Chapter 653 East China Sea War (11) Discovery of Enemy Ships
Well, heavy bombers are sure to be able to fire backwards. This is a basic self-defense capability. Japanese pilots don’t know, but they think that it is not enough to easily retreat!
Although the climbing height of ki44 Zhong Kui is quite considerable and can even shoot at this height, the actual climbing rate is quite tragic. He can't even catch up with a huge guy like "Thunder". He is also worried that he will be knocked down by the opponent's perverted firing rate and range!
A group of "Zhong Kui" fighter jets, which were limited by various conditions, were frustrated and surrounded them from behind. Then they found that they were struggling to chase them, and the other party seemed to be accelerating!
The truth is so painful! The huge monster with a maximum take-off weight of more than 60 tons is the same as the small high-speed interceptor with a maximum of only three tons! Just because of a little bit of backward, I can't catch up with it after gritting my teeth and climbing to the same height!
The pilots in the "Thunder" bomber saw those little perseverance on the radar screen, disdainful crooked mouths, and then deliberately stabilized their course. When the back was difficult to approach about two thousand meters, the fire control was locked, and the two 127mm heavy machine guns at the rear suddenly opened fire. The ultra-long range and stable ballistics originated from the Browning M2 bloodline. The long projectiles fired by the machine gun with air-cooling and composite shock-absorbing stability system were evenly flowing like a waterline that was splashed out easily, and passed beautifully in the sky.__//
But the ki44 behind it feels not so beautiful! At such a distance, they can see the bomber with their naked eyes, which is not much bigger than a bird. If you want to aim, you have to compete for your character. Hitting it is considered a waste of luck, but the other party's machine gun bullets kept coming. Before they could react, they heard a messy and crisp sound on their own fuselage. Seeing the huge engine and the head that could block the view, it quickly burst out with thick smoke, and then fell down like a stone!
The "Zhong Kui" high-speed interceptor with a very similar shape to a carrot has a strange shape. Many pilots are reluctant to drive it because it is too unfair. No matter which direction the attack on the enemy, the short Japanese have to stretch their necks to see clearly. Such a disadvantage is particularly disadvantageous in combat at high altitudes. This incident can be regarded as a real testament to their resistance, how correct it is!
Groups of "thunder" broke through the first layer of search defense line and rushed to the airspace 60 kilometers away from the island. After receiving the news, the fighter jets that rushed over emerged!
All of them are naval fighters deployed on the Ryukyu Island, including the Ki43 fighter that was basically outdated as soon as they came out. They also served in the flight regiment under the Third Fleet, but were repeatedly abused by the flying shark formation on the Great Wall battlefield, and were wiped out every time. The maximum speed of 530 kilometers was regarded as a weakness of criticism and hurriedly ended its life.
But it is always necessary to use it if it is produced? Therefore, in the Ryukyu, Taiwan and North Korea, which are closest to China's coast, these guys with a range of more than 3,000 kilometers have still deployed hundreds of aircraft. Nothing else, they value their relatively balanced performance and long range, so as to facilitate the follow-up attacks of other high-speed fighters in the future after scoring.
The other part is the secret model ki61, which has avant-garde shape and has never been exposed in China!
This is a very high-performance fighter designed by Nakajima. Compared with the A6m series that was previously in service, it is not bad at all in terms of speed, excitement, climbing speed. It is even more exaggerated in armor and battlefield survivability! If it weren't for the emergence of the A6m6 and the success of "Ultimate Zero War", it has a high chance of becoming the most powerful and most produced fighter in Japan!
It is completely different from the models with exposed engines before, the ki61 "Flying Swallow" fighter uses the imported German Mercedes-Benz 12-cylinder liquid-cooled engine. Combined with its own turbocharger technology that has been researched and imitated for many years, it provides a benchmark power of 1,350 horsepower in a small size, and can be improved upwards to 1,500 horsepower, 1,850 horsepower or even higher!
Also introduced are the aerodynamic shape of the bf109, which has a rear long shaft and variable three-blade propeller with an engine protective cover. The rear cockpit is equipped with bulletproof armor for the first time, which can reach a maximum flat flight speed of 595 kilometers and a maximum range of 1,200 kilometers. It may not be suitable to launch long-range attacks on China's local area, but as a carrier-based aircraft and offshore defense fighter, it is undoubtedly very excellent!
However, as a liquid-cooled engine, it is difficult to maintain an aircraft carrier, so it cannot compete with Mitsubishi. As for the lack of imitation engine technology in all aspects, resulting in poor quality and high failure rate, Nakajima will never say it casually.
In short, it is also a relatively powerful fighter!
This group of new goods flocked to the height of tens of thousands of meters, skillfully climbed to a height of tens of thousands of meters, and then took a condescending posture, and then pounced down fiercely for a short time. That posture seemed to not give up until a few were killed.
But the real combat from an altitude of more than 6,000 meters is definitely not the strength these guys should have. Compared with the "Thunder" with hard shell armor and the active oxygen supply system, their clumsy and trembling figures above 8,000 meters are just quails that are difficult to adapt to hypoxia and high-altitude environments!
