New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

Chapter 27, The Elephant's Dance

"In order to promote the traditional friendship between the navy and the army, and to promote the continuous improvement of everyone's business level..."

"Oh, I got it wrong, it's the continuous improvement of fighting skills." Ron sat in the thick shade of coconut trees below the stage, listening to John on the radio.Lieutenant Commander Thach's speech made me think: "Who said 'Although the times are different, the world is different, but the principles of the world are the same'?" Makes sense. How else could the leader’s speech now be so similar to the leader’s speech at that time? It’s really "the ancient and the modern are the same, people are the same as me", but the old American leader is still more humane. At least you can hide under the shade of a tree while listening to a speech. You can also drink some soda and eat some melon seeds."

Maybe it was because I was thinking wildly that I didn't hear much of what I said later.When I went to listen again, the speaker had already become Major Braun.

"The army and navy have always been brotherly forces that help each other and unite as one. Our confrontation exercise this time is not to prove that our army air force is far stronger than the naval air force, but to hone our skills and defeat Little Japan together."

There was laughter from below.Almost everyone remembered Braun's murderous speech at the Army's own pep rally a few nights earlier.

"Those guys in the navy are so rampant that they don't know the heights of the heavens and the earth. They dare to propose to compete with us. These guys actually said that they can kill us by a big score. Do you agree?...Of course we don't agree, we will Kick their asses hard! Let those fake pussies in the navy who can only show off their white uniforms to deceive women die!..."

Consider John of the Navy.When Thatch was speaking, the Navy team also laughed. It is estimated that the Navy did not say anything good when it closed the door to hold a meeting by itself.

After the two bosses have finished speaking, it's time for the real thing.On the naval side was Lieutenant-Pilot Lynch.As he walked towards the plane, he lowered his head and recalled the countermeasures reached at the preparation meeting.

"From what we know, the p-38 is fast, faster than any Army fighter before it. But the roll at low speeds is mediocre. If there is a chance to drag it into scissor flight, this guy will Dead."

"Such a big thing shouldn't be too flexible. Just try to fight it."

"Tricking it into making moves, a big guy like that, it might be able to fly very fast, but I'm sure it won't be able to do a few big moves before it stalls."

In short, everyone felt that such a big guy must be very clumsy.Has anyone seen elephants dance?Putting a twin-engine fighter against a single-engine light fighter is like making an elephant dance.

Ron was the first to appear in the army, because he was the most confident one.Winning the next game first is important for morale.

Two planes, the Army's P-38 and the Navy's F4F, took off one after another.According to regulations, they each carry half a tank of fuel when taking off. After takeoff, they will climb in different directions, wait until they reach the predetermined height, and then hover at the predetermined position. The two sides place their opponents at the 3 o'clock position and maintain a considerable height and speed.Wait for the command plane to issue an order.An Army B-17 served as a referee not far away.According to the regulations, if you are bitten and cannot get rid of it within 60 seconds, or you are hit by the opponent 4 times, you will fail. (Actually, Ron thinks it is enough to bite for 30 seconds.) This rule is actually not good for the army. The firepower of the p-38 is much stronger than that of the f4f, and the body is also stronger. Under normal circumstances, what is needed for the p-38 to shoot down the f4f The number of shots is far lower than the number of shots required for f4f to shoot down p-38.However, after practicing on the p-38, the army pilots believed that this would not affect the ending.In addition, the height of both sides cannot be lower than 1500 meters. If any side drops to this height during the battle, it will be regarded as a crash.

As soon as it took off, Lynch found that something was wrong. The climbing speed of the p-38 far exceeded that of the f4f.He was far from climbing to the predetermined height, and Ron was already driving the p-38 around at the predetermined height of 4000 meters, waiting for him.And looking at the hovering state of the p-38, its hovering radius is far less than imagined.It appears that f4f has a climb disadvantage in addition to its known speed disadvantage.And it may not be able to take advantage of circling.There's almost nothing stronger about it than the roll.Any chance of taking enemies into scissor flight?If the opponent is other army pilots, he still has such confidence, but now his opponent is Ron.Would he make such a low-level mistake?Fortunately, he didn't have much pressure, and the Navy could still tolerate defeat.Beforehand John.Thatch has already said that there will be a lot of rewards for defeating Ron, but it is acceptable if he can't.So even though Ron wanted to use the rapid climb to create pressure on him, Lynch was aware of any pressure.

The two sides circle on an invisible ring with a diameter of about one kilometer, each at the 3 o'clock direction of the other.An intense and exciting competition is about to begin.Just when the game was about to start, a ufo with electromagnetic stealth + visual stealth + infrared and ultraviolet stealth hovered quietly near the stadium.

"Dear viewers, dear listeners, I am here to show you live a friendly match between the United States Naval Air Forces and the United States Army Air Forces. This friendly match is the first in a series of warm-up matches for the Guadalcanal series. By Cross tv is broadcasting live to everyone. The Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, and I am here to wish you all a happy new year. I am the host Han Dazui, and this person next to me is our special guest, Director Zhang Shaozhong of the Bureau of Strategic Deception... Considering a lot The audience has just opened the elevator, and they are not very clear about the current situation, so we ask Director Zhang to give us some comments."

