Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite NextPage

Chapter 558: The Jet Age Comes(1/2)

With powerful supply ships like Qinghai Lake class, the Chinese Empire could maintain the combat capability of global delivery even if there were no overseas military bases to supply. In a non-war state, the Qinghai Lake class supply ship became a maritime tool for the Chinese Empire's navy to openly transport weapons.

As the Chinese Empire's "Big Bad Wolf Fleet" arrived in Athens, Greek Prime Minister Metaxas organized a huge welcome ceremony and held a meeting with Li Dingxin, Wang Guoming and others. During this period, in order to deal with Italy's military invasion, Greece urgently needed to obtain advanced weapons and equipment from the Chinese Empire, because the Italians had already begun to take action.

In April 1936, General Metaxas, former deputy prime minister of Greece, served as prime minister. Eight months later, this important birthplace of democracy was placed under unprecedented military dictatorship.

Compared with some of his colleagues in history, Metaxas is a smart man. He did not carry out a routine purge, and all the purges went on without any hesitation. Under the careful planning of the secret police leader Mariadakis, left-wing politicians and trade union leaders were detained or exiled, and the ** organization was severely damaged. Witnessing several tricks of killing chickens and venering monkeys, Prime Minister Mei's political enemies all knew the times and turned neutral, and all free speech was suppressed. The dictator established a Nazi-style youth organization (e.o.n).

Metaxas believes that democratic constitutionalism cannot implement effective administrative management—a Reinhardt-like statement has been proven by history at least in military terms.

In 1936, the smoke of war could already choke people, and the Greek dictator's sense of smell was obviously stronger than that of Chamberlain and Daraday who were holding perfume and handkerchiefs - although Metaxas was also a Nazi fan. It was called "raised by Germans" by international public opinion. But Metaxas did not think that Hitler would help Greece against Italy, which was eyeing Greek territory.

Under the leadership of Metaxas, the Greek army was quickly armed, and the modernization of the army and the establishment of military mobilization plans were in full swing. The army was commanded by General Papagos, the chief of the Army General Staff and the main assistant of Metaxas. A large number of public works, especially those that were strategically needed, were being concentrated and accelerated. New roads were built in the border areas, the old railways were replaced with new rails, and a number of fortresses were repaired at the same time.

Greece's foreign trade has always been dominated by Germany. Metaxas tried to change its trading partners to the Chinese Empire and the United Kingdom, but its foreign trade with the Chinese Empire was always highly deficient, so Metaxas decided to focus on exporting large quantities of tobacco and other goods to the United Kingdom. He welcomed the British delegation to stay in Greece and tried to exclude all German institutions.

The Balkan democracies faced the Nazi fangs. They were frightened and changed their minds and finally defeated them. They really defended the nation's great power and glory to a certain extent. Greece, which was ranked among the four major dictatorial countries in the continent, is a thought-provoking irony. Starting with the Rongtru Convention in July 1936, Greece began a series of diplomatic activities and signed a series of diplomatic and friendly treaties, especially the conclusion of the Friendship and Neutral Treaty with Turkey in 1938, enabled Greece to let go of its hands and feet to deal with the coming threats from the West.

With the outbreak of World War II, Germany was busy with the war on the Western Front, and Italy was not progressing smoothly on the battlefield in France, so it pointed its finger at the Balkan countries.

In September 1938, Italy withdrew its troops in Albania arranged on the Greek border. It reiterated the 1928 Italian-Greece Friendship Treaty and denied the attempt to invade Greece. Mussolini used an old trick without any novel intention to paralyze the Greek government, just as his good brother Hitler paralyzed Britain and France. Unfortunately, the Greeks refused to be the beads on Mussolini's wishful thinking. Metaxas accepted all the charming eyes of Mussolini and quietly prepared for war. Diplomatic activities continued to be effective: a financial aid was negotiated with the UK, so that Greece could withdraw from Germany's economic control.

At the end of 1938, Greece officially joined the agreement signed by Britain and France to oppose the aggression of the Allies, and Greece officially joined the camp of the Allies. Although Turkey was also an allies, Turkey never participated in the war and declared no war against Britain and France. Britain and France also had a very tacit understanding and did not send troops to Turkey. It maintained its unwarranty relationship with Turkey and made every effort to deal with the three countries of Germany, Italy and the West.

