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The Third Empire - Chapter 1185

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:35:07 AM


Chapter 1185: 1185

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The battle belonging to Stuka is over. It has intercepted twice and killed three bombers. This result is enough for everyone to be proud of. Without airborne radar, it has achieved such a record at night, which is enough to excite all naval airmen. Now, Stuka's fuel consumption is almost the same, and it needs to return.

Those bombers that jumped to low altitude could not find their trace for the time being. Franz made a circle in the airspace and finally began to return.

Even on land, taking off and landing at night is full of risks, not to mention now, landing on an aircraft carrier at night is even more dangerous. According to the guidance of radio navigation, Franz correctly returned to the sky above the aircraft carrier. At this time, the deck lights on the aircraft carrier were on. From a distance, it was like a city floating on the sea.

Franz's eyes looked at the signal light at the end of the deck, which was the latest optical landing aid equipment developed by German technicians, code named hilrick's eye.

It is said that this was designed under the proposal of head of state Chirac, and the principle is quite ingenious.

In the past, the landing of naval aviation troops depended entirely on their superb flight technology. With the continuous acceleration of aircraft speed, the pilots' own technology may not be able to ensure safety.

Therefore, the navies of various countries now select some full-time guides to guide the aircraft landing on the aircraft carrier deck with the signal flag. This requires the guide to have both rich command experience and strong visual ability.

The head of state Chirac found another way. It is said that inspired by his wife Hanna's Lipstick in the mirror in the morning, he designed the early optical landing aid mirror. It is a large curvature mirror. The light at the stern of the ship is directed to the mirror and then reflected into the air to provide the pilot with a descending slope of light. The pilot corrects the error along the slope and according to the position of the aircraft in the mirror until it lands safely.

The specific principle is a detour. This is a light box. The middle section is orange beam, which turns up and down into yellow and red beams respectively. There are horizontal green reference fixing lamps on both sides of the middle section light box. When the altitude and glide angle of the carrier aircraft are correct, the pilot can see that the orange light ball is in the center of the green reference light. Maintaining this angle can glide and land the ship accurately. If the pilot sees a yellow light ball and is above the green reference light, he must lower the altitude; If you see the red light ball and it is under the green reference light, you should raise it immediately, otherwise you will hit the end face of the aircraft carrier tail pillar or fall into the sea behind the tail.

Now at night, even the guide on the deck can not accurately guide the take-off and landing of the aircraft, which depends more on this set of optical equipment.

With rich experience, Franz's glide line is quite standard. The signal light on his nose marks a beautiful arc. Just when the plane just flew over the end of the deck, the landing gear in front had been in close contact with the deck.

The propeller plane does not need a stop rope. As long as his plane lands on the deck, slows down and taxis forward for a distance, it can stop, and the landing distance is more than 100 meters.

Franz gently stepped on the brake. The Stuka bomber slid forward for a distance on the deck and stopped steadily. The deck personnel surrounded it. The machine gunner in the back seat shouted proudly, "I shot down one plane, too. We shot down three!"

The whole deck was boiling.

The radar soldiers on the bridge are still holding on at this time. On his radar screen, three bright spots appear again. The Soviet bombers are divided into three batches?

However, no matter how many planes come, they will inevitably pay a painful price in front of their own air defense system!

East Prussia, Danzig region.

The sea slapped the shore and made a sound. It was a normal night. The quiet moonlight shone on the coastline and the beach.

At this time, on the beach, a hurried army spread out here quickly.

According to the news notified by the Navy, from the Baltic Sea to Berlin, this is the only place on the other side's route. Therefore, the anti-aircraft artillery force of the German Air Force should set up an ambush here!

They are all the same 8-wheel drive off-road heavy trucks, which are improved by the all wheel drive chassis of Ford truck. Now, the hydraulic legs around this heavy truck are quickly released to support the whole heavy truck stably. On the top of the truck, anti-aircraft guns are shaking rapidly, pointing to the direction of the threat.

This is a mixed Antiaircraft Artillery Force. There are only a few 88mm antiaircraft guns, most of which are 40 shot boforth antiaircraft guns. This kind of antiaircraft gun has a terrible firing speed and is the most important weapon against the enemy.

At the same time, there is a large searchlight in the center of each antiaircraft artillery company.

From this arrangement, it seems that this kind of Anti-aircraft Artillery Force at night is no different from that in history. It uses the searchlight to indicate the target. After the searchlight finds the target, all the anti-aircraft artillery will fire together and beat down the aircraft.

But there are also differences. For example, one kilometer away, there is a vehicle towing a wide antenna. The vehicle is expanding rapidly. With the roar of power generation vehicles, the antenna has begun to rotate.

Although Germany's electronic technology is developing rapidly and does not violate the development track of radio, now they can't come up with a fully automatic weapon that allows the anti-aircraft gun to link with the radar and hit where the radar sweeps.

However, they already have radar equipment with high accuracy. There is absolutely no problem for the radar equipment to indicate the target orientation and let the searchlight find the target at once.

Now, other firepower units are nervously preparing, and the radar troops are already nervously operating.

The electronic equipment is working, and the cooling fan makes a rumbling sound. Now the weather is still relatively cold, and the radar soldier's forehead has been sweating constantly.

He is still staring at the screen. He is the first person to find the target. His task is very arduous.

Of course, he is not the only one who undertakes such a task. In order to prevent the other party from penetrating from low altitude, resulting in no response to his own radar, the air defense forces also sent a large number of personnel to observe in the sky with their naked eyes and listen to the sound of aircraft flying at the same time.

There are such lookouts on the coast and even on the sea dozens of kilometers offshore. In this era, using human eyes to find enemy aircraft is also the most correct way to deal with it. For example, in the historical London air battle, Britain relies on a large number of such lookouts.

Now, they don't have to wait too long. Bright spots have appeared on the radar screen. Those enemy planes are indeed in the correct heading!

The DB-3 bombers of the Soviet Navy aviation corps had to fly in a straight line due to their limited range. More than an hour ago, flares suddenly appeared over their heads, even causing them to collide.

However, under the command of the firm Colonel yegini, they did not change their course and were still flying according to the established plan. As a result, they were surprised. They did not encounter any interception. Except for the plane that collided, all other planes were kept intact.

What the hell is going on? Is that flare a flash of lightning? Just an accident?

Everyone has doubts in their hearts, but now they have no doubt for a long time. The long flight makes them very tired, but they still have to cheer up, because they are going to enter the sky over the land.




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