Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 59: Launch

Pinch the joystick with both legs, take off the leather gloves of the right hand, stick out the thumb with a little saliva, and vigorously wipe a little stain on the corner of the reflective lens of the optical sight. Baidu search Geli Literature Network.

"It's dark and sticky, like a dead bug, why didn't I notice it before taking off." Lieutenant Rulf Allen pondered.

Although this small stain will not affect the aiming and combat at all, it can't make people care about it in the eyes. It's very eye-catching. If you don't wipe it off, the ensign always feels uncomfortable.

"Well, it's clean." The second lieutenant looked at the renewed clean scope with satisfaction, and then began to work hard to take a handkerchief from his pocket, and wipe his thumb clean.

"Black No. 6, what are you up to?" A call from the leader came from the headset.

Allen quickly turned his gaze and looked to the front left, and saw that the lead pilot was looking at him with his head tilted. "The scope is stained and it has been cleaned." Allen quickly pressed the throat microphone and reported loudly.

"Be careful to keep the formation, black number 7."

"Understood." Allen hurriedly wiped his thumb, put his hand back into the leg pocket of the flight pants, then put on the leather gloves, and re-tightened the joystick.

"Ah, the weather is really good. I hope it won't rain on the birthday at the end of the month." Lieutenant Allen looked at the clean mirror and was in a good mood. The clouds were so white and the sun was brighter than before.

The second lieutenant turned his head and looked at the lead plane, adjusted the positions of both sides slightly, and then looked to the right side of the cabin. The other two four-plane formations in the squadron flew steadily beside him.

The 54th Flying Wing was almost dispatched this time. The three brigades removed the necessary airport reserve team. There were 80 ME109s and fifty four-fingered formations lined up in wavy lines. Stacked up and down, weaving into a huge three-dimensional square in the air.

Allen and his four-aircraft formation are in the avant-garde position of the formation. His lead aircraft is Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang, the technical officer of the alliance, and the iron cross machine emblem is painted with the identification mark of the technical officer folded line and circle. The wing commander, the brave Colonel Hanstraft, took the lead, leading his four-aircraft formation to the front of the entire fleet.

On the left wing of the phalanx, there is a large formation composed of a missing group of the JG52 Fighter Wing and a group of the JG77 Fighter Wing, the number has reached 60.

Behind and above the large fleet is the third group of the famous JG26 Fighter Wing. Their dazzling captain Mickey Mouse Garland led a 40-aircraft formation speeding past the fleet. After going out for a kilometer, it turned to turn around, and then crossed the aircraft at a high speed diagonally, and then turned back to the upper back of the aircraft about a kilometer after reaching the side. Then repeat it again.

This is the new type of **** tactics formulated by the command. The command named this **** tactic "Swarm". The name is very vivid, because the **** fighters danced like a bee on the head of the bomber formation all the way.

Yes, jg26 is escorting the "bomber fleet". Captain Allen turned his head hard and looked towards the tail of the aircraft from the gap on the side of the bulletproof steel plate. That thing is still there. Dangling, the silver wings quivered in the hurricane of 380 kilometers per hour.

That is a huge box-shaped tin foil kite. The length is six meters long, and nine complex rhombic tetrahedrons are bundled in the shape of a cross in a box-shaped outer frame. A ten-meter-long cable was tied to the bomb pylon of the fighter jet and fixed to a release hook. This thing is a magical prop that can turn a me109 into a he111, and the headquarters document calls it a traction radio angle reflector. The pilot called it a "liar kite."

This thing can gather the messy radar waves irradiated on it, and then reflect it back, displaying a strong feedback signal on the radar receiver, making the radar soldier misjudge the size of the target. After a small fighter towed a corner reflector kite, the signal volume on the radar looks like a large aircraft. If the flight path, speed and altitude, and formation clearance are used for grouping and flying according to the parameters of the bomber, the fighter fleet is It will become a bomber fleet on the radar.

This tactic was initially carried out by the small French fighters piloted by the birds and eggs. Twenty-four fighters were disguised as an unescorted bomber squadron at the cruising speed of Dornier 17. Flying over the center line of the strait, the result successfully lured a British six-aircraft Spitfire formation. Judging from the British reaction, they were dispatched in full accordance with the procedures for intercepting unescorted bombers. If they recognize the disguise of the fighter jets, there will definitely not be only two teams dispatched.

After confirming the success of the experiment, the Bird Egg team turned around before the arrival of the British fighters. A corresponding fighter squadron had already taken off and moved along the center line of the coast. If the British fighter team dared to chase the strait, then don’t think about it. Going back alive, the tired British finally did not choose to track, and the experiment was a complete success.