After joining the Allies, Greece did not want to join the war, and also wanted to be as unconflicted as Turkey. But Greece never had any extravagant hope for the "peace-loving" Mussolini shaking olive branch. Metaxas began to convene reserve troops in February 1939, and in March, he spoke in a speech that the country was in danger and asked the Greek military and civilians to prepare for war.

At this time, Italian Prime Minister Mussolini was disappointed at the border between the Iran and France and was scolded by Hitler for being useless. Mussolini was very unhappy. Under Hitler's stimulation, he finally couldn't hold it anymore.

On April 15, an Italian submarine sank the Greek patrol boat Eri with torpedo at the port of Tinos. At the same time, an Albanian named Hoja was killed in a dispute on the border, and Mussolini criticized Greece. On May 26, Mussolini once again directed a border incident. On May 28, an ultimatum came to live up to expectations: the Italian army demanded that Greece ceded Crete, Kekira and some Ipiria, and freely use the port of Piraeus (the outer port of Athens).

If the series of misunderstandings in the Italian army on the French battlefield can be called mistakes, then the ultimatum Mussolini gave to Greece was directly labeled as a "ium" by people all over the world, because when Mussolini issued an ultimatum to Greece, he was holding an old map, and the island of Crete marked on it had long been transferred to the Chinese Empire as a military base. Mussolini just wanted to find an excuse to launch a war against Greece, but he was not aware that he accidentally touched the tiger beard of the Chinese Empire.

As a result, half an hour after the ultimatum was issued, Mussolini, the office of the Italian Prime Minister's Office was kicked by Teng Jicong, ambassador of the Chinese Empire to Italy.

"Are you declaring war on the Chinese Empire?"

Teng Jicong slapped Mussolini's desk with a palm. He was so murderous.

Until many years later, Mussolini couldn't help but tremble when recalling the situation at that time, saying, "The ambassador of the Chinese Empire is really disrespectful! But I was already scared at that time!"

Faced with Ambassador Teng Jicong's roar, Mussolini looked innocent, and then Italian Foreign Minister Dolanode rushed in quickly explained, saying that all this was a misunderstanding.

Only then did Mussolini realize that he had made a minimum mistake, so he quickly apologized to Teng Jicong, and immediately publicly apologized to the Chinese Empire, and sent the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office to the military court to handle it. This was an explanation to the Chinese Empire.

Despite Mussolini's repeated blockades, the next day, the media around the world reported the headlines of the Italian government's misunderstanding, which made Mussolini very embarrassed.

At the same time, Greek Prime Minister Metaxas, who had a stomachache with a smile, only used one word - "oxi" ("no") to neatly reject Italy's ultimatum.

In order to divert the attention of the people all over the world from him as soon as possible, Mussolini immediately ordered the Italian army to invade Greece.

The war began. On the morning of June 2, the Italian army invaded Greece. Mussolini, who was energetic, ordered his men not to inform Hitler of the attack, "Let him read from the newspaper that I have occupied Greece!"

The Italian offensive army had a total of 8 divisions - including an armored division, with more than 150 aircraft. They were caught off guard by the intention of attacking Greece, and fought quickly before the snow was blocked, and occupied Greece.

The Italian army's combat plan stipulates: launch an attack from the Ahi border, break through the Greek defense line, and crush its basic force group; then develop an attack on Thessalonika (Thessaloniki), annihilate the remnants of the Greek army, and occupy the entire Greek territory. The Italian army's "Albanian" army group (the 9th and 11th Army, commanded by General V. Plasca) has a total of 157,000 people, of which 8 divisions were about 87,000, 163 tanks, 686 artillery and 380 aircraft were prepared to invade Greece.

The Greek army (commander-in-chief is General A. Papagos) deployed a total of 120,000 troops in the northern region, but only 2 divisions, 2 brigades and 13 infantry battalions were deployed on the front line of the Ashi border, with a total of 27,000 people, 20 tanks, 220 artillery and 36 aircraft.

The Greek army was determined to organize defenses based on the border construction area to prevent the Italian army from breaking into the depths of the country.

