Ever since Henry and his brothers cleaned the toilet, the rookies' enthusiasm for learning has been unprecedentedly high. Especially the obscene style Ron used to deal with Henry was imitated by a group of guys headed by Henry.

Every day, whether during class or during class, people will come and ask questions such as:

"Sir, when climbing with others, what is the best distance to keep?"

"This should be determined according to the energy status of the other party." Ron is quite tireless in teaching others.

"Sir, why was it that I was defeated even though I used that move against Instructor Banger?"

"Dizzy," Ron's head suddenly filled with black threads after hearing this question. Who is Banger? One of the best fighter pilots of the U.S. Army Airlines is Ron. (Of course, if the initial conditions are still 7,000 meters,

If this is the case, Ron feels that he is more likely to have an advantage), and he may not necessarily win. If he doesn't do it well, he might be beaten by others. A rookie, who has learned some new tricks, just wants to

Use it to deal with an ace among aces? There are so many tricks to deal with a rookie. Do you really think there is any absolute trick that can kill with one hit in the ever-changing air combat? Just learn this trick.

Invincible? What's more, even with this trick, he may not have really mastered it.

"Instructor Banger is a very powerful pilot, and his mastery of energy is very good. But you may have made a mistake when judging his energy. In addition, my trick will not work all the time.

Ron thought for a while and then added, "Remember, when you encounter an opponent you think you can't deal with in an air battle, don't confront him head-on. Either cooperate with your teammates to deal with him, or run away decisively. Leave the green hills behind."

Don’t worry about running out of firewood!”

"Oh, I understand, if you can't win, then run away. But instructor, how can we ensure that we can run?"

This is another question that can make an old bird faint. Oh my God, you are driving the strongest fighter with the best dive performance in the world, and you don’t know how to escape?

"Dive, keep diving to 520 mph, and if he's still following you, do a barrel roll and let him get ahead. What? Are you worried he'll do a barrel roll too? If he does, you don't have to do anything.

I'm worried because his wing will definitely break."

After more than a week of duel training, the real key event - the group fight drill is about to begin. The so-called group fight refers to the melee of large groups of aircraft. Unlike the Pacific Ocean, in the vast Pacific Ocean, when small formations fight

There are quite a few, but in Europe, melees involving hundreds or even thousands of aircraft are commonplace, and battles between large fleets and battles between small fleets are completely different things.

"In the air battle in Europe, our P-47s will naturally have a height advantage against the enemy's assault formation. Because we usually choose to fly higher than the bombers. And the enemy planes that launch a head-on attack on the bombers are at a higher altitude.

Generally, bombers will not be too high up. Otherwise, the relative speed will be too high, which will make the attack more difficult. When the Germans attacked the bomber group, they divided the fighter jets into two categories. One was the assault formation, which had heavy armor.

Armor and powerful firepower, of course, their flying performance is terrible. Their main task is to attack bomber groups. The rest are escort formations, all of which are lighter fighters with better flying performance. Their

The firepower and armor are not very good, and the effect of using them to attack bomber groups is not good, so in air battles, we only need to kill or even disrupt the guys in the assault formation. Of course, the German escort formation will not let us

They succeeded so easily. In addition, under the guidance of radar, they will even have a high advantage over us. They are our most dangerous opponents..."

In the theoretical classroom of large aircraft group operations, Ron was explaining the key points to the rookies.

"In large fleet operations, the chances of each person shooting others and being shot by others will increase significantly. So you must learn to see all directions and protect each other between the lead aircraft and the wingman..."

Next, there are a lot of pictures and calculation formulas, which can be said to be extremely boring, but every rookie is taking notes very seriously, because these things are a matter of life and death.

Practicing without talking is a fool's errand, talking without practicing is a fool's errand. Ultimately, all these problems must be solved through large-scale aerial drills.

It was another sunny morning. Ron and the pilots of the "Reverse Cross" took off in their total of 45 fighter jets. They were going to simulate the Germans and attack a 24-plane fighter jet escorted by 43 P-47s.

A formation of B-17 bombers. This will be the first fighter air combat exercise of this scale in the "Reverse Cross".

The "Reverse Cross" divided the fleet into two teams, one was an escort formation composed of 26 Spitfire simulated BF109s led by Ron, and the other was an assault formation composed of 19 F4U simulated FW190s led by Dad.

Among them, the escort formation flew at an altitude of 8,300 meters and flew 2,500 meters in front of the assault formation. The assault formation flew at an altitude of 7,100 meters, which was slightly higher than the enemy bomber formation provided by the radar. Since the "reverse cross" acted as an interceptor,

They can be guided by ground radar, and clever use of this will be the key to winning the interception operation. According to the information provided by the radar, the P-47 on the rookie side is flying at an altitude of about 7,600 meters, and 1,000 meters behind them is flying on

A group of bombers at an altitude of 7,000 meters.

