Chapter 527 Fly to Brest
In fact, as the front goes on, you can fly to Brest if you go directly from Belgium. However, if you fly like this, you have to pass through French airspace and even from Paris.
You know, although the French Air Force has been unable to recover and gather dozens of fighter jets to intercept, there is no problem. Therefore, considering various factors, this operation did not take off from the east and cross France, but set off from Spain and flew to Brest through the Bay of Biscay.
The straight line from Bashaori to Brest is nearly a thousand kilometers. It is a long journey, or at night!
When attacking Belgium, Germany chose to build a lighthouse on the ground. As long as it flies along the lighthouse, it can accurately enter the route. When the lighthouse ends, it means it is time to release the glider.
But it is not useful now, because they are on the sea after taking off. In the dark night, flying on the endless sea, it is difficult to accurately locate with a simple compass.
Fortunately, Germany's technology is already developed enough, and they have developed the latest navigation technology, namely radio navigation!
As early as 1911, someone studied the directionality of radio waves. In World War I, the German Zeppelin used the original ground radio direction finding navigation when bombing London, and the airborne radio direction finding instrument was only widely used in the 1920s.
Historically, Germany's radio navigation technology was relatively advanced, and many radio experts have emerged, specializing in radio navigation technology. The famous German Lorenz company's blind landing system is one of the best.
However, when bombing London, German bombers often cannot find targets. On the contrary, when the Allies counterattack and bombard Germany, they can clearly find targets.
It is not the Allied navigation technology, but because the Allied forces have strong radio interference capabilities, German radio navigation equipment is often in a state of interference.
Now, it is completely different. The Libyan base in Germany has conducted more than ten years of careful research on radio navigation, overcome one difficulty after another, and successfully developed the current y-gera:t system.
It can be said that this navigation system is already the most advanced navigation system of this era.
How advanced is it? In the port behind, a navigation station was set up, and the beam was aimed directly at Brest. The navigator could position any position on the beam. The rho-theta positioning method was used, and the accuracy was quite high.
How high is it?
The error is about 90 meters 200 miles from the navigation platform!
Although it is not as awesome as GPS in later generations, this navigation system is enough to guide your own formation to fly accurately over the destination!
Flying is boring, especially for the special forces soldiers in the glider, they are now a good time to keep their energy, and for the navigators, it is their most nervous moment.
There can't be any errors!
At the nose of the Juncker-290 bomber, Navigator Ludwig, under the faint light, focused on the small signals on the cathode ray tube.
In the past, radio navigation was to make sounds and distinguish the orientation through headphones. Now, it has been changed to display on cathode ray tubes, greatly improving efficiency.
While looking at the signals, he made dots and dash lines on a map marked with a grid of curves, and on that map a long thick line started from Bashaori and ended in the eastern suburbs of Brest.
"The corrected course is 021, and the scheduled arrival time is one hour!"
The Juncker-290 bomber could have easily flew over a speed of 500 kilometers per hour, but after dragging more than 20 tons of gliders behind, even four engines were operating at full power, and their speed had dropped to 224 kilometers per hour. They needed to fly for about four hours before they could reach the target.
After throwing the glider, it should be dawn. At that time, the glider leaves, it depends on the ability of the glider pilot. We are responsible for sending them to you!
Heavy gliders, carrying radio equipment, are very convenient to connect with the towed aircraft and to connect with each other.
On a glider in the front, Otto Scholzne heard the sound from the navigation, and it was an hour before it was about to reach the sky above the target.
He looked at his watch and calculated it, it was just right. He reached the target, just when it was dawn, and at the same time, it was also when his own battle began!
He looked at a soldier beside him, closing his eyes to rest. At the same time, there were also soldiers who participated in the battle for the first time, and they looked very nervous at this time.
As the war expanded, his special forces were expanding rapidly. When he first grabbed Spain's gold, he had only fifty people under his command, but now it has expanded to thousands.
As a unit formed by the head of Cialek personally issued an order, he had high authority to select outstanding personnel from various troops and enter his troops. Loyalty is the first priority and combat quality is the second priority.
In this way, most of them have been on the battlefield, and some of them have good seedlings who have never fought a war, but have very good military skills. For example, the young man Morris, who has never been on the battlefield.
"Morris, are you afraid?" asked Scolzne.
Morris immediately shook his head: "Of course not afraid, I will shed the last drop of blood to destroy the French!"
Skolzne patted his shoulder with satisfaction, and then, from the backpack at the back, took out a kettle.
"Take a sip."
Morris picked it up and put it to his mouth, and a spicy smell came. It was not water, but wine!
"Drink it, you're a real man," said Scolzne.
He raised his head and drank it twice. When the wine flowed into his stomach, he instantly felt his whole chest burning.
This is the most popular vodka that Russians drink. For some reason, Scholzne also likes the spirits, which tastes so good.
Soon, Morris closed his eyes.
Have a good rest, my child, after an hour, it will be our most glorious time!
Chapter completed!