Chapter 595: 595 The falling fireball
Chapter 595 595 The falling fireball
For the pilots of the Tang Army, attacking such a huge target as an airship is simply a recreational activity.
The Butcher fighter jet circled in the sky and easily reached the top of the airship. It was beyond the reach of any enemy firepower and could attack the most vulnerable top airbag of the airship unscrupulously.
Because they know the target they want to attack before taking off, all fighter units use tracer bullets. This thing can ignite the hydrogen in the airbag of the airship. Although it is not as effective as incendiary bombs, it is much more effective than ordinary bullets.
At this time, the Air Force machine gun ammunition did not yet have the type of incendiary bombs, because there was not a large demand for use. So I can only reluctantly use tracer bullets as a replacement, but the effect is almost the same.
A Butcher fighter jet swooped close and started strafing along the back of the airship at a very close distance.
The bullet easily penetrated the hard shell of the airship, penetrated the thin skin, and rushed into the separated air bags.
Some bullets also cut off the brackets that support the hard shell. These fragile brackets caused sparks with the bullets, and then quickly broke apart due to slight insufficient twist.
With a squeaking sound, the airbag began to collapse and damage, and the hydrogen inside overflowed. When it encountered sparks, it exploded and burned violently, swallowing up everything around it.
In just an instant, the entire top of the airship was on fire, and you could even see the black shadow of the mesh support that had not been completely melted, swaying in the flames.
The next second, the explosion swallowed up the cockpit attached to the bottom of the airship, and then the bombs and hydrogen bottles in the magazine also exploded.
In just ten seconds, the airship crashed into the sea, ending its glorious life. It was still a ball of flame until it hit the sea.
Facing fighter jets, the fragility of airships is clearly exposed. They are unable to protect their huge, slow and fragile airbags. This is the biggest weakness of airships.
Since it is a long-distance raid and it has to sail on the sea, these airships cannot deploy machine gun shooters on the airbags to increase their defense. Therefore, they can only be beaten passively and have no choice at all.
As for the machine guns installed on both sides of the cockpit, they are not prepared for air defense. Their main function is ground suppression...
It would be a bit overconfident to expect these weapons to pose any threat to the Butcher fighter jets. These weapons don't even have basic anti-air sights, and whether they can hit them depends entirely on the shooter's enlightenment.
Yes, epiphany, they have not received anti-air attack training, and some of them are even just infantry machine gunners.
They were pulled over and placed in these shooting positions. Their legs were weak because of their fear of heights. Only the devil knew how much of their combat effectiveness they could retain.
Soon, the third airship was also ignited by tracer bombs, and the huge explosion once again illuminated the sky, even making the other airships more obvious.
Because there was so much fire, the surrounding clouds seemed to be on fire. The scene in front of me even makes people feel a bit magnificent, and it seems to have nothing to do with cruelty.
But in fact, in the eyes of the crew of Cyric's airship, such a wonderful sight was like the door to **** had opened.
Standing in his command position, the commander of the Cyric airship unit closed his eyes in pain.
Their attack was based on confidentiality from beginning to end. They cannot be discovered or the mission will fail.
Now, they have been discovered, so at this moment, they can only wait for death.
This is definitely a kind of sadness, a kind of sadness that you have already lost at the beginning, but you can choose to die after 20 minutes.
The ceiling of the Butcher fighter jet exceeds 10,000 meters, and the maximum ceiling of the airship cannot reach this height at all. Therefore, when the Butcher fighter jet dives downward, the crew members on these airships cannot even see who is attacking them.
Their perspective can only overlook the earth, so they don’t know whether they have been attacked before they are engulfed in fire.
Comparing speed is even more of a joke. Although they are faster than ships on the water, compared with fighter jets, the speed of airships is simply stationary.
The feeling of waiting for death is not pleasant. This feeling of knowing that you are already dead but the **** of death does not knock on the door makes you crazy.
There was even a crew member on the airship who fell into a state of madness because he was afraid of being burned to death. He opened the hatch and jumped out of the airship, then fell into the sea and disappeared without a trace.
Jumping from this height, there is actually no difference between hitting the water and hitting the concrete ground. The scene in the movie where you jump from a thousand meters high and directly fall into the water without any harm is completely impossible in reality.
