In an office, Ron was accepting his new assignment. An aide-de-camp of General Arnold took him to a small office, handed him a file, and told him: "You take a look at this file first, and then

General Arnold has a new mission for you."

Ron nodded, took the information, sat down at the desk, opened the file bag, and looked at the information inside.

These information are all related to a new type of fighter that will be famous in later generations. This type of fighter is the P-51, which was later known as the King of Fighters. Perhaps there are some differences between parallel space and the original time and space. It was originally scheduled to arrive in 43

The P-51, which only entered the army at the end of the year, was here several months ahead of schedule, and was first put into service in the first half of 2043.

But this great aircraft is the same as in the original time and space. When it first came on the scene, its performance was not outstanding, and it was even far from outstanding. It was first provided to the British as a foreign aid model. According to the earliest

The British people who use it say that it is a piece of shit. Although its range is by no means that of the Spitfire, it can barely fly over Yingji.

It can be compared with Lee Strait's short-legged aircraft, and its low-altitude performance is also good. The use of laminar flow wings and a good streamlined body make its low-altitude speed ratio surprisingly good. That 4-door aircraft with a speed of thousands

The British also like the rotating cannon very much. However, it is still a scam because it cannot be used to escort the bomber fleet.

What is the fundamental mission of a fighter jet? There are only two fundamental missions of a fighter jet, which is to kill the enemy's bombers, or to prevent the enemy from killing its own bombers. As for fighting the enemy's fighter jets, this is just a means to complete interception or escort missions. 1.

If a fighter cannot complete this most basic task for some reason, no matter how powerful it is in a one-on-one duel,

, there are only those who have been eliminated. For example, ri's Zero War, if we talk about head-to-head challenges, in the hands of a veteran, the old version of Zero War 21 is definitely better than the later improved version of Zero War 52. However, ri himself is still

The Zero Fighter 21, which was more powerful in single combat, was quickly replaced with the Zero Fighter 52. The reason was that Ri himself found that the Zero Fighter 21 could not complete these two most fundamental tasks.

Because the top speed of Zero War 21 is too slow, when the enemy launches an attack on the bomber group it protects, it is difficult for it to intercept the opponent. And when it intercepts the enemy bombers, it is difficult to get rid of the enemy fighter jets.

Entanglement. (When a P-38 pounces on the bomber, there is no need to worry about one or several Zero Fighter 21s in the six o'clock direction. Anyway, they are slow and cannot catch up. But a Zero Fighter 21 is pounced on.

of an American bomber

At that time, if there was a P-38 following behind, it would be really stressful - they would catch up in the blink of an eye, and then shower it with a dense rain of bullets before it fires at the bomber)

So, ri himself

The Zero Fighter 21, which is lighter and more flexible, was replaced with the Zero Fighter 52, which has worse dueling ability but is faster. Unfortunately, the Zero Fighter 52 is only too fast. The problems faced by the 21 are, well, basically for the 52

That said, it is also incomprehensible.

The p-51 first provided to the British also encountered a similar situation. The engine used by the earliest p-51 was very weak (basically the same as the old p-40), and it was not equipped with an exhaust gas supercharger turbine. This resulted in

The high-altitude performance of this kind of aircraft is very poor. When it met the German BF109 above 5,000 meters, I couldn't cry. But the Western Front is different from the Eastern Front. Here, the British and American

When will the Chinese let bombers fly below 7,000 meters? As a result, the miserable P-51 either struggled to climb above 5,000 meters, and then became disabled due to the rapid decline in engine horsepower, and then became disabled by the German pilots.

Iron Cross; or just stay at low altitude and watch your bombers being slaughtered and worry. What? German bombers? By 1943, when Germany was on the Western Front, where else could such a species exist?

As a result, although these miserable P-51s were equipped with four 20mm rotary cannons that were much more powerful than the six .50 machine guns in the original time and space, their fate of being left out did not change. They were either dismissed by the British.

Go train with the second-tier team

The pilot would either be used as a long-range ground-attack tactical attack aircraft. If the British had not later replaced it with the Merlin engine used by the Spitfire, it might have been the same as the predecessor P-39, and in the end it could only

The Russians went to work there.

