Chapter 533 Cluster Bombs
However, they had no choice because they were soldiers. Since they were soldiers, they should take obeying orders as their duty!
So they could only watch the people fall into the water and watch the people struggle in the water, while their ships are getting further and further away from the shore.
They were in a heavy mood.
At this time, the Junker-88 bombers were still flying in the sky, and their target was the various nearby French military bases!
Brest, east, thirty kilometers away, French Air Force Base.
When a sharp alarm sounded, the French Air Force Base was in tension.
This is the second-tier air force, and there are almost no well-trained air force personnel at all. It is just a logistics training base to train junior pilots. Their backward biplane will not pose any threat even if it is launched.
Even so, the attack on this air base is still carried out as a key point. In the ground alarm, the Juncker-88 bomber has already flown over the air.
"Dongdong," In a corner of the base, an anti-aircraft gun fired violently!
The 20mm anti-aircraft artillery shell flew into the sky, and was still far from the bomber, and exploded, blooming black flowers in the sky.
It looks scary, but when you really become a bomber pilot, you won’t be afraid of this kind of scene!
"Bomb drop!" shouted the bomb dropper. As the shouting sounded, the hatch door inside the belly opened, and a large bomb fell from the bomb bay.
This bomb is very different from other bombs. When it falls, it does not continue to do flat throwing movements and falls down, but is rotating rapidly in the fall, rotating while constantly falling small things, as if it is a scattering flower in a celestial girl.
It seems that there is an indescribable beauty, but people on the ground do not feel so beautiful. This is a kind of arrival of the god of death, a terrible arrival of the god of death!
If your eyesight is high enough, you can see that these are small iron balls-like things, but when they land on the ground, a violent explosion sounded!
"Boom!" A small ball fell on the runway, and as it landed, a loud bang appeared.
A hole was blown out on the ground. It was not big because a small ball was not powerful enough. However, when multiple small balls exploded one after another, the entire base was instantly full of holes!
It does not depend on the power of a single piece, but on its number. It is like an ant that is small, but it can eat an elephant with only the skeleton in a short time!
The number is too large!
The anti-aircraft gunners were stunned. They looked up at the sky, and a small ball was coming towards their gun positions!
"Boom!" It was not unequal, and this small ball actually hit their gun position! With the explosion, a gunner screamed, and there was no more parts below his thigh!
Another gunner was already scared. He almost rolled and crawled towards the air defense bunker behind him. Although he had been disrepair for a long time, it should be safer there!
Just as he ran a few steps, he suddenly felt something squeaking under his feet!
"Boom!" An explosion appeared from his feet. He screamed, losing consciousness.
This terrifying weapon showed great power when it first landed on the battlefield!
In later generations, it was called a mother bomb, or cluster bomb.
Cluster bombs are loaded into bullet bodies of the same size as ordinary bombs, with sub-bombs ranging from several to hundreds, each of which is about the size of a tennis ball. After being airdropped by the aircraft, they are decomposed in the air, and by distributing sub-bombs to the wide-range ground, they cause regional damage.
It is a weapon of surface killing. The principle of this weapon determines that it is very suitable to attack surface targets!
For example, now, when bombing the airport, even if the Junker-88 carries a few one-ton bombs and throws them down, it will only blow up a few big pits! Afterwards, as long as the big pits on the airport are filled, you can even choose another place to take off and land the plane.
It can be said that the momentum is huge, but the destructive power is not enough.
But now, this kind of cluster bomb is different.
It can be scattered throughout the airport and around it, with a considerable killing surface. Moreover, it has another advantage, that is, the fuse is unreliable.
Now, each of the bombs dropped by Junker-88 is loaded with 836 half a kilogram bullets, and the whole big bomb is called a bus, and the small bombs inside are called bullets. With so many small bombs, it is difficult to ensure that each one explodes.
In Libya's base, this kind of bomb was troubled during its development and could not guarantee the 100% integrity of the fuse, which made scientific researchers quite anxious.
As a result, after the report was reported, General Cialek issued an instruction, why should he ensure a 100% intact rate? Since it cannot be done, it can be done 80%, 60%, or even more than half of them can explode normally, that is enough!
The researchers at that time were puzzled, but Cialick knew that the real power of the cluster bomb was not exploded.
Those unexploded bullets are left in the opponent's base, so that the opponent's base will be completely scrapped and it is impossible for them to use them again. In eliminating these unexploded bullets, it will pose a huge threat to the engineers.
In later generations, cluster bombs were prohibited from being used by international conventions because such things were simply dirty bombs. Once used, there would be endless troubles. In the future, these places would be useless, and even civilians would not be able to be used. No one knew where there would be bullets hidden without explosions.
However, now it is a war, and any weapon is easy to use! Looking at the later generations, there have been so many clamors, and the United Nations is clamoring every day, but several major hooligans do not join the treaty and do not promise that cluster bombs will not apply.
It is easy to use and low-cost weapons, why not use them?
The air force base here must be completely abandoned! Although it is just a reserve coach base now, it is likely to be quickly deployed to fighter jets, which will bring great danger to Germany's plan!
Keep all dangers in the bud!
"Boom!" A bullet landed on a trainer plane. These trainer planes were old biplanes, parked on the lawn. Now, with one being hit, the fire spreads rapidly!
Three Junker-88 bombers flew over the airport in turn. When the cluster bomb was thrown down, the entire airport was trapped in a sea of fire!
Chapter completed!