Chapter 625: Air Force Tactics
It was past 10 o'clock when Lin Jun returned to his home in Moscow that night, and because he had received a call from her husband before nightfall, Vuginskaya had already fallen asleep when Lin Jun arrived home. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info She has two more surgeries tomorrow and needs to rest early.
Lin Jun didn't plan to wake up his wife, and after going to the bathroom to take a shower, he went to the study to read the documents for nearly an hour before returning to the bedroom.
It can be seen that his wife is really tired, and she didn't wake up until Lin Jun turned off the lights and fell asleep.
At seven o'clock the next day, Vuginskaya woke up her husband to find that the nanny had already prepared breakfast. A few minutes after 7:30, Vasily arrived on time.
"Luna, why are you here?"
Unexpectedly, Svetlana also came with her brother, and her spirit was like a happy bird.
"The school was out of classes, so I was waiting to get my diploma, and my father wouldn't let me go to the youth service to help, so I finally had a chance to go out and hang out, and my father didn't worry."
"Hehe, it's okay, come with us for a walk."
Vukinskaya's driver was already waiting for her, and Lin Jun didn't delay, leaving the house on time at half past seven.
Bulletproof sedan Risvetlana sat on Lin Jun's right hand, and Vasily sat opposite RandskΓ³zy. In the morning, there are not many people on the streets of Moscow, and through the car windows you can see the air-proof balloons in the air, the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns deployed in several roadside parks, and the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine gun positions surrounded by sacks on the roofs of some high-rise buildings.
As soon as she left the Kremlin, Svetlana was like a little swallow out of her cage, chattering and asking about what was happening on Vasily's front.
The bulletproof car is very well sealed, there is not much noise in the car, and you can hear softly and clearly. "Vasily, what did Brother Andrei say to you yesterday about the 190 and 109 fighters, are they powerful? I've seen pictures of the German's Mercedes 109 fighter jets, but I haven't seen the Fokker 190 you mentioned. β
Every school in the Soviet Union now has a national defense education class, senior students receive military training, and Svetlana is actively involved, although she has not seen pictures of the latest German fighter jets.
Vasily would satisfy his sister's curiosity and said: "After a while, you will see the real 109 fighters, we have them in Zhukov, captured ones, and there are technical tests and air combat confrontation tests, but you can't say it." β
"Understood, rest assured!"
Of course, rest assured, Svetlana has never said anything about the Kremlin since she was sensible, which is a good habit developed by deliberate teaching and the subtle influence of the environment.
Now Lin Jun knows the performance of the tested Mercedes 109F and the latest G type, like the Me-109F, the maximum level flight speed at sea level is 510 km/h, at an altitude of 3000 meters is 559 kilometers per hour, once higher than 3000 meters, the maximum speed of the F type will decrease with the increase of altitude.
In terms of speed alone, the Mercedes 109F has almost the same maximum level flight speed as the original Soviet Yak-1 fighter, but it is slower than the Yak at altitudes below 3,000 meters.
Of course, the performance of an aircraft is not determined by its maximum speed alone.
The performance of the latest 109G type seized is significantly higher than that of the F type, like the maximum speed, only the sea level state is 5 kilometers slower than the F type, and the other heights are exceeded: the sea level speed is 505 per hour, the height of 1000 meters is 535, 2000 meters 564, 3000 meters 586, to 6000 meters is 621, 7000 meters of maximum speed is the highest, reaching 650 kilometers per hour, to 10,000 meters can also reach the maximum speed of 603 kilometers per hour.
"The 109 you said actually has several models, the old ones are trivial, but the latest style is really a bit difficult to deal with, similar to our lager 5, if you encounter it, it depends on luck and the pilot's skills."
Svetlana hurriedly said, "Then you hurry up, have you beaten down?" β
Lin Jun looked at the brother and sister with a smile on the side, and said to Vasily: "Tell Luna, the German spies can't catch her, and I also want to know about the situation of the grassroots troops in the century." β
Vasily couldn't talk nonsense to his sister, but Lin Jun didn't say it the same when he opened his mouth.
"The Model G has killed two planes, just on the 20th of last month. In actual combat, we found that the 109G has a speed advantage over our original Yak-1 and Lage 3 aircraft at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, which is similar to my Lage 5. Marshal, you also know the importance of speed in air combat, and the troops below have been trying to eliminate the speed advantage of German aircraft. β
When it comes to troop operations, Vasily does not casually call Lin Jun by his name.
"In Sergey's original rag 3 to 109G model, there should be no disadvantage in maximum speed, what's going on?" Lin Jun had a hint of doubt.
"That's because the Sergei unit has experienced mechanics, and the pilots are the best, and they do a good job of aircraft maintenance, and other troops generally can't do that kind of logistics support, just like our regiment couldn't reach it before."
"It turns out that when I first arrived in Ukraine, I and other pilots often complained that our lag could not reach the speed stated on the performance table, and I don't know how many times I scolded the manufacturing plant. Later, after the consultation of the mechanics, many problems were discovered. For example, the propellers of some engines are not properly calibrated and simply do not reach the speed that they were designed to have. In addition, the landing gear of some aircraft has a gap of a few millimeters from the lower wing surface after the retracted position, which causes the landing gear to protrude in several places during flight.
