Chapter 380 JU-290 Bomber

In this era, the journey from Europe to America will no longer be so lonely and long, because Hughes Aircraft Company has developed a large passenger aircraft, the Atlantic One, which is sufficient for intercontinental flight. !

Now, the routes of Europe and America are monopolized by the airlines affiliated to the Hughes Company. Traveling on this kind of plane has become a must for businessmen who are pursuing timeliness, as well as couples on honeymoon.

This kind of plane is quite luxurious and the price is very high. It is quite scenic to travel by passenger plane, but it is flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters!

And now, it's that kind of plane that appears overhead.

Jack looked up and saw the plane flying in the distance. With his pilot's eyes, he recognized it almost immediately.

With a long fuselage, wide wings, and four engines half-buried in the wings, this aircraft is the Atlantic 1 airliner that has been very popular in recent years!

Over their heads, there is an international airline. They often look up at this passenger plane, and they are envious.

In this era, the Swordfish attack aircraft is still an old-fashioned aircraft with an open cockpit, and this passenger aircraft has a fully enclosed pressurized cockpit and can fly to an altitude of 10,000 meters or more!

The technology of this aircraft is really too advanced!

In the army, they often discussed that their own planes would never catch up with such passenger planes, and even antiaircraft artillery would be ineffective against such planes.

The reason is too simple, people fly high, and the cruising altitude is above 10,000 meters.

Although in theory, a 100mm anti-aircraft artillery can hit an altitude of 10,000 meters, but at that altitude, the shells are not accurate at all. In fact, the current anti-aircraft artillery can hit 5,000 meters. The above heights are not enough, and the commander's ability is also very demanding.

Therefore, if this kind of passenger plane is converted into a bomber, it will be a nightmare for the opponent.

Fortunately, Hughes is fully producing passenger planes, and so far, it seems that there is no such thing as a bomber.

At this moment, his eyelids suddenly jumped twice, he raised his head and stared at the sky in the distance, something was wrong, absolutely wrong.

This kind of passenger plane is quite expensive, and there are not many people who can take it, so there is only one flight a day, but what about now? In the sky in the distance, another one flew!

Two airliners, on the same route? This is really unusual!

Then, when he saw the third same airliner flying along the route, he had already raised his heart to his throat, no, there was definitely a problem!

These are definitely not passenger planes!

It's not a passenger plane, of course, but a Junkers JU-290 bomber!

When it comes to World War II, there is a puzzling place. The German Stuka, specialized in dive bombing, is quite proficient, but the Germans are seriously lacking in strategic bombers.

When it comes to large bombers, it is easy to think of the United States. The B-29 is simply a powerful bomber accumulated by the alien technology of that era, and it is the only aircraft used to drop atomic bombs.

However, it is rarely heard of in Germany.

Of course, this is related to many factors. For example, Hitler was very concerned about dive bombing, so that it was impossible to make large bombers have dive bombing capabilities. Many projects fell on this indicator.

For example, there is no need for Germany, their target is Europe, and tactical bombers are enough.

Of course, in the late World War II, Germany actually developed some heavy bombers, such as Henschel's He 177, which was the only mass-produced heavy bomber in Germany in World War II. It actually met the demand for dive bombing. Unfortunately, the performance is poor.

The Messerschmitt Me 264, for example, was the only plane that could fly to the east coast of the United States for bombing, but unfortunately it was not completed.

Another example is the Junkers JU-290 bomber.

Historically, Junkers also has the JU-290 project, which is a large four-engine aircraft developed by the Ju 90 aircraft. Although it is called a bomber, it is often used to perform reconnaissance missions and transport missions, because it occupies a large proportion of the range. Advantages are often used to open up long-distance routes.

However, the current Junkers JU-290 bomber has nothing to do with history. This bomber is the military version of the Atlantic airliner!

The original Atlantic No. 1 passenger plane was jointly developed by Junkers and Hughes. After that, the two companies produced it separately, and Junkers produced it mainly for the military.

In addition to the passenger version, more are bombers! For the sake of secrecy, many times, this bomber is used for flight training in Libyan bases. When flying over, it just transports supplies, and during training, it can also use new ammunition developed by Libyan bases!

From the passenger plane to the bomber, there are many changes, adding a turret for self-defense, adding a navigator's cockpit in the front, and changing the interior crew compartment to a bomb bay.

However, from the ground, only a shadow can be seen, and no one can see the specific structure at all.

And now, these flying bombers are all belonging to the 100th Air Bombing Regiment of the German Air Force. They are just playing the front station, and there are eight more behind!

Ten large JU-290 bombers, posing as civil airliners, flew on civil aviation routes, and most of the routes were at sea, and they flew over in the early morning.

Therefore, it has not been noticed by anyone until now.

On the first bomber, bombardier Ludwig kept his eyes fixed on the target.

Bombers, bombing at high altitudes, have many problems. For example, because of the influence of airflow, the trajectory of the bomb's descent is definitely not a complete parabola.

Therefore, the high-altitude bombing is more of a carpet type. It looks like it is almost close to the target. All the bombs are thrown down overwhelmingly. There is no need to be particularly precise.

But now, their target is the warship in Scapa Flow!

Only dive bombing can have enough accuracy to hit targets such as warships, and high-altitude bombing is absolutely impossible!

If it was in the past, of course it would not work, but now, their bomber carries a special bomb!

Holding his breath, Ludwig shouted loudly: "Drop the bomb!"