Chapter 1164 Sink the Mara

The 47mm artillery shell flew towards the sky, but it was still a long way from the Stuka bomber.

If it is a proximity fuze, it will explode as long as it is approached, and its power will be greatly increased. However, the current Soviet Union does not have such weapons. Only the most common warheads require collision to explode. As long as they are not touched, they have no power.

Franz felt the trembling of the cockpit. At this time, his plane was in a rapid downward dive. As a dive bomber pilot, this time is the most bloody.

Adrenaline was secreting rapidly, stimulating Franz's body. His whole body was excited, and his eyes were fixed on the huge battleship in front of him.

In fact, they had been flying for five minutes, but they hid in the clouds and did not attack immediately.

They are waiting for an opportunity.

If all the Stuka bombers took off together, dozens of large aircraft groups flew over, and a wave of attacks would be enough to send all the Soviet warships to hell.

But no, they only have a dozen or so, so they have to figure it out, they can't let the Baltic Fleet run away when their attack is completed and the main fleet behind them has not arrived.

In this case, sinking the opponent in this narrow waterway and blocking the waterway is the most effective solution.

So, hovering in the clouds above, until now, they swooped down and entered an attack state.

As naval carrier-based aircraft pilots, diving to attack the opponent's warship is one of the subjects they practice most often. As long as they enter the diving state, there is no situation that can make them give up.

Either blow up the enemy's ship or be shot down yourself, it's that simple.

Stuka continued to dive down, the whistle on the landing gear made a terrifying howl, and under the belly, the one-ton bomb was extremely eye-catching and dazzling.

"Quick, continue to raise the elevation angle by two degrees, fire five bursts, and let go!" The squad leader of the antiaircraft gun continued to command loudly.

Following his orders, the anti-aircraft artillery continued to shake the steering gear.

As the opponent dives lower, their anti-aircraft artillery needs to be adjusted to a higher angle of fire so that they can reach, but no matter what kind of anti-aircraft artillery, there is always a dead angle for shooting.

For example, now, the antiaircraft artillerymen are shaking the high and low planes quickly, and at the same time their heads are moving upwards, their heads are raised, and they have been looking up to the sky.

The dazzling sun shines into their eyes, damn it, they can't see anything.

No matter what time and what kind of battle, using the sun is the best way. From the current angle, Stuka is just hidden in the sun.

When the gunners blocked the sunlight with their hands and barely saw it, they saw a black thing that had already flown down. It was not a plane, and the other party had already dropped a bomb.

Then, they saw the flame tongue dragging from the tail of the black thing. This was still a rocket-assisted bomb, and it was a weapon specially designed by the Germans to attack large warships!

This kind of bomb has been established many times, and until now, there is no effective way for surface ships to deal with it. The best way is to intercept it before the other party's dive bomber arrives.

Franz threw the bomb just after taking the cover of the sun. He didn't have time to see the result of the bomb attack, so he pulled it up quickly. While pulling the lever, he ducked to the right to avoid being hit in the belly of the aircraft by the opponent. .

And the machine gunner behind his cockpit watched the whole thing in its entirety.

What he saw was the tail flame of the bomb thrown down. The attack of the rocket-assisted bomb was so fast that the Mara below had no chance to dodge at all.

There was no way for the Mara to dodge either. It was sailing in the narrow channel of Kronstadt. If it had a full left or full rudder, it would have hit the defensive fortresses on both sides.

It can only continue to accelerate, and then hope its anti-aircraft guns can beat these pesky planes down.

Useless.

The rocket-assisted bomb, at a relatively high speed, pierced from the position of the No. 4 turret at its rear.

The Mara has four triple-mounted 305mm main guns, all of which are distributed on the axis, two at the front and the rear. The turret of the main gun has 254mm armor, but this is the side armor of the turret. After all, in the era of the rise of battleships, The biggest threat to the battleship is the opponent's artillery, which is the side blow.

The armor on the top is only 127 mm. For a one-ton rocket-assisted bomb, this layer is as thin as paper.

The armor on the top of the turret was easily torn off, and the bomb continued to fly in, smashing everything in its way until it hit the rounds on the turret base.

The layout of any naval gun is the same, the top is the cannon, the bottom is the cannonball, the 305mm naval artillery shell, when it explodes, is definitely quite powerful.

"Boom!" When the huge explosion sounded, the entire Mara battleship was shaking violently, as if it was the desperate neigh of the warhorse before death. At this time, the Mara battleship, This tremor that came out seemed to indicate something.

The sound of the explosion spread along the steel of the hull to every cabin. The faces of the recruits were pale, and the veterans had already reacted. Run, run!

The old soldier ran up, not wanting to drown, at least to the deck.

Inside the bridge, Captain Peter stuck his head out of the glass on the side, and could only see the smoke billowing behind him.

"Quick, damage control report." Peter shouted loudly, and just after he finished speaking into the microphone, he felt the soles of his feet, which had begun to tilt.

From the sky, when the explosion occurred, hot flames emerged from the turret, and the triple-mounted thousand-ton turret was lifted, and the blast of air instantly ripped apart everything around it.

From this position, the battleship with a full load displacement of 35,000 tons was disconnected, the fire did not burn, and the turbulent sea water poured in. The position where the explosion broke, sank rapidly, and the bow in front was raised.

One cannonball killed the Mara, not because the Soviet Navy did not work hard, but because of the gap in this weapon, the Soviet Navy had no chance of winning.

When he learned that Stuka had killed the Mara, Rudel, who was an instructor in the rear, deliberately gave his students a day off and held a lively celebration party at the training base. It seems that he also had a hunch that if he hadn't been forced to move to the rear, sinking the Mara should have been his victory.