Chapter 2451 What on Earth Is That?

"Then, didn't our artillery, the army's artillery and aviation units stop these Germans? Just let them drive to the high ground and come for reinforcements? Isn't this inappropriate?"

The unwilling Malashenko hoped to hear some good news, but what the political commissar said next could only be described as "not good but not bad" at best.

"Of course what you mentioned has been done. Not only artillery has blocked fire, but aviation has also taken some of its troops away from the busy frontal battlefield support tasks to intercept the enemy. But these two methods have actually had little effect, and most of them It is related to the fact that the force is put into the frontal battlefield and there is not much firepower, but there are also other interfering factors.”

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Although the news is not very good, even a little bad, Malashenko still cares about the reasons and wants to hear it.

"What distractions? Why is this all happening?"

The political commissar sitting at the other corner of the table sighed and shook his head slightly. Then he took out one of the folders he had already sorted out and opened it. He compared the details described above with his own analysis. Then the words spoke.

"The artillery mainly encounters terrain interference. When the group army artillery group is located in a position to attack German reinforcements, the curved trajectory will be interfered by the high terrain. The artillery shells that pass over the highlands can only hit the high ground and the ground farther away. The German troops had no choice but to deal with the Germans on the other side of the high ground and on the slopes.”

"You should understand the reason. With anti-slope shielding, it is impossible for our artillery shells to pass over the high ground and then immediately attack vertically downwards and hit the top of the Germans' heads. The curved trajectory is fixed. This leads to the fact that most of the Germans are not with us. Within the coverage area of ​​​​the artillery fire, the limited rounds of shelling only killed some German troops farther away, and the reports reported by the artillery observation plane showed little effect. "

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Malashenko, who was speechless, didn't know what to say at this time. Comrade Political Commissar said that there was no problem. Objective laws are objective laws, and war is also scientific. You can use the terrain, and the enemy can also use it. The battlefield environment is fair, and the performance of the weapons is fixed. It is normal for the Germans on the other side of the high ground to escape most of the artillery damage.

"What about the aviation force? What happened to the aviation force? What problems did they encounter?"

Malashenko, who no longer wanted to comment on the insurmountable problems encountered by the artillery, chose to skip it directly and began to ask what troubles the aviation had encountered. Unexpectedly, the answer given by the political commissar was still dissatisfied. No matter how good it is, it is still heart-wrenching to hear.

"The aviation unit participating in the air strike is a ground attack aviation unit equipped with the latest Il-10 attack aircraft. According to the reports they reported after returning from the mission, there seems to be something in the German reinforcements that has never been seen before. New technological weapons, which seriously hinders the expansion of the effect of air strikes.”

"New technological weapon? Never seen it before???"

After hearing this, Malashenko stared blankly, but Comrade Comrade Political Commissar just continued to nod.

"The attacking aviation force couldn't get close enough to see what it was. It was too dangerous." The overwhelming rain of fire stayed behind us as if it had eyes, clinging to it. No matter what kind of maneuvers we do to dodge, they can always find us quickly and keep up with us from any angle, and continue the fire pursuit." Well, this is a descriptive report from a pilot who participated in the battle."

"According to the description, the Army Headquarters analyzed that this should be a new type of accompanying mobile anti-aircraft weapon. We previously captured the German anti-aircraft half-track vehicle, which was equipped with a small-caliber rapid-fire anti-aircraft gun mount, which has the ability to quickly The Army Headquarters believes that the ability to deploy, retract, and accompany mobile air defense should be similar equipment, but it has been upgraded and strengthened. "

"And the Il-10 happens to be a type of equipment that must be attacked at close range to achieve good results. This is contradictory to the actual situation they face. The enemy's quickly organized anti-aircraft firepower does not allow them to do this."

"Most attempts to cut into the attack channel have been blocked and driven away. Most of the energy and fuel have been consumed by dodging those anti-aircraft barrages. In the end, we can only hurriedly drop bombs and launch rockets from a long distance and then leave the battlefield airspace. The actual hits achieved I can only tell you what the effect is, I don’t need to say more.”

The goal of air defense in the game is to shoot down enemy aircraft. As long as the enemy aircraft is still alive and can still fly, it is possible to pounce at any time and destroy the ground air defense units that are natural enemies. Either you die or I die. Anyway, only one can survive. But in reality this is not the case at all.

In reality, real air defense is mainly based on expulsion and supplemented by shooting down. At least this is the case these days when anti-aircraft artillery is the main combat method.

When Anton Star pilots saw the air defense units, they would be stunned. If they plunged in with a sudden force, they would kill the anti-aircraft vehicles. Even if they were surrounded by a dense barrage of interceptors, they would still be able to survive, but Earth pilots would not.

Except for some extremely precious things among Earth pilots, most normal people, even the heroic Red Army Eagles, usually have only one reaction after seeing the enemy's organized and high-density anti-air barrage interception fire net. :Run.

The further away from those deadly anti-aircraft barrages, the better, and it is best not to even touch the edges.

The more cowardly pilots would just run away, while the braver ones, like today's Il-10 pilots, would try to cut into the attack route while avoiding the air defense fire net, to see if they could knock out the key support points in the enemy's air defense fire net, and then break through the surface with a point, open up the situation, and break through the remaining air defense fire points with flaws one by one to complete the air strike.

But there is a price to pay for doing this. Since you have decided to lick blood on the tip of the knife, you must be prepared to cut your tongue.

In the process of continuous attempts, the Il-10s that were shot down and fell to the ground because they could not dodge in time, and the few Il-10s that were directly destroyed and killed because they did not have time to parachute at low altitude were the price.

Therefore, pilots who can face the low-altitude small-caliber rapid-fire air defense barrage head-on and carry out close-range attacks on the ground are all brave, and this is not an exaggeration at all. In these days without ejection seats, if they are shot down, the death rate is definitely higher than 95% and close to 100%.

Those Il-10s were able to carry out their missions resolutely under such difficult circumstances, and only withdrew from the combat airspace when they were exhausted and almost had no fuel to return.

Based on this alone, Malashenko had no intention of blaming them, and even had to give a thumbs up and say "real men, real men, all of them are heroes in the air."

But a problem that followed also troubled Malashenko and caused considerable concern.

What exactly are those new German anti-aircraft vehicles that are numerous, have dense firepower, and have a high rate of fire, and can organize an entire airtight field accompanying air defense network, and are durable enough to consume the Il-10 until it runs out of fuel? In my impression, there seems to be no known German weapon that can match this description.