Steel Soviet Union

Symbolizing black death, the vultures hung high in the sky and swooped down to the earth. Waiting for the German soldiers on the ground who mistakenly thought they had seen hope, there was only endless flesh and bone breaking, enough to annihilate even the soul. die.

"These guys arrived in time. If it were any later, something big would have happened."

Malashenko will not forget that Vatutin also specially prepared a ground attack aviation group for himself. It is on standby at a field airport not far from the front line and calls this group of ground attack aircraft to deal with the Germans. The tin can is obviously perfect.

Malashenko does not plan to use the Guards Artillery Division to blow up the Germans now. In contrast, this final trump card will have to be saved until it is needed more, and then suddenly appear to give the Germans the ultimate blow. A heavy blow and complete destruction, burying them all.

A densely packed mass of black Il-2 attack aircraft dived straight down from the sky. The roaring engines drove the propellers to rotate at high speed, making a roaring sound of cracking the sky. The German infantrymen who had been stunned by the sudden sight before them even forgot to escape for a moment and just stared at the sky blankly.

"Air attack! Russian air attack! Get out of the way! Take cover!!!"

Finally, someone thought of shouting loudly to alert the comrades standing around in a daze, but at this moment it was too late.

What was different from the past was that those "flying tanks" roaring down were not equipped with the air-launched rockets that made the German army fearful and timid.

The German soldiers panicked and ran for cover. They didn't know why and had no time to think about it.

Maybe those Black Reapers only hung bombs in the belly bomb bay? Plus in-wing aircraft cannons to attack our own side?

Maybe, but it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

Because no matter what, these terrifying flying tanks are definitely not here to celebrate our birthdays and New Year's greetings. Idiots with brains dumber than pigs know that these Russian planes are definitely here to take care of our own lives.

So don't talk so much now. It's important to run for your life. When those shells and bombs are really thrown in your face, you won't even have time to regret it. A second earlier and a step faster will give you more hope of survival.

Some German soldiers guessed correctly that these IL-2s were indeed equipped with iron bombs to deal with them.

What the Germans on the ground never expected was that the iron bomb mounted in the belly bomb bay of the IL-2 was not an ordinary aerial bomb. It was specially prepared by Malashenko to see off the German armored troops. "Special Express": anti-tank cluster bomb code-named PTAB.

Compared with most ordinary aerial bombs, PTAB anti-tank cluster bombs are definitely a special ammunition.

As its name describes, this is a special anti-armor weapon that is professionally used to attack ground armored units and uses a mother bomb body to wrap a large number of small bombs.

Each PTAB bomblet weighs only 5 kilograms, and up to 72 such small bombs can be loaded inside a mother bomb and released in clusters.

But don’t think that this little guy weighing 5 kilograms has no lethality. In fact, it is a free-fall attack weapon that uses a concentrated energy-breaking armor warhead similar in principle to the Kraut’s Iron Fist.

Because it is a chemical energy armor-breaking attack principle, its anti-armor power is always constant and is not affected by the launch height and kinetic energy. It can stably break through 52 mm of equivalent rolled uniform steel armor.

The armor-breaking power of 52 mm was nothing to mention on the battlefield in 1944. This level of anti-armor firepower was not even used against main tanks. Even Malashenko would not take a look at it even if he stretched his hips. No. 4 can't be penetrated, it's like scratching an itch.

But there is a crucial factor. These small bombs are released in free-fall scattering and attack from top to bottom.

The target armor part it attacks is neither the strongest frontal armor, nor the side armor with the second-lowest defense, but the body top armor and turret dome armor, which are the most vulnerable on any armored vehicle.

No matter how sturdy the heavily armored tank is, it will not set the Tianling Cover as a key protection area. No armored vehicle's head shell can be called indestructible.

Although the armor penetration depth of 52 mm is small, it is enough to tear through the Tianling cover of all the German tanks currently in service.

The delivery accuracy is poor, and there is no way to ensure that it can be thrown accurately on top of the heads of the Germans' broken cars. Then use quantity to make up for the lack of accuracy. One mother bomb is loaded with 72 bullets, and then a group of IL-2s loaded with these PTAB anti-tank cluster bombs are sent out intensively to form the most efficient intensive air strike and effectively cover local armored clusters. The entire ground area where it is located.

It doesn't take too many small bombs to really hit a Kraut tank. As long as it hits key parts, such as the heat dissipation window on the top of the power cabin or the top armor of the turret, even one is enough to destroy the Kraut's 70-ton steel behemoth on the spot. , was forced to withdraw from the battle.

If you are lucky enough, for example, a hit hits the top armor of the King Tiger's turret, then this fatal attack will be enough to penetrate the armor, pour the hot metal jet into it, and detonate the first ammunition rack at the rear of the King Tiger's turret. , causing it to be completely reduced to a pile of hot scrap metal in the explosive explosion of ammunition that shook the earth and the mountains.

Of course, situations like this are rare, and the actual effect during the attack still depends on luck.

After diving to the bomb release height, the Il-2s shook their fuselage, swung their wings, and instantly threw out the prepared PTAB anti-tank cluster bomb from the belly bomb bay that had been opened. The pylon dropped straight down towards the target that was already very close to the ground.

The huge mother bomb, which was as tall as a man, scattered in mid-air into countless small aerial bombs, like a goddess scattering flowers. After these densely packed black cylindrical objects broke away from the mother bomb, they quickly became top-heavy. Fixed flying behavior. The five-piece elastic wings that played a role in stabilizing the aerodynamics bounced straight away, and the warhead with the heaviest weight faced downwards and fell straight down to the ground.

The German infantrymen who only cared about fleeing for their lives had no time to see what the Russian gods of death above their heads had dropped. They didn't care at all.

But the murder weapon falling straight down will not stop because the enemy turns a blind eye. After the blink of an eye, there is a crisp but quiet explosion, like a water tank being smashed. Like heavy rain falling, explosions continued throughout the area where the German troops were located.

Boom boom boom boom boom——

Malashenko, who was sitting in his commander's position and protected by heavy armor, could not hear clearly what the sounds of the small bombs that exploded one after another were made.

But if Malashenko were to make a guess based on the rough inference of what he saw visually, the sound might be similar to that of a large pot full of boiled beans suddenly being dropped into a hot oil pan. It would definitely be "crackling." "There was a noise.