Chapter 3094: Covering the Sky and the Sun

But after reaching the strategic bomber unit level, it is no longer something that a front commander like Vatutin can dispatch.

At the level of front commander, using campaign strike force is already the limit.

As for the strategic strike force at the next level, it must be Vasilevsky, one of the members of the Supreme Command and the commander-in-chief of the June Storm Operation, who has the right to decide.

Vatutin's telegram requesting the only newly arrived strategic bomber division in the entire Far East Military District was quickly passed to Vasilevsky, who was in charge of the overall situation at the military district headquarters.

Holding the telegram in hand, Vasilevsky came to the map and carefully judged the situation without thinking much.

After realizing that it was necessary to conduct the final large-scale aviation operation capability clearance against the enemy's strategic depth, Vasilevsky immediately waved his hand and agreed to Vatutin's request for deployment.

The aviation operation schedule of the entire division, a total of 28 Pei 8M strategic bombers, was all assigned to Vatutin for deployment.

In short, this is a complete decentralization. Vatutin can bomb as he wants. This highly destructive strategic bomber division is now completely under Vatutin's command and at his disposal.

Although he has the same rank as Vasilevsky, Vatutin is still one level lower in rank. Naturally, he is very grateful that Vasilevsky is willing to trust him so much.

He immediately called back and said that he would make good use of this opportunity to give full play to the powerful strength of the Red Army's strategic bomber aviation to blow those militarist fanatics into ashes and blow them away with the wind.

The rest is how to use strategic bombers to send the Japanese devils to heaven one by one.

"Use the largest bombs, and the bigger the holes opened in the Japanese airport runway and oil depot bunker, the better. We have to see how these militarist fanatics use manpower to fill such a large crater."

If you don't use it, then don't use it. If you use it, you must use the most destructive mounting plan to teach the Japanese devils a lesson.

Under Vatutin's personal order, the Red Army ground crew at the airport used a transport vehicle to push out the Red Army Air Force's largest and heaviest super bomb from the ammunition depot - the FAB-5000 aerial bomb.

This is a super-heavy aerial bomb specially developed and manufactured for the Pe-8. Only the Pe-8 in the Red Army Air Force can carry this thing now, and other aircraft cannot carry it.

This is the "super weapon" that was previously placed on the Seelow Heights outside Berlin and completely wiped out the German army's entire positive slope fortifications and garrison forces.

The mass of a single aerial bomb is as high as 5 tons, and the charge coefficient of 60% reaches more than 3 tons, plus the huge amount of heavyweight explosion fragments produced by the nearly 2-ton cast bomb body.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as you are within its killing radius, whether you are hiding in a tank, fortification, or bunker, there is actually no essential difference.

It is for this reason that the fortifications and bunkers on the slope of the Zelo Heights carefully built by the Germans were completely flattened and no longer exist after only one round of visits by the Pe-8 fleet.

Moreover, after replacing the new engine, the payload was greatly increased.

The improved Pe-8M directly abandoned the original Pe-8 model, which mounted a single 5-ton bomb in the belly bomb bay.

Instead, a new heavy-hanging point was added to the wing root part where the wing structure has the strongest bearing capacity, one symmetrical on each side, a total of two, so that two FAB-5000s can be mounted at a time and fly straight into the sky.

Although the 10-ton weapon mounting plan will obviously greatly reduce the range and affect the maneuverability, this is obviously nothing for the battlefield environment that the Pe-8M is facing now.

The absolute air supremacy of the battlefield airspace is in the hands of the Red Army. As long as the escort fighter unit is properly dispatched to escort, even if a small number of Japanese fighters are able to take off to intercept, they can only be sent to the sky.

The greatly enhanced self-defense firepower of the Pei-8M, before being installed on Figure 4, was first equipped with a 23mm twin-mounted cannon for experimental equipment on the Pei-8M, and the firepower of the escort fighter unit was enough to solve the air defense problem.

As for the combat range to be faced, it was actually not too far.

The deep hinterland of Northeast China may be a long distance for tactical aviation, but for strategic aviation, it is a completely different matter.

The Pei-8M does not even need to take off with full fuel, and can easily complete this combat mission with two 5-ton sweet potatoes mounted.

Everything is ready, refueling and bombing are completed.

The neatly arranged Pei-8Ms parked in the open air at the airport started their engines, and the four propeller engines started running at the same time, causing gusts of whistling wind.

The Pei-8Ms moving forward with their own power began to enter the taxiway one after another and took off in order of aircraft numbers.

This was the first combat mission against Japan for the Far East Military Region's strategic bomber unit, and of course it may be the last.

The collapse of the Japanese ground forces made continuous strategic bombing unnecessary.

Bombing the airport, pushing the Japanese aviation capabilities into the abyss, and adding the last shovel of dirt to the grave of the Kwantung Army Air Force are the most valuable jobs that the 8M can find now.

When the red giant owls roared and rushed into the sky, Malashenko, who was still advancing on the front line, had just received a "heavy blow" telegram from the front headquarters.

"Strategic bombers? My God, the commander is really generous. I originally thought that it would be good to let tactical bombers come to bomb, but I didn't expect this..."

"Not entirely right, you see, the telegram said that not only strategic bombers, but also tactical bomber units will be dispatched to supplement the bombing of secondary targets and facilities at the Japanese airport. The route is exactly in line with our advancement direction and will pass over our heads. If nothing unexpected happens, we should be able to see them soon."

As Comrade Political Commissar said.

Because the range of this combat mission is indeed not too far, even a medium-sized tactical bomber like Figure 2S can easily fly it.

Vatutin did not stop and wanted to do a big deal. Not only did he send strategic bomber units, but also tactical bomber units. Responsible for the bombing of secondary targets and supplementary strikes on primary targets, ensuring that the remaining Japanese airports were taken away directly in one wave.

In order to completely paralyze the aviation operation capabilities of the Japanese large military airports, thus solving the main problem for Malashenko.

Malashenko, who had not had time to say anything after hearing the reminder from the political commissar, heard the roar of a large-scale fleet of aircraft in the sky far behind him.

Looking up, he saw a large-scale mixed fleet of fighters, tactical bombers, and strategic bombers.

They were so dense that they covered the sky and the sun, and they were roaring straight towards his position.