"To promote the traditional friendship between the Navy and the Army, and to promote the continuous improvement of everyone's business quality......"

"Oh, I heard me wrong, it's the constant improvement of combat technology." Ron sat in the thick shade of the coconut tree in the audience, listening to the radio from John. In the speech of Lieutenant Admiral Thatch, I couldn't help but think: "Who said the sentence 'Although the times are different, the world is different, but the reason of the world is the same'? Although there is some conservative and old-fashioned cliché, it is really not completely unreasonable. Otherwise, how could the speech of the leader here be so similar to the speech of the leader at that time? It's really 'ancient and modern, people are the same as me', but Lao Mei's leader is still a little more humane, at least you can hide under the shade when you listen to the speech. You can also drink some soda and eat some melon seeds. ”

Maybe it's because I'm thinking about it, so I don't hear much of what I'm talking about. By the time I listened again, it had already become Major Braun who was speaking.

"The Army and Navy have always been fraternal units that help each other and unite as one. Our confrontation drill is not to prove that our Army Air Force is far stronger than the Navy Air Force, but to hone our skills and jointly defeat little Japan. ”

There was a laugh from below. Almost everyone remembered Braun's murderous speech at the Army's own mobilization meeting a few nights ago.

"Those guys in the navy are so rampant that they don't know how thick the sky is, and they dare to bring it up to compete with us. These guys actually say that he can kill us by a big score by reading a "novel", do you agree? …… Of course we won't agree, we'll kick their ass hard! Let those pseudo-twives in the navy who only show off their white uniforms and deceive die! ……”

Considering the Navy's John . As Thatch spoke, there was laughter in the ranks of the Navy, and it is estimated that the Navy did not say anything good when it was holding its own meeting behind closed doors.

After the two leaders have finished speaking, it is time to get to the real thing. On the naval side was Lieutenant Pilot Lynch. As he walked towards the plane, he lowered his head and recalled the countermeasures that had been taken at the preparatory meeting.

"As far as we know, the P-38 is fast, faster than any previous Army aircraft. But the roll at low speeds is average. If there's a chance to tow it into a scissor flight, the guy is dead. ”

"It's not going to be too flexible. Just try to wrestle with it. ”

"Trick it into making moves, it's such a big guy, it might be able to fly fast, but I'm sure it won't be able to make a few big moves and it will stall."

In short, everyone thinks that such a big guy must be clumsy. Has anyone ever seen an elephant dance? To pit twin-engine light fighters against single-engine light fighters is to make elephants dance.

The first to appear on the Army side was Ron, because he was the most sure one. Winning the next game first is important for morale.

Two aircraft, the Army P-38 and the Navy F4F, took off one after another. According to the regulations, they each carry half a tank of fuel when they take off, and after takeoff, they will first climb in different directions, and then circle in the predetermined position, and the two sides will turn each other to the 3 o'clock position, maintaining a considerable altitude and speed. Wait for the command aircraft to give instructions. An Army B-17 acted as a referee from a position not far away. If you are bitten within range for 60 seconds, or if you are shot 4 times by the opponent, you will be considered a failure. (In fact, Ron thinks that biting for 30 seconds is enough) This rule is actually not good for the army, the P-38 has much more firepower than the F4F, and the body is stronger, under normal circumstances, the number of shots required by the P-38 to shoot down the F4F is far lower than the number of shots required by the F4F to shoot down the P-38. However, the pilots of the army practiced on the P-38 and believed that this would not affect the outcome. In addition, the height of both sides must not be lower than 1,500 meters, and either side is considered to have crashed if it is lowered to this height during the battle.

As soon as they flew together, Lynch realized that something was wrong, and the P-38 climbed much faster than the F4F. He was still far from reaching the predetermined altitude, and Ron was already waiting for him in the P-38 at the predetermined altitude of 4,000 meters. And looking at the hovering state of the P-38, its hovering radius is far from as large as imagined. It seems that the F4F, in addition to its known speed disadvantage, is also a disadvantage in terms of climb. And in terms of circling, it is not necessarily possible to take advantage. Aside from rolling, there's hardly anything stronger. Is there a chance to bring the enemy into the scissor flight? If the opponent was other army pilots, he still had such confidence, but now his opponent is Ron. Would he make such a low-level mistake? But fortunately, he didn't have much pressure, and the navy could still tolerate defeat. Prior John. Thatch has already said that there is a lot of reward for defeating Ron, and if you can't beat it, it's acceptable. So although Ron wanted to put pressure on him with a rapid climb, Lynch was not aware of the pressure at all.

