Chapter Eighty-Six: Sorrow Urges Hand Puller
Navy Commander Erich Raeder, the new admiral Karl von Dönitz and others were on the bridge, and even Colonel Gonther Lütjens was on the ship, but there was no place for him on the bridge, he stood in a position on the deck, his eyes fixed on the sky. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The visibility on this day, not quite good, the clouds overhead, somewhat thick, and now, almost all conditions, are favorable for the aircraft!
Colonel Lütjans remembered the last trip to the East, and he admired Ciric from the bottom of his heart, so in the navy, Colonel Lütjans gradually changed his concept, believing that the advantage of fighters over warships would become greater and greater!
In the distant sky, there was a rumbling, and from the clouds, several biplanes, drilled out!
He51 is an aircraft specially launched by Henschel for the Luftwaffe! It's a pity that the technology of this aircraft is still lagging behind, and the biplane aircraft is facing elimination!
The BMW 6 water-cooled engine in front of the nose roared incessantly, the propeller in front of it rotated rapidly, and when it emerged from the clouds, the pilots quickly spotted the target in the open cockpit.
"Attention, attack now!" The captain of the formation, Werner Mulders, who was only 20 years old, shouted loudly.
In World War II in later generations, Germany's aces were innumerable, and the top few were all super aces who shot down more than 300 planes, and if only 100 planes were shot down, they were almost not ranked.
However, Werner is still the most famous in the Luftwaffe, because he was the first to accumulate 100 victories, and he is also a German ace pilot!
At first, for propaganda purposes, after shooting down a hundred planes, he was hidden in the snow and forbidden to continue to fight, and his results were mainly obtained in the skies over Spain and Britain, and not many on the Eastern Front of the Soviet Union.
At this time, he was born in 1913, and now he is in his youngest years, his face is thin, and at this time, wiping the lenses on his goggles with a pilot's scarf, he pushes the nose of the plane.
The whining sound became dull, and as it dived downward, the HE51 biplane let out a roar.
Dive Attack!
After many studies, Werner has long been quite clear about the anti-aircraft fire of the Deutschland, 3 88mm anti-aircraft guns, 8 37mm anti-aircraft guns, these anti-aircraft guns seem to defend the Deutsche like an iron barrel, but there are gaps in the fire network of the anti-aircraft guns!
From the top, dive straight down to avoid the fire!
However, for such a biplane, a direct dive, it is a great danger, and such a wooden aircraft, if it is too fast, it can easily disintegrate in the air!
As a pilot of the German Air Force, he was not afraid of anything!
Five fighters, aiming at the front of the Deutschland-class!
The most combat-effective 88-mm anti-aircraft guns are arranged on the two sides of the tail and in the middle, and due to the blocking of the bridge and the mast, they cannot take care of the firing range in front at all, so only the 37-mm anti-aircraft guns can effectively provide anti-aircraft gun cover in the front!
"Attention, target spotted!" At this moment, at every gun position, the commander holding the telescope was shouting loudly, and the biplanes were quite clear on the reticle line inside the telescope.
"Direction 0-3-6, two close positions to the right, height 75, shoot!"
Shoot!
Following the command of the commander, the gunner stepped on the firing machine.
"Boom! Rumble! "Two cannon shots, two anti-aircraft artillery shells with trainer warheads, flew up.
Yes, there are only two!
Because, this 37-mm anti-aircraft gun uses a hand-pulled machine!
What do you mean? It's a single-shot loadout!
At this time, there was also a loader standing next to him, and the loader carried a nursery bag around his neck, in which a cannonball was placed, and after this shell was fired, the second round was urgently loaded!
The hand speed is fast enough, and even the indicators given by the anti-aircraft artillery design unit can reach 80 rounds per minute, but in fact, those who can shoot 8 shells in one minute are absolutely geniuses!
This is the tragic German ship-based anti-aircraft artillery! The hand-pulled machine that has been criticized by countless people in later generations! Single-shot reloading! Think it's a sniper rifle? The rest of the anti-aircraft guns, at least five rounds! If you want to hit a target in the air, you have to shoot multiple shots in succession!
Needless to say, the current Deutsche and even the later Bismarck use the same hand-pulled machine!
At the beginning, after the construction of the Bismarck, it set sail in a mighty way, and killed the Hood in the first battle, but was hit by the old biplane "Swordfish" torpedo plane on the aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" and hit the steering gear, resulting in inconvenient course operation, and finally was "beaten to death" by the British Home Fleet.
You don't have to lament the fate of Bismarck, just think about it, and you will know the performance of the 37-mm anti-aircraft guns used by Germany! The biplane can't even shoot down!
And now, in the face of the He51 that jumped out of the overhead, more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns fired together, it seemed that the scene was spectacular enough, and the flames erupted from the muzzle, making people feel a kind of majesty, as if the next moment, they would be able to beat the plane down!
But the tracer anti-aircraft shells flew by, and they were still far from the He51!
The three 88-mm anti-aircraft guns in the back, firing only two or three shells, stopped firing and already exceeded their firing range!
And several 37-mm anti-aircraft guns in front of them were still firing slowly, one shot, another shot, and before the opponent's attack arrived, they fired an astonishing five shells!
Five shots!
If it is a Bofors 40mm gun, the maximum rate of fire is 150 rounds per minute, and the actual rate of fire is also about 110 rounds per minute, the firepower density is strong enough, and the current hand-pulled machine can hit targets in the sky, it is definitely a super explosion of character!
Moreover, now the warship is constantly shaking, which makes it even more difficult to aim and shoot! Every anti-aircraft artilleryman was shooting with all his might at this time, but no matter how hard they tried, it was useless!
Werner felt the whirring cold wind, at this time, his plane had already flown over the opponent's firepower network, and on the sea, the outline of the big ship was so clear!
Bombing!
Werner pressed the button, and the two bombs hanging in the belly of the fuselage fell slowly!
After dropping the bomb, Werner slowly pulled the lever, and now the speed has reached 500 kilometers per hour! The maximum level flight speed of this aircraft is only 330 kilometers per hour! At this speed, the overload is slightly larger, and the plane may disintegrate!
And now, his altitude is already very low, he pulls up, flips at the same time, and almost sees his wings, which are about to rub into the sea, before he resumes level flight!
Just now, if you slow down, you will have close contact with the sea, and the plane will be destroyed and people will die! It's really exciting!
Following him, the second He51, also dropped bombs!