An ordinary airport in the suburbs of Paris, France.

The entire northern part of France is under German control, and this military airport is even more heavily defended.

During the day, ordinary F190 fighter jets take off from this airport, guarding the safety of Paris, which seems to be nothing unusual, but at night, the closed hangar here is opened, and from the door of the hangar, quite peculiar fighters are launched.

This is a twin-engine fighter, and by listening to the name, you will know that it is peculiar.

Because, excellent fighters are all single-engine, twin-engine fighters, and their maneuverability is much worse than that of single-engines, and just because the engines are on the wings, the overload of the aircraft is limited.

However, one of the advantages of twin engines over single engines is that the power reserve is sufficient and the carrying capacity is large, which is also the reason for the layout of the bomber with twin engines or even four engines.

However, fighters, what do you want to have a large load capacity?

If it's a daytime fighter, then it's definitely not needed, the lighter the better, however, a night fighter, it's not.

The night fighter was never born to fight the enemy's fighters, and the purpose of its existence was to intercept the enemy's bombers! If you want to fight at night, there are many restrictions, the first is how to find the target.

In this era, night fighters still mainly rely on the keen eyesight of the pilot to observe in the clear night sky, as well as more careful, serious, and patient.

Even so, being able to spot enemy bombers is more a matter of luck.

Luck alone, of course not, more on strength, such as now!

This night fighter, with two DB603 engines arranged on the sides of the fuselage, providing 1900 horsepower, is more than enough to drive this night fighter.

At the same time, the space in the nose of the aircraft is vacated.

This fighter has strange peculiarities everywhere, for example, the cockpit is almost in the nose, a huge bubble-shaped cockpit with excellent omnidirectional visibility, and at the same time, in front of the nose, there are some fork-like radar antennas.

Yes, if you want to find a target at night, you have to rely on radar! The electronic equipment of this era is still quite primitive, which will inevitably bring about a huge volume and a surge in weight, which is also the inevitable result of the use of double engines.

And to fit the nose, the aircraft uses a front three-point landing gear.

The shape is extremely special, but, since test flights have always been carried out at bases in Libya, almost no one notices the presence of such an aircraft, moreover, it flies only at night!

And tonight, it's no longer ordinary flight training, but fighting!

Captain Werner Stryber, the founder of the German night fighter unit, was also the proposer of the indicators for this He219 night fighter.

Historically, Germany was originally a modified night fighter, such as a night fighter based on the twin-engine Junkers-88, converted to a night fighter, after all, it was only an emergency fighter, and now, when Hillek put forward the target, this fighter built specifically for night combat was quickly tinkered out by the Henschel company.

At the same time, it also has a loud nickname, the owl.

Now Werner is walking across the lawn next to the runway with his own radar operator, Corporal Fisher.

This night fighter has only recently entered the low-speed production stage, and the number of equipment in the entire Luftwaffe does not exceed thirty units, and in the base here, only ten are deployed.

"The superiors asked our night fighter squadron to be vigilant, and the enemy situation would appear at any time." Captain Werner said: "We are no longer training, we are finally going to fight. ”

Hearing his words, Fisher paused for a moment: "Could it be that the British still dare to come and bomb us?" ”

Now that the British are trembling on the island of England, would the British dare to bomb in this case?

"Yes, that Churchill is a madman, and under his leadership, the whole of Britain is crazy." Werner said that at this time, in his eyes, the British are really crazy if they are not restrained, and in the whole of Europe, which country can stop the pace of German expansion?

As soon as he walked up to his fighter plane, the sound of air defense sirens sounded throughout the base.

"Quick, get up!" Werner shouted.

This combat mechanism is special, the landing gear is also very tall, ordinary fighters, without a gangway, the pilot can jump on it, but this fighter, you must use a gangway several meters high, to be able to reach the cockpit.

The two quickly climbed in, turned on the headphones, and an order came from inside: "The British bomber force has been spotted, which is taking off from the other side of the strait, and is expected to arrive in thirty minutes." ”

The German radar unit had already set up a cordon on the coastline, and because the distance was so close, that the British bomber unit had already been discovered by this side not long after it took off.

The warning time is quite sufficient.

"Received on the 01st, the first group of night fighters, all take off!" Werner shouted loudly over the radio.

Although there is still half an hour to arrive, if the other party flies to the vicinity of Paris before intercepting, of course, it will not work!

The Mercedes-Benz engines on both sides were started in turn, and the three-bladed propellers rotated, pushing the fighters to slide on the runway, and the landing gear at the first three points was very high, making the fighters flutter a little, and with the acceleration of speed, the runway lights were rapidly retreating to the back.

Werner skillfully pulled the lever, and the high landing gear in front of him was raised, and then he continued to glide forward for two seconds, and the landing gear behind him also rose.

The nearly 12-ton fuselage left the ground in this way, and this take-off process was almost as bad as a bomber.

Yes, it is this order of magnitude of weight, which exceeds a lot of light bombers! You know, the fighter of this era is almost a few tons.

The He219 night fighter is a huge fighter that can also boast a range of 2,300 kilometers at a cruising speed of 484 km/h, which is five hours of patrolling the sky!

So, after finding out that the British took off, they also began to take off!

The night sky was quiet, and one after another night fighters, taking to the skies, flew along the route west of Paris.

At this time, Werner was relatively relaxed, and their flight was guided by the command of the ground throughout the whole process, and it was far from enough to rely on their own airborne radar alone.

In later generations, airborne radars often have a detection range of hundreds of kilometers, and even perverted ones of up to hundreds of kilometers, which is enough to act as an early warning aircraft, but now, their airborne radar has an effective distance of only 4,000 meters.

At this time, while he was flying according to the ground guidance, Fisher also began to fiddle with the radar, and first warmed up the various systems, which was a meticulous job.