543 Battle of Berlin (6)
The Su-6 attack aircraft was just in time for the Battle of Berlin, which was officially put into production in November 1944, and by February 1945, there were more than 50 in total. Half of www.biquge.info were in the training center to teach seed pilots, and only 24 of them were engaged in the battle for Berlin.
There may be comrades who want to say, isn't it just an attack aircraft with a small number? What's so strange about the big book? Didn't the Red Army at the front still have more than 20,000 Il-2 and Su-2/3?
The reason why this Su-6 should be mentioned in particular is very simple, because the positioning of the aircraft in the Red Army was very special. In the words of Air Marshal Arksness: "The aircraft is a real attack aircraft with a precision strike mission!" ”
The Su-6 was designed from the ground up with precision strike capabilities, which is a considerable selling point. At that time, the KH-1, the first generation of laser beam guidance of the Red Army, was already in service, but as mentioned earlier, the performance of the KH-1 was not ideal, and the restrictions of laser beam guidance on the carrier aircraft were too great. So on the one hand, the Red Army improved the Kh-1 to the Kh-2, and on the other hand, it was also developing the semi-active laser-guided Kh-3, as well as the TV-guided Kh-4. Among them, the KH-3 is not too difficult for a while, and the progress is not too great for a while. On the contrary, it is the television guidance technology that has been able to enter service first because of the maturity of the components.
The Kh-4 TV-guided missile soon underwent tests at the national range and achieved satisfactory results. The one-ton missile has a maximum range of 15 kilometers and carries a 500-kilogram warhead, which can be used after retrofitting the Tu series bombers with special sights.
Of course, the weight of the Kh-4 is still a bit excessive, and it is still more difficult for the average attack aircraft to carry. And the production of solid rocket engines for this missile is still a bit problematic and cannot be put into mass production. Therefore, after Li Xiaofeng's suggestion, the engine of the KH-4 was removed and transformed into a TV-guided bomb, which is the source of the later KAB-250, KAB-500, KAB-750 and KAB-1500.
In order to take into account the physique of attack aircraft, the first production was the Kab-250 and Kab-500, for example, the standard combat mode of the Su-6 is to carry two Kab-250 and four RS-82 rockets. If you want to deal with more solid targets, switch to two Kab-500 bombs.
The standard combat mode of the Su-6 is to fly the aircraft to the target and wait for the radio and sighter in the back seat to confirm the target. When the target is confirmed, the pilot enters the attack course, maintaining speed and course until the bomb is dropped. And all the sighter needs to do is press the crosshair of the scope firmly against the target to be attacked (until it hits).
The early Kab-250 and Kab-500 had an accuracy of about 15 meters, which was suitable for destroying solid ground targets, such as bridges and pillboxes, and if necessary, it could also attack low-moving ground targets, such as the aforementioned Nazi super-heavy tanks.
The Kab-250 charge was about 87 kg, while the Kab-500 charge was about 195 kg, which was enough to inflict devastating damage on the Nazi super-heavy tanks within a radius of ten meters. Moreover, the pilots with better skills dropped bombs with an accuracy of more than 10 meters, and there are battlefield records showing that a bombardier named Peter entered the attack route twice to drop bombs, the first KAB-250 blew up a hole in the enemy's pillbox, and the second one threw into this hole, which is simply miraculous.
Of course, the skies over Berlin were not particularly safe, and in order to defend the capital, the Nazis gathered a large number of fighter jets and interceptors around Berlin to frantically intercept the Red Army's attacking group. From time to time, fierce air battles are about to break out.
Levmila, the name so common to the new generation of Russians born after the October Revolution, was named Levmila in 1920, the year of 1920, when the victory of the world revolution was once considered the most likely. Just like the Chinese children born in 1949 are called Jianguo, and the ones born in 1958 are called Yuejin.
However, there is something special about this Levmila who has a very special surname in the Soviet Union - Trotsky. There are not many Russians with this surname, and there is only one who is famous, and that is the second teacher of the October Revolution. And this Levmila also happened to be related to Trotsky. This boy born in 1920 was the youngest son of Trotsky, and in 1920 he had a son thanks to the butterfly of a certain immortal, and this boy was really not very carefree.