The same experiment was carried out several times, and they were all mixed in the feint troops. This made the British Fighter Command very nervous. The number of German bombers increased sharply. The Germans must have mobilized new reserves from the country. Large-scale aircraft groups have been moving back and forth on the side of the strait, constantly crossing the center line of the strait, and some suddenly withdrew before approaching the coast. Sometimes, while the British fighters were exhausted, they suddenly drove straight into the defense gap and flattened. Everything in the target zone then retreated, leaving behind the belated and exhausted British fighter pilots roaring from the sky.

"I see the coastline, black No. 7, look directly below, that is the beluga you've always wanted to see!" Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang's voice remembered in the headphones, and Allen's excited probe was attached to the cabin glass Looking down, he pressed his throat microphone excitedly: "Where is it? Where is the white whale? Ah, I saw it, sir. It's spectacular!"

Just two hundred meters below the aircraft cluster, a dazzling behemoth hung in the air in a majestic manner, surpassing the huge volume of people's visual imagination, and elegant and simple lines. This guy is born with a kind of disdain for everything. The prestige.

The entire painting of the huge Zeppelin is light gray, with an astonishing area of ​​light blue and white large zigzag camouflage in the middle. It looks like an air cruiser with a five-story high tail fin painted with light The gray iron cross badge is painted on the side with the one-man tactical number odw02 and a shield coat of arms.

The zeppelin lz127, according to the original history, was dismantled into a pile of aluminum because of Goering's stupidity and sent to the melting furnace of the Mercedes factory. However, in this time and space, the Earl of Zeppelin has a completely new look, floating majesticly over France, and the reason for this must not be explained.

Now on the coast of France, three huge Zeppelins are responsible for the most important tasks in the entire aerial battle. These aerial beasts have become the key to the victory of the Luftwaffe in this battle.

The Earl of Zeppelin, this world-famous luxury airship, received the call number "White Whale" in the Air Force Command System. This 236-meter-long aerial behemoth has been completely converted into an aerial fortress. The back of the huge hard-shell hull is equipped with two quadruple 20mm cannon forts, and a row of aluminum antenna towers are erected between the forts. , Five rows of cables are drawn between the tower and the tower directly connected to the tail. A section of the observation deck protrudes from the waist, and a dual-line gun nest is hung on each end of the observation deck.

The most eye-catching thing is the pod under the boat. It has been modified completely beyond recognition. The original huge aluminum pod was divided into two sections. The first cockpit is equipped with a streamlined sci-fi flower room. The rear section of the cockpit is sunken, and an eight-meter-diameter pot-shaped frame antenna is suspended on two huge trapezoidal tower-shaped brackets. With the motor driving slowly rotating, the volume of the rear pod is The cockpit is four times the size of the cockpit, with a row of large and small windows, and a lot of angle and whip antennas are installed on the bottom and sides. On the back of the pod are the four famous Mercedes-Benz engine pods and the huge four-leaf. The propeller, the propeller is now stagnant, and six huge steel cables extend from the airship pod and hull to connect to the ground.

Allen turned his head and looked down. There were a lot of planes parked on the airport on the ground. Two small black spots had just left the runway and were climbing up.

The Zeppelin early warning airship, or aerial radar base station, relies on an improved version of the Würzburg Führer’s prototype radar suspended under a huge airship hovering at an altitude of 2,000 meters. The detection range reaches an astonishing 200 kilometers. The error is less than 100 meters, and the distance error is less than 500 meters. With the modified Freya long-range radar deployed on the Earl Zeppelin and Lz131, the aerial radar network composed of three airships can cover an airspace of about 200 kilometers, plus a row of banks along the coast. At the base radar station, every move of the British Air Force is in the hands of the Luftwaffe.

Under the monitoring of the airship radar~IndoMTL.com~The Air Force Command can obtain real-time basic information about the heading, altitude, speed, number, and types of the enemy and our aircraft formations, through the newly established command communication system Fight with any squadron in the air and compete with the British Air Force on the battlefield.

"Attention everyone! Heading 010, altitude four thousand and five, the mouse is out of the hole, all accelerate the climb!" The voice of Colonel Traft, who is the air commander, sounded in the headsets of all the pilots.

Allen pushed the throttle gently, and the Messerschmitt fighter followed closely on the flanks of the lead plane and began to slowly climb upwards.

"Speed ​​up, release the hook!" The captain sent an order, and the fighters in the group opened the release hooks one after another, throwing away the kite behind them.

Directly ahead, in the snow-white clouds shining by the sun, a dense black machine shadow lined up and drilled out in three layers, changing formations while quickly approaching. Garland's third squadron quickly passed the aircraft group from diagonally behind like lightning, and rushed towards the British aircraft group.

Many years later, Colonel Allen, who has become a super ace, clearly remembers that that day, a group of eagles flew and the clouds were burning. (To be continued. (.))

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