() Michael is a P-47 ace with 7 kill records. Early that morning, he received an order: take his squadron to Scotland to take over a new aircraft and start adaptation training.

The task was urgent and they had less than a week.

At first, Michael thought this new aircraft was a P-51. In fact, many squadrons have already replaced their P-47s with P-51s. Michael knew that the P-51 was a good aircraft and a

It is an aircraft more suitable for the current war situation than the P-47. The legs of the P-47 are too short, which seriously affects its performance.

But Michael is still particularly reluctant to part with the P-47. This chubby big guy has too many advantages. It is strong, has powerful firepower, can dive without any scruples, and has excellent high-altitude performance. However, what the current US military needs is a long-legged aircraft.

But when the C-47 landed at an airport in Scotland, what Michael saw was a completely different aircraft.

"This guy! It's really, really big!" Michael couldn't help but sigh as he looked at this thing, which was slightly larger than the P-47.

"Captain, from now on we will drive this thing out to escort bombers?"

"Probably." Michael replied.

However, the training content that followed was completely beyond Michael's expectations. In less than a week, the main content of their training was low-altitude hunting.

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Unlike Michael, Bob Johnson was unwilling to give up the P-47 no matter what.

"There is no better aircraft in the world than the P-47. It saved my life during the siege of 16 FW-190s. I will never fly another aircraft in my life!" So, he

Continue to fly the P-47 and be sent to perform the mission of intercepting V1 missiles.

"This is really a boring mission. I have to circle around in a fixed airspace every day. And firing missiles is much more boring than attacking enemy aircraft." Bob Johnson even regretted his choice.

At this moment, new instructions came from the radio.

"Iron Gate calls Husky No. 1. There is a target in area 3! Please answer if you receive it! Please answer if you receive it!"

"Husky No. 1 received!" Bob Johnson responded to the command center.

"Husky 1! Adjust course to 211 and lower altitude to 2,000 meters."

"Husky One understands!"

"Husky No. 1" is the number of Bob's team. Now they are temporarily under the control of the British. The British likened the interception mission to housekeeping, so they named each participating team after a canine. When the name was determined

, Bob Johnson and the others arrived a little late, and as a result, all the good names were taken away, leaving only the code name "Husky".

"Damn it, why did you get such an unlucky code name?" Everyone knows that the dog that is least suitable for performing tasks such as "housekeeping" is probably the husky. When it comes to housekeeping, it is estimated that even the "Chihuahua"

"It's worse than that, there's a thief in the house,"

A Chihuahua will bark at least twice, but a Husky will probably just run over and get slippers for the thief, then lead the thief to steal the things, and finally help the thief to drag the stolen items diligently.

stuff and send the thief out.

Ever since the wheel was given such an unlucky code name, Bob Johnson really felt as if he was cursed. For two or three days in a row, Bob Johnson's team had shot down even one V1 missile, and those code names were

The "Foxhound", "Greyhound", and "Dogo" teams have all shot down nearly a dozen V1 missiles. Bob Johnson's "Husky" team has not yet fought.

But now was not the time to complain about this. Bob Johnson led his team towards the target area. Two minutes later, they arrived over the target area.

"Look, oh my God!" Bob Johnson's wingman, Bird, shouted.

Right in front of them, there were at least fifty V1 missiles flying towards them at high speed, dragging their tail flames.

"Husky No. 1 called Iron Gate and found a large number of V1 missiles. At least 50. They are preparing to attack!" Bob Johnson reported the situation to the command center while pushing the throttle to the bottom. "Attention, Husky team, follow me and attack."

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Bob Johnson's P-47 and those V1 missiles flew in exactly the opposite direction, so the proximity rate between the two sides was astonishingly high. Almost in the blink of an eye, the two missiles would cross each other.

If the interceptor is a fighter jet, Bob Johnson will definitely swoop over as soon as possible to confront her head-on. With the firepower of 6 20-gun guns with ultra-long range, he will most likely be able to take advantage of the head-on attack. Staggered and

After that, relying on the energy advantage, you can immediately use a semi-somersault to turn back and bite the enemy plane.

However, the target intercepted now is different from the enemy fighter jets. They will not fire back or evade, but their speed is much faster than the fighter jets. (The V1 missile’s speed of 640 kilometers per hour does not seem to be closer than 700 or even 100 kilometers per hour than those fighter jets.

