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Chapter 163 Cluster Bombs
You must know that aircraft with all-weather combat capabilities were not realized until the 1960s due to breakthroughs in airborne radar and airborne electronic equipment!

Therefore, even in the war to aid Korea, the US military aircraft did not have night combat capabilities.

After all, if the American army had the ability to fight at night, it would not bomb during the day, but basically shut down at night!
Of course, Liu Xiu had no way to equip these fighters with any radar or infrared night vision equipment. Although the Eighth Route Army has been able to develop radio stations, the electronic technology is still far behind that of countries like the United States!

What's more, even the United States only developed all-weather fighters after the 1960s!

However, although Liu Xiu was unable to develop a true all-weather fighter, he could allow the ground team to cooperate in bombing guidance.

And this bombing guidance is also very simple. At night, isn't it because the fighter planes have no field of vision that they can't see the target clearly for bombing?

And this is easy to handle, then let the ground attacking team use signal bombs, smoke bombs, or glow bombs to bombard and guide the bombers in the air.

Tell the pilots to bomb this place that glows with smoke!
However, in addition to bombing guidance, night bombing is also a problem for pilots. Taking off at night is easy. Anyway, as soon as you step on the accelerator, it will fly straight forward. When the plane reaches a certain speed, it will naturally take off!
But landing at night is a big problem. Since you can't see clearly at night, the distance between the aircraft and the runway is naturally very difficult to grasp. If you don't do it right, you may not land on the runway, but directly hit the runway. !

Before Liu Xiu's crossing, the method for modern aircraft to land at night was to put a row of indicator lights on both sides of the airport runway, so that the pilot could know where the runway was and how far it was from him. Modern aircraft also had real-time measurement capabilities. Range radar can tell pilots how far and high they are from the runway at all times!

Of course, Liu Xiu couldn't let his subordinates do it first when flying a plane to land at night, so Liu Xiu took the first step himself!
In fact, Liu Xiu and the members of the special operations team have taken off and landed hundreds of times at night, but they are not fixed-wing aircraft, but rotary-wing aircraft. Compared with fixed-wing aircraft, this thing only takes two seconds to take off. Thirty meters, and the landing is even more powerful. It can land directly on the spot. Even if the engine is turned off and your eyes are closed, this rotorcraft can bring you down safely.

Therefore, the difficulty of landing a rotary-wing aircraft is naturally not comparable to that of a fixed-wing aircraft landing at night!

Because electric lights were hard to find, Liu Xiu found hundreds of kerosene lamps and lit them up on both sides of the airport runway. After all, the brightness of kerosene and other lamps may not be as bright as LED lights, but it can still be compared with tungsten lamps.

What's more, as a runway indicator light, it is useless to be so bright. It only needs to be able to let the pilots in the sky clearly see the location of the runway!
After all, it was a night landing. Liu Xiu did not grasp the distance between the plane and the runway for the first time, so when he landed, he landed too hard, which broke the landing gear of the plane!

Of course, the wooden landing gear is not that strong to begin with!

However, the damage was not a big deal. It could still be used after some repairs. After the first experience, Liu Xiu successfully replaced the aircraft with ease.

Liu Xiu's success in taking off and landing at night also gave the other pilots of the New Third Regiment a confidence, at least from the bottom of their hearts, they would no longer be afraid, and this was the role of taking the lead.

So Liu Xiu selected hundreds of veteran pilots with rich flying experience and began to conduct experiments on them from taking off and landing at night. Of course, night bombing, in addition to the most difficult night landing, is actually not easy to navigate at night. But fortunately, Liu Xiu used the radio he just discovered not long ago and the cooperation of the compass to still be able to fly the planes to the designated location.

Of course, in order to allow the pilot to better confirm the direction, Liu Xiu will also ask the ground team to launch a signal flare when the bomber is about to arrive!

The training time always passed quickly. When Liu Xiu trained hundreds of pilots who were fully capable of conducting night flights and bombings, the time came to four or six years, and the United Front finally officially started!

However, in the early stages, Liu Xiu followed the instructions above and did not come for a head-on confrontation. Instead, he chose to retreat tactically, demonstrating that he would give up the important cities he occupied.

And this is naturally to make the other side have the reputation of destroying peace. After all, after eight years of resistance, the people are resisting the war from the bottom of their hearts. So at this time, it is not about striking first to gain strength; It has gone to the heart of the people!

Otherwise, there would be no fuss over there, and it has been delayed from 4-5 years to 4-6 years. Of course, this side naturally understands the reputation and reputation in the hearts of the people, so it is eager for the other side to take action first!
What's more, the main force here is not actually in the city, but in the countryside, so occupying the city will not hurt the foundation of this place at all!
And let them occupy the city over there, and then make dumplings here, and catch turtles in the jar, wouldn't it be wonderful?
Of course, because of this, in the past four or six years, Liu Xiu's trump card was not played out at all. This situation continued for more than a year, and it was not until 48 years that there was any movement. , because this is the time for the higher-ups to decide on a major counterattack!

At this time, after more than two years of hard work, Li Yunlong has directly changed from the leader of the regiment to the head of the two lions of Huasheng. After all, he has fallen out with that side at this time, so naturally he does not have to guard the weaving there. I won’t let him go, so no matter how much credit he has contributed, he will naturally be in whatever position he deserves!

Of course, Chu Yunfei also got a lion leader at this time, and he was also the main lion there, the eighty-nine lion!

Of course, Liu Xiu spent so long that in addition to training in taking off and landing at night, he also improved the bombing device of the aircraft and changed the original bombing mode of large bombs to small bombs.

After all, if it is a 50-kilogram powerful bomb, you can carry two at a time, or you can carry three or four with less fuel.

But if you carry a small bomb like a grenade that only weighs one kilogram, you can carry more than 200 at a time!

Although a 50-kilogram bomb is very powerful, one bomb can kill at most twenty or thirty people. If they are grouped together, it will only be forty or fifty people. After all, thermal weapon warfare personnel will not be concentrated so densely!
And when carpet bombing is carried out with small bombs such as grenades, the area that can be bombed is much larger!

Of course, in order to make it easier to bomb and load, it still uses large packaging, that is, a hundred small bombs are packed together to make one big bomb, and then the explosion time of the big bomb is shortened, using the method of air bombing. After the plane drops it, let it explode in the air, so that the small bombs inside will be scattered.

In this way, its killing range will be larger, and this method actually has another name, called cluster bombs!

(End of this chapter)