Chapter 1187 Antiaircraft Artillery Deployment
The battle that belonged to Stuka was over, it made two interceptions and killed three bombers. This victory is enough for everyone to be proud of. In the absence of airborne radar, such a record was achieved at night. , enough to excite all naval aviation, and now that Stuka's fuel is almost depleted, it needs to return.
Those bombers that jumped to the low altitude could not find their trace temporarily. Franz circled in the airspace and finally started to return.
Even on land, taking off and landing at night is fraught with risk, not to mention now, landing on an aircraft carrier at night is even more dangerous. According to the guidance of the radio navigation, Franz returned to the aircraft carrier correctly. At this time, the deck lights on the aircraft carrier had been turned on. From a distance, it looked like a city floating on the sea.
Franz's eyes looked at the signal light at the end of the deck, which was the latest optical landing aid device developed by German technicians, code-named Eye of Cyric.
It is said that it was designed under the proposal of the head of Cyric, and the principle is quite ingenious.
In the past, the landing of the Naval Air Force depended entirely on its own superb flight skills. As the speed of the aircraft continued to increase, the pilot's own skills could not necessarily guarantee safety.
Therefore, the navies of various countries now select some full-time guides to use the signal flag to guide the aircraft to land on the aircraft carrier deck. This requires that the guide has both rich command experience and strong visual ability.
And Führer Cyric took a different approach. It is said that he was inspired by his wife, Hannah, applying lipstick to the mirror in the morning, and designed an early optical mirror. It is a large-curvature reflector. The light located at the stern of the ship is directed to the mirror and then reflected into the air, providing the pilot with a descending slope of light. The pilot follows this slope and corrects the error with the position of the aircraft in the mirror until the Land safely.
The specific principle is a bit convoluted. This is a light box. The middle section is an orange beam, which turns to yellow and red beams upward and downward respectively. There are horizontal green reference fixed lights on both sides of the middle section of the light box. When the altitude and glide angle of the carrier-based aircraft are correct, the pilot can see that the orange light ball is in the center of the green reference light, and if this angle is maintained, the aircraft can glide down and land accurately. If the pilot sees the yellow light ball and is above the green reference light, he should lower the altitude; if he sees the red light ball and is under the green reference light, he should raise it immediately, otherwise it will collide with the tail of the aircraft carrier The end face of the column or drop to the sea behind the tail.
And now at night, even the guide on the deck can't accurately guide the take-off and landing of the aircraft, so it is more dependent on this set of optical equipment.
Franz, who has rich experience, has a fairly standard glide line. The signal lights on his nose draw a beautiful arc. Just when the plane just flew over the end of the deck, the front landing gear was already in close contact with the deck. .
The propeller plane doesn't need an arresting cable yet. His plane only needs to land on the deck, slow down and roll forward for a certain distance, and then it can stop, and the landing distance is just over 100 meters.
Franz stepped on the brakes gently, and the Stuka bomber slid forward on the deck for a certain distance and stopped steadily. As soon as the deck crew came around, the machine gunner in the back seat shouted proudly: "I too We shot down one plane, we shot down three!"
The whole deck was boiling.
The radar soldiers on the bridge were still holding on at this time. On his radar screen, three bright spots appeared again. The Soviet bombers were actually divided into three batches?
However, no matter how many planes come, they will inevitably pay a heavy price in front of their own air defense system!
East Prussia, Danzig region.
The sea slapped the shore and made a rushing sound. It was a normal night. The quiet moonlight shone on the coastline and on the beach.
At this time, on the beach, a troop that arrived in a hurry quickly spread out here.
According to the information notified by the navy, from the Baltic Sea to Berlin, this is the necessary place to pass on the other side's route, so the antiaircraft artillery units of the Luftwaffe must set up an ambush here!
They are all 8-wheel drive off-road heavy trucks, which are improved from the all-wheel drive chassis of Ford trucks. Now, around the heavy truck, the hydraulic outriggers are quickly released, supporting the whole heavy truck stably. On the top of the truck, a door of anti-aircraft artillery, shaking quickly, pointed to the direction of the threat.
This is a mixed anti-aircraft artillery unit. There are only a few 88mm anti-aircraft guns, most of which are 40-round Bofors anti-aircraft guns. This anti-aircraft gun has a terrible rate of fire and is the most important weapon against the enemy.
At the same time, in the center of each antiaircraft artillery company, there is a large searchlight.
Judging from this arrangement, this kind of anti-aircraft artillery unit at night seems to be no different from history. It uses searchlights to indicate the target. After the searchlight finds the target, all the anti-aircraft artillery will fire together to knock down the aircraft.
But there are also differences. For example, one kilometer away, there is a vehicle with a wide antenna. The vehicle is rapidly unfolding. With the roar of the generator car on the side, the antenna has begun to rotate.
Although Germany's electronic technology is developing rapidly, it has not violated the development track of radio. Now they have not been able to come up with a fully automatic weapon that allows the anti-aircraft artillery to be linked with the radar, and the anti-aircraft artillery can hit wherever the radar scans.
But they already have radar equipment with fairly high accuracy. It is absolutely no problem for the searchlight to find the target location by the radar equipment to indicate the target position.
Now, the other fire units are nervously preparing, and the radar corps is already nervously operating.
The electronic equipment is working, the cooling fan is making a rumbling sound, and the weather is still relatively cold, and the radar soldiers have been sweating constantly on the forehead.
Still staring at the screen, he was the first to spot the target, and his task was daunting.
Of course, he is not the only one who undertakes such a task. In order to prevent the other party from penetrating from low altitudes and causing his own radar to fail to respond, the air defense force also sent a large number of personnel to use their naked eyes to observe in the sky and listen to the aircraft at the same time. The sound of flying.
On the coast, even on the sea dozens of kilometers offshore, there are such watchers. In this era, using human eyes to detect enemy aircraft is also the most correct way to deal with it, such as the historical London air battle, Britain relies on a large number of such lookouts.
And now, they don't have to wait too long, bright spots have already appeared on the radar screen, and those enemy planes have indeed appeared on the correct course!
The DB-3 bombers of the Soviet Naval Aviation, which had to fly in a straight line due to their limited range, had a flare over their heads a little over an hour ago, even causing them to collide.
But under the command of the staunch Colonel Yekini, they did not change their course and were still flying according to the established plan. The result surprised them. They did not encounter any interception, except for the plane that collided. Other than that, the other planes are in good condition.
What exactly is going on? Was that flare a bolt of lightning? Just an accident?
Everyone has doubts in their hearts, but now they have no time to doubt. The long flight has made them extremely tired, but they still have to keep their spirits up, because they are about to enter the sky ahead.