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The Third Empire - Chapter 1003

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:39:27 AM


Chapter 1003: 1003

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In this era, the Soviet's scientific and technological strength is also strong. For example, the Soviet designed a large four engine aircraft in 36 years. When the pei-8 bomber flew through the sky during the military parade in Moscow's Red Square, it attracted a commotion from Western experts.

The red Empire has such powerful bombers!

When the bomber finished the military parade, the mechanics hidden in the ammunition warehouse were tired and broke their arms. From the beginning of design, the aircraft lacked a suitable engine.

There was no suitable supercharger for the am-34 series engine, so the engineer installed an M-100 atsn-2 engine in the bomb cabin of the prototype to provide pressurized air to the main engine of the aircraft using a supercharger.

At the same time, the oil radiator of this engine needs to be operated manually. Therefore, in the sky, people act as machines and forcibly complete this impossible task.

Of course, the Soviet is also developing. At the beginning of this year, Soviet experts installed shvetsovash-82 engine and improved am-35 engine on this aircraft. These two engines provide stable performance of pe-8, but greatly shorten the flight range.

This plane is finally ready to use.

Look at the West. In Germany, large intercontinental bombers have carried out strategic bombing missions at this time, and the junker-290 with four engines in Germany has long been a bomber with excellent stability.

Now, the first six pei-8 bombers produced have been deployed to the 432 bomber regiment, which has secretly transferred to Central Asia. Their task is to bomb Tehran!

The short-range SB-2 is mainly used to bomb big cities along the line, Tabriz, etc. of course, the bombing will not have much effect. It is mainly symbolic. Tell the Iranians to surrender quickly, otherwise they will die!

Yakov, head of the bombing regiment, sits in his bomber. Although the performance is not good, this aircraft needs a lot of manpower. There are 11 crew members to control this large aircraft.

"Start the engine." He looked at the pilot sitting next to him and made preparations for takeoff in an orderly manner.

Turn all kinds of switches and the oil pump works. Then, the outermost engine emits black smoke, the fuselage vibrates, and the No. 1 engine starts!

Then four, three, two and four engines started in turn, and the whole plane began to vibrate and ready to go!

After calling the tower, Yakov's bomber aimed at the runway. The pilot gently pushed the accelerator. The plane taxied on the runway. The speed was faster and faster, and the body was lighter and lighter. Finally, at the end of the runway, the bomber pulled up and drilled into the dark night sky.

In the back, the other five pei-8 bombers took off in turn. In front and after the long aircraft formation with navigation lights on, six bombers flew to the southeast.

Target, Tehran.

Flying at night is quite a test of pilots' skills and their equipment. So far, there has been no special development in the Soviet flight regiment.

Similar to the radio navigation equipment in Germany, it needs advanced electronic technology as support. So far, most tanks in the Soviet Union are not equipped with radio stations, so they simply have no ability to equip this kind of thing.

Fortunately, the Soviets also have their own magic weapons, which are, of course, compass and chart!

Yes, this is the most primitive way. We can use the compass to determine the direction and draw the track on the aeronautical chart. At the same time, we can also use aldabil and gazwin along the way to accurately find Tehran.

The capital of Iranians is too close to the north. If it is in the daytime, they can fly over Tehran as long as they fly over the Caspian Sea!

After entering over Iran, pei-8 bombers turned off their navigation lights. Now, they rely entirely on their own charts for navigation, which requires a fairly solid basic flying skills.

Fortunately, the Soviet bomber flight crew were good. Soon, the navigator found the first big city below, aldabil. There, he corrected the navigation error and almost flew directly over Ghazvin. In front, Tehran!

"Attention, we are about to reach the sky over the target, ready to drop bombs!" Yakov gave orders calmly.

Thanks to the oil revenue, Iran's national economy is constantly improving. Therefore, their big cities are bright at night, which can be seen from a distance, just when passing through aldabil and Ghazvin.

At present, pei-8 bombers, which lack any night bombing equipment, throw bombs horizontally at high altitude and completely depend on the target light. Tehran should be brightly lit.

However, more and more questions have emerged in the hearts of the navigator in front.

In front, there is no light at all. It's dark. The whole earth can't find any target!

"Report, Tehran may have imposed blackout!" The navigator quickly reported his inference.

The biggest advantage of night bombing is that you don't have to worry about the interception of each other's fighters. After all, slow bombers are almost slaughtered in front of fighters.

However, the biggest problem of night bombing is to find the target.

Every night bombing in Germany is carefully prepared and needs the cooperation of ground personnel to guide the target. Now, the Soviet bombing completely hopes on a brightly lit metropolis.

This is simply too idealistic. Of course, in history, they have succeeded, because the Iranians are idiots.

Now, Tehran issued the order of blackout only 15 minutes ago. When every building turned off the lights, it was only five minutes ago.

Even so, it has brought great trouble to the bomber forces in the sky. What should we do?

Continue to lower the height? Then they have to lower to a few hundred meters to see the ground. It's easy to be destroyed by the other party's anti-aircraft guns. Since the other party has blackout, it shows that they have been prepared for their own bombing!

Moreover, here are all mountainous areas. Flying at low altitude at night is not something ordinary people dare to do.

"According to the aeronautical chart, enter the bombing route and carry out the bombing mission!" Yakov gave orders.

Go around is also impossible. There is only one chance. After the bombing, they will turn north and separate from the Caspian Sea. Now, they can only bomb blindly in the air!

Determine the arrival time according to the speed and distance of the route, and then bomb!

This is almost a blind bombing. Anyway, this mission is just to throw a few bombs to Tehran to intimidate the Iranians.

So the navigator didn't hesitate: "we're on the route. We'll drop the bomb in a minute and the bomb compartment door will open!"

"Drop the bomb!"

Bombs rolled down from the belly of the pei-8 bomber and fell to the ground.




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