1390 Destruction 1
Anti-pirated chapter~~~! Two updates today~~~!
"The fleet enters the first-level combat readiness state! The main battleship starts immediately! Cut off the anchor chain! Spread out the breakout!"
"Send telegrams to the air force! Ask them to provide air cover quickly, the German bombers are here!"
"All destroyers immediately provide air defense fire cover for the main ships!"
When Admiral Essen received the alarm, the Russian navy's general issued an order immediately to try to save his fleet, but unfortunately, it was too late. When the steam stored in the pipeline was put into the engine compartment and the huge turbine began to rotate, the German bomber had already flew to the head of the Russian Baltic Fleet flagship, the Borodino fast battleship!
"What a beautiful battleship, this will become my first prey!" Major General Harrell's landline became the first German bomber to launch an attack on the battleship Borodino. Because it adopted shallow dive bombing, all aircraft groups abandoned the formation coverage method during ordinary horizontal bombing. The first batch of three bombers lined up, maintaining a certain distance between each other, and then entered from the stern of the Borodino and began shallow dive bombing in turn.
The driver carefully controlled the operating lever and pressed it down slightly. The huge head gradually adjusted from the level to the predetermined dive angle. It was like the god of death roaring down from the air. The k-6 bomber stretched out its wings, and the 550kg armor-piercing bomb under the belly was the sickle that harvested everything in the hands of the god of death!
The bomb dropper carefully adjusts the knob on the scope and binds the bomb drop parameters according to the flight speed, altitude and dive angle. The huge cross in the eyepiece passes at the sea at a high speed. When the cross-center passes over the slender hull of the Borogino, the bomb dropper pulls down the handle fiercely.
The height is 120 meters, the flight speed is 220 kilometers per hour! With the release of the hanger, the bombshell, which was completely black, was modified with a 350mm armor-piercing bomb, flew towards the huge figure on the sea with a harsh scream! At the same time, the pilot began to pull the rod quickly and control the rudder surface of the aircraft to quickly level the flight state. A few seconds later, when the bomber had not yet fully pulled up, a deafening explosion came from behind!
"We hit it!" As the bomber exclaimed, everyone saw the results of the bomb. The bomb hit the middle of the hull and smashed it in between the two central turrets! The shell cleanly penetrated at least three decks and hit hard on the top armor plate of the generator bay in the middle!
The round and blunt warhead hit the thickest horizontal armor of the warship like a heavy hammer. With the violent impact of the warhead and the outer armor plate, both turned into hundreds of fragments at the same time. The kinetic energy of the latter was almost exhausted. Just when the Russians thought that their armor blocked the fatal blow, the delay fuse at the bottom of the bullet was activated, and the explosion of dozens of kilograms of high-explosion explosives pushed countless debris to continue to hit the horizontal armor.
Accompanied by the explosion and the sound of steel plate tearing mixed with it, the horizontal armor coupled by the two layers of steel plates was finally blown through. Tons of debris splashed down from the upper layer, and an indiscriminate coverage strike against the motor bay that was buzzing inside!
Boom! The second loud bang came again. The flying high-temperature and high-speed debris not only destroyed the motor in the motor compartment, but also ignited the diesel in the oil pipeline! The ignited diesel quickly spread around along the fuel pipeline, and the diesel steam evaporated by the high temperature spreads around. After mixing with the air, it forms another high-explosive aerosol bomb. It takes a little spark to easily turn the cabin into a sea of fire!
The fire lost control at the beginning, and the flames, like magma, began to spread along the passage at the bottom of the hull, and the pipes spread around. The decks opened by the explosion provided a lot of oxygen for the combustion of the flames. The first thing that was threatened in these cabins was the ammunition depot between turrets No. 2 and No. 3!
"The warship is ready to inject water! The loss management team immediately quarantines the fire!" Essen said loudly in the command tower. The order was not passed in the end. Before Essen finished speaking, a group of four bombers had entered the attack position. In less than a minute, three 550kg armor-piercing bombs and two 250kg high-explosion bombs roared at the poor warship!
A bomb directly hit the support body at the bottom of the commander tower. Although the triangular mast is stronger than the original mast, it is still not enough to face a high explosive bomb of 250kg. The violent explosion directly exploded the bottom of the mast into several segments! The command tower above also fell down like a giant with its legs broken! The last impression in Essen's life was - was there an earthquake?
The huge command tower rolled on the side of the hull and tore off a large piece of ship's side. Accompanied by a huge water column, the command tower of the Borodino brought nearly half of the fleet commanders and their commanders into the waves of the Bay of Riga. The most tragic thing is that this collision also pulled the lightning protection net hanging on the side of the warship into the seabed...
There are two types of lightning protection nets. One is to use a steel lightning protection net to hang under the floating body without relying on the battleship, and then surround the battleship. This lightning protection net is generally used in conjunction with the barrier. It has a large weight, and it is troublesome to deploy and cancel, but the effect is really good. The other is to rely on the battleship. There are struts on the battleship test line, and there is a lightning protection net hanging under the struts. When used, open the struts and then unfold the net. When not in use, it is directly put away, just like an umbrella. This kind of lightning protection net is easier to collect and release, but the strength is not enough.
Unfortunately, the second type of lightning protection net deployed by the Russians for the fleet is the second type. Someone asked, why not deploy the first type? It is very simple to be willing. The Russian fleet was not deployed in the port of Riga, because there were a large number of transport ships being unloaded, and the entire dock and berth were almost used up. How could it be possible to accommodate fleets of such a size in the Baltic Fleet? Moreover, there is a minefield outside the port of Riga, so when preventing the opponent's surprise attack, the fleet will also have trouble entering and leaving the port.
Chapter completed!