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"This should be it!"
"We are now ten kilometers away from Balikpapan!"
Above the clouds, at an altitude of 7,000 meters, inside the navigation module of a giant ten-engine bomber.
Through the data given by the inertial navigator, Tang Ge calculated the data to obtain the current course and speed, and then marked the route and speed on the map, and finally determined the coordinates of the aircraft at this time.
It is located 10 km away over Balikpapan.
"I need to see the reference finalized."
Subsequently, Tang Ge continued to shout:
"There should be a river down here."
As he spoke, he pulled out a map, along with a stack of aerial photographs.
The map is a large-scale map with detailed descriptions of the mountains and rivers around Balikpapan, and although it is a black and white line map, it is so detailed that you can see the overall shape of the mountains and rivers.
That stack of aerial photographs is also an aerial map of Balikpapan at an altitude of 5,000 meters.
This is the item that is used to confirm the location of the item.
"Descending height."
Airport Liu Ming shouted in the channel:
"Descend under the clouds."
The pilot immediately pressed down, and the plane finally broke through the clouds, and through the observation instrument, looking around, Tang Ge saw the iconic mountain peak twenty-one kilometers away on the left, and the winding river next to the peak.
It's exactly the same as on the map and in the photos.
"Sure, we are now over Balikpapan with a course offset of twenty-one kilometres to the right."
Tang Ge was excited to be a big man in the channel.
"This thing is fucking advanced!"
After the report, Tang Ge habitually muttered.
As one of the dozen or so overseas Chinese pilots who returned with Huang Quan, Tang Ge is also a veteran aviation fan, and after graduating from a French university, he once worked for a foreign airline.
Because he is an overseas Chinese, even if he has excellent flying skills, he cannot get the opportunity to fly a commercial aircraft, and it is impossible for foreign airlines to let a yellow-skinned person fly the plane, which will cause passenger complaints and even refund the ticket because of this.
There was no way, he had to become a navigator.
It is precisely because of his many passenger aircraft navigation experiences that Tang Ge deeply realized how advanced the inertial navigator in front of him was.
Inertial navigators are nothing new.
To put it bluntly, this thing is a gyroscope and accelerometer, which stabilizes itself through high-speed rotation, and during the flight of the aircraft, the gyroscope will continue to give the course angle and speed of the current aircraft, and the navigator plots the route of the aircraft on the map according to these two sets of data, so as to calculate the current position of the aircraft.
It appeared decades ago.
But Tang Ge learned in a chat with a friend of a military pilot that even the inertial navigator on a military aircraft is basically a decoration, and the data error from this thing is extremely large, and the farther the distance, the greater the error.
At that time, the guys on DC3 had an error of 1,000 kilometers and could have hundreds of kilometers, which was really outrageous, and navigation at that time relied more on ground markers or ground navigation beacons.
And the inertial navigator in front of him, from Heyuan County to Balikpapan more than 4,000 kilometers, turned out to be only 20 kilometers offset.
Although there were several radio navigation points set up by the headquarters during the voyage, the bomber was actually adjusted to course, and his navigation was also corrected for data, but it was outrageous enough.
Of course, the success of navigation also has something to do with accurate maps.
"Prepare for bombing."
The captain's order pulled Tang Ge's thoughts back, and after recording the new navigation data, he cast his gaze to the ground again.
What appeared in front of him was a huge oil field, as well as drilling platforms, and at this time, the plane began to gradually reduce its altitude, and the flatness of those drilling wells became clearer and clearer in Tang Ge's field of vision.
Suddenly, there was a violent vibration of the plane.
Tang Ge didn't panic, he knew that it was the bomber that opened the magazine and dropped the bomb.
Sure enough, a bombshell appeared in his sight, and the red light on the tail made the bomb stand out.
"Aim for the key nodes."
In the channel, the captain's voice sounded.
Balikpapan belongs to the oil field area, there are many drilling platforms, and they are relatively scattered, and these drilling platforms are difficult to be effective unless they are carpet bombed on a large scale.
