New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

Since Henry and his brothers cleaned the toilets, the rookies' enthusiasm for learning has never been higher.In particular, the obscene style that Ron used to deal with Henry at that time was imitated desperately by a group of guys headed by Henry.Throughout the day, during class and between classes, people come in and ask questions like:

"Sir, when you lead people to climb, how far should you keep?"

"This should be determined according to the energy state of the opponent." Ron can still teach people tirelessly.

"Sir, why did I fight against Instructor Bang, and I was beaten down after using that trick?"

"Dizzy," hearing this question, Ron's head was filled with black lines.Who is Bong?One of the best fighter pilots in the U.S. Army Aviation is Ron going up (of course, if the initial condition is still 7000 meters, Ron feels that he is more likely to have the upper hand), and he may not be able to win. Well, maybe he will also be beaten down by others.A rookie who just learned a little trick and wants to use it to deal with the trump card of a trump card?There are really too many tricks to deal with a rookie.Do you really think that in the ever-changing air combat, there is any absolute trick that can kill with one blow?As long as you learn this trick, you can be invincible in the world?What's more, even this trick, he may not really learn it well.

"Instructor Bunge is a very powerful pilot, and he has a very good grasp of energy. And you may make a mistake when judging his energy. In addition, my trick is not always effective. "Ron thought for a while, and added, "Remember, when you encounter an opponent that you feel can't be dealt with in air combat, don't confront him head-on. Either cooperate with your teammates to deal with him, or run away decisively. Stay green I'm not afraid of running out of firewood!"

"Oh, I see, run if you can't win. But instructor, how can you make sure you can run?"

This is another question that can make old birds faint, my God, driving the strongest fighter jet with the best dive performance in the world, and don't know how to escape?

"Dive, keep diving to 520 mph, if he's still following you, do a barrel roll and let him go ahead. What? You're afraid he'll do a barrel roll too? If he does, you don't have to do anything Worried, because his wing is sure to break."

After more than a week of single-handed training, the real key project-group fighting drills will begin.The so-called gang fights refer to the melee of large aircraft groups.Unlike the Pacific Ocean, in the vast Pacific Ocean, small formations often confront each other, while in Europe, large-scale melee battles with hundreds or even thousands of aircraft are simply commonplace, and battles between large fleets and small fleets can be different. Totally two different things.

"In European air combat, our p-47 naturally has a high altitude advantage against the enemy's assault formation. Because we generally choose to fly a little higher than the bomber. The enemy plane that launches a head-on attack on the bomber is at a high altitude. Generally, it will not be too high by the bomber. Otherwise, the relative speed will be too high to make the attack more difficult. When the Germans attacked the bomber group, they divided the fighters into two categories. One is the assault formation. Armor and strong firepower, of course, their flying performance is terrible. Their main task is to launch an attack on the bomber fleet. The rest are escort formations, all of which are lighter fighter jets with better flying performance. The firepower and armor are not very good, and the effect of attacking the bomber group is not good, so in air combat, we only need to kill or even disrupt the guys who are in the assault formation. Of course, the German escort formation will not let us Such an easy success. In addition, under the guidance of the radar, they will even have a high advantage over us. They are our most dangerous opponents..."

In the theoretical classroom of large fleet operations, Ron was explaining the main points to the rookies.

"In a large fleet battle, the chances of everyone shooting and being shot by others will increase significantly. So you must learn to keep an eye on all directions and protect each other between the lead plane and the wingman..."

Then there are a lot of pictures and calculation formulas below, which can be said to be extremely boring, but every rookie is making records very seriously, because these things are a matter of life and death.

It's a foolish way to practice without talking, and it's a fake way to talk but not practice.In the end, it all depends on large-scale air drills to solve the problem.

又是一个阳光明媚的上午，罗恩和“逆十字”的飞行员们驾驶着他们的总数为45架的战斗机起飞了。他们将去模拟德国人，攻击一个由43架p-47护航的24架b-17组成的轰炸机编队。这将是“逆十字”第一次如此规模的战斗机空战演练。

"Reverse Cross" divided the fleet into two teams, one was led by Ron as an escort formation composed of 26 fire-breathing simulated bf109s, and the other was an assault formation composed of 19 f4u simulated fw190s led by Dad.Among them, the escort formation flew at an altitude of 8300 meters and flew 2500 meters in front of the assault formation.The assault formation flew at an altitude of 7100 meters, slightly higher than the enemy bomber formation provided by the radar.Since the "Inverse Cross" is acting as the intercepting party, they can be guided by the ground radar. Using this skillfully will be the key to winning the interception operation.According to the information provided by the radar, the rookies' p-47s are flying at an altitude of about 7600 meters, and 1000 meters behind them is the bomber group flying at an altitude of 7000 meters.

