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For the frequent night attacks of the H-1, the British have not thought of ways to deal with them, such as the searchlight tactics that were used during World War II in history, and they still achieved certain results in the early days of use. However, the irradiation range of the searchlight is much smaller than that of the radar, and even if it can be illuminated, the anti-aircraft gun needs time to turn to aim, during which the searchlight cannot lose the illuminated target, and it is very difficult to operate, and the effect in actual combat is at least far worse than that of the air defense radar.

Moreover, the so-called "low-altitude" bombing of German bombers is actually at least more than 1,000 meters high, and the target is actually quite small when viewed from the ground, especially after the German H-1 paints its shell black, even if it is illuminated by a searchlight, it is easy for observers on the ground to accidentally leak through, and its low efficiency can be imagined.

From another point of view, the light pillars of the searchlights made themselves extremely conspicuous in the dark night, and it was natural that they were attacked by German bombers intensively, and the losses were quite huge, you must know that the searchlights of this year are not cheap, and the killing radius of heavy high-explosive bombs is quite amazing, and the personnel in their vicinity are easily affected. At the same time, the H-1 was very small in the night attack, and the searchlight swept through the sky to illuminate only one bomber squad, and even if the anti-aircraft guns could shoot down all of them after firing, they would only be a few planes, but they would expose their own targets and be bombed by enemy planes and suffer heavy losses

In addition, the H-1 can be made very thick due to the fact that the shell material is as hard as steel and because of its light texture. Therefore, anti-aircraft shells can only cause fatal damage to the H-1 if they explode and fly shrapnel at a relatively close range, and this alone reduces the killing effect of proximity fuse anti-aircraft shells to one-half of that of ordinary aircraft

In the end, during the month-long indiscriminate strategic bombing of residential areas in London, only 57 of the Luftwaffe's hundreds of H-1s were shot down, but hundreds of British anti-aircraft guns were destroyed, and 83 British planes were shot down and blown up, resulting in the death of more than 50,000 British soldiers and civilians (of which 70% were civilians), and the economic losses were even more staggering. But because Britain had a large industrial capacity, this level of damage could be sustained, while the German military was increasingly opposed to the continuation of this indiscriminate strategic bombing, whose main objective was to kill and injure civilians. The main thing is to burn too much money (even if the plane is not badly damaged. The consumption of fuel and ammunition is also quite staggering. As for the resulting pressure on international public opinion, it is relatively secondary

As a matter of fact, indiscriminate strategic bombing is of practical significance only on the premise that the national strength is overwhelming. And even under such a premise. Historically, the great bombing of Tokyo by the United States in Japan was a great success. In fact, there are many specific conditions that are difficult to replicate. Most of the houses in Japan at that time were made of wood, and once a fire broke out, it could easily spread, so it caused a secondary killing effect that was far more powerful than the incendiary bomb itself. And because of this. The U.S. military can drop low-cost napalm, which further reduces the cost of bombing. Moreover, the devils had neither artillery sighting radar nor proximity fuses at that time, and their air defense capability was so weak that they were in a mess, which greatly reduced the losses of the US military.

The Luftwaffe, on the other hand, faced the opposite when bombing London, first of all, the British air defense forces were aided by artillery sighting radars and proximity fuses, and the efficiency of air defense operations was far from comparable to that of devils. Secondly, the urban area of London is basically a solid and combustion-resistant masonry building, cheap and high-quality napalm has almost no effect in actual combat, the Luftwaffe had to switch to white phosphorus bombs with aluminum powder, but although this bomb also has a good effect on solid masonry buildings, but the cost is far from being comparable to napalm, and if German bombers simply use high-explosive bombs, the cost problem is also prominent, and the effect of actual combat may be worse, you must know that those old houses in Europe are not generally solid, In fact, German pilots threw high-explosive bombs generally against the anti-aircraft artillery positions of the British

It is no exaggeration to say that in order to achieve the same results, the price that Germany would have to pay for indiscriminate strategic bombing of Britain would be dozens of times higher than that of the "Great Bombing of Tokyo" of the United States in history. It must be known that Germany's industrial production capacity is far inferior to that of the United States, and its resources cannot be compared with it; if they follow the example of the United States, I am afraid that before the British are bombed, Germany's own economy and finances will be dragged down by huge consumption

In fact, the biggest impact of the H-1 becoming the main model of the air raid on London was actually to show Shijie once again the strength of the Luftwaffe, and to help the mustache save face, so that it would not be as reckless as in history and bomb London, the result was not only with little effect, but also nearly 2,000 aircraft and more than 6,000 excellent aircrew members were needlessly sacrificed on this battlefield

After the mustache came to his senses, he soon agreed to stop the key air raids on London, and let the air force focus on the weakness of the British air defense deployment, so that the British suddenly fell into the dilemma of being unable to defend themselves, and the Royal Air Force, which had already been greatly damaged, had to frequently intercept German bomber groups to protect those vital industrial areas, and suffered heavy losses in repeated battles with German escort fighters. Because pilots often die after not being able to participate in a few air battles, and actual combat experience cannot be accumulated at all, even though Britain has long taken precautions to establish an air force training base in Canada, the British Royal Air Force is still getting weaker and weaker with the war, and it has almost fallen into the dilemma of the Japanese air force in the late stage of World War II.

Of course, strictly speaking, it is much better than the situation in Japan in history, after all, the number of amateur pilots in Britain is too much, unlike most of the devils who need to be trained from scratch, coupled with the different training methods, the training speed of British flight students is relatively much faster, and a large part of the British flight students are trained in Canada, one will not be disturbed by the war, and the other does not have to worry about the lack of fuel in training, which is undoubtedly a great advantage

But even so, the Luftwaffe basically achieved the goal of launching the British Air War, that is, to seize air supremacy in the British Isles and its adjacent waters. In September and October 1941, the most critical two months of the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe shot down nearly 1,500 planes of various types and lost about 5,000 air crews, but the British suffered even greater losses, in which Britain was bombed more than a million buildings, more than 60,000 innocent civilians died, and property damage was difficult to count. The greater impact is that a considerable part of the factories in Britain, including the military factories, were shut down for a long or short time due to German air raids, which directly affected Britain's arms production, and if it were not for the fact that the mustache once put the cart before the horse, the results in this regard would have been much better (to be continued......