"Dear Helmut. Johannes. Ludwig. Feng. General Moltke, what you see next will be a weapon that can change history. When it is born www.biquge.info the battle on the battlefield will be free from the shackles of the earth. A weapon that soars through the skies and will dominate the battlefield and dominate the land! And the German Empire must not be left behind in this new military change. —His Royal Highness Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria.

Moltke Jr. was a little surprised when he saw this letter, although they had met each other a few times and discussed military issues, but there were not many words to talk about, after all, the two sides were not a system. Both the prince and Moltke did not like the complicated social activities of the aristocracy, and Prince Ruprecht did not have to reap the benefits of being false with others, even the famous Tirpitz in history was beaten when he should have been beaten, and he never showed mercy.

Although Moltke Jr. is not a nobleman, but with the prestige of Old Moltke, he is also a top nobleman in Prussia, and the acquisition of various reputations is even more like an insult in his opinion, Moltke Jr. once said something like this: "My uncle fought all his life to win the honorary title of the Knights of the Black Hawk, and I obtained it through only one exercise, I think this is a blasphemy of glory!" ”

This time, the prince suddenly sent a letter and enclosed a package weighing 35KG, which surprised Moltke, "It seems that there is nothing between us that needs such a heavy package, right?" Little Moltke hesitated, but let the servant open the package, which contained a sealed box, and when the box was opened, hundreds of photographs were arranged in different categories!

"It's ......." The first photo caught Moltke's eye, a winged aircraft took off from the ground, the shooting distance should not be far, and Moltke could even make out a machine gun fixed next to the seat of the plane!

"This is a brand-new aircraft, which combines industrial technology and aerodynamics, and this is the first aircraft with a greater density than air to be successfully tested! He will have a very important military role. Underneath the photo, these are these small lines.

Moltke then immediately put the photos on the table and flipped through them, and dismissed the others, he needed to digest what he saw, and the new flying machine in this photo showed its immense power! Whether it's using a machine gun to strafe ground targets, or diving to drop bombs (well, the angle is a bit too much to embellished with the word dive. All of them made Moltke feel a little refreshing, even a little amazing! These are simply amazing to him!

What particularly attracted him was the technical data of this new type of aircraft, but the 440KG empty weight aircraft could carry a fully armed 80KG personnel and 50KG weapons and fuel to fly 100KM away, this performance is simply outstanding! This carrying capacity is not outstanding, not to mention the airship, a hot air balloon performs better than it, but the key is that this thing itself is light!

Just last year, Count Zeppelin built the first hard airship, the LZ-1, which was up to 129 meters long and 11.6 meters in diameter. It consists of a through-keel and 24 wooden bridges, as well as a large number of horizontal and longitudinal tensions. Moltke Jr. visited the behemoth as a guest of honor, and was impressed by its cigar-sized size.

The airship has a total of 16 airbags with a total volume of 22,500 cubic meters and a maximum lift of 13 tons, and in addition to the airbags, there are also 8.7 tons of weight that can be used to install pods, power equipment and other accessories. The maximum ceiling is 2500 meters. Almost everyone was shocked by this giant in the air, and the designer of the airship at that time, Count Zeppelin, even smiled at Moltke and said that his airship could be loaded with bombs and used as a flying aerial heavy gun, and after learning the details of the airship, Moltke could only laugh, because he knew that this thing was not easy to use!

Not to mention anything else, the excessively expensive cost of this airship determines that it cannot be mass-produced, and the production of 22,500 cubic meters of hydrogen for a single airship is a problem, and an airship needs a huge hydrogen factory to be responsible for supplying! And the airship needs to be repaired and maintained, this must be carried out on the ground, and it is definitely not possible to do it in the open air, so a huge warehouse is needed.

Think about it, a storehouse ...... that could house an airship. A huge storehouse about 180 meters long and at least 25 meters high, and this storeroom must also be rotatable. That's right, you read that right, this warehouse must be able to rotate, because the volume of the airship is too large, and the power is too small, and it is too difficult to get the airship into a certain warehouse by itself, so it must be fixed by the airship, and then let the airship warehouse rotate, and when the gate is aimed at the airship, the airship will be brought in .......

Think about it, such a huge airship hangar can still turn, what a hell of a thing! Take the historical German giant twin airship hangar in Nordholz as an example, this huge guy has a length of 200 meters, a height of 30 meters, a total weight of 4,600 tons, and it takes about an hour to rotate around it, and the surrounding area is very flat, and there is not even concealment! There can't be shelter, after all, the airship is so big, if there is something next to it, how can the airship get in?

Of course, there is a very important problem with the airship, that is, it is too easy to damage, according to Moltke's words, as long as a 37MM cannon shell can turn the airship into a cloud of ashes, after all, it is full of hydrogen, and it is impossible for the airship to have armor protection!

Although Count Zeppelin repeatedly emphasized the huge bomb load of the airship, and said that this airship can hold hundreds of kilograms of bombs, Moltke Jr. was still unmoved, because it seems that the load capacity of 8.7 tons is very large, but after accommodating the gondola, engine compartment, fuel and ballast, there are very few bombs that can be accommodated.

"The deterrent effect is much greater than the actual effect." This is what Moltke had to say about the airship!

But the plane in front of you is different, how big is this thing? Moreover, the plane can approach the speed of more than 70 kilometers per hour, which is actually no slower than the airship. Although there is something debatable about what is reflected on these photos. Yes, you read that right, Moltke had already seen the problem in these pictures, something was too deliberate, but he didn't intend to expose it all, because in his opinion, it was all necessary, and he even wanted to remind the prince how to make ......it better.

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