If the wing was simply broken by a shot, the flight control was destroyed, and the aircraft spun around and fell to the ground with black smoke, this would actually be considered a relative disadvantage to these Japanese pilots who drove their classic aircraft to the kamikaze board.
Not a bad result.
What's even more terrible is that it was hit and exploded in the air. The destructive power was so terrifying that one blow could make the bombed Japanese plane itself and all the surrounding Japanese planes that had not been killed be sacrificed to the sky on the spot.
.
The explosive power of at least 500 kilograms of explosives combined with aviation fuel in the airspace is no joke. It is a force that these old Japanese aircraft, which are already over-limited and overloaded and fly slowly, cannot withstand.
With a tacit understanding of coordination and well-coordinated anti-aircraft gunfire to block the air channel, the roof-mounted machine gun firepower, which is almost free to shoot in the air, can kill everyone.
It sounds like machine gun firepower, but the calibers are larger than the last.
There are not only time-tested good comrades like Deshka 12.7, but also KPV 14.5, which is specially designed to focus on strengthening air defense capabilities.
The original birth background of KPV was that the front-line troops of the Red Army wanted a high-level dual-purpose machine gun with better performance, and focused on improving the performance in terms of anti-air firepower.
The design and R&D department saw that the 14.5mm ammunition had good results when used on anti-tank rifles. It has a straight trajectory and high muzzle velocity, long effective range and large damage, and its accuracy is relatively good. It basically has the advantages of being a heavy-duty firearm and ammunition.
All have it.
He simply made a rounded-off "repeating anti-tank rifle", and the KPV, as terrifying as a machine gun beast, came into being.
This beast of a machine gun, which has more than twice the amount of ammunition fired by Lao Ganma in the US military, can be described as terrifying in terms of the damage it causes on the aircraft.
"."
This is true even for the engine part, which has the best resistance in the upper and lower structures of the entire aircraft. The early designs were completely naked and the other parts of the old Japanese aircraft without armor protection were even more unable to withstand the terrifying destructive power of the KPV.
This is true for armor-piercing bullets. The 14.5mm ammunition with a large enough caliber also has a high-explosive warhead with a mixed bullet chain. Although the charge is small, it is absolutely fatal to the Japanese aircraft with thin skin and large stuffing.
"These Japanese Japs are really crazy. Of the 7 planes that were shot down, not even one of them could parachute alive. This was a pilot, and he was consumed by them like ammunition. Even now, I still find it unbelievable."
Part of the high-temperature debris fell directly into the open-top ZSU anti-aircraft vehicle. The crew members could feel the extremely hot thing through their clothes, and they quickly screamed and pulled the thing away from their bodies.
"As long as these human-guided bombs succeed in one attack, they can wipe out more than a dozen vehicles and hundreds of people in our marching column in one go. Those crazy Japanese devils may not care about life and death and have tried again and again, but we are different.
The soldiers of the leader's army are not meant to be sacrificed in such an attack and dragged along with them by the enemy."
The loader, wearing Tongfa's insulating gloves, picked up the thing and threw it out of the car, then continued loading ammunition and went into battle.
On the contrary, the ammunition consumption was such that if it were the Japanese army, they would definitely feel distressed.
But what Malashenko doesn’t care about the most is the consumption of ammunition. In other words, in Malashenko’s view, if you don’t use ammunition to consume it, will it still have offspring?
Only those crazy militaristic fanatics who are extremely crazy and have lost their minds will take the initiative to use this trick as their own skill, hoping that they can turn defeat into victory.
Malashenko understood Lavrinenko's mood after witnessing this scene. In fact, any normal person would feel the same way.
The power and movement of this explosion in the sky was so great.
The remaining Japanese fighter planes, which were already being chased by the anti-aircraft barrage, had lost all their energy, their altitude was not very good, their speed was not good, and the explosives installed in the fuselage that had been converted into special attack aircraft could not be removed or thrown away.
Therefore, pure defense is definitely not the answer. The Americans can't stop the crazy suicide attacks with VT bombs and fleet air defense. Although field air defense is available, it is limited to short-range and low-altitude leadership forces, let alone hope. Air combat cannot be combined.
Not the strong point of Iron Torrent.
"But what if they repeat the same tricks? What if they don't just repeat the same tricks, but replace them with aircraft with better performance, faster speed and larger payload? What if the number next time is several times more than 9?
?”
The hot warhead not only penetrated the fuselage and tore the skin, but also fired the 14.5mm high-explosive warhead that penetrated into the fuselage and exploded. It also detonated the fuel tank and the airborne explosives on the spot.
The explosion speed is extremely fast, and the explosion fireball spreads widely, and also detonates another approaching Type 97 within the blast radius.
It was so big that the Japanese Type 97 fighter jet was directly torn into pieces in the air. From the engine to the main structure of the fuselage, not a single bit of intact part was left, and everything was turned into a rain of garbage and fire and flames.
The previous batch of heavy-duty cranes modified from the IS2 chassis are still in service with the logistics support forces. It is no problem to replace the 130 mm main gun barrel with a 40-ton self-weight hoist.
The same low-pitched words blurted out immediately.
"Then what are you going to do next? Do you have any good countermeasures? You can always anticipate the enemy and find a way. I hope it will be the same this time."
