New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

() Gulayev's answer immediately caused a burst of laughter. During the laughter, someone shouted something in Russian, and the laughter immediately became louder.Hearing this, even Ron couldn't help laughing.The line reads: "Comrade Guraev, what does shit smell like?"

...After eating, Ron began to explain the basic tasks of the joint force to the Soviet pilots.

"In the air battles on the Western Front, the Germans have launched a new revolutionary fighter jet. This aircraft uses a jet engine and is extremely fast. We have observed these aircraft flying at a speed of 900 kilometers per hour. Everyone I am a veteran, I believe everyone understands what such a high speed means."

All Soviet pilots understand this. In air combat, the speed advantage is the biggest advantage (only in the era of aerial gun air combat. In modern air combat, due to the random entry of missiles, the effect of speed advantage is relatively reduced. Because no matter how fast the speed is, it is difficult Faster than missiles.) When Pokryshkin discussed the three major elements of air combat success, he always put speed first.

"If the Germans use such a fighter jet with a speed of up to 900 kilometers per hour to attack our il-2 fleet, how can we effectively intercept them and protect our attack aircraft?" Comrade Pokryshkin Started to think about this question.But he immediately shook his head. In air combat, it is almost impossible to use conventional methods to prevent the surprise attack of such a high-speed enemy plane.Perhaps the only way the Americans proposed to attack enemy planes that are taking off and landing at the enemy's airport.

"Fortunately, this aircraft is not invulnerable, and it has many weaknesses. First, let's take a look at its structure..." Ron typed a picture of the me-262 on the slide, "Look at its appearance, everyone thinks this Where might something have a performance defect?"

"It's roll must be terrible," Kori Dub said. "The engine is hanging on the wing, far away from the center of the roll. The roll will not be good anyway."

"Yes, this is indeed a fact. In an air battle with this kind of aircraft, as long as our fighter jets can detect it first, it will not be difficult to avoid its attack." Ron said approvingly.

"This aircraft was not designed to fight fighter jets?" asked another Soviet pilot.

"Yes," Ron replied, "the main purpose of the Germans to equip it must be to fight bombers. You can understand this from the firepower configuration of this aircraft. This aircraft is equipped with 4 mk doors on the nose -108 cannon. Everyone must be familiar with this 30mm cannon. It has great power, low firing speed, and curved trajectory. It’s better to use 20 cannon for fighting fighter jets.” (Of course, some perverts are exceptions. Ron added mentally)

"I'm afraid this kind of aircraft has reliability problems?" It was Pokryshkin who spoke this time.

"You said just now that this aircraft uses the latest jet engines. It always takes quite a while for a new engine or something to mature, and a revolutionary new engine may be even more so."

Ron was taken aback by Pokryshkin's speculation.In the U.S. Army Air Corps, Ron has the nickname "Wizard". Guess is close to ten.But Ron himself knew what his own ability was.My own analysis is actually a reverse process under the condition that the result is already known, which is nothing.

But now, Pokryshkin's speculation is different, he is not a time traveler, and before that, he did not have any chance to come into contact with this kind of aircraft.But he still pointed out the biggest flaw of me-262 based on limited information.This is a real "wizard".

Ron stared at Pokryshkin closely, and finally said: "Your intuition is terrible! Fortunately, we are allies. As you infer, this jet does have many reliability problems, and it is concentrated In terms of engines. In our previous battles with them, we found that when this type of aircraft dives at a large angle, the engine may catch fire, and when it accelerates rapidly, the engine is also prone to fire. If the action overload is large during air combat, it is still the engine. It catches fire easily.”

Ron stopped and looked around at the Soviet pilots. They all listened carefully, and Gulaev was still muttering to himself.However, although the big bear felt that it was just whispering, the voice was still clearly distinguishable.

"My ri, can such a plane still fly? At that time, I'm afraid that the number of people who fall by myself may not be much less than the enemies that are beaten down? Did the Germans let dogs make ri fools?"

Of course, Gulayev spoke in Russian.There are instructions above, when dealing with allies and friends, be polite and not allow foul language.

