Chapter 109: Wonderful Maneuver
8.109 Brilliant maneuver
As soon as the fighters of the Chinese Air Force appeared, they occupied an absolute advantage in altitude, and at this moment the group of Yi-16 fighters was in a high-speed dive! The 45th squadron of the 22nd "96 Land Battle" was completely exposed to the firepower of the Chinese Air Force!
The dive maneuver in air combat is the process of converting gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy. The greater the angle between the tail and the ground during www.biquge.info the dive, the faster the dive. At the same time, the speed of the aircraft itself will become larger, and the aircraft will appear more agile.
Compared with the Soviet-made I-16, which is known for its dexterity, the Japanese-made "96 Land Battle" is already a bit bulky, and in the current extreme situation, the shortcomings of the "96 Land Battle" are infinitely magnified! Facing the roaring group of Chinese fighter jets, Okubo Shaoza only had the only option left in his mind to dodge!
"Roll! High-speed continuous rolling! ”
Okubo roared loudly in the wheelhouse of his "Ninety-Six Marine", as if he thought that this would allow his men to hear his orders. As Okubo completed a series of complicated maneuvers, the "96 Land Battle" he piloted began to make continuous gyroscopic movements on the axis formed by the nose and tail, that is, it continued to roll sideways in the air.
In the process of doing this kind of horizontal rolling, the direction of movement of the aircraft does not change, but it can consume part of the kinetic energy of the aircraft, thus slowing down the speed, so that all the bullets fired by the I-16 fighter that appeared above Okubo Shosa's head will hit the air in front of the nose of the "96 Land Battle."
"Da-da-da... Da-da-da..."
Dense aviation machine gun bullets drew a line of fire in the air, and these dangerous little things kept speeding past not far in front of the nose propeller of Okubo Shaosa's "96 Land Battle", just a fraction of a second! Okubo Shosa's skillful fighter control skills saved his life!
However, other Japanese pilots did not have the same good luck as Okubo Shaosa, because there was no radio communication equipment, the communication of fighters in the air relied on gestures and wing swings, which made the Japanese aircraft group unable to give early warning at the first time! The sudden appearance of the Chinese Air Force caught the 45th Flying Sentai by surprise.
When the fighter plane piloted by Okubo Shosa began to roll to evade, only a few elite Japanese pilots subconsciously reacted and followed, and more Japanese pilots were stunned, and then heard the sound of aviation machine gun bullets hitting the fuselage of the aircraft.
The flames and smoke burst out in the air, and the "96 Land Battle" that burst into flames was like a huge fireworks, scattering the fragments and parts of the fuselage with flames, flying everywhere in the air. The Japanese pilots, who were not shot down in the first round of attacks by the Chinese Air Force, not only had to fight with the I-16s in front of them, but also had to carefully avoid the wreckage of the friendly plane's explosion.
As a result, pulling up became the common choice of almost all surviving Japanese pilots.
Screaming engines, shaking fuselages, and violent maneuvers are frantically challenging the manufacturing process of Japanese aircraft factories! The Japanese pilots in the cockpit kept bouncing as if they had springs under their buttocks, and the raised "96 Land Battle" and the swooping down group of I-16 planes seemed to be about to crash into a ball, and both sides were going all out!
It's a white-knuckle battle in the sky!
Damn it! There will be so many Chinese fighters! Could it be that the ground observation posts in front of us are blind!?
With a cursory glance, Okubo came to the conclusion that the number of Chinese fighters far exceeded the number of fighters of the 45th Sentai Squadron. Such an air ambush is like a textbook! How did the Chinese Air Force suddenly have the capability of long-range large-scale air combat?
As the ace pilot of the 45th Sentai Squadron, Okubo used much more skillful maneuvers when pulling up, and he even used the gap in maneuver to use an aviation machine gun to return fire.
It's a pity that in the melee of large formations, individual skills cannot control the battlefield situation at all. The Chinese pilots sent by the Chinese Air Force and the Soviet Air Force to aid China have a total of 32 I-16 fighters, which is 10 more than the "96 Land Battle" that flew the 45th Squadron! In addition, six Japanese planes were shot down in the surprise attack just now, and now the ratio between the two sides on the battlefield is 2:1, that is, two Chinese fighters beat one Japanese plane. The situation is really one-sided. Even the "96 Land Battle" piloted by Okubo Shaosa was bitten by the tail of two I-16 fighters!
"Whoosh, whoosh..."A shuttle machine gun bullet flew from the rear of the "96 Land Battle" piloted by Okubo Shaosa, and then flew forward through the fuselage, the iron skin of the "96 Land Battle" was beaten "clanging", and the side windshield of the cab was also shattered, and the air flow continued to pour in from the broken glass, blowing the facial muscles of Okubo Shaosa a little distorted, if it were not for wearing goggles and a leather flight cap, Okubo Shaosa's eyes would have been unable to open for a long time.
1 on 2! The fuselage has been shot! This is an absolute disadvantage! Okubo Shosa must respond decisively!
"Come on! The people of China! Soviets! Let's take a look at the Imperial Army's flying ace technique! ”
Okubo Shaosa looked up at the two I-16 fighters biting behind the "96 Land Battle" from the rearview mirror, and then silently calculated the distance in his mind. After everything was ready to stop, Okubo Shaosa pressed the accelerator to the bottom, and then pulled the lever with all his strength to make the angle between the fuselage of the "96 Land Battle" and the ground reach an astonishing 90 degrees, and then pulled the rod again until the fuselage was parallel to the ground again, and finally changed the plane back to the state of level flight.
This is a very lethal defensive maneuver, commonly known as "somersault", which can suddenly change the direction of flight to attack the enemy aircraft behind it, but after completing the somersault, the aircraft's maneuverability will be greatly reduced due to the increase in flight altitude. Therefore, this kind of maneuver is best carried out at low altitude, otherwise the aircraft can easily enter a stall state. Okubo Shosa is worthy of being the ace of the Japanese Army Aviation Corps, and he actually added a "somersault" maneuver in the process of pulling up, which is simply breathtaking!
In this way, Okubo Shaosa's "96 Land Battle" not only escaped the pursuit, but also instantly appeared behind the two I-16 fighters! Occupy a favorable position for attack! Looking at the I-16 fighter that was swaying from side to side in the sight and trying to get rid of it, Okubo Shaosa smiled and pressed the shooting button, and the two 7.7mm aviation machine guns on the wing of the "96 Land Battle" began to pour bullets!
But Okubo Shaosa didn't see the scene when the I-16 fighter was hit by a bullet and caught fire, almost at the same time as he fired the machine gun, the two I-16 fighters coincidentally repeated Okubo Shaosa's perfect "somersault" maneuver just now, and re-bit Okubo Shaosa's "96 land battle"!
The pilots of these two I-16 fighters were Lieutenant Alyosha of the Soviet Air Force for China and Lieutenant Zhao Yongcheng of the Fourth Brigade of the Chinese Air Force.
The I-16 fighters piloted by Lieutenant Alyosha and Lieutenant Zhao Yongcheng are all newer 10th batch of improved models, both equipped with four 7.62 mm aviation machine guns, and the rain of bullets fired by the two planes at the same time directly shattered the rudder and horizontal rudder of the "96 Land Battle", and Okubo Shaosa's fighter roared and fell into a spiral! Now even the gods can't kill him! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )