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Chapter 772 772 new weapons into the battlefield

Even in the less than ideal battle situation, there is still a lot of good news. The anti-aircraft artillery unit in the Dahua army has performed very well recently.

Their record has improved visibly, because their weapon performance is improving, and their combat methods are also continuously improving.

The unique shrill and terrifying sound of Tang Jun's dive bombers could no longer frighten these anti-aircraft artillerymen who were no longer rookies.

They used the new weapons in their hands to fight more and more bravely, causing huge losses to the Tang Army's dive bomber units.

This is not a joke. Counting from the time when the clouds cleared and the Air Force could participate in the war, until now, the Tang Army has shot down more than 200 aircraft of various types and lost more than 170 pilots.

Most of the planes were dive bomber pilots, and some fighter pilots, but the Flying Fortresses on deep bombing missions suffered the least losses.

Because there are not many anti-aircraft guns that can hit the flying height of the Flying Fortress bomber, and the fighter interception force of the Dahua Empire can't fly at an altitude of [-] meters. Therefore, the large bombers of the Tang Army that perform high-altitude bombing missions are often very safe.

If you draw the range of the anti-aircraft gun, it is basically a small hemisphere, with a slightly lower height and a slightly higher range, and it looks like a big bowl on the ground.

Therefore, the higher the altitude, the smaller the coverage area of ​​the anti-aircraft gun, the lower the firepower density, and the worse the air defense effect.

In order to deal with high-altitude bombers, anti-aircraft guns have to be deployed intensively to increase the density of high-altitude firepower, which makes the defense area of ​​anti-aircraft guns in units smaller.

As a result, without the support of detailed intelligence and high mobility, it is difficult for the concentrated anti-aircraft guns to be deployed in advance to effectively intercept the enemy's bomber units.This is also the origin of the saying "ten defenses and nine air defenses".

But fortunately, the anti-aircraft guns on the Dahua Empire's side were used for field air defense because their performance was not good enough. On the contrary, because they gave up the deep air defense, they accidentally enhanced the field air defense firepower.

In this way, it is very easy to understand the high losses of the Stuka dive bombers targeting the Dahua Field Force.

Cruel wars make people progress. No one is a fool. When life and death are at stake, everyone is more willing to use their subjective initiative.

The technicians of the Dahua Empire, as well as the engineers of the Cyric Consortium, are desperately developing new, more advanced, and more powerful air defense weapons against the powerful air force of the Tang Kingdom.

In repeated experiments, the Anti-Tang Alliance launched many improvised weapon systems, and also produced brand-new equipment with brand-new designs.

For example, the Dahua Empire temporarily installed 4 machine guns together to increase the density of firepower and increase the possibility of shooting down Tang Jun aircraft.

Frankly speaking, this weapon seems to have no technical content, but the effect is better than imagined.Compared with the idea of ​​using new technology to seek improvement, the effect of this simple and crude method is immediate.

However, it is easy to use, and it is only better than using a machine gun alone for air defense before. It does not mean that this weapon is really "invincible".

The biggest problem is that this method of connecting machine guns in parallel to increase the firepower density cannot increase the range, and the air defense effect is still unsatisfactory.

Range is too important for anti-aircraft guns. The range of an anti-aircraft gun determines the shooting height, the number of anti-aircraft guns deployed, and the window time for firing attacks.

Tang Jun's plane is equipped with a 20mm machine gun. This thing has a good range and damage capability. It is obviously much better than the Maxim machine gun. It is more than enough to suppress this parallel machine gun.

Therefore, the Dahua military urgently needs stronger air-to-air firepower to meet the demand in terms of range.In other words, the anti-Tang alliance needs anti-aircraft guns with a caliber of 20 mm or more.

They don't have the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun equipped by the Tang Kingdom, let alone the Tang Kingdom's 88mm anti-everything gun.So they could only research on their own, and came up with a lot of wonderful things.

The first is the dual-mounted 25mm caliber anti-aircraft guns made by the Dahua Empire itself.This anti-aircraft gun emphasizes the density of firepower and increases the range, and its performance is quite good.

But it is not without its shortcomings. The fact that it is expensive makes the Dahua army dumbfounded. The production of tanks, cannons, aircraft, etc. has already stretched the funds of the Dahua military, not to mention the strict requirements of this kind of artillery on craftsmanship.

It cannot be said that in order to produce such expensive anti-aircraft guns, the production lines of other weapons have been stopped, right?Isn't that a joke?

Another problem with it is that it is bulky: the entire artillery weighs 4 and a half tons, which is only more than 88 ton compared to an 1mm anti-aircraft gun.Moving it requires a decent truck to tow, and normal vehicles don't have enough horsepower.

Therefore, the Dahua Empire acquired the 30mm caliber anti-aircraft gun technology from Cyric, and began to produce this single-barreled, slightly inferior anti-aircraft weapon.