On June 2, the Italian army launched an attack on Florina, Vowusa and Ioannina in three ways. Since the Italian army was equipped with Germany's most advanced No. 2 main battle tanks, the Greek army was equipped with the m16 main battle tanks imported from the Chinese Empire in the early days. Although the tank performance gap was not large, Greece's financial resources were limited and the number of tanks was insufficient. The Greek army on the front line could not stop the fierce attack of the Italian army's armored forces, and the Greek air force was not as strong as the Italian air force. As a result, the Greek army suffered consecutive defeats, and the Italian army took the opportunity to advance 50 to 60 kilometers southward.

But the Greek army did not give up the war. After losing the coastal plains, the Greek army used the favorable terrain of the mountainous areas to resist tenaciously. On the one hand, they wanted to seek help from the British and French Allied countries, and on the other hand, they urged the Chinese Empire to deliver the military supplies purchased by Greece to the Greek military as soon as possible.

In order to maintain its influence in the Balkans and open up a new battlefield for combat against Germany, Britain began to assist Greece on October 29 and sent air forces to support Greek operations.

As the Chinese Empire's "Big Bad Wolf Fleet" visited Greece, the Greek military mentioned the issue of arms again. So after Li Dingxin and Wang Guoming studied and asked the Imperial General Staff, they quickly responded and agreed to Metaxas' request, exporting arms and military supplies to Greece with a total amount of up to 450 million dragon coins. This batch of supplies was much more expensive than the arms purchased by the Greek military, but the Chinese Empire stated that they could deliver the goods immediately, so the Greek military gritted their teeth to agree, because this batch of military supplies was related to Greece's ability to withstand the invasion of the Italian army.

The weapons and equipment urgently delivered by the Chinese Empire to the Greek military include 200 most advanced J-10 export version fighters, 300 m28a1 export modem main battle tanks, and 1,000 engines required for the J-10 and M28 series tanks, which are used to help upgrade and modify the Hellfire fighters and m16a8 main battle tanks in active service in the Greek Air Force and the Army. In addition, the Greek military has also imported advanced weapons such as anti-tank rifles, anti-tank rockets and other PT-3 main battle tanks equipped by the Italian Army from the Chinese Empire, as well as weapons and equipment suitable for mountain combat in the Greek Army.

The Chinese Empire exported the J-10 fighter jets and the M28 series main battle tanks in service to the outside world. It was mainly because the world's weapons and equipment reform was too fast. During the treaty era after World War I, Europe, Britain, France and Germany, scientific and technological progress was rapid. The era when the Chinese Empire's aircraft and tanks and other weapons and equipment were more than ten or twenty years ahead of Europe and the United States, so if we want to make various belligerent countries purchase the weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, we must come up with the most advanced ones.

Of course, when European and American weapons and equipment were rapidly innovating and improving, the Chinese Empire itself did not forget to innovate.

We used advanced weapons such as J-10 fighter jets and m28 main battle tanks exported to the Greek army. These were weapons and equipment from the Chinese Empire more than ten years ago. More advanced weapons and equipment have been developed in the Chinese Empire to replace J-10 fighter jets and m28 series main battle tanks.

According to the research and development standards of the Imperial Chinese Air Force fighter jets, after the J-10 Black Hawk fighter jets, the next batch of fighter jets in service in the Imperial Chinese are defined as j-11 fighter fighter jets, a-5 strike fighter jets, f-6 carrier-based fighter jets, and f-8 torpedo bombers. The bomber models are defined as h-7 strategic bombers and b-2 tactical bombers.

The reason why multiple fighter jets and bomber models purchased by the Air Force suddenly appeared is mainly because with the continuous development and improvement of fighter jets, their combat missions have also undergone tremendous changes.

In the early days, there was only one type of fighter jets in the Imperial Chinese Air Force for large-scale production and service, and there was only one type of fighter jets and only one combat mission. It was to seize air supremacy. However, with the continuous changes in the war mode, the Imperial Chinese side discovered that during air-ground coordinated combat, air-sea coordinated combat and air-air combat, the tactical execution tasks of fighter jets were constantly changing.

