Major Joseph Flandsek, wearing a somewhat old leather jacket with the Czechoslovak Air Force mark, stood on the back deck of a freewheel, holding a camel cigarette in his mouth and tilting his neck to watch the somewhat boring air battle.

This is not air combat at all! Flandsek vomited a cloud of smoke and despised the German pilots in his heart. They only knew to rely on superior equipment. If the enemy's plane was better than them or the pilot's skills were better than them, they would only escape from the battle. Either fly high or dive at high speed (-190 common moves), or quickly lift the enemy under the muzzle of a friend who was ambushing at high altitude (Fokker Zero's secret move). In short, no German pilot dared to compete with the enemy in a dignified manner.

At least the Czechoslovak patriot Major Flandsek, a RAF ace pilot, has never encountered a decent German pilot... although he was shot down by his opponent six times in the air battle in the English Channel.

The "fuel tank tactics" that the Germans frequently used since the summer of 1942 were even more despicable and shameless to Flandsek's eyes. However, this tactic that uses any means and shows its cowardly personality is really in line with the nature of the Germans.

They are such a nation, and they can only use conspiracies and deceptions to achieve their goals. This is how Major Flandersek's motherland Czechoslovakia was destroyed by the Germans.

However, now the United States and the Soviet Union have stood with Czechoslovakia. Germany's defeat and destruction are inevitable. No conspiracy or intrigue will succeed, including the despicable and shameless "fuel tank tactics".

Thinking of this, Flandersek turned his head and glanced at a Spitfire MK5 fighter on the rear deck of the freewheel. This is Flandersek's landline and the killer weapon used by the British and American Allies to fight against Germany's "fuel tank tactics".

This Spitfire MK5 fighter is a special model produced in the United States. Based on the Spitfire 5, which appeared in 1941, it installed a 12-cylinder Merlin 60 engine produced in the United States. All armor was removed, the 20mm cannon and 2 machine guns were removed, and only 2 12.7mm Browning machine guns were retained. The body itself also reduced weight as much as possible, using as thin materials as possible, and even the on-board radio stations were saved.

This modification to remove armor, reduce firepower and reduce fuselage strength is of course to reduce weight so that the aircraft can fly higher. At the same time, the aerodynamic shape of the aircraft has also been modified to obtain maximum lift.

During the test conducted in the United States, this Spitfire MK5 fighter can fly to an altitude of more than 14,000 meters, and can maintain a high speed of about 650 kilometers per hour at an extremely high altitude of about 13,000 meters!

However, this high-altitude high-speed aircraft that is reduced by weight is definitely a "small short leg", with a maximum range of only a pitiful 600 kilometers. If it is placed in the UK, it is an airport defender, and it cannot deal with the anti-ship special ju288.

Therefore, the fire spitting MK5 must be able to board the ship, but its too thin body and too fast landing speed (the weight is too light, and the tip of the liquid-cooled engine, so the landing is of course fast) makes this type of fire spitting cannot board the aircraft carrier.

Fortunately, the American tycoons had their own methods. This type of aircraft was loaded with a freewheel and was ejected into the sky with a catapult, just like a seaplane.

The problem of taking off is easy to deal with, but what should I do when it comes?

This is not a problem for the American tyrants. If there is an Allied airport nearby, then the fire-breathing MK5 that was ejected and taken off will land at the airport. If there is no airport nearby, then the pilot will parachute after the air battle, and the plane... will throw it away!

So this is a one-time plane. During this escort operation, the fleet of n ships carried a total of 60 fire spitting mk5e.

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"Col. The British guy's p51 and p38 flew away."

After wandering around at an altitude of 12,500 meters for more than an hour and feeling a little bored, the voice of Major Werner Tribers, the commander of the 1st Naval Air Force escort fighter regiment, came from Colonel Johannes Steinhof's headset.

"Let's go? That's great." Colonel Steinhof lowered his head and looked down, and saw dozens of p51 and p38 aircraft forming a dozen four-plane formations and fleeing with their tails.

"Werner," Colonel Steinhof ordered, "you take two squadrons to chase!"

"As for orders, Mr. Colonel."

Colonel Steinhof also ordered Perris, the navigator and telegrapher behind him, "Contact Zeppelin, the British p51 and p38 had retreated, and asked them to send -190t to intercept the northern coast of Scotland."

