If the German ground armored forces are compared to the land representatives of the Blitzkrieg, then there is no doubt that the most outstanding representative of the Blitzkrieg from the sky is the Luftwaffe's JU87 Stuka dive bomber.
This type of low-wing, single-engine dive bomber designed and manufactured by the German Junkers Company had been secretly transported by the German army and put into the battlefield for actual combat testing as early as 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, and was finally completed successfully.
After the success of the actual combat test in the Spanish Civil War, the Germans immediately began a series of subsequent improvement and upgrade plans for the Stuka dive bomber, and developed a series of subsequent sub-models such as A.B.C.D.R.G.
Together with the BF109 series of fighter jets, they are known as the two most outstanding representatives of the German Air Force.
By the time the Germans launched Operation Barbarossa, the B-series variant of the JU87 Stuka dive bomber had been installed in large-scale batches by the German Air Force's front-line troops. The latest JU87D Stuka had also been finalized and put into production.
It won't take long for them to be mass-produced to enhance the combat strength of the German Air Force's front-line troops.
Strictly speaking, the six Stuka dive bombers that were swooping towards Malashenko and the leading troops of the Soviet 20th Tank Division at this moment were not actually coming specifically to intercept Malashenko.
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About ten minutes ago, these six Stuka dive bombers, which had just been refueled and loaded from the rear airport at the Soviet-German border, were tasked only to move to the frontline field airport and then wait for instructions to remain on standby.
That's all.
But just as these six Stuka dive bombers were approaching the German frontline field airport and preparing to land, a command from the superior air command changed their direction and immediately moved them to the front line.
"The reconnaissance plane reported that a Soviet mechanized mixed force was moving in the direction of our Army Group South in the following area, carrying an unknown number of tanks and a small amount of heavy equipment. We hereby order your troops to immediately go to intercept and bomb."
In this way, before the six cutting-edge JU87B-2 Stuka dive bombers that had just departed from Germany had time to land, they swung their wings under the order of their superiors and began to head towards the sky just tens of kilometers away.
Malashenko's troops rushed straight away.
As the latest improvement to an existing old model, the performance design of the B-2 JU87 Stuka dive bomber can be said to be the culmination of the highest technology of the German Air Force at the moment, and it is fully worthy of its terrifying title of "Screaming Death".
Compared with the previous model A Stuka, the biggest difference of the JU87B-2 Stuka dive bomber is that it is equipped with a Junkers JUMO 211D 12-cylinder in-line water-cooled engine, which can
The entire Stuka dive bomber outputs a surging power of up to 1,200 horsepower.
With this powerful new heart, the maximum level flight speed of the JU87B-2 Stuka dive bomber has been increased from the original A-type 310 kilometers per hour to 383 kilometers per hour.
Despite this, such a flying speed is no longer excellent when facing the mainstream fighters on the battlefield of World War II in 1941, but under such a premise, it brings powerful mounting capabilities to the B-2 Stuka dive bomber.
But it's obvious.
In addition to retaining the two 7.92mm MG17 wing aviation machine guns on the original A model, the B-2 Stuka's aerial bomb mounting capacity has further increased from the original A model's 250 kilograms to 500 kilograms, and can carry up to one
A 250kg aerial bomb and four slightly smaller 50kg aerial bombs were used to conduct ground air strikes.
If necessary, the B-2 Stuka dive bomber can also carry a 1,000-kilogram super-heavy aerial bomb against the enemy's solid defense positions or fortifications without the rear seat gunner and carrying a minimum amount of fuel.
He is an all-round bomber who carries out targeted air strikes on large ship targets.
In terms of body design, the B-2 Stuka dive bomber retains the automatic speedbrake technology and the classic "Jericho Trumpet" sound device on the original A model.
The automatic airbrake technology, which was still advanced even in 1941, brought unusually powerful performance to the Stuka. This automatic airbrake can cause black vision or even complete loss of vision when the pilot makes a high-G dive to the ground.
With visual capabilities, the large and heavy Stuka can automatically recover from a dive without manual operation, thus fundamentally avoiding aircraft crashes and fatalities caused by pilot overload and black vision.
The latter is the Jericho trumpet device. This device uses the high-speed airflow flowing through the Stuka's body to produce a hair-raising and terrifying scream when the Stuka dives, thereby shocking the enemy and causing
The strong sense of psychological oppression and fear is the fundamental origin of Stuka's rumored nickname of "Screaming Death".
At this moment, the six B-2 JU87 Stuka dive bombers that were rushing down from the sky towards Malashenko's vanguard troops all used conventional ground attack mounts without exception.
The ground attack mounting scheme of one 250kg heavy aviation bomb and four 50kg small aviation bombs not only allows these weird big birds, which are painted with the unique dark black paint of the Luftwaffe, to attack heavy armored targets on the ground
It is so handy that it can even use 50-kilogram-level aerial bombs with a smaller yield to carry out large-scale destruction of unprotected soft targets in batches.
As a future time traveler, Malashenko is naturally well aware of the terror of the German Stuka dive bombers. It is no exaggeration to say that in the absence of complete air defense positions or fighter cover,
Next, the Stuka is the most real death in reality for any ground troops.
Because of this, Malashenko, who had never thought about putting up a stubborn resistance, immediately stretched his upper body out of the turret and shouted loudly to all the entourage and tank crews around him.
Not all vehicles are equipped with inter-vehicle radio stations and still use the rather primitive "semaphore" method for inter-vehicle communication. The hidden dangers caused by the Soviet armored forces not paying attention to the timely communication and coordination between the various vehicle crews have finally emerged at this moment.
It caused a catastrophe.
In addition to several tank crews closer to Malashenko who stopped in time after hearing the shouts, several vanguard tank crews slightly further ahead were stopped because of the noisy engines in the vehicles.
There was no noise, but Malashenko’s loud shouting was not heard at all and he continued to move forward.
After seeing this scene, Malashenko, who was anxious and helpless, was about to jump off the tank and run forward to call out the crews who still knew nothing about the danger, but there was a piercing sound like a scream from hell above his head.