But once it reaches the strategic bomber force level, it is no longer something that a front commander like Vatutin can mobilize.
At the level of the front commander, the use of combat strike power has reached its limit.
As for the higher-level strategic strike force, only Vasilevsky, a member of the Supreme Command and the commander-in-chief of Operation June Storm, has the right to decide.
Vatutin's telegram requesting the deployment of the only newly arrived strategic bomber division in the entire Far East Military Region was quickly passed to Vasilevsky, who was in charge of the military region headquarters and coordinating the overall situation.
Holding the telegram in hand, Vasilevsky came to the map and carefully assessed the situation without thinking much about it.
After realizing that it was necessary to clear the enemy's strategic depth and carry out the final large-scale aviation operation capability, Vasilevsky immediately waved his hand and agreed to Vatutin's call application.
The aviation operation schedule of this entire division, with a total of 28 Pei-8M strategic bombers, was all assigned to Vatutin for deployment.
To put it simply, this is a complete delegation of authority. Vatutin can bomb as much as he wants. This highly destructive strategic bomber division is now completely under the command of Vatutin and can be used at will.
Although Vatutin had the same military rank as Vasilevsky, he was still one level behind him in rank. Naturally, he was very grateful that Vasilevsky was willing to trust him so much.
Dang Jiu will make good use of this opportunity to give full play to the powerful strength of the Red Army's strategic bombing aviation, and blow those militarist fanatics into ashes and fly away with the wind.
This was the "super weapon" that was placed on the Zero Heights outside Berlin earlier and wiped out the entire German army's fortifications and garrison forces on a positive slope.
Instead, new remounting points were added to the wing root part, which has the strongest bearing capacity of the wing structure. There are two symmetrical mounting points on the left and right sides. Two FAB-5000s can be mounted directly into the sky at one time.
"That's not entirely true. Look, the telegram says that not only strategic bombers, but also tactical bomber units will be dispatched in coordination to carry out supplementary bombing of secondary targets and facilities at Japanese airports. The route is exactly in line with our advancement direction and will pass through us.
Above our heads, if nothing else happens, we should be able to see them soon."
It is no exaggeration to say that as long as you are within its killing radius, whether you are hiding in a tank, a fortification, or a bunker, there is actually no essential difference.
The deep hinterland of Northeast China may be a long distance for tactical aviation, but for strategic aviation, it is a completely different matter.
As Comrade Political Commissar said.
This is the first combat mission against Japan for the strategic bomber unit of the Far East Military Region, and of course it may also be the last.
What remains is how to use strategic bombers to send the Japanese devils to heaven one by one.
As for the combat range to be faced, it is actually not too far.
Vatutin did not stop doing anything, and wanted to do something big. Not only did he send strategic bomber units, but also tactical bomber units were dispatched. They were responsible for bombing secondary targets and supplementary strikes on primary targets.
, ensuring that the remaining Japanese airports are taken away in one wave.
Because the range of this combat mission is indeed not too far, even a medium-sized tactical bomber like the Figure 2S can easily fly it.
Everything is ready, refueling and loading bombs are complete.
If you don't use it, don't use it. If you use it, you should use the most destructive mounting scheme to teach the Japanese devils a lesson.
The mass of a single aerial bomb is as high as 5 tons, and the charge coefficient is 60%, reaching over 3 tons. In addition, the cast bomb body of nearly 2 tons produces a huge amount of heavyweight explosion fragments.
The improved Pei 8M directly abandoned the original old model Pei 8, which mounted a single 5-ton aerial bomb in the belly bomb bay.
It is precisely because of this that the positive slope fortifications and bunkers on the Zero Highlands carefully built by the Germans were completely wiped out and ceased to exist after just one visit by the Pe-8 fleet.
The rapid defeat of the Japanese ground forces made continuous strategic bombing unnecessary.
Although the 10-ton armament mounting solution will obviously significantly reduce the range and affect mobility, this is obviously nothing to the battlefield environment that the Pei 8M faces today.
Especially because of the significant increase in payload brought about by the replacement of a new engine.
The Pei-8Ms, which were moving forward under their own power, began to enter the taxiway one after another and began to take off in order of their aircraft numbers.
Under Vatutin's personal order, the Red Army ground staff at the airport used transport vehicles to launch the Red Army aviation's largest and heaviest super aerial bomb to date - the FAB-5000 aerial bomb - from the ammunition depot.
The greatly enhanced self-defense firepower of the Pei-8M itself was mounted on the Pei-8M for experimental equipment before being installed on Figure 4. The 23mm twin cannon, as well as the firepower of the escort fighter unit, are enough to solve the anti-aircraft problem.
This is a super-heavy aerial bomb specially developed and manufactured for the Pei-8. Currently, only the Pei-8 in the Red Army aviation force can carry this thing, and no other aircraft can carry it.
Bombing the airport, completely pushing the Japanese army's aviation operation capabilities into the abyss, and adding the last shovelful of soil to the grave of the Kwantung Army's aviation force, is already the most valuable job that Pei 8M can find now.
Absolute air supremacy in the battlefield airspace is in the hands of the Red Army. As long as the escort fighter units are dispatched appropriately, even if a small number of Japanese fighter jets are able to take off to intercept, they will only lose their lives.
"Use the largest aerial bombs to make holes in the Japanese airport runways and oil depots. The bigger the holes, the better. We have to see how these militarist fanatics use manpower to fill such large bomb holes."
A 8M aircraft parked neatly in the open air at the airport started to start its engine. The four propeller engines started running at the same time, setting off bursts of howling wind.
"Strategic bombers? My God, Comrade Commander is so generous. I originally thought it would be great to have tactical bombers come to bomb a wave, but I didn't expect this to happen."
When the giant red owl roared into the sky, Malashenko, who was still advancing on the front line, had just received a "heavy punch" from the front army headquarters.
"Attack" telegram.
The Pei-8M does not even need to take off with full fuel, and can easily complete this combat mission with two 5-ton sweet potatoes mounted on it.
In order to completely paralyze the aviation operation capabilities of the Japanese military's large military airports, thereby solving the main problem for Malashenko.
After listening to the reminder from the political commissar, before Malashenko could say anything, he could only hear the roar of a large fleet of aircraft in the sky in the distance behind him.
Looking up, I saw a very large mixed fleet that included fighters, tactical bombers, and strategic bombers.
They were already so dense that they could be said to block out the sky and the sun, roaring straight towards their direction.