Chapter 1574 Flying to Munich
It's already located in the Arctic Circle, and during the summer, the night time is very short, and most of the time, the sky is bright.
At the same time as the submarine was sending oil supplies, there was also a high-speed speedboat from the direction of the inland river, which brought in some bombs.
"Attach these bombs to the plane." Waslsjego said.
Although there was no data on the American bomber when it was manufactured, this bomb could be put in the bomb bay of the Tu-4 bomber just right, and each bomb was about eight tons, which was exactly within the payload capacity of the Tu-4 bomber.
Wearing a fur coat, you can still feel the cold wind blowing on your face, and in the entire 890 bomber regiment, only Wasltzyego knows what this bomb is.
Of course, this is also for the sake of secrecy, so that this bombing can go smoothly.
"Regiment commander, the order from Moscow has come down, and Operation Hellfire has begun." At this moment, a telegraph operator took the telegram and said to Wasltzjego.
Hellfire, fire of revenge, let this terrible flame burn in the land of Germany proper!
"Okay, now start eating immediately, and in an hour, take off on a mission!" Wasltzjego looked at the 24-hour watch he was wearing on his arm and said.
It would be a long voyage, more than twenty hours back and forth, and they needed to have a good meal before leaving.
At the same time, for some, it will be their last meal.
The night fighters of the Germans were very powerful.
"It's great that I can finally go and teach the Germans a lesson." When the news of the order was given, the others did not feel so sad, and for them it was a good opportunity to beat the Germans!
In war, where there are immortals.
The pilots' meals were the best, and the meals before departure were quite sumptuous, and each pilot had a bulging belly and then got on the plane in turn.
"Ready to take off." Wasselzjego's plane was the first in line, and he sat next to his seat and watched as the pilot, Libergo, started the engines one by one, and was relieved when all four engines had made their normal roar.
The Americans' aircraft has not solved the problem of engine overheating until now, and at the same time, there has been no start-up test in severe cold areas, thanks to the rich experience of the Soviet ground crew, this aircraft is well maintained.
Slowly pushing the throttle of the four engines to the maximum, Liebergo released the brakes.
At this time, it was the state of the maximum fuel load, and with the bombs, the take-off weight of the entire aircraft reached a terrible figure of 60 tons, which made its take-off even slower.
The four were launched, each bursting with a maximum power of 1,600 kilowatts, and even then, it was only slowly pulled up as the plane slid forward to the end of the runway.
Fly!
Libero carefully operated the plane and slowly climbed, and by this time, the plane had already left the land, and the blue sea below was first, and soon it turned into white ice, and it had reached the sky above the North Pole!
The meteorological conditions here are quite harsh, even if you climb to an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, there will still be bad meteorological conditions, and you may even suddenly encounter a downdraft.
Even then, it could not stop the bombers of the brave Soviets.
Behind them, one after another Tu-4 bombers took off, fighters built with the most advanced technology from the United States, and its reliability was quite high, and none of them dropped their chains.
Twenty Tu-4s, even if they could not completely destroy Munich, would have brought heavy casualties, so large that the Germans could not bear it!
When the formation entered the cruising state, the most nervous thing was the navigator Ensign Garnay, this route was their first flight, he had to take the whole formation to the right place!
One of the biggest problems is navigation, in this era, the magnetic compass is still the most common way of navigation, the Soviets simply did not have the time and energy to develop advanced radio navigation, and radio navigation is straight navigation, this way of walking around the North Pole, even the Germans can't do it.
And near the North Pole, the magnetic compass is quite unstable.
Verkhniy Garnay was constantly calculating, marking on charts, drawing lines, and he couldn't go wrong!
In the white North Pole, there are no landmarks to use at all, so his first navigation point will directly cross thousands of kilometers and arrive in Finland for the first route confirmation.
Before that, he was the most nervous.
The boredom of flying high in the air, especially the gunners and the like, can almost sleep well now.
Sure enough, the capitalist thing is good, when you climb to the rest area in the middle, the side walls here are wrapped in leather, which is as soft as a woman's skin, and it is very pleasant to sleep.
Little by little, after two pilot turns by Ensign Upper Garnay, at last, the white North Pole disappeared, the blue sea disappeared, and at the same time, the day was fading and slowly moving into night.
It is simply odious that Finland, the odious country that had been engaged in border wars with the Soviets for several years, should now send troops to attack the north-west of the Soviets.
Luckily, this time you're not aiming for you, otherwise, you'd have turned the Finnish capital into a sea of fire!
"There's Muonio ahead, we're on the right course, and if we continue south, we'll fly over the Baltic Sea, over Poland. There is still an hour and a half to the target, so be careful, you may encounter interception by German fighters. Liberty shouted.
After a long flight, overcoming the shortcomings of the magnetic compass, he managed to bring his formation to the skies over Finland and find the first navigation point, which was not easy.
At this time, his heart was proud.
With the continuous defeat of the Soviets, Finland has long been no longer a threat, so Finland did not impose martial law at night, and the famous ski city, which can be seen clearly from the sky, must not be wrong.
"Be careful, Finnish airspace has been entered, be vigilant." Waslsjego shouted over the radio.
With his shouting, the resting gunners and others in the various bombers finally ended their comfortable sleep and went to their posts, and the battle was about to begin.
Now, it was dark below, and at an altitude of 10,000 meters, twenty B-29 bombers, driven by the air currents of the North Pole, headed southwest at an economic speed of 400 kilometers per hour.
Wasltsyego would never have known that his call on the radio had exposed him.
It is advisable to maintain radio silence throughout the voyage, because German electronics are well developed.
Inside the German embassy in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, the listeners at an electronic listening desk frowned.
"If you receive a suspicious signal, report it to your superiors immediately." The listener shouted, "Request to decipher it as soon as possible." ”