Chapter 1501: Everyone is a great power, not a paper tiger!
Are the US-UK Air Force strong? Of course strong! The military strength of the American and British air forces in Britain is no worse than all the current Luftwaffe assets combined, if converted into indiscriminate human labor! The scale of 8,000 4-engine bombers alone is enough to make the Germans frightened, but if you want to rely on this force to blow up Germany directly, it can only be said that the people who hold this view are too young, too simple Tucson is broken! No matter how weak the defense of Germany's air force in Europe is, it has the size of 14 air armies! More than 15,000 various aircraft! At the beginning, you took advantage of the Germans' defenselessness to get a little cheap, did you really think that the Germans couldn't stop it?
The Germans did not organize an attack of this scale, and during the British air war, the Germans also made up about 25,000 planes at the beginning, although the quality was poor. Even if Germany uses 60% of its strength in India, the Middle East and Transcaucasia, if 15,000 planes are used for defense, it will still be able to block the opponent's attack, do not forget, strategic bombing is a continuous process, and it is impossible to end the war in a few days, even if the daily loss is only 2 percent! Try it for a month!
What's more, the brutality of the integrated Luftwaffe is not something that the current American and British Air Forces can bear! The Luftwaffe is no longer good as a strategic offensive force, to the point that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Germans are far from the predicament of 1944 in history, you must know that at the beginning of 1944, the United States alone used more than 20,000 air forces to deal with Germany! Half of them are fighters! And that's not even counting the British imperialists! How many of Dekura could have been on the Western Front at that time? 4,000 is about the same!
If the Luftwaffe hastily pulls up the troops, the surprise attack of the United States and Britain may continue for a while, but don't look at who is in charge of the Luftwaffe! Red Baron Richthofen was a fighter pilot in World War 1. Since the time of the Italian war, the German national air defense system has been studied and prepared for at least 8 years. If you don't make something, will you be worthy of the salary and position he receives?
What is the name of Jin Daxia? He is strong by him. The breeze blows on the hills. Caught off guard, what did the Luftwaffe do? Is it to go up and die? Obviously not! The first thing the Red Baron did was to concentrate the air forces scattered in Europe in the second-tier areas that were far away from Britain. Your bomber force bombs my city, I admit it! If you don't admit it, you can't do it, just send some planes to intercept it. Save the capital of the turnaround first!
This assembly process took about 5 days, a large number of fighter units were concentrated in East Prussia, the Baltic coast, Bavaria, Bohemia and other places where British and American bombers could hardly reach, and a full 10,000 fighters and interceptors converted from twin-engine bombers were deployed in an arc-shaped starting position! At the same time, in order to ensure that he could resist the strategic bombing of the United States and Britain for a long time, the Red Baron threatened to resign, so that the Kaiser agreed to give up the opinion of the Transcaucasian air defense war to a limited extent, so that he could do so. Germany could bring back at least 3 aviation armies from Transcaucasia and Turkey!
And after completing the assembly and arranging the follow-up strike forces, the Red Baron did not choose to be reckless immediately! In the face of an all-front attack of this scale, it is impossible to disperse forces in an attempt to block the attacks of all opponents, and in the face of strategic bombing, it is a step forward to prevent the other side from dropping bombs, and the most important thing in countering strategic bombing is to hurt the attacking side! Let the number of opponents' fleets not go up! Let the other party feel that the blow up is not worth the loss! Don't forget, a B17 costs around $200,000! Not counting the pilots! A bomber with a crew of 6 to 10 people. The loss of manpower is also quite staggering!
Some people may ask, could it be that the Red Baron watched the United States and Britain blow up their own cities? Can the German people endure? How to say it, on the one hand, if you can't bear it, you have to endure it, you can do it. On the other hand, the intensity of strategic air strikes is not particularly large. Don't look at the fact that the United States and Britain have sent more planes, but in terms of the amount of bombs dropped, it is really not as good as the original British War, when Germany bombed Britain. and later came to China for the bombing of the Transcaucasia.
