Major Josef Flandersek, dressed in a somewhat old leather jacket with the Czechoslovak Air Force mark, stood on the aft deck of a freewheel, a camel cigarette in his mouth, and craned his neck to watch the somewhat boring air battle.
This is not at all an air battle Flandersek spat out a cloud of smoke and had some contempt for the Germans in his heart.
They only know to rely on superior equipment, and if the enemy's planes are better than theirs or the pilots are better than them, they will simply evade engagement.
Either fly high, or make a high-speed dive FW190 move, or quickly pull up to lure the enemy to the muzzle of a friendly machine in an ambush high altitude.
In short, not a single German pilot dared to fight the enemy in an upright manner.
At least Major Flandersek, a Czechoslovak patriot who was an ace pilot of the Royal Air Force, had never met a decent German pilot, although he was shot down 6 times by his opponent in air battles in the English Channel.
And the "tank tactic", which the Germans had been using frequently since the summer of 1942, seemed to Flandersek to be even more despicable and shameless to a new level.
But this tactic of unscrupulousness and cowardice was too much in line with the nature of the Germans.
They are such a people, they will only use intrigue and deception to achieve their ends, and this is how Major Flandersek's homeland, Czechoslovakia, was destroyed by the Germans.
But now that the United States and the Soviet Union are on the side of Czechoslovakia, the defeat and demise of Germany is inevitable, and any of their machinations will not succeed, including the despicable and shameless "gas tank tactics".
Thinking of this, Flandersek turned his head and glanced at a Spitfire K5F fighter mounted on a catapult on the rear deck of the freewheel.
This was Flandersek's landline and the killer weapon used by the Anglo-American allies against the German "tank tactics".
This Spitfire K5F fighter is a special model produced in the United States, based on the Spitfire 5 that appeared in 41, installed a 12-cylinder Merlin Type 60 engine produced in the United States, removed all armor, removed 20 cannons and 2 machine guns, and retained only 2 127 Browning machine guns, and the body itself was also as light as possible, using as thin materials as possible, and even the on-board radio was omitted.
This modification, which removes armor, reduces firepower and reduces the strength of the fuselage, is, of course, to reduce weight in order to allow the aircraft to fly higher.
At the same time, the aerodynamic shape of the aircraft has been modified to allow it to achieve maximum lift.
In tests conducted in the United States, the Spitfire K5F fighter could fly to an altitude of more than 14,000 meters, and also maintained a high speed of about 650 kilometers per hour at an extremely high altitude of about 13,000 meters However, this kind of high-altitude and high-speed aircraft that is reduced by weight loss must also be a "little short leg", with a maximum range of only a pitiful 600 kilometers.
If it is placed on the British mainland, it is an airport defender, and it will not be able to deal with the anti-ship JU288 at all.
Therefore, the Spitfire K5F must be able to go on board, but its too thin body and too fast landing speed are too light, and it is the tip of the liquid-cooled engine, and the landing is of course fast and makes this type of Spitfire unable to board the aircraft carrier.
Fortunately, the American tyrants have their own local methods, and this kind of plane is loaded with a free wheel and catapulted into the sky with a catapult, just like a seaplane.
The problem of taking off is easy to handle, but what to do when it comes This is not difficult for American tyrants.
K5F went to the airport to land.
If there is no airfield nearby, then after the air battle, the pilot will parachute and the plane will be thrown away So this is a disposable aircraft, and during this escort operation, the NR21 fleet carried a total of 60 Spitfire K5E.
"Colonel, the 51 and 38 of the Brit flew away."
After more than an hour at an altitude of 1.25 million meters, just when I was feeling bored, the voice of Major Werner Treebers, commander of the 1st Escort Fighter Regiment of the Naval Air Corps, came from the earphones of Colonel Johannes Steinhofer.
"It's great to be gone."
Colonel Steinhoff looked down and saw dozens of 51 and 38 planes forming a dozen four-plane formations, fleeing with their tails between their legs.
"Werner," Colonel Steinhofer ordered, "you take 2 squadrons to chase" "Yes, Mr.
Colonel."
Colonel Steinhof then then instructed Perris, the navigator and telegraph operator behind him, "to contact the Zeppelin, that the 51 and 38 of their Englishmen have withdrawn, and that they should send F to intercept the north coast of Scotland." ” The F sent by the aircraft carrier was already halfway along, and the Zeppelin, after receiving a telegram from Colonel Steinhoff, was immediately able to notify the commander of the first strike wave in front by telegram to move F to wait near several airfields off the northern coast of Scotland.
