Flying has always been the dream of mankind, and the person closest to this dream is undoubtedly the pilot of a fighter jet. Why not talk about the pilots of other planes? The reason is simple - if sitting in the driver's seat and smoothly pulling the control stick is considered flying, then will there still be so many people yearning for the sky?

Therefore, only relying on one's own control and flying freely in the sky is the true dream of human beings. Pushing and pulling one's own joystick with one's hands, changing the flight attitude of the plane with the pedal of the foot, avoiding those invisible and dangerous undercurrents, and turning the rules formulated by God into wings that you can rely on, all these are the charms of flying.

Watching Hartman fly the plane through the sky is a very pleasant thing, and this young man will always challenge the human perception and perception of flying with dazzling flight maneuvers. Watching him shoot down his opponent's plane is a pleasing process for the eye, and you'll be beating as he circles and rolls all the way to the point where he tears his opponent's fighter jet to shreds in the sky.

Compared with the contest between modern air forces, the air battles of the Second World War were more spectacle, and in more technical terms, they were dog fights between fighters. The two warring sides use the rules of aerodynamics to give full play to the best performance of their fighters, lure or limit each other to the combat field that their aircraft is good at, and hover, flip, pull up and dive and finally shoot down the opponent, which may be the most exciting thing for people with male hormones.

Hartmann's squadron leader was flying high in the sky with his plane at this moment, his head tilted, looking down at a wonderful dog fight, Hartman's Ta-152 fighter painted almost in the sky on the Eastern Front by the black tulips that were household names of Soviet Air Force pilots had bitten the tail of the opposing fighter, his wings bobbing back and forth, as if guessing the direction in which his opponent would get out.

There was a relationship of ostentatious competition between the Luftwaffe, so various squadrons and even various wings, including the Air Corps, were fighting for the quantity and quality of some ace pilots. Because of this, it was very common in the Luftwaffe's front-line combat units to give each other results, for example, a pilot who shot down 4 enemy planes would soon be covered by his teammates to complete his 5th shot down record and be promoted to ace pilot.

By analogy, if someone reaches 49 aircraft, then the 50th enemy teammate will deliberately give in and let him make a numerical leap. Of course, this mostly happens when this is close to an integer, but there are some exceptions.

For example, the contenders for the throne of the first person in the German and even the world's air force will be regularly escorted by their own troops, Hartmann has now shot down more than 170 planes, and a magical pilot named Marseilleu in North Africa, he became famous late, but the record is close to 130 aircraft. Between him and Hartmann, 13 German ace pilots were densely crowded, and the combined number of planes shot down by these 15 men was probably as many as the number of fighters that fought in the entire France that year.

"I bet the other side is going to get rid of me to the right, 5 Imperial Golden Marks!" Hartman's voice came from the headphones, with a teasing tone, sounding very relaxed. At this time, his voice was like that of a big boy, and he was a little immature and high-spirited, if he didn't know that this ace of air combat had shot down 171 fighters, he would really think that he was a neighbor's boy.

"Don't come! I don't bet on such a thing as a loser. The squadron leader watched as the Soviet P-40 fighter was turning to the right, just as Hartmann had predicted. He laughed, and then continued, "How did you know he was going to turn to the right, tell me about it. ”

Hartmann opened fire in advance on the route of this Soviet plane, firing ten 20-mm cannon shells, and the opposing fighter as if it had survived enough, adjusted its own angle and crashed into those shells, and in an instant the entire plane caught fire and exploded, disintegrating in the air and turning into countless fragments.

Only then did he reply: "This Soviet pilot flies well, but he has a bad habit of making a feint to the other side every time he wants to turn to one side. ”

"......" is speechless to deal with this kind of demon who can make such an accurate judgment just by capturing the opponent's inadvertent small movements. In the face of the huge psychological pressure of the black tulip-painted fighter to die for a lifetime, many Soviet pilots would be nervous, and this nervousness led to a lot of small actions exposed in front of Hartman when they flew the plane, and these small actions eventually led to them being shot down faster.

