Although Manniu has the largest number of various transport aircraft and civil aircraft, its earliest research and development purpose was to be an aerial gunship.
However, the tactical significance of the gunship is limited, and it is difficult to coordinate with other air forces. It can only bully the weak who have no air defense capabilities at all, so they still go the bomber route.
As a bomber, the Manniu needs to have a different battlefield positioning than the Tornado.
In Wang Qi's hometown, the difference between early bombers and fighter jets was very small. The only difference was that fighter jets carried 1 ton of bombs, while bombers carried 3 tons of bombs. Their flight capabilities were still significantly weaker than that of fighter jets.
Bombers are larger and there is no point in competing with fighter jets in terms of speed. Therefore, during the development process, it is required to make a fuss about bomb load and flight altitude.
Increasing the flight altitude requires cabin pressurization technology, which means that the personnel cabin must be 100% airtight. At the same time, it is also necessary to have anti-icing technology for key equipment such as pitot tubes below freezing point. This also resulted in the bombing type being released relatively late. It was only officially entered into service after the floating island was established, and the number was very small, with only three aircraft in total.
The Manniu bomber is also the key to the military's confidence in dealing with the laser tentacle monster, because its maximum flight altitude can reach 12,000 meters!
Based on the radial engine, reaching such a flying height was actually achieved through the addition of magic.
But there are also disadvantages. Due to lack of oxygen, the Manniu bomber has an output of 2,400 kilowatts at a standard pressure of 1,100 hPa (the engine is larger and heavier than the standard type). When it reaches more than 10,000 meters, the flight speed can only reach about 300 kilometers.
Improvements will be discussed later. At this moment, the Manniu bomber needs to use its ultimate move to guide the delivery.
No laser weapons, just the power of magic.
At the scene, a group used marking props, kept a certain distance from each other, and fired three beams of red light into the sky.
After the calculations of the ground personnel, the point where the light rays roughly intersect will have a more eye-catching red spot, which is the designated bombing point of the Manniu bomber.
According to combat rules, the bomber observed the red dot and confirmed its heading.
This is the eastern battlefield, so the basic rule is due west-due east, and when it crosses the point, it is dropped. If it is the western battlefield, it is reversed. The course was chosen because one's own position would be biased toward the homeland. At this height, visual inspection was no longer effective. The delay in interpretation of magic telegraph-style signals was too high, and the rules were more reliable.
With the help of basic rules, the parabola was calculated by the ground forces, including the indicated point information. The wind calculation capability was relatively poor. After all, other aircraft could not fly so high. In addition, there was a delay in the calculation, and the wind power at each altitude could not be grasped. .
The deviation of bomb delivery may reach several hundred meters, but it is not a big problem. For bombers and bombers, the amount of bombs dropped is a necessary skill. As long as the amount is sufficient, a little error is nothing.
The three bombers observed the indicator point, communicated with light signals, adjusted their altitude and circled back to the forward route, and reduced their speed to 260 kilometers per hour... which was also the regulation.
Line up to open the weapons cabin and pull the switch when you pass the point.
To ensure adequate bombing coverage, the Manniu bomber carries four types of bombs.
The first type is the standard 500kg aerial bomb.
The second type, the 500 kilogram submunition, is specialized in dealing with demons. Considering that it can fly across islands, it will be dispersed at an altitude of 2,000 meters. Each submunition ejects 200 cubs, which is as powerful as a mortar bomb. , which contains 5% anti-magic bombs.
The third type is the magic aerial bomb, which is a bomb made of artificial gemstones. The total weight is still the same as before, 60 kilograms per bomb. The explosion power has been adjusted, which is roughly equivalent to three 500 kilogram aerial bombs. However, due to the small size of the fragments The total weight is relatively lacking, and the actual killing effect is a little worse than that of a 500-kilogram aerial bomb. It is more suitable to use shock waves to attack difficulties.
The fourth type is the exclusive ammunition for the Manniu bomber, a fast-attack self-protection anti-magic bomb.
This is a special aerial bomb with a built-in magic shield and an adjusted bomb shape. Due to the smaller drag ratio and the higher bombing position of the bomber, it will land a few seconds earlier than other bombs.
There is another difference from basic anti-magic weapons. The effect of quick-attack bullets is directional rather than omnidirectional. It will only act on the cone-shaped area below. This also causes its range of action to be farther than normal anti-magic bullets, which can be up to 3,000 meters. It is detonated at a high altitude to ensure that demons below the fourth ring of the ground cannot release their skills.