The dual-equipped 127mm heavy machine gun arranged on the back opened fire without hesitation, making the Nakajima series fighter jets that were basically difficult to be flexible at such a height and dodged in a mess. It was impossible to aim!
These big guys still maintain a stable speed of no less than 580 kilometers and continue to sail in a straight line at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters. Once they miss it, they will not be able to catch up!
So, on the edge of the East China Sea, a very interesting scene appeared! Twenty-four "Thunder" bombers sailed at high speed, and occasionally shot extremely lethal bullets from the four turrets up and down behind, like blooming dandelions.
Next to and behind, and below, there were dozens or hundreds of Japanese aircraft clumsyly climbing and chasing, while dodging in panic and fighting back sporadically. Most of them were not hit. Even if they hit it, the 77mm machine gun bullets hit the opponent's shell and it didn't feel like it was tickling. The 20mm machine gun can occasionally play a role, but after blowing up a piece of shell, it was found that the lining inside was so sturdy that it made people desperate! Moreover, the holes with a large bowl mouth didn't matter to such a huge thing!
On the contrary, these small fighter planes were beaten by the opponent's heavy machine guns or machine guns from time to time, and then they were immediately seriously injured, either exploded in the sky, or fell down in a rolling smoke.
In the whole situation, it was like a group of eagles with fangs and sharp teeth, and impatiently dealing with a group of flies. If you ignore them, you will feel uncomfortable. If you take care of them, you will have many lives!
The commander on the ground and Irojuku Yamamoto in the fleet heard that the other party had broken through the third floor of defense in a row and was about to arrive over the island, their faces turned green! What was this happening? A group of fighters could not get rid of bombers. When did the world become so crazy?!
Yamamoto Iroku immediately ordered the Ryukyu army to garrison: "No matter what, don't let the Chinese group break through the island group's defense, otherwise the existence of the fleet will have nowhere to hide!"
To this day, he has realized very clearly that the existence of a fleet does not simply depend on how powerful the tonnage and main gun he owns, and how many fighter jets he has. That is the result of inference on paper when the national strength and weapons and equipment are completely consistent.
However, this kind of thinking mode is not possible for the Chinese Navy commanded by Zhu Bin. Because when groups of high-speed fighter jets and bombers appeared, the ship's air defense power could no longer keep up with the development, especially at a distance of less than a thousand kilometers. Once the opponent's guys with abnormal range and attack power were targeted, they were found to be destroyed! Even though the warships he commanded have strengthened their air defense firepower, Commander Yamamoto still couldn't guarantee that he could survive.
Not to mention, the group of guys who came today are weird things that even anti-aircraft guns can't find any shadow. They can accurately bombard the targets on the ground and deal with his fleet, which is not a problem at all!
Yamamoto Iroku went to war with the heroic spirit of dying in his country, and he had long been enlightened to sacrifice his life for the country in order to achieve the final result of victory. But this has a premise, he must have a long enough time to restrain the Chinese military power. Before achieving the goal, he cannot die, the fleet cannot be destroyed!
All of them are old warships that have been repaired and the aircraft carriers transformed from cargo ships cannot withstand the precise blow of the blockbusters. They have only started to implement the plan for two or three hours. If they are discovered and destroyed, how unfair it will be!
The carrier-based aircraft have basically been dispatched, and less than a quarter of the number is left for escorts and cannot be used casually. The number of deployments on the Ryukyu Islands is already quite large. I hope they can withstand it. Well, it must be withstand it!
The jh2 "Thunder" bombers continued to break through! They completely ignored the nearly hundreds of Japanese planes rushing towards them. Their eyes were only staring at the gradually clear outline of the archipelago ahead. The images of Naba Military Port appeared in large-scale telescopes and radar scanning. The fireworks-like fireballs suddenly shot from the mountain to the air were pointed out to the direction!
"Discover suspicious targets! All units should pay attention to maintaining an elevation of 8,000 meters, freely choose to drop bombs, end the battle in five minutes, and start!"
The leader of the team leader gave a cold order, and the bombers immediately dispersed. The two guys flying in front threw the bombs unceremoniously at the looks of the shadowy ships in the military port more than ten kilometers away.
The gliding bombs mounted under the wings used to destroy the airport were basically thrown away, and the rest were small subsonic ground-based intelligent bombs in the cabin. In the open abdominal cabin, the rotating vehicle dropped the slender bombs in clusters, and then arrogantly turned from high altitude to aim at the Japanese plane that was not even able to catch up with by birds!
It doesn't matter at the beginning. The eight big guys behind followed suit. Hulala a large number of bombs were thrown out. Soon, there were flaming explosions in the port and boiling. Seeing a few unlucky guys who didn't know whether it was a destroyer or a supply ship, blowing out pieces of steel garbage debris, burning and exploding, which was spectacular!
A guy climbing in the highest airspace suddenly screamed in surprise: "Haha! I saw the Japanese fleet! It's hidden in the east of Yilan Bay!"
Chapter completed!