"Attention all units! The Japanese fighter jets are coming. The first team is on high alert to protect the bomber formation. The second team is coming with me to knock down the Japanese! The sky belongs to the Red Army!"
"Ula!!!"
At this moment, it was the No. 27 La-7 fighter piloted by Kozhidub who was dispatching the fleet to assign combat tasks through the airborne radio.
Kozhidub, who served as the commander-in-chief of the escort formation for this air raid, gave an order, except for the part of La 7 that stayed behind in higher airspace and was ready to intercept and annihilate any Japanese fighter planes that broke into the bomber formation.
The remaining 16 La-7 fighter jets, led by Kozhidub, pushed the throttle valve hard, began to accelerate forward, aimed at the incoming Japanese fighter jets at a relatively advantageous altitude, and rushed away.
Such a large and super-large formation air strike, and it also carried out deep strike bombings deep into the Japanese-occupied areas.
To be honest, it is almost impossible and unrealistic to want to enter without anyone noticing, so that the Japanese army will not be aware of it at all.
Some Japanese troops who still have the ability to report battlefield conditions have already reported the news of the incoming Red Army's super-large-scale mixed aircraft fleet.
The Kwantung Army was not stupid when they heard that this was happening. They had an above-average IQ. They knew that the Russians could mobilize such a large fleet of aircraft at this time and penetrate deep into their own territory. They had and could only have a very simple goal.
--Airport.
Judging from the front line advancement and advancement speed of the Russian ground forces, the Kwantung Army Headquarters determined that now is the time for the Russians to launch further air strikes and bomb large military airports to eliminate their own deep aviation operations capabilities.
I wanted to open the overhead cockpit and abandon the plane to parachute, but the car, which had completely lost control of its flight, was spinning and falling downwards. The missing half of the wing was obviously fatal.
Two enemy planes were shot down in succession with just two precise short bursts, and the time between the two results was less than half a minute.
This thing is already the best fighter jet currently available to the Kwantung Army. Relatively speaking, its performance is pretty good. It can reach the mainstream level threshold of similar fighters. It performs relatively well in the low-altitude dogfighting field that it is good at.
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"I'm on fire! Got shot! I'm on fire!!!"
The disaster of this group of Kwantung Army pilots actually began from the moment they appeared in the eyes of Kuoridub and his comrades.
However, this is only a relative term, which is compared to those fighter jets with normal low-altitude dogfighting capabilities.
The late-model Ki-61 three-type combat "Feiyan" is an Army Red Deer single-seat medium-sized fighter known for its low-altitude maneuverability. The weapon configuration adopts two 20-gun guns plus 2, which is already quite luxurious for the Army Red Deer.
A 12.7mm machine gun.
By maintaining sufficient speed to complete the nose pointing, before the Japanese pilot could react that he had been bitten, the second enemy plane that was shot down instantly by biting its tail was now burning in mid-air, trailing blazing fire and thick smoke.
To say that the Kwantung Army hid it until the end and was reluctant to use it, and only dragged it out of the reinforced machine fortress at such a critical moment, it is indeed a relatively good thing.
Especially when the pilots of the Kwantung Army had to face the Guards Fighter Aviation Corps, which had just won the Great Patriotic War and was led by Kozhidub himself.
The radio echoed with the excited shouts of the wingman pilot after witnessing the whole process.
One after another, the 20mm shells tore through the skin and poured into the fuselage. A mixture of high-explosive shells and tracer armor-piercing projectiles penetrated the chain, directly breaking the outer edge of the Japanese plane's wing and igniting the rear half of the fuselage.
Built-in fuel tank.
After the dive, Kozhidub, relying on his speed advantage, immediately changed his direction, converted height into speed, and further converted speed into fast maneuvering. The sharp operation was completed in an instant.
Compared with the lunar surface that has been bombed to the point where there is nothing left to explode and has become filled with craters and debris, or the frontline field airports and small airports that have been captured by the Red Army ground troops, it is obviously these large military airports located near deep cities.
Airports are more valuable for bombing.
And La 7 is the well-known "King of Dog Fighting" on the Eastern Front battlefield. Even the King of Dog Fighting in the hands of the Germans, the BF-109F4, which was revered as the "Gundam F4" by later generations of military fans, was chased by La 7 at low altitude.
Beat him up.
"Another! Two! Great fight, Ulla!!!"
Da da da da——
But guessing correctly does not mean that you can intercept it. Being able to think about it and being able to do it are two completely different things.
Facing the 16 Japanese fighter jets that were coming in force, Kuoridub, who was evenly matched in numbers, took the lead. He pushed the throttle to the end and aimed at the Japanese fighter jet at the front, and then it plummeted down.
It seems that it will explode and disintegrate in mid-air before it hits the ground. Also, if there are no umbrella flowers falling down, it will probably end up with the aircraft crashing and killing everyone.
Dong dong dong dong——
The judgment of the Kwantung Army Headquarters is indeed good, and the basic ability online is correct.
The large-scale military airport in the rear of the Kwantung Army, which had received timely early warning, had been screened by the Red Army aviation in the early stages. Under the premise that the losses were already considerable, they forcibly cobbled together almost all the "advanced aircraft" that could be dispatched.
"Fighter planes" came to intercept and block the attack.
Click——
The first enemy plane that was shot down by me just now crashed to the ground and exploded. There were no umbrellas in the sky, so it was obvious that the plane crashed and everyone was killed.
Fix the aiming ring on the nose of the Japanese fighter plane, and estimate the ballistic advance including relative speed and distance based on experience.
It was only then that Kozhidub, who was slightly distracted from the engrossed fighting state and turned his attention to the results of the battle, saw it.
At this moment, Kozhidub, who was extremely skilled in gunnery, had already escaped with one blow, and after he was convinced that he could kill the target with just that one shooting window, he aimed the three 20mm aerial cannons that still had residual heat in the muzzles at it again.
Next target.
The Japanese pilots looked up but couldn't find any trace of the enemy plane. They panicked. The instrument panel, which was spinning crazily like a clock, was already full of alarms.
Kuoridub, who held the joystick tightly and pulled the trigger, fired an instantaneous short burst. The three 20mm cannons concentrated on the nose of the L-7 machine fired out a red tracer barrage.
Avoid the maneuvering Japanese fighter planes.
The whole person was spinning around like being thrown into a drum washing machine. The Japanese pilot trapped in the cockpit couldn't exert any effort at all. His brains were almost shaken, let alone opening the cockpit and parachuting to escape.
It is actually not difficult to guess what the outcome will be for the Ki-61, which uses the same imitation engine as the BF-109E, when facing the La-7.
The remaining Japanese pilots, who had no idea what kind of master they had encountered, were still being chased away by other La-7 fighter jets under Kuoridub's command, causing chaos in the sky.
Seeing this scene, Kuoridub did not hesitate at all.
His sharp eyes were once again fixed on the Japanese fighter plane, which was less than 700 meters away from the visual distance and was being chased away by another swooping La-7. With a slight swing of the joystick in his hand, he adjusted the direction of the plane's nose and flew straight away.
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It’s been a long time since I’ve written about air combat, just to cheer up the brothers. I’ve seen too many land battles and I’ll also focus on air combat.