According to the plan, Ron's escort formation will first take the initiative to attack the rookies' P-47s, hold them back, consume them, and cover the assault formation's attack.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the aircraft fleets of both sides encountered each other. The "Reverse Cross" escort formation, which had a high altitude advantage, immediately launched a dive attack on the rookies' P-47s.

Compared with the bulky P-47, both the Spitfire and the bf109 it imitates are much more flexible. Although the bf109's engine is very weak at such a height, because they are started from a higher

They swooped down from a high altitude. So at least for now, they still have an energy advantage. However, if the air battle is prolonged, the energy advantage they originally had will continue to be consumed during the battle.

.At this time, the disadvantage of the engine's high-altitude performance will become more and more fatal. Therefore, the pilots of the "Reverse Cross" must wage a blitzkrieg to achieve as many results as possible in the shortest time.

To achieve this, one relies on individual skills, and the other relies on teamwork. In the previous one-on-one training, the instructors have shown the rookies time and time again how to use seemingly ordinary technical moves to knock down their opponents.

, their technical level has been admired by all the students. And this time, they will show the students the power of teamwork.

"In air combat, tactics are sometimes more important than technology. If you choose the wrong tactics, such as using a P-47 to fly to low altitude and zero combat rather than circling at low speed, or climbing at low altitude with a bf109, no matter how good your technology is,

As long as your opponent has completed formal training, you will most likely end up in tragedy. And if the tactics are correct, such as using raids to deal with zero combat, even if the guy driving it is a super ace, there is nothing you can do. And the team's tactics

It goes beyond individual tactics. When f4f encounters a zero battle with equal energy, there is almost nothing that can be done, but by using team tactics like 'cross scissors', you can achieve a comparable exchange ratio." This is.

Ron told the students in class, and now he needs to prove it to the students.

The move he is now showing to the rookies is called "Group Turn BZ". The so-called BZ is usually a move in which the party with a height advantage uses a high-speed dive attack, then quickly pulls up to maintain the height advantage, and then launches the next round of dive attacks.

.However, the BZ of a single aircraft can sometimes be easily avoided by some enemy aircraft with superior angular performance. The BZ launched by a group in turns to target a target is more likely to shoot down the enemy aircraft or force it to use a large overload action to dodge.

This causes him to consume energy quickly.

Considering the current level of the rookies, Ron decided that it should be enough for every two planes to take turns to kill one enemy plane.

Ron, who was now diving down at high speed, locked onto the highest one among the escorting P-47s. Starting from the highest position (highest energy) first is the basic principle of this kind of group BZ.

The P-47 spotted Ron who was rushing down early - this is also a major feature of high-altitude air combat. The aircraft will leave a long snow-white trail, so that the difficulty of a sneak attack is greatly increased. He immediately

He made a sharp turn, trying to avoid Ron's shot. However, the air at high altitude was thin, and the efficiency of the servos and ailerons was reduced, which made his movements much slower than at low altitude. In order to avoid the effect, he had to pull

A bigger overload was released. But just when he was glad that he had escaped Ron's first blow, the second blow had already followed.

"Ron, I promise you, I hit his vital point!" The wingman's call came from Ron's headset as he was climbing rapidly. Ron smiled, but in fact, whether he hit the enemy plane's vital point has already been confirmed.

It's not important anymore, because in order to avoid the second hit, the buddy driving the P-47 made another sharp turn. As a result, he may have overlooked one thing. At high altitude, the stall of the aircraft (the air flow flowing through the wing surface of the aircraft produces

The lift is less than the plane's own gravity) and the speed is much higher than the sea level. As a result - he stalled. So the plane fell down. It is estimated that by the time he climbed up again, the day lily would have been cold. A similar scene can be seen

It happened repeatedly on other aircraft. In just one hit, the rookies lost at least 8 fighters (these were all stalled, because you still need to see the photos whether they were shot down or not). At the same time, there were several P

In order to support his teammates, -47 climbed desperately, but not only failed to bite the opponent who was climbing at high speed, but also caused his own speed to drop rapidly. As a result, when the second round of bz came, they had almost no ability to dodge.

After the third round of BZ, the rookies lost an estimated 20 fighter planes, with as many as 17 stalled fighters, while none of the "reverse crosses" were damaged. The rookies' original numerical advantage was lost almost instantly.
Chapter completed!