The speed exceeds 700. But please note that the nominal speed of the fighter is

The maximum speed of 100 is achieved at an altitude of 6000-7000 where the air is relatively thin and the resistance is relatively small. However, the speed of the V1 missile 640 is achieved at an altitude of only 600 meters above the ground. At this altitude

Above, most propeller aircraft cannot fly at such a speed. For example, the nominal maximum

The P-51D, which has a high speed of 705 kilometers per hour, cannot even fly at a speed of 600 kilometers per hour at this altitude.) If you still want to handle it like that just now, after completing the half somersault, will you be able to catch up with V1 smoothly?

Not necessarily. (The P-47 can achieve very high speeds by diving, but at low altitude,

Due to the high resistance, the time it can maintain high speed is far less than that of the P-51.) Moreover, Bob Johnson knew that behind him, not too far away, there was a British anti-aircraft gun position. Pursuit

If you go a little slower, v1 will enter the firepower network of the anti-aircraft artillery. In order to avoid accidental damage, you must withdraw from the attack.

Therefore, Bob Johnson's team plans to adopt this interception method, that is: maintain the altitude until the horizontal distance between the two sides is quite close, and then roll the lever and dive vertically. In this way, if the time and distance are judged well,

, when they finished their dive and leveled off

, it will appear exactly at the 6 o'clock direction of the V1 missile, and the distance between the two parties will be very close. At the same time, by diving, the P-47 will be much faster than the V1 missile, and then with the help of Gao Youyou and the like

With their actions, they had the opportunity to launch several attacks on these missiles.

Bob Johnson is now flying upside down (so that he can make a vertical dive at any time. At the same time, in this state, he can also maintain visual contact with the V1 missile) and stare closely at those V1 missiles.

Missiles determine the distance between the two sides.

Now! Bob Johnson yelled: "Attack!" He pulled the lever fiercely, and the nose of his P-47 sank down, and it immediately dived vertically. Behind him, the other three P-47s also

Then it swooped down.

As expected, when he leveled the plane, the V1 missile was just in front of them, less than 600 meters away. At this time, the speed of the P-47 was as high as about 800 kilometers, and the distance between the two sides was shrinking sharply.

At a distance of 400 meters, Bob Johnson fired at a V1 missile. Firing a target that would not dodge was a challenge for a fighter plane that could fire 6,000 rounds per minute (of course, in fact, there were not so many preparations in the fighter plane).

It was not a difficult task. With just a few clicks, Bob cut off one wing of the V1 missile in front of him. The missile immediately spun and fell.

Then Bob pulled the plane up to reduce its speed in the horizontal direction and also to choose the next target. He stared at another V1 about 400 meters away from him at 11 o'clock, and then

Pushing the nose of the plane, it rushed over, fired six guns, and smashed the V1 missile to pieces. Then Bob pulled the plane again, looking for the next target.

Before the V1 missiles flew into the fire circle of anti-aircraft artillery, Bob completed three attacks and shot down three V1 missiles. Now, although there are still many targets that have not been shot down, they have all flown into the anti-aircraft artillery fire area.

, Bob gave up the pursuit. He led his team and began to climb, preparing to intercept the next batch of possible targets.

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While Bob was busy intercepting V1 missiles, the first squadron equipped with P-81s under Major Harry was flying over Europe, performing a "safari" mission.

Harry's mission is mainly to test the feasibility of large-scale "safari" and summarize experiences and lessons for reference.

According to the experience provided by the Russians during the "Reverse Cross" joint training, the "Safari" fleet cannot be too large. Therefore, the P-81 fighters set out this time were all sent out in a two-plane formation. Their target

These are 8 airports that have built ultra-long runways. According to reconnaissance, there are jets operating at those airports.

The me-262 accelerates very slowly after takeoff (blame the bad engine, the throttle will catch fire if you push it faster), so for a long time after takeoff, this kind of jet will be in a low altitude and low speed state. This is

This is the time when this aircraft is most vulnerable. The mission of the P-81 formation is to find it at this time and shoot it down!

Harry and his wingman were flying more than ten kilometers away from the German airport. At this distance, it was difficult for the Germans at the airport to see them, but they could see the airport.

Now, Harry saw that there seemed to be some movement on the airport. So he used one hand to steady the joystick, and with the other hand, he took off the telescope from the telescope holder and raised it to his eyes (like all American fighter jets, the P-81

The cabin is so luxuriously spacious that it’s easy to add a few things inside.)

Harry's telescope is specially made. The so-called "specially made" does not mean that its magnification is very large. On the contrary, due to the unavoidable shaking of the aircraft, telescopes with higher magnifications are almost unusable on the aircraft. (In fact, hand-held telescopes

The same is true, a telescope with more than ten times magnification is almost impossible to use by hand.) In addition, it is used by hand, so the magnification of that telescope is only 4 times. It is only half of the Zeiss military binoculars commonly used by the Germans.
Chapter completed!