Chapter 1427 Death From the Sky (Part 2)
A truck full of German infantrymen was hit by the wing-mounted aircraft guns of the swooping Il-2 attack aircraft before they could get off the vehicle. The aircraft and the soldiers were directly beaten into a bloody mess mixed with orange-red explosion fireballs. After a loud bang, only human bodies and steel fragments were left.
"It's a flying tank! A Russian attack aircraft!"
The terror of the Il-2 to the German soldiers is like the fear of the Allied soldiers on the Western Front to the Tiger tank.
This flying bathtub-like attack aircraft has a perverted level of body defense, which can be called "indestructible" in the aircraft-level defense. As long as it is not hit in the vital parts, it is often fine to be hit by more than a dozen machine gun bullets. At most, the skin is broken and it is shaky, but it can still fly.
If the small-caliber anti-aircraft gun is not equipped with an armor-piercing shell chain, it will not work against this thing. For example, the 20mm anti-aircraft gun high-explosive shell cannot penetrate the front protective armor of the Il-2 body. There is no other effect except for hearing a bang and emitting sparks. How can you shoot down enemy planes if you can't even penetrate the protective armor? It's nonsense!
If it's just thick skin and flesh, it's fine. What's more frightening to the German soldiers is that this terrible "Black Death" and "flying tank" also has terrible weapon mounting capacity and configuration scheme. From machine guns and cannons to aerial rockets and small-yield aerial bombs, the "full set of services" can directly make the German soldiers doubt their lives. No matter whether the German targets on the ground are infantry or vehicles, they will be taken. "Who can withstand this" is the best description of the German army's wailing in their hearts.
It is difficult to take down the Il-2 even with a complete air defense position. Don't even think about taking it down now. This is basically the same as a fool dreaming. The smarter Germans ran away as soon as the air raid began. They could go anywhere, to the gullies on the roadside or behind the wreckage. They could not just stay there and wait for death, and they could not provoke and try to fire at the Il-2s.
At a distance of about one kilometer, they would first fire with aircraft cannons, then at a distance of 800 to 600 meters, they would fire rockets at the enemy's ground vehicles, and finally at a distance of 300 to 500 meters, they would throw the bombs in the belly bomb bay, using a very low altitude to exchange for higher hit accuracy. Not to mention throwing bombs into the German army, some skilled and skilled pilots could even throw 100-kilogram small sweet potato bombs directly onto the top of the German tanks' foreheads.
The lower the altitude, the higher the bombing accuracy. This is not only the German Stukas who dare to do it, but also the brave and fearless attack aviation boys who are skilled and brave enough to do it.
The artillery shells, rockets, and aerial bombs that danced and roared together instantly made the entire German column under attack in a panic. The remains of the fleeing German soldiers who were directly torn apart by the aircraft artillery shells were everywhere. The Lightning Opel truck that was running away madly with the accelerator pressed to the ground was directly hit by the 132mm air-launched rocket. After a loud bang, only the burning and smoking tires flew out, and the wreckage fragments that could not be seen in their original appearance were flying around.
Don't think that those relatively tough German tanks can be set up. The 100-kilogram aerial bombs dropped at low altitude are aimed at these German tanks.
The Il-2 pilots who repeatedly lowered the bombing height were almost able to achieve an accuracy of more than 80% on the enemy tanks. In order to ensure the effective destruction of the enemy tanks and not waste precious bombing opportunities, most pilots would choose to drop two aerial bombs at a time to ensure that a German tank was taken away.
Although the 100-kilogram aerial bomb is called a small sweet potato, it can only be regarded as a younger brother among the aerial bombs that can easily weigh tons. But you should know that even a 100-kilogram aerial bomb contains 50 kilograms of explosives. In the future, African black uncles can drive a shabby car and pull 50 kilograms of TNT to directly blow up a US military checkpoint, smash the Hummer on the spot, and find parts with great difficulty. From the perspective of the explosive equivalent alone, it is equivalent to the total amount of explosives in the warhead of 6 155mm high-explosive grenades.
So really don't underestimate the 100-kilogram small sweet potato aerial bomb. As long as you throw it accurately enough, it can also blow up the German tanks on the spot. The key depends on whether your pilot's bombing skills are superb.
A Type 4 tank that was driving at full speed towards the roadside became the target of the lock. This Type 4 tank, which had been moving coquettishly and rushing left and right at the beginning of the air raid, had dodged several aerial rockets fired at it in succession. Either it was a near miss or it simply missed somewhere. In short, this little No. 4 tank escaped danger again and again and survived a disaster.
But does surviving a disaster necessarily bring good fortune? This is not necessarily the case. Sometimes surviving a disaster will bring a follow-up attack, such as now.
Just when the No. 4 tank, which had stepped on the accelerator and tried its best to protect the car, was about to step on the accelerator and rush down the slope, basically escaping the air raid range. No one expected that at this time, two large black iron lumps would suddenly fall from the sky, one on the left and one on the right, and landed on the left and right sides of the tracks of the No. 4 tank. A closer look revealed that they were two 100-kilogram small sweet potato bombs.
Before the bombs exploded, the Il-2 attack aircraft that dropped the two bombs took the lead and flew over at a low altitude of less than 50 meters, dragging a huge black shadow. The violent and whistling airflow even rolled up the rags wrapped around the dead German soldiers and blew them up to the air. As for the German armored soldiers in the No. 4 tank, they knew nothing about what was happening outside and did not realize that the sickle of the god of death was already on their necks.
Boom-Boom-
Two loud explosions that were almost completely connected and basically indistinguishable from the order of the two explosions came instantly, and a large-scale fireball rose up and directly wrapped the poor No. 4 tank inside.
Two 100-kilogram bombs exploded almost simultaneously at close range, one on the left and one on the right, and in an instant, the No. 4 tank was torn into pieces by the two-way force.
No one could see how No. 4 died in the firestorm. Only after the flames and smoke from the explosion finally dissipated, the two almost connected craters and the debris scattered on the ground could explain some basic information to the spectators who did not know the truth.
Complete destruction is just that simple. You can't even find any trace of human remains on this charred land.