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The Third Empire - Chapter 526

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:51:40 AM


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Dfs230 glider is a small glider. Its size is similar to that of a fighter. It can carry more than a dozen soldiers with a load of about 1.2 tons. Therefore, a large number of such gliders need to be used in one operation.

But now the glider, in terms of volume, should be a big part. It is like a huge hamburger, with a fat belly and a pregnant doe.

The me 321 "giant" glider, viewed from the nose, is similar to the super helicopter of later generations.

It is centered on a box cargo cabin 11 meters long, 3.15 meters wide and 3.32 meters high. The front nose is a shell cargo hatch that can be opened to both sides, which can directly load large volume goods. This is very similar to later large transport aircraft.

In order to facilitate vehicle access, the cargo hold floor is very low from the ground, and a special ramp is designed. At the same time, the cargo tank floor is strengthened with a solid framework, which can carry 22 tons of cargo.

The floor area of the cargo hold is about 40 square meters, and the volume of the whole cargo hold is 108 cubic meters. After the auxiliary partition is added in the middle section, 200 fully armed soldiers can be transported.

It can be said that the whole aircraft is centered on the cargo warehouse. Above the cargo cabin is a metal wing girder with steel pipe welded n-shaped structure, and its airfoil is maintained with wooden wing ribs.

Compared with those pediatric gliders, this glider is bigger than the largest aircraft in many countries!

It can be said that this glider is specially prepared for landing in Britain. Now it is only the first experiment.

In the war of invading Belgium, this kind of glider was not used because it was not suitable. Only a small glider could accurately land on the top of the fortress. Next to the bridge, this kind of heavy glider was not suitable and unnecessary.

When opening the warehouse, as long as you see the majestic tank inside, you know it's really unnecessary.

This glider has a load of 22 tons. Of course, it is developed to transport main battle tanks!

Paratroopers can only carry light weapons and equipment. They are quite passive on the battlefield. If they have main battle tanks, it will be different!

Due to the limited load capacity, the glider did not carry 40 tons of panther 3 tanks, but 20 tons of Panther 2 tanks. These tanks also have some inventory, which are equipped in the special forces in skorz, a total of 20. With these tanks, they can persist for enough time!

Tanks occupy most of the volume of the warehouse and are cleverly fixed. In the other half of the warehouse, their individual equipment, 75mm recoilless guns, are neatly placed in the box and fixed on the floor, while soldiers ride in the spaces on both sides.

There are not many gliders on board, only 50 soldiers, and these 20 gliders carry 1000 soldiers. They will be the first to land in Brest. They rely on these equipment until the arrival of the follow-up troops.

On the other hand, it is not easy to pull these gliders away. In the history of later generations, German engineers had to rack their brains and come up with various ways.

For example, first, three transport planes were used for traction. It was found that the danger was too high. It was like walking a tightrope in the air!

Later, two HE111 aircraft were used for traction. In order to avoid danger, the two aircraft were directly spliced from the middle, and an additional engine was added at the wing joint of the two aircraft to form a unique aircraft such as he111z, which can be regarded as solving the problem of traction.

Fortunately, there is no problem now. Germany already has an advanced intercontinental bomber, junks ju-290 bomber. This advanced four engine large Bomber can tow me321 glider.

Now, this is the scene. Twenty junker-290 bombers have been in place. Behind them, they are pulling the heavy me321 glider to take off.

As a heavy glider, me321 has five crew members, including one pilot, one communication officer, one carrying commander and two machine gunners. The fixed weapon on board is the 7.9MM mg15 machine gun protruding from the upper part of the nose cargo compartment door.

Now, the pilot is nervously preparing for take-off. Although the plane has no engine, it must rely on external forces when taking off.

"After completing the preparation before takeoff, you can take off." Shouted the pilot.

"001, you can take off." The communications officer shouted on the radio.

Suddenly, in front of the junker-290, the four engines were at full horsepower, and the propeller was turning wildly, pushing the large bomber to slide on the runway.

Then, the shining fire lit up everyone's eyes.

Four booster rockets are bundled on both sides of the fuselage of me321. Now, these four booster rockets are ignited together! The blazing flame lit up the whole runway.

If the junker-290 takes off with this glider, it needs a full 1500 meter runway. In order to fly more easily, it must use booster rockets.

This is also the earliest rocket propelled aircraft of messersmith company.

With the ignition of the booster rocket, the bomber in front suddenly relaxed a lot. After only gliding for more than 800 meters, he pulled the glider up into the dark!

In the back, the second junker-290 is ready to take off.

One, take it.

Reinhardt stood at one end of the runway and watched the troops go out, like a scabbard sword stabbing the French heart.

"Oh, no!" Suddenly, the people on the runway shouted.

I saw a me321 glider. When taking off, only the booster rocket on the left ignited, and the booster rocket on the right unexpectedly failed!

In this way, it leads to the yaw of the glider, which deviates to the right! At the same time, the reaction force acts on the steel cable, and it will collide with the tractor in front!

At the critical moment, the pilot of the glider pressed the button and the front towing hook disengaged.

After getting rid of the burden, the junker-290 in front immediately relaxed, glided forward for a while and took off quickly, while the glider in the back rolled to one side and rushed to the lawn.

Fire engines and ambulances quickly headed for the lawn. Here, the commander's voice was still firm: "continue to take off!"

This is war. You can't be afraid of any danger! Even if the person in front falls down, the one behind has to rush forward!

Over there, the fire has been lit. The glider with wooden structure and canvas skin has been burned, but here, it is still taking off!

As a special force, we should be ready to die every day. We are willing to die for Germany!




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