When the general of the Manman Air Force introduced him, he was obviously very proud.

Of course, this is perfectly understandable.

Up to now, the expeditionary brigade of the Imperial Army Air Force has been fighting in the Empire for two years, and has invested more than 4,000 bombers, with a total strength of nearly 200,000. The point is that the Empire also provided the Empire with materials capable of producing thousands of fighter jets through various means.

Aluminum ingots alone have already provided about 150,000 tons.

If anything, without the aid from the Empire, the Manman Air Force would have been beaten down long ago.

If nothing else, just the strategic bombing of the Royal Air Force and the Nuland Army Air Force reduced the industrial output value of the Empire by more than 30%.

The key point is that this is still the loss suffered by the Imperial Army Aviation under the premise that the Imperial Army Aviation sent an expeditionary group to participate in the war and greatly weakened the strategic bombing capability of the Alliance Group through counterattacks. Without the expeditionary brigade of the Imperial Army Aviation, the losses of the Empire would have been even heavier.

If you have to say, there are not even enough pilots in the Manman Air Force.

So far, counting the officers and men of the expeditionary brigade, there have been more than 10,000 imperial pilots who have volunteered to fight in the Empire, and nearly 30 percent of them have joined the Empire.

Affected by this, in front of the imperial generals, the generals of the Manman Air Force felt a little unable to raise their heads.

Now, I can finally raise my eyebrows, and naturally I have to show off.

However, these generals of the Manman Air Force are obviously looking for the wrong target.

Bai Zhizhan was a naval general, and he was not very interested in the affairs of the Air Force, but he was actually interested in the radio-controlled bombs used by the Manman Air Force in this battle.

For remote-controlled bombs, Bai Zhizhan also has some understanding.

Long before the outbreak of the Great War, the Imperial Army and Navy had done relevant research, or rather projects, but all of them were fruitless.

Of course, it's mainly about the technical aspects.

In the beginning, the chief engineer of the project got the wrong direction and felt that it was too difficult to remotely control by radio. The most critical point is that in the process of remote control, the operator cannot maintain effective observation of the bomb all the time, so it is impossible to judge the ballistic deviation.

As a result, the Empire's scientists pinned their hopes on a remote control method that did not require ballistic observation.

Although in the long run, this is the inevitable development direction of control technology, at the time, it was clearly beyond the scope of what technology could support.

At the outbreak of the Great War, the Reich had abandoned the development of remote-controlled bombs.

Of course, this also has to do with the fact that the Imperial military does not have an urgent need.

For the Imperial Army aviation, especially the newly formed Strategic Aviation, remote-controlled bombs were not of great value.

Throughout the war, the Imperial Strategic Air Force embraced the doctrine of "overlay bombing," that is, increasing the amount of bombs dropped to destroy targets.

If one bomber can't do it, send a group of bombers over.

One ton of bombs cannot destroy the target, so a hundred tons of bombs are used.

One bombing was not enough, and the bombing was repeated ten times.

It's simple and crude, but it works.

For tactical aviation, it is even more non-existent.

The low-altitude attack aircraft that shined in the big war mainly used ammunition with the accuracy of rockets, and they were able to improve their accuracy by diving and dropping bombs, so there was no need to use remote-controlled bombs, let alone tactical aircraft that did not have such capabilities.

On the side of naval aviation, the situation is actually more or less the same.

For a long time, in the battle against warships, naval aviation relied on dive-dropping bombs, and did not think about using remote-controlled bombs to increase the hit rate.

The point is that carrier-based aircraft are all tactical aircraft, torpedo planes have only 3 crew members, and bombers generally have only 2 members.

In addition, the size of the carrier-based aircraft is not very large, and there is no place to install remote-controlled equipment that is not lightweight.

Although after the outbreak of the Great War, both the Imperial Army and Navy increased their investment in the field of technology, and also began to reconsider the use of remote control and other methods to improve the hit rate of bombs, but all efforts were based on basic research, and neither the Army nor the Navy had the need for actual combat.

Obviously, the Manman Air Force is different.

The Manman Navy did not have real aviation, so the task of naval control fell to the Manman Air Force.

Although the Manman Air Force has a large number of dive bombers with very advanced performance, tactical bombers such as the Ju-87 have a very short combat radius.

As a result, in many cases, only twin-engine long-range bombers were able to play.

Obviously, attacking a battleship with a long-range bomber will definitely require high-precision ammunition.

This problem became even more prominent after entering Lu Xinhai.

Because the Raleigh Kingdom is very weak and drops the chain in various ways, the Riman Air Force not only has to fight alone, but most of the time, it can only rely on long-range bombers deployed in the southern region of Rock Country to deal with the Bran fleet operating in Lu Xinhai.

After a few battles, bomb accuracy became a big problem.

It's just that the advantages of long-range bombers have also been demonstrated.

The bomb load is large enough, generally more than 2 tons, and the new bomber is more than 3 tons.

Bombers have many crew members, so having one or two crew members dedicated to remote control of bombs will not make a difference.

Of course, the size of the bomber is large, and it can carry remote control equipment that is not small in size.

It is precisely in this way that, compared with tactical aircraft, long-range bombers are the ideal delivery platform, and they can also give full play to the value of remote-controlled bombs.

Crucially, there is an urgent need for the Manman Air Force in this regard.

After the defeat of Malta, or to be precise, the enemy's counterattack on Malta, the need for naval operations in the direction of Lu Xinhai became very urgent.

It was also in this context that the Empire took the lead in developing radio-controlled bombs.

To the surprise of Bai Zhi's strategic sense, Engineer Juman used a very simple and crude method to solve the number one problem that caused the Imperial Engineers to abandon the development of radio-controlled bombs.

This is after the bomb is dropped, because the bomb cannot be seen, there is no way to operate it remotely.

The solution that engineers came up with was very simple.

In the tail section of the bomb, a dozen high-power luminous tubes were installed!

In this way, the operator, with the assistance of optical equipment such as a telescope or bombing sight, can observe the bomb's flight path and then operate the bomb remotely.

Although this has high requirements for bombing platforms, that is, bombers, and restrictions on tactics, it has proved to work in actual combat, and the effect is not bad.

If anything, the efforts made by the Manman Air Force are tantamount to announcing that a new era is coming.

Although the Imperial Navy has not yet obtained remote-controlled bombs, nor does it have combat aircraft that can use remote-controlled bombs, Bai Zhizhan has been keenly aware that the advent of remote-controlled bombs will completely change the current bombing tactics and increase the combat efficiency of bombers by several orders of magnitude.

When the remote control technology matures, both dive bombers and torpedo attack aircraft will become a thing of the past.

In addition, aviation torpedoes are sent to the museum.

In the future, carrier-based aircraft, in addition to fighters, will only be bombers with remote-controlled bombs as their main weapon.

The Navy will not die, and aircraft carriers will not die.

In the era of remote-controlled bombs, the position of aircraft carriers will be more secure, because carrier-based aircraft using remote-controlled bombs can destroy all sea and ground targets.

However, Bai Zhizhan also knew that this era would certainly not come during the Great War.