Chapter 581 FAB-50 and 500
The mixed task force support fleet consists of 32 Peregrine-class interceptors with different equipment, carrying ground attack equipment.
The pure gray fleet equipped with a large number of additional armor plates floated in the high-altitude clouds. The 20mm machine guns extending from the bottom were in a standby state ready to fire at any time, and the armor plates were painted with white marks.
The falling square hammers cracked the ground, revealing the uneven ore veins deep inside.
Standard Mining.
"But why is this thing called FAB-50?" A recruit picked up a white aerial bomb that was half the size of his chest and asked the sergeant standing beside him.
"The prefix set by the commander-in-chief... It should mean high-explosive aerial bomb, right? 50 kilograms is the weight of this thing, and the charge is only 40 kilograms." Another sergeant shrugged, took the iron bomb the size of a long winter melon and placed it on the ejection chute of the Peregrine-class airship.
Then a thick rope was tied to the tail of the aerial bomb, and the hook on the thick rope was used to lock the small hook left at the tail of the dead aerial bomb.
The 50-kilogram small bomb will be pulled out of the cabin by the thick rope hook under the action of gravity, and the tail wind wheel will be unlocked, entering the countdown of its own brilliant life.
"Altitude 1,000, install the fuse, and set the delay fuse for 15 seconds."
The lieutenant glanced at the altimeter, pressed the ship-borne radio communicator beside him, and transmitted the information to each cruiser in the special service team.
They are not special bombers, and they can only use this simple method to drop bombs from the airship one by one by manpower.
But he knew that the territory was already developing an attack aircraft dedicated to delivering bombs to the ground.
The 152mm artillery bombardment did not blow up the Vatican's shield for almost ten rounds, which made the territory want to divide some of the technology to develop offensive fighters responsible for dealing with heavy defense facilities.
This time, even with the support of the industrial command ship, the enemy's shield was not blown open. What about when their troops were deployed outside the support range of the 152mm naval guns of the industrial command ship?
This is really worrying.
After all, a 152mm shell only has 6kg of explosives, so the attack still depends on the FAB-500 with 325kg of explosives.
They need a flying machine, or aircraft, that can enter the battlefield faster than the airship and deliver a large amount of attack explosives.
The commander-in-chief seems to call that new super-heavy attack bomb...FAB-3000? The FAB-50 for testing that is now assigned to them is the product of this aerial bomb program, but smaller.
"Yes, altitude 1,000, install the fuse, 15 seconds."
The sergeant in charge opened the box next to him and found a fist-sized metal device in the shape of a flat head short and thick screw, which was screwed into the front of the bomb already hanging in the slide.
Click.
Locked.
Rotate the scale, the mechanical parts jump lightly, and adjust to 15 seconds.
For various bombs counted in kilograms, the fuse is divided into separate packages to be responsible for the safety of oneself and the troops... Not to mention that this is a 50-kilogram aerial bomb.
As long as the fuse is not installed, it will not explode even if it suffers a strong external impact...except for open flames.
At least it can make you feel more at ease when you sleep next to it.
The small body of the airship cannot withstand the explosion of a 50 kg, 40 kg "small aerial bomb".
In this way, the aerial bomb is officially transformed from an iron shell wrapped in explosives to a standard aerial bomb that can be placed on the launcher and enters the working state.
This batch of small aerial bombs is just a test equipment to pave the way for the large aerial bombs later. This task force also brought six FAB-500s for testing.
"Aiming at the ground?" The lieutenant pinched the stopwatch and listened to the reports from the ships.
"Aiming is completed, the wind speed is 5 meters per second, light wind, and you can start dropping bombs." The observer who focused his eyes on the ground optical observation window said.
Compared with traditional bombers, airships have a significant advantage, that is, they can easily hover over an area for a long time to drop bombs. Like airships, they can use ten minutes to calibrate their bombing trajectories quietly and steadily.
During the bombing, it hovered almost still in an airspace and poured fire on the ground, while non-bombers needed to seize the few attack windows to attack.
The hovering airship had almost unlimited attack windows and attack time.
They had enough time to observe the ground, confirm their targets, adjust the attack angle, calibrate and re-drop bombs.
"It seems that our friends from the Ring Island Alliance have lost control of this area, and we need to help them clean up their butts." The lieutenant pressed the communicator and issued an attack order: "Free bombing, observe the impact after all the bombs are dropped."
He picked up the dark green military telescope, adjusted the scale to 1,000 meters, and looked at the Vatican troops on the ground who were still digging fortifications.
This position has been planted with the red and white cross flag representing the Vatican. They are dealing with captured Ring Island Alliance soldiers and checking their seized equipment.
"The industrial command ship may not be within the call range, and we also need other rapid support firepower... Take a look at the power of the high-explosive bombs sent by the technical department, and say hello to our new friends."
Thirty-two Peregrine interceptors opened the side bomb bays at the same time, allowing the bombs mounted in the chute to leave the cabin. The 50-kilogram small high-explosive bombs fell to the ground like a white bird with broken wings.
'Crack.'
FAB-50 left the cabin, the insurance was released during the fall, and the wind turbine speedometer at the tail was unlocked and spun rapidly.
Along with it fell the heavy bombs that stretched out their four-way tail fins like cigars. Three FAB-500 heavy bombs also detached from the mount at the same time as the bombing order was issued.
The wide wind turbines made a shrill whistle.
Falling.
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