Chapter XXIX
Of course, Otowa couldn't have made such a hasty decision, so she left the minister's office and went to the database to look up the information. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It's a database, but there aren't any books here, it's more like a computer lab. After all, it's the 22nd century, and paper books are more for collection.
Otowa walked into one of the small private rooms, and turned on the holographic projector in the middle of the room.
After a burst of cool particle effects, a number of panels instantly appeared in front of her.
Otowa was very skillful in handling it, and it didn't take long for her to have a panel in front of her, on which the information of various fighters appeared.
Without exception, these fighters are all 3.3-weight aircraft, and they are also candidates for Otowa to change aircraft this time.
First of all, the convention is still American, F4U-A and P-39Q-5 Flying Snake, one for Hainan Airlines and one for land aviation.
Although the P-39 was quite legendary on the Eastern Front, it cannot be denied that it was a thing that even Americans did not want. By passing Lend-Lease, the Americans first threw the thing to the British. One of the most important modifications was to replace the 37 mm gun that passed through the shaft with a 20 mm gun, and the 7.62 mm machine gun under the wing was replaced with a 7.7 mm machine gun of the same caliber as the Spitfire to reduce logistics. The modified P-39 was called the P-400. However, the shrewd British soon discovered that the P-39 (P-400), which looked beautiful, was in fact just a "throw-away" that no one wanted, and that it was useless for nothing but powerful firepower. The RAF was quick to react to the undesirable P-39 (P-400) - the RAF had not "borrowed" an additional P-39 (P-400) since the arrival of the first batch of 675 in July 1941. More than 600 aircraft -- less than the average monthly output of British aircraft factories during World War II.
In the later Pacific War, the P-39 also had a small bright image, but the bright image of the P-39 was not a faceless but a shame. DUE TO THE LACK OF HIGH-ALTITUDE POWER OF THE P-39 WITHOUT AN ENGINE SUPERCHARGER, IT COULD ONLY CARRY A 37MM CANNON TO WANDER AT MEDIUM AND LOW ALTITUDES. However, the Japanese "Zero Battle" can easily climb to an altitude of 10,000 meters, and a dive P-39 in the Zero Battle at high altitude can only have a share of fart. Every pilot who flew the P-39 in the Pacific theater complained about his mount.
And this time Otowa has to face the Zero fighter, and if you choose the flying snake, don't you die by yourself?
The performance of the F4U-1A is much better, after all, this thing is an aircraft in the middle and late stages of the Pacific War.
The R-2800 installed on it can provide 2,000 horsepower of terror power during takeoff, but due to its large size, the F4U-1 weighs 4.5 tons, becoming the so-called "flying brick", so it is assigned a low weight of 3.3.
But in all fairness, the F4U-1's top speed is still very good, at least it can't catch up with the zero battle.
In terms of firepower, it may be difficult for six 12.7mm M2 Browning machine guns to fight planes in the European theater, but it is cool to fight a dozen battles. The ammunition load of 2350 rounds is also quite sufficient, and you can sweep it as you want.
The only fly in the ointment is probably that the 6 machine guns are all on the wings, and they cannot snipe at targets as accurately as shaft guns.
After talking about the American series, it is the German BF109F-2 and FW190A-1.
The BF109F-2 is the same as the F-1 in appearance, the only difference is the cannon in the engine.
The F-2 was replaced with an MG151/15 cannon with a capacity of 200 rounds, and although the caliber was changed from 20mm to 15mm, the ammunition reserve and trajectory were improved.
In terms of ammunition, although there are no thin-shell bullets, the metal-ceramic core combustion tracer bullets that have been replaced are also not to be underestimated. Not to mention the multi-digit thickness of armor on the plane, even the top cover of the tank can be pierced, how can it completely ignore the armored strong second pilot.
But then again, the weight of the whole 1.0 has been increased, and it's just a change of cannon, so how do you think about it.
Some early models of the F-2 still had reinforcement strips mounted on the tail, and later productions had spokes moved inside the fuselage. A few early F-1s had square landing gear doors, while later F-1s and F-2s had fully round doors. All F-type fighters are given priority to supply the troops on the Strait front, such as the JG2, 26, 27, 53.
The rest of the parts are similar to the F-1, so I won't repeat them here.
FW190A1 is the first member of the entire FW190 family, and naturally the slowest one, but it is still a lot faster than other fighters of the same era. Compared to the descendants of the later heavyweights, he should be the lightest and the best to handle.
The FW190A-1 is equipped with two old MGFF/M cannons on the outside of the wing, and 7.92mm MG17 machine guns on the bonnet and wing roots.
This firepower configuration can only be described as bad, the two MG17s can be ignored directly, although the number of MGFF/M is twice as large as that of the BF109F-1, but each has 60 rounds of spare ammunition.
The biggest problem for the A-0 and A-1 was that the engine overheated, which often caused fires and almost caused a complete shutdown on several occasions.
Next is the Soviet-based La-5F, in which the La-5 has passed a period of front-line use and combat testing, and the defects of the La-5 have been exposed one by one. Lavochkin targeted these problems and introduced the La-5F earlier in 1943, which improved aerodynamics, reduced weight by removing the fuel tanks, increased the area of the control wing, and replaced it with a more powerful M-82F engine. In March 1943, the La-5F arrived at the front line.
Due to the supercharger problem, the high-altitude performance of the La-5F is not excellent. However, the La-5F is still quite strong at 4000 meters.
In addition, the La-5F is also quite balanced in terms of performance, and it can run around what it can't run, and it can run around what it can't bypass.
Firepower is two 20mm Schwark cannons above the nose, each with 170 rounds of ammunition. The Schwark cannon has a fast rate of fire, so damage at close range is still considerable.
In addition, it is an axle gun, so there is no need to consider the intersection distance, but to a certain extent, it makes up for Schwark's ballistic problem.
Although it is a little worse than the god machine La-5FN, the performance of the La-5F at 3.3 is also quite good.