The -190t sent by the aircraft carrier was already halfway. After receiving a telegram from Colonel Steinhof, the Zeppelin could immediately notify the commander of the first assault wave ahead with the telegram and mobilize the -190t to wait near several airports on the northern coast of Scotland.

After arranging the pursuit and interception tasks, Colonel Steinhof began to dispatch attack tasks again. The target of the attack was not the transport fleet on the water, but the battleships and heavy cruisers.

Steinhof's ju288 carries 1.5-ton Fritz-remote gliding bombs, which are wasteful to deal with the freewheeling, and Fritz-'s penetration is too strong, so it is likely to drill the bottom of the ship and fall into the water.

Of course, transport ships also need to be fired. Now, p.108, which is wandering at a low altitude dozens of kilometers away from radar and the Fokker 100 carrier-based bombers that are rushing to the sky, are carrying high-explosive bombs, and their targets are large groups of transport ships on the water.

There are now 12 old battleships on the water, 5 Queen Elizabeth class, 2 Wyoming class, 2 New York class, 2 Mexican class and 1 Florida class, and 60 ju288 in the sky. So Steinhof sent 5 ju288 to each old battleship, and each ju288 has 2 Fritz-bombs, which means that no old British and American battleships can get 10 Fritz-bombs... This number can basically be "sinked".

Just as Steinhof and his men were happily flying the plane down gradually, while carefully maintaining a "safe distance" and slowly approaching the British and American battleships that were accelerating their navigation on the water. On dozens of cargo ships on the water, small planes suddenly ejected.

"Peng..."

With a muffled sound, Major Flandersek felt as if he was a small stone, shot into the sky with a slingshot.

He is now sitting in the simple cabin of a disposable fire-breathing plane ejected into the sky, wearing a thick leather jacket, a parachute on his back, and an oxygen mask. The engine of the plane has started at full speed, and a pair of four-blade propellers rotated rapidly, bringing huge lift to the plane. Pulling from this rising power, the plane climbed at an extremely fast speed.

Major Flandsec gently pushed the joystick and aimed the head of the plane at a ju288 hovering and descending in the air. The two planes approached quickly, and from Flandsec's eyes, they only saw that the plane became larger and larger and closer.

Suddenly, the ju288 seemed to find itself becoming a prey and began to rise.

"Hmph, can you still run away?" Flandsek smiled coldly, his fingers pressed against the machine gun's firing button.

If Flandsek looked down at the altimeter in the cabin at this time, he would find that the altitude of the aircraft was rising very quickly.

8000 meters, 8500 meters, 9000 meters, 9500 meters... When the altitude table jumped to 12500 meters, the ju288, who was chased by Flandersek, was obviously panicked. The bomb hatch below the belly of the machine suddenly opened, and two Fritz-gliding bombs were thrown out casually.

But now I remember that it was too late to lose weight! Flandsek found that the "prey" had entered the range, so he pressed the machine gun firing button without hesitation. Two strings of tracer bullets were sucked towards the ju288 in front of him like a fire whip! Several bullet holes suddenly appeared on the body of the aircraft in front. However, the aircraft did not fall, but suddenly accelerated and ran like a horse whipped by a whip. It seemed that throwing the bomb away and reducing weight was still useful. However, this level of acceleration was not enough to fall down and pursue the flamethrow aircraft.

"Want to run?" Flandsek gritted his teeth and pressed the machine gun firing button. Bullets shot towards the ju288 ahead in a series, and then several bullet holes as big as fists. Then the German plane suddenly fell down and began to dive at a 60-degree angle.

"Damn!" Flandsek cursed because his own plane was not capable of diving, because the plane lost too much weight and became less solid. If it dived too fast, it might fall apart in the sky.

Flandsek was still unwilling to give up and still took the risk of flying the plane diving and chasing for a while, but he didn't dare to rush too fast. In the end, he could only watch the plane get farther and farther away from him.

However, since the opponent threw away the bomb and ran for life, the "one-time fire spitting" tactic was obviously successful.

From now on, the surface fleet will no longer be powerless when it encounters Ju288. In this way, a large amount of rental materials from the United States will be transported to the United Kingdom by energy sources.

Flandesek, who was in a good mood, flew around the air and found the direction of the Faroe Islands. Then he flew to the airport in the Faroe Islands that was quietly built after the autumnal equinox. The Germans did not know about it and had not bombed it, so it was still available now. Flandesek was preparing to land there, then refuel and fly to northern Scotland.
Chapter completed!