New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

The Japanese fighter group took off long before the arrival of the American planes. Relying on the long-term climb, even a messy plane with poor high-altitude performance like the Zero War has climbed to an altitude of 9000 meters.In the eyes of the Japanese, although the U.S. fighter jets have excellent high-altitude performance, they generally do not fly too high when performing escort missions.For an airplane, flying too low will greatly increase fuel consumption, but flying too high will also greatly increase fuel consumption.For Americans performing long-range escort combat missions, it is very important to keep fuel consumption low during flight.Therefore, it is impossible for US military aircraft to fly too high.Such a height is enough for the Japanese to gain a height advantage when the air battle begins.

However, the Japanese have always had a problem, that is, when they make a certain decision, they always stipulate in their hearts what their opponent should do.They seem to think that the whole world should operate according to their predetermined rhythm, otherwise it would be unreasonable and unscientific.However, unsatisfactory things in the world are very common, and the Japanese are naturally no exception.And once the opponent makes an unexpected move, the Japanese are often dumbfounded at first, and then fly into a rage: "You, you, how can you do this? This... this is too unscientific!"

When Ron sent out the fighter group, he had already considered the problem of Japanese fighters climbing to a higher altitude first.So after the fighter jets of the Army Aviation and the Navy's fighters met, several p-81 fighter jets began to accelerate, quickly overtook the entire fleet, and flew to the front.

These p-81 fighter jets are responsible for the task of reconnaissance of the situation of the enemy aircraft. They will determine the status of the enemy fighter group before the two groups come into contact.These p-81s quickly accelerated to 700 kilometers per hour, and at the same time increased the flight altitude to 8000 meters.In this big air battle, the earliest contact between the Japanese fighter group and the American fighter group took place under such conditions.

"Above 10:30, we found a group of enemy fighter jets! The distance is 8 kilometers." Mark Perry, the pilot with the sharpest eyes, first spotted the Japanese fighter jets.

It is not easy to find a target the size of a fighter jet at a distance of 8000 meters with the naked eye alone.However, the Japanese have a large fleet of one or two thousand fighter jets, so it is relatively easier to find it.What's more, fighter jets flying at high altitudes will drag obvious silver-white trails.

After discovering the Japanese fighter jets, the p-81 began to turn and at the same time reported to the rear via radio: "A group of enemy fighter jets has been found, at an altitude of 9000 meters..."

The hovering performance of the p-81 is not good, and it should even be said to be relatively poor, although according to the US military's statement: the low-speed hovering of the p-81 is poor, and the hovering performance at high speeds, especially when hovering at a speed of more than 600 kilometers pretty good.However, the so-called circling at a speed of more than 600 kilometers is quite good, because the number of fighter jets that can maintain such a speed and have enough energy to hover is too small.But now, for the sake of safety, the speed of these fighter jets is as high as 700 kilometers per hour. At this speed, the radius of circling is naturally larger.In addition, flying at an altitude of 8000 meters, a white trail will naturally be drawn behind the plane, which also allowed the Japanese to quickly discover them.

Several Japanese fighter jets immediately swooped towards Mark Perry's p-81.These Japanese fighter planes accelerated very quickly during the dive. Although it was still far away and it was difficult to see the opponent clearly, but just from this dive, Mark Payne could judge that these planes should be J2M3, Haifeng or Zhong Kui. thing.

The ones who dived down were a team of Zhong Kui fighter jets led by senior pilot Asada II. The Zhong Kui fighter jets had almost the best dive among Japanese fighter jets, and the maximum dive speed could reach more than 800 kilometers.The Japanese developed this fighter in order to bite the American p-38 during a dive.At the beginning, when the American p-38 first appeared, the Japanese found that Zero War was in a dilemma when facing the p-38.This predicament does not mean that Zero Zhan will be defeated by p-38. In fact, as long as it is not attacked by surprise, it is not difficult for Zero Zhan to avoid the attack of p-38 by better hovering.The real problem is that since the appearance of the p-38, Zero War can no longer effectively protect bombers.Because Zero War's dive speed is too slow, even if it bites behind the p-38, people can completely ignore it, rush directly to the bomber, and shoot down the bomber first.In order to deal with the p-38, which they called the "twin-body devil", the Japanese developed a Type II single-seat fighter, and gave it a special name for fighting ghosts, called Zhong Kui.

Seeing the Japanese fighter jets swooping down, Mark Perry did not intend to fight immediately.The enemy has a height advantage and the resulting energy advantage, and once they are entangled, so many other aircraft are not soy sauce.Therefore, Mark Perry simply made a 180-degree roll, and then pulled the nose and entered a dive.

The initial speed of the Japanese fighter jets is not high. Although they are accelerated by diving, the altitude difference of 1000 meters can only make their speed just reach a little over 700 kilometers.But at this time, the P-81 fighter jet, which already had a speed of 750, accelerated to about 81 kilometers through a short-distance dive.Zhong Kui, who swooped down, was not able to bite the p-[-] immediately.

