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The Third Empire - Chapter 378

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:55:06 AM


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In this era, the journey from Europe to America will no longer be so lonely and long, because Hughes Aircraft Company has developed a large passenger plane, Atlantic one, which is enough for intercontinental flight!

Now, the routes in Europe and America are monopolized by the airlines subordinate to Hughes company. Traveling by this aircraft has become a necessity for businessmen pursuing timeliness and honeymoon lovers.

This kind of plane is quite luxurious and the price is also very high. Traveling by airliner is quite beautiful. It flies at an altitude of 10000 meters!

Now, what appears overhead is that kind of plane.

Jack looked up and saw the plane flying in the distance. He recognized it almost immediately with his pilot's eyes.

With a long fuselage, wide wings and four engines half buried in the wings, this aircraft is the Atlantic No. 1 airliner that has been in the limelight in recent years!

Above their heads, there is an international route. They often look up at the airliner and fall to the ground with envy.

In this era, the swordfish attack aircraft is still an old-fashioned aircraft with an open cockpit, and this aircraft is already a fully closed pressurized cockpit and can fly above 10000 meters!

The technology of this aircraft is really too advanced!

In the army, they often discuss that their own aircraft can never catch up with this kind of aircraft, and even anti-aircraft guns are ineffective for this kind of aircraft.

The reason is too simple. People fly high. The cruise altitude is 10000 meters above.

Although in theory, a 100 mm antiaircraft gun can reach an altitude of 10000 meters, at that altitude, the shell is not accurate at all. In fact, the current antiaircraft gun is unable to hit an altitude of more than 5000 meters, and requires a high ability of the commander.

Therefore, if this kind of airliner is converted into a bomber, it will be an opponent's nightmare.

Fortunately, Hughes company is fully engaged in the production of passenger aircraft. So far, it seems that there is no bomber in this kind of aircraft.

At this time, his eyelids suddenly jumped twice. He raised his head and stared at the distant sky. Something was wrong, absolutely wrong.

This kind of airliner is quite expensive, and there are not many people who can take it, so it's only one flight a day, but now? In the distant sky, another one came!

Two airliners, on the same route? This is really unusual!

Then, when he saw the third same passenger plane flying along the route, he had raised his heart to his throat. No, there was definitely a problem!

These are definitely not airliners!

Of course, it's not an airliner, but a junks ju-290 bomber!

When it comes to World War II, there is a puzzling place. Stuka of Germany is very proficient in dive bombing, but the Germans are seriously lack of strategic bombers.

When it comes to large bombers, it is easy to think of the United States. The B-29 is simply a powerful bomber piled up by alien science and technology at that time. It is the only aircraft used to throw atomic bombs.

However, the German is rarely heard of.

Of course, this is related to many factors. For example, Hitler was so concerned about dive bombing that large bombers also had dive bombing capability, which is simply impossible to complete. Many projects fell on this index.

For example, there is no need for Germany. Their goal is Europe, and tactical bombers are enough.

Of course, in the late World War II, Germany actually developed some heavy bombers, such as Henschel's he 177, which was the only mass-produced heavy bomber in Germany in World War II. It just met the needs of dive bombing. Unfortunately, its performance was poor.

For example, the messersmitt me 264 is the only aircraft that can fly to the east coast of the United States for bombing. Unfortunately, it has not been completed.

Another example is junks' ju-290 bomber.

In history, junks also has the ju-290 project, which is a large four engine aircraft developed by Ju 90 aircraft. Although it is called a bomber, it is often used to carry out reconnaissance missions and transportation missions. Because it has an advantage in flight range, it is often used to open long-distance routes.

However, the junks ju-290 bomber now has nothing to do with history. This bomber is the military version of the Atlantic airliner!

The original Atlantic No. 1 airliner was jointly developed by Juncus and Hughes. Later, the two companies produced it respectively, and Juncus produced it mainly for the army.

In addition to the airliner version, more are bombers! For the sake of confidentiality, many times, such bombers conduct flight training at the Libyan base. When they fly over, they just transport supplies, and during training, they can also use the new ammunition developed by the Libyan base!

There are many changes from passenger aircraft to bombers, including the addition of self-defense turrets, the addition of the navigator's cockpit in front, and the internal crew cabin into a bomb cabin.

However, from the ground, only a shadow can be seen, and no one can see the specific structure at all.

Now, these bombers are all part of the 100th air bombing regiment of the German air force. They just hit the front station, and there are eight in the back!

Ten large ju-290 bombers, posing as civil airliners, flew on civil aviation routes, and most of the routes were at sea and came in the early morning.

Therefore, no one has noticed the clue until now.

On the first bomber, the bomber Ludwig kept his eyes on the target.

There are many problems with bombers bombing at high altitude. For example, due to the influence of air flow, the falling trajectory of bombs is definitely not a complete parabola. If they miss a point, they will fall for thousands of miles. When they go down, they don't know where they are going.

Therefore, the high-altitude bombing is more carpet like. It looks almost away from the target. All the bombs are thrown down everywhere. It doesn't need to be particularly accurate. All the bombs covered are finished.

But now, their target is the warships in Scarpa bay!

Only by dive bombing can we have enough accuracy to hit targets such as warships. High altitude bombing is absolutely impossible!

If in the past, of course not, but now, their bombers carry special bombs!

Holding his breath, Ludwig shouted, "drop the bomb!"




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