But at present, there is simply not enough manpower to carry out this task.
So it is necessary to bomb key positions.
"Yes."
At the position of the observation pod behind the belly of the aircraft, the guide turned on the special optical observation device, stared at the falling bomb, and gently flicked the radio remote control with his fingers.
With the help of a special optical observer, they accurately tracked and locked the falling bomb, and accurately judged the falling speed, falling direction, and pitch angle of the bomb.
Although this new type of bomb has a speed brake, which can reduce the landing speed and provide enough time for guidance, in order to avoid the influence of clouds, the bomb is only 3.5 kilometers at an altitude of 3.5 kilometers, and once the guidance is wrong, the bomb may deviate from the target, and there is no chance of re-guidance.
Because of the distance, the voyage of more than 4,000 kilometers was in Taiyuan, and the bomber only carried ten bombs weighing 1.5 tons, as well as some small bombs, but they had eight targets this time, and he only had two chances of failure.
Fortunately, today is beautiful.
There was no wind at this time, and the sun was just right.
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Below.
Balikpapan.
"Airplanes?"
Six star-shaped piston propellers, four turbojets, and ten engines made a huge roar that resounded throughout the Balikpapan oil field, and many devil oil workers looked up.
In the clear sky, everyone clearly saw the huge plane.
"It's huge."
"What kind of plane is this?"
A captain of the devil who was also in charge of guarding in Balikpapan walked out of his headquarters and looked at the plane in the sky with a puzzled expression.
Around him, a group of devil soldiers, as well as the devil workers who worked in all the oil fields and refineries, also stopped their work one after another, looked up at the plane in the sky, curious and puzzled.
At this time, this group of devils did not have the slightest sense of crisis.
This is normal.
Balikpapan is located in the southeastern corner of Borneo, far from the battlefield, and has never encountered any large-scale attacks since the occupation of the devils, and as for small-scale attacks, it has never stopped.
Partisans are everywhere.
But I have to say that the guerrillas here are really pulling their hips, and even with the private support of Europe and the United States, they hardly pose any threat to the little devils.
In fact, at the beginning, the devil was worried that this place would be bombed by the US military, worried about being bombed by the navy from a long distance, and deployed some air defense weapons and fighters, but it never happened, after the US army stopped attacking and even the fleet retreated, in the face of the serious lack of air defense weapons in the Republic of China, all the planes and air defense guns here were evacuated.
The only thing left is only a few 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, and with the technology of the devils, the maximum firing height of the 20-mm anti-aircraft guns is only more than 800 meters, which is simply not enough to reach bombers with an altitude of more than three kilometers.
Even because of the long-term comfort, even the air defense alert system existed in name only.
In this case, the reaction of the devils is also commonsense.
But then, the faces of the devil soldiers and workers changed drastically, because they saw that the huge plane had opened the belly magazine, and then threw a huge bomb from it, and they all rushed to dodge.
"Enemy bombing."
"Hidden."
"All into the bomb shelter."
The captain of the devil team did not panic, and still gave orders in an orderly manner.
Although the anti-aircraft weapons were withdrawn and the fighters were withdrawn, the air-raid shelter left over from the original construction was still there, and the air-raid drills that had been trained many times before had not passed for a long time.
It makes sense that the captain of the devil brigade is not panicking.
As a commander, he knew very well that the Balikpapan oil field was a huge aggregate, with nearly 100 wells drilled large and small, and the key was only a few large drilling wells, and the oil extracted from these wells was transported to several refineries through pipelines.
Unless the enemy can accurately bomb the refinery, or drill wells, it will not be able to do much damage to the oil fields.
As an old devil with rich combat experience, this group leader knows very well that because of the terrain, this kind of task is difficult for even a dive bomber to complete, let alone such a large bomber.
If it's just a few small boreholes, or small pipelines, they can be repaired in a very short time.
