Chapter 51: Choice

"Although the performance of the Yak-9T and Yak-9U is not good at high altitudes, they are quite strong at low altitudes, which is just right for this battle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

As Otowa said, in order to cover their own armored forces and destroy the enemy's armored forces, the height of the battle between the two sides this time must not be too high, otherwise it will be embarrassing for their own convoy to be licked clean by the attack aircraft on the opposite side.

"However, there are still some problems with the firepower of these two fighters. Mika paused, and then continued: "Although the NS-37 of the Yak-9T is powerful, it is meaningless if it misses, and the firepower of the Yak-9U and two 20mm Schwark 12.7mm Berezin UBS machine guns is slightly insufficient, and the additional ammunition is pitiful. ā€

The Yak-9U Schwark has only 120 rounds of ammunition and only 170 rounds per Berezin, which is still too few in high-intensity combat.

"It's not a problem to have ammunition in reserve, haven't we used all the BF109F-1 with 60 shells? ā€

Otowa smiled, not too concerned about it. After all, her IMBA artillery skills are there, as long as it is an axis gun, she can teach the other side to be a person, and she is so confident when she has the strength.

"Of course it's okay for Otoba-san to be so strong, but I can't. ā€

Meixiang sighed and said with some unwillingness.

In order to alleviate this slightly awkward atmosphere, Otowa decisively changed the subject.

"Okay, let's take a look at the next plane, the late British Typhoon MK.IB. ā€

In 1937, when the Hurricane had just made its maiden flight, SydneyCamm, the chief designer of Hawker, was already considering a successor to the Hurricane. In January 1938 (two months after the delivery of the first Hurricanes), the British Air Wing issued an F.18/37 design specification for the design of a new generation fighter with a variety of performance exceeding 20% of the Hurricane. To achieve this level of performance, a 2,000hp engine is required. At that time, the 2000hp engines under development in the UK were: Napier Sabre (Sabre) "H" shaped 24 cylinders, Rolls-Royce Vulture (Vulture) "X" shaped 24 cylinders. While Camm had preferred a Saber engine with 12 Browning machine guns (400 rounds each), the Air Department suggested that Camm consider both options with different engines and increase the machine gun reserve to 500 rounds each.

In accordance with this recommendation, Camm completed two scenarios with different engines: "N" - with the "Saber" engine and "R" - with the "Vulture" engine.

Among them, the R scheme was abandoned after a prototype was built, and the N scheme became the later "Typhoon" fighter.

Thanks to the 2,000 horsepower engine, the Typhoon is very fast even without afterburner. At the same time, the storage speed performance of the machine is also very good, and BZ will not lose too much energy.

However, although this thing is fast, the problem of locking the rudder at high speed is also very serious. In August 1942, over LeTreport, England, the "Typhoon" used the cover of sunlight to attack the Fw190 formation, although it shot down 3 Fw190s, but 2 "Typhoons" failed to change out of the dive and were lost.

"The Typhoon MK.IB has a very powerful firepower, with four Sispano MK.II 20mm cannons and a projection mass of up to 5.17 kilograms per second. In addition, this is still a late-stage type, and the bubble-shaped cockpit is used, and the view is also quite good. ā€

After Otowa finished speaking, Mika objected as always.

"As a BZ machine, the high-speed rudder lock is too disqualified, and its roll rate is not good, so it is not so easy to maneuver. ā€

"Well said, let's add it to the shortlist first. ā€

Otowa nodded, then flipped the page to the next fighter.

"The last ones are the Zero Battle 22 Type A and the Three Battles Type 1 Ding. ā€

In July 1942, the Zero Type 32 (A6M3) with a 1,130 horsepower "Rong 21" engine appeared, and the Type 32 cut off the main wing end of the foldable round wing tip and took on a square angle, the wingspan was reduced to 11 meters, and the lateral maneuverability was improved, and the speed was slightly increased, but the range was reduced. In the autumn of 1942, on the basis of the Type 32, the 12-meter round-tip main wing of the Type 21 was restored, and two 45-liter auxiliary fuel tanks were added to the wings, which were superior to the Type 32 in terms of comprehensive performance, and were called the Zero Combat Type 22.

The Zero Combat 22 armor is equipped with a long-barreled 20mm Type 99 No. 2 fixed cannon, and due to the strengthened length, its ballistic performance is slightly better than that of the ordinary 20mm Type 99 No. 2 fixed cannon.

Moreover, the reserve ammunition has also increased compared to the Type 21, and the ammunition for each cannon has increased from 60 to 100 rounds, which is not as stretched as before.

However, Otoha has never had a good impression of Zero, even though this thing has good horizontal mobility, but the structural strength of the remnant thought, the speed of the pit father, and the unarmored design make Otoha insensitive.

The Type 3 Combat Type D is also a cheat thing, and after the MG151/20 ordered by Japan from Germany was out of stock, it had to pick up its own HO-5 cannon. Although this thing is a D-type, it is actually a castrated version of the C-type.

In addition, neither the speed climb nor the horizontal maneuverability of this thing can match its weight of 4.3. I really don't know how this thing was assigned to 4.3, but Otowa thinks that the BF109F-4 of 3.7 will be able to crush this thing in all directions.

The 2.7 and 3.0 Tri-Styles Battle Feiyan are very good, but this 4.3 thing is a bit excessive.

"I don't need to talk about these two planes, Mika?"

"Well, even though it's my own country's plane, I don't like it very much. ā€

Mika also understood what Otowa was referring to

After removing a few cheats, it's time to choose one of the P-51D-5, BF109G-2, Yak-9T, Yak-9U, and Typhoon MK.IB late models.

These fighters have some minor problems, but this is also something that can't be helped, after all, the weight is only 4.3, and you can't care too much.

Thinking of this, Otowa couldn't help but look forward to the national competition in the future, knowing that at that time, it was a top-level piston fighter with a weight of 6.3.