Chapter 1602 Bombing the Air Base

If it is an aircraft coming at an ultra-low altitude to attack, how much reaction time is left for the airbase?

Even in the Korean War, there were still American F86s going around in circles near the bases of the Volunteer Army, specifically hitting those planes that were landing.

And now, the Soviet Air Force is indeed in full swing, but their eyes are on the west, who would have thought that the Germans would actually come up from the east?

The development of long-range bombers, how important it is to achieve strategic suddenness, although the Junkers 88 is a medium-range bomber, it also has a range of 2,000 kilometers, and it is no problem to take off at a front-line airfield and go around in a circle.

Now, when the German bombers were spotted, the whole base instantly became tense.

On one side of the forest, there was an anti-aircraft artillery position, but at this time, the twin anti-aircraft guns were aimed in the direction of the west, and at this time, the anti-aircraft gunners were nervously rotating the direction wheels rapidly, hoping that their anti-aircraft guns could reach each other.

However, at this time, the Junkers-88 has already entered a state of dive!

"Ten, nine, eight...", Barak, the bombardier, counted down, and when the countdown reached zero, his hand pressed the bomb button fiercely.

Four 500-kilogram bombs fell from the bomb bay, and the Junkers-88, a dive-capable bomber, also had a bomb load of two tons.

"Boom!" In the sky, these bombs exploded, and countless tiny steel balls were sprinkled and fell from the sky.

The most effective weapon against the air base is this kind of submunitions, those unexploded warheads, is the biggest lethal weapon, as long as the first plane drops the bomb, the base here is abandoned!

At this time, Vitaly did not even have a chance to force a take-off, and by the time the lookout post spotted the enemy aircraft, the enemy had already climbed to the highest point and then entered a state of diving, and they could only dodge.

Avoid!

In the woods, they ran around trying to find a safe place.

It was temporary, so temporary that there were no hangars, no bomb shelters, and when the bombs overhead fell, only the trees could provide them with shelter.

"Boom!"

A steel ball collided with a tree, and then there was an explosion, and on the tree, an arm-thick branch was blown off, and it fell and smashed heavily into a fighter plane below.

If you look at the weight, this broken branch is not heavy, but when it falls from a tall tree, the gravitational potential energy is converted into kinetic energy, which is enough to damage the structure of the aircraft.

It smashed into the rear fuselage, and under the huge impact, the rear fuselage of the P-39 was hard-to-bear, but there were finger-thick cracks in the fuselage, and in the cracks, aviation fuel was gurgling out.

It's been smashed!

"Boom! Boom, boom! "More than a dozen steel balls, like scattered flowers of the heavenly maidens, smashed into the anti-aircraft artillery position, the anti-aircraft artillery men were still nervously turning the direction machine, when the explosion passed, the entire anti-aircraft artillery position, there was a blur of flesh and blood.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Most of the steel balls fell on the dirt runway, hundreds of small steel balls exploded together, bringing a very spectacular scene, the runway was blown up in dust in an instant, each cannonball, can kick up dust several meters high, just like a fountain, swaying into the sky.

Even if it can only blow up a half-meter-deep crater, it will be impossible for the plane to take off, and those small steel balls embedded in the soil that do not explode will make the life of the base personnel worse than death.

Here, it has been blown up.

If this was all there was, of course, the Luftwaffe would not be satisfied, and the complete destruction of the sortie capability of the Soviet Air Force was their goal.

Then, the second, the third, bombers, flew over.

Dense steel balls, constantly falling from the sky, explosions everywhere, and an apocalyptic scene everywhere.

One of the ground crew screamed as one of his legs was blown off and he rolled back and forth on the ground until it hit another steel ball, and his entire body was blown away.

The plane, which had just been smashed and leaked, was hit by another steel ball, and the plane immediately burst into flames.

No one dared to move, they all knew what was falling, and if they accidentally stepped on those steel balls, they would die a terrible death.

They are trapped.

Vitaly hid under a big tree, his hands clenched into fists, this was a shame, he had enough combat ability to go up to heaven to wash away the Soviet shame, but here he was attacked by the Germans!

At the same time, questions also popped up in his mind, the addresses of the bases were all secret, and even changed every few weeks, how did the Germans find out?

Well, it must have been that Leonid Gomi! That damn guy!

At this moment, the last two bombers came up, and unlike the other bombers, these two bombers did not turn into a dive to drop bombs, at an altitude of 800 meters, they directly dropped their bombs.

Other planes were all four 500-kilogram bombs, but this time, they dropped only one.

When the bomb fell, Vitaly froze, as if he had a premonition of something, staring blankly at the whereabouts of the two bombs.

Bombers, dropping bombs, are accelerating, desperately climbing upwards.

At an altitude of five hundred meters, those two bombs exploded.

The other bombs were all steel balls that fell one after another, and after these two bombs exploded, they only quickly dispersed the white mist, drifted around, and quickly enveloped the place.

The last two are the Germans' big killers, thermobaric bombs.

In the beginning, German thermobaric bombs were all large, and they were carried by Junkers 290 bombers, which were of course used to destroy cities, and large bombs were needed to do so.

However, if the restrictions are lifted, thermobaric bombs can be of any size, as small as a rocket, and can carry a thermobaric warhead to hit people in caves, fortifications, and such enclosed buildings.

Now, a two-ton thermobaric bomb is simply suitable for destroying such a small air base.

"Boom!" The second explosion suddenly came, and the entire enveloped place instantly turned into flames, and blazing flames appeared in front of everyone, and they were in this flame.

The entire base is in flames, the forest is burning, the warplanes are burning, and everyone is also burning.