I was frightened by the powerful combat power displayed by the airship.
The kind that vomits and urinates!
So they came straight to a toast to friendship.
While cheering for You, it actually sends a signal - you have money!
Zhu Xianhai, who was far away in Buenos Aires, just smiled after learning what happened to General Michel and his party.
"Let them visit first. As for the price of the airship, let's calculate it according to the originally approved price. By the way, how is the current precision bombing? Can it hit warships?"
Friendship is friendship, and interests are interests. The French talk about one thing, but when it comes to interests, they never make any concessions.
Of course the same is true for Nanhua.
The purpose of exporting airships is to make more huge profits, and besides, it is still a monopoly business. There is nothing wrong with raising the price.
Besides, the French Empire is a wealthy owner. In the Franco-Prussian War next year, they will directly lose 5 billion gold francs!
Such a huge sum of money could not be compared to even the Qing Dynasty, which "measured the material resources of China and had the favor of all countries".
If you don't cut yourself off twice when you meet such a wealthy owner, how can you live up to your ancestors?
"It's not very accurate. Many of them were near-misses."
"It's a bit of a pity, but a near-missile bomb is fine. If there is a chance, I can show it to the French. A near-missile bomb can also sink a warship."
If the accuracy of bombing is not enough, then quantity should make up for it.
After the airship bombing of Buenos Aires, advertisements have been put out. Just relying on hearsay is not enough. If you want Europeans to believe that airships are the future, you must show their power.
If you want to show your power, then bombing warships is definitely the best choice. For the French, if they find that airships can be blown up into warships, they will definitely purchase a large number of airships.
Just like in another world, that is, when torpedoes were just invented, the French even put their money on torpedoes. They built a large number of torpedo boats and tried to use torpedo boats to undermine the British maritime superiority.
The French are a typical example of those who seek medical treatment in a hurry. As long as a powerful weapon can threaten the British Navy and help them gain maritime superiority, they will definitely invest a lot of energy and financial resources in this weapon without hesitation.
Airships also have this potential. And the potential certainly seems to be greater!
"Commander, Star Airship Company has designed a new type of airship with a length of 115 meters and a volume 2.5 times that of the current airship. It is expected to be able to carry 7,000 kilograms of weapons. In addition, it also uses a new type of engine with a power of up to
With 160 horsepower, it is currently the most powerful gasoline engine. Its speed is as high as 80 kilometers and its range can reach 3,000 kilometers. Commander, it will definitely be the future king of the sky..."
Li Du, whose "highest academic qualification" was just a "student", has always been curious about science. When he was in the gold mine, he was curious about the principles of steam engines. Later, he also taught himself mechanics in the army, but when he
After coming into contact with the airship for the first time, he was attracted by the spacecraft that could fly for nine days. He was already the commander of the artillery regiment at the time, and even voluntarily gave up the opportunity for promotion and actively asked to join the airship unit.
As the first commander of the airship force, Li Du has always believed in Sun Tzu's Art of War saying, "A good attacker moves on the nine heavens." While studying new tactics and weapons with the officers of the airship force, he
He also kept making more requests to the spacecraft company.
In fact, his request is very simple. In his opinion, larger, faster, and larger airships with more ammunition are the future of airships.
The newly designed airship obviously meets his goals. Of course, Li Du still has an ambition in his heart - he hopes to build a larger airship.
How big is it?
Li Du had not thought about it, but in terms of load capacity, a few tons or even a dozen tons would not be enough for him. At least it could hold a bomb of twenty or thirty tons!
It only takes a few airships to destroy a city!
That is the real attacker who moves "above the nine heavens"!
"7,000 kilograms! That's really not small, but large airships can be made even bigger!"
Zhu Xianhai smiled brightly.
"As we sell airships to the French, one thing you can believe is that once they understand the principles of airships, a spaceship race will definitely begin around the world, and Britain, France and other European countries will surely compete to be the first.
If they want to build giant airships, we can stimulate them to build even bigger airships!"
The commander's words made Li Du's expression a little complicated. In fact, as the chief officer of the airship force, he has always opposed the sale of airships, even until now.
