It's not that this Hurricane fighter is really hopeless. In fact, the performance of the Hurricane fighter in low-altitude combat is not bad, and it still has a certain ability to resist in the face of a type C fighter, especially the rolling performance is still very good. In the European theater, it is also the first choice for low- and medium-altitude dog fights.

At least it is much stronger than the P40B fighter originally equipped by the Anti-Japanese Federation, and the P39 fighter. It's just that this kind of fighting performance is excellent, and it is aimed at the European battlefield where high-altitude and high-speed air combat is dominant. Compared to Japanese fighters, which focused more on low-altitude combat, the so-called excellent low-altitude combat performance of these Hurricanes can be said to be average.

If the Japanese army had invested in a Type 1 C fighter, the first mass-produced fighter of this Type 1 fighter would have better horizontal combat performance than the Hurricane fighter. However, the climb performance is about the same, and the maximum level flight speed is not as good as that of the Hurricane fighter. The maximum ceiling is also almost the same.

Moreover, the low-altitude hovering ability of the Hurricane-2B fighter is not much worse than that of this Japanese aircraft. Low-altitude dogfights are crucial for rolling, and even above them. However, the firepower of the Hurricane-2 fighter, as well as its protection capability and the solidity of the airframe, far surpassed that of the Type 1 C fighter.

However, once it is in an unfavorable state in air combat, at least relying on the strong thrust of its Grayback Falcon XX engine and the sturdy airframe, it can disengage at high speed when necessary. Although the body is made of steel pipes, it has a lot of protection.

Combined with reasonable tactics, the overall performance of the Hurricane fighter was still good in the smaller air battles before the air combat in October. After all, the anti-union aviation has been fighting against the Japanese aviation since the day it was formed. Accumulated a lot of experience in dealing with the air tactics of the Japanese army.

As a matter of fact, the experience of warfare is far from being nostrils to the sky, and it has never been comparable to the Japanese army and naval aviation, plus the United States and Britain in the planes they use. The United States and Britain, which uphold the belief that the Caucasian race will always be the noblest, have always scoffed at the aviation technology of the Japanese and the Soviets. It is believed that the Japanese aircraft are nothing more than imitations of second-rate Western aircraft.

Compared with the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, which are the most developed in the West, the aviation technology of the Japanese is indeed relatively backward. Most of the previous aviation products were indeed imitations of Western technology. But the Japanese who are quite energetic are not simply imitations. It has always been the path of introduction, digestion and absorption. In the end, it formed its own unique aviation industry path that is more in line with its own national conditions.

It is true that the current Japanese are inferior to the West in the development of high-horsepower aircraft engines and large aircraft. Especially for engines, liquid-cooled engines with high difficulty, the level and craftsmanship of Japanese manufacturing are indeed far inferior to those of the West. However, under the condition that the liquid cooling structure is relatively complex, the Japanese have put a lot of effort into the air-cooled engine with a relatively simple structure and not bad performance.

Although its air-cooled engine is developed in the development of high-horsepower engines, there is still a technological gap with the West. However, in the use of engines in fighter jets, a new way has been found. In terms of body materials and processes, the Japanese are inferior not in technology and research, but in the most basic resources.

Compared with the high-altitude, high-speed and high-speed American and British fighters that attach importance to battlefield survivability, the Japanese attach more importance to the lightness of the aircraft in order to increase the combat performance in the air. It's just that the Japanese, who have always loved to drill the horns of the bull, are a little too extreme on this road. Created a simple dogfight fighter with one of the best fighting abilities, but poor survivability.

This is also the reason why in the air battles between the United States and Britain in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, they were completely defeated by the Japanese fighters, which were inferior in numbers. The P40 and Hurricane, which performed well in Europe and North Africa, were not as good as them, but their flexibility surpassed their 96 ship battles, and the 97 Type two old Japanese fighters were in a rampant fight.

When faced with a more outstanding performance of the one-style, zero war, the United States and the British Air Force will be even less of an opponent. Although the survivability of both fighters is weak, their overly prominent air mobility is not comparable to that of American and British fighters. Especially the P-40, whose body is too strong, can only die miserably with Zero and Playing Dog.

The Anti-United Nations is different, from the day it was founded, their main opponent was the Japanese fighter jet, which was known for its fighting performance. Whether it is Ninety-Six, Ninety-Seven, or Zero Battle and Falcon Battle, in fact, for the Japanese fighters, it is all the same. To put it bluntly, before the advent of the Ni-Shi, the Japanese fighters were all in horizontal combat and had extremely good performance.

But the Japanese aircraft, both fighters and bombers, had a weak point. That is, the defense of the fuselage is extremely weak, and although the maneuverability is good, its excellent horizontal combat performance is based on low altitude and speed, and the fragile fuselage cannot withstand excessive overload. The fragile airframe also made the Japanese aircraft generally have poor rolling ability.

The Japanese, who are too prone to extremes, have gone too far in terms of being light and outstanding in martial arts. As long as we grasp these two weaknesses of the Japanese planes and formulate good tactics, we should avoid air combat with them at low altitude and low speed under the premise that the performance of the fighters is not too different. With an old-fashioned fighter, it is not without a little ability to win.

It is precisely because of this that the air force of the Anti-United Nations did not completely fall behind in air combat when using the Hurricane fighters whose performance was slightly inferior to that of the Japanese army. Although the exchange ratio was somewhat high because of the need to train novices, the main ones sent to participate in the war were new pilots, but they were not beaten too miserably like the British troops in the Southeast Asian theater.

In an air battle before October, it relied on a sturdy airframe, excellent rolling ability, and the characteristics of a maximum level flight speed exceeding that of a Type C fighter. A Hurricane-2B fighter forcibly broke up the Type 1 C fighter that bit it. It can be said that in the previous air battles, because of the tactical approach, the Hurricane still had the ability to fight.

But just as Fang Ziyi worried, this kind of British-made fighter can only rely on its own characteristics at low altitudes and barely compete with the Type C fighter. Once it encounters a modification of a fighter with better performance, or a newer version of the Japanese fighter, I am afraid that it will be far from being an opponent.

The Japanese army, which reacted quickly, immediately modified the new fighter after discovering that the Type 1 C fighter that had swept the hurricane in Southeast Asia had not taken advantage of the advantage in the northeast battlefield. Among the Type 1 fighters, Type 2, which has the largest output, was given priority to the Kwantung Army as soon as it left the factory.

The Type 1 fighters put into use by the Japanese army this time are all the latest Type 2. This was the most produced fighter of the Japanese Army during World War II, and the first opponent was the Hurricane fighter of the Anti-United Nations. The reorganized Kwantung Army Aviation Regiment was also the first Japanese army unit to be equipped with this fighter with excellent performance and weaknesses that had been greatly compensated.

In the face of this kind of greatly improved, there is a world of difference in both the climb ability and the maximum level flight speed. In addition, the already excellent cornering performance has been further improved, and the original vertical maneuverability has been partially changed from the weak point of the improved fighter.

In air combat, the Hurricane-2C fighter used by the Anti-United Nations is far from comparable in terms of climb rate and maximum level flight speed. Although the Hurricane-2C fighter can barely cope with the battle, it is clearly no longer an opponent. Whether it was the C type that participated in the battle at low altitude or the B type of the high-altitude attack bomber, they were far from being the opponent of the two Japanese fighters.

If it weren't for the only remaining MiG-3 fighters, desperately entangled most of the Type 2 Zhong Kui fighters that were closely escorted, the Lag-3 entangled most of the Type 2 fighters at low altitude. I am afraid that the remaining 30 or so Hurricane-2B fighters, as well as the more than 20 Hurricane-2C fighters that took off later, will not have a chance to approach the Japanese bomber group at all.

However, although the MiG-3 fighter has excellent high-altitude performance, its maximum level flight speed is slower than that of the Type 2 fighter, and the number of sorties is not far from that of the Type 2. Despite desperately entangled the high-altitude and high-speed fighters of the Japanese army, there were still many loopholes left at high altitude. After allowing many Type II aircraft to get rid of the entanglement of the MiG-3 at high speed, they shot down many Hurricane-2B attack bombers. At medium and low altitudes, the Type 2 fighter also made the Hurricane 2C fighter suffer.

That is to say, the so-called latest model of the first batch of Hurricane-2 fighters to take to the air to intercept operations, although more than 30 of them were shot down, almost all of them were shot down themselves. Moreover, the Hurricane-2B fighters that participated in the battle failed to shoot down a single Type 2 fighter in an air battle with the Type 2 fighters, which were partially freed from the entanglement of the MiG-3 fighters, and suffered heavy losses themselves.

Fortunately, considering the difference in the performance of the fighters of the two armies, in addition to the P-40 fighters, the fighters currently equipped by the Anti-United Nations generally have short legs. In order to make the stay in the air as long as possible, the air force chose the interception area over the territory of the base area under the condition that the radar could provide long-range early warning.

In addition, in order to intercept the huge number of bombers of the Japanese army, the number of fighters invested was more than twice that of the Japanese army. As a result, the Japanese fighter pilots, who had always been accustomed to shooting and killing the opponent's parachuted pilots, basically could not spare time to do such a dirty thing. And relying on the relatively excellent protection of the Hurricane fighter itself, most of the downed pilots parachuted to escape.

The Anti-Japanese Federation also made use of the Soviet-made Bo-2 training plane in its hands and its excellent short-distance take-off and landing capabilities to formulate a rapid rescue method. As a result, most of the pilots have been saved, avoiding the situation of losing both man and machine. This did not make the anti-United Nations air force completely lose its vitality. If an air battle is fought over the enemy-occupied areas, I am afraid that the losses of the aviation will be even greater.

If you don't do it, you're going to completely hurt your vitality. After all, the plane is gone, and you can find another way to do it. Even if a certain amount of interests are damaged in a short period of time, some of them can be recovered. But if the pilots are also lost, it will not be possible to make up for it in a short time.

Compared to the Hurricane fighters, which are the most numerous, but the most clumsy. On the contrary, the least number of Lago-3 fighters was invested, and although 13 of the 24 fighters that took off into the air were shot down, half of the Japanese fighters who participated in the battle were shot down. Although the maneuverability is a little worse, the mid- and low-level air combat capabilities are still quite good.

Not only is the performance at medium and low altitudes almost the same as that of Type 2 fighters, but it is also capable of fighting in air combat in medium and low airspace. In cooperation with the P40 B fighters that attacked by the cold dive, and a small number of P39 fighters, they entangled the Japanese fighters with the largest number of fighters and relieved the pressure of high-altitude fierce battles.

It also shot down more than 20 Type 2 fighters and 6 Type 2 fighters, laying the foundation for victory in this air battle. As for the P40B fighters, in the face of these two Japanese cutting-edge fighters, there is no room to fight back. Aside from relying on the maximum level flight speed and the decent rolling performance, there is almost no way to sneak up on the Blade II fighter.