Chapter 196: Sea and Air Duel (I)
As soon as Gale pressed the nose of his plane, his landline JU87 began to dive headfirst, and the planes behind him also followed one after another, and a squadron of twelve planes swooped down like a large string of sugar gourds towards the aircraft carrier Radiance. The speed was getting faster and faster, and the articulation device under the belly of the machine emitted a terrible scream, more terrifying than the sound of death.
Countless bullets shuttled around Gail's landline, Gale couldn't pay attention to these, but tightly held the control stick in his hand, constantly adjusting the direction of the plane's dive, although the huge body of the Radiance aircraft carrier was still doing Z-shaped navigation, but for the JU87 that swooped down, it was basically equivalent to stationary.
JU87 dived at a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, a distance of several thousand meters, and in just a few tens of seconds, Gale dived to the distance of the bomb, Gale suddenly pulled the bomber, and the two 500-kilogram aerial bombs mounted under the wings of his plane roared down. The two aerial bombs were accelerated by the dive of JU87, coupled with the gravitational acceleration of the aerial bomb itself, and the two bombs pierced the sky like meteors and fell directly:
......Two earth-shattering explosions rang out, one of the bombs hit the target directly, and the flight deck in the middle of the aircraft carrier was completely lifted, and the fire of the aircraft carrier Guanghui was triggered. After Gale dropped the bomb, he felt that his fuselage was light, and he quickly pulled the joystick, and his landline JU87 roared and climbed quickly.
As soon as the crew of the aircraft carrier Radiance wanted to put out the fire, a second JU87 followed, and two more heavy bombs roared down. At this time, the aircraft carrier Guanghui was completely paralyzed. The speed dropped to zero, and the fire that ignited on the aircraft carrier Radiance had already enveloped the entire middle of the aircraft carrier, and thick smoke rose into the sky.
The third JU8......7 was finally shot down by the warships around the aircraft carrier Radiance, but before they could be happy, the fourth JU87 swooped down again, and two more bombs whizzed down.
"Boom ......"
The entire ammunition depot of the USS Radiance was detonated, and the explosion of the ammunition produced a powerful explosion, and countless steel fragments were thrown into the air, and the USS Radiance was finished. Four German JU87 dive bombers sent the Radiance to the bottom of the sea. Aircraft carriers of this era were not as resistant to beating as battleships, and three other British aircraft carriers were sunk or damaged. How much did the German JU87 cost? Losses are less than twenty percent.
After an air raid on a British battleship. Those JU87s, who had not yet dropped bombs, hurriedly turned to attack the British heavy cruisers, and anyway, they would hit any warship that was big. The loads of the JU87s, which attacked the seven British battleships, were different, they must have been hanging a thousand kilograms of aerial bombs, and some were torpedoes. Battleships are thick skinned and thick-skinned. Resistant to beating. A 1,000-kilogram aerial bomb or a 1,000-kilogram torpedo will have a very good effect.
The seven battleships of the British Atlantic Fleet were: HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Warweary, HMS Barham, HMS Warrior and HMS Malaya. Revenge, Royal Oak. At least these battleships are big guys of more than 30,000 tons, and the side armor is at least 300 mm. His top armor was much less, less than a hundred millimeters. The bottom of the ship is weaker, but the aircraft cannot attack the bottom of the ship.
The planes attacking the battleships were all assigned before the battle, and when the planes attacked the battleships, they sent a picture of the ship, and the pilots pasted the photo of the enemy's ship on their bridges. Nerrid was a JU87 squadron leader on the Z3 aircraft carrier, and his mission was to attack the battleship Queen Elizabeth. Don't care about the cannons on the battleship first, just say that Queen Elizabeth is on the anti-aircraft guns, it is extremely terrifying, anti-aircraft guns: 20 twin 4.45 inches/45 times the diameter, 32 40.5mm/45 times the diameter of the high-level dual-purpose guns, plus the anti-aircraft fire of the surrounding destroyers, it is definitely not so easy to attack the battleship Elizabeth.
Twelve JU87 dive bombers were assigned to Nerid, whether Neride could complete the task or not depends on his luck and organizational skills, if there is a squadron that completes the task ahead of schedule, and there is a JU87 that has not dropped bombs, it is possible to reinforce him, and the rest of the situation can only depend on his own.
"The first group dive-bombed, and the second group followed me to drop torpedoes on the left side of the Elizabeth."
"Understood...... Understand ......"
A squadron of twelve planes led by Nerid was immediately divided into two groups, the first group of six planes all carried 1,000 kilograms of aerial bombs, and the second group was, of course, 1,000 kilograms of torpedoes, according to the German staff estimates, as long as three such torpedoes were hit, it would be difficult for the battleship Elizabeth not to sink, but it was not known whether the six planes could hit three shots.
The best attack distance of the torpedo is about 1,500 meters, and it is easy to be avoided by the battleship if the distance is long, and if the torpedo is launched at 500 meters, the chance of hitting is of course higher, but the aircraft is also very dangerous.
Instead of caring about the situation of the first group, Nerid concentrated on directing his own group to carry out torpedo attacks. The Queen Elizabeth was placed by the British in the middle of many destroyers, and if Nerid wanted to drop torpedoes, he must first break through the destroyer's anti-aircraft fire network, and it was an ultra-low-altitude breakthrough, no more than 50 meters from the water surface.
The 2nd Torpedo Attack Group, under the command of Neride, was again divided into three twin attack groups, that is, a group of two aircraft:
"God bless you, break through the ......"
As he spoke, Nerrid piloted the plane towards the battleship Queen Elizabeth in the distance, and there were six destroyers on the way to the battleship Elizabeth, and the British destroyers also spotted the German JU87 dive bombers flying close to the sea. The flight speed of JU87 is not fast, only more than 400 kilometers per hour.
"Buzz...... Da Da ......"
The destroyers on both sides fired fiercely at the JU87 flying close to the sea, but the distance between this plane and the destroyer was not too far, only between 1,000 and 3,000 meters, and Nerid could not make any evasive moves, so he could only break into the fire net built by the British destroyer.
"Dada...... Woowoo...... Boom ......"
The wingman who followed Nerid was hit, and a tumbling was planted into the sea, and the torpedo carried on the plane exploded immediately because of the violent impact, and there was a loud "boom", and the JU87 immediately turned into fragments and flew all over the sky, and the water column that soared into the sky was at least 20 meters high, and after the explosion, the JU87 that had just exploded because of the splashing of aviation fuel, also burned, and the pilot must have no bones.
"Dada...... Whining...... Boom"
This low-altitude penetration is indeed not the strong point of JU87, another JU87 was shot down in just three thousand meters, and three kilometers in front of it was the Elizabeth battleship that was constantly sailing Z, Neride immediately concentrated all his attention, slightly adjusted the course, and rushed towards Elizabeth's bow.
…… (To be continued......)