Air supremacy will determine the outcome of the war, and the side with air supremacy will have the absolute initiative, no matter how advanced the weapons and equipment on the ground, even if it is the Panther 3 tank, it is afraid of the attack from the sky.

The British knew this, and the Germans knew it even more.

Just when the French campaign was not over, the struggle for air supremacy over the English Channel began.

The first to arrive in Calais was the Luftwaffe's JG 2 Richthofen wing, yes, this is a wing named after the famous German ace pilot Richthofen of World War I.

Up to now, this wing has a total of 3 brigades and hundreds of combat aircraft.

After receiving the task, they made a transfer overnight, and stationed themselves in the newly opened base more than a hundred kilometers behind Calais, and today they were ready, ready for battle, and took off.

In later generations, the range of the aircraft was an important indicator, and the aircraft with a small range were called airport guards, in fact, according to the mode of warfare.

The German army is constantly advancing rapidly, and in the process of advancing, the rear air units will arrive in time to remain more than 100 kilometers away from their ground forces at any time and provide air support at any time.

In this case, the range of the aircraft is not important, and it is perfectly fine to improve flight performance by reducing the fuel carrying factor of the aircraft.

For example, the BF109 is such a mission, they don't need a lot of range, they need strong performance. Just like the thinking of the MiG-29 in later generations, they only provided tactical support.

The current Richthofen Wing, which is not as famous as Richthofen, is a flying wing created only last year, and two-thirds of its pilots are fresh graduates from aviation schools.

However, its commanders were all experienced pilots, even veterans of the First World War.

For example, the commander of the flying wing, Colonel Robert von Graham, came from that brutal Great War and now sits in a BF109 fighter jet and directs this large group of aircraft.

When the German army took control of Calais, a radar antenna was erected in Calais to monitor the movements of the opposite side, so the build-up of the British air force on the opposite side could not be hidden from their eyes at all.

"Attention, after approaching, fight in a four-finger formation, the long plane and wingman cooperate, for the sake of Germany, let's defeat the British Air Force!"

Inside the radio, Colonel Grim shouted.

This will be a big battle that will go down in history, and they will have a large group of planes in the skies over the English Channel!

Before entering the battle, they are large swarms, but when they enter the battlefield, they quickly disintegrate.

Unless it is a bomber, even if it is beaten all the time, it must remain in a dense formation, and the fighters will soon disperse.

So, how are they going to fight after they disperse? Is it alone?

Of course not!

The Luftwaffe has developed a complete set of tactics, which is the four-finger formation.

After a pause, he continued: "Be careful, once you are bitten by a British fighter, immediately roll down with a negative G to get rid of it, and don't circle with the British on the horizontal plane!" ”

Now, this war is not a level contest at all.

The Luftwaffe has also begun to replace the F190 on a large scale, but the BF109 is still the main fighter, so if you want to win in air combat, you must know yourself and your opponent.

Until now, the performance of the German fighter is still secret, but the performance of the British Spitfire has been well known to the German side.

It's the best way to take advantage of the opponent's weaknesses to defeat the opponent!

On one of the fringes of the fleet, Ensign Helmut Vik is welcoming his time.

He was born in 1915, and now he is not yet 25 years old, which is the golden age of a person, and at the age of 35, he joined the Air Force, and after several rounds, came to the newly formed JG2 Wing.

In the French battle, his wing joined the battle, but, so far, he has not achieved anything.

Because the German attack was too sudden, a large number of French planes were wiped out on the ground in the first time, and there were not many French planes in the air to fight, and their performance was not good.

As a result, Vic carried out dozens of combat cruises, and nothing came of it.

He was holding back his fighting spirit, and now, he finally had a chance, it was said that there would be hundreds of British fighter planes on the other side, and there must be prey belonging to him in them!

When he was a teenager, he had a book by the hero Richthofen next to his pillow, and at that time, he longed to become a pilot, and now, he can finally fight like his idol!

Now, the sky is clear, and from this side, you can even see the opposite side of the strait, where a group of warplanes are flying towards this side at an altitude of about 3,000 meters!

Discover the British Air Force!

Just after discovering the fighters of the British Air Force, the large group of planes began to disperse rapidly, and the British Air Force fighters on the opposite side also quickly discovered them, and the battle between the two sides began in this way.

"Spitfire, the other side is using a Spitfire!" Sitting in his cockpit, Vic shouted loudly.

At this time, their entire large group had separated, and Vic was at the end of the four-finger formation of his squad.

A four-finger formation refers to the arrangement of four aircraft in an asymmetrical wedge-shaped formation. From the ground, it looks like a human with four fingers, and Vic, where it is, is the little finger at the very end.

This four-plane formation, which is a combination of two two-plane formations, has greater elasticity, and in front of Vic's left is his long-flying Lieutenant Klee.

"Vic, pay attention, follow me." Lieutenant Klee shouted over the radio.

Sure enough, it was Spitfire!

The Spitfire fighter is a new fighter developed by the British Air Force, and from the data point of view, it is on par with its own BF109, and because of the other party's engine horsepower, it is even better to climb and so on.

Therefore, their previous tactics of dealing with aircraft of other countries, diving at high altitudes, climbing up after a miss, getting rid of the opponent, and then coming down to attack, such tactics are no longer practical.

Relying on absolute strength, they will also defeat each other!

The liquid-cooled engine in front of him was roaring, and the oxygen mask was buckled, and Vic followed his formation and began to climb, and the altitude is always good, that represents energy.