Chapter 685 High-Level Bombing

Enter the bombing route!

The pilot aircraft is the leader, and the bombers behind have lowered their flight heights. In order to complete the bombing of this factory, there are a total of 30 Junkers-290s, enough to carry out a full-scale carpet bombing!

If it is daytime, in order to avoid the attack of ground artillery fire, they can fly at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters, which is a distance that even anti-aircraft artillery can't reach, but now, because it is night, and the other party has no defense at all, so, They boldly lowered the altitude to four thousand meters.

After entering the bombing route, Ludwig became even more nervous, which meant that the bombing was about to start. You must know that bombing was always carried out during the day, but now, they have changed to night!

There is only one chance. After this bombing, the British will definitely be more vigilant. It is impossible for them to easily bomb the aircraft factory again.

The London area has implemented a blackout, but the factory in Bronwich Castle is still brightly lit.

Let the workers work in the dark? That is impossible! Moreover, no one expected that the German bombers would visit. They even flashed the street lights on the roads inside the factory. After all, the factory needs to constantly transport various parts during the production process.

"Where is the idiot, you installed the street lights upside down." A trailer carrying the wings is passing through the road of the factory area and wants to be transported to the factory area of ​​the final assembly. This 1,000-meter-long factory road, he didn't know for a day. How many times to go.

There are not many street lights, but a few of them are actually installed upside down! Other street lights have the reflector on the top and the bulb on the bottom, so that they can illuminate the ground. However, this street light actually has the reflector on the bottom and the bulb on the top. How stupid people can do it!

While cursing, the driver thought about waiting until the daytime to find an electrician to repair it. The electrician is also very tired recently, and it is dangerous to work with electricity at night, and the street lights can only be used after the power is turned off during the day.

He didn't know that this street lamp was installed on purpose. The German agents who were ambushed in this factory deliberately reversed the street lamp. If a row of street lamps were reversed, it would definitely attract attention, and now, only In the factory area, only a few were turned upside down.

On the ground it looks indistinguishable, but in the air, it looks like something.

On the dark earth, there was a ray of light in the factory area, and now, the light of the street lamp can be seen clearly on the bomber. Moreover, these street lights vaguely formed a cross mark!

Next, it's up to you!

After confirming again that there was no problem with the route, and that the British Spitfire fighter factory was in front, Ludwig carefully adjusted the bombing sight in front of him and aimed at the bright light.

Now, he can take a short break and leave it entirely to the bombsight!

During World War II, the American B-29 bomber had two secrets, the most important of which was the novel bombing sight invented by Dutch-born engineer Carl Norton.

The set includes stabilizers and sights.

The stabilizer is a working platform that uses the gyroscope to keep the level, and its function is to provide a stable working platform for the sight. Moreover, the stabilizer will work in conjunction with the bomber's autopilot, which directly controls the plane to maintain level flight. The most sophisticated is the sight, which consists of a mechanical analog computer for calculating impact points, a small telescopic eyepiece, and a sophisticated system of motors and gyroscopes that move the telescopic eyepiece to keep the sight on the ground. The aiming point is always in the field of view.

It is precisely because of this advanced bombing sight that the American B-29 bomber can carry out unscrupulous bombing at an altitude of 10,000 meters when bombing the island country, fully reflecting the high-altitude bombing effect.

And now, German bombers are also equipped with similar bombing sights. They have been researched for five or six years in the Libyan base, and have only recently become fully practical, and only a few have been provided for each Junkers-290 bomber unit. long-range equipment.

On the side of the bombing sight is a cloud of thermite. If the bomber is shot down or forced to land on the enemy's territory, the first thing the crew will do is to destroy this sight. Two or three years ahead!

The interior is assembled from more than 2,000 precision parts and uses a large number of precision gears and ball bearings. This instrument is quite advanced, and at the same time, it is very simple to use.

Use the telescopic eyepiece to find the target, that is, the light of the light bulb on the ground that exits the line ahead of time. Although it looks very weak, the location can be determined.

Next, center the target in the field of view and turn on the power switch of the bombsight.

After that, everything is automatic. The telescopic eyepiece servo motor will ensure that the eyepiece is always aimed at the selected target. At the same time, the entire aircraft is controlled by the bombing sight, and the final bombing is also completed automatically by the sight.

The bombers behind, just keep up and bomb together.

It was unnerving to hand everything over to the machine, and Ludwig was still staring at the sight after he had completed the aiming steps.

Closer and closer, two of them adjusted their direction, and finally, before reaching the target, the cabin door slammed open.

One bomb after another fell, eight tons of bombs, all of which were 500kg free-fall bombs, a total of sixteen bombs, mounted on the front and rear two groups of revolving pylons.

Bombs fell one by one, and the plane was obviously lighter. Ludwig shouted: "The bombing is complete, in the airspace ahead, prepare to turn around and return!"

Hearing the news, the pilot pulled the lever and the bomber began to climb, an aid to avoid a collision with the rear.

At the same time, the bombers behind also started dropping bombs one after another.

At this time, the bombs that were dropped first were flying forward and down.

The accuracy of horizontal bombing is very poor. It is caused by various reasons. In short, even the shape of the bomb and even the paint on the surface will affect its aerodynamic performance. In this era without electronic computers, no one can accurately calculate. The trajectory of a bomb falling at nearly the speed of sound.

Therefore, the plan of the German bomber team is carpet bombing. Even if the accuracy error is three square kilometers, it will cover your area of ​​three square kilometers!

Moreover, they lowered the altitude, and the bombs dropped from four thousand meters landed at a speed almost close to the speed of sound. The first bomb was only fifty meters away from the target, this street light!

When he heard the sound above his head, the driver stuck his head out and looked towards the sky. Then, he saw a black shadow descending rapidly from the darkness. In an instant, he felt terror. On the shadow, into his retina.

That's a big bomb!

"Boom!" The bomb exploded almost ten meters away from him!