Chapter 1457: After Me, Even if the Flood Is Overwhelming!
c_t; There are at least five or more dams to choose from across the Ruhr dam system, and the British, after careful consideration, chose the Monnet Dam and the Eder Valley Dam. [No pop-up novel network] [-- fast update, refreshing website pages, few ads,,I like this kind of website the most,Be sure to praise].Visit:ใ After the target was chosen, how to safely deliver the bomber to the target area and launch an attack became two very important issues. In fact, as early as in the previous air war, the British had tried the method of infiltration from low or high altitudes, but unfortunately this method was not successful, the Germans' radio identification signals and air traffic control were still very successful, with various types of radar, it was impossible for a large group of aircraft to break through without being detected.
Therefore, the troops bombing the dam must be few and 'fine', and there is only one chance, if the other side is prepared, I am afraid that the next bombing will be killed! The information about the target dams is very clear, even the Germans are doing the defense work around the dams, and the Germans are of course aware of the importance and military value of these dams, they have deployed special 'gate' early warning radars and fire control radars around the dams, and arranged a sufficiently dense firepower.
Historically, mine nets set up to protect against torpedo attacks still exist reads; Historically, the British have used a ricocheting attack to destroy the dam with a ricocheting attack, and the principle is so simple that anyone who has ever been involved in the water knows that when a flat stone touches the water at a very small angle, it jumps. And the bombs that the British used to blow up the dam in the Ruhr area used this principle. The bomb was made into a barrel, and then the special "door" equipment gave it a speed of up to several hundred revolutions, and the bomber flew to the target at a low altitude, and then threw the bomb, and the bomb could "jump" over the mine protection net laid by the Germans. When it hits the bottom of the dam, it sinks into the sea and detonates under the action of the water pressure fuse, which finally destroys the target completely from the bottom of the dam! This plan has proven to be viable!
What's the saddest thing in the world? It's clear that you know the other party's arrangement, and you also know a way to kill the other party, but in the end you find that this method is not feasible because of time problems! The Germans defended themselves as they did historically. The British have also succeeded in thinking of historical solutions, but sadly, the British in this plane do not have enough time to prepare for this! They did not have time to analyze and deduce the entire plan again and again, nor did they have time for the crew to test thousands of times to ensure the accuracy of the attack.
They only have a dozen days or even a few days to prepare! You must know that the British have been preparing for more than a year to blow up the dam in the Ruhr area! The pilots even made more than 2,000 mock bomb drops! And now. In just a few days, they had to solve a series of problems, from how to dodge the air defense of the Germans, to launch an attack, to how to retreat! Time is tight, and the task is heavy!
And just when the British were helpless, the Huaxia Air Force finally pulled out the big killer they had been preparing for a long time from the warehouse. [โโAlmost all the books I want to read.,It's much more stable and updated faster than the general station.,There's no ads in the whole text.] All you have to do is provide the navigators and be responsible for getting us to the bombing target safely. We'll take care of the rest! "At a regular 'exchange' meeting of the Allied air forces, when the British told Shen Daoming, commander of the Huaxia Air Force in the British Air Force, about their troubles, the Huaxia Air Force took over the task." I really admire the 'kind' above, they actually prepared these big guys before the war, and the air force may have been thinking about the German dam for a long time! "At a later meeting, Shen Daoming once said this to Qin Yue 'in private'.
As a traverser, Xu Jie is naturally very aware of the classic example of the British Air Force's attack on the dam in the Ruhr area in World War 2. He had also considered copying the tactics of the British in history, but then he thought about what if the Germans placed balloons over the dam, deployed a special fighter force, or strengthened local anti-aircraft fire. After all, if Lancaster is a low-altitude flyer, it is a large target, and there is only one read; If you don't succeed once, you won't have much hope in the future. So in order to ensure the success of the attack, Xu Jie thought about it and it would be better to make a Huaxia version of the guidance goblet! It doesn't matter what situation you have on the ground, drop a bomb directly from a height of thousands of meters away, and a bomb of about 6 tons will go down, as long as it hits, it will collapse!
