Chapter 18 Death Scream (Part 2)
Before traveling to the war-torn Soviet-German battlefield, Malashenko, a military fan of later generations, had fantasized and speculated countless times about the power of air raids on the real battlefield.
But no matter how those war movies that pursue extreme realism perform extremely exaggerated interpretations, or how those veterans who have experienced that cruel war vividly describe it, for Marat, who has never experienced a real air raid before, For Schenko, the power of these heavy aerial bombs dropped by German Stuka dive bombers obviously far exceeded his expectations.
boom--
There were explosions and howling sand and dust.
The first 250-kilogram aerial bomb dropped straight from mid-air and hit the Soviet tank convoy with precision. In the blink of an eye, it quickly turned into a ball of scorching fire.
The explosive power equivalent to 125 kilograms of TNT with a charge coefficient of up to 50% is naturally full of stamina. The scorching flames are accompanied by billowing air waves and spread out from the center of the explosion like a flood in an instant.
Several BT7 light tanks that were only a few meters away from the center of the explosion were directly reduced to parts under the strong explosion power. Another T34 tank that was slightly farther away was also not spared from the rolling explosion. It only took the blink of an eye for the shock wave to overturn this medium tank, which had a total combat weight of 28 tons, directly to the ground.
On the other side, Malashenko, who had just jumped off the turret to warn his troops, was also not spared.
The surging shock wave of the aerial bomb explosion was like a plastic bag rolled up by strong wind, directly blowing Malashenko away as he was running forward. The 1.83 meter strong body of more than 100 kilograms was no different from a scarecrow in front of the bomb shock wave. Malashenko flew backwards for dozens of meters in mid-air and then plunged into the soft body. Life and death are unknown in the grassland.
After losing Malashenko as commander to command the battle, the Soviet troops, which were already in chaos under German air strikes, were even worse.
Facing these screams of death rushing down from the sky and the comrades who fell one after another around them, the remaining Red Army soldiers who realized that simple escape and avoidance were futile simply became violent.
With a fierce attitude of fighting to the death, the Red Army soldiers began to pick up all the weapons in their hands that could shoot in the air and aimed at the sky, firing back at the weird and ugly Stukas.
Among them, the ones with the most ferocious anti-air firepower are naturally those GAZ AAA anti-aircraft trucks at the back of the team.
In addition to the function of an ordinary truck for transporting goods and personnel, this type of anti-aircraft truck is also equipped with a Maxin 1901M4 62mm quadruple-mounted anti-aircraft machine gun in the rear cargo compartment, which can shoot up to 45 degrees of elevation and in all directions. Anti-aircraft fire attack with 360-degree rotatable field of view.
Although this anti-aircraft truck consisting of only four 62mm Maxin machine guns sounds a bit poor in firepower, it is undoubtedly the most common and basically the most powerful field mobile anti-aircraft firepower of the Soviet Western Front in the summer of 1941.
Da da da da——
Accompanied by a burst of splashing gunshots and a barrage of crimson tracer machine guns piercing the sky, the Stuka dive bomber, which was still in a dive posture and plunged towards the Soviet troops on the ground, immediately seemed like a frightened one. He swung his bird-like wings in time to avoid this anti-aircraft machine gun barrage that might threaten his own safety.
The B2 Stuka dive bomber, which only has bulletproof steel plate protection in the pilot's cockpit, is not as sturdy and durable as future successor models of Stuka. If you are not careful, you may be hit by the 62mm machine gun barrage. The risk of destroying the fragile engine nacelle of the aircraft's nose, which could lead to the aircraft crashing and killing people, was obviously something the German pilots flying this Stuka bomber were unwilling to try.
After shaking the heavy and plump fuselage like a pregnant seagull and climbing up for a certain distance, the German pilot who had just passed through the gate of hell was obviously very dissatisfied with the Soviet anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground that dared to challenge him.
"Bedbugs should have the consciousness of bedbugs. It is brave to dare to challenge the sky, but it is very stupid!"
While silently muttering the bad curse, he turned his head to determine the position of the Soviet anti-aircraft truck that was still firing at him. The German pilot, who was obviously not very good-tempered, immediately drove his favorite plane and fired at him. A nearly vertical attack angle of more than eighty degrees fell straight down towards the Soviet anti-aircraft truck that was firmly locked on the ground.
Facing the Stuka dive bombers that dived straight down from the sky at a nearly vertical attack angle, this Red Army soldier who was full of enthusiasm but had only received some basic anti-aircraft weapons training was obviously a little panicked.
The maximum anti-aircraft elevation angle of the four-unit Maxin anti-aircraft machine gun in his hand was only 45 degrees. Even if the muzzle of the gun was raised to the extreme position and it got stuck, it would not be able to reach the German fighter planes in the sky and would be in a blind spot.
Faced with the hopeless impasse in front of him, with his mind and hearing system completely enveloped in the "death scream" caused by the Stuka bomber's dive, the Red Army soldier finally couldn't bear it anymore. Under tremendous psychological pressure, driven by both instinct and inner fear, he immediately dropped the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft machine gun in his hand and ran away.
Buzz buzz buzz buzz——
In order to strengthen the psychological pressure caused by the Stuka dive bomber on the enemy during the ground attack, the ingenious German Air Force also installed another small sound-generating device on the tail of the aerial bomb carried by the Stuka bomber.
This small sound-generating device equipped on the tail of the bomb is similar to the principle of the Jericho trumpet device used on the Stuka dive bomber.
It can use the airflow to emit the same harsh and terrifying screaming sound when the bomb leaves the belly rack and sprints towards the ground target. After mixing with the Jericho trumpet device originally on the Stuka bomber, the decibel increases sharply and is extremely shrill.
In this shrill scream like the howling of hell ghosts, the Soviet anti-aircraft truck that was just in a parked state and poured out its anger on the German fleet was almost turned into wreckage parts in a burst of explosions in the blink of an eye. The burning truck tires that were blown away by the shock wave even flew nearly a hundred meters in the air before they came to a stop, which shows how terrifying the explosion was.
However, for the mechanized mixed team led by Malashenko, a long nightmare had just begun.