Chapter 979 Interception at Night (Plus 2)
Night fighters are not born to fight enemy fighters, but to intercept enemy bombers. In this case, it seems that the bigger the caliber, the better, after all, bombers are very strong.
But in fact, this is not appropriate.
Because night operations are different from daytime operations, the time to visually detect the target is very short, and the shooting window is small. In this way, a large amount of ammunition can be poured in a short period of time, which can more effectively increase the hit rate.
When flying in the same direction, German pilots generally use the oblique music system on the back, drill under the opponent to hit the opponent, and the accuracy is quite high, and when flying head-on, they use the four cannons that shoot forward. .
If the caliber is large, it will inevitably bring about a low rate of fire and a small amount of ammunition. This is an irreconcilable contradiction.
In the darkness, Prince Wei Yangen's pupils dilated, and the surrounding night seemed to be no longer pitch black.
The radar operator behind kept reporting the distance.
"Five kilometers."
"Three kilometers."
"one kilometer."
At this moment, Prince Wei Yangen saw the plane opposite! The plane that was hidden in the darkness finally revealed its outline. Without any time to think about it, Prince Wei Yangen took the control lever a little, and then pressed the button.
"Tom tom, tom tom tom!"
At this moment, the four machine guns all opened fire, and the dense shells were fired at the opposite side!
The cannon is deployed in the belly, and has another function, which is to prevent the fire from the muzzle from blinding the pilot!
In the dark, people's pupils dilate to allow more light to come in, but if the light suddenly becomes stronger and too much comes in, it will damage the retina of the eye.
The cannon is under the belly, and the fire generated will be blocked by the body, so that the two personnel in the nose will not be affected.
And this kind of strong light made the pilot of the C-47 on the opposite side unable to see anything in an instant.
At this time, the C-47 was still flying smoothly. Suddenly, a terrible fire appeared on the opposite side. Before losing his vision, the pilot already knew that it was the other side's night fighter!
The dense shells covered the entire C-47 fighter, and the barrage of the sky made it impossible for the opponent's aircraft to avoid it.
The entire plane was blown up in an instant, and a huge fireball appeared in the sky.
At almost the same time, Prince Wei Yangen quickly opened his accelerator to full throttle, the engines on both sides roared, sending out the maximum power, and then, the operating lever was pulled back to the end, under the huge overload, Prince Wei Yangen's fighter jet, towards the Climb up quickly.
This is the rash tactic created by Prince Wei Yangen alone.
Attack from the front of an American plane at lightning speed, then climb to combat altitude against another American plane before the bomber piloted by a nervous American pilot burns!
The first purpose of doing this is to easily avoid death. After all, relatively flying, firing at a very short distance, or it will crash into it!
Fighting at night, the greatest danger is mid-air impact.
This also requires the support of the aircraft. The engines on both sides, each with more than 2000 horsepower, can make this fighter climb quickly!
Just now, with the help of the light of the fire, Prince Wei Yangen saw that there was another bomber above and behind this plane!
And when the plane was blown up and burned in the air, the surroundings were even brighter. Prince Wei Yangen just climbed, on the one hand, to avoid the collision, on the other hand, to climb to the height of the other party and continue to expand attack!
The two C-47 transport planes are pulling gliders at the back. In order not to collide with the gliders in front, the latter planes must rise to a certain height.
As a result, it became the prey of Prince Wei Yangen.
The moment the cannons fired below, the pilot of the transport plane panicked. He pressed the release button of the glider, and then climbed up desperately to avoid this terrible danger!
Yes, at times like these, the glider must be thrown away!
When towing the glider, the plane in front must fly smoothly, any slightly enlarged maneuver may collide with the glider behind, and now, with a night fighter in front, he must throw away the burden behind, Otherwise, they will die together.
Unfortunately, he still did not dodge the attack. Just when the transport plane below was blown up, the pilot saw that in the darkness, the flames illuminated a fighter plane that was rushing towards his position!
"Tom tom tom!" The four-pronged attack, this time the attack was even better than the previous one, and it happened to all hit the opponent's belly!
This C-47 transport plane broke off from the middle in an instant, and countless fragments flew towards Prince Wei Yangen's plane.
Stepping on the rudder, Prince Wei Yangen pushed the fighter's control stick to the right to the head, a movement of rolling while rising, brushing past the flying debris.
This feeling made Prince Wei Yangen's adrenaline secrete quickly, and he suddenly found that he had fallen in love with this feeling.
Since joining the night fighter unit, it has been boring training every night, but I haven't really entered the actual combat. This time, I finally met my opponent, and I eliminated two fighters at one time, which made Prince Wei Yangen feel extremely uncomfortable. happy.
Two enemy planes were killed by Prince Wei Yangen! And the wingman behind also used the light to see everything behind.
"These two planes are pulling a glider behind them!"
Radar shows that echoes are required. Transport planes are already all-metal fuselage, which is easy to reflect echoes, while gliders are almost all wooden structures. At the same time, the distance between the glider and the transport plane in front is very close, so, in Gliders will not show up on the radar display.
This caused confusion for the German night fighter force, and by the time they spotted the two gliders, they had passed by!
After turning a circle in the air and returning to the other party's course, Prince Wei Yangen shouted in the radio, "Release the flares!"
To intercept aircraft at night, you can use radar to intercept them quickly. At the same time, when the radar cannot intercept the target, you can also turn the night into day, that is, use flares!
Another he219 night fighter pulled up the plane and then dropped flares.
When the flare was just lit, Prince Wei Yangen closed his eyes. After the stinging pain in his eyelids passed, he opened his eyes. Using the peripheral vision of the flare, he immediately saw that it was still along the original path. The direction of the flying glider!
Catch up, attack!