When the British came to Huaxia's warehouse and saw the huge bomb with a length of more than 6 meters inside, which Huaxia called an earthquake, the whole person was Spartan! "With just one bomb, I can destroy a neighborhood!" The length of the earthquake bomb was 6.9 meters. It is a cyclone explosive 'charge' with a diameter of 1 meter, a simple bomb weight of 6.2 tons, and an internal charge of 3 tons. If you add the relevant guidance devices and additional wings, the total weight of the bomb is about 6.9 tons! Such a huge bomb can only be used by a specially modified Huaxia new Yunlong four-engine heavy bomber. These specially modified heavy bombers had their entire bomb bay 'doors' removed in order to accommodate such a huge bomb. At the same time, the pylons were strengthened and a guidance control system was installed.
Because the volume of this bomb is too large, and the requirements for machining are also very high, there are not many of them, and in the entire Huaxia Air Force stationed in the United Kingdom, there are only 40 such bombs! And correspondingly, there are only 16 bombers that can use such bombs, which is just the size of a squadron! However, such a scale is enough for the British. They immediately dispatched navigators and relevant auxiliary personnel to cooperate with the Huaxia Air Force in carrying out this combat mission. However, the attack weapons are available, but how to safely enter the German airspace is still a serious problem, after all, the number of aircraft is limited, if these 16 planes are finished, the Huaxia and the British will really not be able to take the dam! And it was at this time that an accident solved the problem!
A German night bomber actually landed on the British airfield because of a navigation error, and when the German pilot hurriedly got off the plane, he was greeted not by his cheering comrades but by the British GIs' Lee Enfield rifles! The 4 poor German crew members were pushed to the ground before they could even destroy the equipment inside the plane, and then the British Air Force decisively took over the hapless bomber and found the equipment inside the bomber for radio response. This kind of equipment is actually a multi-band radio first equipment, which emits different frequencies of radio 'waves' according to the daily password. And after getting the sample, the British decisively copied similar equipment, although there were not many of them, but the equipment was enough for attack aircraft! Before the Germans found out and replaced the radio transponder equipment, the safety problem of some of the Allied bombers entering the German mainland was largely solved!
Everything is ready only to the east wind, with the careful cooperation of the air forces of the two countries. The battle plan, code-named Operation Punishment, was finally released, and the attack call was a quote from Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's concubine in history: "After me, even if it floods!" "This call sign successfully interprets the essence of this operation! After the fight, it is going to be a flood of reads;!
The British provided a whole squadron of Mosquito night fighters for the Huaxia Air Force to provide cover and guidance tasks, and the first air raid formation sent 12 Yunlong heavy bombers. Each target is divided into batches of four. Each four-plane squad was accompanied by two Mosquito planes for flares and searchlights, and four night planes for cover. As the German bombing of Britain entered its fourth week, the punitive operation finally began, and under the cover of darkness, more than 30 bombers followed a group of returning German bombers towards the German mainland.
"We should be the first British pilots to enter German soil, right?" The British, who were in charge of guidance, constantly scanned the ground with terrain radar, shining bright and dark dots of light on the radar screen. This speck of light, which seems meaningless to others, is a map in the eyes of the specially trained guides, telling the British where they are now! Soon, the ground guidance facilities of the Germans began to verify the identity of the other party, but after a few simple radio responses, there was no other signal, after all, there are too many bombers that need to be guided in the air now, and the ground facilities are almost at full capacity.
