At the same time, Miura Chuuji also saw a black spot swooping down from the sky at 3 o'clock in front of the nose of the plane. It quickly enlarged in an instant. His voice was panicked: "We have fallen into a Chinese trap. Run away, run away." He was complacent just now, thinking that the Chinese Air Force did not dare to attack Japanese fighter planes. Now he was so frightened that he almost peed his pants and urged Zhou Zhihan to run away quickly, his voice full of horror and panic.
I know even if you don’t tell me, Zhou Zhihan cursed secretly, knowing that he had fallen into a trap set by the Chinese Air Force.
The P26 fighter jet just appeared from the clouds at 3 o'clock on the right rear, forcing him to change its course and fly southeast, automatically entering the ambush circle of another fighter jet.
To be able to make such a wonderful tactical arrangement, this two-plane formation is definitely a pair of veterans.
What Zhou Zhihan can be sure of is that he is now surrounded by two P26 fighter jets at high and low altitudes.
The P26 fighter jet dived over quickly at the 3 o'clock position in front. When the shooting distance was corrected to meet the target rendezvous advance, it could fire quickly, and then quickly pull up and leave.
The P26 fighter's airborne weapons are two fixed front-mounted machine guns, which are very suitable for small attack fighters. However, this airborne weapon requires very precise pointing of the fighter's course. Its best air combat shooting range is usually 210 to 240 meters. Within this range, the maximum killing density area can be formed. Once it exceeds this range, a wider scattering surface will be formed, and the lethality will also be reduced. Even if it hits the target, it will not be able to cause effective damage. force.
For excellent pilots, they prefer to bite the enemy aircraft at close range, put the best killing point above the target, and hit it with one hit. They can quickly raise the fighter aircraft at a large elevation angle, or quickly pull the stick back 180 degrees at a small angle to the left and right to avoid being killed. Disaster occurs when an enemy aircraft hits the air and explodes and disintegrates.
For most pilots, a "dispersion adjustment" method of shooting is also preferred.
This method is to slightly move the machine head up, down, left and right when shooting at close range, forming a uniform bullet distribution surface with a certain diameter within the adjusted distance.
Although this shooting method cannot form the maximum killing density area, for ordinary pilots, it has more chances to hit.
The advantages of this shooting method are very similar to the fact that the hit rate of a shotgun is higher than that of a rifle, and it is also very suitable for firing a large number of machine gun bullets, thereby causing a dense saturated attack area against enemy aircraft.
In this case, Zhou Zhihan only had 0.5 seconds to think about it.
Excellent pilots can make correct judgments about the enemy's situation and the situation in an instant.
Zhou Zhihan judged that the P26 fighter behind him was most likely tracking him from a low position at 7 or 8 o'clock behind him. In this way, because the fuselage blocked his and Miura Chuuji's field of vision, it was The P26 fighter jet pursuing from the lower left using the rear tracking method cannot be seen.
They are definitely two old birds.
These two Chinese Air Force P26 fighter pilots are definitely veterans.
One after another, one up and one down, they have strangled the lifeblood of their Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft.
If you fly straight or turn sharply with left rudder, you will fall into the early shooting range of the P26 fighter at the 3 o'clock position.
If you perform a roll maneuver to the left and use a 180-degree leaf drift to correct the nose of the aircraft and point it to the north to escape, your altitude will decrease and your speed will slow down. You will be exactly at the 7 or 8 o'clock position behind you, and you will have completed the rear tracking of yourself. The P26 fighter was within the comfortable firing range.
This kind of blow is fatal, it is equivalent to sending it to the opponent's best shooting killing point.
If the Type 95 reconnaissance aircraft rolls to the right to avoid the attack of the fighter at the 3 o'clock position on the upper right, then due to the decrease in altitude and speed, it is equivalent to sending its outer belly to the P26 fighter behind it at the muzzle. .
Now, whether flying straight, rolling left, rolling right, or escaping by turning the nose of the aircraft 180 degrees to the left with falling leaves, you will be dealt a devastating blow.
Since these two P26 fighter jets have laid such a trap, they are determined to put the Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft to death.
Zhou Zhihan gritted his teeth and decided to take a risk.
My mentor, Principal Pat Plouffe, once said that in terms of air combat technology, no flying technology is completely correct. In order to win the battle, an excellent pilot not only needs aircraft and airborne weapons with excellent performance, but also luck.
Air combat has always been a perfect combination of equipment, luck, courage, and technology.
If these two military aircraft of the Chinese Air Force can create such a perfect ambush circle, then these two pilots are definitely veterans and masters of shooting.
Zhou Zhihan suddenly stepped on the rudder with his right foot and pressed the control stick right. The right flap of the Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft tilted upward to the left to reduce wind resistance. The fighter aircraft half-flipped to the right with the nose and tail as the axis, and instantly the aircraft took off. The direction of the head changed and flew directly towards the P26 fighter jet at 3 o'clock.
