Chapter 415: Perfect Air Combat
At noon on 27 February, the cruiser Redstone, which was patrolling the seas, spotted a large number of Allied aircraft flying across the southern coastline of the Western Continent towards the Southern Subcontinent.
The cruiser "Redstone" is the first radar test ship of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and it is installed with the first sea-to-air warning radar of the Chinese Empire, but because the current magnetron technology is not too good, a radar can only be turned on for an hour, and the magnetron will overheat, and it must be shut down for an hour, and it can only be used again after the magnetron cools down, so the cruiser has installed two radars in order to turn on the machine and maintain vigilance at any time.
At this time, the officers in charge of the radar on the cruiser "Redstone" immediately got busy, and they quickly determined that these targets were the fleet of aircraft that were airlifted to resupply the colonial forces of the Entente Southern Subcontinent, and the news was quickly transmitted back to the command headquarters by radio.
After receiving this news, Su Zhizhen immediately ordered all the fighters of the Chinese Air Force stationed in the southern subcontinent to urgently dispatch to intercept the Allied planes, and this time the Allied airplanes were also prepared, and they also dispatched a large number of fighters to escort the transport planes, and a large-scale air battle was brought to a prelude.
According to the communication instructions sent by the cruiser, Gao Zhihong, the leader of the group, flew smoothly to the west, and behind him were as many as 80 Golden Eagle 2 fighters. After the Golden Eagle 2 fighters were put into production, Fang Xiaoyu instructed that they be given priority to the Southern Subcontinent Theater of Operations to fight against the new fighters of the Sahr and Nantes.
Pilots can't put down these new fighters that have been in stock for less than three months, and compared with the previous Golden Eagle 1 fighters, these aircraft with greatly improved performance are simply artifacts. Although at the beginning, the pilots who were accustomed to the slow speed of the Golden Eagle 1 were very unaccustomed to the ultra-high speed and climb rate of this aircraft, but after a period of running-in, they finally mastered these new aircraft, and the combat effectiveness of the Air Force has been greatly improved.
"Enemy planes have been spotted, a big group." Amis, the elven pilot with the best eyesight, announced loudly in the microphone, and with his extremely strong eyesight, the other party could see it from dozens of kilometers away.
A minute later, Gao Zhihong also saw a huge group of planes like a dark cloud in the distance, and he ordered loudly: "All planes start to climb, seize altitude, and prepare to attack." At the same time, the other two captains also issued the same order, and two hundred and forty Golden Eagle 2 fighter motors roared, and the planes began to climb rapidly, and soon burrowed into a large cloud like cotton wool, where they were going to ambush and wait to catch the other party by surprise.
Unexpectedly, it was not transport planes that came at them, but fighter units of the Allied Air Force. It turned out that after Gao Zhihong and the others drove through the defense line of the Sahr army, the other party's air force command got the news, and they immediately ordered all the fighters of the air force stationed in the southern subcontinent to take off and directly meet them.
The Allies had a wide range of aircraft, including the Camel fighters of the Saar Empire, the Newber fighters of the Nantes Empire, and the Eagle fighters purchased from the Chinese Empire.
The flight speed of such a mixed large formation can be imagined, because they did not have a radar ship like the Chinese Air Force to guide them, so they did not see the fighter formation of the Chinese Air Force, they still lined up in a scattered formation, swaggering forward, to meet the Chinese Air Force that was not in front of them.
Seeing that the other party had flown over, the three flight captains gave an order, and all the Golden Eagle 2 planes chased after them from behind at full speed. The choice to start from behind was deliberately done by the three captains, as it was already afternoon and the sun was beginning to set west.
The Chinese Air Force takes off from the east and flies westward, if it attacks from the front, the pilots of the Chinese Air Force will go against the sun, and in the dazzling sunlight, the combat effectiveness will be discounted, and they deliberately climb high to bypass the opponent's aircraft group, and the pilots of the Chinese Air Force will become attacking with their backs to the sun.
The group of Chinese air force fighters rushing up with their backs to the sun passed through the clouds, and they relied on the extremely high speed caused by the large-angle dive to quickly sweep towards the Allied air force formation, and the young eagle fighters that fell behind did not know that they were already in danger, and just when they were still engrossed in hurrying, countless lines of fire suddenly crossed their fuselage, and in an instant, more than 30 planes were hit into a volley and exploded, and fell down.
Hearing the explosions in the rear and the continuous sound of machine guns, the Allied pilots immediately knew that something was wrong, and they made various evasive maneuvers one after another, getting rid of the ballistics of the Chinese Air Force, and preparing to turn around and counterattack.