Why? Because his personality is completely different from that of his father and brother, his father and brother are both well-educated, while Levmila has been reluctant to go to school since he was a child, and his grades are even more than 10,000 years old. What's even more terrifying is that he is still a bad boy, who likes to play pranks the most, playing tricks on his classmates and teachers, and he can't stop for a moment anyway. If it weren't for Trotsky's connections, this kid wouldn't have even been able to graduate from elementary school.
In 1938, at the age of eighteen, Levmila finally got out of school, and after graduating from high school, he was reluctant to go to college, in his words: "I would rather go to the construction site to move bricks than to go to the ivory tower to get moldy." ”
Of course, as Trotsky's son, it was absolutely impossible for Levmila to move bricks, and even if Trotsky agreed with his wife, he would not have agreed. So Levmila was arranged to work in the bank. As an intern, wearing a black uniform and a white shirt, his daily job was to wind up the wooden clock hanging from the bank's wall and change the calendar. Every day, the bank opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. Day after day, the cycle repeats. This mechanical monotonous life was unbearable for the young Levmila, who was not a well-behaved child when he was a child, and even less when he grew up. So his hostility to the clock grew, and for him, the clear ticking of the hands seemed to be a constant reminder that life was being wasted meaninglessly.
Finally, on that day, Levmila took the revolver that his father had never used from Trotsky's desk drawer and fired six shots straight at the pesky clock. The first shot shattered the glass of the clock, and the next few shattered the dial. With the crash of the bell and the frightened screams of the female staff, Levmila's first career came to an end.
Levmila may have been destined to be a killer rather than a small clerk who rests on his laurels, and the bell was unfortunately the first victim of his gun.
After leaving the bank, under the arrangement of his mother, Levmila did a lot of work, but each job did not last long, and he was born a thorn in the head, and he was really not good at doing those jobs that kept to himself. At work he either provoked his superiors or fought with his colleagues, and in those years he really broke Trotsky's heart.
In 1940, after moving from place to place, Levmila was assigned by Trotsky to work at the State Aero Club. The so-called State Aviation Club was actually the primary flight training school of the Soviet Union, where the unruly Levmila finally found the love of his life - flying!
After flying with the instructor Wingrove for three hours, taking advantage of the instructor's inattention, Levmila secretly flew the plane to "fly solo", flew in the air for more than an hour, landed on the farm of his new girlfriend's family and enjoyed a good afternoon with his girlfriend, and then flew back to the club with Shi Shiran.
One can imagine how much trouble such behavior will bring him. Levmila was almost expelled again. Trotsky had to wipe the butt of this precious son again.
From 1940 to 1941, Levmila had a very pleasant time in the flying club, and his flying skills were on the rise, and the outbreak of the war for the country made the over-energetic Levmila excited.
However, his excitement soon turned into disappointment, even though he was the best pilot in the club, but the air force and naval aviation were reluctant to want him, preferring to rookies who had just flown for two or three hours.
The reasons are very simple, firstly, Levmila is the son of Trotsky, and no one wants to let the children of the supreme leader serve in their own troops. This is very troublesome, especially in wartime, if there are three long and two short, how to explain? Second, this Comrade Levmila is still an out-and-out thorn in the head, very good at looking for trouble. That's why you can't ask for it.
Poor Levmila had another tragedy, which disappointed him immensely. However, a piece of news soon caught his attention that the Soviet Union was recruiting volunteers to fight in China. There are no restrictions on volunteering, as long as you are a pilot. Of course, Levmila knew that it would probably be useless to sign up with an ID card with Trotsky's name written on it, so he found a friend and changed Trotsky to Malotsky on his ID card, replacing the initials before he was successfully selected.
Levmila was delighted that he arrived in Chongqing with the first batch of Soviet aid flight teams to fight against the Japanese devils in the I-15. It was not that Levmila did not perform well, but that he performed too well, shooting down 12 enemy planes in just three months. This outstanding performance finally attracted the attention of the Air Force, and the generals soon learned everything about the lad, and the change of Levmila's name came to light. As a result, he was immediately recalled to the country, and it is said that at that time, Arxnis was so frightened that no one dared to risk letting Levmila remain on the battlefield.
The Air Force dragged Levmila home under the pretext of commendation and vacation, and then threw him directly to the training center and asked him to train those rookie pilots. Flight instructors are safer than on the battlefield, right?
