Chapter 86: Sad reminder of the hand-held machine
Navy commander Erich Redel, new generals Karl von Denitz and others were all on the bridge. Even Colonel Gonser Lütjens got on the warship, but the bridge had no place. He stood at a position on the deck, staring at the sky with his eyes tightly.
The visibility of this day was not quite good, the clouds above the head were a bit thick, and now, almost all the conditions are beneficial to the plane!
Colonel Lütjens remembered his last trip to the East and admired Cirick from the bottom of his heart. Therefore, in the navy, Colonel Lütjens gradually changed his mind, believing that the advantages of fighter jets over warships will become greater and greater!
There was a rumble in the distance, and several biplane planes emerged from the clouds!
He51 is an aircraft specially launched by Henschel for the Luftwaffe Air Force! Unfortunately, the technology of this aircraft is still lagging behind, and the biplane is facing elimination!
The BMW6 water-cooled engine in front of the nose kept roaring, and the propeller in front turned rapidly. After drilling out of the clouds, the pilots quickly discovered the target in the open cockpit.
"Be careful, attack immediately!" Werner Merdels, the 20-year-old leader of the formation, shouted loudly.
In later World War II, there were countless German aces, and the top few were super aces with more than 300 shot down. If you only shoot down hundreds of them, you will almost never be ranked.
However, Werner is still the most famous in the Luftwaffe Air Force because he was the first to accumulate 100 aircraft. He is also the German ace pilot!
For the sake of publicity, after shooting down a hundred battles, he was hiding and forbidden to continue to fight in the air. His battles were mainly obtained over Spain and Britain, and not many were on the Eastern Front of the Soviet Union.
At this time, he was born in 1913 and was in his youngest period. His face was thin. At this time, he wiped the lenses on the goggles with the pilot's scarf and pushed the nose.
The whimpering sound became dull, and as he dived down, the he51 biplane roared.
Diving attack!
After many studies, Werner has long been quite clear about the German air defense firepower, with 3 88mm anti-aircraft guns and 8 37mm anti-aircraft guns. These anti-aircraft guns look like iron barrels to defend the German, but there is a gap in the firepower net of the anti-aircraft guns!
From the top, dive directly downward to avoid fire!
However, for this biplane, direct diving is a great danger. If this wooden structure aircraft is too fast, it will easily disintegrate in the air!
As a German Air Force pilot, he was not afraid of anything!
Five fighter jets aimed at the front of the German-class!
The most combat-effective 88mm anti-aircraft gun is arranged on both sides and in the middle of the rear. Due to the obstruction of the bridge and mast, it cannot take care of the front firing boundary. Therefore, only 37mm anti-aircraft guns can effectively provide anti-aircraft gun cover in the front!
"Be careful, discover the target!" At this moment, the commander holding the telescope shouted loudly in each gun position. The biplanes were quite clear on the dividing lines inside the telescope.
"Direction 0-3-6, deviate from two close positions to the right, height 75, shoot!"
shooting!
With the commander's order, the gunner stepped on the firing machine.
"Boom! Boom!" Two guns, two anti-aircraft shells with the coach's warhead flew up.
Not bad, only two!
Because, this 37mm anti-aircraft gun uses a hand puller!
What does it mean? It is a single-shot loading!
At this time, a loading hand was standing next to him. A parenting bag was slung around the neck of the loading hand, and there were shells inside. After the shell was fired, the second round was loaded urgently!
The hand speed is fast enough, and even the indicator given by the anti-aircraft artillery design unit can reach 80 rounds per minute. In fact, if you can shoot 8 rounds in one minute, you are definitely a genius!
This is the tragic German carrier-based anti-aircraft gun! A hand-pulled machine that has been criticized by countless people in later generations! Single-shot loading! Think it is a sniper rifle? Other anti-aircraft guns are at least five rounds of magazines! If you want to hit a target in the air, you must shoot more and more consecutively!
Needless to mention the current German, even the later Pesme, used the same hand puller!
At the beginning, after the construction of the USS Mai, it sailed in a mighty manner and killed the Hood in the first battle. As a result, it was hit by the old-fashioned two-winged "Swordfish" torpedo on the aircraft carrier of the USS Royal, resulting in inconvenient course operation and was eventually "beaten to death" by the British local fleet.
Don’t be impressed with the fate of Besmai. Just think about it and you will know the performance of the 37mm anti-aircraft gun used in Germany! The biplane cannot even be shot!
Now, facing the He51 jumping out from above the head, more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns fired together. The scene seemed spectacular enough. The flames spewed out from the muzzle, making people feel a sense of majesty, as if they could beat the plane down the next moment!
However, the tracer anti-aircraft shells flew past, and they were still far from He51!
The three 88mm anti-aircraft guns behind only fired two or three shells, and then stopped firing, which had exceeded their shooting range!
The 37mm anti-aircraft guns in front were still shooting slowly, one shot, and another shot. Before the opponent's attack arrived, they shockedly fired five shells!
Five shots!
If it is a Bofos 40mm gun, the maximum firing rate is 150 rounds per minute, and the actual firing rate is about 110 rounds per minute. The firepower density is strong enough. Nowadays, the hand-pulling machine can hit targets in the sky, which is definitely a super explosion of character!
Moreover, the warships are shaking constantly, which further increases the difficulty of aiming and shooting! Every anti-aircraft artillery is shooting with all its might at this time, but no matter how hard they try, it is useless!
Werner felt the whistling cold wind. At this time, his plane had already flown through the other party's firepower net. The outline of the big ship on the sea was so clear!
bomb!
Werner pressed the button and the two bombs hanging on the abdomen of the fuselage fell down slowly!
After dropping the bomb, Werner slowly pulled the operating lever, and the current speed has reached 500 kilometers per hour! The maximum level flight speed of this type of aircraft is only 330 kilometers per hour! At this current speed, if the overload is slightly increased, the aircraft may disintegrate!
Now, his height was already very low. He pulled up and flipped it up. He almost saw that his wings were about to hit the sea before he could recover his level flight!
Just now, if you slow down, you will have close contact with the sea, and the plane will be destroyed and people will die! It is really exciting!
Following him, the second He51 also dropped the bomb!
Chapter completed!