked at the sky, and then, he saw a black shadow, descending rapidly from the darkness, and in an instant, he felt horror, the reverse street lamp, shining on the black shadow, into his retina.
That's a big bomb!
"Boom!" The bomb exploded almost a dozen meters away from him!