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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 655 (Part 2) The German guy is going crazy!

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    Dive to escape is often a more passive method used in emergency situations. Height and speed have always been two essential factors for winning in air combat. With height, you can use dive to increase speed and gain more circling.  and space and location for somersaults.

    The dh4 team of the Allied Air Force, led by Second Lieutenant Han Gang, took advantage of the opponent's absolute speed decrease when turning and climbing, and quickly chased from a distance of 800 meters to 500 meters. In this era, combat aircraft with a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour were shot by machine guns.  The distance ranges from a few hundred meters to tens of meters. For example, the first commander of the German 1st Fighter Wing, the Red Baron, once asked his squadron to shoot at a close or close distance, preferably to see the opponent clearly.  The pilot looked like he just pressed the trigger of the machine gun!

    Therefore, for the ace pilots of the German 1st Fighter Wing, if they start shooting at this distance and can hit the target, they are either geniuses, madmen, or the opponent is a dumbfounded dog.  The immobile rookie.  Just like that, a machine gunner in a ground trench almost has to rely on a blindfold to hit a target within a range of 500 meters. The machine gun is a general attack weapon at a long distance, not a precise sniper weapon.

    Don't think that the dh4 with a speed of 230 kilometers per hour can catch up with the fokkerdviii in front. It only takes 7.8 seconds to cross the 500 meters. Unless the two sides are attacking head-on, the time can be shortened to less than 4 seconds. The problem is that one is circling and climbing, and the other is behind.  Chasing, the speed of Fokkerdviii is only 204 kilometers per hour when the throttle is turned to the maximum. Moreover, the climb itself also sacrifices the absolute level flight speed. The distance between the two sides is actually shortening at 45 kilometers per hour.

    This means that in just 12 seconds, the coalition's dh4 can kiss the tail of the fokkerdviii, if both parties maintain their current speed and direction.

    Less than 5 seconds later, when the pursuit of the German team was 300 meters behind, the leader of the pursuing coalition dh4 team, Han Gang, pressed the firing button of the machine gun in his hand. The Browning 12.7mm installed on the nose of the aircraft  The large-caliber machine gun sprayed out a blazing rain of bullets, with the unique light of tracer bullets, and pounced on the white German Fokkerdviii war pigeon 300 meters away.

    A few seconds after Han Gang's lead aircraft opened fire, the wingman that followed also sprayed out a hail of hot bullets. The target was above the opponent's No. 4 aircraft, which was rolling rapidly to avoid the hail of bullets. This was the target of Han Gang's team.  A classic example of two-on-one tactics between the lead aircraft and wingman.  Not only Han Gang and his wingman, but also the entire coalition air force prohibits individual heroism in single combat. When it is possible to fight 2 on 1, first knock down one of the opponent's planes, and then the wingman fires on both of the opponent's planes at the same time.  Much more efficient.

    If the nose of the dh4 equipped by the coalition still uses the original Vickers machine gun, shooting at high speed at a distance of 300 meters may not really pose a substantial threat. The opponent's dive and left and right circling will have a chance to escape this  There was a hail of bullets. In fact, most of the air battles in World War I were dominated by close-range shootings. If you were lucky, long-distance shootings were more likely to cause damage. At this time, the German squad leader Dolin had already taken the lead in pulling up the plane and started somersaulting.  This is also the best action to change from passive to active when the enemy attacks by biting his tail.

    The fokkerdviii high-single-wing semi-metallic skinned fighter relies on its light body and excellent climbing ability to somersault behind the enemy aircraft and bite its tail. This is an operation that the ace pilots of the 26th Fighter Squadron are familiar with. Of course, tonight's luck  It was a bit off. Firstly, I didn¡¯t expect that the four dh4s of the coalition would dive so fast. Secondly, I was trying to save others by myself and didn¡¯t bother to press the shooting button a few hundred meters away from the German ace pilots.  Encountering the challenge from the coalition pilots behind him who were at a typical rookie level in comparison, he started aiming when he was 500 meters away, and actually started shooting from 300 meters away.

    Moreover, the two DH4s flying in the front fired at the FokkerDviii that fell behind unexpectedly. There was actually a delay and time difference. The domineering and sharp lethality of the Browning 12.7mm heavy machine gun was on this night.  Gorgeous flowers bloomed over the Ukrainian border.

    Han Gang led his team to victory. The storm of bullets fired by his lead plane blew off the tail fin of the opponent's Fokker Dviii fighter jet. The moment the opponent's nose was raised, it crashed into the rain of bullets fired by Han Gang's wingman.  , the tragic No. 4 aircraft of the 1st Squadron of the 26th Squadron of the German 1st Fighter Wing and the pilot Lieutenant Hans were exploded into a hot fireball in the air, which made the pilots of the three German fighter planes in front couldn't help but scream in their hearts.

    The coalition pilots driving dh4 who were chasing after them burst into cheers. Of course, the cheers could only be heard by the pilots and their back seats. This was the first time that the coalition air force shot down a German aircraft in an air battle.  The fighter plane, and judging by the ugly appearance of the high-wing, is the latest German high-wing, metal-skinned single-seat fighter Fokkerdviii, a new type of fighter that has not yet been officially put into combat on the Western Front!

    The distance of 300 meters passed in a flash. Han Gang and his wingman couldn't care less about continuing to be happy. They pushed the joystick and turned left.The three German fighter planes on the other side had already turned over and landed on top of Han Gang's team with a beautiful somersault. At this time, it was clear that climbing and circling with them was not a wise choice. Although Han Gang did not know about the opponent's new type of fighter jets,  How exaggerated is the performance of fokkerdviii? But seeing the opponent's aircraft fighting and climbing and rolling with such sharpness, this guy instinctively felt that he couldn't follow others' tail.

    Han Gang and his wingman's move to leave to the left saved the fate of dh4 team 3. The lead aircraft No. 3 and his wingman No. 4, who were following closely behind his two-aircraft formation, also instinctively turned to the right and left after seeing this. This tactical move  It has become an instinct for the pilots of the dh4 flying school team. In daily training, their two-plane formation will draw half a heart shape to the left and right and then merge again into a complete four-plane formation.

    The German leader, the double ace of the 1st Squadron of the 26th Squadron of the 1st Fighter Wing, and the mascot of the 26th Squadron, Lieutenant Kent von Dorling, who was scolding his mother all the way, gritted his teeth and fiercely led the leftovers.  The three Fokkerdviiis below turned around and got rid of the unfavorable situation through a beautiful somersault, and fiercely pounced down on the sides and rear of the four DH4s of Han Gang's team from top to bottom. The deaths of No. 4 and Hans made Dolin  His normally calm mind went a little crazy.
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