According to the plan, Ron's escort formation will first take the initiative to attack the p-47s of the rookies, hold them back, consume them, and cover the assault formation to attack.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the fleets of the two sides encountered each other.The "Reverse Cross" escort formation, which has a high altitude advantage, immediately launched a dive attack on the p-47 of the rookies.

Compared with the bulky p-47, both the fire-breathing and the bf109 it imitates are much more flexible.Although the engine of bf109 is very weak at such a height.But because they swooped down from a higher altitude.So at least, for now, they still have an energy advantage.It's just that if the air battle is prolonged, the energy advantage they originally possessed will be continuously consumed during the battle.At this time, the disadvantage of the high-altitude performance of the engine will become more and more fatal.Therefore, the pilots of the "Reverse Cross" must fight a blitzkrieg to achieve as many results as possible in the shortest possible time.

To achieve this, one depends on individual skills, and the other depends on teamwork.In the previous heads-up training, the instructors had shown those rookies time and time again how to use those seemingly ordinary technical moves to knock down their opponents. Their technical level has been admired by all the students.And this time, they will show the students the power of teamwork.

"In air combat, tactics are sometimes more important than techniques. If you choose the wrong tactics, such as running to low altitude with p-47 and circling at low speed, or climbing at low altitude and bf109, no matter how good your technique is, As long as the opponent has completed formal training, you will probably end in tragedy. And if the tactics are correct, such as using raids to deal with zero battles, even if the guy driving it is a super ace, then you have nothing to do. And the team's tactics It is more than individual tactics. In the case of equal energy, f4f has almost no way to deal with zero battles, but using the team tactic of 'cross scissors' can achieve a comparable exchange ratio." This is Ron told the students in class, and now he needs to prove it to the students.

Now the trick he is showing the rookies is called "group rotation bz".The so-called bz generally means that the party with the height advantage adopts a high-speed dive attack, then quickly pulls up to maintain the height advantage, and then launches the next round of dive attacks.However, the bz of a single aircraft is sometimes easily dodged by some enemy aircraft with superior angular performance.However, the bz launched by the group against a target in turn is easier to shoot down the enemy plane or force him to use a large overload action to dodge, so that he quickly consumes energy.

Considering the current level of rookies, Ron decided that it should be enough for every two planes to take turns to bz one enemy plane.

Now Ron, who dived down at high speed, has locked on the highest position among the escorted p-47s. It is the basic principle of this kind of group bz to start from the highest position (highest energy) first.

The p-47 spotted Ron who was rushing down early in the morning - this is also a major feature of high-altitude air combat, the plane will pull out a long snow-white flight path, so that the difficulty of sneak attack is greatly increased.He immediately made a sharp turn, trying to avoid Ron's shot.But the air at high altitude is thin, and the efficiency of the steering gear and ailerons has decreased, which makes his movements much slower than at low altitude.In order to dodge the effect, he must pull out a bigger overload.But just when he was grateful that he had avoided Ron's first blow, the second blow had already followed.

"Ron, I assure you, I hit his vital point!" The wingman shouted from the earphone of Ron, who was climbing rapidly.Ron smiled. In fact, it doesn't matter whether he hit the vital point of the enemy plane, because in order to avoid the second attack, the buddy driving the P-47 made another sharp turn. As a result, he may have overlooked a point. At high altitudes, the stall speed of the aircraft (the lift generated by the airflow flowing over the aircraft's wing surface is less than the aircraft's own gravity) is much higher than that at sea level.The result—he stalled.So the plane went straight down.It is estimated that when he climbs up again, the day lily will be cold.A similar scene was repeated on other planes.In just one blow, the rookies lost at least 8 fighters (these were all stalled, because whether they were shot down or not depends on the photo).At the same time, several p-47s climbed desperately to support their teammates. As a result, not only failed to bite the opponent who was climbing at high speed, but their own speed dropped rapidly. No power to dodge.

After the third round of BZ, it is estimated that the rookie side lost close to 20 fighters, and as many as 17 fighters stalled, while the "Reverse Cross" was not damaged at all.The original quantitative advantage of the rookies disappeared almost instantly.