"Many viewers always think that the P-38 is a new type of weapon, but new type of weapon cannot determine the victory or defeat of a war. The key factor that determines victory or defeat is people. Grandpa Mao taught us... Besides, is the P-38 really a new type of aircraft? I can't see it. Look at its number, 38, a broken 38, and there are 39 and 40 behind it. In fact, the p-38 project was established very early, so the numbers are all in front of the p-39 Huey Cobra. It's a pity that Lockheed Martin is completely incompetent. It has been working on it for n years, and it was not produced until recently. It can be said that it has fallen behind since it was born. Its new aircraft is just an old cucumber with green paint ——Just pretending to be tender. Why should I..."

"Dear audience, as the coach blew the whistle, the game started. The atmosphere at the scene was really tense, and every white cloud was fighting fiercely... Audiences participating in the interactive program, please edit the text message and send it to 145254188 or call 00544 Turn to 44944..."

After the referee aircraft issued the command to start, Lynch immediately cut the inside line and approached Ron, while Ron continued to maintain a hovering posture and began to pull the nose of the aircraft to climb.Lynch cut into Ron's rear hemisphere at once, but the distance between the two sides was still far away.Lynch grabbed Ron and followed it up. "It's enough to catch up a little more!"

Ron's climbing angle began to increase, and the f4f driven by Lynch became more and more powerless.Now the situation between the two sides has changed again. Ron is still at Lynch's 3 o'clock, but his height is already much higher than Lynch.If you continue to climb like this spiral.There are at most two more laps, either Ron circles to Lynch's back dribble and uses the height advantage to launch a dive attack, or Lynch tries hard to follow and stalls himself.Sure enough, after making another circle, Lynch's f4f was already at the two o'clock position of Ron. Moreover, his plane was already very slow now, and he was maintaining the altitude by desperately pulling the nose. The whole plane is like hanging on the propeller.

Lynch understands that his situation is very unfavorable now, he can no longer think about attacking, and must immediately think about defending.So Lynch began to roll, ready to pull the nose and turn into a dive.But his movements at this time must be careful enough and gentle enough - any slight movement may cause his plane to stall.

But at this time Ron had already launched an attack. He swooped down quickly, biting Lynch's six points tightly, and Lynch made a sharp turn and dodged.Ron didn't make a sharp turn immediately, but pulled the plane up at a large angle, and then dived down again.As he kept dodging left and right, every time he dodged, his height dropped a lot. What's more terrible, the kinetic energy obtained by dropping height was continuously consumed during dodging.If this continues, the altitude will definitely drop below 1500 meters soon, and then it will be judged as a crash.But what if you just dive and run away? The p-38 is not something that will fall apart after a slight dive like Zero War. It is not so easy to get rid of the p-38's tail biting by diving.But now it's the only way to try it.

Lynch's plane began to dive downward, and Ron followed, biting hard.Lynch watched the readings on the altimeter keep changing. 6000 (feet), 5600, if you don't pull it up, you will rush directly below 4900, and you will be judged to have crashed.But Lynch didn't plan to pull it up, and he would be shot down if he pulled it up, so he might as well just rush down.If Ron followed too closely in this way, he would also rush down, and that would be a tie.

But Ron still let him down. From the beginning of the dive chase, Ron has been paying attention to the speedometer and altimeter (who dare not see these when driving the p-38 dive), and when Lynch dives straight down By then, Ron had lowered the dive flaps and was preparing to exit the dive.

In the first game, the Army led 1-0.

This result is entirely on John.What Saqi expected, in fact, few people think that Lynch can kill Ron in such a duel.But the process of this battle put a lot of pressure on him-in this confrontation, Ron did not show particularly outstanding skills.He relied almost entirely on the performance advantages of the p-38 to overwhelm his opponents.In fact, he was demonstrating to the comrades in the back how to kill f4f in the simplest way.At this time, every naval pilot is thinking about what would happen if it was him just now, and what can be done.Petrov looked up at Willem, only to see that Willem had also turned to look at him.The two looked at each other and smiled, but sighed together.They also found themselves helpless. It seemed that p-38 was far more difficult than they expected, and the prospect of this game seemed very pessimistic.

The subsequent confrontation was basically a repetition of the first game. The Army continued to use the trick of spiral climbing to bully the Navy.Except for William's round, he encountered a novice. William relied on accumulating speed on the ground first, deliberately pretending to be unable to climb up to confuse his opponent, and then gained an advantage through a rapid jump, and then bit him 60 Seconds to win.In the other few games, the Navy lost all.They were just short of getting zero seals.

The confrontation had many consequences.First of all, the first consequence is: in Guadalcanal, after the fleet suffered losses and had to retreat, and the safety of the entire Guadalcanal Island depended on the Guadalcanal Island Airport, the navy did not send f4f there, but directly asked the army for it. A squadron of P-38s passed by.

As for the second consequence, it made Grumman a victim.When the Navy chose to appear carrier-based, the battle was between the f6f Hellcat and the f4u Corsair.In the original history, the Hellcat eliminated pirates with better flight performance in terms of speed, climb and roll with better landing performance.But this time, the pirates had the last laugh.Because the Navy asked: "Can your Hellcat beat the p-38?"

Attached are two no-prize contest questions (nai bottle is a newcomer, very poor):

1. Who are the prototypes of the hosts and guests of Time Travel TV?

2. What mistakes did Director Zhang make in his introduction to p-38?

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