Even if the U.S. Navy is equipped with VT proximity fuse anti-aircraft missiles, the air defense effectiveness of which is one level ahead of the times, nothing can be done very well.
It was also because the area covered by the rain of garbage was so large that it almost covered the entire combat airspace.
Boom——
The Leader Army has enough heavy-duty lifting equipment to replace the 130mm main gun barrel in a field environment. It only needs to lift and remove the IS7 mantlet and the gun barrel together.
Before he finished speaking, Malashenko, who was thinking for a moment, looked a little solemn. Now he was indeed facing a very difficult problem, and then he continued to speak frankly to Lavrinenko.
If it is hit on the wing spar, a big hole will be made directly, which is close to breaking. If it is hit on the cockpit, the whole cockpit can be strung together with the glass.
Except for the two Japanese suicide planes that quickly ran away when the situation was not right, they turned around and turned back. The remaining seven Japanese suicide planes that were unwilling to leave, or were too late to leave, were all volleyed into fireballs, or
Just shoot it down and make a loud noise.
The structural resistance of the Japanese aircraft's body seemed to be non-existent in front of this thing. A 14.5mm armor-piercing bullet could directly penetrate the entire engine at the front of the nose, setting off a large number of warheads and engine fragments to further damage the interior of the aircraft and the pilot.
"But now it seems that is not the case. The situation is more complicated and difficult than expected."
"In order to prevent us from continuing to advance, this group of madmen will use all means at any cost."
"You should be more careful in the future. Since there is a first time, there will be a second and third time. The Leader's Army is now the fastest advancing Red Army unit on all fronts. It is also a thorn in the side of the Japanese devils and a thorn in the flesh."
"."
Not to mention the destroyers that were directly killed and sunk by suicide attacks such as those by the Japanese. Even the serious large-scale fleet aircraft carriers were hit and lost their combat effectiveness, and were forced to withdraw from the battlefield and return to port for repairs.
"I really didn't expect that the Japanese would use this method to deal with American warships. I once thought that as long as our ground offensive went smoothly, there wouldn't be any problems."
The final result was that they were beaten violently by more than a dozen anti-aircraft vehicles on the ground, plus more than twice the number of roof-mounted machine guns.
Thinking of this, Malashenko, knowing that this matter could no longer be solved by himself and that he had to report it to the chief, spoke in a deep voice.
As for the casualties on the leader's side,
Two air defense vehicle crew members were burned by falling high-temperature debris. An IS7 was affected by the shock wave of an enemy plane crashing to the ground and exploding. As a result, the outer wall of the main gun barrel, which was far less protective than armored steel, was damaged and was scratched out by large high-speed fragments.
A pretty deep gash.
Lavrinenko seemed to have a premonition that once the Japanese realized that such tactics were really effective for the leader's army, they would adopt unimaginable and crazy behavior to bury people with them.
Two huge flames almost merged into one in the air, and countless body fragments were thrown by the explosion, causing a rain of hot garbage everywhere.
A barrage of 14.5 mm machine gun fire swept across the fuselage with red flames, and immediately opened a long series of neat gun holes on the unlucky Type 97 fighter jet.
"Suka! It's coming out of the car! It's hot, oh oh! It's so hot!!!"
Rumble——
He and Malashenko rode in a Gas Jeep on their way back from inspecting the vanguard.
Apart from this, the leading troops of the Leading Army did not suffer any other losses in this ridiculous suicide air attack, not one person was killed, and not a single vehicle was completely lost.
Looking out the car window at the main force still marching cross-country, I heard Malashenko's worried analysis.
"Although we won this time, we discovered the threat in time and quickly organized field air defense, allowing the Japanese to lose troops and lose opportunities without even getting a profit."
To be on the safe side, it is best to go back to the field repair shop and change the barrel, so as not to turn around and fire the barrel to blow up the barrel and turn the barrel into a trumpet, endangering the lives of the crew.
To be honest, in the face of such crazy tactics of the Japanese devils.
A gust of wind happened to blow by, and the large fireball was blown directly into a wall of fire in the air, and its range was instantly expanded to more than two or three times its original size.
There are only 9 suicide planes that are unlikely to be successful. Their performance is inherently poor, not to mention that they are overloaded and have almost no maneuverability at all.
The final result of this was that the explosion of the first Type 97 had not disappeared, and the loud noise of the second Type 97's explosion had already been heard.
"There is no way. The leader army alone cannot solve such problems. Pure defense is not a solution."
"Report to the front army headquarters, and if necessary, the commander will report to the military district headquarters. The only way is to take the initiative to destroy and continue to suppress the aviation operation capabilities of the Japanese land airports, and to strengthen airspace patrols in the theater and send more fighter aircraft to patrol.
Team."
"With the current overwhelming strength of the Red Army aviation, it can be done, and only in this way can we nip the risk in the bud. Even if we cannot completely eradicate the risk of suicide attacks, we must at least minimize it."
"Otherwise, there would be no need to fight 500 kilograms, 800 kilograms, or even 1 ton aerial bombs guided by human flesh every day. The leader army would just find a position to hide in and prepare for air defense to protect itself."
"I want to report this matter personally to explain the seriousness of it. It must be solved. This is the only tactic that the Japanese devils can use to pose a fatal threat to us at the moment. We cannot place our hope on the enemy not to expand the use of this tactic.
On the other hand, the opportunity for victory can always only be held in our own hands."