Chapter 566: Shoot down
74_74323 After adjustments, especially the Russian airship kept adjusting its orientation and increasing the altitude, about 1 hour and 10 minutes after the Russian army discovered the northwest flight, even the last Russian airship had already taken off for 20 minutes, and now it is at an altitude of about 4000 meters, which is already a high altitude for this era.
After a simple pursuit, the eight airships of the Russian army finally began to take the Northwest Army as the center, surrounded a circle, pressed to the middle, and strived to reach the firing range, and threw the Northwest airship down in one fell swoop, the distance at this time was about 2 kilometers, and the speed of both sides, even in the pursuit, 2 kilometers was already very little time, at most a few minutes, it was possible to attack.
Below, the middle-aged man who followed Brusinov looked at the top with an expectant expression, this battle is going to be the first to take the lead, no matter how much the airship troops lose, he has a long opportunity to explain independently in front of the admiral, as long as Brusinov is a little crooked, he has an unlimited future.
"Aim!" The commander's voice was calm and cold, and several shooters began to aim at the airships in front and behind, and almost at the same time, they put their hands on the trigger, their eyes narrowed slightly, and at this time, there were suddenly several crisp sounds from the two airships.
The gun was an ordinary pistol, at a rapid speed, firing five shots in a row, which was a predetermined attack signal, and on the two airships, 24 fighters, who had already aimed at them, began to aim at the Russian airship in front of them and began to shoot.
Special machine guns, extremely long barrels and, most importantly, improvised sighting devices. As long as the opponent's airship enters the qualified aiming device, it can be easily hit, and the hit rate is extremely high, which is the special arrangement of the Northwest Army's airship, and there are some unique ones. Something that is not enough to be humane.
"Fire!" With an order, four of the five machine guns on each airship fired.
The reason why it is not all is because the top of the airship is arranged in a ring, and the two airships form the middle of the two-ship formation. These two machine guns are able to hit each other, and the airship in Baotou uses high-explosive shells, and the 20mm cannon has a special high-explosive bomb. It can easily pass through the weak protection of the airship, with a range of more than 2000 meters, and at this time the 8 Russian airships are all in it.
The enemy ship opened fire, and Victoro below looked excited, it was not easy to fire from the airship, the general range was about 800 meters, and even about 500 meters. Only then did it have a certain amount of damage, to ensure that the opponent's airship was shot down, and the opponent was so eager to fire. From a certain Cheng dΓΉ above, he is a novice and does not have much experience in airship combat, which is a good thing, he has designed a plan, and this method is the easiest to deal with. Constantly approaching, depleting the opponent's ammo. Small airships are limited in the amount of ammunition they can carry, as long as the opponent's machine gun runs out of ammo. They might even make a forced landing on the other side's airship, agree to the battle, and maybe give a major or even a lieutenant colonel if they are happy.
"You're too happy too soon!" Brusinov said coldly, the coldness of his words, just like the cold current in Siberia, made the Russian officer who was in a fantasy suddenly wake up, picked up the telescope and looked at the battle area, with the telescope, you can clearly see that the machine gun firing on the opposite side is very strange, very thick, different from the ordinary Maxim, some like the small-caliber machine guns used on the battleship.
The airship that was temporarily transferred was only temporarily equipped with a few Makqin, and I thought that the other party's was the same, although it may not be afraid, but it is obvious that the other party's preparation is more sufficient.
"Machine guns!" Viktolo was stunned for a moment, and then said, the range of the machine gun is not very long, and the weight of the machine gun is large, and it is not suitable for preparing more arms and ammunition, which is a big weakness.
In the army, the caliber of artillery fire is definitely very different, 108 mm is more powerful than 75, 150 mm is more powerful than 120, as for 203, it is more than 180, larger caliber, representing greater power, but in the air, it is different, the range of ordinary machine guns is not very far, and even some are not as good as the modified Makqin, the Makqin on the Russian airship is modified, and the range can reach more than 800, which is not much different from the machine gun, if it is replaced by another duel, the machine gun is more powerful, and the shells are much stronger than Makqin, but the airship, a bullet, and a large-caliber shell, have the same impact.
The middle-aged officer didn't understand what Brusinov meant, and said with some annoyance: "You hit the bullet!" β
In order to better design, the Northwest has placed a drag bomb on the bullet chain, every 10 rounds, which is a kind of signal flare, with a special color that clearly shows the trajectory.
