The two behemoths in front of Wang Yong and Wenwen were two Russian-made Mi-26 heavy helicopters that had just arrived at the base.

The Mi-26 is a twin-engine multi-purpose heavy transport helicopter developed by the Miri Design Bureau of the former Soviet Union, codenamed "Halo" by NATO.

This helicopter is the heaviest helicopter in service in the world today, setting a number of world first records, which no one has been able to break until now, and is designed and produced by the former Soviet Union's Mir Moscow Helicopter Factory.

The Mi-26 is 40 meters long, more than 8 meters high, and has a staggering 32 meters in diameter of its rotors! The empty weight of the whole aircraft is 28.2 tons, the load is nearly 50 tons, and the maximum take-off weight reaches 56 tons.

The big guy is equipped with two high-power engines, and each engine has an independent oil supply system. It has ten fuel tanks, eight of which are under the cockpit floor and two above the engines, with a maximum fuel capacity of 12 thousand liters.

The cruising speed of the aircraft reaches 255 kilometers per hour, and the practical ceiling is 5,500 meters. It can fly 800 kilometers without auxiliary fuel tanks, and the range can be increased to nearly 2,000 kilometers with the addition of four large auxiliary fuel tanks.

The Mi-26 has a large space in the cargo compartment, which can carry two infantry armored vehicles and a standard container of 20 tons. If it is used for the transport of personnel, it can accommodate 85 heavily armed soldiers, or 60 stretchers and four or five medical personnel.

In addition, the top of the cargo compartment of the machine is equipped with guide rails and two electric winches with a lifting weight of 2.5 tons to facilitate loading and unloading of goods or other materials.

The Mi-26 helicopter has an extremely obvious military use, and the maximum internal and external load of this helicopter is about 20 tons. Equivalent to the load capacity of the C-130 "Hercules" transport aircraft noted by the American company Lockheed.

At present, in civilian use, the Mi-26 is mainly used to transport all kinds of large equipment and personnel in remote areas that are not accessible by roads or ground transportation.

The two aircraft at the base are the Mi-26TP for firefighting and the Mi-26S for disaster relief. All are new models that have been modernized and professionally modified.

Because of its huge size, it was very complex to fly, and in the early days it even had a crew of five, so its cockpit was also the largest helicopter cockpit in the world.

The two aircraft introduced by the base have made great improvements to the piloting system and airborne equipment, and at the same time, some relevant improvements have been made in China that are suitable for China's national conditions.

After a series of improvements, the two big guys now only need two pilots to complete the mission.

Due to the Mi-26's large size and huge load capacity, the fuel consumption of its two engines is staggering. It reached 2.5 tons per hour, which is about 3000 liters!

And the average car is about a dozen liters an hour, even if it is a heavy truck. At most, there are no more than 100 liters, so you can imagine how huge the fuel consumption of the Mi-26 is.

In China's Wenchuan earthquake rescue, two Mi-26s participated in the post-earthquake rescue and rescue. Its core task is to transport large machinery and equipment to the emergency operation area.

According to the Chinese pilots who participated in the equipment transfer mission, the excavator and other equipment were lifted from the take-off point to the dammed lake operation area. The flight distance is about five kilometers. A round trip takes about twenty-five minutes.

According to the price of 7,000 yuan per ton of aviation fuel at that time, the cost of lifting an excavator for a round trip was about 30,000 yuan.

According to some media reports, when performing firefighting operations, the flight cost of the Mi-26 heavy helicopter per hour reached a staggering 130,000 yuan!

The two Mi-26s introduced by our country before were the two that were leased from the Russian side before they made great contributions to the Wenchuan earthquake relief work. (It was rented before the earthquake and purchased after the earthquake.) After that, another one was bought, and now there are five of these big guys in Huaxia with the addition of the base.

Considering the fuel consumption of such a big guy. Before flying to the base, it was already sent to domestic aircraft factories for electrification modifications. Canceled the bulky volume. The engine, which is very fuel-guzzling, was replaced with a super electric motor specially developed for him.

Replacing two fuel-powered engines with two high-power electric motors alone saved more than five tons of weight.

At the same time, it was equipped with six tons of the highest-grade Golden Dragon aviation battery, which not only reduced the load of the aircraft, but also increased the flight range by nearly 1,000 kilometers, and it had a range of nearly 2,000 kilometers without auxiliary fuel tanks.

Thanks to this improvement, the load of the aircraft has not decreased at all, and has even increased slightly. At the same time, the cost of flying has been greatly reduced, and the flight noise has also been reduced to an acceptable distance.

These two heavy helicopters were specially purchased by Wang Yong after seeing such a big guy, and they were specially used for disaster relief and fire rescue. If these two big guys were there in the last forest fire, there was really no need to worry about it.

In addition, ten new electric versions of Black Hawk helicopters have been added to the base, which have been electrically converted. However, these planes were not purchased from the United States, but Wang Yong copied the industrial mother machine of the underground base, so that its performance exceeded the original in an all-round way.

These planes are usually mainly used for air patrol missions over the village in the middle of the mountain, because this is the sky over the village, in order to prevent the noise of the aircraft from affecting the production and life of the masses, the electric version can only be selected, which is an acceptable version of the noise.