This old devil is so bold that he even dares to stand outside directly, holding a telescope and looking at the bomber in the sky, the corners of his mouth hook up a sneer Although he doesn't know whose plane it is, he wants to rely on a plane to bomb the Balikpapan oil field.
Have one's head in the clouds.
"Huh?"
"This bomb is falling so slowly."
"And this bomb, the yield should not be small."
At this time, this devil also discovered the abnormality, and he keenly found that the bomb in the sky at this time was much slower than the bomb he had seen before, and the size was very huge.
Even, it seems... On the move?
"What's going on?"
The captain of the devil brigade frowned directly.
He felt something bad, and of course, only a little bit bad.
Unless the empire is unlucky, unless the enemy is lucky enough to explode and can hit a pipeline node and start a fire, a large well, or an oil refinery, the damage to the oil fields will be minimal.
He continued to widen his eyes at the rapidly falling bomb.
"Something is wrong."
The captain of the devil team suddenly realized the problem:
"This bomb seems to be aiming at itself?"
But the speed at which the bomb fell was so fast, even with a speed brake, at an altitude of 3.5 kilometers, it only took more than 40 seconds to land, and before the devil captain had time to think, the first bomb had accurately hit the oil refinery on the ground.
Rumble!
A violent explosion sounded, and a huge fireball erupted from more than half a ton of black sokin explosives, centering on the bomb landing point, and the pipes and oil pipes of the refinery were blown apart.
Immediately after, there was a sudden pillar of flame.
The high-pressure and high-temperature shock wave generated by the explosion instantly ignited the oil in the refinery, as well as various fuel oil stocks, and the flames rose more than 100 meters high.
Although Balikpapan's oil refineries can only be refined, the quality of the oil here is good, and heavy oil, diesel, and gasoline can be extracted from simple equipment.
And the order from the country allowed the oil fields in Southeast Asia to produce gasoline and diesel in large quantities, so the refineries here stored a lot of gasoline and diesel.
The gasoline, in particular, caused a chain explosion.
"Yaga."
This scene made the captain of the devil team tearful:
"How is this possible?"
At a distance of several kilometers, a bomb accurately hit the oil refinery hidden at the foot of the mountain.
How is this possible?
How is this possible?
In the old devil's shock and confusion, the second bomb had already come out of the magazine.
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Air.
"Well done."
In the crew channel, the captain's cheers rang out, along with the order:
"Go ahead, the target, this bombing target, the pipeline node on the left."
"Yes."
Hit the guide's morale and confidence.
Meanwhile.
Like Balikpapan, in Palembang, in several major oil fields in Sumatra, there was also a giant bomber that dropped bombshells, hitting oil refineries, oil depots, and large drilling platforms with precision.
Devils who are not on guard, or even have no high-altitude air defense capability at all, can only watch themselves bomb.
After all ten bombs were dropped, the three bombers even walked around at low altitude and, at a distance of one kilometer, dropped a ton of small incendiary bombs weighing more than ten kilograms in the magazine.
Without special guidance, although the accuracy of these small bombs is poor, they cannot withstand the large number, and the number of more than 100 bombs still caused many ignition points and damaged many small drilling platforms.
By the time the nearby devil navy plane arrived, the three bombers had already risen into the air, and under the stunned sight of the devil pilot, the fuel throttle was fully opened, and they broke away from the pursuit of the devil plane at a speed of more than 700 kilometers per hour.
A few hours later, reports of losses were sent to the commanders of the surrounding Japanese forces.
Stationed in Southeast Asia is the Navy.
Seeing the loss of 90 percent of the oil refining capacity, 50 percent of the drilling capacity, and the fact that it would take at least half a year to repair the damage to many pipelines, the commander of the Devil Navy stationed in the local area immediately spit out a mouthful of old blood.
The navy has finally survived until now, and it has survived to Southeast Asia's oil, thinking that it can not be controlled by the army's heavy oil, and before it has had time to rejoice for a few days, it was bombed and completely destroyed.
A few hours later, the damage report also appeared in front of Senior Private Tojo.