The 47mm shell flew towards the sky, but it was still a long way from the Stuka bomber.
If it is a proximity fuze, it will explode as long as it is close, and its power will be greatly increased. However, the Soviet Union does not have this kind of weapon. Only the most common warhead needs collision to explode. As long as it is not touched, it has no power.
Franz felt the trembling of the cockpit. At this time, his plane was rapidly diving downward. As a pilot of a dive bomber, it was the most exciting time.
Adrenaline was secreted rapidly and stimulated Franz's body. His whole body was excited. His eyes were fixed on the huge warship in front of him.
In fact, they had been flying for five minutes, but they hid in the clouds and didn't attack immediately.
They are waiting for an opportunity.
If all the Stuka bombers take off together and dozens of large aircraft come, one attack after another will be enough to send all the Soviet warships to hell.
But no, they only have more than a dozen, so they must calculate that when their attack is completed and their own main fleet has not arrived, they can't let the Baltic Fleet run away.
In this case, sinking the other party in this narrow waterway and blocking the waterway is the most effective scheme.
So, hovering in the clouds above, until now, they dive down and enter the state of attack.
As pilots of naval carrier based aircraft, diving to attack each other's warships is a subject they often practice. As long as they enter the diving state, there will be no situation for them to give up.
Either blow up the enemy's ship or get shot down. That's it.
Stuka continued to dive down. The whistle on the landing gear sent out a frightening scream. Under the belly, the one ton bomb was very eye-catching.
"Come on, continue to raise the elevation by two degrees, five consecutive shots, release!" The monitor of the antiaircraft gun continued to command loudly.
With his orders, the high artillery continued to shake the direction machine.
The lower the dive of the other side, the higher the firing angle of their anti-aircraft guns needs to be adjusted so that they can reach, but no matter what anti-aircraft guns, there is always a dead angle.
For example, now, the high artillery is shaking the high and low aircraft quickly, and their heads are moving upward. Their heads are up and looking up to the sky.
The dazzling sun shines into their eyes. Damn it, they can't see anything.
No matter when and what kind of battle, using the sun is the best way. Now, Stuka is just reflected in the sun.
When the Gunners blocked the sun with their hands and barely saw it, they saw only a dark thing that had flown down. It was not a plane. The other party had dropped a bomb.
Then, they saw the black thing with a flame trailing at the tail. It was also a rocket propelled bomb, a sharp weapon specially used by the Germans to attack large warships!
This kind of bomb has made great contributions many times, but so far, surface ships have no effective way to deal with it. The best way is to stop it before the other party's dive bomber arrives.
Just then, under the cover of the sun, Franz dropped the bomb. He didn't have time to see the results of the bomb attack, so he quickly pulled up and avoided to the right while pulling the rod, so as not to be hit by the other party in his belly.
The machine gunner behind his cockpit fully appreciated the whole process.
What he saw was the tail flame of the dropped bomb. The rocket assisted bomb attack was so rapid that the Mara below had no chance to escape.
The Mara had no way to escape. It was sailing on the narrow waterway of kronstad. If it had a left full rudder or a right full rudder, it would have hit the defensive fortresses on both sides.
It can only continue to accelerate and hope that its anti-aircraft guns can beat down these annoying planes.
of no avail.
The rocket assisted bomb, at a fairly high speed, went in from the position of No. 4 turret at its tail.
Mara has four 305 mm main guns with triple loading, all distributed on the axis, two in the front and two in the back. The turret of the main gun has 254 mm armor, but this is the side armor of the turret. After all, in the era of the rise of battleships, the biggest threat to battleships is the opponent's artillery, which is the side attack.
The top armor is only 127 mm. For a one ton rocket propelled bomb, this layer is as thin as paper.
Easily tore off the armor on the top of the turret, and the bomb continued to fly inside, smashing everything along the way until it hit the round shell on the base of the turret.
The layout of any naval gun is the same. There are cannons above and shells below. The 305 mm naval gun shells are absolutely powerful when they burst.
"Boom!" When the huge explosion came, the whole Mara battleship was trembling violently, just like the desperate neighing of the war horse before death. At this time, the vibration of Mara battleship seemed to indicate something.
The sound of the explosion spread to every cabin along the steel of the hull. The recruits turned pale. The veterans have reacted. Run, run!
The veteran ran up and didn't want to be drowned. At least he had to run to the deck.
In the bridge, Captain Peter poked his head out of the side glass and could only see the thick smoke rolling behind.
"Come on, damage control report." Peter shouted loudly. Just after he had finished speaking into the microphone, he felt that the soles of his feet had begun to tilt.
From the sky, when the explosion occurred, the hot flame came out of the turret, and the thousands of tons of turret installed in the triple was lifted. The blast tore everything around in an instant.
From this position, the warship with a full displacement of 35000 tons was disconnected, the fire did not burn, and the turbulent sea water poured in. At the position of explosion and fracture, it quickly sank, and the bow in front of it tilted up.
One shell killed the Mara, not because the Soviet Navy did not work hard, but because of the gap in weapons, the Soviet Navy had no chance to win.
When he learned that Stuka had killed the Mara, ruder, who served as an instructor in the rear, specially gave his students a day off and held a lively celebration party at the training base. It seemed that he also had a hunch that if he had not been forcibly transferred to the rear, it would have been his victory to sink the Mara.