As for the Americans, since the P-51 was labeled as a cheat by the British, even my own father looked down on it. Fortunately, there is another place that is suitable for it, and this place is Myanmar!

Since the Japanese army occupied Burma, the last channel for foreign supplies to enter China, the Burma Road, has been completely cut off. Without the assistance of allies, the situation of the Chinese people's government has become increasingly difficult. In order to allow China to continue to support,

It became necessary to open up a new material channel, and a legendary route was born. This is the Hump Route.

The Hump Route may be the most important air route in the world. For a long time, this route was the only channel connecting China with the world. Without this route, China might be like Tsarist Russia in the last war.

, shed all their blood and fell down before victory came. This route is the last umbilical cord that maintains China, an ancient country with a serious lack of its own hematopoietic capacity.

But the Hump Route is also the most dangerous air transport route in the world. Military transport planes loaded with supplies take off from India, then pass through the snow-capped Himalayas, and finally reach Yunnan, China. There are mountains as high as six or seven kilometers on the route, and the C47 transport aircraft

When no-load, it can certainly be switched from a higher

It flew over, but when it was fully loaded with supplies to aid China, its maximum flight altitude would not exceed 5,000 meters. (It would not work if it was not fully loaded, because after leaving the supplies, they had to carry their own fuel for the return trip)

These heavy transport planes must go from the valleys around the peaks covered with snow all year round.

The airflow in the valley is extremely unstable. Sometimes, severe wind shear can cause a fully loaded transport aircraft to continuously hit the top of the air. Sometimes, the strong winds in the mountain pass can even cause an aircraft flying at an airspeed of more than 300 kilometers to reverse relative to the ground.

But that’s not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that sometimes the valley that was sunny for half a minute will suddenly be shrouded in heavy fog, and the visibility will quickly drop to zero. The pilot can only rely on instruments and maps to fly blindly. When the weather

On a clear day, when the plane passes through the valleys along this route, the pilots can clearly see: the bottom of the valleys are shining with silvery light everywhere. These lights are the signposts of progress - they are the signs of the previous ones.

The wreckage of the plane that crashed on this route during the mission. Throughout the war, thousands of transport aircraft and many more pilots died in these inaccessible valleys. The remains of most of the martyrs still lie there today.

The danger of the hump route not only comes from nature, but also from the enemy. In order to bypass some mountains that are really impossible to fly, transport aircraft must make a big bend. This curved route is drawn on the map like the shape of a camel's hump, and the hump route is also composed of

Hence the name. The top of the hump extends into Myanmar, where two Japanese air fleets are stationed.

Due to insufficient range, the P-40 fighter jets of the U.S. Tenth Air Force and the Fourteenth Air Force (Flying Tigers) were unable to escort the transport aircraft throughout the entire journey. Therefore, the transport aircraft units suffered heavy casualties when intercepted by Japanese fighter jets. The maintenance of the hump route

It is also becoming more and more difficult.

At this critical moment, the long-range P-51 made a shining appearance. Her arrival was like a crimson dawn, about to drive away the terrible long night.

Everyone is looking forward to this. Isn't this what it should be?. On the Japanese side, they only have some outdated ki43 fighter jets. The top speed of these enemy planes is not even 500 kilometers, which is higher than the top speed of the P-51.

The speed difference is more than 100 kilometers, and it is not even much faster than the cruising speed of the P-51. Shouldn't killing such an opponent be like chopping melons and vegetables?

However, one month after the escort began, everyone's glasses were shattered - the much more advanced P-51 was beaten to the ground by the backward, old-fashioned Ki43. Their performance in the battle was even far worse.

Far inferior to the old P-40 fighter.

Yes, the pilots who participated in the war described her like this in the information: At low speeds, she was as stupid as a duck. She turned much slower than the P-40, and her climb was not good. What was even worse was when turning.

, it is easy for her to stall on one wing, and there is no warning before stalling.

Ron put down the information gently, he already had his own judgment in his mind.
Chapter completed!