For example, during air-to-ground coordinated combat, the main task of the Imperial Chinese Air Force fighter jets is to attack the ground, use rockets and aviation bombs to attack the enemy's strong defense facilities, armored troops and infantry. This requires the fighter to have strong ground attack capabilities, instead of focusing on air combat, dive speed and ground flight performance, which requires a fighter jet with strong ground attack power. Instead of the specialty of traditional air-optimal fighter jets, the Chinese Empire called this ground combat aircraft a powerful attack aircraft.

Similarly, the combat missions of carrier-based fighters have also undergone great changes. In the early Chinese Empire's naval aviation was only equipped with one type of carrier-based fighter jets. However, in addition to seizing air supremacy, carrier-based fighters also had to participate in attack tasks for enemy fleet bombing and coastal attacks that support Marine Corps landing operations. When performing these tasks, carrier-based fighters need to be equipped with aviation bombs, torpedoes, rocket launchers, etc.

Sea-to-ground attack weapons require carrier-based fighters to give up air-optimal combat, increase range and bomb load, and tactical requirements are to fly at low altitude and fly at high speed to approach the target, or dive at high speed to approach the target, which requires new carrier-based bombers. Considering that the flight deck of aircraft carriers is limited and it is impossible to be equipped with a large number of heavy bombers, carrier-based fighters need to have bombing capabilities, thus evolving new combat aircraft such as carrier-based fighter bombers.

According to the service standards of the Imperial Air Force fighter jets in the Imperial Air Force. The standard process of replacing one batch of Imperial Air Force equipment in ten years, that is, design one batch of combat aircraft, develop one batch, serve one batch, and retire one batch. When the Imperial Empire used the J-10 fighter jets for export, it indicates that a new batch of main fighter jets in the Imperial Empire had begun to serve.

For fighter jets, the speed of the J-10 series of fighter jets developed by the Chinese Empire in the 1920s was approaching the limit. The Imperial Air Force Committee of the Chinese Empire's Air Force Committee tried to continue to increase the speed on the propeller engine for more than five years, because aviation experts found that the speed of the propeller reached 900 kilometers per hour and could no longer be improved.

However, the speed of fighter jets in Europe and the United States is developing rapidly. The speed of main fighter aircraft in Britain, France, Germany and other countries has reached a speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour. The J-10 fighter jets of the Chinese Empire have gradually lost their speed advantage. For air combat, speed advantage has always been considered by the Chinese Empire Air Force as the most important condition for absolute air supremacy.

Therefore, the Imperial Chinese Air Force Committee decided to withdraw from the propeller engine road in time to find other development directions.

Fortunately, at this critical moment, the wise and powerful emperor of the Chinese Empire, Chenhao once again pointed out the development direction of the next generation of fighter jets to the Imperial Air Force Committee, that is, the jet propulsion method replaces the propulsion method, thereby breaking through the speed barrier problem.

In fact, a few years after the invention of the aircraft, some people proposed the theory of jet propulsion. The earliest idea of ​​air jet engines was proposed by the Frenchman Lorraine in 1908. He suggested that an expanded nozzle was connected to the exhaust valve of the piston engine, and the reaction force of gas spraying backward from the nozzle was used to make the aircraft move forward. In 1910, Romanian Kohanda, who lived in Paris, conducted the earliest test flight of a jet aircraft. He used a piston engine to drive the fan in a pipeline to rotate, driving the air to spray backward to produce reaction thrust. On November 10 of that year, Kohanda, who had never piloted the aircraft, made a brief jump with the aircraft he designed.

Although this test flight was not successful, many newspapers and magazines gave quite high praise. In the early 1930s, British Whitel and German Ouhein each completed the invention of the jet engine at the same time.

On April 15, 1936, Ouhein signed a contract with Henkel Aircraft Company to develop a jet engine. In the following three years, Ouhein finally completed the jet engine. It was named Hes3, with a thrust of 4,000 N and a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.12. The supporting aircraft for the test flight began to develop at the end of 1937, and the first prototype was completed in the spring of 1938. It was named he-178.

