Chapter 508: The Gap in Comprehensive National Strength (Part I)
One after another, the JU87 dive bombers dived down against the Soviet aviation anti-aircraft guns, and the shooters of the Soviet anti-aircraft guns also held a mortal mentality and fired fiercely at the JU87s that dived down in the air. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Bumper ...... Bumper ...... Clang, clang, clang......" The hot shells ejected from the anti-aircraft guns continued to fall to the ground, and the screams of "Woo Woo Woo ......" ju87 were getting closer and closer, and the kind of call that was almost like death was indeed terrifying.
The desperate resistance of the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery units must have an effect, some anti-aircraft guns can take down the German planes, and some are blown up into various parts by the Germans.
"Woo woo woo...... Flutter"
Finally, a JU87 was finally hit by an anti-aircraft gun on the ground when it was diving, and the JU87 caught fire in the air, and the entire fuselage was shrouded in billowing smoke, and I didn't know that the pilot of the JU87 might have been killed, he just didn't parachute, and he didn't drop bombs, so he swooped down on which anti-aircraft gun of the Soviet Union.
The ......two 500-kilogram aerial bombs, together with the plane's aviation fuel and the ammunition of the antiaircraft guns, exploded violently so that there was not a single living person within a radius of 100 meters, and a large crater 10 meters deep and more than 20 meters wide was directly blown up.
The main target of the JU87 attack is artillery, and the DO17 horizontal bomber is a formation bombing, specializing in surface bombing, because Manstein's aviation division only conducts tactical bombing, so the range requirements are not very high, and the DO17 has excellent performance, with a range of 1200 kilometers and a combat radius of 600 kilometers, which is just about the same as the "fighter", with a bomb load of 3 tons, which is also very moderate.
The aerial bombs used by DO17 are also different from those of JU87, which uses two 500 kg or four 250 kg aerial bombs, and DO17 uses 10 kg aerial bombs, which are smashed down at a height of several kilometers and explode violently.
The power of a 10-kilogram aerial bomb is equivalent to the power of a 203-mm artillery shell, and the vicinity of 25 meters is the absolute killing range, and it was not hit by shrapnel but also was shocked to death, and a DO17 carried 300 bombs, and carried out carpet bombing like dumplings.
In addition to living in the reinforced concrete bunker, the Soviet troops below can also be shocked and bleeding from their internal organs, and they are not of much use in the trenches at all, and they are all kinds of concussion injuries from 25 to 50 meters, and shrapnel is killed and injured within 200 meters.
After the Soviet army lost air supremacy, the heavy casualties of the ground forces were already doomed, and no matter how heroic the Soviet army was, it could not be changed, and this was caused by the gap in the country's comprehensive strength.
The first wave of bombing had just ended, and the Germans also lost two JU87s, and the JU87 dive bombers had high bombing accuracy, but they were easily hit by ground anti-aircraft fire, which was also a matter of no choice.
The first wave of bombing planes has just begun to return, the second wave of bombing is coming, this time the bombing of the ground aviation firepower is much less, the ground Soviet army is facing a new round of indiscriminate bombing, it can be said that this round of bombing can basically destroy most of the Soviet artillery and anti-aircraft fire and pillboxes, and by the time of the third round of bombing, it has been a unilateral massacre of the Soviet army by the Luftwaffe.
The war was like this, there was no mercy to speak of, and by the time the third round of aircraft began to bombard, Wittmann's tank assault group had reached ten kilometers of the Soviet front, and the German artillery following the tank assault group began to urgently establish artillery positions.
Wittmann began to slow down and approach the Soviet line, and by the time Wittman's artillery was bombarding the Soviet line for more than ten minutes, the tank led by Wittmann was already 500 meters in front of the Soviet line.
As soon as the artillery stopped, Wittmann's tank cluster roared, like a tiger descending a mountain, clapping a neat queue, accompanied by the infantry began to charge, in this case, what did the Soviet army do to resist the German steel frenzy, the Soviet army of the entire front could only be crushed to pieces by the German tanks, and those who did not surrender could only go to hell.
The Soviet front-line commander could only secretly sigh at the strong and rapid attack breakthrough ability of the German army in his own position, and under such circumstances, it was impossible for the Soviet army to hold the defensive line.
The German army's ability to coordinate operations among multiple arms of the armed forces has reached the point of perfection, and the establishment of a separate aviation division in the Panzer Corps is also a pioneering move of the German army
In this way, the German Panzer Corps did not need to send a telegram to ask the air force to come to support it, but ordered its own aviation division to support its tank troops at any time.
Wittmann's German tank assault group, roaring and roaring, crushed the Soviet positions, and the Soviet troops who did not die also began a desperate counterattack, all kinds of weapons fired fiercely at the galloping behemoth.
"Dada...... Da Da ...... Bumper ...... Boom ......"
The resistance of the Soviet troops was tenacious, and they used machine guns, mortars, and a small number of remaining 37 or 50 mm anti-tank guns to attack the German tanks when they lost their heavy weapons, but these anti-tank firepower only left a trace on the German tanks, and could not penetrate the German frontal armor of more than 200 millimeters.
The best effect of the 50mm anti-tank gun is to penetrate the external armor of the German tank, and the hull armor is not at all, and the external armor of the German tank is only 50 mm triangular conical armor, and the 50 mm anti-tank gun can still penetrate it.
The German-style that received a shot turned the muzzle and returned the 50-mm anti-tank gun with a shell, and directly reimbursed the personnel of the artillery company.
Of course, after the Soviet War, Germany's weapons and equipment will be the protagonists of spies in various countries, and it is also the object of research and imitation by other countries, Rommel basically spent three years working on the German Leopard tank, even if the United States wants to build a German tank with the same performance, it will take at least two years.
These two years will be the stage of absolute superiority of German tanks, and in another two years it can only be a relative advantage, and in the future, I am afraid that it will be evenly matched, and the view that one weapon can determine the outcome of the war will never be advisable, and the war will always be a contest of comprehensive national strength.
How to make good use of these two years is the critical moment for Rommel, Germany basically has no allies who can really help, which is destined for Germany has embarked on the road of challenging the entire world order, and all challenges must be faced by Germany itself.
In this era, it is very difficult to continue to upgrade the German-designed Leopard tank, the tank gun and engine are already the most advanced, what can be upgraded is the armor and electronic systems, and the composite armor is also being studied by Germany.
Germany is already at the forefront of the design and production of tanks, and it is not impossible for Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union to surpass it in a short period of time. (To be continued.) )