The reason is simple, distance! Huaxia's Yunlong bombers can fly over the Caspian Sea with more than 6 tons of bombs to bomb the Baku oil fields. But if the American B17 wants to bomb a target as far away as Berlin, it can't even carry 2 tons of bombs! On the one hand, the B17 is a little smaller than the Yunlong. On the other hand, the bomb load has been replaced with fuel, and depending on the number, there are many planes that have come out, but the number of bombs dropped is still limited.
"Don't worry about bombing the French bombers immediately, don't worry about bombing the coastal areas first, let's deal with those targets who dare to go deep into the interior of the empire first!" As the saying goes, there are things to do, things not to do! The first thing the Red Baron concentrated on dealing with was the American and British air groups that dared to bomb Berlin, Dresden, and Hamburg, which were heavy industrial bases. Even the Germans were taken aback by their number, and they never imagined that they could concentrate so many fighters in an interception operation.
In fact, in the middle of the war, after China hit the German Navy for the first time, the gap in aviation technology between the two sides was not too bad, and even in the battle over German territory, from a technical point of view, it can also be described as having its own strengths. The Americans' P47 certainly had a long range, but the Germans' home combat advantage made up for the smaller range, and the performance of the aircraft could be described as having its own strengths. The high-altitude performance of the P47 is somewhat better than that of the FW190D9 used. However, the low-altitude performance was inferior to the latter, and when the Germans put into use a new TA152 fighter, the P47 was inferior to its opponent in most airspace. βFrom "The History of Air Warfare in Europe", by Li Mei.
The aviation of the Germans in this plane is indeed much stronger than in history, in addition to the overall size advantage and some technical advantages, the biggest plug-in of the Germans is that they are not so brain-dead! For example, this plane Dr. Tan Ke made the TA152! Maybe it's the C3 fuel pipe of the Germans in this plane, or maybe it's the otherworldly version of the JUMO213E engine that takes into account both low-altitude and high-altitude performance. In addition, Dr. Tan Ke did not press the complex 2-stage 3-speed supercharger on the engine this time. The performance of TA152 in the airspace above 8,000 meters in this plane is somewhat worse than in history, but the airspace below 8,000 meters far exceeds the historical level. Compared with the American P47N, the airspace is about 8000, but it has an advantage below 6000 meters.
The Germans had stumbled upon a fighter that would make a name for themselves. Because at the height of the most likely outbreak of an air battle, it was at least not thrown off by the other side. And many height segments have advantages. And relying on a longer wing, horizontal maneuverability is also good. The aviation background of the Germans is still good, as long as they are not brain-dead, they can always be higher than a decent aircraft. Originally, these TA152s were intended to be used in the Middle East to deal with Huaxia, but the Red Baron withstood the pressure and held back more than 1,000 planes before agreeing to put them into the battlefield on a large scale, ready to take the opponent by surprise, and the result was surprising. This killer trick has the Americans run into! After all, the homeland is much more important than the distant Baku oil field, without Baku, Germany still has 3 oil fields, as well as coal-fired oil, and reserves, and the mainland has been blown up to pieces, so it's still a hair!
In addition to the FW190D and TA152, the old aircraft of the Germans also had a second spring! Twin-engine bombers such as the BF110, Me210, and even the JU88 were converted into interceptors. THE 30MM GUNS ON THE NOSE AND THE DENSE 150MM ROCKETS MOUNTED UNDER THE WINGS ARE CHILLING! In the face of the ferocious bombing of the United States and Britain, the Germans said. Brother has already sharpened the kitchen knife, stretch his neck over! And the Americans still didn't know anything about the times, and the Germans began to counterattack with less intensity than expected, which made the Americans more optimistic, and the disaster finally began to approach them step by step!
"This is the Seventh Air Force. We are about to enter Bavaria and everything is normal at the moment. "The person in charge of directing this airstrike was Major General Brinton under him. 900 B17 bombers came here over long distances, and they were covered by six fighter wings. In total, there were nearly 800 fighters of all kinds, and a full 1,700 planes of all kinds flew through the air. A "cloud" of almost 100 kilometers long was formed. Although the position of the aircraft of the Major General was relatively high, and the weather was clear, looking out from the cabin, he could hardly see the boundaries of the entire formation! With such a formidable force at his disposal, the Major General did not think that there was any force that could threaten his existence. And the smooth operation of the previous day gave him the feeling that "the Germans are nothing more than that!" β
Such a large formation flew from an altitude of 6,000 meters, and along the way they swaggered through the market, and some unsightly lords began to want to come up and try, but they were either shot down or dispersed. Now they are only 200 kilometers away from the target, and according to the words of the major general, in another 1 hour, after dropping the bombs, everyone will be able to go home! Today's attack seems to be going even more smoothly than before, and so far we haven't encountered a group of planes above the wing!
