Chapter 1188 Battle of the Night Owls
In Germany, there is a special type of people, night owls. They are sleeping during the day, and at night, they wake up and drive their own fighter planes to patrol.
Yes, they are the German night fighter units, they are proud units, they want to guard the German night sky, and any enemy bomber can't escape their sight.
Now patrolling the sky is the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Night Fighter Wing of Germany, responsible for patroling the 600-kilometer airspace in eastern Berlin.
For them, the combat area of 600 kilometers is not big at all. Their night fighter jets are enough to fly 2,300 kilometers in the sky. They can conduct combat patrols for seven hours, enough for one night.
Major Heinrich-Zu-Xiayan-Weitingen was driving his he219 night fighter plane and patrolling the night sky.
As a German nobleman and a fanatic, Prince Wei Yangen has had more than two years of experience in flying night fighters. Under his command, the enemy planes shot down had reached eight, which was already the level of ace pilot.
This is because of the strong military power of Germany, and almost no enemies came to bomb them. Most of the time, they were unknown. Prince Wei Yangen's shooting down almost all achieved when he was stationed outside.
And in history, he was the first ace of night fighter jets that shot down more than eighty enemy planes.
Tonight, they had received news that the Soviets dispatched three batches of bombers from the Baltic Sea to bomb Berlin. Their mission was to intercept the possible Soviet bombers and then destroy them!
They cannot get close to the Berlin city, where the dense air defense firepower will turn any enemy bombers into slag. It is very difficult to identify the enemy and us in this era, so we have to divide the defense zone. If they fly to the Berlin city, they will also be attacked indiscriminately.
Their patrol area is in the area with a radius of 600 kilometers centered around Berlin. After receiving the news from the front, almost all the night fighter wings took off. Therefore, each of their brigades is enough to be responsible for one area.
Until now, the ground radar still has not issued an early warning, and according to time, it is about to arrive the Soviets.
If the Soviets were not Trek, there would be only another problem. The Soviets entered from low altitudes, which made the ground warning radar unable to detect.
To deal with this problem, they need to fly lower at night!
The engines on both wings were rumbled, almost just turning at idle speed. The speed of the aircraft was about 200 kilometers per hour, and the height was only a few hundred meters above the ground. At this height, the sky above the head was quite empty.
The whip-shaped antenna on the nose continuously radiates electromagnetic waves. After flying for more than ten minutes, finally, highlights appeared on the screen of the cathode ray tube in the cabin.
The Soviet bomber was found! Moreover, as long as you can see it on the airborne radar, it means that the other party is near you.
"Third team, pay attention, find the target, continue flying forward and prepare for battle." Prince Wei Yangen shouted in the radio.
The entire brigade of night fighters was instantly excited, and the enemy was right in front of him!
At this time, they were flying eastward. Soon, they saw huge shadows in the starry sky. Large Soviet four-engine bombers were flying in the air of 800 meters. They were really brave!
No wonder our own ground radar can't detect it.
At this time, they looked up at the sky and were easy to see as long as they found the right direction, but the Soviet bombers taller than them were not easy to find them.
In this way, the two sides flew over in an interlaced manner. After that, the night fighter drew half a circle in the airspace in front, and they turned.
Turning around, Prince Wei Yangen looked at the Soviet bomber unit flying forward and issued a combat order to his subordinates: "Get under the Soviet bomber and let us fire together, don't let one run away!"
As long as they fire, the Soviet bombers will disperse. In the dark night sky, there will definitely be lucky planes running away. The detection distance of the onboard radar is actually very close. If there is a slight mistake, the other party will not be able to find it. If the other party drills lower, it will be even more difficult.
Prince Wei Yangen's order was responded to by others, and for them, it was an excellent hunting opportunity.
The pilots operated their fighter planes and slowly approached the Soviet bombers.
In the dark night, formations will not be particularly dense, otherwise it is easy to collide. Such gaps allow German fighter jets to penetrate easily.
A night fighter was drilled into the belly of each bomber. He was very skilled and brave. It was not an exaggeration to describe the current night fighter pilot.
What they are going to use is their secret weapon, the slanted music cannon on the back of the machine, which is specially used to deal with the enemies above.
If they use their cannons at the nose, they have to attack the other party behind them. Then they may be seen by other planes behind them and they will not be able to wipe out them.
Now, these bombers are paying attention to the airspace in front. They have not noticed that there are German night fighters under their belly.
Of course, it is not entirely under the belly, because the oblique music system shoots forward and upward, so the night fighter follows the opponent's back and under.
“Start the oblique music system.”
With the order, two gun barrels appeared on the back of the fuselage, and the 30mm mk108 cannon. These two cannons were arranged diagonally upward at a 65-degree angle. Each of them was equipped with 100 rounds. They were nemesis tailor-made for the enemy bomber troops!
"Note that you are about to count down and prepare to fire and slow down and turn around." Wei Yangen continued to issue orders in the radio.
"Three, two, one, fire!"
Open fire!
After receiving the order, Captain Murray in the middle pressed his finger on the button, and instantly, on the back of the machine, a violent 30mm shell was shot over.
Almost all the firepower started together, and the entire Soviet fleet was hit hard without any defense.
"Boom!" The fuselage of a Pet-8 bomber was interrupted, and after it became two pieces, it fell downwards.
"Pay attention to the front, no, pay attention to the back!" Each night fighter belonged to two pilots. At this time, Captain Murray's rear, his partner was loudly reminding him.
This way of attacking under the opponent is dangerous, because after the opponent falls, it moves downward and has no rules, such as now.
The bomber, which broke in half, hit Murray's plane. Murray skillfully pushed the operating rod to avoid it, but at this moment, the wreckage of another bomber on the side also fell down and hit the tail of his plane.
Although Captain Murray had tried his best, he still did not avoid the wreckage that was flying in. At night, half of the horizontal tail of the fighter was smashed off. Suddenly, the plane fell down.
Chapter completed!