At the end of the Minsk campaign, the Red Army captured two German K5E long-range train guns, and after testing, they had to admit that this was a very good ultra-long-range train gun!

Nazi Germany's train cannon production technology has now reached its extreme, and the train cannon, a weapon that appeared in the 19th century, has reached the pinnacle of technology!

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Lin Jun knew about the K5E train gun, not only because of the information he had seen in his previous life, but also because of the test of the captured train gun.

The pilots may not know it, but he, the marshal who managed the General Armament Department, has read the detailed reports and knows the performance of such a monster creature inside out.

The closest distance to the airfield is about 60 kilometers from the airfield, and the German long-range artillery with such a range is estimated to be the K5E.

And this super-heavy train gun cannot be deployed near the line of fire like a mortar, that is suicide! It is unlikely that a conventional artillery shell with a range of about 60 kilometers will be used, and it is likely that a new rocket extended-range projectile will be used, although the power of the artillery shell will be much less.

The airport tower estimated that the caliber of the artillery shell was about 203 mm, so it is speculated that nine times out of ten it is the 283 mm rocket range extender fired by the K5E, which has weakened a lot.

K5E, excluding the German V3 stationary cannon that actually has no practical value, can be said to be the king of artillery range before the appearance of those jaw-dropping super long-range cannons designed by Dr. Boole!

Even Dr. Boole's super cannons have many kinds of "fixed" types, and they can basically only adjust the range in a straight line, and there is basically no way to change the left and right firing range.

The one that can shoot objects into space doesn't count.

However, the K5E can borrow the arc of the railway, or borrow a special turntable, and easily select the replacement target.

After World War I, Germany, bound by the Treaty of Versailles, was forbidden to develop large-caliber artillery.

However, Germany cleverly used the pretext of developing its navy to continue its plan to develop large-caliber artillery.

In 1933, Germany began a series of train gun development programs equipped with super-heavy guns, and finally the Krupp company proposed to use the existing vehicle with a 283 mm caliber gun design is the best, the design was adopted by the German military, and named: K5 (E) leopold train gun, in 1936 in service.

The barrel of this giant cannon is 21.54 meters long, the total length of the cannon is 41.23 meters, and the total combat weight reaches 218 tons.

The cannon was transported in two 12-wheeled railcars and was equipped in 1937, because the angle of fire was much larger than that of its naval brethren in the turret, so the range was much longer!

When firing a 255.5 kg ordinary projectile, the range was 61.2 km, and in 1940~1942, a rocket range extension projectile weighing 248 thousand kg was also developed, and the range was increased to 86.9 km!

As for the future, it will also remove the rifling in the barrel and change it to a smoothbore, the caliber will be expanded to 310 mm, and the range when firing tail stabilized shells can reach 151.3 km, which exceeds the range of the famous "Paris cannon"!

The two K5E's that appeared in the Battle of Minsk were unlucky, and in the gentle hills of the plains, huge train guns would receive a great threat from the opponent's air force, and finally fall into the hands of the Red Army.

The shelling of British targets on the coast of France was also a petty fight.

It was not until 1944 that the Battle of Anzio broke out in Italy was the real battle of K5E!

The two K5E train guns were hiding from the Allied bombardment in the railway tunnels of Anzio, and after each bombardment, they ran out to shell the Allied soldiers and equipment that were landing, causing great casualties and panic to the Allied soldiers!

The deranged American soldiers were trapped on the beachhead and were constantly subjected to powerful shells, and soon the K5E train gun had another nickname - "Anzio Express"!

It means that the damn cannonballs are as accurate and fast as express mail!

The shelling of the 1st Guards Fighter Division by K5E this time was clearly planned and prepared, because Sergei's troops had too much influence on this battlefield: whether it was a threat to bomber forces or to ground forces, the presence of the 1st Division was a big trouble for the nearby German troops!

But if it is in the form of air force bombing and fighter jet strangulation, then the price that may be paid is too great.

A few days ago, Sergei moved the division headquarters to a field airfield only about 60 kilometers away from the line of fire, and after several free-for-all fights and aerial reconnaissance, Army Group South was basically able to determine that a large part of those damned air circuses would be at this airfield.

There are not many targets that can be selected by train artillery, Kyiv is too far away, and those forward positions of the Red Army are not worth using such a big killer!

As for the assembly areas of the armored forces of the Red Army, they are all hidden in the woods, plus the accuracy of the shelling from such a distance can only be said to be okay, the approximate assembly areas of the shelling have the smell of artillery to fight mosquitoes, and an airfield is just right!

Even if you can't cause substantial damage and casualties, it can make you scorched!

If a few shells are lucky and hit the barracks, the oil depot or the planes lined up, then it is earned!

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Here, Lin Jun climbed the plane to search for the target, and the ground tower knew who was talking to him before, and immediately contacted the nearby airport.

Soon, a large number of fighters and dive bombers were mobilized and, at the judgment of the deputy commander-in-chief, took off urgently to search for targets.

As for the group of planes led by Lin Jun, they also searched for air targets everywhere under the climb, trying to find the Luftwaffe artillery observation aircraft.

About three or four minutes later, a call from Solomartin came from the headset: "Captain, there seems to be a plane in the direction of one o'clock, a little higher than us!" ”

Almost at the same time, all the pilots were watching that airspace.

There seemed to be a few small dots in the distance, and Lin Jun glanced at the altimeter: 4500 meters.

"Offering in general, the target altitude is about 6500 to 7000 meters, and it is possible that the German frame and 109! Climb to 7000 meters and lean in! ”

Putting on an oxygen mask and opening the oxygen valve, Rag began to climb.

In this Soviet-German battlefield, planes on both sides are generally active at altitudes below 4,000 meters, and rarely fly so high, unless it is a high-altitude reconnaissance, otherwise even bombers are generally dispatched at an altitude that does not need to be fed.

As long as it is shelled by the Germans, those damn frames are often indispensable!

In the case of shelling near the front line, the Fw189 reconnaissance planes will indicate the target at an altitude of about 3,000 meters, in which case they often do not need to fly over the line of fire.

In the case of deep shelling, in order to detect the threat of Soviet fighters as soon as possible, and at the same time avoid most of the anti-aircraft fire, the frames will fly much higher!

There are also a small number of frames equipped with diesel engines, which can fly to an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and I really don't know how those engines were designed -- on the eve of the outbreak of the war, Pokryshkin flew a MiG high-altitude fighter at such an altitude and shot down a frame that entered the airspace of the Soviet Union.

And today's frames almost never go out alone, if it is a high-altitude indication observation, every time there will be a 109G fighter with relatively outstanding high-altitude performance to escort.

As for the 190, their high-altitude performance is really average, as long as it is a high-altitude escort mission, then there is nothing to do with the 190 fighter. (To be continued.) )