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Volume 1 Pioneer of the Times Chapter 1222 Whirlwind

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    Chapter 1222 Whirlwind Sitting in the staff room of the naval base headquarters, Shen Honglie and his staff were analyzing Germany's army and naval strength in the Near and Middle East. A confidential officer brought a stack of telegrams that had just been translated.  Shen Honglie hurriedly took it, flipped through it for a moment, pulled out the telegram he was most concerned about, and read it carefully.  (Niu Wen Novel ~ Read Novel Online) This telegram was photographed by the General Staff of the Chinese Armed Forces to the Hormuz Naval Base. The content of the telegram is mainly to inform the base of the current transition situation of domestic jet forces. According to the telegram  According to the content, just before noon today, there should be a group of jets flying from the Indian route to the Hormuz Naval Base. However, these jets are not "Lightning" fighter jets, but a new type of jet attack  machine.  When did the Air Force equip the new jet attack aircraft? Shen Honglie had no idea about this situation. He couldn't help but be curious, what is the performance of the jet attack aircraft?  His naval aviation unit is also equipped with attack aircraft, but they are propeller aircraft. In this jet age, those old propeller aircraft seem outdated.  Shen Honglie looked at the time. It was already eleven o'clock in the morning, almost noon. He thought that the jet attack planes were about to land at the base air force airport, so he put down the documents and telegrams and couldn't wait to bring his adjutant with him.  A staff officer acted as a guide and led him to the air force airport.  After leaving the staff room, Shen Honglie got into a military off-road vehicle, drove away from the headquarters, and went straight to the Air Force Airport. The strategic position of the Hormuz Naval Base is too important, so here is not only the Navy Headquarters, but also the Air Force Headquarters. The Navy Commander  He also serves as base commander, but the Air Force Commander also has direct liaison authority with the General Staff.  The air force commander of the base is Meng Fei, a veteran of the Chinese Air Force. Unfortunately, Shen Honglie has never seen the air force commander since arriving at the base. The reason is not complicated. After the war broke out, Meng Fei was one of the first batch to fly jets.  One of the Chinese pilots who intercepted the German Air Force aircraft with fighter jets. Speaking of which, Commander Meng Fei is very old, but he is still old-fashioned and refuses to withdraw from the front line of the battle. It is said that Meng Fei should have been banned from flying high-speed aircraft at his age.  However, President Zhao thought that he had a strong sense of fighting, perhaps to appease the revolutionary fathers, or perhaps to set an example. As a result, the president gave special approval and allowed Meng Fei to continue flying high-speed aircraft, so the "Lightning" became Commander Meng's current plane.  Since yesterday, Commander Meng has been driving his plane to the front line in Gum. The command authority of the base air force headquarters is actually the deputy commander.  When Shen Honglie arrived at the air force airport, the deputy commander of the base's air force was already sitting in the aviation control tower waiting for the transfer jet to arrive. Seeing Shen Honglie, the two of them could not help but be polite, and then sat upright and stared at the radar screen, because there was already  A large reflected signal appeared, coming from the Indian route. It should be the formation of jet attack aircraft.  Five minutes later, the first jet attack plane made visual contact and landed safely on the airport runway soon. Until then, everyone, including Shen Honglie, was confused by the weird shape of the jet attack plane.  Surprised.  Specifically speaking, the shape of this jet attack aircraft is so weird. If you want to compare it with the "Lightning" fighter jet, the shape of the jet attack aircraft in front of Shen Honglie can simply be described as "ugly": Aircraft  The wings have no sweep angle and are basically flat, which obviously makes it difficult to give the aircraft a high flying speed. Although there are many pylons for mounting weapons under the wings, it is obvious that this attack aircraft can have powerful ground firepower.  But the problem is that if this kind of aircraft is equipped with bombs and rocket launchers, its flight speed will definitely be further reduced because the wind resistance is too strong. In addition, what is even more difficult to understand is that the two jets of this attack aircraft  The engine is not installed inside the fuselage and protected by armor. Instead, the engine is exposed like that of an unknown type of German jet fighter. It is installed on the left and right above the rear section of the fuselage. This kind of  The engine layout has obviously influenced the design of the aircraft designer. Therefore, this aircraft actually has two vertical tails. Could it be that the weird aircraft design also achieves the same goal by different routes?  This was what Shen Honglie had in mind. He was eager to talk to the pilot and ask why this jet attack aircraft was designed to be so ugly without revealing the secrets. This should not be a problem with the aircraft designer's ability.  They can design the "Lightning" that even Americans are envious of, so why can't they design a jet attack aircraft with equally excellent performance and styling?  Soon, the pilot was brought over. He was also the captain of the transfer formation, and he was really not an outsider. He was Shen Honglie¡¯s old subordinate, the former dive bomber pilot of the Naval Aviation Force, Navy Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Yiwu, but now, he has  No longer in the Naval Air Force, and the rank has also changed to the Air Force.?School.  