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Chapter 126 Interception and Safari 2

() "Haha, business is about to open." Harry stared at the two fighter jets on the runway and swallowed. Now is not the time to launch an attack immediately. Attack now, and the Germans have a good chance of keeping the pilots. Harry

The plan was to attack the German jets when they were flying but not at high enough speed. Once hit, the pilot would be dead.

At this time, Harry remembered Ron's speech to them during the tactical drill.

"The German jet hangs its engines on the wings on both sides, which inevitably results in the weight distribution of the aircraft away from the roll axis. This makes the aircraft need to overcome a ratio when rolling.

A single-engine aircraft has a much larger reverse torque. Therefore, the roll of this kind of aircraft must be very slow. In fact, you can

You can have a better understanding by referring to the BF-110 and our own P-38. Everyone knows that our P-38 is almost the best twin-engine fighter - so we will use it in the exercise

As a target - but its roll is still not comparable to that of a single-engine aircraft, the German jet

The same must be true for air planes. In addition, this is not the first time we have fought against this kind of jet. All records show that this kind of aircraft has super high speed, but no one has ever mentioned that it has outstanding roll.

On the contrary, many pilots who have escaped the dive attack of this aircraft have mentioned the sluggishness of this aircraft's roll.

I don’t need to say more about the importance of roll performance in air combat. All pilots know it clearly. Because except for somersaults and semi-somersaults, all other tactical actions start from rolls. Slow roll will inevitably lead to

The lag of other movements. This is a huge weakness when avoiding attacks."

In the subsequent drills with the P-38 as the imaginary target, this was also very obvious. The P-38 at low altitude and low speed had almost no resistance to the BZ of the P-81.

"It would be great if the situation of the Germans is as expected by General Ron." Harry thought this way. The fighter pilots all believed in Ron's prediction. Because before this, Principal Ron had no idea about the enemy.

The performance predictions of aircraft are often surprisingly accurate. He can often predict the opponent's weaknesses quite accurately based on very few statistics. This makes some pilots even call him a "wizard" in private.

Now the two jets had begun to taxi at high speed on the runway, and it wouldn't be long before they took off. Harry shook the wings, signaled to his wingman, and then swooped towards the airport.

When preparing to launch the attack, Harry had already increased his speed to about 600 kilometers per hour. Now by diving, his speed quickly increased to 800 kilometers per hour. It only took one minute to fly over a distance of more than ten kilometers.

about.

At this time, the two German me-262s had just taken off, and the height above the ground was only about 60-70 meters. This was an awkward height: it was impossible to use dive to increase speed, and there was no way to parachute - at this height

When he jumped, he fell into pieces before the umbrella could even be opened.

When Harry swooped over, the German pilots had already discovered them - the people driving the me-262 were all elites drawn from various units. But they had no idea what to do. Now, the me-262 is at its peak.

When it was weak, it needed height but not height, and speed but not speed. But they still tried very hard to make a turn to avoid the American attack.

It's just that the roll of Me-262 is too slow, and the current speed is not enough, and it cannot perform high-overload movements. Their evasive movements looked like slow motion in a movie in Harry's eyes.

The white belly of the me-262, which was rolling hard, was almost full of Harry's sight. When he pressed the fire button, the six 20mm cannons roared together, and the shells spewed out almost killed a me-262 in an instant.

Torn into pieces.

Just when Harry was firing, his wingman also fired at another me-262, and he also shot down his opponent without any suspense. It was only then that the German anti-aircraft guns reacted and began to fire at Harry's

Formation fire. But Harry's speed was too fast, which caused the angular speed of the anti-aircraft gun to completely fail to keep up with their movement, and the shells fell behind them.

Harry pushed the throttle to the end, and the two R-2800 engines exploded with a powerful thrust of 4,600 horsepower. They quickly pushed them out of the fire circle of the anti-aircraft guns. Then Harry started to pull the nose of the aircraft to jump up, climbing to 6,000 in one breath.

The plane leveled off at an altitude of 100 meters.

"Great job!" Harry praised himself. However, he understood that the main reason for this success was proper tactics. It is much easier to shoot down the enemy on a safari than in a formal air battle.

After the attack just now, there should be no more jets taking off from this airport in the short term. However, there is still a lot of fuel in the tank anyway. It is not a bad thing to continue to wander around the airport. In this area, it is very difficult to encounter enemy planes.

