Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 613 613 Crazy Bombing Plan

"Quick! Quick! Quick!" Holding his own parachute, a pilot ran while urging the ground crew behind him.

The ground crew boy was holding an orange life jacket and a fuel rod that could burn violently, and ran towards his plane with him.

While they were running, they put on their own equipment. The alarm in the base was ringing piercingly. All the pilots on duty were already preparing to strike.

On the runway, the planes next to each other were refueling, and the ground crew ran back and forth holding the tubes.

The special vehicles that hung ammunition for the bombers were full of bombs, tremblingly driving past these preparing planes, and the ground crew hurriedly removed the 500 kg aerial bombs from the racks.

The technical workers kept checking the status of the plane. All the instruments must be normal and the engine must be in a good working range before it can carry out the bombing mission.

There are shouts everywhere, and some people are gesturing to convey the news. The first planes that are ready have begun to be pushed to the long take-off runway.

The Stuka dive bomber is ready. Although the range of this aircraft is not as good as the Flying Fortress, and the loading capacity is not enough, it has one advantage, that is, it is accurate enough!
In the era without missiles, how to accurately drop bombs on the enemy's head from high altitude has always been a subject, a difficult subject for countless engineers to scratch their heads.

In order to solve this problem, the dive bomber came into being, shortening the bombing distance as much as possible, lowering the height of the bombing, and aiming at the target with the nose - the dive bomber is the most accurate air-to-ground attack solution in this era.

The same is true for the sea!Dive bombers can drop bombs as close to the battleship as possible, and the bombing accuracy is obviously higher than that of flying fortresses.

But this time, Flying Fortress will also participate in the attack mission. These huge aircraft will attack the enemy in a rare and desperate way.

"Let the Stuka dive bombers attack first! If they paralyze the enemy's fleet, we can conduct low-altitude bombing more easily!" Under the wing of the flying fortress, the officer in charge of the frontline command emphasized this to all the pilots participating in the battle The discipline of a bombing.

The tactics they employ are insane, based on the fact that the enemy has no decent anti-aircraft firepower.

"All flight altitudes are set at 1000 meters! Keep in formation! If the enemy is attacking with anti-aircraft weapons, you are not allowed to dodge!" He said while making gestures, repeating the need to keep in formation. a little.

Carpet bombing, raining bombs down on an enemy fleet, was probably the crazy tactic of early air-to-sea warfare.

After the officer finished speaking, he did not forget to comfort the nervous pilots: "Theoretically, the enemy has no powerful anti-air weapons! The Maxim machine gun is the best weapon they can find!"

You must know that flying fortresses are not suitable for low-altitude bombing. Doing so can indeed ensure the coverage efficiency of the bombing, but for such a huge aircraft, low-altitude bombing also means quite a huge risk.

"Keep bombing at a high altitude! Destroy these warships with carpet bombing! We only have one chance to attack! I don't want to waste any of it!" The officer continued to emphasize that after their bombing ended, night would come and they could no longer continue bombing This fleet is gone.

On the other side, the ground crew technicians are explaining escape techniques to the navigator and other aircraft crew members: "If you are shot down, try to pull your aircraft to a safe place to crash! The sea is very flat, and your aircraft can fly on the sea. Float for 10 minutes!"

In fact, in the past ten days, Longdao's factory has produced many intimate gadgets for the aircraft that perform maritime combat missions.

These pieces of equipment have just been produced, and although they are often mentioned in training on weekdays, in this large-scale actual combat, the staff still took the trouble to repeat how to use these new pieces of equipment.

"Pay attention here! This is an inflatable lifeboat! Next to it! There is a steel cylinder! Do you see the valve on it? It can help you quickly inflate the lifeboat!" The ground crew holding the compressed gas cylinder raised it With the gas cylinder in his hand, the guide pointed to the valve on it and shouted to everyone.

"Be careful with the order of use! Don't mess it up! Open the straps that secure the lifeboat first, and then inflate! If you inflate first, the straps are likely to tear the lifeboat!" The explainer raised the explosive in his other hand. An inflatable lifeboat as big as a bag, pointing to the straps tied horizontally and vertically.

He kept opening the belt, and then he turned the valve on the inflatable bottle: "The order is correct, and the lifeboat will open! Then you can wait for the follow-up search and rescue at sea! If you have not completed the steps of inflating the lifeboat , then you can only soak in the water! Do you understand?"

