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At half past one in the morning, when the British had already fallen asleep, there was a faint sound of engines in the air, and the Luftwaffe was coming, bombing at night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This kind of thing did not happen much in the past, and the British had long been experienced in dealing with such situations, although there were not many night fighters, but the Germans did not have many night escort fighters.

But this time, the British were doomed to disappointment, and the Germans introduced the Chinese Empire's Hellcat, a radar-equipped fighter that could be used for night combat with minor modifications, and could also be used as an all-weather fighter.

At this time, below the bombers, at an altitude of less than two hundred meters above the ground, there was a group of larger aircraft flying quietly, which was escort fighters.

Before that, the Germans had not used Hellcat fighters at night, and even if they did, most of them were used in small quantities, only a few, and at night, no one would know about them at all.

Suddenly, the searchlights on the ground were bright, and dozens of intense lights kept shining in the air, illuminating the entire sky, and the group of planes in the air was even clearer, and there was nowhere to hide.

The bombers at the heights, the fighters at the low, all of them were seen and remembered by the British, but the radars of the British did not detect those escort fighters, they only saw bombers.

"At two o'clock on the left, about ten miles away, there are about twenty enemy planes, a squadron, you go over and deal with them, and fight quickly."

"At nine o'clock on the right, about eight miles or so, there are about thirty fighters, Second Squadron, you go and deal with them."

"At twelve o'clock, about ten miles. There are about sixty warplanes, three, four, five and six squadrons, and you go and deal with them. The remaining fighters continued to escort and were ready for battle. ”

Soon. The commander of the German escort formation detected the position of the enemy aircraft through the airborne radar and directly began to deploy the battle plan.

The airborne radar given to the Germans was passive, so their detection range was limited, but in Germany, the radar technology was not too advanced at present, and although they had worked hard to improve it, the effect was still not great.

So far. It was only possible to detect a range of about twenty miles (about thirty-two kilometers), and based on previous experience, these British fighters had not been spotted before, because they had just taken off. The altitude is too low for radar to detect.

And when they formed a formation, the altitude was almost pulled up, and then the radar could detect them, although this was very speechless. But compared to the previous fighters, their technology is still advanced enough.

At least in front of the British, they have an absolute advantage, unlike in front of Jianyi, they have no ability to fight back at all. Whether it's firepower, speed, or the ability to detect the enemy.

At this time, they are still equipped with old-fashioned fighters, or those Spitfires and Hurricanes, and the communication system is always hard to beat, and many fighters cannot communicate with the ground and friendly aircraft, so once they leave the ground, they cannot learn more information from the ground except for being able to see it with their own eyes.

In a certain air force radar base in Britain, the radar personnel, who were already sleepy, suddenly saw a group of planes on the radar screen, and in a hurry, they began to deploy fighters from various surrounding airfields in a panic.

However, the British's radar can only show the bomber formation, and they cannot see the fighters of the escort formation, first, because the escort fighters are flying at ultra-low altitude and can evade radar detection, and in one, they are hiding under the bomber formation, which is overlapping on the radar, and it is not easy to find if the British radar personnel do not pay much attention.

"Oh my God, look, hundreds of fighters suddenly came out of which bombers, and went directly in the direction of our fighter formation."

A British radar officer looked at the radar screen in surprise and covered his mouth and said loudly.

And this shout also made other people come over to watch, but in the next scene, everyone was shocked, they couldn't figure out, how did these planes come out?

Ultra-low-altitude flight is very dangerous, and under normal circumstances, you will not choose to do so, especially at night, ultra-low-altitude flight is basically equivalent to suicide, because in the dark night, no one can see what is in front of you.

Therefore, when flying at night, everyone tried to raise the height of the fighter as high as possible to avoid hitting the mountains or trees in front of them.

Although the British knew that low-altitude flight could evade radar detection, this was only in Britain, and the Germans' air defense radar technology was not well developed, so it was naturally impossible for them to know this secret.

In the same way, the Germans did not even know about radar technology, and they did not necessarily dare to fly at ultra-low altitudes for a long time, and even in later generations, when they were fully equipped and flew the most advanced fighters, they did not dare to fly at ultra-low altitudes all the time, especially at night.

