New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

() Just when Myitkyina Airport was attacked again by the U.S. military, Hashimoto's fleet was also surrounded by U.S. fighter jets. <>Initially, they found that the number of P-51s hanging far behind changed from four to eight, then to twelve.The American fighter jets that have gained a numerical advantage began to accelerate, and now the distance between the American and Japanese fleets is rapidly shortening.Almost in the blink of an eye, the distance between the two sides shortened from about 4 kilometers to less than two kilometers.

Obviously, the air battle was inevitable, and Hashimoto began to command the fleet to turn to climb to prepare for the upcoming air battle.It wasn't the first time Hashimoto had engaged the American P-51s, but this air battle was unlike anything Hashimoto had experienced before.At that time, the p-51 was dragged by the transport plane, and it had never flown so fast before.

Hashimoto's original experience with p-51 is that ki-43 can easily bite their 6 points through a somersault on a vertical plane.But now, Hashimoto knows that this trick may not be effective now. With the current speed of p-51, even if ki-43 bites its 6 points, it will not be able to pose a real threat.

Therefore, Hashimoto is going to deal with p-51 by circling horizontally with a small radius.Now the speed of the p-51 is very high, so that when they hover horizontally, the circle radius will be surprisingly large, so that it is impossible to bite the ki-43, which has a much smaller horizontal circle radius.

In order to reduce the circling radius, some guys will stupidly reduce the speed, lower the flaps and pull the joystick desperately.Hashimoto will now work hard to entice the Americans to do so.Therefore, Hashimoto and the ki-43s under his command did not use all their strength to make a sharp turn so that the p-51 could not keep up with it anyway. Instead, they carefully controlled the angular speed of the turn so that the Yankees felt , as long as I turn a little faster, I will definitely be able to bite their six points.As long as the Americans do this, Hashimoto is sure that within a few moves, the speed of the American aircraft will drop to a level comparable to that of the Ki-43.Then you can take advantage of the unparalleled horizontal hovering performance of the ki-43 to take advantage of those p-51s that can neither spin nor climb at low speeds.

However, the Americans are not obliged to fly according to Hashimoto's wishful thinking.Just when the ki-43 started to turn in front of them, almost all the p-51s pulled up. With a speed of more than 600 kilometers, they quickly jumped to a height much higher than that of the ki-43. place.This kind of jump also caused their speed to drop rapidly, and then they made a roll in the direction of Japan, and then pulled the nose of the plane violently, and rushed down towards the Japanese plane that was turning horizontally.

This action is called "Gao Yo Yo". In the original time and space, this action was invented by an unknown Chinese pilot during the Korean War.The essence of this action is to control the mutual conversion of speed and height, so that fighters with higher energy but inferior horizontal hovering performance can firmly bite the opponent without losing too much energy.

In Ron's "Reverse Cross" unit, this action, and the corresponding "low Yo Yo" action, are already the basic technical actions of the bad street (the US military pilots in this time and space even named these two actions "High Ron" and "Low Ron"), but in Burma, in the air battles that Hashimoto and the others experienced before, the p-51 almost never achieved an overwhelming performance against the ki-43 because of the drag of the low-speed transport aircraft With the energy advantage, there is basically no chance to use this tactical action.

This action was completely beyond Hashimoto's expectations.So he and his fleet failed to make the most reasonable defensive actions.Twelve P-51s roared and swooped down, firmly biting at the 43 o'clock direction of Ki-6, and relying on the help of gravity acceleration, the distance between P-51 and Ki-43 was quickly shortened, Some p-51s with shooting intersections set farther away have already started firing and shooting.

The ki-43 who were in danger began to make sharp turns in order to get rid of the attack of p-51.But at this time, the difference between a large fleet melee and a small fleet confrontation is revealed.In the confrontation between the two sides with a small fleet of only a few planes, as long as Ki-43 makes a sharp turn at the right time, P-51 can only give up this attack and pull up again to wait for the next opportunity.However, in a battle of a large aircraft group, this kind of action of turning sharply may bring another unexpected result: turning out from Zhang San's muzzle, but bumping headfirst into Li Si's muzzle.Under this round of attacks, two Japanese planes were smashed to pieces under such circumstances.

Although the remaining ki-43 escaped this round of attacks, the entire formation was completely messed up in the panic of dodging.Now, the American p-51 is pulling up again. Obviously, they are going to repeat the old trick, and do it several times.

In the attack just now, Hashimoto avoided the American attack with a sharp turn.But he understands that if the Americans are allowed to launch such attacks a few more times, the entire fleet will definitely be finished.He must come up with countermeasures immediately.

"Form a circle immediately and protect each other at 6 o'clock." Hashimoto, who had no time to think about it, issued such an order.

