Rat-a-tat-tat!
An FW-190 fighter plane dove down, its aircraft machine guns opening up in a rapid strafing run. Dense bullets struck the cockpit of a Yak-1 fighter plane. The cockpit glass was easily pierced, and the pilot inside sprayed blood, splattering it across the canopy and staining the glass red.
With the pilot killed, the plane lost control and plunged toward the ground, crashing moments later and turning into a ball of fire.
"Hmph! This is the Russians' newest aircraft? It doesn't seem like much, does it?" a young German pilot said indifferently. His name was Barkhorn, and he had long since become an ace pilot. In this war, the Russian Air Force aircraft he had shot down already numbered more than twenty. Among the many German Air Force pilots, he ranked near the very top.
"Enough, Barkhorn. No matter how advanced the Russians' aircraft are, they certainly can't compare to ours. Still, these Yak-1 fighter planes have fairly good performance. If we were flying BF-109 fighter planes, it would probably be somewhat harder to take them down. Fortunately, all our aircraft have already been replaced with FW-190 fighter planes. Otherwise, our losses would be even greater," the squadron leader's voice came through the headset.
Although the Yak-1 fighter plane performed slightly worse than the BF-109 fighter plane, it could barely contend with it. But compared with the FW-190 fighter plane, it still fell short. Added to the gap in pilot quality between the two sides, the German Air Force pilots could easily crush the Russian Air Force pilots.
Fierce aerial battles unfolded across a front stretching thousands of kilometers. German Air Force FW-190 fighter planes continuously shot down Russian Air Force aircraft. Although the German Air Force's FW-190 fighter planes also suffered losses, those losses were undoubtedly far smaller