"**, it must have been flying at an ultra-low altitude, or hiding under the bomber formation, so that we can only see the shadow of the bomber, and not the escort formation located below him, damn the Germans, where did they get so many night fighters? Immediately notify the airport and ask them to send reinforcements to help. ”

A British ** official roared angrily, and immediately commanded directly and loudly.

"Sir, they're too fast, and there aren't any more night fighters on the airfield right now, so we can't send more fighters."

The staff officer glanced at the radar screen and said with some disappointment.

Night fighters, the number is not very large, the British have a total of more than 200 night fighters, and the performance is not very good, the Hurricane and Spitfire can not take off for the time being, because after taking off, they can only be passively beaten.

And judging from the radar, the other party's speed is too fast, if he has to put a name on the other party, he will definitely not hesitate to treat him as a hellcat.

But that's how the doubts come out, Hellcat fighter? Isn't he a daytime fighter? How can I go out at night? Don't they want to die?

Looking at the hundreds of bombers on the radar, he had a headache at this time, if the other party was just a bomber, more than a hundred night fighters would be enough to deal with them, after all, the self-defense firepower of the bombers was not good, and the speed was not good, and it was still easy for the fighters to shoot them down.

"Quickly inform the Prime Minister and ask him to urgently deploy night fighters from other regions as well."

The British officer was stunned and shouted at the signal man.

There are only more than 100 night fighters in their jurisdiction, and the others are all in other jurisdictions, and he has no right to mobilize, so he can only report to the prime minister and ask him to mobilize other night fighters.

"Hey, Sam, what are you doing? Haven't woken up yet? Didn't hear my orders? Hurry up and send a telegram. Did you hear that? ”

After a few seconds, Sam, the signal soldier, was still unmoved, and the British officer couldn't wait to roar.

"Sir, I'm wondering, how did they find out about us? Our fighters have just taken off, and you see, on this side, we have twenty fighters, and they have eighteen fighters to deal with it, and here, the same twenty, they have also divided eighteen, and here, we have sixty fighters, and they have more than seventy fighters.

Sir, don't you think that's weird? The number of fighters they sent to deal with us was about the same number to ensure that they could defeat us, or rather, entangle us, and I would never believe that there were no other escort fighters below this group of bombers. ”

Sam said stunned.

From the very beginning, he thought it was strange that they had radar on their side, and it was not difficult to detect it in advance, but how did they know? As soon as the radar on this side showed that their fighters had taken off, there was a reaction there, which was enough to show that they knew the dynamics of British fighters well.

If this is the case, then the consequences are really terrible, the Germans have the speed of the fighters, once the British send a large number of fighters to encircle them, they can completely turn around and run away before the British fighters arrive.

Although the radar stations on the ground know their location, the pilots in the air do not, and if they do it repeatedly, Britain will be destroyed sooner or later.

It was only at this moment that they finally understood the difficulties of the Soviet Union, and they finally understood why the Soviet Union had failed. And what they don't expect is how much stock the Germans really have?

"Sir, there's a convoy of planes coming towards us."

Immediately after, the radar soldier shouted loudly.

On this night, the British suffered extremely heavy losses, first of all, they were not prepared and were taken by surprise by the Germans, and in one case, the Germans concealed their ultimate purpose, although the British had radar, but the Germans managed to deceive the British radar.

In the end, the British Air Force, which led to an emergency take-off interception, suffered heavy losses, and more than 100 night fighters did not understand what was going on, and were shot down by the enemy in the blink of an eye.

In London, the losses were even heavier, many houses were destroyed, fires broke out in the streets, and many people were burned, and this time, the scale of the air raids launched by the Germans was unprecedented, and more than 600 bombers and more than 500 escort fighters were dispatched at one time.

At the same time, on the other side of the channel, the Germans still had thousands of escort fighters on standby at the airfield, because it was night, and the combat effectiveness of the British Air Force was also limited, so they did not need to send too many escort fighters.

These fighters were prepared for the second bombardment after dawn, when there would be a real British air battle, however, the British had already lost a step and had already lost to the Germans in momentum.