Chapter 509: The Civil War in Habfsburg (1)
This aircraft is equipped with two 775-horsepower engines, a maximum speed of 294 kilometers per hour, a range of 2,200 kilometers, a practical ceiling of 7,380 meters, can carry 1.3 tons of bombs, and is equipped with three 12.7 mm self-defense machine guns.
Escorting the bombers was the Boston Empire's newest Kitty Hawk fighter, which was not very powerful, with only two 12.7mm machine guns, but with a 900-horsepower star engine, it could reach a maximum level flight speed of 504 kilometers per hour. Although he was no match for the Lightning fighters equipped by the government forces, they were not destined to encounter many of them today, because the government forces were not very prepared.
It was a time of light snow, which was almost an absolutely safe and quiet time for the Air Force, and the government Air Force stationed at the Brun front-line airfield, the largest in Shar Fort, was not on combat duty at all, and even the anti-aircraft artillery units rested in the barracks and did not enter the position.
The pilots of the rebels are also veterans who participated in the Great War of the Chinese Empire, or volunteers sent by Russia, and these experienced veteran pilots are now flying at ultra-low altitude close to the ground to avoid the surveillance of the old Mibo air defense warning radar that the Habsburg Kingdom has just purchased from the Chinese Empire. When it was only ten kilometers from the Buren airfield, the fleet began to climb in altitude in order to take up a favorable position for attack.
Sumika is a radar soldier of the Habfsburg Air Force, and at this moment he is sitting leisurely in the radar room on the top of the hill near the airport, smoking Sulu brand cigarettes produced by the China Foundation, and glancing at the radar screen from time to time.
With a casual glance, Sumika suddenly found that a large green dot of light appeared on the radar screen, which was dense enough to cover one-fifth of the radar screen, seeing these light spots, Sumika was shocked, and he immediately shouted to his companions on the side: "Call the command quickly, it's an enemy attack, an enemy attack by a large number of aircraft." Unfortunately, he found out too late, and before the call could reach the command, the first bomb of the rebel bomber had already landed on the runway.
The loud explosion woke everyone up, and the pilots immediately ran out of the dormitory to the tarmac, and the anti-aircraft artillery men also rushed out of the barracks in disheveled clothes and ran to their positions, but it was too late.
More than 50 B10 Martin bombers dived one after another, throwing strings of bombs onto the planes on the tarmac, and by the time the sparse anti-aircraft guns of the Habfsburg government troops opened fire one after another, the entire airport had already become a sea of fire.
The Habfsburg pilots who were at the front were lucky enough to approach their planes, but the runway had been blown out of a large crater, making it completely impossible for planes to take off and land. Major Buka was the first to rush to the plane, and he was very anxious when he saw that the runway was no longer usable, but he quickly had a backup plan.
Since this is a front-line airfield, the whole airport is not fenced, but fenced with barbed wire, and outside the barbed wire there is a straight road, the smoothness of which can be compared to the runway of the airport.
He stood on the wing and shouted orders to the soldiers who ran up behind him, and instructed the surviving orderlies to dismantle the barbed wire, and the orderlies also knew that this was a critical moment, and when they saw someone in charge, they all consciously obeyed, and immediately took action, and the soldiers immediately cut down the barbed wire with shovels and fire axes.
The barbed wire was not strong, and with the combined efforts of everyone, a gap of more than ten meters was soon carved in the barbed wire, and Major Buka immediately drove his plane carefully out of the gap and drove onto the road.
Pressing on the accelerator and the joystick was desperately embraced by Major Buka, he now completely forgot about the possible danger and almost desperately began to take off on the road that no one had ever attempted. The engine of the lightning fighter showed its powerful performance, and the engine under full acceleration emitted wisps of black smoke, desperately providing power for the propeller, and at the end of the road, the nose of the aircraft was finally lifted with difficulty. Major Buka was overjoyed, he immediately recovered the landing gear, climbed up at full speed, and seized the advantageous air combat altitude, and under the strong impetus of the star-shaped engine, the huge lightning fighter quickly flew into the air, leaving several Kitty Hawk fighters who tried to intercept far behind.
Seeing Major Buka's successful takeoff, the surviving pilots followed suit, and drove the surviving dozen planes towards the road, and one plane after another began to rise into the air, but the Kitty Hawk fighters who were on alert in the air soon discovered the situation, and a large number of rebel fighters gathered here, and a few Martin bombers flew towards the road.
Seeing that the other party had already discovered, Major Buka snapped the operating stick, and the lightning fighter directly turned in a small radius and rushed towards the Martin bomber. The two rebel fighters tried to intercept them, but Major Buka took advantage of the speed advantage of the lightning fighter and passed between the two planes.
Putting the bomber into his scope, Major Buka pressed the fire button fiercely, and the two 20mm cannons fired a long point, and the Martin bomber that was hit was directly blown in two. Several government fighters took off from behind to come to the aid of Major Buka, but they were soon surrounded by a swarm of rebel aircraft.
Major Buka held the control stick firmly with both hands, and did not pay attention to the rebel fighters that were getting closer and closer behind him, but used his speed advantage to skillfully dodge the ballistics of the opponent's machine guns, and took out a bomber again with a dive, but there were too many bombers after all, and they still managed to approach the road.
A Martin bomber took the lead in descending altitude and dropped a 500-kilogram bomb on the road, and with a loud bang, a large crater with a diameter of nearly 10 meters appeared on the road, and the seventh plane, which was sliding and accelerating on the road, could not dodge, and rushed directly into the crater and exploded and caught fire, while several other fighters that could no longer take off were also destroyed by the bombers one after another.
Without backup, the six government troops that had already risen into the air had to fight alone against an enemy ten times larger than their own. The Russian pilots, who often fought with the Cossack Imperial Air Force on the border line, already knew the Kitty Hawk in their hands well, and they could fully exert their full performance, so they did not look at these government pilots who had just received the new aircraft, after all, the new aircraft needed a certain run-in period with the pilots to form combat effectiveness, but they quickly changed their views.