"Our guests are coming, so treat them well, and don't forget to treat them to a glass of Bavarian stout after you capture them!" At this time, the Luftwaffe unit responsible for this interception operation had already entered the combat position! With Munich as the center, the forces of two whole air armies spread out from both flanks! The Germans played a big vote this time, a full 1200 FW190 and BF109 fighters, of which the FW190 fighters accounted for half of the A and D types, and the BF109 fighters were dominated by the recent BF109G! Plus 300 TA152s, and 400 interceptors with heavy artillery and rockets!
The Germans put the two best-equipped air armies into this battlefield, and they not only had to carry out interception, but were even ready to pursue them directly to the surface of the sea, in order to prevent being detected by the other side, the two air armies did not intercept each other, but outflanked each other, and activated electronic jamming. They dodged the spearhead made up of American fighters and directly targeted the huge flanks of the American fleet! Under the guidance of radar and ground, all the wings have entered the combat position, just waiting for the signal to launch the attack!
"I order, the attack begins! The fighter unit immediately attacked, and the interceptor unit was ready to follow at any moment! "With Garland's order, the German fighter units flew like a tide from both flanks at the same time towards the American bomber group! And by the time the Americans discovered patches of "moving black clouds", it was too late!
"Oh God! The Germans still have so many planes? "An American pilot squeezed out these words in half a minute after seeing the vast expanse of German planes coming out of the clouds! Faced with the wide attacking front drawn by the Germans from both flanks, the Americans were stunned. How do you intercept this thing? The escort fighter units of the US Air Force are concentrated on the front. Responsible for swiping out a safe passage for the fleet, and the defense on both sides is already poor. When suddenly hundreds of various planes flanked from the wings, the Americans, who had no plan, were really a little overwhelmed!
"The various brigades are ready to attack, stop the opponent as much as possible, the bomber force is speeding up, we are in big trouble!" Major General Brinton immediately ordered that in such a large-scale air battle, it was impossible to achieve effective command at all, and that it was enough to point in a general direction and fight, and whether or not they could stop half of the pilots depended on their skills, and the remaining half depended on luck. The moment the German aircraft group appeared, the Major General knew that this time his troops wanted to leave without shedding their skin, it was impossible!
As soon as the aircraft groups of the two sides collided, it was a large-scale chaotic battle, the Americans could not effectively command hundreds of aircraft, and the command level of the Germans was limited to a frame, and then directly A over! As for whether A can win, it depends on the command level of the captain level and the quality of the pilots, the two groups of as many as hundreds of planes collided together without any tricks, and a few minutes later, the originally neat formation was dismantled and shattered, like the explosion of explosives, the battlefield expanded rapidly, the pilots subconsciously flew outside, and the air battle was completely unfolded in a three-dimensional space.
Flying in his new car, he and his teammates set their sights on a P47 fighter jet, a stout guy. Like a flying refrigerator, the first time Marjuse saw such an aircraft was during the French campaign, and he still has some doubts about how such a large thing could fly into the air. "It's good to have a high-power engine, and the refrigerator can go to the sky." P47 gives him the impression of being rough and reckless. A monster that is absolutely not elegant, but relies on a high-performance engine, and can still get more than performance!
"Entangle them and we'll win!" In the past, the Germans avoided fighting with the P47 at high altitudes, not to mention that at low altitudes, the P47 was as stupid as a duck with half of its wings lost. But high in the air, the German FW190 turned into a duck with a wing off! In this competition of who is more rubbish, FW190 clearly wins! His performance is more rubbish than P47! But this time, the Germans were not afraid! They finally have a professional high-altitude fighter!
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