Rise from the sword

Chapter 763 England under the wings

November 25st.

with English,

El Nan State.

At the end of November, it is already deep winter, and it is the season of freezing cold.

It was during this period that Moscow was frozen for thousands of miles, and Northwest Shanxi was covered with ice and snow.

But the British Empire, which is located in the marine temperate broad-leaved forest belt, is not cold at this time, and the cold current from the Arctic Ocean will not cover the British Empire, so the average temperature at this time is still above zero.

Obviously, the latitude is almost the same as that of Moscow, and it is much closer to the Arctic Circle than Northwest Shanxi, but the climate is different.

It has to be said that the British Empire is uniquely endowed.

"damn it."

In the evening, Kleist, an ordinary citizen of the British Empire who came back from the air-raid shelter, looked at his house. He was dumbfounded at first, and then he reacted and began to panic, cursing hysterically:
"how so?!"

"Is the Air Force a bunch of trash?"

"..."

A series of unscrupulous and incoherent swearing, it is easy to hear that the owner of the voice lost control of his emotions because he could not accept the reality.

Everyone looked over one after another, and immediately understood why Kleist was so broken.

Before the present, destroying Kleist's house,

is an airplane.

To be precise, it was a crashed jet fighter that directly crashed his room, and judging from the debris, it was still his own jet plane.

The pilot didn't seem to be able to jump out in time.

The fuel on the plane ignited the entire house, and there was no need for any rescue, all of which were burned to ashes.

"Recently, there have been more and more enemy fighter jets, and Johnson's house has also been damaged by downed planes, but they belong to the Germans."

A group of neighbors muttered and left here to stop watching.

Encounter this kind of thing, can only admit bad luck.

Even if their own plane crashed and destroyed them, they can only swallow the bitter fruit themselves. The government will not help them. At most, they will distribute some necessary daily necessities and supplies, plus a tent. If you want to repair the house, you can only rely on yourself.

but··
I don't feel the need to fix it.

Otherwise, just after repairing, and then the flying German plane dropped a bomb, or simply dropped another plane wreckage, that would be great fun.

"I would have gone there if I knew it earlier. At least it is safe. It is getting more and more dangerous here."

After a long time, Kleist sat slumped on the ground and calmed down, sighed deeply, then shivered, tightened the cotton coat on his body, and left here.

The British Empire was bombed wildly by the Germans, and even dropped tens of billions of butterfly mines, but at the beginning, there were not many bombs in Ireland. After all, here is mainly agricultural, the industry is very poor, and there are few bombings. The goal.

Mustache ignored this directly.

Waiting for Mustache to flatten the remaining states of the British Empire for more than half a year, he set his sights on Ernan. Fatty Qiu has joined hands with Luo Laizi to build a complete air defense system in Ernan. A large number of American military camps have been established. There are many anti-aircraft guns, and radars are all over the coastline cities. The newly formed jet combat force is stationed here. Mustache has suffered a lot of losses in several bombings. Each time the loss is not less than two hundred bombers. After several big losses, Mustache became honest.

Anyway, there is really nothing worth bombing here in Ernan.

The essence accumulated by the British Empire for hundreds of years is in England, Scotland, and Wales.

As for the gliding bomb, the range of this thing is also dozens of kilometers. Although it can avoid the anti-aircraft gun, it is still within the interception range of the fighter jet, and the bombing accuracy is really hard to describe. It is okay to bomb large cities. Destructive power, but the open wilderness of Ernan is really not suitable.As for military bases and important factories, bombs with an accuracy starting at [-] kilometers and exceeding [-] kilometers are completely unsuitable.

With the large-scale service of American jet fighters and the Ninth Air Force stationed here, there was almost no large-scale bombing in Ernan, only a small number of bombers dropped some gliding bombs at super high altitude at night.

Therefore, Ernan at this time is a safe area of ​​the British Empire.

A large number of people poured in here, massive military bases were established here, tens of thousands of barracks, millions of soldiers were stationed here, and millions of tons of materials were transferred here.

