Chapter 138: F12 vs. F80
readx; On October 14, 1945, Innsbruck, Austria, Europe, this European city located in western Austria and standing in the Alps, although it is not an industrial town, and the urban population is only about 100,000, but because it is an important transportation hub in western Austria, it was repeatedly bombed by the Allies in World War II. There were several large-scale bombardments of Innsbruck, an important railway transport hub in western Austria. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
With the conclusion of a temporary armistice between China and Germany, the Chinese Ninth Army quickly marched into Austria to take over, and for a time, the German army disappeared from the western city of Austria and was replaced by a large number of yellow-skinned Chinese soldiers.
Along this important railway junction, the Ninth Army deployed a mechanized infantry division, in addition to considerable mountain troops.
In addition to the army strength, it is also an important base of the Eighth Air Force in western Austria, and at Innsbruck Airport, the 572nd Group of the 57th Wing of the Eighth Air Force is stationed, with three squadrons of F12C fighters. In addition to Innsbruck Airport, there are also other combat planes of the 57th Wing deployed in several nearby field airfields, including the 571st Brigade and the 573rd Brigade, which are surrounded by more than 200 combat aircraft of various types of the Chinese Air Force within a radius of 100 kilometers from Innsbruck, of which the main force is naturally the F12C fighting for air supremacy, and there are also a considerable number of F12E reconnaissance planes and F6D fighter-bombers.
As for the strategic bombers or even the bombers of both sides, transport planes and other types of aircraft, naturally they will not risk being deployed in Austria or the northern part of Yugoslavia at the forefront, and the strategic bombers of the Chinese Air Force are now mainly deployed in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula or even in Turkey, after all, with their large range, there is no need to directly deploy too far ahead.
At this time, the two F12C fighters that exchanged fire with the US Air Force over the Alps were the 572nd Group belonging to the Eighth Air Force, and as soon as the two F12C fighters exchanged fire with the US fighters, the command center of the 57th Air Force Wing in the rear immediately got the news and hurriedly asked about the specific situation.
At this time, the two F12C fighters were engaged in a tense combat with the four F80 fighters, and the pilots did not have much time to report at all, so they could only focus on the air battle in front of them.
The air command of the 57th Wing was already in a mess, and they did not expect that what was just a normal patrol and interception operation would turn into a real firefight.
"Obviously, the enemy is in ambush, otherwise how would they have deployed a whole squad of F80 fighters behind that reconnaissance plane, obviously this is a trap!" A colonel said so.
However, his idea is still that he is too one-sided, this year to send reconnaissance planes to carry out reconnaissance, but also to go to areas with dense anti-aircraft fire, this is a normal thing to send escort fighters to escort, now this place in Europe, is still very dangerous, the Chinese Air Force's own bombers, transport planes and other aircraft to carry out missions, will also send fighter planes to escort.
"Who the hell fired it? Wasn't there a strict order that it was absolutely not allowed to fire first? "The commander of the 57th Wing was also called in a hurry, this man was named Panhodi, Colonel of the Air Force. The establishment of the Chinese Air Force in World War II is more complicated, and the air force of Germany and the United States are different, and even the establishment of the Chinese Navy and the Air Force are also different, not to mention the differences between the branches of the armed forces between countries, and even within the Air Force, the establishment is also a variety of at the same time, such as the same name of the wing, but each wing is very different, according to the different types of aircraft and theaters, there will be great changes.
For example, during the Third Sino-Chinese War last year, the F5E fighter wings that participated in the war maintained a relatively standard four-four establishment, that is, four planes formed a combat squadron, four squadrons formed a squadron, four squadrons plus the brigade headquarters formed an operational group, and four brigades plus the wing headquarters formed an operational wing. The number of F5E wings that adopt the symbol 44 system is huge, theoretically there are 276 aircraft in active service, and the wing commander is generally served by a colonel, and even in some cases there will be a situation where a major general will be held, and this situation occurred once last year, last year the Chinese Air Force during the operation with the "Ben, before the F12 fighter was put into large-scale service, the F5E fighter of the Chinese Air Force in low-altitude combat, can not get too much advantage from the fighter of the fighter, As a result, the Air Force was forced to re-use the F4 fighters that had withdrawn from the front-line troops on a large scale, and used the modified F4H fighters to specialize in the task of air supremacy at medium and low altitudes. And these F4H fighters that were reactivated in large numbers were also stuffed into the 21st Wing and the 29th Wing, which were originally equipped with F4H fighters, of which the F4H fighters of the 21st Wing reached more than 400 in a short period of time, and in the later stage of the war, the F4H fighters equipped by the 21st Wing reached the peak, reaching more than 600 units.
This number is actually the strength of an air force, and the commander of the 21st Wing is not a colonel, but a specially transferred major general of the Air Force.