"Commander, when you sell spaceships to outsiders, you are selling not only spaceships, but also many of our technologies. These technologies... those foreign devils will definitely not pay attention to patents and the like. They will definitely copy our airships.
Losing our advantage in the air is not a good thing for us. After all, the sky is ours now, and we can fight whoever we want!"
In the sky, Nanhua is the real king!
This war is proof that the Argentinians on the ground can only be beaten passively and have no power to fight back. By selling airships to foreigners, wouldn't they give up their trump card?
"Our monopoly will not last long!"
Zhu Xianhai walked to his desk and rummaged through documents while talking.
"Even if they can monopolize for three to five years, it cannot stop Europeans from owning their own airships. Selling them now is not only for money, but also to win a good external environment..."
Of course this is not the most important thing. What is important?
It’s to distort the Europeans’ technology tree!
It is to allow those Europeans to put their money on airships, thereby creating a huge interest group. Then what? This group will lead European aviation technology to a crooked path.
It's best to lead them down a dark road of no return.
"As for our safety..."
Zhu Xianhai found a folder, opened it and said.
"This is a small airship I conceived."
"Blimp?"
Looking at the drawings drawn by the commander, Li Du found that although this type of airship was small, its structure seemed to be more advanced, with the small pod and airbag integrated into one.
"This small airship uses a fully enclosed pod that is directly connected to the air bag, and is driven by two engines hanging on the outside of the pod. This makes it faster, and its engine uses a ducted engine, and the engine can
Rotating within a certain angle will make it easier to control the flight direction and height. In other words, it will be more maneuverable and faster, by the way..."
After turning the page, Zhu Xianhai pointed to the rotating machine gun in front of the cabin and said.
"I call it a "combat airship". Well, it can also be called a "destroying airship." This is an airship specially used for air combat. It carries a 13mm Gatling gun in its cabin, which is different from ordinary airships.
The machine gun is different. It is driven by an electric motor. Its machine gun fires very quickly, which can reach about 4,000 rounds. At the same time, its bullets are also special, specially used to deal with airship bullets. Ordinary bullets hit the air bag.
It just opens a few holes. At most, it will allow the hydrogen gas to leak out. At most, it will affect the ceiling. The airship can fly and land in a safe area at the same time, but the bullets used by this kind of machine gun can ignite the hydrogen gas.
, do you know what happens when hydrogen gas is ignited?"
What happens when hydrogen gas is ignited?
Li Du was dumbfounded. How could he not know?
Hydrogen will be ignited as soon as it sees sparks, and then it will burn or even explode! For this reason, the use of open flames is strictly prohibited on airships.
But now?
But the commander-in-chief has come up with a bullet that can ignite hydrogen gas. What kind of heavy damage will this bullet cause to the airship troops?
Definitely devastating!
At this moment, in his mind, airships that could be called giants in the sky turned into huge fireballs in front of the "combat airship".
"Ah... Commander, this, this -"
After hesitating for a while, Li Du finally spoke.
"I think it's better not to manufacture this kind of combat airship. After all, we have no way to guarantee it. Those Westerners won't imitate this kind of airship, right? Once they have this kind of combat airship, it will be a very big threat to us.
"
It would be better not to equip a combat airship than to let a weapon threaten the existence of the airship. This was Li Du's simplest idea.
Facing his idea, Zhu Xianhai just smiled.
"There are definitely threats to us. But since we want to sell the airship, we must have a trump card in our hands. Otherwise, how can we defeat the enemy?"
I want to fly an airship.
Very simply, this kind of combat airship is just one of the weapons. When the electric Gatling gun technology matures, an anti-aircraft gun can be developed based on it.
Let alone an airship, it is an airplane. It can also be easily shot down from the sky.
"Of course, we must keep this weapon secret. What is our purpose? It is to make everyone believe that airships are the real future."
Then what?
Of course, let those countries put all their treasures on airships. Only during the war will they discover the truest reality of the world.
That is the huge airship fleet they have built up at the expense of the treasury. It is just a torch in the sky. What kind of expression will they have when the airships they have high hopes for are ignited one after another?
As the Europeans often say - God can bear witness.