However, no one should expect Levmila to stay in the rear honestly, he is already ambitious in Huaxia, and no one can stop him. He would take every opportunity to rush to the front line in a trainer plane, even if he was unarmed, to see the scenery of the front line, and it is said that he almost scared the rookie pilot in the front seat to pee.
Finally, the Air Force couldn't stand it anymore and forced him to retire on the grounds of violating discipline, it seems that this time Levmila is done playing?
No! At the critical moment, Trotsky struck. To tell the truth, Lao Tuo has always been very disappointed in this son who gave him a headache, what to do since he was a child, the only thing he is good at is to find trouble, sometimes Lao Tuo thinks that it would be good to shoot this kid on the wall back then.
But this time, Lao Tuo was quite relieved, he found that this son was not without any merits, and he was still a little useful to the country and the people. So he immediately put pressure on the air force, not only so that Levmila was not driven out of the army, but let him go to the front line to continue fighting.
The year is 1942. Levmila drove the American-aided P-39 into battle. In the beginning, he performed really well, shooting down five enemy planes in air combat in just one month, and also coordinated to shoot down another seven. For a time, the scenery is unlimited.
Of course, Levmila's character is as special as ever, he can be the most fearless "killer" in battle, but his brain is also unimaginable. In July of that year, Levmila took off at dawn in his Warhawk and arrived over the German airfield at breakfast. The Germans were unguarded, and a large number of planes were hit and placed on the runway, and it can be said that as long as Levmila pulled the trigger, these enemy planes could be easily destroyed.
But what everyone didn't expect was that just as Levmila swooped down and was about to fire, he was surprised to find that two German pilots were leaning on the wings of a BF-109 and leisurely playing with two blonde beauties. Levmila could even clearly see the champagne on the wings of the plane, and the red lips of the beauties sucking on the glasses of wine.
Without any hesitation, Levmila released the trigger with his fingers, jerked the plane up, shook his wings and flew away. Later, when his superiors asked him why he didn't fire, he replied: "How can I fire at the girls?" Isn't this boiling the crane burning the harp? ”
Well, Levmila is so special, his flying skills are impeccable, but his personality is elusive to normal people.
Don't look at Lefmila's weird personality, but he is indeed a very thoughtful pilot. After entering 1943, with the rapid improvement of the performance of the German fighters, it was more difficult for the Red Army pilots to use the superiority of the aircraft to achieve results. At one time, even a veteran like Lev Milla had the embarrassment of thirty sorties in a row, with no doubt about the results.
How can you improve your shooting accuracy in the heat of air combat? That's when Levmila fell into deep thought. One day at noon, Levmila was on his way back with a warhawk following the flight formation when he suddenly noticed the shadow cast by the plane from the ground. Perhaps it was a ghost, his finger just touched the trigger, so he pressed it casually, and a shuttle bullet flew out, and the trajectory of the trajectory caused Levmila to think deeply.
In that moment, Levmila realized how important those shadows on the ground were. When he shot at the shadows, he always missed, and the bullets either flew over his head or landed behind the shadows. Isn't this the most straightforward way to correct the impact point when shooting off?
Over the next few days, Levmila conducted a large number of firing tests, measuring the deviations that could be caused by the aircraft at different speeds, and soon mastered the essentials of shadow shooting. Soon he got rid of the previous difficulties, and the results were one after another.
Of course, Levmila is most famous in World War II because of the origin of his nickname, whether on the side of the Red Army or the German army, Levmila was "honorific" as "butcher". To get such a nickname, it is certain that this person is probably too bloody, and he must have a formidable bloody style.
Why is Levmila called the butcher? The reason is one of the principles of his air combat, the vast majority of pilots in the world will not continue to attack parachuting pilots after shooting down their opponents, which is the chivalry of the air. Of course, not all people observe this chivalry, for example, the little devils often shoot hostile pilots who parachute out. At first, Levmila did not have this cruel habit, as mentioned earlier, he would give up because of the girl in the face of low-hanging fruit, and it was obvious that he was not a natural killer.
What prompted Levmila to change was an air battle, his wingman and friend Semenov was unfortunately shot down, and after parachuting, Semenov was attacked by two groups of red-eyed German pilots in a row, and the heroic blood was spilled in the blue sky. The death of a good friend infuriated Levmila, and from then on, any German pilot floating in the air was subjected to his fierce attacks.
