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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 659 (Part 1) Enemy attack!

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    In the aerial duels on the Western Front, whether German pilots or British and French pilots, there were few examples of firing from a distance of 500 meters, except for those rookie pilots who were in the sky for the first time and had no experience, and they were excited and trembling nervously when they saw an enemy plane.  .

    The secret of most ace pilots shooting down enemy aircraft is to approach the opponent from the side and rear as close as possible, bite the tail and approach the attack. This is the attack method that maintains the best shooting position for the longest time. Other opponents and 90-degree interceptions of the intersection of the two aircraft  They will all be missed in an instant. The requirements for shooting skills will be very high and difficult, and the opportunity to fire will definitely be fleeting.

    In addition to being able to maintain the active firing position for the longest time and being the easiest to control, the other main reason for a tail-biting attack is that the firepower of almost all main fighters is directed forward. Unless it is a two-seat fighter-bomber, then there will be fire in the back seat.  Equip a rear-facing machine gun. Otherwise, whether a single-seat fighter is equipped with 1, 2 or even 3 machine guns, it can only fire towards the front of the flight.

    It is difficult to hit the target while flying at high speed and constantly maneuvering. It is difficult for a single-seat fighter pilot to fly forward while aiming and shooting from behind. This is unimaginably difficult, especially in this era of air combat.  , most of them are between 500 meters and 3000 meters. At low altitude, controlling the attitude of the aircraft has a much higher priority than aiming back and forth. Otherwise, if you are not careful, you will either hit a mountain, a tree, or an enemy aircraft or even a friendly aircraft.

    The four SE5 biplane fighters of the 1st Fighter-Bomber Wing of the Allied Air Force and the 1st Squadron of the 3rd Squadron of the 2nd Fighter Group, under the command of the leader Lin Fu, gave up the pursuit of Dorin's Fokkerdviii while increasing the throttle.  While swooping down, I saw that I was turning a corner to pull away the Fokkerdviii team that was charging menacingly from the side, rear and above. The field of vision under the clear night sky and moonlight was actually quite wide.

    The German Fokkerdviiis were painted in a cool white color. They were very domineering, but their targets in night battles were also too eye-catching, so G?ring's four Fokkerdviiis jumped down from an altitude of 5,000 meters behind a few clouds. It didn't take long.  After being discovered, Lin Fu immediately led his team to escape!

    Team leader Lin Fu's heartbeat was beating very fast. The excitement and joy of shooting down and damaging one Fokker Dviii each before, and chasing the opponent's captain's plane to nowhere, had been replaced by nervousness and anxiety. The so-called expert stretched out his hand,  Just to know if there is, Lin Fu is also an outstanding student who graduated from the second batch of the crash course of the Nanyuan Aviation School under the Aviation Department of the Chinese Participating Army. He is ranked 136th among the nearly a thousand graduates of the crash batch of the second batch, which is higher than Zhao Jiadi's  No. 154 is higher.

    At this time, one-third of the 500 students in the first phase of the Nanyuan Aviation School's crash program went to China Airlines, one-third stayed at the school and became trainee instructors, and the rest who participated in the aviation team's overseas operations have basically grown into squadron leaders or were recruited.  They were selected to fly the Chinese FR18 Excellent fighter-bomber. Among the outstanding trainees of the second batch who graduated at the end of January 1918, most of those who remained in the SE5 Fighter Group and the DH4 Fighter-Bomber Group were only squad leaders.

    When Hermann Wilhelm G?ring led the four Fokkerdviiis of the 1st Fighter Wing Wing Headquarters to catch up to a position of 3,200 meters, the four aircraft of the Linfu SE5 team of the Allied Air Force had already dived and flown to an altitude of 2,000 meters.  , which means that Goering's team, which was discovered at an altitude of 4,500 meters, lost the best opportunity to shorten the distance and catch up with the enemy plane.

    Both sides are in a 4-machine formation, and the speed is still the highest. The difference is that the altitude difference is 1,200 meters, and the diagonal distance is more than 1,500 meters. Moreover, Lin Fu's team used the 1,200-meter descending altitude dive tactic to finally turn a corner.  Cheng and Goering's teams formed a face-to-face situation.

    As the leader of the aircraft, G?ring could see clearly from above, which was a bit surprising. Although G?ring was famous for his bravery and skill in air combat, he did not lack tactical literacy and vision, but it was not easy to control himself once he went into battle.  It was just the impulse to personally attack. Deep down in his heart, the bellicose Goering demanded that he shoot down 80 aircraft that would catch up with the Red Baron. Of course, in 1918, the performance of the aircraft of the Allied Powers had caught up with or even surpassed the German aircraft.  In the second half of the year, this goal will be very far away.

    Leading the 1st Fighter Wing to station in Ukraine, they will have the opportunity to reap the fruits of victory face to face from the Chinese rookies of the Eastern Front Allied Air Force. This is the idea of ??the ace pilots of the entire German 1st Fighter Wing, and this is also what Georgi said.  Lin originally persuaded these subordinates to stay in Ukraine and bask in the sun instead of returning to the Western Front to fight British and French fighter jets.

    Although the altitude difference between the two sides is still 1,200 meters, they are flying head-on. Could it be that the other party didn't just run away, but used dive turns to hide his butt behind me without losing speed?  The team attacks an enemy whose bayonet is red?  Goering was a little puzzled and surprised. Of course, the confidence of the commander had not wavered. In this era of air combat, altitude, speed, maneuverability and firepower are the four major elements.

    Goering's four Fokkerdviiis now had the advantage in height and speed, while the four SE5s of the coalition's Lin Fu team were flying and diving at a slower speed.The momentum had been offset by the deceleration during the climb. G?ring felt that the opponent's tactical choice and action of turning around while accelerating to maintain a distance from the dive just now was quite brilliant, but he had just turned around to gain the height and speed advantage with him.  Fokkerdviii fight against the enemy?

    The captain of the other party must be crazy. Isn¡¯t this food delivered to your door?  While maintaining the course, G?ring turned to look at his No. 2 wingman and the No. 3 and No. 4 aircraft that were following him. It was obvious that all three of his subordinates were excited, and they were quite excited about bullying a rookie from a high position. G?ring shook his head.  He made a downward attack gesture, pressed the nose of the aircraft and pounced first.

    If Goering's team had been discovered a little later when they pounced from an altitude of 5,000 meters, Lin Fu's SE5 team would have been unable to avoid Goering's Fokkerdviii team's condescending attack with a cutting radius even if they relied on diving to accelerate and turn.  The difference in speed made Lin Fu's U-turn strategy of sacrificing altitude to increase speed and lengthen the distance successful. The problem was that after pulling up the nose of the plane, the advantage of speed was no longer there, and the distance between the two opposing sides was rapidly shortening.

    At a distance of 1,500 meters, if the two sides attack head-on, who will be more determined? The combined speed of both sides exceeds 400 kilometers per hour, which means that they will pass each other head-on in just 7 seconds. When will the target be smallest?  It must be that when the aircraft are nose-to-nose, the target cross-section in each other's machine gun sights is the smallest.
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