However, during this period, the British and Germans ignored jet engines, so their jet engines were not valued. In 1930, British Air Force officer Whittle obtained a patent for the design of British jet engines. Since then, he tried to convince the military and aero engine companies to develop this new engine, but failed. In 1935, some of Whittle's friends began to raise funds for him. At the end of the same year, Whittle designed the first test aircraft, named wu.19

In March 1936, Jet Power Company, which specializes in developing the engine designed by Whitel, was officially established. On April 12, 1937, the Wu test machine was first tested, which was a symbol of the birth of the turbojet engine. After the Wu test machine was run, the British side began to provide financial support. The second test machine was quickly abandoned due to damage to the turbine blades, which exposed the problem of the mutual restraint of the blade material and the combustion chamber. Compared with the first two, the third test machine has made relatively large structural improvements.

Jet engines are different from propeller engines. They rely on a large amount of high-temperature and high-pressure gas generated by combustion of air and kerosene, which is sprayed backwards to push the aircraft forward. Therefore, there are generally special air inlets on the front and sides of the fuselage, and there are nozzles on the back of the fuselage. Jet engines can obtain a higher thrust-to-weight ratio, allowing the aircraft to obtain higher aircraft speed, altitude and maneuverability.

The world's first jet fighter was first developed by Germany in January 1938, which was the first time that the Germans surpassed the Chinese Empire in the aviation field. The He-178 aircraft, which was equipped with the jet engine developed by German scientist Von Oheng, became the world's first jet aircraft. The aircraft conducted its first test flight in February of that year, but the effect was very poor. Within a minute of takeoff, the engine suffered various failures. Because the jet engine was too fast, it suddenly increased to a speed of 900 kilometers per hour, almost costing the test pilot's life. Ordinary propeller aircraft started at low speeds. It was not until more than ten minutes later that it could reach a speed of more than 700 kilometers per hour.

Due to the pilot's discomfort, the first test flight was recognized as a failure.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire launched a series of development work on jet aircraft at the beginning of Guanghua's 35th year, and purchased design drawings of jet engines from Ouhein. Based on this, relying on the strength of the Chinese Empire's strong aviation technology research and development team and industrial manufacturing capabilities, the first jet aircraft, the J-11-A fighter was completed in January 38, 2018 (February of the Western calendar).

Although the J-11 A test flight was one month later than the German He-178 test flight and the reputation of the first jet was taken away by the Germans, the J-11 A jet of the Chinese Empire was the first jet fighter in human history to complete the test flight mission and be mass-produced, which is incomparable to the Germans.

The J-11 A fighter is a light fighter with all metal semi-hard shell structure. The streamlined fuselage has a triangular cross-section, and the nose is mainly equipped with cannons and photographic guns. The raindrop-type canopy cover is in the middle of the fuselage and can be opened to the right. The front windshield glass is 90mm thick plexiglass, which is not only hard and has certain bulletproof functions, but also has a light-shielding function, so that pilots do not have to worry about suddenly encountering the damn sunlight during fighting and lose their combat ability.

The seat back is covered with 25mm steel plates, which have strong bulletproof capabilities. 15mm steel plates are also installed on both sides to protect the safety of the pilot.

A variety of advanced electronic equipment is installed in the cabin, including the ez-42 gyro sight and the ck-32 optical sight for launching and aiming of cannons and rockets.

The near-triangle tail wing intersects at the tail in a cross, and the nacelles of the two axial flow turbojet engines are directly installed below the swept lower single wing, and the landing gear at the first three points can be retracted into the cabin.

As a new power plant, J-11 a uses Royal Airways Chen's Dkio-004 jet engine with a sea level stationary thrust of 850 kg, fuel consumption of 1,650 kg per hour, self-weight 720 kg, and the thrust-weight ratio (thrust/weight ratio) reaches 1.181. The renovation life is 70 hours.

Because the jet engine's process is slightly rougher than that of mature propeller engines and has a higher failure rate, this jet engine is still one of the most successful models of early air jet engines in aviation history.

Although the J-11 A fighter has unreliable engine operation, poor air combat maneuverability, slow acceleration and rolling speed, complex operation and other shortcomings. However, the flaws are not concealed. A series of improved models of J-11 showed great power when they fought against the absolute air superiority of the Allies in the later stage. As the world's first jet fighter capable of combat, the appearance of J-11 greatly shocked countries around the world. In addition to its fierce firepower, it also has a powerful speed of 625mph (mph), defending the absolute air hegemony of the Imperial Chinese Air Force.