This is the forward base of the Western Front.

Material transfer station.

Otherwise, relying on transportation from the mainland of the United States, the millions of troops on the western front may not be able to obtain stable supplies at all.

Mustache naturally knows this very well. Although he gave up the heavy-loss bombing, he is also constantly sending fighter units to fight with the American Ninth Air Force stationed in Elnan and the British Empire jet fighter unit in an attempt to annihilate the British and American jet fighters. force.

With the large number of jet fighter pilots serving in the military, especially after November, the major leagues were initially completed and began to let go of other slave country personnel to enlist, and it reached its peak.

Every day, the sky above the British Empire is full of excitement.

Especially during the bombing, it can be called a group of demons dancing wildly. In each game, the two sides lost at least a hundred jet fighters.

The destroyed fighter jets fell like a swarm of meteors, which was extremely spectacular.

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November 25st.

Ten o'clock at night.

A military airfield around a small county in Elnan, the No.90 Seventh Squadron of the Royal Air Force's No. [-] Jet Fighter Battalion.

"How many people came back?"

The squadron leader, Lieutenant Colonel Greif, looked at the squadron staff officer at the side.

Thanks to ample supplies.

Sufficient fuel and other military supplies from the opposite continent, sufficient food, a complete set of basic materials such as steel bars and cement, and sufficient propeller aircraft from the mainland, Daiying was able to build a pilot team with all his strength.

Pilots are recruited throughout the Commonwealth and Colonies,
then,

Relax the requirements for enlistment, reduce the training time, halve the theoretical training, fill up the direct actual machine training, relax the training reduction requirements,

After a series of measures, the number of pilots in the British Empire has increased several times. Afterwards, the elite parts are extracted from them to form jet fighter pilots. Because of the lack of jet fighters, it is naturally impossible to follow the previous training mode here, and can only follow the old rules. Veterans bring new recruits to familiarize themselves with the Jets step by step.

Fortunately, the British Empire has a deep foundation and abundant high-end human resources. Therefore, at present, every jet fighter squadron is fully staffed, and each squadron has 24 pilots.

Although there are enough jet fighter jets from the United States, although they cannot be used for training and consumption like the low-end propeller training aircraft purchased by the mainland on the other side, they are still sufficient to meet the needs of combat troops.

Naturally, each jet fighter squadron was equipped with 24 jet fighters, and even had four spare fighters.

"Twenty-three people took off, and 23 people came back, four of whom were injured by parachuting."

The staff officer paused for a while before answering the squadron leader's question.

Because the combat intensity was too high, the Royal Air Force Command organized the flying troops into three groups based on squadrons, and they participated in the battle, prepared for the battle and repaired respectively. Today, their squadron faced the German fighter jets.

"Thirteen."

The squadron leader, Lieutenant Colonel Greif, was stunned for a long time.

"Hey···"

He didn't say anything, just sighed deeply.

Twenty-three people took off in the morning, but now, including him, only 23 people have flown back.

It is already nine o'clock at night, and the pilots are equipped with signal transmitters. If they survive the parachute, they will definitely contact the base or be searched and rescued. After all, this is the mainland of the British Empire.

There is still no news, which means that the others are basically in danger.

"The gap between our aircraft and the enemy is too great."

The staff officer on the side couldn't help but said.

Although both sides are jet fighters, just like the Spitfire and the Hurricane, there is a gap between the same jet fighters, and the gap between the jet fighters produced by the United States and the Germans is not the gap between the Spitfire and the Hurricane The difference is indescribable.

If we only talk about performance, it can be said that although there is a gap in the performance of enemy and enemy jet fighters, they are still not desperate and can still engage in combat. But if you add failure rate and stability, it is completely two kinds of aircraft.

He had never seen a German jet fighter malfunction in combat.

Not once.

On my own side, before taking off every day, some of them had problems. Just like their squadron, with 24 fighter jets and three spare planes, only 23 of them flew.

Then, not long after takeoff, one was forced to return due to a malfunction.

