Chapter 667 Finnish Volunteers
The 910-horsepower "land god" - Rona 14n-11 model was activated, and a stream of black smoke emerged from the exhaust pipe. After a few seconds, the engine worked normally.
In the cockpit, Bruce carefully checked the instruments in front of him. In the high latitude Finland, he hoped that all the engine data would be normal.
If you look at it from the outside, the most special thing about this type of aircraft is the nose. In order to balance the torque, the engine tilts about 2.5 degrees to the left, creating a strange crooked neck.
This kind of ugly fighter is not as good as German fighter jets, and it is even worse than American fighter jets, but now, Bruce has no choice.
After he arrived in Finland, fighter jets and pilots were continuously transported over, but until now, as the head of the Finnish Volunteer Army's aviation team, Bruce's men were almost all foreigners, and there was no pure German.
Recently, the situation in Finland has become increasingly tense. As the Soviet Union continues to increase troops towards Leningrad and continues to gather towards the Finnish border, it is conceivable that the battle will almost begin.
Therefore, every day, war preparation duty is required.
The combat readiness duty is divided into different levels. The pilot stays in the waiting room in one situation, and sitting in the cabin is another situation, but now it is a more extreme situation. Most pilots are waiting in the cabin. At the same time, aircraft will take turns to take off and cruise along the Finnish border.
This is in order. Even if Bruce was the commander-in-chief, he participated in the rotation, and now it was his turn to take off to patrol.
Just as he started the engine and was about to take off for patrol, a sharp alarm sounded in the airport.
The war begins like this!
When everyone heard the alarm, they were in the cabin and quickly started their engines. The Blues aimed at the runway, and pushed the throttle lever and the engine outputted the maximum power of 910 horsepower. The variable-range propeller was rotating rapidly. The legal fighter, after sliding on the runway for hundreds of meters, pulled up.
"Note that the Soviet bomber fleet was found. In the airspace of No. 3, it was flying along the 270 direction." The sound of a tower had already been heard inside the headphones, which was discovered by the radar station on the front line.
Bomber group! This large-scale bombing is of course the prelude to the war. The Soviets finally couldn't help but start an invasion of Finland!
It seems that it was inspired by the German blitzkrieg. Unlike the Soviet-Finnish War in history, the Soviets gathered a large number of bombers at the beginning of the war, wanting to blow Finland up in an instant. Various military bases, outposts, barracks, ammunition depots, air force, etc. seemed to be solved by this bombing!
More than 200 bombers flew towards Finland!
After Bruce led the team to Finland, he discussed with the Finnish Air Force and divided their respective air defense ranges. The north was under the charge of the Finnish Air Force and the south was under the Volunteer Air Force.
After all, the Finns are more cold-resistant, the more north they are, the colder they are. The main cities in Finland are also in the south, which is equivalent to volunteer air force and need to protect the Finnish sky.
The airport is not far from the border line. After all, the range of fighter jets of this era is not far. It is just a few of them that are perverted like the German FW190.
Not long after it took off, Bruce saw a group of Soviets flying over the opposite side, dozens of DB-3 bombers flying smoothly on the route.
Soviets, let you know the power of the Volunteer Air Force!
Looking at these preys, Bruce greedily stuck out his tongue. As a pilot, he loved flying and wanted to show his talents in the battle between blood and fire.
Unfortunately, by chance, he never entered the battle. Now, in the first battle, the enemy was actually Soviet, which really felt a bit lucky.
No matter who your opponent is, fight bravely!
"Note, the two-machine formation, the chief aircraft attack, and the wingman cover!" Bruce did not forget that he was the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Air Force. While preparing for the attack, he issued orders to his subordinates. Following him, one legal fighter after another was ready for combat.
The 3rd Soviet Air Brigade, brigade commander G-A-Kurishenko, at this time, his bomber was flying in the front, and he was very relaxed in this bombing mission.
The Finns, what? Put all the available fighters in Finland together, and there are not a hundred! The Finnish Air Force is quite weak, so their bombings have almost no threat except to deal with ground anti-aircraft guns.
Because this was the first bombing of a large aircraft group, hundreds of aircraft took off from different airports. As a result, some errors occurred in the middle, which caused them to be five minutes away from the escort aircraft group behind.
They didn't want to slow down and wait, so they flew over the national border first.
Now, when I saw the group of machines appearing in front of me, Curryshenko was stunned.
As a pilot, he had a pair of sharp eyes. Although the distance was still far away, he had already identified the intercepting aircraft that flew over, definitely not Finnish Folk D.19 fighter jets, but...
"Legal fighter! Damn it! How could Finns have such fighter? Pay attention, all bombers, be prepared to deal with the opponent's interception! Machine gunner, machine gunner prepare!"
Although Germany had secretly intervened in the Finnish war, because Germany's confidentiality work was carried out very well and the Soviet Union rarely conducted aviation reconnaissance. As a result, the Soviets were unaware of the Finnish volunteer army under their noses!
The Soviets did not know that the strength of Finnish aviation troops had at least doubled, and almost all of the pilots participating in the Volunteer Army were flying veterans.
If you encounter an enemy's interception, you will turn around and fly away. After you go back, you will face investigation from the Ministry of Internal Affairs when you land. Curishenko just issued an order to protect you.
The bomber is very heavy and slow to fly. It can be said that it is the best target in the sky. During the entire World War II, the bomber troops suffered considerable losses.
However, as crew members of the bomber, they have no choice but to carry out their mission. If they give up because of danger, then there must be companions who continue to risk the bombing.
This is their mission.
Chapter completed!