Now, after the Chinese Air Force has put jet aircraft into service on a large scale, due to the high price of jet aircraft, it is impossible to completely replace all the propeller aircraft in service with the one-for-one model, and because the surname of the jet fighter can be improved, the task that used to require multiple propeller fighters to complete can now be completed with one. Moreover, the ground facilities required to operate jet fighters and the space occupied by airfields are larger than those of original propeller aircraft, so after taking into account many factors, the Chinese Air Force's jet fighter group is one squadron less in number than the propeller fighter group.
However, despite the loss of one squadron in numbers, three squadrons can still bring the number of jet fighters in a combat group to as many as fifty-two.
As an air force wing that has just been transferred from China to Europe, the 57th Wing has just been reequipped with F12C fighters, and like other wings that have been reequipped with F12 fighters, the 57th Wing has also been training for adaptation since the beginning of the year, and has supplemented a large number of pilots who have learned jet aircraft.
As soon as the redressing was over, the 57th Wing was sent to Europe under the command of the Eighth Air Army.
Because it is equipped with an absolute main air supremacy fighter, and the range of the F12C fighter is not as far as the previous F5E, most of the F12Cs sent by China to Europe are deployed in advance, and the 57th Wing is naturally no exception.
However, not long after he was deployed to the European side, the current unexpected situation occurred, which made Panhoj a little angry. If there is a real war, then it is easy to say that it will fight, but don't look at the current tense situation between China and the United States, it is the same as fighting at any time, but in fact, both sides are still very restrained, and the possibility of a real fight is not very large.
However, in this kind of thing, his own troops were fighting with the Americans, and Panhody could already imagine that he would be subject to a special investigation.
"Immediately report to the Air Force Command, and say that there was an exchange of fire between the fighters of the Department and the US fighters, and the cause of the exchange of fire is unknown, and where are our patrol fighters nearby? Give them orders immediately, the past is in the airspace, wait for the order! ”
Panhodi did not directly say that the planes in the nearby airspace should rush to reinforcements, but only let them go now, and wait for follow-up orders, that is, now Panhodi does not know whether to fight or not.
Just as the air command of the 57th Wing was in disarray, so was the air command deployed by the Americans in Italy.
"What, they opened fire on us, are you sure they fired first?" A general who was taking a nap was hurriedly called up to answer the phone, and his face changed greatly as soon as he heard two sentences. The American lieutenant colonel on the other end of the phone was hesitant, because the matter was urgent, and they in the rear could know who fired first.
They only know that now the Chinese have shot down one of their own F6D reconnaissance planes, and at the same time, their four F80 fighters are still engaged in a tense struggle with the two Chinese F12C fighters, and whether the American plane fired first or the Chinese plane fired first is only known to the parties concerned. As for those in the rear, it is impossible to know.
"Contact the Chinese and the country immediately, I want to know whether the war broke out or just a misfire!"
These rear chaos may be very important to the big guys, but at this moment, for Lieutenant Mei Fuhu, he is facing a challenge of life and death.
Just half a minute ago, his wingman didn't know if it was because he was out of control or something, but he actually attacked the F6D fighter in front, and the F6D reconnaissance plane was instantly hit and fell with a tail of smoke, and at the same time, the four American F80 fighters that rushed from the rear also immediately opened fire and returned fire.
In the face of the tail-biting attack of the four enemy planes, Mei Fuhu, as a long plane, quickly climbed to get rid of the attack because of his superb technology, but his wingman was not in good luck and was soon shot down by the F80 fighter, and Mei Fuhu did not even see the pilot eject out.
The whole process in between was less than half a minute, and in just half a minute, his wingman had been shot down.
In fact, if it were in normal air combat mode, it was unlikely that it would be shot down so easily, and even that F6D reconnaissance aircraft could survive the attack of the F12C fighter for some time.
However, it was not an air battle before, but a kind of confrontation and expulsion, and neither Mei Fuhu nor the Americans planned to open fire, and the confrontation between the military planes of China and the United States began last year, and it happened frequently in the skies over the Pacific Ocean, and most of the methods used were to compete with the courage and technology of the pilots of both sides, get close to the stance, use the air flow to interfere with the enemy planes, and so on, and even directly use the fuselage to mount it, but it will not fire directly.
That's why the two sides tested each other so closely, but they didn't expect this kind of accident to happen, and they didn't fight and collide, and fired directly.
In order to get rid of the enemy just now, Mei Fuhu spent a lot of effort!
How to survive or even shoot down the enemy under the attack of four F80 fighters has become the most critical issue for Lieutenant Mei Fuhu at present, and whether his battle with the US military aircraft will trigger a world war is no longer within his scope of consideration.
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