Chapter 378: JU-290 Bomber
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This kind of plane, quite luxurious, the price is also very high, traveling by passenger plane, is quite beautiful, that is flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters!
And now, overhead, it's that kind of plane.
When Jack looked up, he saw the plane flying in the distance, which he recognized almost instantly with the eyes of his pilot.
With a long fuselage, wide wings, and four engines half-buried in the wings, this aircraft is the Atlantic One airliner that has been in the limelight for several years!
In the sky above their heads, there is an international route, and they often look up at this passenger plane, envious of the five-body projection.
In this era, the Swordfish attack aircraft is still an old-fashioned open-cockpit aircraft, and this passenger aircraft is already a fully enclosed pressurized cockpit, which can fly to an altitude of more than 10,000 meters!
The technology of this aircraft is really too advanced!
In the troops, they often discussed that their own aircraft would never be able to catch up with this kind of passenger plane, and even antiaircraft artillery would be ineffective against this kind of aircraft.
The reason is too simple, people fly high, and the cruising altitude is over 10,000 meters.
Although theoretically speaking, a 100-millimeter antiaircraft artillery can hit an altitude of 10,000 meters, at that altitude, the shells are not accurate at all; in fact, the current antiaircraft artillery is not capable of hitting an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, and the ability of the commander is also very high.
Therefore, if this kind of airliner is converted into a bomber, it will be a nightmare for the opponent.
Fortunately, the company Xiusi is fully engaged in the production of passenger aircraft, and until now, it seems that there is no mention of any bombers for this aircraft.
At this moment, his eyelids suddenly jumped twice, and he raised his head and stared at the sky in the distance, something was wrong, absolutely wrong.
This kind of passenger plane is quite expensive, and there are not many people who can take it, so there is only one flight a day, but what about now? In the distant sky, another one flew in!
Two airliners, on the same route? This is really unusual!
Then, when he saw the third of the same airliner flying along the route, he had already raised his heart to his throat, no, there was definitely a problem!
These are definitely not airliners!
Coming, of course, not a passenger plane, but a Junkers JU-290 bomber!
When it comes to World War II, there is a puzzling place, the German Stukka, which specializes in dive bombing, is quite proficient, however, the Germans are seriously lacking strategic bombers.
When it comes to large bombers, it is easy to think of the United States, and the B-29 is simply a powerful bomber piled up by alien technology of that era, and it is the only aircraft used to drop atomic bombs.
However, few people in Germany have heard of it.
Of course, this has to do with a lot of factors, for example, Hitler was so concerned with dive bombing that it was impossible to make large bombers dive bombing, and many projects fell on this indicator.
Like, Germany is not necessary, their target is Europe, tactical bombers are enough.
Of course, in the later period of World War II, Germany actually developed some heavy bombers, such as Henschel's He 177, which was the only heavy bomber produced in mass production in Germany in World War II.
For example, the Messersmitt Me 264, the only aircraft capable of flying to bomb the East Coast of the United States, was unfortunately not completed.
Another example is Junkers' JU-290 bomber.
Historically, Junkers also had the JU-290 project, which was a four-engine large aircraft developed by the Ju 90 aircraft, although it was called a bomber, many times, it was used to carry out reconnaissance missions and transport missions, because of the advantage in range, many times it was used to open up long-distance routes.
However, the current Junkers JU-290 bomber has nothing to do with history, this bomber is the military version of the Atlantic airliner!
The original Atlantik-1 passenger aircraft was jointly developed by Junkers and Hughes, and after that, the two companies produced their own products, while the Junkers company produced mainly for military use.
In addition to the airliner version, more, all bombers! For the sake of secrecy, very often, such bombers are trained in flight at bases in Libya, and when they fly over, they just need to transport supplies, and at the time of training, they can also use new ammunition developed from Libyan bases!
From a passenger plane, it was improved to a bomber, and there were many changes, such as the addition of a turret for self-defense, the addition of a navigator's cockpit in the front, and the internal crew compartment into a bomb bay.
However, from the ground, only a shadow can be seen, and no one can see the specific structure at all.
And now, these flying bombers belong to the 100th Air Bombing Regiment of the German Air Force, they are just hitting the front station, and in the back, there are eight more!
Ten large JU-290 bombers, pretending to be civil airliners, flew on civil aviation routes, and most of the routes were at sea, and they flew in the early morning.
Therefore, no one has noticed the clues, until now.
On the first bomber, Ludwig, the bombardier, fixed his eyes firmly on the target.
There are many problems with bombers bombing at high altitudes, for example, because of the influence of air currents, the trajectory of the bomb's slide is definitely not a complete parabola, and it is a thousand miles away, and when it goes down, it does not know where it is crooked.
Therefore, the high-altitude bombing is more carpet-type, looking almost away from the target, overwhelmingly throwing all the bombs down, without being particularly precise, covering them, all of them are finished.
But now, their target is the warships in Scapa Bay!
Only dive bombing can have enough accuracy to hit a target like a warship, and high-altitude bombing is absolutely not possible!
In the past, of course, it would not work, but now, their bomber, which carries a special bomb!
Steady his breath, Ludwig shouted loudly: "Drop the bomb!" ”