The chances are always greater.

"Captain, watch below 3 o'clock!" the wingman's voice came from the earphones.

Harry looked to the lower right and saw that at an altitude of about 2,500 meters, there were 6 aircraft flying towards the airport in three two-plane formations. It was still too far away to see the model clearly. But looking at the size of the aircraft,

Probably a fighter jet or something.

"Although there are many enemy planes, our planes have performance and energy advantages. We will definitely not suffer any losses if we conduct a sneak attack." Harry quickly made this judgment.

Harry adjusted his route. He planned to fly over the opponent's head first, then dive down, fly below the opponent's six o'clock, and then launch an attack from the belly of their aircraft. This process is also the most typical sneak attack.

process.

Obviously, due to the unfavorable position of the enemy planes (Harry and the others were facing away from the sun), they were unable to detect Harry's crew. They knew nothing until Harry dived behind them.

By this time, Harry had also discovered that these aircraft were not fighter jets such as the BF-109 or FW-190 as he had first determined, but a bi-wing aircraft.

"GO145 trainer aircraft!" Harry, who was accustomed to reading German aircraft identification manuals, immediately identified the model of this aircraft.

The go145 trainer aircraft is Germany's most important trainer aircraft, with a total production of more than 9,500 aircraft. Most German pilots were trained on this aircraft.

Although it was not a high-end product like a fighter jet as expected, in the spirit of "no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat" and in line with the principle of "a thief never escapes in vain", Harry continued to attack.

In one attack, an unsuspecting go145 was broken into pieces. The pilot on that plane obviously didn't have time to parachute. In fact, from this perspective, attacking a trainer aircraft is a more efficient thing than attacking a fighter jet.

, because you can kill two enemy pilots in one go.

Harry's wingman also succeeded. Although his cannonball failed to directly knock the enemy plane into the air, it also cut off the two layers of wings on the enemy's left side. Now the go145 is spinning crazily and falling to the ground. Look like that

Son, I'm afraid it would be difficult for the pilot up there to climb out of the cockpit and parachute.

The first round of the sneak attack always went smoothly, but when Harry and his wingman dived down for the second time, the situation changed. The German go145 began to rely on its advantage of circling well, and turned around with Harry and the others.

Although go145 did not fly very fast, its turning radius was very small and it was extremely flexible. It was not easy to hit them accurately. In the second round of attacks, Harry and his wingman achieved nothing.

"Be patient." Harry said to himself. This is what Ron has always emphasized to the fighter pilots. If it doesn't work once, do it twice, and if it doesn't work twice, do it three times. Since the enemy aircraft at an energy disadvantage have no ability to fight back at all.

, then just catching them making a mistake once is enough. And as long as we are human beings, we will always make mistakes.

Sure enough, in the fifth round of attacks, Harry seized the opportunity and shot down an enemy plane again. Then in the ninth attack, Harry worked with his wingman to shoot down another enemy plane.

Friendly aircraft around them were continuously shot down, which put great pressure on the remaining two go145s. However, by this time they had gradually lowered their altitude to about 100 meters.

"Abandon the attack!" Harry issued a new order. The height of the target is now too low, and a dive attack is very dangerous. Moreover, in the previous attack, his aircraft lost a lot of energy. If he is attacked by others at this moment,

If you play the role of "the oriole behind you", you will suffer big losses.

So the two P-81s withdrew from the attack and began to climb continuously. The remaining two go145s successfully saved their lives.

In the attack just now, Harry's formation consumed a lot of fuel. So Harry decided to return. They climbed to 6,000 meters in one breath, and then flew towards the west.

"In one attack, we shot down 3 aircraft. The efficiency of safari is really not comparable to that of normal air combat. Think about those German guys, they have been safari with the Soviets every day since 1941, for several years. No wonder a

The number of kills is so high. It would be so happy if it could be like this every day from now on." Harry flew back while looking forward to a bright future.

At this moment, two more planes appeared in his field of vision.

Those are two Junkers 52 transport aircraft. This is the main transport aircraft of the German army and one of the strongest aircraft made by the Germans. Among the German army, it has the nickname "Steel Anne". Probably because the Allies have never had one before.

They were performing a safari mission deep into the skies over German-controlled areas, so the two Junkers 52s flew arrogantly without escort.
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