#1068 Professional High-Altitude Interceptor (Plus 4)

The Yak-1 is a long-range fighter with a maximum range of 850 kilometers. After the auxiliary fuel tank is attached, the range can exceed 1,000 kilometers. In this way, the Soviet Air Force can escort all the way to Moscow as long as it takes off from the border.

This is why they chose the Yak-1. This is the most representative aircraft selected by the Soviet Air Force from its active aircraft. With excellent flight performance and sufficient maximum speed, this is definitely the best escort aircraft.

However, they did not expect that they were still swept away by the Germans.

The Germans flew too high!

Yak-1 does not pay special attention to high-altitude performance, and the maximum height will not exceed 10,000 meters. This does not seem to be a big problem, because in the study of repeated German combat missions, it can be found that the Luftwaffe hardly exceeds 10,000 meters. flew at an altitude of meters.

At the same time, Germany's proudest Atlantic passenger plane has not been found to have flown 10,000 meters.

Now, people fly at an altitude of more than 11,000 meters!

The escort this time was led by the most outstanding General Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov in the Soviet Air Force. Hearing the words in the radio, he was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted.

"Fly under the other side until our new convoy arrives." He gave the order to the 11th Fighter Regiment, then turned to the person beside him and said, "Move the MiG-1 fighter force immediately and let them over Belarus. , to welcome the visit of the German fleet and escort them!"

The pursuit of altitude will never end. The reason is too simple. As long as one can fly to this altitude and the other party cannot, then one can fly freely, especially for bombers. important.

Then, at the same time, there must be fighter jets that can fly to such heights to intercept the opponent's bombers and ensure the advantage.

The high-altitude interceptor project has been launched a few years ago. The design index of this aircraft is that the maximum flight speed is 670 km/h at an altitude of 7,000 meters, and the ceiling is 13,000 meters. The AM-35A water-cooled engine has a power of 1200 horsepower.

It's a pity, because the emphasis on this project is not enough. After all, the most important thing now is to fiddle with advanced fighter jets that can compete with German fighter jets, not to engage in such high-altitude interceptors.

As a result, it was not until this year that the aircraft successfully completed the test flight, and so far it has only been equipped with about 20 troops.

Fortunately, we finally have it. If we don't have this aircraft, we will be embarrassed all the way to Moscow!

Following Novikov's order, the MiG-1 fighter unit, the 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, quickly entered the mission state.

Captain Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin ran quickly to his plane, a brand new MiG-1 fighter.

Although his flying experience is not long, he just graduated last year, but the aviation school he studied is the most famous Soviet pilot school named after А.Ф. Miasnikov Kachin No. 1 Pilot School After coming out, he became one of the first pilots to fly a MiG-1 fighter because of his superb flying skills.

If you look from the outside, the MiG-1 is not beautiful. The front half of this aircraft is occupied by long engines, and the pilot's cockpit is in the middle and rearward position.

In this way, when taking off, the pilot can't see anything at all, and the field of vision is quite poor. All in all, this is definitely not a good fighter to fly.

The engine started smoothly, Captain Pokryshkin gently pushed the throttle lever, released the brakes, and the MiG-1 rolled forward on the runway.

This aircraft is definitely not a good aircraft. In order to make it fly higher, the wing area needs to be reduced. In this way, the wing unit load of the MiG-1 is very high, which leads to another problem, maneuvering The performance is quite poor.

Because the wing load is small, the climb is poor. In order to make the climb performance of the aircraft meet the standard, the aircraft designers simply and rudely reduced the fuel load of the aircraft, which resulted in a rather poor range.

Since the front engine took up too much space, there wasn't much room for the fuel tank, and the forward wing caused the aircraft's center of gravity to be aft, which made it difficult to roll the aircraft.

It can be said that this aircraft can be used to intercept high-altitude fighters. If you use this aircraft to fight against enemy fighters, you will die miserably.

However, Pokryshkin used this fighter and its modified MiG-3 to create miracles one after another. It can be seen that the ultimate factor determining the outcome of the battle is still people!

And now, Pokryshkin's first contact with the Luftwaffe came suddenly and suddenly.

Behind him, the other three fighter jets also took off one after another. They did not mobilize more planes to enter immediately, but carried out tasks in batches.

The reason is very simple. With just one wave of their planes, they can't complete the escort mission for the other party at all. Their range is limited and they need three waves of relay escort.

Although it sounds a bit embarrassing, at least they can also achieve escort missions, not like their brothers who are staying in the air now, which is really embarrassing!

The German aircraft group was flying at an altitude of 12,000 kilometers. Below them, at an altitude of 10,000 meters, was the Soviet Yak-1 aircraft group. This scene was nondescript.

"I really want to go down and say hello to the Soviets." A young pilot's voice came from the radio: "Ask them, are they escorting us?"

"035, pay attention to discipline, we are carrying out the task of escorting the Fuehrer's special plane. If we violate discipline again, we will be directly fired from the Air Force!" Heinz shouted in the radio.

The German army can be invincible, relying on strict discipline, it can be said that the Germans are as rigorous as the French are romantic and the British aristocracy is as world-famous.

Heinz was also very happy at this time. If it was possible, he would of course go down to say hello, but it is absolutely impossible now. Their mission is to protect their own special plane, and there can be no mistakes in this mission!

He looked down from the side of his fuselage. The Soviet aircraft group must be in embarrassment at this time, right?

But soon, his naked eyes captured several bright spots in the air, and those bright spots continued to rise while flying!

"Attention, protect the special plane, 035, 036, go to intercept." Heinz shouted loudly in the radio: "Recognize clearly, don't open fire easily!"

Intuitively, Heinz thought that it must be a new escort fighter from the Soviets, but they did not notify in advance, so they must intercept according to the preset plan!