Chapter 1063 Tracer 2
Chapter 1063 Tracer 2
Imagine that a series of fighter jets including the Dromedary, Newport, and DH Havilland of the Allied Powers can be seen but not touched. The prince couldn't help but give a thumbs up to this aircraft! Let the Allies first experience the disadvantageous dilemma of the German Air Force at high altitudes in World War II! This is very fulfilling! Of course, this technical advantage is only temporary. After all, before the end of World War I, British aircraft could fly to nearly 5,000 meters, and they also had engines with explosive power. What about a single engine with 300 to 400 horsepower? You can also push the plane to this height! What is the saying in later generations? As long as the engine is good, the refrigerator can reach the sky! (For example, P47 and F6F. Things that have no sense of beauty. I am still the domineering pirate!)
In short, from the perspective of flight performance, if you want this aircraft to spin in circles, it probably won't work in a dog fight, but in terms of speed and flight performance above 2,000 meters (it can fly in circles above 3,000 meters with a single-engine aircraft). This aircraft can crush fighters of the same level. In short, the essence of using this aircraft is to climb, dive, and then kill you in one wave, or leave if you can't kill it...
By the way, the most important thing about this aircraft is to fight bombers. In addition to speed and altitude, it also needs to have enough firepower. So, after the prince made up his mind about countless large 4-engine bombers that have existed and never existed in history, , under the prince's deception and coaxing, the German designer equipped this aircraft with 6 12.7MM large-caliber machine guns! And in order to obtain the best dispersion and the strongest frontal firepower, these machine guns are all mounted on the front of the aircraft!
Maybe someone has said, wouldn't it be easy to install 6 50-cm machine guns on this aircraft? This is true for all planes in 2 battles! What's more, isn't this a twin-engine aircraft? This is true, but you must know that the maximum takeoff weight of the K-4 is not even as high as the FW190A3! The normal take-off weight of the latter in air combat is 3800kg, while the normal take-off weight of the K-4M is only 2500KG! The strength and structure of the aircraft cannot be compared with the propeller aircraft of World War II.
Then you have to install 6 M2 machine guns…. You know, in history, a refrigerator as big as a P47 was, no, an airplane. After installing eight 50-mm machine guns on the wings, shock absorbers were used to reduce vibrations. If you put it in the conditions of a battle, if you dare to install so many weapons on the wings... Once fired, the plane fell apart!
Therefore, under the conditions of World War I, how to install 6 M2 machine guns on the front of an aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of just over 2 tons and ensure that it can fire at the same time is definitely a very big engineering problem! In the end, German engineers decided to arrange firepower and increase the length of the aircraft's nose so that four 12.7MM machine guns could be accommodated on one side. At the same time, every two machine guns have a common rack. There is actually a weak delay when shooting to ensure that the four machine guns cannot resonate when shooting. Two machine guns are on the upper part of the nose, and the other two are on the lower part. Each machine gun has 400 rounds of ammunition.
As for the other two machine guns, it is impossible to stuff them into the nose... On the wing? ! Look at the planes from World War I. Did they put them on the wings? So, after some confusion,
On the top of the upper wing, the Germans mounted two additional fixed large-caliber machine guns. The ammunition reserve of these two machine guns is 200 rounds.
From the perspective of firepower layout, the frontal deployment of firepower is the best. In fact, the German fighter jets in World War II never gave up deploying weapons on the nose, from the initial BF109 to the later FW190 and TA152. The nose weapons and those on the wings create the best shooting walks. Although the United States and Britain cannot do this, they still place firepower on the noses of twin-engine aircraft such as P38 and DH98. After World War II, the first jet aircraft also tended to install weapons on the nose. There was no other way, just take a walk! Of course, there will definitely be some price to pay in order to accommodate the nose machine gun. This is a story for later, let’s not mention it for now.
"As long as you pull the trigger, in ten seconds, you can beat any enemy into a sieve!" When the first batch of Tracers was delivered, the factory technicians explained this to the pilots. Spraying more than 50 rounds of 50-caliber bullets in one second is indeed terrifying.
In order to improve hunting efficiency, the K-4M Tracer aircraft is the first fighter in the German Air Force to be generally equipped with radio devices! The personnel in the back seat are the radio operator and the rear gunner. (There is a 50mm machine gun or 2 MG machine guns in the back seat to deal with the fighters in the rear.) The Tracer fighter is like a lion preparing to hunt an elephant, even if It has advantages in speed and firepower, but the opponent is an elephant after all. Anyone who grows to the size of an elephant can give people a terrifying feeling.
Therefore, in order to ensure efficient search and hunting, it is necessary for Tracers to be equipped with radio equipment. Although the reliability and performance of radios in this era are also synonymous with cheating, it is better than basically relying on roaring for communication, right? Besides, what if it works? !
"No. 3 asked if the Russians will come here?" the telegraph operator sitting in the back seat asked the Red Baron in the front seat after receiving the friendly force's telegram.
"According to our research, we should encounter it. The Russian Ilya heavy bomber units are stationed in two places. One of them is to the north of the city we are currently standing at. It would be best if we can blow up the airport. But unfortunately, we are not bombers. Although they have a long range, if they want to support the Russian army in depth or suppress our rear, they must use fixed routes. We have almost completed the bombing, and each squadron is evacuating. The Russians should be Considered safe.”
"Of course, the most important reason is that we intercepted their telegram, which said that the spaceship force will attack today." The last words of the Red Baron were undoubtedly reassuring. It’s stable now! Sometimes, military operations must be subordinate to political needs. For example, the Allied Air Force has blocked your logistics nodes. If you don't realize the existence of your own Air Force, what will the infantry on the front line think? What do the military bosses think? Therefore, even today when the Allied air power has been greatly strengthened, the Russian "spaceships" still come out to perform bombing missions.
Of course, another very important reason is that the 4-engine bombers have performed very well in recent times, with almost no losses caused by enemy attacks. At best, many German fighter jets could only approach and interfere with the Russian bombers, allowing the Russian bombers to throw away their bombs and then drive away from the battlefield. They rarely fought to the death like they did for the first time.
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