() Why did the Americans send so many fighter jets here? This is a question that makes the German Air Force extremely confused. But since the Americans dare to come to their door, the German Air Force must not be polite. After the radar found the target, almost every German

A shrill alarm sounded across the airport. Fighter units began to dispatch urgently.

BF-109 pilot Captain Mueller had just gotten up at this time and had only half shaved when he heard the emergency announcement. So he shaved twice with a razor, then touched his face with a towel, and scratched

Wearing a helmet and flight jacket, he ran towards the tarmac.

Along the way, Muller saw a large group of people running towards the tarmac. Many of them, like him, were dressing while running.

When Mueller came to his BF-109G5 fighter, several mechanics were already refueling the plane. A ground crew handed him a piece of compressed dry food and a glass of water. While the plane was still preparing, Mueller

Le hurriedly started eating.

"Sir, the preparations are complete and you can board the plane." A ground staff said to Mueller.

Mueller hurriedly swallowed the last mouthful of food, drank water randomly, and climbed onto the plane.

At this time, the ground officer added as usual: "Sir, we must eliminate more Americans!"

Muller recognized this ground crew member. He had also learned to fly back then. It is said that his biggest wish was to fly a Stuka painted blue to bomb the Russians in order to avenge his grandfather. According to him,

His grandfather was bombed to death by the Americans when he was just five years old. So he and the Zhi (River Crab) are at odds with each other!

This nonsense became a well-known joke in the flight school at that time, so much so that everyone nicknamed him "Ye Wu Die" at that time. However, although "Ye Wu Die"'s head often cramped,

But he learned flying well. Unfortunately, due to an accident, one of his legs was broken. (There are rumors that one night, Ye Wusei drank a little too much, and as a result, he became so drunk that he actually tried to

He went to push his sister. As a result, his father broke one of his legs with a stick.) Although the legs grew better, he could no longer fly a plane. He was even kicked out of the army. Later, because

Due to the general mobilization, he returned to the army and worked as a ground crew.

At this time, the tower had already issued the takeoff command, and Mueller started the plane and taxied towards the runway.

Before Muller took off, many planes were already flying. They all increased their power and climbed hard. Muller also pointed the nose of the plane at the end of the runway, released the brakes, and accelerated to taxi.

After Muller flew up, he got the enemy situation report from the radio: there were more than a thousand enemy fighter jets in the sky, and the German Air Force dispatched nearly two thousand BF-109 and FW-190 at one go.

intercept.

There was no mention of enemy bombers in the enemy situation report. This unusual situation surprised Muller. However, this situation also made him relaxed a little. To be honest, Muller felt that the enemy's platoons were covered with self-defense machine guns.

Bombers in a dense formation are much more dangerous than fighter jets. Fighting against fighter jets mainly relies on technology. As long as technology can gain the upper hand, risks can be controlled; but fighting against bombers depends mainly on luck. If you have bad luck, your technology will be better.

Niu's ace is always a dead end. Muller has shot down more than ten enemy planes. Although it is nothing compared with those guys who have shot down hundreds, he still feels that it is better to compete with skills than with character.

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Mueller pushed the throttle to the end. He had to let the plane climb to a high altitude as quickly as possible. His team also followed him and climbed quickly. The American plane was approaching. If the two sides came into contact, his fighter plane was still in

If the height is lower, then once a fight breaks out, you will be extremely passive.

The BF-109 series of fighters are all good at climbing. At medium and low altitudes, their climbing speed is astonishingly high. But when climbing to an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, the engine output has begun to weaken significantly, and the climbing speed also drops. Enemy Situation

The report told Mueller that the enemy plane was at an altitude of 7,500 meters and they needed to climb higher.

It took a while, but Muller's fleet finally climbed to the predetermined altitude of 8,000 meters. Muller looked around, surrounded by various German fighter jets: BF-109, FW-190 (God knows how they climbed up

), and even the most advanced me-262.

Mueller made an application to fly Me-262, but received no reply.

"This is really a good airplane. The speed of 850 is even faster than the top speed of BF-109. If you can fly this kind of airplane, it will be really..."

Just when Muller was feeling envious, a Me-262 not far away suddenly started to smoke, and then a stream of orange flames came out from the engine pod on the left side.

The Me-262 immediately turned into a dive, trying to use the strong wind brought by the dive to blow out the flames. (This is a commonly used trick after an aircraft catches fire, but it may not work.)

However, the flames grew bigger and bigger. Finally, the engine exploded and the entire plane disintegrated. There were no umbrella flowers in the sky. Obviously, the pilot did not have time to parachute.

We were surrounded by our own people, and there was absolutely no sneak attack by enemy planes. The plane was just climbing at a shallow angle without making any other big moves. But suddenly it fell headlong, and even killed a top pilot.