The J-11 fighter is divided into multiple models. The J-11 a is a single-seat fighter. The Imperial Air Force is called Fire Eagle, with a length of 10.6 meters (with radar antenna), and a wingspan of 12.5 meters. The air weight is 4,000 kg, the maximum take-off weight is 8,045 kg, the maximum speed is 625 mph (1,000 kilometers per hour). The practical ceiling is 12,500 meters, the maximum range is 1,450 kilometers, the maximum climb rate is 1,200 meters per minute, the combat radius of the loading secondary fuel tank is 1,050 kilometers, the main weapon is 2 30mm mk38-year cannons (100 rounds per door), and the secondary weapon is externally equipped with 2 30mm mk35-year cannons or 2 12.7 mm m2 heavy machine guns.

The J-11 B fighter is a two-seater night fighter, code-named Owl, and overall it is similar to the J-11 A. It only needs to increase the weight of the aircraft in order to increase a pilot's cockpit, which affects its maximum range. In addition, the J-11 B two-seater fighter has also developed into the first jet trainer of the Chinese Empire, namely the J-11 K, code-named Shanying trainer.

Overall, the J-11 series of air-optimal fighters gave up the launch of airborne rockets because the Chinese Empire Air Force used another A-5 strike fighter to replace its mission. It was used to support the operations of ground troops.

The a-5 strike fighter, code-named Fire Meteor, is a strike aircraft developed on the basis of J-11 a specifically designed to attack the sea and ground.

The attack aircraft is a new type defined by the Imperial Air Force Committee after classification of combat aircraft in Guanghua in the 37th year of Guanghua. It is also a type of combat aircraft. It is mainly used to assault enemy tactics or targets within the depth of shallow close combat, and directly support ground troops to fight. The Imperial Army calls it a close-range air support aircraft.

The Imperial Air Force Committee defined the target for the striker to have good low-altitude maneuverability, stability and good lower horizon, which is convenient for searching for small hidden targets on the ground; powerful ground attack weapons, in addition to cannons and bombs, also include radio-guided bombs, anti-tank bombs, ground-boring bombs and air-ground rockets. The key parts of the aircraft are protected by armor to improve the survivability of the aircraft under ground artillery attack; excellent take-off and landing performance, and can take off and land at simple airports close to the front line to expand the range of aircraft support operations.

The power unit of the a-5 (Fire Meteor) attack aircraft uses a ck52-p-408a turbojet engine produced by Beiyang Technology Power Company, with a maximum thrust of 4,900 kg.

The a-5 attack aircraft has a length of 13.07 meters, a wingspan of 8.36 meters, and a height of 4.62 meters. It consists of three main structures: the front fuselage, the rear fuselage and the main wing. The main wing has three spars that are continuous from the wing tips at one end to the wing tips at the other end. The last pair of spars is straight, removing the common load concentration points on the swept wings of the J-11 series fighter jets. The a-5's triangular wing design makes it useable on the aircraft carrier of the Imperial Chinese Navy without folding. The front edge of the front edge has a front slat strip deflector. The a-5 fuselage adopts a semi-hard structure and is divided into two parts: the front and rear fuselage. The rear fuselage can be detached for the maintenance of the engine, and there are speed reduction plates on both sides.

The maximum take-off weight of the aircraft is 11110 kilograms, the maximum flat flight speed (height 10700 meters, external 1814 kilograms) is 1071 kilometers per hour, and the maximum range (with auxiliary fuel tank) is 2900 kilometers. The combat radius is 470 kilometers. When performing attack missions, the maximum combat radius can reach 600 kilometers, and the practical ceiling is 12500 meters. The fuel load capacity in the aircraft is 3028 liters.

There are two 20mm mk-12 air cannons on the bottom of the wing, each with 200 shells. A total of 400 rounds are installed. There are 5 external plug-ins on the aircraft, and there is a weapon mount under the fuselage and under both wings, which can be equipped with aviation bombs, ground-boring bombs, anti-tank bombs, air-ground rockets and air-air rockets, with a maximum load of 4150 kilograms.