The triggering methods are synthetic, detonated by blows, and detonated at a fixed height.
With this set, the detonations are rapid attack bombs, magic bombs, and 500 kilogram bombs in order. The final cluster bomb will land with the help of the decelerating tail for more than ten seconds.
Because there is a big guy in this operation, the headquarters is not worried. Each bomber is equipped with three quick attack bombs, ten magic bombs, three of each of the latter two, and then the three aircraft are x3.
It has to be said that the laser tentacle monster is quite powerful. It actually withstood the attack of the Styx mortar and deflected three quick-attack bombs, and the shield did not have much effect.
However, the numerical advantage of bombers in dropping bombs cannot be completely covered by "anti-missile capabilities".
The second bomber's quick-attack bomb and the magic aerial bomb dropped by the first plane approached almost at the same time. The laser tentacle monster used a strange move. It could actually fire several lasers at the same time.
However, it was obvious that the power of the laser after being dispersed was not enough. The magic shield specially configured to prevent interception of the quick-attack bomb worked and detonated successfully.
The effect was very obvious. The laser tentacle monster's laser jammed on the spot, and was immediately hit by a follow-up fast-attack bomb, completely shutting down.
It may not have completely flamed out, but the aerial bomb dropped after a distance of tens of thousands of meters has already reached critical speed, and a few seconds of sluggishness is enough for the magic aerial bomb to penetrate to the predetermined height and detonate.
The next step is to set off fireworks.
At the same time, a group of positions had already activated the full mortar strike mode when the first fast-attack bomb was intercepted.
The parabolic ballistic speed of the mortar is very slow, and the average speed throughout the entire process is less than 200 meters per second. On a battlefield that is close to five kilometers apart, it takes almost half a minute to land after being fired, so it is much slower than an aerial bomb.
In the anti-missile mode of the laser tentacle monster, the little devils stayed on the ground to rest. Suddenly the cover disappeared. Due to the influence of the anti-magic weapons, the high-level demons were unable to immediately drive the little devils into the sky on a large scale. As a result, there was a double-layered rainstorm.
The advantage of bombers dropping aerial bombs is their high power and high density.
Mortars are relatively less powerful, but their density is higher than that of aerial bombs. The garrison's training standard for mortars is 30 rounds per minute for sharp-edged troops, and 22 rounds per minute for other types of corps.
Each platoon is equipped with two guns, and the three battalions on site have 90 guns. They can fire an ultimate projectile volume of 2,700 rounds per minute. Even if each shell is only equivalent to one kilogram of explosives, it is equivalent to the explosives of a single Manniu bomber in one minute. The weight (excluding missile bodies, fuzes, etc.) has remained the same, but bombers do not have continuous combat capabilities. After dropping this wave, they will go home and sleep. It will take a long time to prepare weapons on the ground, and it will be at least the next day before they arrive at the scene.
It is precisely because of the extremely exaggerated projection ability of the ground forces that they have to fight on the preset battlefield. This wave of ground washing is equivalent to the results of several days of air force bombing, and the material consumption is even less.
The effect of the bombing from the sky and the earth is extremely significant... The waste of ammunition is unknown, because the reconnaissance plane responsible for aerial observation was blocked by thick smoke and could not see the bombing area. It could only see the little devils and the high-level demons mixed in it swarming away, most of them were covered in bullets. With injuries, half of the little devil can't fly.
The air force still took it easy, and first grabbed the peripheral cannons and fired for a while. After the smoke dissipated and confirmed that the laser tentacle monster was dead, they swarmed down to grab the heads.
The ground troops cannot compare in this regard. The existing weapons and equipment are still relatively weak in mobile operations. Moreover, this is an out-of-town operation. There are only a few armored vehicles used for short-distance position support, which is not enough to grab people.
And even if there are more of them, armored vehicles are limited by internal vision problems and are not suitable for rushing into other people's positions to kill people.
...Well, the main reason is that Wang Qi is not willing to die. After all, the population base is not enough, so he cannot die in waves.
In addition, the little devils reproduce too quickly. The life of a full-time soldier must be worth at least a thousand little devils. It is not cost-effective to directly hedge against the little devils who can shoot fireballs.
A group of soldiers on the scene did not have nothing to do after firing a round of intensive mortars. The air force's harvest mortality rate was relatively limited. There were still a large number of panicked demons rushing towards the position, but they lost the ability to intercept Styx shells. The demons really don't pose much of a threat to the defensive position.
