Chapter 324 Dive bombing and aerial gunboats (2)
~.-~The bombers already have the two-seater "Sea Eagle" patrol aircraft, the long-legged "Catalina" transport aircraft and the C-21a\\b, plus several current models, and four types of aircraft under development.
Engine heavy bombers and air command early warning aircraft basically form a three-dimensional and comprehensive air strike group including early warning command, reconnaissance, bombing, attack, annihilation, and dive attack.
Not to mention, the "air gunship" that just debuted today!
After seeing the power of ground attacks with their own eyes, everyone had to admit that the guy who originally imagined installing cannons on the plane was not only crazy in his ideas, but also had forward-thinking vision and unbridled imagination.
This guy was Zhu Bin's seemingly unintentional remark at first, but after establishing more than a dozen fighter aircraft research groups, Zhou Houkun, a top student at MIT at the same time as Wang Zhu, proposed and presided over related research and development tasks, with the help of the stable DC-2
It took the transport aircraft platform a year and a half to finally come up with this jaw-dropping weird egg product.
I have to admit that the original batch of 13 people from MIT, except for Bayama Zao who unfortunately passed away, each one was a strong man in his own right, leading a project team of hundreds of international students and top domestic aircraft research and manufacturing experts.
, the speed of producing results is no worse than that of any large foreign company, or even faster. Wang Zhu, who takes charge of the overall situation, has given full play to his ability to support a world-class aircraft company in the past and researched and manufactured the entire aircraft.
The department was in a state of turmoil.
This A-23 "air gunship" is based on an improved version of the DC-2 fuselage. The fuselage frame is greatly strengthened, and the thickness of the bottom and front armor is enough to withstand the strafing of 20mm machine guns, even as long as it is not armor-piercing projectiles for 37mm anti-aircraft guns.
The attack is too direct, it's not easy to kill her--it has an external layer of active reactive armor!
With powerful armor, powerful weapons are naturally needed. Because the artillery research and development department has too heavy a task and undertakes more tasks, it cannot produce specialized artillery for the time being. For the time being, it uses the tested Bofors 40mm gun, and then
infantry fighting vehicle
It is the same as that of the aircraft. It crashes under the cockpit of the nose, so that the pilot can visually target the ground attack. Of course, if you are not afraid of death, you can also do it. And install a door on the ribs to develop the experiment.
A brand-new Gatling principle 6-barreled heavy machine gun.
As a big ship and artillery person, Zhu Bin couldn't put it down when he saw the design of light weapons. As a classic weapon that has lasted for hundreds of years, regardless of the past few decades, it will be used in the coming decades.
For a hundred years until the space age, rotating tube rapid-fire weapons will be indispensable
It is an important piece of equipment that is used in almost all branches of the military, whether it is individual combat armor, land combat robots, infantry assault armored combat vehicles, air attack aircraft or giant ship close-in defense systems on the ocean. It is indispensable, and even
Someone once designed a crazy multi-tube rotating electromagnetic gun!
After solving the troublesome motor problem, the miniaturized rotating barrel "Metal Storm" heavy machine gun was first introduced and was entrusted with an important task and became the auxiliary weapon of the air overlord.
Coupled with the high bomb load and aviation fuel, it is inevitable that the aircraft's dead weight and take-off weight are much higher than the original DC-2. Therefore, the power system has also been improved, and two 1,600-horsepower R-1933-2 double-row 18s have been installed.
cylinder tesla turbine
The supercharger piston engine not only allows this big guy to reach a maximum level flight speed of 400 kilometers, but also ensures a maximum range of 3,000 kilometers, the fastest text update in // Shumilou. - No ads // Travel battlefield
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"I wonder which unlucky guy will be lucky enough to try out the power of these new guys in the future! The scene will definitely be exciting!" Yu Baoguo joked with a slightly sinister smile on his face.
Zhu Bin bared his white teeth and gestured to the northeast with his fingers: "It's indispensable over there. There is no shortage of big guys in Xiaodongyang. There will always be blind people who bump into us. However, I think this level is not enough. In the future, we
The armored targets we face will become thicker and thicker. The power of the artillery must also be further enhanced!"
Want to strengthen it? People all over the place stared at him. Could it be that you want to install all the infantry cannons?!
Unexpectedly, Zhou Houkun, who seemed to be a loyal and honest man, rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Well... our department plans to try out the 76mm artillery trial installation on the basis of the 'Tianfeng' mainframe after perfecting this one. Look.
Let’s see if it can work…”
Before he finished speaking, the people around him were stunned and shouted: "I never thought that you, old Zhou, also have such serious violent tendencies! Putting cannons on planes doesn't mean that tanks can fly?!"
Zhou Houkun's eyes lit up, he clapped his hands and said, "Eh? What a good name! Let's call it 'Air Tank'! The image is vivid, and you can immediately tell that it is a powerful object."
A group of people at the Armored Weapons Research Institute suddenly became green-skinned! What does this mean? The artillery you fly in the sky is much larger than the artillery we can run on land. Are you forcing us to do more vigorously? Are you trying to grab jobs?
How?! No
Okay, we must not let these guys overtake us. Otherwise, we will not be able to run as fast or as far as them, carry not as many bombs as them, and even the artillery caliber will not be as good as them. Where will we put our face in the future? We have to think of something,
Just compare these guys!
