Chapter 1183 Difficult Take-Off (2)

The first Pei-8 bomber just took off from the airport, and it fell less than a thousand meters when it was pulled up. The sound from the radio silenced the people on the other planes.

On the second Pe-8 bomber behind, Captain Alexander Takunin broke the silence: "Plane 2 requests to take off."

At this time, a fire had already ignited where the first bomber crashed. Although it was a diesel engine, it did not mean that it did not burn. After it fell, the heat generated by the impact was enough to make the plane burn, even if If it doesn't burn, it falls, and the personnel have no chance of surviving.

This is war, this is the mission of a soldier, even if you die, you must complete the mission.

"Take off immediately."

A command came from the headset. He pushed the accelerator lever and released the brakes. The Pe-8 bomber rolled on the runway, then pulled up and rushed into the dark night sky.

One, another, it seems that the crash of the bomber in front was for them to practice. The bombing at the back did not have an accident, and the eleven Pe-8 bombers took off normally.

After the Pe-8 bomber took off, it was the third echelon.

Compared with the Pe-8 bomber squadron, the take-off of the Yer-2 group of the 1st Squadron of the 420th Bomber Regiment behind was definitely a terrible disaster.

At that time, after Mussolini began to flourish in Italy, all parties in Italy were attacked. After that, Roberto L. Batini, a member of the Italian gc party, had to leave Italy and come to the Soviet Union.

As an excellent aircraft designer, he created the STAL-7, an all-metal single-gull-wing twin-engine aircraft with excellent performance.

This kind of aircraft was originally designed as a passenger aircraft, but the powerful bomb load makes it a good embryo to become a bomber.

As a result, the improvement of this aircraft was carried out rapidly, which was designed by Yemorayev, using the STAL-7 wing almost intact, making major changes to the semi-monocoque cabin, adding bombs The cockpit is opened to the left, and the nose is equipped with glass for the bombardier to observe the operation. In order to improve the firing range of the turret, the single vertical tail of the STAL-7 was changed to double vertical tail and cambered 5 degrees.

The aircraft made its maiden flight last year and has since been mass-produced and renamed the Yer-2.

From this point of view, this kind of aircraft should be regarded as a fairly mature aircraft, but unfortunately, the Soviet engine technology has always been inadequate, and this improved bomber still faces engine problems.

1100 hp Klimov M-105R twelve-cylinder V-type liquid-cooled engine. Compared with the take-off weight of the aircraft, the power of this engine is not large enough, and what is even more annoying is that this is a low-altitude engine.

To put it more simply, because there is no suitable supercharger, when the height increases, the power of the engine plummets due to insufficient intake air, and it cannot operate normally at all.

Because of the sensitive weather conditions, the aircraft must face enemy anti-aircraft fire and fighter interception at low altitudes.

At the same time, the huge bomb load of the aircraft increases the load on the control surface, so that the longitudinal and lateral stability are not very good. The underpowered M-105 engine significantly extended the takeoff run.

Now, on the first bomber, Lieutenant Alexander Molodesky began a difficult takeoff.

The engines on both sides roared, and he pushed the lever, and the bomber began to roll forward, with so many bombs loaded, he had to turn the throttle to maximum power.

The second fire flashed past his plane, followed by the third fire.

And just after the third fire had passed, his plane still did not pull up.

At the end of the soil runway, he pulled his control stick hard, and finally, the landing gear of the plane left the ground, but just after flying two meters high, the plane fell down again!

Under the heavy impact, the entire landing gear broke, the plane tilted to one side, the wings slid across the ground, and sparks appeared.

The Ye-2 bomber crashed just after takeoff.

Almost like the Pe-8 bomber just now, an accident occurred when it took off, but the plane behind it would not stop.

They keep their mission in mind.

Fight bravely for the Soviets!

The second Ye-2 bomber also started to take off, but it only slid more than 100 meters and stopped.

The aircraft suffered a mechanical failure and was unable to continue takeoff.

Then, the third one also inexplicably went wrong.

The entire bombing regiment, in the end, only three Ye-2 bombers successfully flew into the dark night sky, which simply put the Soviet bomber force to shame.

Moreover, these three of them were the last time they appeared in front of everyone.

Lieutenant Vladimir-Marinin, Lieutenant Kubiko, Lieutenant Stepanov, captain of the three Ye-2 bombers, joined the final sequence of bombing Berlin, and an unknown fate awaited them.

The night sky was extremely dark.

At this time, the DB-3 bomber that took off at the front had been flying for nearly an hour. For them, it would take three hours for such a slow flight to reach Berlin, and when they returned, because it was No load, and because of the tailwind, it only takes three hours in total.

Of course, if they can come back.

Colonel Yejiny-Przybratzensky looked out, it was pitch black everywhere, and the Germans had blackouts near the front, not to mention that they were now over the Baltic Sea.

Because their bombers had limited range, they could only fly in a straight line. At the same time, they also had to fly at high altitudes to save fuel.

Yejinni knew that the Germans had advanced reconnaissance radars, which could detect aircraft tens of kilometers or even hundreds of kilometers away. Fortunately, they were far enough from the coastline that the radars deployed on those coasts should not be able to search for them. They, and when they go over Poland into the land, all the way to Berlin, they have to turn low.

They guessed it well, and it is true. The radar technology in this era is still not perfect. For example, the FuGM 39/62 Wurzburg "Wurzburg" short-range land-based warning radar is now the main force in Germany. The effective detection distance is 170KM, the ranging accuracy is 100M, and the angle measuring accuracy is 0.2 degrees.

Another example is the FuMO 51 Mammut long-range ground-based warning radar. The effective detection distance is 300KM, the ranging accuracy is 300M, and the angle measuring accuracy is 0.5 degrees.

These radars have been deployed to the Polish coastline and can detect aircraft in the Baltic Sea from a long distance. In fact, they will be detected if they fly a hundred or two hundred kilometers forward.

At the same time, they did not know that at this time, below them, there was the German Goethe-class aircraft carrier.