However, Asadaji felt that he still had a chance, because his plane was far from reaching the limit speed of the dive, and there was still room for further acceleration.And the enemy is not too far away from him.Asada's Zhong Kui followed Mark Perry's P-81, about a kilometer away.And it seems that the distance is still shrinking.As long as you chase for a while, you can probably catch up.

Mark Perry's left hand was on the throttle lever, and he was slowly pulling the throttle back.In fact, with the speed and acceleration capability of the P-81, if the horsepower is fully turned on, those Zhong Kui will definitely only eat dirt in the back.But Mark Perry had another plan: to control the speed and give the planes behind an illusion that they could catch up.Take them away from the enemy fleet, and then...

"We're only 600 meters away from the enemy plane, as long as we get closer..." Asada Er's eyes widened, almost popping out of their sockets.However, it is still a little far away from the enemy plane. If you fire at this distance, the possibility of hitting the opponent is very small. On the contrary, the recoil when you fire will cause your own speed to suffer a little loss.So it has to be a little closer!

At this time, the P-81s began to climb upwards, and Asadaji followed without hesitation, because climbing is one of Zhong Kui's most outstanding advantages.

Mark Perry pushed the throttle forward and the engine's power rose with it.At the same time, he turned his head to look, and he saw that the few Zhong Kui planes that were still following them seemed to be unable to keep up.

"Hmph, compared to the p-81 climb? And it's still a climb higher than 6000 meters, isn't it courting death?... Well, it seems like it's time!" Mark Perry thought, and then he issued an instruction on the radio: "Start to fight back! The sledgehammer turned back!"

The pilots of several p-81s pushed the throttle valves to the end almost at the same time, and the two twin hornets on the p-81 roared, and then as the pilots pulled the levers, the p-81 began to increase the angle of climb, and finally turned out to be almost Vertical angle climbs upwards.

By this time, Asada Er knew that he had been fooled no matter how much he did.He knew that his fighter would not be able to keep up no matter what, and the result of forcibly following up would be a stall.So Asadaji immediately backed out of the climb and turned to a shallow dive.Now the offensive and defensive positions have been changed, but Asadaji knows that compared with most American fighters, Zhong Kui's flexibility is still good.If you do a good job in defensive actions, you can still last until the big fleet arrives.

Mark Perry turned his head with a sledgehammer, swooped down, and bit Zhong Kui's 6 o'clock.Relying on the acceleration of the dive, coupled with the super acceleration ability brought by the powerful power of the P-81, he quickly approached the Zhong Kui.The distance between the two sides kept getting closer, and in a blink of an eye the distance between the two sides was shortened to about 600 meters. The performance of the cannon on the p-81 is very good. The initial velocity of up to 1000 meters per second and the optimized projectile shape make the range of this cannon far greater than that of ordinary fighter jets. Even in the case of tail chase, the 600 At a distance of one meter, this machine gun also has good shooting accuracy and power.Mark Perry licked his lips and put his finger on the trigger.

Asadaji kept turning his head to observe the enemy plane chasing behind him. He knew that the enemy's machine guns had a long range, and even at a distance of more than 600 meters, they were quite threatening.At this time, he suddenly saw flames flickering on the wing of the enemy plane behind him. "The enemy is firing!" Asada slammed the rudder lever, and the plane immediately made a barrel roll. At almost the same time, a string of shells passed by his plane with flames.

The greater range gave U.S. aircraft another advantage.That is to have more reaction time when facing this kind of action of the enemy plane.If the U.S. fighter jets are the same as the Japanese ones, they can only fire effectively when they are only about 300 meters away from the enemy plane at most, then Asada Er’s just-right barrel roll just now will definitely make the American pilots who can’t react in time rush to the front. go.But now, the situation is different. The distance of 600 meters is enough for Mark Perry following him to have enough time to react. In addition to the excellent head-up rate of the p-81, Mark Perry quickly pulled up. He got rid of the fighter and let his fighter return to a higher altitude.

Any movement will lead to energy loss, especially continuous movement.Compared with other movements, such as sharp turns and so on, the energy loss of the barrel roll will generally be less.But if the continuous barrel rolls down, the energy loss is also very huge.However, when the barrel rolls, the pilot is affected by the centrifugal force, and it is often difficult to effectively observe the situation of the enemy aircraft.This also makes some pilots afraid to terminate this action casually, because they worry that the enemy is also relying on such a barrel to roll and bite him.This will often cause the aircraft in the defensive state to waste energy in vain, while the attacker stays at high altitude, calmly preserving the energy advantage, and waiting for a better attack opportunity.

But Asada Er is an experienced pilot. After two laps, he has observed that the enemy plane is not following behind.So he withdrew from the barrel roll, and at the same time opened his eyes wide and searched for traces of the enemy plane.

However, he saw nothing but a plume of altocumulus clouds, and a blinding sun.Wait, the sun!

A p-81 swooped down towards Asada II from the direction of the sun, with flames shining on its wings...