"Our patrol opportunity is always nearby! The Navy's search ship will come soon! You can light your fuel rods when you hear the sound of the ship and see the ship!" While talking, a person standing beside the explainer The female ground crew shook the long orange stick in her hand and shouted.

There are combustion accelerants such as magnesium in this thing, which can burn quickly, emit a dazzling light, and emit thick smoke. It is an artifact to indicate one's position.

After she finished speaking, she pointed to the whistle hanging on her shoulder life jacket: "Every soldier has a whistle on his shoulder! When you encounter search and rescue ships or planes, you can blow this whistle to increase the chance of being found." The probability!"

"Hey! Beauty, is there really an airplane that can hear the whistle?" A pilot yelled with a wry smile, questioning this apparently useless device.

"Otherwise, do you have a better solution? We have used all the methods we can think of! You better not be shot down! Do you understand? Don't be shot down!" This female ground crew who is not beautiful but also has a strong body Looking at him, he opened his mouth to answer his question.

"The Flying Fortress has a very strong body! It is impossible for the Maxim heavy machine gun to shoot you down under normal circumstances! Pay attention to the height! Follow the plane in front! That's it!" Seeing that the pilot had disbanded, the ground crew headed by The officer also began to make a final summary.

He patted his hands: "Theoretically, the enemy has no anti-aircraft weapons! So you just need to drop bombs!"

"The dive bomber will be the first to attack and destroy the air defense capabilities of the enemy warships! At that time, their warships should have smoked and exploded, and no one will attack you! It's actually very safe!" After finishing speaking, he made a With the gesture of disbanding, the crew members who surrounded them ran to their respective planes one after another.

The Stuka pilot, who was watching the explanation on the flying fortress, got into the cockpit and complained to the ground crew who was helping him: "Damn, those pilots of the flying fortress have lifeboats and inflatable bottles. What do we have? This Broken vest?"

"This thing can at least scare away sharks. It's orange-red. I heard that sharks don't like this color." The ground crew helped him put on the hat and comforted him.

The pilot didn't buy it at all: "Nonsense, disguise yourself as a carrot that can swim? And then pray that the sharks don't eat vegetarian? Stop messing around, who came up with this idea?"

There is no such thing as carrots in this world, the long orange-red radishes are called carrots...

The ground crew smiled and patted the pilot on the shoulder: "Hehehehe! If you are afraid of death, fly back, blow up our enemies into the sea, and let them feed the sharks!" After speaking, he turned his head to help the machine gun behind him operate The pilot, or rather the navigator, went.

"Yes! Let them feed the sharks!" The pilot echoed loudly with a smile.

"Hahahaha!" The pilot also laughed.

On another Stuka plane on the other side, the pilot has already pressed the communicator and loudly tested: "Radio test!"

The voice from the tower came very clearly: "The radio test is complete! The call is normal! The channel is very clean!"

The pilot was also very satisfied with the signal: "I can hear it! Control tower, control tower, the signal is very clear!"

Because a very long communication antenna can be pulled on the back of the aircraft, and it flies in the sky with relatively weak signal interference, the radio communication of the aircraft is actually much less interference than that of tank troops.

On the tower side, the order to approve the takeoff came: "You can take off! Pay attention to receiving radio navigation signals."

"Understood!" The pilot adjusted the plane and directed the plane to the runway.The engine has been spinning very hard, and the propeller has disappeared from the pilot's front view because of the rapid rotation.

"The pilot's flying fortress is at your 3 o'clock direction!" At the same time as the plane rushed off the runway and left the ground, a reminder from the tower came from the headset.

"Climb! I'm in front of you!" The lead plane ahead is already on standby in the air: "Climb up! Start formation!"

"Are you kidding? We still have fighter escorts?" While climbing, the Stuka pilots saw the Butcher fighter formation in the sky.

"They are not escort fighter jets. They perform attack missions just like you! It's just that they are responsible for cover." The navigator behind him explained.

"Cover?" The pilot muttered in surprise, he didn't think these fighter jets had any ability to attack the sea.

"Yes, cover!" The navigator nodded affirmatively regardless of the fact that the pilot couldn't see him.

"I hope they won't make more trouble." The pilot gave up asking, and controlled the plane to catch up with the lead plane in front.The densely packed group of Stuka dive bombers rushed towards the distant horizon.

(End of this chapter)