A few days ago, when attacking the Baltic Fleet, the Goethe-class aircraft carrier was already conducting combat cruises in the central Baltic waters. However, during the battle, a big problem was discovered. When the steam catapult was ejected from the carrier-based aircraft, it would cause the deck to freeze.

This problem has troubled researchers. In the past few days, catapult researchers have already conducted research on this aircraft carrier to examine the problem of how to improve it.

And now, the deck is brightly lit and several personnel are studying.

"We use handheld equipment to heat the deck to make the ice on it melt quickly," said an operator: "But this is not the best way. Our subsequent catapults of aircraft carriers should be equipped with electric heating devices on both sides, and once they freeze, they melt quickly."

If you want to deicing, of course you need to heat it. However, if you deicate this way, it will lead to an increase in the demand for electricity on the aircraft carrier. The aircraft carriers built later must take this power issue into consideration.

Squadron leader Franz Stigler also followed, and advised the personnel: "If salt is added to the steam, can the icing be slowed down?"

The sea water is difficult to freeze because the salt will lower the freezing point. After hearing Franz's words, the researchers immediately shook their heads: "No, that will greatly increase the failure rate of our catapults."

It does reduce the freezing point, but the salt will corrode. The internal structure of the aircraft carrier's catapult is exquisite. Once it is corroded by the salt, it will be scrapped soon.

On the bridge not far away, the radar search antenna was still rotating normally. Since they arrived in this sea area, they have not stopped observing the sky above their heads and are ready to face possible attacks at any time.

What if there is an ignorant Soviet plane coming?

Now, on the radar operating table of the bridge, the radar hand suddenly saw a large number of echoes, and he screamed: "I found a large number of aircraft, at least a dozen!"

The air defense alarm sounded immediately on the entire warship. After receiving the alarm, Franz ran towards his plane with great strides, quickly jumped into the cabin, turned on the radio, and shouted to the tower: "74 is already in place and requested to take off and intercept."

Originally, the f90 should be the fleet air defense mission, and the Stuka bomber was the one who performed the bombing mission. Unfortunately, the Goethe-class aircraft carrier has a small displacement and a small variety of carrier-based aircraft. Due to the limited production of the f90, some Goethe-class aircraft carriers have all been equipped with Stuka bombers, such as now.

Generally speaking, Stuka bombers do not perform combat missions, but now they are different. Now they are nighttime and night fighters are all big guys. Don’t worry about mobility, as long as they can keep up with the bomber.

At night, it is impossible to break out between fighter air battles. Fighters are just intercepting bombers. Some night fighters are even improved by bombers. For example, the Juncker-88 in history was first improved into a night fighter.

Now, Franz was quickly preparing for his departure, and the machine gunner in his rear cabin was quickly in place, and at the same time, he also carried several incendiary bombs.

"You can take off, at twelve o'clock, the distance is eighty kilometers." The sound of the tower was already heard from the headphones.

The deck staff had dragged the Stuka bomber to the takeoff line. Since Stuka does not carry the heavy one-ton bomb now, the aircraft carrier does not need to turn to the wind. As long as the catapult is used, Stuka can fly easily.

In a powerful overload, Stuka has been ejected and taken off.

On the entire Goethe-class aircraft carrier, only Franz took off alone.

When it comes to night ejection takeoff capabilities, half of the carrier-based pilots on the aircraft carrier can master it, but the night landing capabilities are different. So far, only Franz has it.

As for the others, they are still in training, and once they have this ability, they are almost all transferred away by the Earl Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers. These escort aircraft carriers even play the role of training aircraft carriers.

After taking off, Franz pushed the operating rod, steered the rudder, and advanced towards the direction of twelve o'clock, which was the east.

In such dark nights, planes flying from the east from the Baltic Sea are definitely not German. Even if Germany bombs at night, it is enough to walk over land. Bombers on the front line take off more than 100 kilometers is the target, and there is no need to go around the sea at all.

So, the one who came must be the Soviet bombers. They flew over the Baltic Sea in such dark nights. Their mission was not simple. Maybe they were going to bomb Berlin!

Thinking of this, Franz was so excited that he would never let them succeed!

The night sky is not particularly dark. A crescent moon shines on the sea above the head, and the stars also show a bleak light.

From Franz's headphones, the guiding sound of the aircraft carrier was constantly heard: "The height is 4,000, and the other party is 5 kilometers ahead of you."

Franz adjusts his height and tries to be at the same height as the other party, so that the results can be observed easily.

"Continue to move forward, only five kilometers, pay attention to it."

In the air, the distance will change rapidly, and Franz carefully observed himself directly in front of him.

The radar guided behind has been improved, with a range measurement accuracy of 00 and an angle measurement accuracy of 0.2 degrees. It only needs to search within the error of the guided radar.

However, he saw nothing.

“It has been flying.”

The sound from the headphones made Franz very depressed. He passed by the other party, but he didn't see the other party. He firmly believed that the radar of the aircraft carrier was fine, so it must be that there was something wrong with his search just now and he could not observe the target.

Just as he pushed the operating lever and wanted to continue to turn the course to pursue, the machine gunner behind him suddenly shouted: "I saw a vague ball of things below."

Next?Franz suddenly discovered the mistake he made just now, and the altimeter had an error.

In this era, the most common one is the barometric altimeter, and in different latitudes, the air pressure varies with height. There will be an error of dozens of meters.

In normal attacks, these few dozen meters of errors are nothing, but during this night interception, the few dozen meters of errors are enough to make him ignore the airspace.

In fact, with the development of technology, Germany has begun to develop high-precision radio altitude devices and even radio speed measurement devices. However, it is not installed on aircraft like Stuka that require dive bombing. Those high-altitude bombers are the most needed.

Just now, he mainly searched the airspace in front and above, and forgot to search for the airspace below. Fortunately, he had a machine gunner and helped him search. Since he had searched, he should start attacking.

"Be careful, prepare to throw flares. After the flares fall down for two seconds, we will attack." Franz shouted to his machine gunner.

If several planes came up together, they could fight together, throwing flares at high altitude, and the remaining planes chased and attacked, but now, only Franz, he could only rely on himself for everything.

First throw a flare to see how many people come and the specific direction, and then catch up and attack.

Just as he was about to show off his skills, he heard a sound from the bridge coming from his headphones: "There is a fleet behind him, and the Soviets are crazy!"
Chapter completed!