Only then did Victor notice that around the Russian airship, there were obvious traces of explosions, especially a few flashbangs, the special color was very obvious, and he almost shouted loudly as if he was stepping on his tail: "This is impossible!" β
Brusinov also smiled bitterly, he didn't expect that the opponent would actually shoot such a long range of machine guns, and the bullet point on the table is at least 1800, or even 2000 meters, even if it is a naval machine gun, it is impossible to have such a large range, after all, the main gun of the navy is king, and the long-range ones are all dealt with by the main guns, and the secondary guns and machine guns, mainly for attacking torpedoes at close range, have a range of not much far.
It is this omission that has put the Russian army into an absolute disadvantage, and the Russian airships that are wrapped in the middle are all already in range
"This!" At this moment, this Viktolo stopped talking, this situation has never been encountered, how do you ask him to evaluate it, he is just a blessing who has just entered the army, or is he dragging Brusinov, from an ordinary folk enthusiast to a soldier, and he knows too little about military common sense.
Brusinov knows very well the important role of these airships for the Russian army, even if the performance is not good, as long as there is, the sky will at least be occupied by the Russian army, once it is shot down, the other party's bulky, huge airship comes out and carries out a carpet bombing, what will happen, imagine when tens of millions of Russian army groups impact, a shell coming down from the sky, the picture is too beautiful to look at it again.
"Is there a way to notify them?" Brusinov said coldly.
Victor shrank his head and whispered, "No! β
As for the flag, don't joke, at a height of thousands of meters, most of the things on the ground are like a little ant, how do you let him understand the flag, so for the aircraft, if you really let it out, it will be released, and it can only be improvised, and it is not good to command anything.
The Russian airship also found a problem, at least 2 kilometers away, the opponent's machine gun can even hit it, looking at the cannon fire, the sound of the knock, with the light of the light of the projectile, step by step approaching them, as if death is coming, making people shudder.
The huge body of the airship is a hard injury, as long as you continue to fight, you can always get close, the first airship was hit, it was a military airship in the direction of 10 o'clock, it couldn't turn, it continued to move forward, and it was directly targeted by 3 machine guns, almost more than 10 bullets, hit his airbag, all of which were hydrogen airbags, and encountered a high-explosive bomb designed to kill the airship, countless hydrogen gas was immediately ignited, exploded and burned, and the whole airship became a torch, and the airship quickly lost its lift, Like a heavy weighing stone, it fell.
"The first shot down was produced!" Several machine gunners shouted excitedly, because of the tense battle relationship, they could not high-five each other, and could only continue to attack, but below, the Russian army was deadly silent, 8 to 2, 4 times the advantage, but it was such a result, which made it unacceptable to everyone, why is this, why has it not approached yet, the Russian airship fell first, and ordinary soldiers who could not use binoculars to watch couldn't think of the reason at all.
The second shot down, descended to the direction of one o'clock, because it was right, in fact, the attack on him was the most, a total of 4 machine guns aimed at him, but before he had some good luck, hit a few, either in a remote place, did not ignite, or hit the basket below, after dodging a few attacks, it was even with the Northwest Army's airship, the distance was no more than 1000 meters.
As if after seeing the opportunity, the airship rushed forward frantically, all the machine guns, firing wildly in the northwest direction, the wave sounded softly, and there was a noise from the airship next to it, and it was shot, 1000 meters is already the limit of Makqin, but it is not without exceptions, some bullets with a range of only 600 meters can even fly to 1200 meters away, wind, impact, and even some natural reasons may cause an impact.
"Did you hit?" Brusinov below was also uncertain, because it seemed that a Northwest Army airship paused, and then, there was no change, and it still followed the airship in front of it to rush forward, not like the Russian army, and was beaten into a torch.
"Control the distance, you can't get any closer!" The commander's order of great victory, with a megaphone pointed at the other party, the two northwest airships accelerated significantly, in the melee, the Russian army could not form an encirclement, and they easily broke through the defense, after opening a distance of about 1200 meters, the two airships turned their guns and aimed at the guy who hit the airship, when 7 machine guns were aimed at it together, the good luck was gone, this time, 10 high-explosive shells, just hit it in the middle, and the flames burned violently, turning into a big explosion, Even faster than the previous one. (To be continued).