The high-pitched air-raid siren sounded, causing Sarsay to roll out of bed. While rolling out of bed, he patted his friend and comrade Lomon who was sleeping in the next bed. "Get up quickly, Lomon.
The Romanian plane is coming again.”
Lomon, who was woken up by the loudspeaker and his friends, couldn't help complaining. "These damn Romanian planes have been here for more than ten days. They come here so early every day. Can the gentlemen from Paris come and take a look at our place?"
What kind of life is that."
Although Lomon was cursing, he didn't slow down at all. He put on his military uniform in less than a minute. This was a speed that was trained. Since the air raid appeared in Beirut, his dressing speed has become faster and faster.
Quick. I guess if he waits for a while, he might be able to solve the dressing problem in 30 seconds.
"Are you bastards okay? Come and gather together quickly."
The squad leader, Sergeant Deka, roared outside the door, causing the two of them to rush out even more quickly. He didn't care that Lomon still had two buttons on his shirt unbuttoned.
This is an ordinary Arabic-style small courtyard with four or five rooms. The family has fled to the countryside to avoid the coming war. Because this house is close to an air defense position set up, it was requisitioned by the Beirut authorities.
More than a dozen houses were also requisitioned, and those with owners were relocated to other places by the French army.
In the yard, there were people who were faster than the two of them. It seemed that there were also many people who had received training from the Romanian Air Force. The two of them hurriedly lined up. Within two minutes of queuing, everyone was there. The last Mir who came out was also beaten by the sergeant.
Got a kick.
"Now, let's go."
Following Sergeant Deka's order, they immediately lined up and rushed to the position.
Yes, they are Beirut's air defense forces, responsible for protecting the airspace. However, the reality is that there is always some helplessness. Without the support of air aircraft, the effect of ground air defense alone against incoming aircraft is much lower.
But the current situation is that the air power of Britain and France is mainly dealing with Germany and Italy, but the Romanian air force is the weakest.
Romania is currently urgently expanding four airports on the island of Cyprus. In addition, it has built five new airports and deployed more than 900 aircraft. Facing Romania's air force attacks, France's air force in the Middle East has been exhausted.
Although the United Kingdom still has a lot of aircraft, it needs to defend Egypt and the Suez Canal, and the air force it can support is not enough. Basically, it can send out an air force to contain it every few days. This is a move to cope with the situation and allow Cyprus to
The Romanian Air Force on the island should not be too arrogant.
In fact, it is not that the British and French air forces have not thought about launching air strikes on the island of Cyprus and sneak attacks on Romania's aviation power to solve the imbalance of air force power, but there is no chance at all. Reconnaissance planes and densely surrounded warships allow air attacks from any direction to be detected.
, In addition, the British and French organized a night attack, but the effect was very poor. Faced with the combination of searchlights, anti-aircraft guns, radars and night combat aircraft, they also failed.
It needs to be mentioned here that the newly developed small radar in Romania is already available. Although this small radar is 20 to 30 meters high compared to the shore-based radar, the height of ten meters is already a big improvement, and the equipment is also much smaller.
More convenient to deploy.
Since there is nothing we can do about Cyprus, Britain and France can only carry out air defense work honestly.
Sarce's company is one of the air defense forces. They operate the Oerlikon 20mm anti-aircraft cannon and are responsible for protecting the 100mm large-caliber anti-aircraft cannon deployed on the high ground. This anti-aircraft cannon is used by the French army in Beirut.
The most powerful anti-aircraft weapon, its maximum rate of fire can reach 8 rounds per minute.
There are 18 of this anti-aircraft weapons deployed in Beirut, organized into three companies. Other anti-aircraft weapons mainly rely on their deployment to protect the surrounding areas.
Yes, this is also a common air defense deployment in various countries. Medium and large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are the main force, and small- and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns can only assist. Moreover, the main purpose of large-scale anti-aircraft firepower is not to shoot down many aircraft, but to disrupt their formation.
, to reduce the losses suffered by bombing. They all estimate the route in advance and prepare ahead of time, and then wait for the fleet to collide.
Therefore, in the face of the incoming Romanian aircraft fleet, the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground opened fire even more fiercely, especially the medium and large caliber artillery which was the main force.
The constant barrages at an altitude of seven or eight thousand meters made it impossible for the fleet to maintain such a flight mode. The large fleet immediately dispersed, with the twin-engine bombers preparing to carry out horizontal bombing. The dive bombers also began to select targets.
As for the escorting fighter jets, they are also looking for opportunities to launch attacks on these anti-aircraft guns.
"Keep an eye on enemy dive bombers."
As the squad leader, Sergeant Deka roared and commanded the two 20mm anti-aircraft guns operated by his squad. Yes, their mission was to deal with the most dangerous dive bombers. In these air-to-air combats, they shot down one
Dive bombers, so they can proudly paint a white circle on the anti-aircraft gun barrel.
"Fire."
Following the order of Sergeant Deka who was observing the altitude of the enemy aircraft, the two 20mm anti-aircraft guns immediately fired bullets.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
The bullet marks in the air were clearly visible, but they aimed at the dive bomber and ducked left and right in the barrage, passing through the barrage they created.
Seeing the target enemy plane ducking away, Sergeant Deka became angry and cursed. "I told you to pay attention to the lead time, pay attention to the lead time. Haven't you guys figured it out these days?"
But his shouting had no effect, and the enemy planes climbed directly out of their range. There was no way, the maximum firing height of the Oerlikon 20mm cannon was only 4,700 meters, which was still a 45-degree firing range. Use the most powerful
The effect of 20×110MM bullets. Generally, their shooting height is maintained at an altitude of three thousand meters. Any higher will be difficult to shoot.
This dive bomber also saw that the anti-aircraft firepower below was too strong and did not intend to give it a try.
Although they prevented the attack by this enemy plane, Romanian attacks continued elsewhere, the first of which were horizontal bombing enemy planes.
At an altitude of 5,000 meters, a formation of RU28 twin-engine bombers immediately began to drop aerial bombs. The 50KG bombs began to bomb military targets in Beirut under the optical sight of the pilot aircraft.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
The bomb dropped on the ground and made a rumbling explosion, and the smoke raised completely obscured the target of the bombing. But this is nothing for horizontal bombing. Carpet bombing was probably the first used by Germany in Spain, but Romania has learned a lot.
Quick, the same will happen.
In the target area, a series of bombings reduced the area to the ground. Both the military and civilians suffered heavy casualties in such bombings.
The small carpet bombing currently used in Romania uses one to three squadrons to carry out horizontal bombing.
Moreover, at a height of five thousand meters, small-caliber anti-aircraft guns have no use at all. Only medium- and large-sized anti-aircraft guns are effective against it.
The medium and large air defense is a huge flaw for Beirut at present. In fact, it is not a flaw, but too many losses in the previous bombing. Currently, there are less than 50 in the entire city of Beirut. You must know that there were 150 in the past.
With many doors, it can be seen that the losses were heavy.
Of course, during this bombing, some bombers were unfortunately shot down, which naturally caused the officers and soldiers on the ground to cheer loudly.
However, for a huge aircraft fleet, this will not damage its fundamentals at all.
As for Sarsay's company, they need to pay more attention to dive bombers because their attack efficiency is higher.