As soon as they turned the nose of the plane, the Allied pilots could not open their eyes in the dazzling sunlight, and they could only squint their eyes slightly, carefully observing the enemy. Soon the Allied pilots finally saw their enemy clearly, but the novelty of the all-metal lower wing of the Golden Eagle 2 fighter directly frightened them.
Originally, they thought it was the original Golden Eagle 1 fighter, and those fighters were only comparable in performance to the Camel fighter and the Newber fighter, but today there are more than 500 of these two fighters alone, plus more than 100 Eagle fighters, the scale is quite unprecedented.
However, these planes were not enough for the Golden Eagle 2 fighters with a top speed of 440 kilometers per hour and four 12.7 mm machine guns. Liang Junchao shouted as he led his wingman to the enemy group, and a few short shots interrupted the tail of a Newber fighter, which staggered to the ground with thick black smoke.
"Turn around, I also bite one." Hearing Gao Hui's call, Liang Junchao immediately flipped upside down without saying a word, and the nose of the machine turned and followed behind Gao Hui. The sky began to drop planes on the ground like dumplings, but if you pay a little attention, you can see that the ones that fell were all two-winged guys, and none of the monoplanes that were on a rampage were shot down at all.
The Golden Eagle 2 is very good against blows, the new self-sealing fuel tank eliminates the possibility of fuel being hit, and even if the fuselage is extremely badly damaged, as long as the engine and the pilot can still work normally, it can fly in the sky, and both places are protected by armor.
This was the case with Gao Zhihong at this time, although there were more than 20 bullet holes in his plane, he was still flying in the air, and his speed did not even weaken much. Gao Zhihong, who had already reaped the thirteenth result, slightly deflected the operating stick, turned around with a small radius of his wingman, and began to look for the next target again.
The Eagle fighters were too slow and their firepower was too weak, and they died as soon as they engaged, and when the air battle was ten minutes into progress, there were no more young eagles in the planes that were still shuttling in the sky.
The gap in science and technology, especially the gap in science and technology of more than one generation, cannot be bridged by numerical superiority, and the Golden Eagle 2 fighter, which represents the latest aviation technology of the Chinese Empire, is like a tiger entering a flock, abusing and killing the fighters of the Entente countries.
In such an unequal situation, the Allied fighter pilots quickly collapsed, and when the losses on the Allied side exceeded 100 aircraft, some of the Allied pilots had already begun to slam on the accelerator and fled in a hurry, praying that they would escape the pursuit as they fled.
After the victory, the three captains of the Chinese Air Force wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but there was not much fuel left, and the ammunition would also run out, and it was not good to close the fuel tank at all, because a layer of rubber lining was added to the inside of the fuel tank, so that the breach was closed after the bullet penetrated the fuel tank to prevent explosion, and the volume of the fuel tank was reduced accordingly. Ammunition is the same problem, large-caliber machine guns are indeed very cool, but large-caliber machine guns also have large bullets, and the corresponding ammunition load is reduced, not to mention four machine guns, and the durability of ammunition is naturally not good.
Seeing that they could not continue the pursuit, the pilots of the Chinese Air Force had no choice but to start their return flights, and although the Allied Air Force covered its own transport formation, it paid the price of nearly 200 planes being shot down, although because of the equipment imitated the equipment of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, each pilot was equipped with a parachute, so that half of the pilots survived, but the loss of the planes was somewhat too great.
Except for more than 30 wounded and barely driven back to the airfield, the loss of personnel was almost zero, which greatly shocked the Entente and the Boston Empire on the other side of the ocean.
Originally, after seeing the internal political turmoil in the Chinese Empire, the Boston Empire joined the Entente bloc and confronted the two major organizations of the Central Powers and the ASEAN Association, after all, the Boston Empire bought a large number of war bonds from the Entente countries, and if the Entente lost the war, the money would be wasted.
Now seeing that the Chinese Empire has repeatedly achieved miracles by relying on the world's leading military scientific and technological strength, the Boston Imperial Government has begun to hesitate again, after all, no matter how good the money is, it is not as important as the national fortune, if it really joins the Entente bloc and is defeated, not only will the money be gone, but its own country will also have the possibility of being divided.
The navy was heavily damaged, the air transport lines began to be volleyed again, and the Entente endured huge losses to resupply the troops of the Southern Subcontinent, and for every ton of supplies sent to their own troops, more than ten tons of supplies were destroyed on the way.
Later, the Entente had to reconsider the diversion of transportation, and some of the supplies would be transported to the coastline of Mauritius near the Storm Ocean side of the Southern Subcontinent, from where they would be loaded onto trucks and delivered overland to the Allied forces of the Southern Subcontinent, but the land supply route would exceed 8,000 kilometers, and the difficulty of this would be conceivable.
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