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Long before the official outbreak of World War II, the Soviet Air Force had established a complete bomber force. In this force, there are not only 4-engine heavy long-range bombers such as the TB-3, but also some fast-flying and flexible aircraft. The SB-2 fast bomber, nicknamed the "Cavalry Bomber", was the Soviet Union's A member of the Air Force's bomber unit.

The two letters "SB" of the SB-2 fast bomber correspond to the first letter of "fast" in Russian. As the name suggests, the foundation of the SB-2 bomber is speed.

In the mid-1930s, in order to improve relations with the Soviet Union, France took the initiative to export a complete set of production technical materials for the Hispano-Susa 12Y liquid-cooled engine to the Soviet Union. At the same time, it also provides the Land God-Rhone 14K 11,000-horsepower double-row air-cooled engine.

The Soviet Union did not choose between these two brand-new French-made engines, but directly developed the SB-2M100A fast bomber using a liquid-cooled engine and the SB-2M103 fast bomber using an air-cooled engine based on these two French-made engines. bomber. Therefore, in the information about the SB-2 series fast bombers, there are models using liquid-cooled engines and models using air-cooled engines.

The SB-2 bomber is positioned as a medium-sized fast bomber with a bomb load of 600 kilograms and a maximum range of 980 kilometers. Compared with the medium-sized bombers of the United States and Germany, it is slightly insufficient. However, in actual combat, the bomb load of the SB-2 can reach 900 kilograms.

In terms of protection, the SB-2 has certain armor defense capabilities from the beginning, and the body and key internal parts are made of high-strength nonidium manganese silicon steel. The self-defense weapons are four Soviet-made 62mm machine guns, which can effectively form a self-defense fire network. The SB-2 bomber has a small crew, only 3 people, and the aircraft is not too heavy. The empty load is 3 tons, and the fully loaded weight is only more than 5 tons. It can take off and land at relatively simple airports.

Overall, the SB-2 series fast bomber is a fast bomber with very good performance. Some of the old fighter jets from the early days of World War II could not even catch up with it, and its performance in several battles such as the Spanish Civil War also proved that this fast bomber did meet the expectations of the Soviet Air Force at the beginning.

An SB-2 fast bomber gunner Yevgeny is discussing the operation with his companions. "Leonid, why are you attacking Finland?"

"For what?" the driver Leonid replied casually while checking various parameters on the dashboard. "Of course it is to protect the great Leningrad from the invasion of those evil capitalists."

"Invasion?" Yevgeny asked doubtfully. "Finland is such a small country, how could it have the guts to invade us?" You must know that his motherland is a giant with an area of ​​more than 20 million square kilometers and a population of nearly 200 million. As for Finland, its area is only a few hundred thousand square kilometers and its population is only a few million. Comparing the two, they are like a polar bear and a little rabbit; even if you give a rabbit a hundred courages, it is impossible for him to dare to mess with a polar bear.

Leonid pouted. "Finland doesn't dare to mess with us. The bosses are worried that people with ulterior motives will threaten us through Finland."

Yevgeny couldn't help but widen his eyes. "Other countries? Did you say Germany?" Now most of Europe has surrendered to Germany. It seems that no other country except Germany can threaten the Soviet Union. "But isn't Germany our friendly country?" A few years ago, a German engineering team stayed in their village, and he also made several German friends, so he had a good impression of Germany.

Leonid said impatiently. "Stop it! These things are not what small soldiers like you and me should consider. What we have to consider is how to complete the mission better. Leave other things to the great leader Comrade Stalin, he will lead us to be strong!"

"But it doesn't feel good to invade other countries like this." Yevgeny muttered.

"Are you questioning the great leader Comrade Stalin?!" Leonid's eyes widened in surprise. "Are you desperate for your life? Do you know that your thoughts are very dangerous? Be careful of the 'blue hats' targeting you!" You must know that the purge is said to be over, but new names are still reported from time to time. If Yevgeny's words were heard by those terrible "blue hats", they would be shot on the spot, and maybe he would be implicated.

"Of course I will not doubt the great leader Comrade Stalin. A great leader will definitely make no mistakes." Yevgeny was also startled and hurriedly emphasized.

"Then don't let me think about those miscellaneous things, and do your current task seriously!" With a fierce warning, Leonid saw the friendly aircraft in front of him beginning to lose altitude, and slowly pushed the joystick to control himself. The bomber lowered its altitude while pushing the throttle to increase the throttle.

Because the current Soviet aviation force does not have widespread use of radios, the commander informed everyone of the action steps before departure.

Ten minutes from the target, each aircraft began to descend in altitude and increase its flight speed to its fastest speed. Because the equipment of the Finnish Air Force is very poor, the most powerful fighter it has is the Fokker fighter produced in the Netherlands. The maximum flight speed of this aircraft is only 440 kilometers per hour. Although it is a little faster than the SB-2M-103's maximum speed of 423 kilometers per hour, it is In actual combat, this 17 kilometers per hour speed difference is of no use at all.

It was because of this that the commander Anatoly, who led this bomber group, did not wait for the escort fighters and rushed directly to the border.

In fact, the original plan was to have a fighter jet formation escort them. However, compared to the rigor of the Germans, the Soviets were obviously far behind. There were some mistakes in the scheduling of planes taking off from dozens of airports, resulting in a separation of more than ten minutes between these bombers and their escort groups.

Anatoly didn't want to stupidly lead the entire fleet of aircraft to circle in the sky waiting for the escort fleet, so he simply rushed directly to the border.

The Soviets are full of confidence in this war. How confident are they? The top leaders of the Soviet Union felt that as long as they sent troops to Finland, workers would rise up and respond. One can imagine the war preparations. Coupled with the purges and the pre-war expansion of the army that tripled its size, the Soviet army had a serious shortage of capable mid-level officers.

As for the Finnish air force?

In his view, Finland's air force, which has less than a hundred fighter-bombers in total, is a joke. Compared with the powerful Soviet Air Force, even if the Finnish Air Force dares to take off for combat, it is nothing more than a mantis. In addition, this time they took off hundreds of bombers from dozens of airports. With luck, they could complete the mission easily.

But when they just crossed the border, a storm of tracer bullets suddenly enveloped a bomber and blew it up in the air.

"Oh my God! Finnish fighter!"