Chapter 421： trap

Navigation in this era is quite backward.

In later generations, there are advanced laser gyroscopes, which can have quite high operating accuracy, and with the assistance of global positioning systems, etc., it is easy to determine one's position.

However, it was different during World War II.

Navigation during World War II was quite primitive and backward. It can be said that it mainly relied on magnetic compasses and aeronautical charts.

When taking off, the navigator holds an aeronautical chart in his hand, constantly marking on the aeronautical chart, and determining his position according to his own course, speed, time and other information.

In this way, the error is definitely not small. For example, when the United Kingdom bombed Germany, several air bombing teams often flew and flew hundreds of kilometers away.

Then, the navigator is extremely important. An experienced navigator is a valuable asset in the Air Force and is highly respected.

In addition to marking aeronautical charts, navigators can also use landmarks to determine and correct their own navigation errors.

Every time the bombing is in a large formation, this is not a pretentious one. The main thing is to follow the navigator to have more opportunities to find the target to bomb.

Although radio navigation has been widespread in World War II, radio navigation is very easy to be interfered with, and there are distance limitations. Long-range bombing must rely on the most basic methods.

This is still land, and when it comes to the sea, it will be even more troublesome. If there is no experienced navigator, it will definitely happen to fly out, and then you will not find an aircraft carrier when you fly back. After all, the sea is endless and there are no landmarks. Can learn from.

Therefore, ordinary naval carrier-based aircraft will not be dispatched alone. After the battle is over, they will wait in the airspace. If they have enough, they will go together.

The current British Air Force, although not at sea, is similar to that at sea. The following are all deserts. In the desert, there are sand dunes everywhere. It is not easy to find the definite coordinates!

what does this mean?

When starting from Egypt, the error began to accumulate. After flying to Libya, the error was already more than ten kilometers.

Under normal circumstances, this is nothing. An error of more than ten kilometers is not called an error. After all, in the sky, it is easy to see a target more than ten kilometers away and it is easy to correct.

But now, there is dense smoke everywhere on the ground, and they can't see it at all.

Philip thought that the dense smoke in front was an oil base. In fact, the Amal oil field was still more than ten kilometers away!

And the distance of ten kilometers is the distance between life and death!

In Libya, in addition to oil bases, there are secret military bases! Although for various reasons, the scale of the military base is not very large, it is not difficult to raise a few hundred antiaircraft artillery troops out and pull out hundreds of antiaircraft artillery!

For example, now, in the middle of two burning oil drums, several high artillery soldiers are standing by. In their hands, they are operating the most famous 40mm Bofors antiaircraft gun.

The cannonball has already been loaded into the barrel, the muzzle has been aimed forward, and the main gunner’s feet are stepping on the trigger.

Now, there is no need for too much operation at all, they just wait for the final blow.

Of course, these burning oil drums are not placed randomly. If there is no dense smoke, you can see from the air that there are passages in the middle of the oil drums, and at the end of the passage, there are a series of antiaircraft guns. And anti-aircraft guns!

This is of course a trap. If the smoke makes the British Air Force return home, then forget it. If they dare to get in and attack, this is their place of death!

When set up, they don't even need to aim at all. The elevation and heading of their antiaircraft guns are correct. They just wait for the fire to be enough. As long as the opponent is in the field of view, they can directly hit!

Libya was already hot, and in the flames, I was even more hot. In this case, the artillery soldiers were sweating, but no one was crying and tired.

If you compare them with the soldiers in Germany, you can find that they are obviously dark, and the sun in North Africa is really poisonous.

The sweat on his forehead dripped, dripped in his eyes, and flowed into his mouth, bitterly. The high artillery soldier wiped his sweat with a towel on his neck, and then, between the flames in the distance, Suddenly a flying thing appeared.

British, here comes the British!

This is definitely a meetup!

Philip was flying his bomber between the flames. He had already judged it. It was definitely a trap. However, he didn't have any plan to counterattack. He could only pray for God's blessing and bomb this place first!

As soon as he swiftly turned around between the flames in front, Philip found that a high-altitude cannon was aiming right in front of his route! When he found out, the distance between the two sides was only three hundred meters!

How to do?

Philip made a decision at this moment , flew over and greeted each other with his bomb!

Ordinary people will pull it up subconsciously, but it is definitely for death. When you pull it up, the thick smoke on it will make the plane fall. At the same time, when you pull it up, the belly is facing the antiaircraft artillery, which will increase the bombing. area.

Meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!

Philip pulled the throttle to the end in an instant. The engine in front roared and the propeller spun up. He shouted to the navigator and bombardier sitting in the middle: "Ready to drop the bomb!"

At this time, thanks to the tacit understanding of the crew for many years, the bombardier quickly moved the switch in front of him to prepare to drop the bomb.

Just now, the speed of the planes was very small when they drilled through the flames. Now when encountering antiaircraft artillery, they must accelerate to fly past. The faster they are, the less dangerous they are.

Almost at the same time, Philip saw the muzzle of the opponent's anti-aircraft artillery, and he was very nervous in his heart. At this moment, he had a premonition that he could not fly!

"Tom tom, tom tom!" The 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft artillery fired violently. With its high rate of fire, within a short time, dozens of 40mm shells flew over.

"Boom!" The opponent played very accurately. The third 40mm shell came into close contact with the "Combat" bomber, and it exploded right at the position of the propeller.

The propeller was instantly bent, and the engine behind was hit by a few shrapnel, and black smoke emerged from it.

If it is an air-cooled engine, one or two cylinders can be broken, and it can still persist. However, for a liquid-cooled engine, as long as it suffers a small amount of damage, the engine will die.

Moreover, this was only one round, and the next few rounds followed accurately!