From now on, the Army's weapons department has been at odds with the Air Force. Not only is it working hard to increase the caliber and power of the artillery of tanks and combat vehicles, it is also working hard on vehicle-mounted air defense weapons. How can the tanks be able to use these weapons?
It won't stop until the thick-skinned flying object pricks it down.
Looking at the warm atmosphere of so many people gathered together, it was a beauty in Zhu Bin's heart! No matter what the year, the most valuable and critical thing is talent! He can be said to have captured all the talents in the fields of engineering and weapons research in China in one fell swoop.
!Such a large number of elites are enough to support basic weapons research and development and production needs, so there is no need to worry about not being able to keep up with the needs of troop building.
He and Yu Baoguo exchanged glances with each other, patted their thighs lightly and said with satisfaction: "Finally, I have some capital to stand on my own!"
Stimulated by multiple pressures from the outside world, the task force broke out not only new weapons and equipment, but also the planned formation of an amphibious special warfare division finally came to an end, completing the scheduled construction plan eight months ahead of schedule.
Zhu Bin himself held the rank of colonel and served as the commander-in-chief of the task force. Yu Baoguo served as the commander of the first special operations division, and Hu Yibo served as the chief of staff of the division. Under his command were Wang Haiqing's first tank regiment, Wang Kaishan's second infantry regiment, and Lin Zhencheng's regiment.
The Third Artillery Regiment is the core combat force, followed by the division-directed battalion, maintenance battalion, engineer battalion, pontoon battalion, reconnaissance battalion, communications battalion, special operations battalion, medical battalion, and transportation battalion, with a total of eighteen battalions of 17,000
human scale.
In order to ensure the strong attack power of the entire unit to the greatest extent, all members are equipped with mechanized equipment. The tank regiment has three battalions, as well as 1 regiment company, 1 field repair company, 1 supply company, 1 pontoon company and
1 mobile anti-aircraft company. Each battalion is divided into three companies with a total of 40 "Cheetah-1" light tanks, plus one with six
An air defense platoon consisting of armored air defense vehicles, plus various infantry armored transport vehicles, has a total of 4 armored radar command vehicles, 120 main battle tanks, and a series of air defense vehicles based on the "Badger" tracked armored transport vehicle.
, maintenance vehicles, bridge erection, bulldozing, transportation, assault vehicles, 64 vehicles, and hundreds of trucks.
The Second Infantry Regiment also has three battalions, with 240 infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, armored assault vehicles, 4 armored radar command vehicles, and nearly 200 trucks.
The Third Artillery Regiment's firepower has been strengthened as much as possible. It has an 18-gun 152mm heavy howitzer battalion, two 18-gun 105mm heavy artillery battalions, and 4 radar command vehicles. The directly subordinate departments are arranged in the same way as the first two regiments.
Including other directly affiliated battalions, all personnel are mechanized, with a total of nearly 800 armored vehicles and 1,200 trucks. For this purpose, it had to be equipped with at least 12 4,000-ton armored landing ships and 30 amphibious landing ships of various tonnages.
The ship was used as a transportation force, and it was also equipped with four 20,000-ton supply ships as backup, and twelve trains were set up on land.
The air force has also been greatly enhanced. There are four combat groups with 120 P-21A and P-21C fighter jets, two bombing groups with a total of 60 two-seat bombers, two transport groups with 54 DC-2 transport aircraft, and the reconnaissance group has a total of
There are 30 sea and land reconnaissance and patrol aircraft, and several specialized dive bombing groups will be quickly formed to assist them in the future.
In addition, the "SEAL Team" led by Li Kai has two squadrons with less than a hundred combat personnel, but is equipped with thousands of auxiliary forces. It occupies two bases and is responsible for patrolling the offshore platform base in the Eastern Pacific.
Task.
In terms of naval power, an amphibious assault ship and six destroyers were completed by Jiangnan Shipbuilding in two years and three months. They were also officially commissioned. However, in order not to irritate Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese, it was announced that they were still in the debugging stage, adding that
The two 10,000-ton supply ships built by Jiangnan finally gave us some capital to look after.
With such a large amount of military power, the "City of Light" at the entrance of an ancient town will certainly not be able to open up. In addition to two air force combat groups, a bombing group and a transportation group located in the middle of the mountain, there is also a synthetic army stationed here.
combat group, and a SEAL squadron. The rest of the force had to disperse.
The four bases in Rizhao, Qingdao, Yantai and Weibei each have air force brigades, directly affiliated air defense companies and guard battalions. A tank battalion, an infantry battalion and an artillery battalion are stationed in a military base dozens of kilometers around Weibei.
It may seem scattered, but each one has the ability to deal with sudden attacks.
"The territory is still a bit small! It's just one division and it's so crowded. If I were to have five or six divisions at every turn, how big would the ground be to accommodate it?"
Looking at the layout of the troops that had to be dispersed on the map, Zhu Bin couldn't help but sigh. The basic conditions were still too bad. He rubbed his chin and rolled his eyes around for a long time, and said in a deep voice: "It's really not good.
Go and discuss with Shen Honglie and Han Fuju? Can we borrow some land?"
Yu Baoguo and Cao Han quickly dissuaded them: "That's enough! We have a serious shortage of manpower now. There is no need to build a large establishment and territory. There is no shortage of tax revenue and no shortage of soldiers. If management and civil affairs are not good, we can't do it well."
Asking for trouble!”~.-~
Chapter completed!