The worst thing is that the spraying of paint is often problematic, there are protrusions everywhere, and the worst quality is potholes to the touch! There are also problems such as the canopy not opening or closing in the air. In the end, we solved all the problems, I became a paint polisher, and the plane not only reached the original design speed, but even exceeded it. β
"This is a problem, but all the manufacturing plants are operating at full capacity, and even this is how they can't meet the needs of the front-line troops, so they can only improve slowly."
Lin Jun also has helplessness: he still has the name of the boss of the equipment department, and he knows the practical difficulties in the production below: the workers are about to take their lives in order to produce weapons and equipment, and it is inevitable that some batches of equipment will have some minor flaws.
"If possible, the quality of factory production to be guaranteed must be grasped, and the experience must be promoted to all grassroots units, and it is not enough to expect the factory to solve it." Lin Jun said.
"We pilots can understand this, otherwise we would have written a letter to complain a long time ago." The pilots at the grassroots level also understood the difficulties of the factory, so they just complained and complained. "Honestly, Marshal, the advanced tactics you created in Zhukov are very effective in practice, but there are still some new pilots that can only be learned in the army."
"Then you leave it to them."
Zhukov was the cradle of the new tactics of the "academics", and more effective new tactics needed to be acquired in battle.
"It's been done a long time ago, and the other veteran pilots are also passing on the actual combat experience and tactics learned during training to those rookies. For example, some veteran pilots often say that the disadvantage in speed can be compensated for by the advantage in altitude, because the use of dive can increase the speed very quickly. In real combat, if we had a high superiority over the German 109, the Germans would rarely go into battle, and generally chose to retreat and flee, knowing that in that case the speed of their aircraft would not protect them from attacks from above. β
"In the test, whether it is a 109F or a G, it will not maintain its maximum speed for more than a minute or two in horizontal flight, and its liquid-cooled engine will overheat quickly and the coolant will boil. If 109 encounters a Jacques or Rag with a high advantage, it will have a hard time using its speed advantage to break away. β
Lin Jun also gave Vasily some more experience.
"Oh, the new intelligence in this unit has already mentioned, generally 109 is to carry out a rapid attack, quickly dive and then quickly climb high and break away. β
"Climb rate and airspeed are both altitude dependent, and if you fly higher than enemy aircraft, you can maintain sufficient energy to quickly ascend at a large angle after a dive attack. The Germans often did this, and Sergei mentioned in his report to the Air Force Committee that because the Germans often used such tactics, some of our new pilots had the wrong impression of the 109: seeing the 109 rushing past the side at a very high speed and immediately climbing quickly, forgetting that this was only achieved by relying on a short increase in speed by the advantage of altitude, and by clever tactics, and not by a higher performance aircraft.
Negatively affected by these personal impressions, some pilots often assume that the 109 has an unbelievable advantage that actually does not exist. β
"Vasily, in fact, as long as you have a height advantage of a few hundred meters over 109 in air combat, you can easily win the battle. The real decisive factor in the victory or defeat of the air is tactics, and the most important thing is the ability to occupy a favorable position against the enemy. β
"Can you say something I understand? I don't really understand. β
"Little girl, don't make noise, let's talk about business!" Vasily knocked his sister's head with two fingers.
"Your brother and I are talking about war, and we will be."
"Oh. Boring! β
Svetlana was a little bored, and she would have set up a half-understood audience.
After dismissing his sister, who had a little opinion, Vasily continued: "In actual combat, we found that German fighter pilots rarely do horizontal combat, and the horizontal maneuverability of the 109 is not so good. Intelligence says that experienced pilots can circle in about 20 seconds, which means that it is difficult for the plane to turn horizontally and lose speed, so we rarely see 109 making sharp turns in actual combat. In the same way, our pilots are not encouraged to engage in horizontal maneuver warfare in the troops, and the adversary may make an exception if he is also doing horizontal maneuvering.
And it's interesting that if we're already in a state of horizontal maneuvering, we try to hover to the right, because most of our fighters hover to the right are better than to the left, while the German pilots, especially the inexperienced rookies, don't do a good job of circling to the right. Every fighter pilot in the unit is now required to be able to circle flawlessly to the right. At the same time, when the enemy aircraft is in the rear, it is required to avoid blindly changing the direction of turning. β
Because when changing the direction of the circle, the landline is the most likely target for enemy aircraft.
What is the reason for the good performance of turning to the right, even the aircraft designers do not understand, and people's habit is to go to the left, who makes most people accustomed to using the right hand.
"However, the dive performance of the 109 is quite good, the speed is very fast, and we can basically leave our plane behind at once when diving. Therefore, in actual combat, we generally do not follow the 109 to dive, but to stay above it, lower the nose a little, just enough to see the enemy plane, and rush down to it when the opponent changes to dive! β
"Well, your method is very good, the 109 will lose a lot of altitude when changing the dive state, it is very difficult to change the dive at a high angle at a low altitude, and it is also difficult to change the course when it wants to make a turn when it is diving at high speed."
"That's it, once we get bitten and make a turn, we can basically get rid of it - at this time, when the 109 behind can only change direction, it usually exits the attack, climbs high and turns, and then starts the attack again. It's interesting, 109 has a very special weakness. β
"It seems that you have not only been brave but have learned to use your brain."
(3k and a half, more fractions.) (To be continued.) )