Compared to the loud noise of the fuel engine, the sound of the electric motor is simply more than mentioned. The helicopter flew slightly higher, and there was no sound on the ground at all.

"It's huge!"

Wenwen, the little guy, leaned on Wang Yong's thigh, leaned up her little head hard, and used her little hands to block the sun above her eyes, trying to see how tall this big guy was.

"Hehe, let's go, godfather will take you up to have a look."

"Yes, yes! Take a big plane! Godfather, hurry up! ”

Wenwen was so happy that she took Wang Yong away and left, and she disliked him for walking slowly, and kept urging her to hurry into the tall jerking off plane in this building.

"Oh, don't worry. It's just here and it's not going to fly away. ”

"No, no. Hurry up, can't people wait? ”

"Okay, okay, let's take a big plane!"

The news of the arrival of two huge and incomparably large guys at the base quickly spread. The most that an older person knows is that this should be a helicopter with wings on the top of their heads? You can't be mistaken.

Young people, on the other hand, immediately know the details about the plane as soon as they go online. When I turned around, I went to those elderly uncles and uncles to show off.

Heard that this big guy can lift a weight of twenty tons. Many fellows who came to see the novelty were surprised to grow their mouths, and they couldn't close them for a long time!

God! That's awesome, isn't it?

Since then, these two Mi-26s have had a new nickname here in Banshan Village - Sacred Cow. It means that this guy is as powerful as the legendary sacred cow.

Within a few days, the first Be-200 seaplane also flew to the seaplane base, which was officially named Banshan Lake.

Banshan Lake was originally a reservoir belonging to Yangjia Village, and soon after the establishment of the base, because of the relationship between the aura. It attracts a large number of birds to inhabit and breed here. It is a natural nature reserve for large birds.

However, because it is inside a military base, there is no need to establish any protection zone at all. No matter how good a person is, he will not dare to come to the military base to poach! Isn't that the birthday boy always eating arsenic - impatient to live?

When Sun Hao learned that Wang Yong had bought two seaplanes without consulting anyone and needed to park here, he cooperated with the base to dispatch a large number of engineers who were engaged in infrastructure construction to expand the area of the reservoir by more than two times!

At present, this reservoir or Banshan Lake has expanded to a large lake with a maximum length of more than 6 kilometers from north to south, a maximum width of 3.5 kilometers from east to west, and a maximum depth of 60 meters.

In order to ensure that the birds that inhabit here will not cause trouble to the flight of the plane, Wang Yong also deliberately asked the hanger to go out and moved them all to the mountains and forests near the village. The airspace near the lake was given up to ensure flight safety.

Anyway. There are many ponds in the mountains near the village that were built to store water in the past, although some are large and some are small, but there is always water and fish, and you can't starve the birds that like to eat fish.

As for the stupid and bold guy like the monster fish, people don't care. Even when the seaplane first arrived at the base and landed on the surface of the lake, there were many monster fish chasing after the plane!

As soon as the plane stopped at the newly built dock, as soon as the pilot opened the hatch, before they could react, several large monster fish turned into the plane to see what was fresh, which made the pilot who saw them for the first time startled and took out his gun.

Sun Hao was worried about the construction of the Military Academy, and Wang Yong was fishing for three days at most, and he came over for two days to dry the nets and go around. Most of the time I take a look at it and leave, and only when I bring Wenwen over to play, will I stay for a while longer.

Therefore, Wenwen has now become one of the most popular people in the base among those high-level people. Because they have a lot of things that they hope Wang Yong can help with an idea, but most of the time, Wang Yong hid without saying a word when he heard that they were going to talk to him.

Only when Wenwen also came, he couldn't hide, and he could only listen to them chatter in his ear.

Now, with the arrival of a large number of heavily equipped troops and army engineers, the base has become overcrowded, and there are more sufficient manpower and more advanced weapons and equipment to protect the oil fruit forest.

Today, a company of infantry patrols the groves every day, heavily armed, and at least one battalion of troops is stationed on the outskirts of the groves.

At the same time, there is also a fire brigade with 12 fire trucks also moved in to ensure the absolute safety of the oil fruit forest.

Because of the huge destructive effect of tracked vehicles on the road, there are only a very few tracked vehicles equipped here at the base, and most of the others are wheeled.

For example, the latest electric version of the wheeled infantry combat vehicle that the troops participating in the patrol and guard are riding, as well as wheeled self-propelled mortars, wheeled anti-aircraft missile launchers, wheeled anti-tank missile launchers, etc.

But the strong guards did not stop the greedy people, and wave after wave of peeps were driven away, but fortunately, everyone was still restrained, and there were no violent clashes.

But all the soldiers on the patrol knew that a violent clash or even a shootout was inevitable, because the benefits of the oil fruit were so great that some people would take the risk of it. (To be continued......)

PS: Today is China's first national memorial day, from this year, every year on December 13, our country will hold a national memorial event, in addition to the 300,000 compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre, but also all the victims who were killed during China's war of aggression.

Don't forget the national shame, be prepared for danger in times of peace, and hope that those tragedies will never appear on the land of China again!