Air combat tactics during the Second World War

The basic combat unit of the German Air Force is the two-plane formation (Rotte), which consists of a leader (Rottenführer) and a wingman (Katchmarek). In combat, the distance between two planes in a straight line formation is about 200 yards (about 180 meters). The captain is responsible for fighting, and the wingman is responsible for protecting the captain's tail. ?

Above the biplane formation is the so-called four-plane formation (Schwarm), which consists of two two-team formations. In combat, a group of two-plane formations fly in front, and another group of two-plane formations fly behind the previous group, forming a so-called four-finger formation (finger? Four).

Four-plane formation and two-plane formation are the most basic combat units The German Air Force often chooses experienced pilots as commanders of four aircraft formations, and the commander ranks of the four aircraft formations are uncertain.

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The guy above probably has a grudge against B- 17.

The Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force use a three-plane squad, with a leader and two wingmen, and 12 planes are a squadron. The biggest drawback of this formation is that it often needs a single machine to observe the formation at the end of the team. Often, when the German plane tells the cluster to split up, it can kill the lone-tailed single machine. This formation will also lead to the loss of two wingmen because of the captain's mistakes, so it is very primitive from the formation technology alone.

However, this kind of tactics based on World War I biplane fighter tactics is basically the first choice of the army except the Germans.

Reason: The legendary ring strangulation formation, as long as you attack one, the remaining two will fire behind you ... Over.

Therefore, before the China Air Force adopted the "one-domain, multi-layer and four-four-system" early in the morning, piles of fighters also simplified formation operations (each team added one as the leader and became a dense formation of four aircraft).

This is the invention of the German Air Force who suffered a great loss.