In the air, due to the instability of the ballistic trajectory and the inability to correct the advance, the head-on shooting hit rate of fighter jets is less than 2%. The main reason for this is that when two aircraft move in a relatively straight line, the two aircraft are opposite each other at the moment of firing. During the extremely fast flight time of the projectile, the rapid approach of fighter planes will have a significant psychological impact on the pilots. Both aircraft will swing left and right at the same time, and the bullets fired will miss by a hair or thousands of miles, thereby reducing the accuracy of both parties.
There is another main reason. During World War II, the effective range of airborne machine guns was within 200 to 400 meters. Shooting far away from this distance wastes bullets. Shooting at this distance is prone to crashing into the aircraft. The pilot needs to have strong pressure resistance ability. If the hit is hit, because the distance is too close, if the hit aircraft explodes, the attacking aircraft will not be able to escape in time due to the short distance, and will definitely be affected by the explosion and injure itself.
This is why more than 90% of the time when fighter planes from both sides are facing each other, they will not fire. After the two planes fly past each other, they start to spin and perform various maneuvers to seize a favorable shooting position.
Therefore, in an air battle, the pilots of both sides will rarely waste bullets by shooting head-on. Instead, they will use the performance of the aircraft to make various maneuvers to seize the opportunity to shoot, correct the advance, achieve a hit with one shot, and then escape in an instant. on site.
Obviously, the two P26 fighter pilots did not expect that the Japanese Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft would make such a lose-lose maneuver. They had already laid a death trap for the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft, and were waiting for the final harvest, but Unexpectedly, Zhou Zhihan would correct the nose of the aircraft with a simple right turn before falling into the trap, and go head-on with the P26 fighter jet at 3 o'clock.
"Ding!"
With a soft sound, Zhou Zhihan's flight helmet appeared, and clear numbers popped up in the upper right corner of the helmet.
The fighter plane flies at an altitude of 4,300 meters.
Speed 260 kilometers,
The Type 95 underwater reconnaissance aircraft and the P26 fighter jet were on the same level and flew head-on.
The difference between the two planes is 1150 meters.
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At this moment, Zhou Zhihan saw two 0.77cm machine guns under the nose of the opposite P26 fighter jet spitting out blue tongues of flame.
The P26 fighter jet opened fire.
The P26 fighter pilot was obviously a little panicked. At close range, he was forced to fire. Although he knew it was difficult to hit, he still had to force the enemy plane to roll left and right to avoid collision between the two planes. He himself raised the nose of the plane to avoid it. action.
As soon as the two tongues of flame weaved by bullets left the muzzle of the machine gun, they intertwined and turned into a giant web of death like the fangs of poisonous snakes, swaying over at extremely high speeds.
It has to be said that the pilot of this P26 fighter jet is definitely an experienced bird. He knows that the best firing distance of the P26 is 210 meters. But if the two planes approach each other quickly, the initial speed of the projectile will double and the flight time will be reduced by half. , the decrease in ballistic trajectory will also be reduced, there will be no subtle ballistic parabola in the middle, it will be easier to hit the target, and the lethality of the bullet will increase exponentially.
This was the opportunity Zhou Zhihan was waiting for. At the moment when the blue light came out from the muzzle of the P26 machine gun, he stepped on the right rudder, pressed the joystick right to the bottom, and at the same time pushed the left-hand throttle forward to the bottom. The Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft moved its nose and The tail is the axis, and it rolls rapidly to the lower right.
"咻咻咻咻..."
After the purple tracer bullets flew out, they changed from dots to planes, like a big death net covering the location where the Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft was just now. The shot shells on the edge grazed the belly of the reconnaissance aircraft and fired from a distance of more than ten centimeters. When he went out, Miura Chuuji was so frightened that he wet his pants instantly.
Having served on the Izumo battleship for three years, Miura has been showing off his power in front of the Chinese Air Force for three years, but he has never been in actual combat, and no Imperial Air Force pilot has ever been able to fly the Type 95 reconnaissance aircraft in such a thrilling way. Maneuvering action.
Today, Zhou Zhihan performed several rolling evasive maneuvers in a row, knocking out Miura Chuuji. The flames formed by several strings of tracer bullets looked like they were flying in front of him, scaring him so much that he screamed repeatedly. I felt my pants were wet.
The moment the bullets of the P26 fighter jet sprayed out, the nose of the aircraft suddenly attacked at a large angle and was out of the attack range. The pilot thought that the oncoming Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft might be shot down, so as soon as the shot was fired, he immediately pulled up the lever and stopped the attack. Push the flow valve to the bottom and fly out of the "bounce" area at a large elevation angle.
Zhou Zhihan returned to the control column during the barrel roll. The moment after the aircraft recovered, the control column was pressed forward and the fighter plane dived downwards.
Because, just after he used a right barrel maneuver to avoid the tracer attack of the P26 fighter jet attacking from a high altitude at the 3 o'clock position, he fell into the attack range of the P26 fighter jet just behind him at the 7 o'clock position.
The P26 fighter jet opened fire instantly.
