Steel Soviet Union

The MiG-3 fighter, which was designed in the pre-war era and was born as a high-altitude fighter, was obviously not designed for low-altitude dogfights. Only flying altitudes above 5,000 meters were the combat airspace where the MiG-3 fighter could exert its full strength. At that time With its extremely excellent high-altitude maneuverability and climb rate, the MiG-3 can handle almost all active aircraft in the hands of the German army at a flying altitude of more than 5,000 meters.

But in fact, the battle for air supremacy in a theater that breaks out to cover ground battles often occurs in low-altitude airspace below two thousand meters or even at an altitude of only a few hundred meters.

The German bombers responsible for ground attack missions, whether they are the relatively smart and accurate Stuka or the cumbersome Dorniers and Heinkels, almost without exception fly at a height of about a thousand meters. Even lower.

If the Soviet fighter jets want to intercept it, they must descend and fly to a low-altitude airspace of about a thousand meters. The German BF109, which usually escorts its own bombers, will naturally not allow the Soviet fighter jets to massacre like this. A fierce and unusual low-altitude dog fight and a battle for air supremacy were naturally inevitable.

The German BF109E series fighter jets, which have far better low-altitude turning radius and directivity than the MiG-3, have powerful dogfighting capabilities. With the help of experienced German pilots, it is not a problem to press the MiG-3, which is not good at low-altitude combat, to the ground and beat it violently. This is also one of the reasons why the Soviet army has always suffered heavy losses in the battle for air supremacy in theaters since the war began.

At present, the German Heinkel 111 bombers without the escort of BF109s can only rely on the self-defense firepower on the fuselage to barely cope with the attack of the Soviet MiG 3 fleet.

Although the current air interception battle is also taking place in the low-altitude airspace below 1,000 meters, which the MiG-3 is not good at, there is no reason why the MiG-3, which cannot compete with the German BF109 in a low-altitude dogfight, should be ridden by the bulky bomber.

No matter how bad the high-altitude fighter is in low-altitude combat, in the final analysis, it is a nimble fighter born to fight for air supremacy. The self-defense machine gun on the bulky bomber cannot even protect itself in the face of an organized air combat attack, not to mention the German Heinkel The self-defense machine guns on the 111 bomber are just some G15 small water pipe machine guns.

The interceptor group consisting of 18 MiG-3 fighter jets was like a pack of prairie wolves wandering around the sheepfold, constantly circling and peering at the weaknesses of the German bomber group, looking for any possible attack opportunities.

A self-defense firepower network as powerful as the U.S. B29 heavy bomber fleet at the end of World War II cannot be absolutely airtight. The Heinkel 111, which only has G17 aviation machine guns on its body, plus four machine gunners to operate and fire manually, is undoubtedly even worse.

Under the premise that the bombardier Burns, who also served as the nose gunner, had been killed, the Heinkel 111 bomber commanded by the fleet commander Major Alfred Hanke had only two machine gunners and the aircraft left in the belly. You can also fight with a machine gunner on your back.

The Heinkel 111, which had much less self-defense firepower and occupied the position of the leader of the fleet, quickly attracted the attention of the hovering Soviet fighter jets.

The supreme truth of taking advantage of your illness and killing you also exists in air battles where the outcome is determined by one strike. Realizing that the German Heinkel 111 bomber had been killed by the Soviet fighter jets, the nose gunner was killed. After turning the radius, the enemy came from directly in front of the nose. The black 7mm Berezin machine gun and the 62mm Shkas machine gun immediately sprayed out fiery flames from their muzzles.

Dong dong dong dong——

Crackling——

"Uhhhhh!!!"

The fleeting sound of machine gun salvos and the banging sound of tearing the skin of the aircraft echoed in the small cabin. In just a short moment, the machine gunner on the back of the aircraft was hit by seven or eight shots and was immediately miserable. While wailing, he fell on the seat full of blood, and his lowered head soaked in blood no longer had any life or movement.

Major Hank, who realized that his crew members had suffered another disaster, could no longer care about anything else. Major Hank, who had been penetrated by at least two 62mm Schkath machine gun rounds in the thigh, could only feel his right leg at this moment. In severe pain, he has completely lost control. This is undoubtedly a fatal blow to the pilot who needs to press the tail rudder pedal to achieve and control the steering of the aircraft.

"Damn plane! Damn Russian Ivan! Where are our fighter jets!?"

The instrument panel on the nose of the aircraft, which had been messed up by the machine gun barrage like fallen leaves swept by the autumn wind, kept bursting out with hot short-circuit sparks. The various instrument pointers either shattered the goggles and stopped, or kept spinning like they were drugged. The machine body Major Hank, who had suffered severe damage after enduring two rounds of machine gun fire, soon discovered that the seriousness of the problem was beyond his imagination.

"Damn it! The wing flaps can't move! The flight altitude is constantly decreasing! Move it, pull it up quickly, you bastard!"

Despite his desperate efforts, Major Hank used all his strength to pull the joystick in his hand in an attempt to return the aircraft, which had begun to dive downward and lost its flight attitude, back to level flight.

But what Major Hank didn't know was that the round of head-on fire from the MiG-3 fighter jets not only killed his back gunner, penetrated and scrapped his entire right leg, but also took away the pilot's control. The wing control cable between the rod and the wing flaps was directly interrupted, as if the brain that had been cut off from the control nerves could no longer direct the limbs to make any normal movements with ease.

Major Hank, who stretched the control stick in his hand to the limit, failed to change the wing flaps to the airflow rising state. The downward dive angle and speed of the Heinkel 111 continued to increase as time passed. A dead mass of flying coffins.

In order to satisfy the bombardier Burns's tactic of lowering the flight altitude for precise targeting attacks, it now became a fatal choice to bury all remaining crew members, including Major Hank.

Not only was it impossible to pull up at a flying height of only a few hundred meters, but he also had no chance to escape by parachuting. Major Hank, dragging a scrapped leg and looking at the earth coming towards him, had given up his last attempt and had already entered the air during an uncontrollable dive. The Heinkel 111 fuselage, which had reached overspeed, was shaking violently like a thatched house in a strong winter wind.

Ignoring this last terrifying sign before the plane disintegrated at high speed, Major Hank, whose heart and soul had already died one step ahead of his life, leaned back on his seat and glanced at the instrument panel on the right with an emotionless face like a vegetative state. Black and white photo posted on.

The attachment to his own life and the people far away and the unwilling manic cry in his heart immediately soared into the sky with the explosion.