Although the performance of this 30mm caliber anti-aircraft gun is slightly worse, compared with the old anti-balloon guns before, the improvement is huge.

With these high-firing and small-caliber special anti-aircraft guns, the field air defense strength of the Dahua Empire has greatly increased, and it is only a matter of course that they have achieved good results.

After purchasing a large number of these small-caliber field anti-aircraft guns, the Dahua troops gradually mastered some "new tactics".

They will use these anti-aircraft weapons as temporary cameo anti-tank guns to deal with the armored vehicles of the Tang Kingdom: Even if the No. 4 tank and the Leopard tank cannot be destroyed, the Lion-type armored reconnaissance vehicle and the 113 armored personnel carrier are still quite easy to use.

In addition, Dahua also purchased a lot of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns. The 76mm anti-aircraft guns improved from anti-balloon guns are the most, taking into account both air defense and anti-tank.

Compared with the backward performance of the old predecessors, the performance of the improved new 76mm caliber anti-aircraft gun has been greatly improved. A special gun mount is installed, which can pitch and rotate faster, and the range has also been improved a lot.

In order to hit the target more easily, the initial velocity of the shell of the new 76 gun has nearly doubled, which means that except for the caliber, it is almost completely redesigned.

Compared with the Dahua Air Force, which is showing its hips, the results of the ground air defense force are very impressive. In addition, the anti-aircraft artillery force protected the ground force, preventing those annoying Stukas from swooping down unscrupulously, which played a role in stabilizing the morale of the army. Therefore, the anti-aircraft artillery unit of the Dahua Army has become a treasure in the eyes of commanders at all levels.

On an antiaircraft artillery position of the Great China Army, the gunners were sitting and resting in the shade covered by camouflage nets.The loaders are busy loading shells into special magazines, because the 30mm anti-aircraft gun they serve is magazine-fed.

The observer in charge of security was searching the distant sky with a telescope, and the officer in command of the anti-aircraft gun sat on a sandbag, overlooking the camp not far away.

This is a small supply distribution center, otherwise anti-aircraft guns would not be arranged for key protection.Dahua's anti-aircraft guns have not yet reached the point where they can cover all areas.

On the nearby high ground, three anti-aircraft guns are arranged to cover each other. If enemy planes attack, they can use each other's horns to drive away those annoying Stuka dive bombers.

In fact, it would be worthwhile if the Stuka dive bombers could be attracted to use the precious 500 kg bombs to destroy the anti-aircraft artillery defensive positions.

After all, in the camp below, the ammunition, medicines, and food hoarded are worth much more than an anti-aircraft gun.

"Enemy plane! Enemy plane!" The alert observer, who had been watching the sky vigilantly, suddenly shouted nervously.

The officer sitting there in a daze immediately looked towards the direction pointed by the observer, and indeed there were several small black spots flying towards this direction.

The officer immediately picked up the whistle hanging around his neck and blew it vigorously, making the other two anti-aircraft guns nearby get ready for battle.

Soon, the whistle sounded in response, and the other two anti-aircraft guns raised their barrels, obviously they were also ready to fight.

Before making these anti-aircraft artillerymen wait too long, the bombers of Tang Guo Air Force overwhelmed them.As the distance gradually approached, the Dahua anti-aircraft gun commander who had been staring at Tang Guo's plane frowned.

"The wings don't bend...a fighter jet?" Seeing that the incoming plane's wings were not designed like a seagull, the officer muttered in confusion.

"Isn't it a butcher? It doesn't look like it looks like it!" Hearing his officer's muttering, the gunner looked through the sight for a while, and was also confused.

"Don't be our plane..." After confirming that the incoming plane was not a common Stuka dive bomber, nor was it a fighter butcher escorted by the Tang Army, Commander Dahua, whose mind was full of question marks, was a little uncertain.

"I've never seen such a plane before us..." Seeing the four planes getting closer and closer, the gunner changed his words and exclaimed: "The yellow nose! It's the plane of Tang State! "

Bright yellow is the color of identification of friend and foe of the Tang Air Force, which is painted on the nose and wingtips to avoid friendly fire.Because the performance of the aircraft has an overwhelming advantage, the painting of Tang Jun's aircraft has always been arrogant.

When he was speaking, he had already stepped on the pedal, and the 30mm anti-aircraft gun beside him had already started roaring: "Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

One after another, the expensive tracer bullets rushed towards the Tang country planes flying rapidly, and those Tang country planes also began to disperse immediately after being attacked, changing their flight paths.

As soon as they dodged and exposed their belly, the unique shape became more obvious, and the Dragon Emblem of the Tang Dynasty on the wing shone brightly in the sun.

Between the dragon emblem on the wing and the fuselage, some extremely slender bombs hung. These never-before-seen details made the Dahua commander standing next to the anti-aircraft gun very disturbed.

(End of this chapter)