Chapter 698： Battle of Poland (1)

While Edel was talking with Feleit in Bucharest, it was brightly lit in a military airport near Lviv. On the concrete runway, a frame of fighter planes looked mighty and majestic under the lights.

Here are the RU18 dive bombers called Romanian Stuka. It's just that compared with his German counterpart in the Spanish Civil War, the Romanian RU18 dive bomber seems so unknown.

However, as the latest dive bomber, the biggest difference between the RU18 dive bomber and Stuka is that its landing gear is more retractable and its horsepower is more powerful. The 1,350-horsepower V-shaped liquid-cooled 12-cylinder engine is enough to allow the aircraft to reach a maximum cruising speed of 380 kilometers per hour. At the same time, its ammunition capacity reached 1900kg. It can carry two 600 kg bombs at the same time to accurately bomb the target with a maximum combat radius of 750 kilometers.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the bombing, the RU18 dive bomber absorbed Stuka's technology and can also dive bomb the target at an almost right angle of 85 degrees.

Therefore, the RU18 dive bomber must be its main ground attack aircraft for the Romanian Air Force, and it can be seen from the dense line up of the same fighter aircraft waiting to take off at the airport.

This is a sleepless night! When the task was issued, everyone was quite excited. The ground crews maintained the aircraft, refueled the bombs, and prepared for take-off, while the pilots kept memorizing the targets and routes they wanted to attack.

"Ting bell." Just then, the phone in the pilot's duty room rang, and the commander leading the team picked up the phone and heard the voice of the superior commander inside. "The eagles took off immediately and carried out the bombing mission according to the plan."

"Take off immediately!"

The commander immediately gave the order, but at this time the sky outside was still pitch black.

Every pilot quickly grabbed his own equipment. They had been waiting a long time ago, and they ran to their landline quickly from the pilot's duty room.

After turning on various switches and undergoing rigorous maintenance, these aircraft are in very good condition. With a burst of electric current, the motor rumbled, the liquid-cooled engine emitted a puff of black smoke, and then a greater vibration came.

A RU18 dive bomber is rapidly starting. Then slide to the runway, and take off in a two-plane formation in a pre-determined sequence!

On the wing, the sky was shining with navigation lights, but it was not yet lit.

After the planes took off, they turned to the north, and they wanted to fly to Polish territory. In addition to them, there are large groups of Peregrine RF20 fighters in the air. These kings of the sky need to give priority to helping them solve the air threats they may encounter.

This is also the main fighter of the Romanian Air Force to seize air supremacy, and they are responsible for the task of seizing air supremacy. This task should be very simple for them, because the fighter planes currently owned by Poland are basically old-fashioned, and there are very few new planes suitable for current combat.

At present, the Polish Air Force has about 1,900 aircraft, but few of them are front-line combat aircraft. Of the 1,900 aircraft, 650 are training aircraft. The other 700 are all types of aircraft that are obsolete or useless when the war breaks out. Fewer than 400 are really effective.

The main fighters are PZLP.11 and PZLP.7 two fighters with less than 200. Although these two fighters were good in the early 1930s, they still lag behind the modern fighters of Romania 1. The top speed of the P.11 fighters is only 365 kilometers per hour, which is even lower than that of most bombers.

In addition to these two planes, there are two other bombers that have attracted more attention in this air strike. One of them is a twin-engine bomber code-named RU28. This twin-engine bomber was developed by Romania for the purpose of high-speed bombing. So this is a high-speed tactical bomber with a maximum load of 3100KG, a maximum speed of 425 kilometers per hour, and a maximum range of 2,100 kilometers. It is also the most valued fast bomber by the military.

In addition to this fast bomber, there is also a four-shot bomber that is most noticeable. This is a high-altitude strategic bomber. At that time, the Romanian military needed a new bomber to complete the strategic bombing of enemy’s rear in order to deal with the threat of fighters with better and better performance. Considering that it needs to conduct super long-range bombing, there will be no fighter escort, so it can only travel at high altitude and high speed Think of a way, and in the end this bomber chose high-altitude bombing as the basis.

Its code name is Whooper Swan; and the military's requirements are that the aircraft must reach a limit of 11,000 meters, a maximum speed of 420 kilometers per hour, and a maximum range of 3,000 kilometers.

The Coanda Aircraft Factory, which took over this task, immediately stepped up its technical public relations, because this is Romania's first strategic bomber.

The Keanda research team uses a four-engine design, conventional aerodynamic layout, single wing, single vertical tail, and rear three-point retractable landing gear. The whole machine adopts metal structure and streamlined appearance. At the same time, in order to enhance its air self-defense capability, the aircraft is also designed with up to 12 12.7 mm self-defense machine guns. These machine guns are distributed on the nose, belly, back, tail and sides of the fuselage. They are equipped with drop-shaped machine gun turrets, which can shoot in all directions in the air and have excellent aerial firepower.

The bomber uses four 1200-horsepower liquid-cooled engines with a maximum speed of 458 kilometers per hour. Due to the use of turbochargers to improve performance, the aircraft's limit increased to 10,900 meters (not up to standard).

The maximum range is also due to the use of a new 1200 horsepower engine, which can reach 3170 kilometers. As for the ammunition carrying capacity of , it can be regarded as an excellent strategic bomber that basically meets the requirements of the military.

The main reason is that the military's requirements are too high, which can be regarded as a test for Romania's aircraft manufacturing capabilities. The excellent performance of the new strategic aircraft naturally comes to a higher cost. Its unit price is as high as 410,000 lei, and it is currently the most expensive fighter aircraft of the Air Force.

Therefore, the military immediately assigned the RU80 number after the finalization, and only ordered 98 of them, and then purchased a batch of them because they were very satisfied in use.

Therefore, only 279 bombers have been produced at present, which are divided into two strategic bomber wings (194 and 224 strategic bomber wings).

And this time the Polish operations are more, and the Air Force has also put it into it. Mainly to examine its bombing effect and combat performance.

These black and overwhelming fighters, taking advantage of the faint light that appeared in the sky, flew towards the unknown hinterland of Poland.

When the aircraft strikes first, the Army is also unwilling to lag behind on the ground.

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