However, Ron can still understand it. You must know that in his previous life, as a machine gun engineer, Ron did not know how many Russian books he had read, and had dealt with how many bear experts who were recruited by rabbits with high salaries after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

"Maybe because of these problems, this kind of aircraft needs a particularly long runway." Following Ron's explanation, some pictures of German airports appeared in the slideshow.In these pictures, those extended runways are very obvious.

"Our fighter jets have been on safari around these airfields. The pilots have seen them take off, and they have to taxi to this position (Ron clicked with the stick) before they can fly. This takeoff slide Even longer than a fully loaded heavy bomber! This is probably because the engine throttle of this aircraft cannot be pushed too fast."

"To make such an aircraft play its combat effectiveness, the pilot's level is very important. Even old pilots must undergo systematic refitting training before flying this type of aircraft. Our goal is to achieve interrupt their training process, burn the flames of war to the hinterland of German fascism, and leave their skies without any safe training area. We have recently received information that the Germans have extended the runways of several airports around Warsaw. It seems that Because of the pressure of our long-range fighters, they want to move the jet force closer to the east to complete the training. So, in order to better fight the German fascists, we must unite..."

After roughly explaining the reasons for this combat mission, Ron began to take the Soviets to familiarize themselves with the p-81 fighter jets they will use in the future.This time the Americans flew a total of 25 P-81s, and the Soviets will spend about a week completing adaptive training on these fighters.During this week, new p-81 aircraft will be airlifted here from the Bering Strait by means of transport aircraft transfer.Eventually, a long-range fighter force of approximately 100-150 p-81 fighters would be formed on the eastern front.

"This plane looks really good! It's just that the landing gear looks a little weird." Pokryshkin stood by the plane and looked up at the somewhat thin-legged fighter plane. The p-81 also has a propeller at the back, and the propeller is not small.In order to prevent the propeller from touching the ground, its landing gear is designed to be quite long.This also makes it almost impossible for the aircraft to take off on dirt runways.

"Want to try it?" Ron asked.

"Of course," said Pokryshkin.He glanced at the high cockpit, and said, "Where is your ladder?"

When the p-81 just landed, the Soviet ground crew ran over, but found that the ladder they had prepared was not high enough.When I was in a hurry, I saw the Yankee door lift a handle, and a folding boarding ladder that comes with the plane automatically opened.

The Soviets have also seen fighter jets with their own boarding ladders. For example, the F6F leased from the Americans has this thing on it.It's just that after arriving in the Soviet Union, the Soviets who are accustomed to thrift and care about everything feel that this thing is too extravagant, and it increases the empty weight of the aircraft, which is not good for air combat.So most of the time I have to remove it by myself.At that time, the Americans told them that the f6f was originally a naval aircraft, and the navy has always had some special requirements, and the army's fighter jets did not have these things.

But now, isn't the p-81 also an army aircraft?How can there be this?The answer is that this guy is so tall that the Army's existing airstairs don't work very well, so he simply made it come with one.Anyway, it has plenty of power, and it's not a big deal to add a little weight.

Ron opened a small hatch on the fuselage. There was a knob inside. Turn the knob, and an airstair opened automatically.

Pokryshkin climbed into the cockpit, and Ron also climbed up, standing aside and explaining the layout of the cockpit to him.

"It's nothing else, just follow me for a while and fly. And don't pull too hard when taking off. Always remember that there is also a propeller at the back." Ron finally explained.

Pokryshkin nodded to Ron, so Ron stepped back, Pokryshkin put away the boarding ladder, and began to start the two engines in sequence, ready to take off.And Ron ran to another P-81.

According to the agreement, Ron should take off first, followed by Pokryshkin.But as soon as Ron got into the cockpit, he saw that Pokryshkin was already sliding on the runway.

"This guy, really!" Ron shook his head.Most ace pilots are confident and adventurous, and Pokryshkin is no exception.If Ron remembered correctly, this guy had been punished before the battle for his tendency to do dangerous moves.

Ron pushed the throttle and followed.At this time, Pokryshkin's P-81 had reached take-off speed.He gently pulled the joystick, and the front wheels of the plane slowly left the ground (this plane also uses a three-point landing gear because of its swept wings.), and it flew up steadily.