Chapter 422 Easy Ambush
"Boom!" A big hole was blown open with the aluminum alloy skinned wing, and the fuselage began to tilt to one side.
Philip in front was covered in blood. The glass in front of his cockpit had been broken, and a shrapnel hit his chest. While enduring the severe pain, he pushed the operating rod. He wanted to control the plane, even if it was a forced landing, he could give the two colleagues behind him a chance to escape.
However, when the wing on one side was shot, the plane staggered violently, and he could no longer control it. In the last few seconds of his life, all of his retina was filled with fire.
The bomber flew up towards a burning oil barrel.
"Boom!" Under the violent impact, the crude oil in the oil barrel shook out, surrounding the entire plane and ignited a fire!
At this time, such scenes are happening everywhere.
The Libyan base is what Cirick attaches most importance to. Even if the air force cannot be sent to protect it for the time being, the air defense force is definitely first-class. In addition to the large number of Bofos 40mm anti-aircraft guns, there are also some double-barrel 15mm anti-aircraft machine guns.
This anti-aircraft machine gun is also considered an old gun. It was transformed from the mg151 on the plane. It has a double tube of 15 mm and its firepower is quite fierce!
When the "fighting" bomber was discovered, the machine gunner pulled the trigger, and amid the "da da da" sound, smoke came out, and 15 mm machine gun bullets were violently fired towards the bomber!
Then, the bomber emitted black smoke and was easily injured!
"No, run!" At this moment, an accident appeared.
Due to the black smoke, these bombers flew very low, and when they were ambushed, they were almost always close. Now, the injured bomber actually fell towards their side!
Several machine gunners ran away quickly. Just as they ran out more than ten meters away, they heard an explosion coming from behind.
The bomber fell at the machine gun position just now! When it came into contact with the ground, a big explosion occurred, and the rolling fireballs enveloped the machine gun position just now.
If they weren't fast, they might have already explained there!
The "fighting" bomber was an indicator proposed in Britain's closed-door construction, a light fast bomber. This time the bloody lesson made the British know that this bomber was out of date.
The survivability of "fighting" is quite poor, and the idea of using the advantage of speed to get rid of enemy fighters is completely shattered.
Because the passenger cockpit lacks effective armor protection, "fighting" seems particularly fragile when facing strikes from below.
The "fighting" bombers that entered the thick smoke at a very low altitude did not come back and were completely destroyed!
In fact, in later generations, this bomber has no good days.
In 40 years in history, when the German army's blitzkrieg on Western Europe began, 32 "fights" were ordered to urgently form an attack wave of the Royal Air Force, delaying the German army moving in Luxembourg.
They attacked German targets from an ultra-low altitude of 76 meters with delayed fuses. Unfortunately, the German army shot down 13 "fights" in one fell swoop with dense light weapons firepower, while the rest of the planes were injured to varying degrees.
The fate of the second attack wave of the "fight" that afternoon was also very bad, with 32 aircraft being shot down 10 under the joint strike of German anti-aircraft artillery and fighter jets.
On the same day, two "fights" were shot down when attacking the German troops in the Netherlands. All of this was just the beginning.
The British found sadly that bombers like them were not suitable for war at all.
To attack the ground at an ultra-low altitude, you must have heavy armor and develop flying tanks like the Il-2 and HS-129, or use dive bombing like Stuka.
As for the light fast bomber, it is definitely for fun!
The British Air Force's main light and fast bomber in Egypt was buried in thick smoke, and the 47th Bomber Squadron hovering in the air had already discovered that something was wrong.
When the light bomber got into the black smoke, a stinging sound came from the radio, which was strongly disturbed! Not only were they unable to contact the planes below, but they were even very difficult to connect.
When the Blenheim bomber circled the smokey area, they found that the area was too large, far exceeding several times the area of the oil field itself.
At this time, the squadron leader Stoke already knew that the situation was not good and there was a problem below!
What to do? Continue bombing?
No, there are strange things everywhere here, so it’s better to return first!
When Stoke circled the thick smoke area twice and still couldn't wait for the "fighting" bomber below, he decided not to wait any longer and return first and wait for the intelligence system's intelligence system before talking about it!
However, the radio was no longer sensitive, so he had to shake the wings to remind the bombers behind him to follow his actions!
The Blenheim bomber has a very special origin and is not the same as other bombers.
In 1934, Sir Rothermill, the owner of the Daily Mail, wanted Bristol to design and create a plane for it that could carry six passengers and two crew members. It was used to surpass various record-breaking high-speed aircraft such as the German He70.
This aircraft's first flight in 35 years immediately showed excellent performance, especially in terms of speed performance, it actually achieved an amazing record of 498km/h.
Therefore, Sir Rothermere proposed to the British Air Force to convert this aircraft for military purposes. In this way, the light twin-engine bomber with a good performance in Britain before World War II was born.
This is a three-person bomber, with the pilot sitting on the nose, the navigation and bomber sitting on the nose, and at the back, a bubble cockpit is added to accommodate a machine gunner with an omnidirectional field of view.
Of course, usually, machine gunners are backwards and take care of their own back half.
At this time, Alan, the gunner sitting in the cockpit of the bubble, was staring bored at the clear sky in the sky, and then his eyes suddenly widened.
A silver light highlight quickly dives from the sky!
It must be an enemy plane, and there are no fighter planes to escort it!
In his sight, the plane was flying over quickly, and he was surprised to see that the plane had no propellers!
Chapter completed!