Shen Honglie didn't know when Zhang Yiwu applied to be transferred to the Air Force. After all, he hadn't met or communicated with him for several years, so he asked the question first and then learned that Zhang Yiwu had been working as an instructor at the aviation school for the past two years.  After the "Lightning" jet officially appeared, Zhang Yiwu asked his friend Zhao Qiwen to take him on two flights in a trainer aircraft. From then on, he became addicted to jet aircraft. It was also from that time that Zhang Yiwu began to "change careers" and did not want to fly again.  He was flying an old propeller aircraft. Originally, the Naval Air Force also planned to upgrade to the "Lightning" carrier-based model. However, the problem was that Zhang Yiwu was a little older and it was no longer suitable to apply to be a jet fighter pilot, so he applied to the Air Force bomber force instead.  , because I heard that the Air Force is about to equip jet bombers.  Although there were some twists and turns, with the help of Zhao Qiwen, the president's son and Air Force hero, Zhang Yiwu was finally transferred to the training team in the spring of 1944. After several months of aircraft modification and flight training, he successfully joined the Air Force. However,  It is not flying a jet bomber, but a new type of jet attack aircraft. This attack aircraft is officially codenamed "Tornado". It is a new concept combat aircraft specially designed to attack ground armored clusters. However, due to  The shape is so ugly that the pilots privately gave this attack aircraft another nickname "Flying Pig". At first glance, it does look a bit like a wild boar flying in the sky. It is ugly, but has rough skin and thick flesh. It is small on the ground.  Caliber anti-aircraft firepower cannot threaten it at all. More importantly, the "fangs" of this "Flying Pig" are also very sharp. It is a six-barreled electric Gatling-type rotary cannon with a caliber of 27 mm.  , with a rate of fire of up to 4,000 rounds per minute, it can project intensive firepower to ground targets within one second. Because the shells use tungsten alloy warheads, they can easily penetrate the top armor plates of all tanks in the world. However, this gun is installed on the machine.  The weight of the airborne cannon under the head is indeed too great, which affects the speed and flying height of the aircraft. Moreover, in order to make room for the cannon, the nose landing gear of the aircraft is deviated several inches to the left and is not in the middle of the aircraft.  on-line.  The "Tornado" attack aircraft also has a shortcoming, and that is its flight speed. Although this jet is equipped with two powerful "Roar B" turbojet engines, the aircraft's armor is too heavy and the rotating tube gun also takes up a lot of space.  With a large payload, if all nine ammunition mounting points on the wing are equipped with ground attack weapons, the flying speed of this jet is just over 700 kilometers per hour. This speed has no obvious advantage compared with propeller fighters.  , not to mention the need to compete with jet fighters in speed. This makes this slow-flying jet attack aircraft more susceptible to interception by enemy jet fighters. Therefore, this kind of attack aircraft must be in full control of the air when its own side has full control of the air.  Only in this way can they fly freely on the battlefield. Otherwise, they must rely on jet fighter escorts.  Obviously, the "Tornado" is an ideal weapon for dealing with enemy armored groups, but it is not perfect, and the principles of tactical application also need to be explored in actual combat.  "What? The design plan of this attack aircraft was decided by the president himself?" When he heard from Zhang Yiwu that the "Tornado" design plan was the result of the president's insistence, Shen Honglie was somewhat dumbfounded. This president just likes to do everything himself.  Especially regarding the design of jet aircraft, Shen Honglie had also heard rumors that there were several design plans for the "Lightning" back then, but the president was not satisfied with all the design plans. In the end, he drew a sketch and made the aircraft fly.  The designers themselves figured out how to install the engines, cannons, pilots, fuel tanks, and control systems into the shell they designed for the "Lightning". However, this "bureaucratic style" of "a layman leading an expert" is really what it is.  The most efficient, as evidenced by the excellent performance of the "Lightning".  "Of course, I heard that there were several other aircraft designs that were selected for the project team at the same time, but the president finally chose the 'Tornado'. What he meant was that the attack aircraft mainly fights on the ground and does not require too high flight speed and speed.  The flight height requires higher attack accuracy. From this aspect, the slower the speed of a jet attack aircraft, the higher the attack accuracy. In order to pursue high speed, the armor design of the attack aircraft will also be limited, which is not conducive to attack.  In order to improve the aircraft's survivability, the president rejected the high-speed attack aircraft plan and adopted the 'Tornado' plan." Zhang Yiwu's explanation made Shen Honglie suddenly understand why the Air Force wanted to integrate Zhang Yiwu, who originally flew a dive bomber, into a jet aircraft.  Attack aircraft force, because both types of combat aircraft pay attention to the accuracy of an attack. From this aspect, Zhang Yiwu is actually still doing his old job, but the flying speed is faster. No matter how slow the "Tornado" is, it is still  Jet aircraft fly much faster than dive bombers.  The speed of German jet fighters can be faster than the "Tornado". Shen Honglie can't help but be worried. At present, the Chinese Air Force has not yet fully mastered air supremacy. Now the General Staff is in a hurryThe busy transfer of the "Tornado" to the Iranian battlefield was either a decision made out of urgency, or it was intended to "surprise" the German Army Armored Forces on the Iranian battlefield and eliminate the German heavy armored forces on the Iranian battlefield as soon as possible.
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