According to a statistics from the General Staff Department, among all the jet fighters lost, nearly one-third of them were lost due to failure, which is an extremely terrifying figure.

"No way, we can only do this..."

The squadron leader, Lieutenant Colonel Greif, sighed again.

The Yankees are not good at technology, and the jets they built are not as good as the Germans.

In order to reduce the performance gap between the two fighters, the Yankees had to use a lot of immature technologies, especially the engine. More than two-thirds of the failures were caused by the engine.

"I have already reported that the new pilots will be sent over tomorrow morning, and the supplementary fighter jets will also be sent over tomorrow."

The staff officer continued.

"New pilot..."

The squadron leader, Lieutenant Colonel Greif, frowned even deeper.

Why do you lose ten pilots in just one battle?Fighter performance is a very important factor, and another major factor is the lack of pilot experience.

Although the pilots who come to the jet squadron have at least [-] to [-] hours of flying experience, jets and propeller planes are completely different, both in terms of theoretical knowledge and operating habits. Time to master jet fighters.

What's more, most of the people assigned to him are newly trained pilots.

As for the experienced group of propeller pilots fighting on the front line, the front-line troops will never let go. Of course, a large part of these people are not willing to run over to fight the Germans.

"How many days is the next time we go to war?"

asked Lieutenant Colonel Greif, the squadron leader.

"Seven days later!"

The staff officer replied.

The squadron leader frowned deeply.

That time had been shortened from fifteen days to seven days as the Germans stepped up their offensive.In other words, he needs to familiarize pilots who have only flown jet aircraft a few times with jet fighters in just seven days.

This is almost an impossible thing to do.

Unless he can let these pilots do jet training and fly six or seven hours a day, but it's impossible.

the other side.

An airport for the American Ninth Air Force.

A lieutenant colonel of the American Army Aviation also frowned deeply as he looked at the flight team that had lost nearly one-third of its staff.

The situation in the United States is much better than that in the United Kingdom.

The huge local flight academy team allows the Americans to have sufficient human resources and more time to train new pilots, but because of the heavy losses, they also face the problem of insufficient training of jet fighter pilots.

Fifty steps and a hundred steps.

Then poorly trained pilots went into battle, adding to combat losses, which in turn exacerbated the shortage of skilled pilots.

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November 26st.

early morning.

An airport in continental Europe.

"Pay attention to the throttle stick, a jet fighter is different from a propeller, so..."

Senior instructors from Germany's elite flying force were explaining the essentials of jet operation. Twenty or so new pilots listened carefully, and judging from their appearance, these new pilots seemed to be from Central Europe.

"Remember what I said, study hard during your flight, and parachute directly if you encounter problems."

After the explanation, the instructor directly asked the novices to sit on the fighter jets in the airport.

More than ten minutes later, more than [-] jet fighters took off one by one. Although they were like toddling babies at first, all of them successfully completed the takeoff, and after taking off, they were quick and proficient in various movements. Many of them even started to play. Difficult action.

Obviously, although these pilots are new to jet fighters, they all have considerable flying experience.

Just when these novices were training on the real machine in the sky, a staff officer walked into the training ground and said to the instructor:

"On the order of the staff, our squadron will enter the battlefield in 21 days."

"21 days later!?"

The Prussian ace frowned.

His squadron has only been in contact with jet aircraft for less than a day, which means that they have only 22 days of training time left.

"It's too short!"

The tone of the Prussian ace instructor was dissatisfied:
"Although a lot of actual aircraft training is available, 22 days is not enough for pilots to master the performance of jet fighters. It takes at least one and a half months."

"This is an order from General Kesselring."

The staff officer shook his head:

"The loss of frontline pilots is much greater than we expected, and the frontline urgently needs pilots."

"But don't worry too much."

Seeing that the ace instructor was still dissatisfied, the staff officer continued:
"The head of state has ordered to expand the training of new pilots. At present, we have recruited more than 1 new pilots who have passed the medical examination from other countries."

(End of this chapter)