Chapter 423 Trap

Navigation in this era is quite backward.

In later generations, there are advanced laser gyroscopes, which can have quite high operating accuracy, and with the assistance of global positioning systems, etc., it is very simple to determine one's own position.

However, it was different during World War II.

Navigation during World War II was quite primitive and backward. It can be said that it mainly relied on magnetic compass and aeronautical charts.

When taking off, the navigator holds an aeronautical chart in his hand, and constantly marks it on the aeronautical chart to determine his position according to his own heading, speed, time and other information.

In this way, the error is definitely not small. For example, when the United Kingdom was bombing Germany, several aerial bombing teams often flew off by hundreds of kilometers.

Then, the navigator is extremely important. An experienced navigator is a valuable asset in the Air Force and is highly respected.

In addition to marking the aeronautical map, navigators can also use landmarks to determine and correct their navigation errors.

Every bombing is a large formation. This is not a pretense. The main thing is to follow the navigator, so that there will be more opportunities to find the target to bomb.

Although radio navigation has been widely used in World War II, radio navigation is easily interfered, and there are distance limitations. Long-distance bombing has to rely on the most basic methods.

This is still land, but when it comes to the sea, it is even more troublesome. If there is no experienced navigator, it will definitely fly out, and then when you fly back, you can't find the aircraft carrier. After all, the sea is endless and there are no landmarks. can learn from.

Therefore, ordinary naval carrier-based aircraft will not be dispatched alone. After a large formation is over, they will wait in the airspace, gather enough to go together, and it is very sad to be alone.

The current British Air Force, although not at sea, is similar to the sea. There are deserts below. In the deserts, there are sand dunes everywhere, and it is not easy to find definite coordinates!

what does that mean?

When starting from Egypt, the error began to accumulate continuously. When it flew to Libya, the error was already more than ten kilometers.

Under normal circumstances, this is nothing, and the error of more than ten kilometers is not called an error. After all, in the sky, it is easy to see the target more than ten kilometers away, and it is easy to correct.

But now, there was so much smoke on the ground that they couldn't see at all.

Philip thought that the oil base was covered by the thick smoke in front of him. In fact, the Amal Oilfield was still more than ten kilometers away!

And the distance of more than ten kilometers is the distance between life and death!

Libya, in addition to oil bases, there are secret military bases! Although due to various reasons, the scale of the military base is not very large, but it is not difficult to raise several hundred anti-aircraft artillerymen and pull out hundreds of anti-aircraft artillery!

For example, right now, in the middle of the two burning oil drums, several anti-aircraft artillerymen are on guard. In their hands, they operate the most famous 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun.

The cannonball had already been loaded into the cannon, the muzzle had been aimed forward, and the main gunner's foot was on the trigger.

Now, there is no need for too much action at all, they just wait for the final blow.

Of course, these burning oil barrels are not placed randomly. If there is no thick smoke, you can see from the air that there are passages in the middle of the oil barrels, and at the end of the passage, there are anti-aircraft guns. and anti-aircraft machine guns!

This is of course a trap, if the smoke makes the British Air Force turn back, then forget it, if they dare to sneak in and attack, this is their place of death!

When it's set up, they don't even need to aim at all. The elevation and heading of their anti-aircraft guns are correct. They just wait to fire. As long as the opponent appears in the field of vision, they can hit it directly!

Libya was already hot, and in the flames, I was even hotter. In this case, the anti-aircraft artillerymen were sweating profusely, but no one complained about being tired.

If you compare with the soldiers in Germany, you can find that they are obviously darkened. The sun in North Africa is really poisonous.

The sweat on his forehead dripped down, dripped into his eyes, and flowed into his mouth, bitterly, the anti-aircraft artilleryman wiped his sweat with the towel around his neck, and then, between the flames in the distance, Suddenly a flying thing appeared.

British, British here!

This is definitely a close encounter!

Philip was driving his bomber and flying between the flames. He had already judged that it was definitely a trap. However, he had no plan to fight back. He could only pray for God's blessing and blow up this place first!

When he turned around quickly between the flames in front of him, Philip found that he was right in front of his route, and an anti-aircraft gun was aiming here! When he found out, the distance between the two sides was only 300 meters!

How to do?

At this moment, Philip made a decision, flew over, and greeted each other with his bomb!

Ordinary people will pull up subconsciously, but it is definitely courting death. Pulling up, the thick smoke on it will make the plane fall. At the same time, when pulling up, the belly of the aircraft is facing the anti-aircraft gun, which increases the number of bombs. area.

Meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!

Philip pulled the throttle to the end in an instant, the front engine roared, the propeller accelerated, and he shouted to the navigator and bombardier sitting in the middle: "Get ready to drop the bomb!"

At this time, the bombardier quickly flipped the switch in front of him, ready to drop the bomb, thanks to the tacit understanding of the crew over the years.

Just now, when we were drilling around in the flames, the speed of the plane was very small. Now that we encounter anti-aircraft artillery, we have to speed up and fly over. The faster the speed, the less dangerous they are.

And almost at the same time, Philip saw the muzzle of the other party's anti-aircraft artillery, and bursts of flames emerged. He was extremely nervous in his heart. At this moment, he already had a hunch that he couldn't fly!

"Tom tom, tom tom!" The 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun fired violently. With its high rate of fire, a dozen 40mm shells flew over in a short period of time.

"Boom!" The opponent hit very accurately, and the third 40mm shell came into close contact with the "combat" bomber, and exploded right at the position of the propeller.

The propeller was instantly blown and bent, the engine behind was hit by a few shrapnel, and black smoke came out of it.

If it is an air-cooled engine, if one or two cylinders are damaged, it can hold on, but for a liquid-cooled engine, as long as it takes a little damage, the engine is finished.

Moreover, this is only one shot, and the following shells have all followed accurately!