Chapter 611 Georgia (2)
A shrill battle alarm sounded in an Armenian air force base.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
The pilots who were gathering in the cafeteria for lunch were so surprised that they ran out of the cafeteria towards the hangar without even bothering to eat. "What's going on? Are they Iranians?" Armenia is adjacent to Iran and Turkey. Now Turkey is an ally of the Soviet Union, and the enemy should come from Iran. But how could Iran, a small Middle Eastern country, dare to attack the Soviet Union? !
"Attention, the enemy aircraft fleet has flown across the border, take off immediately to meet the enemy!" The anxious shout of the officer on duty sounded from the loudspeaker.
The Soviet army did not have radar and relied entirely on visual warning and surveillance; its efficiency and response speed were far inferior to radar detection.
The Soviet Union's radar development time was a little later than that of Britain and the United States. In addition, European and American countries excluded the Soviet Union's technology and other reasons, and the progress could not keep up with others. The first domestically produced RUS-1 radar was delivered to the Soviet Red Army in 1939. However, due to technical reasons, its dual-base working principle made the layout of its wire antenna very complicated, and it was completely unpractical on the battlefield.
In the original time and space, it was not until the end of 1940 that the first "practical" RUS-2 radar began to be discontinued and accepted by the Soviet army. Due to the rush of time, only 12 such radars were produced in the Soviet Union until the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, but they still played a certain role. For example, when the German air raids on Moscow occurred in July 1941, they detected about 200 bombers attacking Moscow in advance, giving the Soviet Union the opportunity to prepare its air defense forces in advance. Only a few bombers broke through the air defense circle, so the damage to Moscow was very limited, setting the stage for the next step. A good foundation was laid for the morale and logistics of the Moscow Defense Battle in September.
The pilots ran to the hangar as fast as possible, only to find that their fighter jets had not yet been refueled and bombed! After all, there is no war breaking out now, and the aircraft is not in combat status at all!
"Quick, quick, quick!!" The pilots could only reload bullets and refuel quickly with the ground crew.
Before half of the kerosene fuel was added, along with a dull roar, countless dense black spots appeared in the distant sky.
"Enemy plane!"
"Quick, quick, start the plane immediately!" The pilots quickly climbed into the cockpit and urged the ground crew to start the plane quickly. If it were delayed for a while, they would all be destroyed on the ground!
The ground crew hurriedly unplugged the fuel pipe, fastened the cap, turned the propeller and started the engine. Soon, streams of black smoke came out of the engine nozzle, and with the unique vibration, the engine started successfully!
When the first fighter began to taxi on the runway, the German Mosquito bomber formation was already flying over the base.
The air defense positions around the base opened fire one after another, and the fired shells bloomed black flowers in the sky. The mosquito bombers used their speed advantage to leave these flowers behind and dropped cluster bombs one after another.
As the shells of cluster bombs cracked in mid-air, countless fist-sized bomblets scattered like flowers from a goddess, covering the entire base.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The city was filled with the sound of explosions one after another. Thousands of bomblets exploded one after another within a few seconds. The whole base suddenly burst into a large dense firework, and tens of thousands of fragments. Sweeping wildly. The most terrifying thing is that the airport oil depot was ignited, and the explosive mushroom cloud shot straight into the sky. The heat wave stirred up the atmosphere in the entire sky, causing the bomber formation in the sky to be like a lone boat in the turbulent sea, as if it would be overturned at any time. .
Igor, who narrowly escaped death and took off into the air, looked at the base that turned into a sea of fire with grief and anger. He desperately pulled the joystick to raise the altitude, trying to chase the retreating bomber formation.
Unfortunately, the maximum flight speed of the Yak-1 fighter he was flying was only 600 kilometers per hour, and the speed of the Mosquito bomber after dropping the bomb reached 640 kilometers per hour. Igor could only watch the German bomber formation go away.
"Asshole!" Just when Igor was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, suddenly, dense tracer bullets swept down from high altitude and hit his wing. The wing of the Yak-1 fighter jet was a wooden double-box load-bearing structure. It was hit by a large-caliber machine gun and was instantly torn apart. The aircraft also lost its balance and fell to the ground.
Igor, who finally climbed out of the cockpit and parachuted out, looked at the fighter jet flying away in the sky and recognized it from the iron cross logo on the wing. It was a German fighter jet!
"These damn Germans!" Igor spat angrily, wondering why the Germans were so crazy that they wanted to attack them? ! Didn't the Soviet Union and Germany sign a non-aggression pact? !
Dense bomber formations carried out precise strikes on military facilities in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
Airports were the focus of attention. Most airports were bombed into rubble before planes could even take off. Even if there were occasional fighter jets that barely took off, they became prey for German fighter jets.
At the same time, the German fleet in the Mediterranean also arrived in the Turkish Strait. The Greek and Bulgarian armies had already crossed the Turkish Strait, and the German fleet swaggered through the Turkish Strait and entered the Black Sea.
There is a Soviet fleet in the Black Sea. The main surface ships include 1 battleship Paris Commune, 3 heavy cruisers Red Caucasus, Voroshilov, and Molotov, and 2 light cruisers Red Crimea and Red Ukraine. Number. There are also a large number of other small ships as well as coastal defense forces, naval aviation and so on.
Although the national policy of becoming a naval power was formulated during the time of Peter the Great, anyone who knows history knows that during his subsequent 300 years of expansion, the Russians always focused on land warfare. In addition, without a safe outlet to the sea, Tsarist Russia was tantamount to giving up. In order to build a strong navy, starting from Tsar Nicholas II, Russia continued to expand its territories in Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Far East, and Ukraine. The matter of building a navy was not put on the agenda until after 1895.
The failure of the Russo-Japanese War made Russia's domestic social conflicts increasingly intensified, and the navy's poor performance also made it the best target for criticism from various forces. The new Duma (the lower house of the Russian National Parliament) that emerged after the "1905 Revolution" insisted that the navy needed to carry out major reforms in administrative and other aspects. The tsar and the navy's top brass insisted that there was no need for any reform, so the Duma vetoed the ownership of the navy. shipbuilding plan, new battleships have also become victims of political struggles. In 1908, Tsar Nicholas II decided to forcibly promote the reconstruction of the navy despite the opposition of the Duma. Under this situation, the Duma was forced to give in and reach a certain compromise with the Navy, and the Navy finally began to rebuild.
However, during World War I, the Russian Baltic Fleet, which had not yet recovered its strength, did not play a big role. The Black Sea Fleet mined the Bosporus to prevent the Ottoman Navy from entering the Black Sea. After the Russian Revolution forced Russia to withdraw from World War I, the Baltic Fleet withdrew from its bases in Helsinki and Tallinn on the Gulf of Finland and retreated to Kronstadt.
The year 1918 marked the end of the Russian Imperial Navy, whose sailors and ships fighting on both sides became core elements in the creation of the Soviet Navy.