Beiyang 1917

More importantly, in the night battle, the German aircraft painted in white is obviously more eye-catching than the coalition SE5 with the upper body camouflage and the lower body painted sky blue. Although the two teams of the coalition army alternately turned and turned somersaults, the formation of 2 planes It has been maintained.

This means that the 1vs1 air duel that the German ace pilots were looking forward to did not appear as they wished. Although the coalition air force has produced countless air ace pilots in the future, in the autumn of 1918, Wang Geng's request to the coalition air force was Use collective combat to make up for the lack of individual pilot experience.

The so-called killing the old master with random punches is the rebirth of the Red Baron. He will never be able to single out 4 enemy planes and win a complete victory. To win, he can only defeat them one by one. The 4-plane formation is very dogmatic but tight. The lead plane decides the formation's tactical actions and attacks, while the wingmen are responsible for following and covering, and the No. 3 and No. 4 twin-plane formations are responsible for covering No. 1 and No. 2 formations.

As for the lead plane of se5, he is always chasing and attacking the enemy plane that poses the greatest threat to his formation, not the enemy plane that seems to be the weakest on the other side. This is the concept that Wang Geng instilled in the coalition air force. In the air battles on the Western Front in the European War, almost 80% of the shooting downs were completed by the ace pilots of both sides. To fight a snake, you need to hit seven inches. Ace vs. ace is the best choice in air combat.

In other words, the concept instilled in each flying squad of the coalition air force is to win every battle with the maximum survival rate of the squad, rather than simply shooting down numbers.

The lead pilot of each team must be the one with the best skills in the whole team, but this is far from enough for the coalition air force. The commander who can command and lead his team to win the battle with the highest survival rate is the only one. It is qualified to lead the captain. Judgment on the fly is often more critical than technology. A wrong judgment makes a wrong choice, which means failure and being shot down.

Of course, every pilot in the Allied Air Force is equipped with a parachute, and parachuting is a skill that they must master even before they fly solo in aviation school. Austrian and Turkish pilots are not equipped with parachute bags. In the words of the British, air combat is a duel of air knights. If you are shot down, you will either make an emergency landing or fall to your death. Parachuting to survive is a cowardly act, which will reduce the morale of the troops and the determination to win.

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If the goal of the seven Fokkerdviii white fighters led by Lieutenant Ruzel is to shoot down the enemy, then the two SE7 squads of the coalition air force's air combat purpose is to save themselves and then destroy the enemy. This time The formation air battle of half a squadron size eventually turned into an eagle catching a chick, but the German Fokkerdviii, who was like a pudgy little white pigeon, played the role of the eagle, while the bigger and more slender Allied Forces SE5 played the role of the chick. .

In the air, it can be barely seen that two SE2 squads in camouflage are circling and fighting and chasing two white Fokker fighters. The shooting distance between the two sides ranges from 5 meters to 500 meters or even 100 meters. Of course, the intersection is In an instant, the tracer bullets splashed gorgeous colors and lights in the night sky.

First round of air combat:

The 4 fokkerdviii led by Lieutenant Ruzel of Germany rushed from a high altitude and shot down the No. 2 aircraft at the end of the second SE5 team of the coalition air force, and damaged the wings of the No. 4 aircraft, but the good show was not over. , the three fokkers led by Lieutenant Dolin, who was flying somersaulting in front, obviously forgot that it was 3 SE4 biplane fighters chasing them, not the DH5 fighter-bombers they fought against before.

Lieutenant Duolin and his team were so negligent that they were quickly approached by the formation of SE54 aircraft behind them, who were also as light as a swallow and whose speed had been increased to the maximum speed, and cut the radius to attack. The caliber aviation machine gun sprayed out hot and shiny bullets, illuminating the night sky, sweeping like a waterfall in the middle of the formation of three fokkerdviiis that were turning and climbing.

At the same time that Lieutenant Ruzel led 4 fokkerdviiis and shot down and injured one SE5 of the coalition air force each, the No. 3 aircraft behind Captain Dolin was shot down, and the No. 2 aircraft was hit. Smoke and flames staggered towards the ground and made an emergency landing.

Kent von Dohring, who leveled his plane after somersaulting, seemed to have his mind petrified in an instant!

Nima, who said that the Chinese pilots of the coalition air force are all rookies. If I hadn’t flipped so fast just now, even my tail might have been swept away by the opponent’s large-caliber machine gun. It was too late to grieve for the loss of three planes and three ace comrades in a row for the entire team. Facing the four Allied SE3 fighter jets that rushed over after somersaulting, Duolin slammed the control lever, and quickly pulled up while rolling, He is determined to get rid of the opponent's pursuit by virtue of fokkerdviii's excellent climbing speed.

In the first round where the fighter jets of the two sides confronted each other, one of the coalition se5 biplane fighters was shot down and one was injured, while the German fokkerdviii upper monoplane fighter was also shot down and one of each was injured. It was a tie!

However, the pilot of the SE5 shot down by the coalition forces successfully parachuted, and a white umbrella flower was extraordinarily dazzling in the night sky below 3000 meters, while the German Fokkerdviii was shot down in the air and disintegrated, the pilot and the plane They all fell like stones and were smashed to pieces.

From the perspective of casualties, the two SE2 squads of the coalition air force clearly had the upper hand!

1918年7月28ri18：25别尔哥罗德西南、乌克兰上空

As the new ace squadron of the German 1st Fighter Squadron, it is clear that Lieutenant Ruzel, the leader of the 26th Fighter Squadron, could not accept the fact that his squadron lost two Fokkerdviii's in front of him. The joy of the se5 fighter plane was fleeting, and while Ruzel scolded Dolin for not being up to date, he commanded his team to abandon the se5 leader plane and his wingman that had turned away from the somersault, and turned around to rescue Dorin.