Steel Soviet Union

"Then, didn't our artillery, artillery and aviation units of the group army stop these Germans? Just let them drive to the high ground and come for reinforcements? Isn't this appropriate?"

The unwilling Malashenko hoped to hear some good news, but what the political commissar said next could only be described as "not good but not bad" at best.

"Of course what you mentioned has been done. Not only artillery has blocked fire, but aviation has also taken part of its troops from the busy frontal battlefield support mission to intercept the enemy. But these two methods have actually had little effect, and most of them It is related to the fact that the force is put into the frontal battlefield and there is not much firepower, but there are also other interfering factors.”

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Although the news is not very good, even a little bad, Malashenko still cares about the reasons behind it and wants to hear it.

"What distractions? Why is this all happening?"

The political commissar sitting at the other corner of the table sighed and shook his head slightly. Then he took out one of the folders he had already sorted out and opened it. He compared the details described above with his own analysis. Then the words spoke.

"The artillery mainly encounters terrain interference. When the group army artillery group is located in a position to attack German reinforcements, the curved trajectory will be interfered by the high terrain. The artillery shells that pass over the highlands can only hit the high ground and the ground farther away. The German troops had no choice but to deal with the Germans on the other side of the high ground and on the slopes.”

"You should understand the reason. With anti-slope shielding, it is impossible for our artillery shells to pass over the high ground and then immediately attack vertically downwards and hit the top of the Germans' heads. The curved trajectory is fixed. This leads to the fact that most of the Germans are not with us. Within the coverage area of ​​​​the artillery fire, the limited rounds of shelling only killed some German troops farther away, and the reports reported by the artillery observation plane showed little effect. "

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Malashenko, who was speechless, didn't know what to say at this time. Comrade Political Commissar said that there was no problem. Objective laws are objective laws, and war is also scientific. You can use the terrain, and the enemy can also use it. The battlefield environment is fair, and the performance of the weapons is fixed. It is normal for the Germans on the other side of the high ground to escape most of the artillery damage.

"What about the aviation force? What happened to the aviation force? What problems did they encounter?"

Malashenko, who no longer wanted to comment on the insurmountable problems encountered by the artillery, chose to skip it directly and began to ask what troubles the aviation had encountered. Unexpectedly, the answer given by the political commissar was still dissatisfied. No matter how good it is, it is still heart-wrenching to hear.

"The aviation unit participating in the air strike is a ground attack aviation unit equipped with the latest Il-10 attack aircraft. According to the reports they reported after returning from the mission, there seems to be something in the German reinforcements that has never been seen before. New technological weapons, which seriously hinders the expansion of the effect of air strikes.”

"New technological weapon? Never seen it before???"

After hearing this, Malashenko stared blankly, but Comrade Comrade Political Commissar just continued to nod.

"The attacking aviation force couldn't get close enough to see what it was. It was too dangerous." The overwhelming rain of fire stayed behind us as if it had eyes, clinging to it. No matter what kind of maneuvers we do to dodge, they can always find us quickly and keep up with us from any angle, and continue the fire pursuit." Well, this is a descriptive report from a pilot who participated in the battle."

"According to the description, the Army Headquarters analyzed that this should be a new type of accompanying mobile anti-aircraft weapon. We previously captured the German anti-aircraft half-track vehicle, which was equipped with a small-caliber rapid-fire anti-aircraft gun mount, which has the ability to quickly The Army Headquarters believes that the ability to deploy, retract, and accompany mobile air defense should be similar equipment, but it has been upgraded and strengthened. "

"And the Il-10 happens to be a type of equipment that must be attacked at close range to achieve good results. This is contradictory to the actual situation they face. The enemy's quickly organized anti-aircraft firepower does not allow them to do this."

"Most attempts to cut into the attack channel have been blocked and driven away. Most of the energy and fuel have been consumed by dodging those anti-aircraft barrages. In the end, we can only hurriedly drop bombs and launch rockets from a long distance and then leave the battlefield airspace. The actual hits achieved I can only tell you what the effect is, I don’t need to say more.”

The goal of air defense in the game is to shoot down enemy aircraft. As long as the enemy aircraft is still alive and can still fly, it is possible to pounce at any time and destroy the ground air defense units that are natural enemies. Either you die or I die. Anyway, only one can survive. But in reality this is not the case at all.

In reality, real air defense is mainly based on expulsion and supplemented by shooting down. At least this is the case these days when anti-aircraft artillery is the main combat method.

When Anton Star pilots see the air defense units, they will be stunned. If they plunge in with a sudden force, they will kill the air defense vehicles. Even if they are surrounded by dense interceptor barrages, they will still be able to survive, but Earth pilots will not.

Except for some extremely precious things among Earth pilots, most normal people, even the heroic Red Army Eagles, usually have only one reaction after seeing the enemy's organized and high-density anti-air barrage interception fire net. : Run.

The further away from those deadly anti-aircraft barrages, the better, and it is best not to even touch the edges.

The more cowardly pilots will run away directly, while the more courageous pilots, like today's Il-10 pilots, will avoid the air defense fire network while looking for opportunities to try to cut into the attack channel to see if they can knock out the key points in the enemy's air defense fire network. support points, and then use points to break through the surface and open up the situation, and then destroy the remaining air defense firepower points with flaws one by one to complete the air attack.

But there is a price for doing this. Since you decide to lick blood with the tip of the knife, you must have the consciousness to cut your tongue.

In the process of constant attempts, the Il-10s were shot down and fell to the ground due to their inability to dodge. The price was the loss of those Il-10s that were too late to parachute at low altitudes and crashed with fatalities.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that pilots who can withstand low-altitude, small-caliber rapid-fire anti-aircraft barrages and carry out close-range strikes on the ground are brave. In these days when there are no ejection seats, all it takes is to be shot down. , the death rate is definitely higher than 95% and close to 100%.

Those Il-10s were able to carry out their mission resolutely in such difficult circumstances, and did not withdraw from the combat airspace until they were exhausted and it was almost too late to return with fuel.

Based on this alone, Malashenko no longer meant to blame him at all. He even gave a thumbs up and said, "Real men, pure men, all of them are heroes in the air."

But a subsequent problem also troubled Malashenko and caused considerable concern.

Those new German anti-aircraft vehicles that are large in number, have intensive firepower, and have a high rate of fire, can organize an airtight field accompanying air defense network, and are sustainable enough to consume the Il-10 until it runs out of gas. What will happen to them? What is it? In my mind, there seems to be no known Kraut weapon that can match this description.