#1673 Attack Bomber (Plus 8)

An island country fighter can contain four escort fighters, and now, the entire B-29 bomber group is only escorted by twelve Mustang fighters.

After all, they think that the islanders have no high-altitude advantage, so they enter from high-altitude and then leave from high-altitude, and the escort fighters just follow around.

But now, James has found that the situation is not good.

At this time, they were only tens of kilometers away from the target. If they had better eyesight, they could already see clearly above the target. There, fighter planes were taking off and accelerating towards their side.

If all the Bf109s came, it would be troublesome, but it shouldn't be so bad, right? Otherwise, why is there nothing in the information?

As the fighter planes taking off continued to climb higher, the tension in their hearts gradually intensified. When the other party climbed to the same height as them, the distance between the two sides was less than ten kilometers.

"Attention, all the people here are BF109s, in a dense formation, let's meet them with roaring bullets!"

Although in this era, a terrible aircraft such as the Junker-290 has appeared in advance, but for the United States and Boeing, the B-29 is still a cross-generational existence.

In the past, the altitude of 10,000 meters was almost an impossible altitude. Almost all the planes of the island countries circled at an altitude of two or three kilometers. The serious problems were the low temperature and lack of oxygen in the high altitude.

For example, the B-17 bomber, when it wants to perform a mission, must wear a cumbersome electric flight suit and wear an obstructive oxygen mask to maintain its life. Even so, once you get down, it's freezing enough. If you are suddenly hit by the oxygen tube during the battle, you will be unconscious for a few minutes. The electric flight suit was interrupted, and it would have to freeze to death.

In short, high altitude is not suitable for human survival.

In particular, the machine gunner, sitting in the glass dome with the best view, bears a huge risk.

Now, the B-29 is different.

It uses a pressurized cockpit, and everyone in the aircraft is almost only wearing half sleeves. At the same time, the turret has also become a remote control turret, and the gunner only needs to be in front of his console and control the joystick.

As a huge aircraft, the B-29 is equipped with five turrets on the nose, back and belly, each equipped with two 12.7mm machine guns, and an additional 20mm gun in the tail turret. Four remote control turrets and 12 12.7mm machine guns in the tail turret, each carrying 1,000 rounds, and a 20mm M2 gun B-type in the tail turret of the earlier model, carrying 100 rounds.

The best thing is that they can also control the firing of other artillery when needed. Under the control of the onboard central fire control system, everything is so easy, it is like playing video games in later generations.

This is absolutely terrifying firepower deployment. Now, 12 bombers form a dense formation. Then, in all directions, there will be countless anti-aircraft firepower to take into account. Any fighters who want to attack them must wear Pass their most terrifying air defense system!

They have confidence in their aircraft, and now, let the islanders experience despair!

In the first bomber in the lead, the gunner Dex looked outside through the bubble observation window on top of him.

According to the assignment, different turrets are controlled by different people. For example, the front turret on the back of the fuselage is usually controlled by the bombardier, the rear turret is controlled by the gunner, and the front and rear turrets on the abdomen are controlled by the gunners on both sides.

Among them, due to the high position of the middle gunner, the observation through the top bubble observation window has a good overall view of the combat situation, and it is a matter of course that he has become the highest-level gunner - the central fire control gunner.

Compared with others, his control is more complicated. For example, he can assign turrets through the main fire control panel. For example, when needed, he can assign all four fuselage turrets to one side to concentrate firepower on the enemy.

In other words, he can mobilize all the firepower at any time.

At this time, his head was exposed, as if his head was sticking out of the sunroof of the car. He looked at the smokes all around him. It was the fighter jets that were escorting them and had already left the formation. In this case , they must meet in advance, although not all can be intercepted, at least it can reduce the pressure on the bomber force.

It's too late to continue calling for support, the goal is only a few minutes away, what they need is persistence, persistence, persistence!

Bravely fly over the target, drop the bomb, and you can return home.

Now that they have almost entered the bombing route, they can no longer perform any maneuvers to evade, and the formation cannot be chaotic, so they can only rely on their own self-defense machine guns to intercept!

The front island country aircraft group and the intercepting Mustang fighter jets engaged in a battle. The two sides tossed up and down. From time to time, planes dragged black smoke and fell down. At the same time, there were also a group of island country fighter jets that quickly crossed the warring airspace and came towards the American aircraft group. .

Squadron Captain Takahashi, driving his fighter jet, rushed over with murderous intent. In the past, there was no way to look at the American bombers. Now it is different, they can fly up easily!

The secondary supercharger was hissing, and the engine was roaring. Takahashi pulled his control lever and continued to climb. At the same time, he issued an order to his troops on the radio: "Attention, the first team dives to attack, the second team climbs to attack!"

It is reckless to fly head-on with the bomber group. The shooting window is too small, and the bombing area of ​​the opponent is also too small. With his order, the planes behind will automatically separate into two groups.

Some of the planes followed Gaoqiao and continued to climb upwards. After exceeding the opponent's flight height, they dived down. The remaining part flew at a lower height than the opponent, ready to attack from below.

Now, at an altitude of 10,000 meters, they are flying at will, a movement that was unthinkable before.

Takahashi's fighter jets flew in front. At this time, those bombers did not dodge and were still lining up in neat formations, as if they were lining up to die!

Bf109, with a fierce whistling, dived towards the bomber, the nose, has already aimed at the leading bomber!

The pilot plane is always the most dangerous. Under normal circumstances, as long as the pilot plane is destroyed, the other planes will flee in all directions.

Now, Takahashi is leading the dive, the other team is attacking, and inside the fuselage, Dex has put his eyes on the sights. His hands deftly turned the ratchets on either side of the sight to align the eyepiece on the target and adjust the sight to the incoming fighter jet.