If the remaining ki-43 form an end-to-end array, it can indeed improve its own defense power, but this improvement in defense power is almost at the cost of completely giving up attack.Hashimoto is now pinning all his hopes on reinforcements from the airport.If the Ki-43s that took off from Myitkyina Airport can come to the rescue in time, and if the rescue fleet and myself can form a numerical advantage over the P-51, maybe the Ki-43s under my command can still be safe Fly back some.

However, if timely reinforcements cannot be obtained, the result will be unimaginable.

Ron also knew this kind of formation. He knew that this formation was originally a defensive formation used by attack aircraft when facing fighter jets.Unexpectedly, Ri himself actually used it on fighter jets.

In theory, this formation can indeed protect the tail of each aircraft.When you enter the 6 o'clock direction of an aircraft to attack, you will automatically sell your 6 o'clock to another enemy aircraft.Using this method, attack aircraft are often able to defend themselves well against fighter jets.

However, the ki-43 is different from the attack aircraft. Most of the attack aircraft are quite strong, and their anti-strike ability is not comparable to that of a crispy aircraft like the ki-43.And the firepower of most attack aircraft is much more ferocious than ki-43.Therefore, it is much easier to break open a circle formed by ki-43 than to break open a circle formed by attack aircraft such as il-2.

"Take turns to dive and attack one or two targets!" Ron issued such an instruction through the radio.

So the p-51s swooped down again. They used four planes as a group to attack one target.If the target does not dodge, the p-51 can definitely kill them with one blow.If they dodge sharply, regardless of whether they can avoid the attack of the four fighter jets in turn, the action of dodging alone will already declare the collapse of the circle.As for the counterattack of the ki-43, considering that the ki-43 only has two 12.7mm machine guns, even if you hit a few shots, it may not be the same.

Sure enough, under this round of attacks, the nondescript array of ki-43s completely collapsed, and out of the remaining eight ki-43s, two were shot down and one was injured.

At this time, another 8 p-51s arrived at the scene.

The arrival of these fighter jets shattered Ri's last fantasy.Hashimoto issued his last instruction: "disperse and break through." He drove his ki-43 head-on to a p-51 and rushed towards it.Then in a head-to-head confrontation with an American plane, he was hit into a fireball.

The remaining Japanese planes scattered to break through, but unfortunately their speed was too slow to break out at all.Except for one Ki-43 which escaped by diving into a nearby valley.The rest of the fighters were all shot down mercilessly.

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India, Tenth Air Force

General Bissel and Ron stood at the end of the runway waiting for the triumphant return of the fighter force.One after another, fighter jets landed on the runway one after another.It was a brilliant day of aerial combat, with the fighter units of the Tenth Air Force shooting down nineteen enemy fighters in one fell swoop, while leaving them almost unharmed.Ron confirmed the effectiveness of his early clearing tactics, and further confirmed his position as the number one fighter tactic expert of the US Army Aviation. The p-51 also took this battle to prove that it is indeed a great combat weapon.The experience gained on the Burmese battlefield will be a valuable asset, and these experiences are destined to shine in Europe and in the future general attack on Japan.

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Myitkyina Airport

For Ri himself, this is really an extremely tragic day.After being warned in advance, they were beaten like this by the Americans, which shocked every Japanese pilot who was still alive.Even the most arrogant guy has to admit: Compared with the new fighter jets of the United States, Japan's Ki-43 is completely outdated.After dinner, General Kato gathered all the pilots together and began to discuss the gains and losses of this battle and future tactics.After the meeting, they made this summary within the aviation team:

1. This failure, first of all, stems from insufficient forewarning.American fighter jets used the night flight method to avoid several key lookout posts and caught the imperial army by surprise.To this end, it is necessary to increase the number of lookout posts and arrange more lookout posts around the airport.

2. The airport has been attacked repeatedly, exposing the weakness of the airport's air defense force and the unreasonable placement of anti-aircraft guns.The protection of the airport must be strengthened. In the case of sufficient fuel, it is best to ensure that there are fighter jets guarding the airport at any time.

3. The performance of fighter jets lags behind, which is mainly manifested in the following points: 1. The maximum speed is too low, which makes it impossible to catch up or run on the battlefield. 2. The firepower is too weak to do one-hit kills against enemy planes.Once the enemy's attack hits, it can almost cause fatal losses.Hope to add some faster fighters soon.

At the same time, the aviation team also issued a battle report, declaring that during the day's battle, the heroic Imperial Japanese Army Air Corps 61st Team shot down 43 American fighters and 47 Japanese fighters at the cost of two fighters. -[-] transport aircraft.The military fortune of the Great Japanese Empire is unstoppable.