Soon, after crossing the first few air defense nets. The Chinese bomber formation entered the edge of the Ruhr area, and at this time, the mutation was abrupt! The Germans apparently noticed the group of planes flying at high altitudes, and they seemed to be deviating from the predetermined course, and in order to avoid accidents, aircraft were prohibited from flying over the Ruhr industrial area and some cities, and some targets in the air were clearly violating this rule. "You have entered the wrong airspace, quickly exit, return to base according to the intended airspace, repeat, you have entered the wrong airspace. Exit now! The German ground tower called directly in plain language, and in the face of the sudden change, the Allied pilots were a little caught off guard. The Germans apparently kept an eye on them, if not properly disposed of. I'm afraid the German night fighters will soon come to see what is going on!
"It's almost time to get there, let's get ready for electronic warfare! Let's rush over! At this point, it was clear that there could be no indecision, and after a brief hesitation, the bombers of the three squads immediately began to reduce their altitude, followed by the acceleration brought by the altitude drop to increase the flight speed. At the same time, the electronic warfare equipment on all aircraft is activated, and the complicated radio interference 'waves' are released. Immediately after that, pieces of jamming ropes and metal chaff completely wiped the figures of the group from the radar, and the punishment operation entered the final sprint stage!
"Damn, it's the British! What are they going to do! "The Germans did not expect that Britain would actually send bombers to trouble Germany at this time, didn't the bigwigs of the Air Force say that the British were too busy to take care of themselves? What is even more incomprehensible to the Germans is how these British planes crossed the outer radar warning network! Is Salzburg, which is really a German, to watch! However, this is obviously not the time to pursue responsibility, when the alarm sounds, several HE110 night bombers that have been on standby urgently rise to intercept, and the radar "operator" is also using frequency modulation to solve the jamming problem.
However, by this time, the Germans were already a little late, and the group of planes responsible for attacking the Monnet Dam had already entered the sky above the target, and the attack was already in the final form when the British Mosquito planes in front flew over the target area and dropped flares! Flares dropped from an altitude of 4000 meters with the help of parachutes can provide a group of attack aircraft with light for ten minutes! After the initial discomfort, the '' put his eyes on the scope and then put the huge dam in the center of the scope!
"Autopilot takes over the plane and enters the attack course!" The captain said loudly, and then the plane began to fly in a straight line, and when the conditions for dropping the bomb were met, the bombardier decisively pulled down the handle, and a huge bomb fell from the air, dragging a long wire and a flare tracer tube behind him! The red light that foreshadowed the destruction began to quickly approach the target, and at this time, the heavy anti-aircraft artillery deployed next to the dam began to roar, and the huge pillar of light from the searchlight swept across the sky, and a mosquito bomber was unfortunately locked by the pillar of light, and in just a few minutes, hundreds of various shells dragged the fire into the sky, breaking the target to pieces!
"Die! Germans! You're running out of time! When the bomb finally landed in the middle of Monet's Dam, a British navigator roared excitedly, and the depression and frustration of many days were gone! The sturdy semi-armor-piercing warhead smashed into the middle of the dam with huge potential energy, directly making a crater several meters deep inside the dam! Then the time-delay fuse ignited the cyclone explosive 'charge' inside the bomb! A ball of fire dozens of times more dazzling than the sun appeared on the dam! The bright light even blinded the 'operator' for a short time!
Then, an earth-shattering tremor came from below, and a roaring sound like a landslide filled the entire battlefield! A huge column of smoke rose into the sky with a loud bang. "This pillar of smoke is more than 200 meters high, and then the upper end begins to spread, forming a huge mushroom cloud!" A British pilot who participated in the bombing described the scene afterwards!
And this explosion in the eyes of the Germans is definitely not just a word spectacular, but also a symbol of destruction! The earthquake-like shaking spread rapidly around the explosion, and some nearby buildings were even knocked down by the aftermath of the explosion, and a shock wave carrying a large amount of dust and debris quickly swept across the entire dam. Even the anti-aircraft artillery position next to it was 'affected'! However, the disaster was not over, and then another bomb hit the target, tearing a gap of several tens of meters directly in the dam, and the falling debris also destroyed the entire generator compartment under the dam! The mission to attack the Monnet Dam is successfully accomplished!
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