After arranging the tasks of pursuit and volley, Colonel Steinhoff again began to assign attack tasks.
The target of the attack was not a convoy of transports on the water, but battleships and heavy cruisers.
Steinhofer's JU288 carried 15-ton Fritz X remote-controlled glide bombs, which were wasteful against freewheels, and the Fritz X was so penetrating that it was likely to fall underneath the ship and fall into the water.
Of course, the transport ship also has to be hit.
The 108, which is now lounging at low altitude dozens of kilometers away to avoid radar, and the Fokker 100 carrier-based bombers, which are approaching, are carrying high-explosive bombs, and their targets are the large groups of transport ships on the water.
There are now 12 old battleships on the surface, 5 Queen Elizabeth class, 2 Wyoming class, 2 New York class, 2 Mexican class and 1 Florida class, and 60 JU288s in the sky.
Therefore, Steinhoff sent 5 JU288s to each old battleship, and each JU288 had 2 Fritz X bombs on it, that is, no old British and American battleship could get 10 Fritz X bombs, which can basically be "sunk".
Just as Steinhofer and his men were happily piloting the plane to gradually reduce altitude, while carefully maintaining a "safe distance", they slowly approached the British and American battleships that were speeding up on the water.
On dozens of freighters on the water, small planes suddenly ejected.
"Canopy" With a muffled sound, Major Flandersek felt as if he were a pebble, shot into the sky by a slingshot.
He now sits in the humble cabin of a disposable Spitfire that has been ejected into the sky, wearing a thick leather jacket, a parachute, and an oxygen mask.
The plane's engines were already running at full speed, and a pair of four-bladed propellers spun fast, bringing huge lift to the plane.
Pulled by this upward momentum, the plane climbed at a breakneck speed.
Major Flandersek gently pushed the joystick and aimed the head of the plane at a ju288 that was circling and descending in the air.
The two planes approached rapidly, and from Flandersek's eyes, he saw only that the plane was getting bigger and closer.
Suddenly, the JU288 seemed to find itself the prey and began to gain altitude.
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"Hmph, can you still run away" Flandersek smiled coldly, his fingers already snapped into the firing button of the machine gun.
If Flandersek had looked down at the altimeter in the cabin at this time, he would have seen that the plane's altitude had risen very quickly. 8000 meters, 8500 meters, 9000 meters, 9500 meters When the altimeter jumped to 12500 meters, the JU288, which was being chased by Flandersek, was obviously panicked, and the bomb bay door under the belly suddenly opened, and 2 Fritz X gliding bombs were thrown out casually.
But now that I remembered that it was too late to lose weight, Flandersek realized that the "prey" was already in range, so he did not hesitate to press the machine-gun firing button.
Two strings of tracer bullets were drawn like fire whips towards the JU288 in front, and several bullet holes suddenly appeared on the fuselage of the aircraft in front.
However, the plane did not fall, but like a horse that had been whipped by a whip, it suddenly accelerated and galloped, and it seemed that it was useful to drop the bomb to reduce its weight.
However, this level of acceleration was still not enough to fall down the pursuing Spitfire.
"I want to run" Flandersek gritted his teeth and pressed the machine gun fire button, and the bullets shot at the JU288 in front of him in a row, and several fist-sized bullet holes were punched.
Then the German plane suddenly plunged down and began to dive at an angle of 60 degrees.
"Hell" Flandersek cursed, because his own plane is not very capable of diving, because the plane has lost so much weight that it has become not very strong, and if the dive is too fast, it will fall apart in the sky.
Flandersek was still unwilling to give up, and still took the risk of driving the plane to dive and chase after him for a while, but he didn't dare to rush too fast, and finally could only watch the plane get farther and farther away from him.
However, since the other side threw away the bomb and fled for his life, the tactic of "one-time fire" was obviously successful.
From now on, the surface fleet will no longer be defenseless when it encounters the JU288.
In this way, a large number of Lend-Lease materials from the United States have been continuously transported to Britain in a steady stream of energy.
Flandersek, who was in a good mood, drove the plane around in the air, found the direction of the Faroe Islands, and then flew there to the airfield on the Faroe Islands that had been quietly built after the autumn equinox, which the Germans did not know and had not bombed, so it was still usable.
Flandersek prepares to fly his plane to land there, then refuel and fly to the north of Scotland.
But just as he found the airport and was about to land, a string of tracer bullets suddenly flew past his cabin cover t1706231537: