Chapter 1334 Efficient Work
Aleksandr Mironenko was driving a biplane I-15 fighter jet, escorting his own Il-4 bomber.
If you want to attack the enemy's aircraft carrier formation, in addition to bombers, you must have escort fighter jets, otherwise the loss will be quite large. Originally, the naval aviation has some monoplanes similar to the I-16, but unfortunately they are all in the Germans. It was destroyed in a wave of bombing.
Now, more than 20 Il-4s and five I-15s are the rest of the aviation force of the Black Sea Fleet. They are flying towards the German fleet in a fearless spirit. Everyone knows that it will be difficult to come back. But they are fearless.
It's a pity that they were discovered by the German patrol fighters when they were still a long way from the enemy's fleet!
The two FW190s rushed forward fiercely. After discovering the German fighter jets, the escorting I-15 fighter jets immediately greeted them.
Although some flying old birds like biplanes and think that monoplanes are not safe, the development of aviation technology has confirmed that monoplanes are completely correct. Now biplanes are outdated, and they are fighting with German fighter jets. , there is almost no chance of winning, but they have no choice and must fight!
Alexander pushed the throttle fully, and the front ASh-62 nine-cylinder star-shaped air-cooled engine burst out with 700 horsepower, driving the fighter to continue to accelerate.
Although they are all I-15s, different batches are different, and the Soviet Union is constantly improving. For example, the current batch is the latest I-153, which has made great progress.
It is a pity that the congenital deficiency makes it in front of the German fighter jets, and there is no chance at all.
Of course, Ancrus also saw those Soviet fighter jets that came to fight, but he had no interest in fighting with these fighter jets at all. Biplanes could not fly at a maximum speed of 500 kilometers per hour. ?
Facing the Soviet fighters who came to fight, Ancrus and Christie ignored them at all. Pulling the lever, the two FW190s began to climb rapidly, and the front engines burst out with a surging thrust of 1800 horsepower, pulling the fighter upwards. Fei, there is only envy on the other side.
Yes, the advantage of biplanes is the ability to hover horizontally at most. If you fly horizontally after chasing the opponent, you will be stunned, and maybe you will be ambushed by the opponent.
However, the climb of the biplane is extremely weak. Originally, the resistance of the biplane was large, and their aircraft engines were too bad. Now this ratio is immediately displayed.
The Soviet pilots could only look up and watch the German fighter jets climb. Soon, they had to look up, and the German fighter jets had already flown over their heads!
"Protect our bombers!" Alexander shouted, shaking his wings, signaling the other planes to follow him.
It's true that their planes are not equipped with radios, but fortunately they are used to communicating like this.
Just when they were about to turn around and return, the two FW190s had already made a smart turn at high altitude, and then dived down towards the bomber group!
The layout of the Il-4 bomber is very similar to that of the Sb-2, with the navigator below the front, the pilot above, and a rear turret in the back with a machine gunner sitting.
At this moment, the machine gunners at the back were quite nervous. They almost raised their heads and looked at the German fighter jet that jumped out of the sky.
Their angle is quite tricky, just outside their own firepower!
Although there is a rear-firing machine gun, the angle is limited. For example, it is impossible to cover the rear hemisphere perfectly, and even more impossible to be directly above. Should the shooter squat in it?
And now, the German fighter jets were diving almost ninety degrees from an angle they couldn't reach.
The overload brought by the dive made Ancruz's body flutter a little. He gently pushed the operating lever and put the movable ring of his sight around a bomber. In the field of vision, the target became bigger and bigger. Big, then, he pulled the trigger.
"Tom tom tom." A flame of fire emerged from the shaft gun of the propeller in front of the FW190, and three 20mm shells accurately hit the fuselage of the bomber.
The first one hit the middle of the fuselage, and the wooden fuselage exploded a big hole in an instant, exposing the skeleton of the steel pipe. Then, the second explosion ripped the skeleton, and in the fire , the hit of the third shell made it two sections, burning down and falling.
Victory!
For fighter jets, the shaft gun is the easiest to hit. The 20mm shaft gun is actually not the largest, but it has a sufficient amount of ammunition, and it is powerful enough for bombers.
For ground attack, a 40mm Bofors cannon is required.
Ancrus made an accurate hit, but his friend Christie had a slight deviation. At the last moment, the other party made an emergency turn, and the bullet was empty.
The two FW190s swooped down from the air, passed through each other's aircraft group, and pulled up from below. At this time, the I-15 fighter jets found an opportunity. They hurriedly fired a shuttle of machine gun bullets at the German fighter jets. When the other party climbed up again without loss, they could only stare down below.
The movements of these two FW190s are quite simple, that is to climb up, dive down to attack, then climb up again, and when they dived down for the second time, Christie shot down an Il-4.
The Soviet bomber group finally stopped keeping dense formations, and they immediately dispersed, hoping to reduce the possibility of attack, and it was safer to be scattered than to gather together.
At this time, on the Hitler aircraft carrier at the rear, the carrier aircraft was also taking off quickly.
Just after receiving the news of the discovery of the Soviet bomber group, the Hitler aircraft carrier also began to take off the carrier-based aircraft on the deck of the bow while recovering the carrier-based aircraft.
When the throttle was pushed to the maximum, the supercharger of the engine made a whistle-like whistle. The two FW190s left the takeoff line one after another and rushed to the battlefield airspace. In the parking area behind, the two new FW190s were quickly towed again. to the parking lot.
The landing of the aircraft continued, and the take-off was not affected at all. In just five minutes, six FW190s left the aircraft carrier. These spare carrier-based aircraft were used at critical times.
After the HS129 fleet landed, the FW190 carrier aircraft also began to land. Compared with those HS129s that were all pulled into the hangar, the FW190 carrier aircraft did not enter the hangar. After they landed, they pulled to the bow area and refueled. , hang up the bomb, you can take off again.
German sea formations, the most efficient fighting machines! It is impossible for a mere twenty or so Soviet bombers to pose a threat to our own side.