The two sides circled in an invisible ring about a kilometer in diameter, each at 3 o'clock in the direction of the other. The intense and exciting competition is about to begin. Just when the game was about to start, near the arena, a UFO of electromagnetic stealth + visual stealth + infrared ultraviolet stealth hovered quietly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what is being broadcast live to you here is a friendly match between the U.S. Naval Air Corps and the U.S. Army Air Corps. This friendly is the first in a series of warm-up matches for the Kuah Island Series. Broadcast live to you by crossing TV, just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, I am here to greet you in your old age. I am the host Han Dazui, and this one next to me is our special guest, Director Shaozhong Zhang of the Strategic Fooling Bureau...... Considering that many viewers have just turned on the elevator and are not very clear about the current situation, we asked Director Zhang to give us a little comment. ”

"Many viewers always think that the P-38 is a new weapon, but the new weapon does not determine the victory or defeat of the war, the key factor that determines the victory or defeat is the people, Grandpa Mao taught us...... Besides, is the P-38 really a new aircraft? I can't see it. You look at its number, 38, one breaks 38, and there are 39 and 40 behind it. In fact, the P-38 project was established very early, so the numbers were all in front of the P-39 Huey Cobra. It's a pity for Lockheed?? Martin is completely ineffective, it has been working on it for n years, and it has not been produced until recently. It can be said that it has fallen behind as soon as it was born. This new airplane is just an old cucumber painted green -- pretending to be tender. Why am I ......?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, as the coach blew the whistle, the game began. The atmosphere at the scene was so tense that every white cloud launched a fierce scramble...... Viewers participating in the interactive program should edit the text message and send it to 145254188 or call 00544 ext. 44944......"

After the referee gave the order to start, Lynch immediately cut the inside line and approached Ron, while Ron continued to hover and began to pull the nose to climb. Lynch cut into Ron's back half at once, but the distance between the two sides was still far away. Lynch bit Ron and climbed with it. "Just catch up a little more!"

Ron's climb angle began to increase, and Lynch's F4F became more and more overwhelmed. Now the situation between the two sides has changed again, Ron is still at Lynch's 3 o'clock, and his height is already much higher than Lynch. If you continue to spiral like this. Two more laps at most, either Ron went around Lynch's back dribble and used the height advantage to launch a dive attack, or Lynch desperately followed hard and stalled himself. Sure enough, after another circle, Lynch's F4F was already at two o'clock in Ron's position, and his plane was now very slow, relying on desperately pulling the nose to maintain the altitude, it looked like the whole plane was hanging on a propeller.

Lynch understands that his situation is very unfavorable now, and he can no longer think about offense, and he must think about defense immediately. So Lynch began to roll sideways, ready to pull the nose into a dive. But he had to be careful and gentle enough to move at this point - any slight movement could stall his plane.

But by this time Ron had already attacked, he quickly swooped over, and bit Lynch's six points tightly, and Lynch took a sharp turn and dodged. Ron didn't immediately make a sharp turn, but pulled the plane up at a wide angle and dived down again. He kept dodging left and right, and each dodge lowered his height by a large margin, and what was even worse was that the kinetic energy obtained by descending the height was constantly consumed in the dodge. If this continues, the altitude will definitely fall below 1500 meters very quickly, and then it will be judged to have crashed. But what if you just swoop and run away? The P-38 is not something that will fall apart with a slight dive like the Zero, and it is not so easy to get rid of the P-38's tail biting by diving. But that's the only way to try it now.

Lynch's plane began to dive downward, and Ron followed, biting hard. Lynch saw that the readings on the altimeter were constantly changing. 6000 (feet), 5600, if you don't pull it up, you will directly rush below 4900, and you will be sentenced to crash directly. However, Lynch doesn't plan to pull it up, and if he pulls it up, he will be shot down by others, so it is better to rush down directly. If Ron follows too closely in the back, he will rush down, and it will be a tie.

But Ron still let him down, from the dive chase on, Ron has always kept an eye on the speedometer and altimeter (who dares not to see these when driving the P-38 dive), and when Lynch is rushing straight down, Ron has already lowered the dive flaps and began to prepare for the exit of the dive.

In the first game, the Army led 1-0.

This result is entirely in John's. Thatch's expectation, in fact, few people thought that Lynch could kill Ron in such a heads-up. But the course of the fight put a lot of pressure on him - in this encounter, Ron didn't show any special skills. He relied almost entirely on the performance superiority of the P-38 to suppress his opponents. In fact, he was demonstrating to his comrades in the back how to kill F4F in the simplest way. At this time, every naval pilot was thinking about what would happen if he had just been himself, and what could he do. Petrov looked up at William, only to see that William had also turned his head to look at him. The two men smiled at each other, but sighed together. They found themselves helpless, and it seemed that the P-38 was far more difficult than they had estimated, and the prospects for this game looked very unpromising.

The confrontation that followed was essentially a repetition of the first one, with the Army constantly bullying the Navy with the tactics of spiraling. Except for William's game, he met a rookie, William relied on the speed of the lower area first, deliberately made a can't climb up to confuse the opponent, and then through a rapid jump to gain an advantage, and then bit him to the death for 60 seconds to win. In the other few games, the Navy lost completely. They were just as close to a clean sheet.

This confrontation has many consequences. First of all, the first consequence was that in Kuah Island, after the fleet suffered losses and had to retreat, and the security of the entire Kuah Island depended on the Kuah Island airfield, the Navy did not send F4F over, but directly asked the Army for a P-38 squadron.

As for the second consequence, it made Grumman a victim. When the Navy chooses to appear carrier-based aircraft, the battle unfolds between the F6F Hellcat and the F4U Corsair. In its original history, Hellcat has eliminated pirates who had better flight performance in terms of speed, climb, and roll. But this time, the pirates had the last laugh. Because the Navy asked: "Can your Hellcat beat the P-38?" ”

Attached are two questions about the non-prize competition (the bottle is a newcomer and very poor):

1. Who is the prototype of the host and guest of the crossing TV?

2. What were the errors in Director Zhang's introduction to the P-38?