Due to the advantages of the liquid-cooled engine, the Panda fighter not only has extremely excellent air combat performance and maneuverability, but also has excellent ground attack capabilities, and its flight is very stable even during "zero altitude attacks". Therefore, the Panda fighter is extremely useful in extreme
When flying at a low altitude, you can easily avoid obstacles such as trees and buildings during strafing.
It is equipped with the Pratt & Whitney R-2800-34W "Double Wasp" engine, which also makes this fighter very quiet when flying at low speeds. Only when it flies overhead will the enemy notice the impending strike.
When the heavy rain that had lasted for more than ten days stopped, the sun finally showed its figure shyly.
At noon, Major Changle Zhenggeng, the leader of the squadron, took off first.
Soon, the other planes of the second squadron also took off one after another, rising to an altitude of 3,000 meters and then flying towards the south.
Various tall trees, dense small rivers, scattered shrubs, and lakes in the tropical rain forest kept passing by in the eyes of the pilots. Soon, a thin ribbon-like streamer appeared in the fog unique to the rainy season of the tropical rain forest.
The road appears before everyone's eyes.
Le Zhenggeng looked at the route map and found that we were already more than 60 kilometers south of Turulu Mountain.
According to intelligence, the Japanese army secretly transported a group of troops to the island three days ago. The mission of their squadron is to find and eliminate this group of Japanese troops.
Putting the route map aside, Le Zhenggeng began to concentrate on searching for those tiny spots on the ground.
Occasionally, you can see some black smoke that is still very conspicuous in the rain and fog in the rain forest. Le Zhenggeng knows that this must be the Japanese troops warming up in the rain forest.
That's right, it's a fire.
Some people may find it strange that it is only October and the daytime temperature in Guadalcanal is still relatively high. The daytime temperature can reach more than 30 degrees, so why should we keep a fire?
In fact, only people who have lived in a tropical rain forest know that although the temperature in the rain forest is high, it is also humid. Especially in this rainy season, if you don't often dry your clothes by a fire, it is easy for people to get wet.
Various skin diseases occur, especially in the crotch area. Who knows the itchy feeling.
At this time, a sparkling road soaked by rain appeared to the east of the plane.
Yes! This is the road!
Viewed from an altitude of 3,000 meters, although this road in the rainforest is narrow, it is clearly visible. It stretches like a long yellow snake in the green jungle, and what is wriggling on the yellow snake is
Japanese army.
Seeing this, some people may wonder why the Japanese are so stupid, knowing that marching on the road in broad daylight will easily be attacked by enemy air attacks, especially when one's own side has lost air superiority.
But in fact, this is a last resort. Marching in a dense rain forest is very difficult. It is very scary to break off the road and march in a dense rain forest.
Leeches, poisonous insects and other insects can kill you at any time, so no one would leave the road and cross the primitive jungle unless absolutely necessary.
"Reduce the flight altitude and approach from the right wing of the target!"
The command from squadron leader Le Zhenggeng came through the pilots' headsets. Le Zhenggeng pressed the control stick, lowered the flight altitude and looked left and right, and found that the four teams had formed an attack formation in accordance with the order.
Carrying out a zero-altitude attack in a tropical rainforest is very risky, but it can give full play to the good maneuverability of the F8F Tomcat fighter at altitudes below 3,000 meters.
While maneuvering the aircraft to avoid tall tree crowns of tens or tens of meters that appeared from time to time in the rainforest, Le Zhenggeng's other hand was skillfully preparing for an attack. He turned off the cooler and opened the weapon rack.
Power fuse, check the power supply of 4 Colt-Browning 12.7mm machine guns and other weapons, and at the same time adjust the radio channel to guide troops on the ground to contact...
The four Panda fighter jets headed by Le Zhenggeng flew over the jungle like sharp arrows. They flexibly avoided various obstacles like small elves, while constantly reducing their flight speed and engine speed.
As the speed decreases, the engine noise becomes smaller and smaller. When the aircraft speed decreases to at least 260 kilometers per hour, the engine noise almost reaches an extremely slight level.
When the 24 Panda fighter planes were getting closer and closer to the road, the Japanese army, which was staggering in the mud of the road, still focused on the tropical rainforest on both sides of the road. Although it had only been three days since they landed on Guadalcanal, here they
In three days, they had suffered enough from the rain forest.
Even when marching along the narrow road opened by the original troops, it was still full of dangers. From time to time, soldiers were bitten by venomous snakes or insects that appeared from nowhere.
Not only that, hunger, thirst, disease and even various poisonous insects also plagued them from time to time.
The exhausted Japanese soldiers did not notice that in the darkness of the jungle not far from them, a few pairs of eyes were staring at them, and it was these eyes that had summoned the God of Death for them.
When the plane was about to fly out of a tree canopy on the roadside, Le Zhenggeng did not use the sight, because when dropping bombs at a height of less than 50 meters, there is no question of accuracy for any qualified pilot.
At such a distance, it is impossible for them to miss even with their eyes closed.
At the moment of flying onto the highway, only then did a panic sound rang out on the highway. The Japanese soldiers who had been marching hard in the swamp suddenly fell into chaos. Le Zhenggeng pressed the bomb release button on the steering column.
The fuselage of the Panda fighter shook slightly, and the bombs left the fuselage and rushed straight to the ground. When the plane was pulling up, it flew sideways and climbed high, and when doing maneuvers to get rid of anti-aircraft fire, Le Zhenggeng habitually looked down the plane.
Take a look.
Looking down, I saw that the cluster bomb had landed right in the middle of the road, and a series of explosions of smoke rose in the middle of the road. Suddenly, broken wood and debris flew everywhere, and black smoke columns rose into the sky from the explosion.
At this time, other attack aircraft had also pounced on the target.
In just ten seconds, more than forty 200 kilogram cluster bombs exploded one after another on the highway.
When these cluster bombs exploded in the air about 20 meters above the ground, thousands of 1-kilogram bombs rained down on the Japanese army on the road, instantly causing the unit to completely lose its combat effectiveness.
When the wind blew away the smoke produced by the explosion on the road, the muddy road had changed color, and the original yellow mud had been dyed red with blood. A few minutes later, when the last formation of Panda fighter jets dropped the last
After the cluster bombs, some wounded soldiers were squirming in the swamp on the road stained red with blood. In the surrounding rainforest, some surviving Japanese soldiers looked at the sky blocked by the tree canopy in horror, looking at the sky above their heads.