Chapter 1577： Lost target

The Tu-4 bomber, also known as the B-29 bomber, was imported from the United States at a high cost by the Soviets. The total number of these precious aircraft is fifty. The Americans promised the supply of parts and components, but absolutely Will not give more quantity anymore.

Therefore, the Soviet bomber force must cherish these planes and not let them suffer great losses in the war.

At the same time, it is necessary to perform combat missions. This is simply a huge contradiction, and there is only one way to resolve this contradiction.

Flying at ultra-low altitude at night.

When flying at night, the visibility is very low. In this case, ordinary daytime fighters cannot see targets like bombers at all. Therefore, it is quite safe.

Only night fighters can pose a threat to them. They are specially modified to perform night combat missions. They have good visibility, long time in the air, and fierce firepower. More importantly, it is equipped with radar equipment.

Although the target cannot be found visually in the dark, the radar will brighten the eyes of the night fighter pilots so that they can see the target clearly, and then cooperate with the radar station on the ground to perform the task, which is absolutely easy.

In this case, high-altitude bombing at night is also quite dangerous. At the same time, they are high in the sky and have a straight course and easily expose their targets.

In this way, low-altitude bombing is inevitable.

Of course, there is another reason.

High-altitude bombing requires precise aiming. At this time, they did not know that the Americans had successfully developed advanced Norton high-altitude bombing sights. The Americans replaced their aircraft with backward original bombing devices. In this way, high altitude The accuracy of the bombing is quite poor. If you want to improve the accuracy, it is inevitable to lower the flight altitude.

As for why it has only switched to a low altitude until now, if it has been flying at a low altitude, the fuel is not enough. Just confirming the route is enough to make the navigator collapse.

Now, as long as they aim at the course, they can accurately find the target. They have to enter the German mainland at the same time. The dense ground radar network will make them invisible, and they must enter the low altitude.

Following the order of Vasseltzjege, a bomber descended from a high altitude and dived into the vast ground. Flying in the dark, it is easy to produce hallucinations. I believe that instruments are the only way.

Target Munich, located in the Upper Bavarian High Plains of the Free State of Bavaria, is about 45 kilometers from the northern foot of the Alps, with an altitude of about 520 meters.

This is also one of the reasons why they can carry out ultra-low-altitude bombing. The other party is on the plain, and the Alps are just south of Munich. If they bomb further south, the ultra-low-altitude flight will be dead.

They fly at an altitude of one kilometer, and the distance from the ground is only about 500 meters. At this altitude, the huge Tu-4 bomber almost flies close to the ground, and those pesky night fighters cannot find them at all. .

"Radar echo disappeared." In Berlin, Richthofen was also constantly receiving news, and disappeared from the radar screen just after the target group flew over Prague.

Of course, the other party would not have been crashed and crashed, let alone flying away. The other party must have turned into an ultra-low altitude, evaded its radar and night fighters, and rushed towards its own Munich.

"It seems that the Soviets are really smart, and they have exploited our loopholes so obviously. I guess the deployment of our homeland air defense forces must have been leaked." Richthofen gritted his teeth.

This time, his side was ashamed, and if there was no information leaked, Hithofen absolutely did not believe that in the war, the spies on both sides would never be caught.

After this incident has passed, we must carry out a major mobilization and conduct an investigation at the same time to find out the spies!

"They are flying at a very low altitude, which just gives us a good opportunity." At this moment, an assistant said: "If they can't find our city and continue to fly forward, they will fly to the Alps. ."

With the help of the assistant, Richthofen immediately shined, yes, this is a good idea!

As someone who climbed up from the bottom of the air force, Richthofen certainly knows the difficulty of flying at night, especially navigation. Although Munich is nearly 50 kilometers from the Alps, it’s only a short ten minutes in the air. It only takes time. For a crew who has been flying a long distance for several hours, these ten minutes are almost negligible.

Because of this long flight, they have accumulated a lot of course errors.

"Do not fire at the first ambush position. At the second ambush position in Innbrusko, prepare to ambush, evacuate all citizens of Innbrusko, turn on their lights and pretend to be Munich."

Imbrusko, on the extension line south of Munich, is a small town at the foot of the Alps. The dim lights will make the enemy planes in the sky believe it is true. Then, when they fly over, they will suddenly find out. A huge mountain range appears in the dark, and it will definitely be too late to escape!

Nearby is the Harvard Laika Peak, which is thousands of meters above sea level, enough to make their bombers reimbursed.

This small town at the foot of the mountain is mainly engaged in tourism. Many people start from here to climb the mountain. It is summer, so there are not many mountain climbers. The snow-capped mountains in winter are the beautiful scenery here~www.novelhall. com~ Even so, in order to reduce the casualties of innocent people, it is still necessary to evacuate those citizens.

Richthofen did not know at this time that his command saved the lives of hundreds of citizens in the town, but he did not know that the high artillery soldiers in the second ambush position here died heroically.

At the opponent's speed, it will take about forty minutes to reach Munich. This period of time is efficient enough to complete the layout of the second position.

At present, the Empire is developing and installing radars on airplanes, but the technical problems facing them are even greater. To see the ground from the sky, radar clutter is simply a huge problem.

Now that the opponent has disappeared from the radar screen, the opponent's trajectory can only be judged in advance. If the judgment is wrong, other cities will suffer huge losses tonight.

Richthofen completely believes in his own judgment. As for the reason, it is also very simple. If flying at a very low altitude, the range of sight will be reduced, and it is quite difficult for the navigator to navigate, and there is no way to find a predetermined positioning point. , Even if it is found, it will fly by in a hurry, there is no reaction time at all, and it is impossible to correct the route. A direct flight is the most possible.