Years later, Levmila explained: "I don't have bloodthirsty desires, I just don't want them to flee back and then take off to slaughter my comrades." The only way I can think of to avoid casualties among my comrades is to kill all those demons without mercy on them! ”
In addition to shooting enemy pilots who parachuted, Levmila had a habit of never bringing a single round of ammunition back to the airfield. If he does not run out of ammunition in air combat, he will strafe the enemy on the ground when he returns. In his own words: "It's about avoiding waste!" ”
On February 12, 1945, Levmila and his friends finally saw Berlin, and over the city, he was about to face a great air battle. That afternoon, as the magnificent sunset slowly fell below the horizon, Levmila and his friends were preparing to return home in the La-7, and according to his habit, he would not leave a little extra ammunition behind. But just as Levmila was about to dive down and shoot at the German devils on the ground, the unexpected happened.
On that day, Levmila was accompanied by a young rookie pilot, and according to the predetermined tactical requirements, this rookie was supposed to act with Levmila. But I don't know if it was the rookie's lack of experience, or if he was too eager to return to the airport, so he ignored Levmila, who was about to dive, and flew away.
Levmila must have been a little dumbfounded, and was about to press the radio call button to call the rookie back when an enemy plane suddenly appeared. Two BF-109s suddenly appeared, aiming directly at Levmila. The two sneak attackers were led by the Luftwaffe's 27th Fighter Wing's ace pilot Schleel, who was the Luftwaffe's top ace, shooting down 114 enemy planes during the war in history, and more than half of his record was won on the Western Front.
Historically, the trump card of the German army on the Eastern Front was watery, after all, it was easy to hunt the I-15 and I-16 at the beginning, and it could fly. However, on the Western Front, the air power of the Allies and the Germans was relatively close, and Schleer shot down 61 enemy planes in the North African theater, which shows that its capability is still very strong.
Piloting his famous "Black 8", Schleel first fired at Levmila with an aviation machine gun, then opened fire with an aerial gun, and even hit Levmila's cockpit with the first shot. The shell pierced the dashboard with a burst and flew out from the other side of the cabin.
In an instant, the cockpit of the La-7 was filled with smoke, and Levmila was surprised to find that he had suffered only minor injuries, but his car was not so lucky: most of the instrument panel had been blown up, a large part of the wing had been blown off, and the trailing edge had been largely blown open. Levmila later recalled: "I could hear the sound of the BF-109 firing violently, and the sound of bullets entering the body, and it was terrifying! ”
Out of instinctive reaction, Levmila desperately pulled the lever back, kicked the rudder with his right foot, and the fighter stalled into a spiral state, until it was only 150 meters above the ground. However, Levmila was lucky, as Schleel circled in the air for a week, and then flew away after seeing him "hopelessly" fall to the ground.
I have to say that this is the biggest and last mistake Schleer has made in his life, and he should continue to hunt down Levmila! Levmila, who was easily leveled, did not thank God with tears in her eyes like ordinary pilots, on the contrary, Levmila's heart was full of anger at this time.
The glass shards of the cockpit cover smeared his face, and he was wounded to his shoulder and the base of his thigh, and when Levmila grinned and touched the wound and pulled out a handful of blood from under his thigh, he roared: "Oh my God! My life! ”
The fighter plane was badly damaged, and he was also scarred all over his body, all of which did not make Levmila lose his fighting spirit, but aroused his blood. Like a bull who has been provoked by a matador to a murderous position, he completely ignored the damage to the fighter plane and the fact that he was losing blood, pulled the again, pulled the La-7 up again, and killed a horse pistol!
The two BF-109s were apparently intimidated by Levmila's murderous counterattack, and Schleel's wingman made a fatally low-level mistake in a panic, and was actually preempted by the tattered Ra-7 in a favorable firing position, and in the blink of an eye, the BF-109 turned into a fireball in the air. Immediately afterwards, Levmila bit Schleel's ass and chased after him, and did not give up the pursuit until he had finished the remaining ammunition. Poor Schleer, his "Black 8" turned into a pile of scrap metal after landing, and as for himself, he was shot in five places, and almost lost his life because of excessive blood loss, Rao picked up a life, but because of his injuries, Schleer could no longer take off into the air...... (To be continued.) )