(The one who flies the Me-262 is an ace). Muller also heard a comrade who was transferred to fly the Me-262 talk about the shortcomings of this jet aircraft. The buddy said that the reliability of the Me-262, especially the reliability of the engine

He was extremely deceitful and often made mistakes for no reason. At the time, he thought that his buddy might have exaggerated a bit. But now it seems that this thing is really...

In fact, all high-tech technologies will have reliability problems when they are first invested. Epoch-making high technologies are often accompanied by epoch-making low reliability.

The loss of this Me-262 cast a shadow over Muller's heart. It was not a good sign that something like this happened before the official battle began.

"Course 024, maintain altitude." The guidance from the ground command center continued to come from the headset. Muller adjusted the course while carefully maintaining the altitude. At this altitude, the BF-109's engine was already struggling.

Fighting at high altitudes, it was relatively easy to spot enemy planes because the tracks were too obvious. After flying on course for a few minutes, a group of fighter jets appeared in Muller's field of vision.

The current altitude of these enemy aircraft is about 500 meters lower than Muller's BF-109, but Muller knows that the high-altitude performance of the American aircraft is far superior to his own aircraft. If we cannot rely on the current height advantage,

Shoot down the enemy aircraft in a short period of time. As time goes by, the enemy will be able to use the engine's advantage to reverse the situation of the battle.

If it is a small formation operation, with the advantage of facing away from the sun, Muller is quite sure to use a classic sneak attack to defeat the enemy. However, under the premise of a large aircraft group operation, such an opportunity is unlikely.

Because of the huge flight tracks drawn by the large fleet of aircraft, who else would not be able to see it as long as they are not blind?

However, even if there is no chance of a sneak attack, air combat will still be fought.

"Launch the attack!" the captain's command came from the earphones.

"Follow me, attack!" Muller ordered, leading his three subordinate fighter planes to dive towards the enemy plane. At the same time, other squadrons also quickly rushed towards the enemy.

The enemy planes had already discovered Mueller and the others, and they were still far away. The enemy planes did not rush towards them like they did when they were escorting the bombers. Instead, they quickly completed a turn, as if planning to escape.

Muller knew that the enemy's fighter jets were faster than his own. Although he now had the gravity acceleration bonus brought by his height advantage, the distance between the two sides was still far away, so he might not be able to catch up.

"What are these guys doing? They come all the way and don't fight us when they meet us?"

Sure enough, the situation was just as Muller expected. After successfully bringing the distance between the two sides to about two thousand meters, the distance between the two sides could no longer be narrowed.

Fortunately, there are artifacts like the Me-262 in the German camp. Although one of them fell down inexplicably just now, there are now three more of these in this fleet of more than ninety fighters of various types. The United States

The fleet over there has about sixty fighters, and the Germans have a numerical advantage. If they can use these fast Me-262s to catch up and interfere with them, maybe the main fleet can catch up with them.

Sure enough, the three me-262s began to surpass the other fighters and began to quickly approach the Americans.

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"German fighter jets all have the weakness of insufficient range. Even though we have to fly across half of Europe, they take off from the same place. Even so, they can still stay in the sky for much less time than us. So, after encountering them,

, don’t rush into combat. First drag them in the air and run with a large throttle for two laps. Their engine performance is not good at high altitudes. If you turn on high horsepower at high altitudes, the fuel consumption will be even worse, as if there is a big hole in the fuel tank.

After a while, they will run out of fuel. Then we will turn around and slowly bully these Germans who are eager to go home and drink nai!"

This was one of the tactical contents that Brigadier Ron, who was directly responsible for the fighter air combat in this operation, explained to the pilots participating in the operation before this operation.

Ron is definitely a celebrity among pilots. Many of the pilots who implemented this plan have received training in "Reverse Cross". Therefore, the stories of the ace instructors in "Reverse Cross" often become these guys.

A talking point for bragging. When it comes to Ron, most students will say this:

"Sir Ron, well, he may not be the most skilled, nor the bravest, but he is definitely the most mean...I'm not talking about his appearance, I'm talking about his ability to fight in the air.

Method. Sometimes before he knocks you down, he can make you sick several times. One time..."

However, those guys who have not been trained by him are always a little doubtful about this. However, as soon as Ron laid out his tactics, everyone's doubts immediately disappeared, and everyone immediately reached a consensus: Ron, this guy, absolutely

He is the most wretched pilot since the advent of fighter jets!

"But if the Germans have those kind of jets, you have to be very careful. They can catch up with you easily. However, the hovering and rolling of this aircraft are super bad. If you be careful, it is not difficult to avoid their attacks.

If you are going to fall behind because of its interference, then dive first, build up enough speed, and then catch up. Anyway, there are probably not many Germans on this thing. If you encounter it, you can buy lottery tickets when you come back.

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Chapter completed!