Watching that Soviet fighter explode in the sky, the pilot was not even able to open the parachute. In the face of the terrible large-caliber cannon of the Luftwaffe, small fighters can only rely on flexible evasion and consumption of ammunition to regain their disadvantage, but when it comes to the destructive performance of a single shell, the large-caliber aerial guns specially prepared to deal with large bombers can definitely be described as terrible in destroying small fighters.

This is also one of the reasons why the Luftwaffe is most criticized by its counterparts in various hostile countries, because it is equipped with large-caliber cannons, so it is generally shot down by the Luftwaffe and rarely has the opportunity to parachute. Of course, while scolding the Germans for their shamelessness, unwittingly, Britain's latest Meteor jet fighter also used a large-caliber cannon in the nose to deal with German bombers that might appear over Iceland.

Generals Catherine and Dick did come up with plans to bomb Iceland, as the number of British military installations on Iceland was growing and threatening. It could be used as an outpost for attacking and influencing the British mainland, as well as as a buffer zone, causing a great deal of distress to the German Atlantic barrier.

It was precisely because of this forward base that a large-scale anti-Chamberlain march broke out in northern Britain, and the main fleet, which the British were gradually concentrating, also had a large space for activity.

In addition, in fact, there is another main reason, that is, there are finally some targets worthy of the Luftwaffe attack in Iceland. A few months ago there was only a small military base here, and it was obvious that the use of long-range strategic bombers to attack would not be worth the cost, but now that there are radar stations, airfields, barracks, and other facilities, the value of this place is immediately different.

Therefore, whether it was Field Marshal Raeder and Admiral Lütjans, commander of the aircraft carrier fleet, or Caitlin and Dick on the air force, or even General Loeb, commander of Army Group C stationed in the British mainland, these generals believed that strategic bombers should be used to carry out high-intensity and continuous bombing of Iceland to break the last will of the British to resist.

However, Accardo was still a little undecided, as Dönitz, the commander of the Navy's submarine forces, felt that with more and more new submarines, the German submarine forces could stifle any Allied efforts to strengthen Iceland's military reserves. "The other side needs to replenish the consumption of Iceland to maintain Iceland, and once the wolf pack formed by the new submarine cuts off the supply line, Iceland can only maintain the status quo at best. ”

Another reason for Accardo's hesitation is the lack of fighter escorts. The range of the new Ta-152 was not sufficient for the need to go to Iceland to kill and set fires, and the range was shorter than that of the older FW-190D. So if you use butcher bombers to go to Iceland, the only way you can use it is to be escorted by naval fighters.

However, what is worrying is that the Navy's FW-190 fighter is only an air-cooled model, and its performance has also decreased slightly after the structure is strengthened, which is more than enough to deal with the Allied Navy's carrier-based aircraft, but in a high-altitude environment, it is a little powerless to deal with the P-40 modification equipped with Rolls-Royce engines and the more terrifying Meteor jet fighter.

This led to the problem that these naval fighters were not capable of escorting at high altitudes to cope with the new Allied fighters over Iceland, and the escort mission exceeded the performance of naval fighters, so that the butcher bombers could only carry out bombing missions without escort. This method, similar to the method adopted by the United States in the early days of the bombing of Germany in another time and space, is essentially a struggle for attrition.

Using the loss of a large number of bombers to consume the opponent's war potential, to put it bluntly, is similar to the real-time strategy game, relying on their own barracks, and the violent soldiers demolishing the opponent's buildings against the opponent's troops, there is no beauty at all, but it has a very high attack efficiency.

However, Accardo felt that it was not wise to use valuable aviation to fight with the British Air Force in Iceland, after all, Iceland was not the production base of the Allied forces, and even if a large amount of Allied resources could be replaced there, it could not really hit the other side's production links, and in the end it could only fall into the rhythm of "loss for loss" that Germany least wanted to see.

So Accardo subjectively preferred to believe Dönitz's statement, and therefore made some tilts in production, at least two months ago, the German army accelerated the pace of submarine production, and because of this, reduced the production of 4 new destroyers. According to Dönitz's plan, in the next few days of the month, five new U-boats will be launched, and after a brief inspection, they will go to the predetermined waters to form a new wolf pack with Prien's new U-47 and try to attack the route between Iceland and the United States on a larger scale.