The a-5 has a raised "hunch" in the middle of the fuselage to place newly added avionics equipment. Since the basic design of the a-5 focuses on reducing weight and complexity, the early models can only be equipped with simple mission avionics equipment. In the future, its shortcomings gradually emerged, so the later improved models have installed various new electronic equipment one after another. The a-5c is equipped with ground search radar and low-altitude bombing fire control system, becoming the first model in the a-5 with all-weather combat capability.

A series of upgraded versions of the J-11 series of fighters are used in the Navy's F-6 Wildcat carrier-based fighters and the F-8 Osprey torpedo bombers.

The comprehensive combat performance of the F-6 Wildcat carrier-based fighter is stronger than that of the J-11 a, because its size is much smaller than that of the J-11, but the integrated fighter is not inferior to the J-11.

The Wildcat ship has a combat length of 10.2 meters (with radar antennas, folding wings), an air weight of 3,800 kg, and a maximum take-off weight of 7,600 kg. The maximum speed is 600 m, the practical ceiling is 10,500 meters, the maximum range is 1,350 kilometers, the maximum climb rate is 1,200 meters per minute, the combat radius of the loading secondary fuel tank is 950 kilometers, the main weapon is 2 30mm mk38-year cannons (100 rounds per door), and the secondary weapon is an external 2 30mm mk35-year cannons or two 12.7mm m2 heavy machine guns.

The f-8 Osprey carrier-based bomber takes into account the low-altitude penetration power, concentrates the characteristics of Fire Eagle fighter and Fire Meteor striker, adopts a single-seat bomber mode, with a maximum speed of 470 mph (755 km/h). The main weapon is 2 30mm mk35 guns (100 rounds/door), 2 30mm mk33 guns (80 rounds/door), and the secondary weapon is four 250 kg aviation bombs (during bombing) or a 21-inch red-headed torpedo (during torpedo attack), or 24 R4m rockets (during to intercept).

Similarly, the naval aviation of the Chinese Empire has developed into a force that can fight at night. Therefore, the F-8b carrier-based bomber is a two-seat night battle carrier-based bomber, with the main weapon being 2 30mm mk36 cannons (100 rounds/door). 2 30mm mk33 cannons (80 rounds/door). The secondary weapon is to install 2 30mm mk37 cannons behind the driver's cockpit, and sg500 armor-piercing cannons (12 high-intensity armor-piercing shells) or a 50mm mk38 cannon or 48 R4m rockets under the nose.

Of course, the A-5 attack aircraft can also be deployed on naval aircraft carriers. Since the Mount Emei class aircraft carrier, all aircraft carrier lifts can be used to move the A-5 attack aircraft. However, there are no torpedo points on the A-5 attack aircraft, so torpedo bombing missions cannot be performed. However, it can be deployed on the Imperial Navy in coastal areas and is very effective to prevent the enemy from catching beaches and landing operations.

Since the Imperial Chinese Air Force Committee attaches great importance to jet aircraft engines, in addition to jet replacements in fighter jets, it soon proposed a jet improvement plan for bombers.

However, at this time, the Chinese Empire's H6 Air Fortress series strategic bombers were far ahead of the strategic air forces of countries around the world. The Imperial Air Force Committee believed that there was no need to eliminate them because the cost of replacing strategic bombers was very high and Congress would not approve them.

Therefore, for strategic bombers, the Imperial Air Force Committee of the Chinese Empire ordered Songhu Heavy Industry to upgrade its existing H-6 bombers.

Songhu Heavy Industry also felt the pressure on the company due to the arrival of the jet era, so it quickly came up with an improvement and upgrading plan for HVAC.

The upgraded H-6 was awarded the H-7 (h-7), and the code name is still the air fortress. The h-7 was 23 meters long, 6 meters high, wingspan 32 meters, total weight 29 tons, and the payload increased to 10 tons. The engine was upgraded and changed to 4 1500 horsepower Adel Btmx-1500 twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled turbine engines. Under full load of fuel, the upgraded H-7 bomber can reach a range of 6,500 kilometers, cruising speed reaches 400 kilometers per hour, maximum speed is 640 kilometers per hour, and practical ceiling can reach 11,667 meters.
To be continued...
Prev Index    Favorite NextPage