The world diving records of about 100 meters are all set by professional athletes, and this is already the extreme height for diving into the water from a high altitude. If you drop it into the water any higher, it will almost look like a mollusk when you pick it up.
So, for the crews in the cockpits of these airship troops, they now have three choices: jump and fall to death, wait and be burned to death, or wait for themselves to burn and then jump to enjoy double the excitement. The people on the airship, who were overlooking the jumping warriors (sha) and splashing water on the sea, looked up and found that their roofs had been melted by the burning flames.
Before they could scream, they were engulfed in flames and turned into curled up and twisted charcoal. Then the coke fell together with the changed cockpit, shattered before entering the sea, and was finally submerged into the sea together with the flames.
“Chug!” A Butcher fighter jet continued to dive, and the bullets left a row of bullet holes on the outer shell of the airship.
He saw the flames spurting out of these bullet holes before he pulled up, and he knew that his attack had worked.
A few seconds later, the out-of-control flames exploded behind him. Even if he didn't look back, he could feel the light shining behind him.
Not far away, an airship seemed to have finally figured it out. It began to lower its altitude. This may be its only chance.
If they could make an emergency landing near the sea, they seemed to have a chance of survival. The remaining options are only dead ends.
This is a massacre, a massacre of advanced weapons against backward weapons. Facing the technological weapons of World War II, weapons of World War I level had no room to fight back.
"Damn... we can't even see them!" An airship operator tried hard to see clearly what was happening above his head.
But when he pressed against the glass of the airship, he could only see the edge of the hard-shell airbag. He could see the swooping Butcher fighter jets above other airships in the distance, but he couldn't see if there was such a plane above his head. hovering.
Soon, he knew.
Because the airbag above his head began to catch fire, he could see that the flames had engulfed the airbag and were about to carry the burning gas in the airbag and spread to the airship's cab.
"Lower the altitude! The commander ordered all airships to lower their altitude!" The captain of the airship was shouting excitedly. He had finally received a decent order since the beginning of the war.
But just as he shouted the order, he realized that he no longer had to carry out the late order: above his head, the pipelines were already burning, the air was filled with scorching flames, and his lungs seemed to be boiling. .
"Keep up the continuous attacks! Pay attention to the fuel!" The commander of the Tang Army who was directing the battle reminded his pilots as he watched the fighter jets under his feet attacking the heavy and fragile airship.
"Understood!" The novice pilots who were attacking excitedly responded to their instructors' orders - this was much more enjoyable than their target shooting and dogfighting, it was simple and spectacular!
At this time, another group of fighter jets flew from the distance. This was the search formation from other areas rushing over.
Now that the enemy has been found, there is no point in them staying in other airspace. Come and get a share of the pie, of course.
Soon these aircraft joined the battle, and then the scene became a bit chaotic. Everyone wanted to achieve some results, so they started fighting for it.
At the height of all, Heruk's airship force, who wanted to find a vibrant, was desperate, because the other party did not give them a chance to escape.
A few attacks can make an airship fall quickly. The speed of the airship's descent cannot be compared with the speed of the machine gun bullets.
Just when Cyric's commander on the airship was despairing, the third batch of Tang Army planes appeared in his sight again.
As for what? For a moment, he felt that Tang Jun's overkill operation was too much. Can't you give me a way to survive? Can't you give me some dignity?
While he was cursing bitterly in his heart, his airship also began to burn. Now, there are really not many airships left in the sky.
There was originally a huge formation of more than 50 airships, but now there are not even ten airships flying in the sky.
The airship force of more than 1,000 people, as well as so many expensive airships, were destroyed in such a short period of less than 20 minutes at an unknown location.
“Damn it.” The Cyric commander cursed before being burned into charcoal by the flames, and then the clothes on his body suddenly burned.
The steering wheel and microphone beside him began to twist and deform, and then these burning things crashed into the sea water along with the falling cabin, scattering into the dark abyss.
Two minutes later, the last Cyric airship crashed, and there were all kinds of things floating on the sea. This was the last thing left in this world by this airship force.
They bear witness to the existence of this airship force and become the last evidence that they have been here.
(End of this chapter)