Throughout the 30s, there was still a great misunderstanding about the use of the Air Force. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

For example, most of the opinions are that it is more cost-effective to attack ground targets with ground forces, and it is too expensive and dangerous to use aircraft.

Therefore, in this era, most of the aircraft, although they are bombing, generally carry out strategic bombing from high altitudes, and the target has no ability to counterattack. And when it is necessary to solve point targets with high value, dive bombers are often preferred.

The Spanish Civil War was a testing ground for new weapons, and Germany sent their own weapons to Spain for testing, in addition to weapons, but also their tactical ideas.

The Stuka bomber, which became famous in the Spanish Civil War, was a dive bomber that was quite threatening to ground targets.

Moreover, in addition to dive bombing, new discoveries have been made, such as the armed version of the Henschel Hs123 and the cannon-Henschel He112, which have also been verified, showing that the aircraft is a highly efficient weapon even without bombs. It is possible to sweep ground targets, that is, specialized ground attack aircraft!

The experience of the Spanish Civil War led the Luftwaffe to agree to develop an aircraft for an offensive role, and eventually signed a contract for the development of a new "attack aircraft".

And the final manifestation of this contract is the current HS-129.

This is simply a cross-era invention with far-reaching influence, and the later American specialized A-10 attack aircraft can be said to be completely inspired by the HS-129.

It's exciting enough to think about it, this kind of specialized attack aircraft, firing wildly at ultra-low altitudes of tens of meters, can be equipped with large-caliber aircraft guns and machine guns, and at most a few bombs as ingredients, can turn any target on the ground into a slaughterhouse!

It is so difficult to resist it, such an aircraft is simply an armored aircraft. Unless it is a direct hit of an artillery shell, machine gun bullets or artillery shell fragments are just a tickle for it, and fighters and anti-aircraft guns are not sure to deal with it, and it is even more like no one on the ground for ordinary ground targets.

This kind of plane is a flying tank!

At the same time, the design of it, first of all, starts from the protection, and it also has special needs if it wants to sweep over the ground and exert its majesty.

On the battlefield, the aircraft received damage from the ground, mainly from rifle and machine gun fire, so it was necessary to thicken the armor around the cockpit and engine, and the windshield was also made of 75 mm thick bulletproof glass.

Because of the need to fly at low altitudes and strafe ground targets directly with machine guns, the cockpit should be as close to the nose as possible so that the pilot can see the ground. At the same time, there was another requirement, though not technical, that would determine the success or failure of the design: the Imperial Ministry of Aviation required that the aircraft be equipped with "unimportant" low-power engines that were not used in other designs, so that the aircraft would not crowd out the fighters and bombers that were the main producers.

In later history, many theories are that the HS-129 was stimulated by the Soviet Union's Il-2 strike aircraft, in fact, the research of this aircraft began after the end of the Spanish Civil War, but after being stimulated, the development was accelerated.

But now, with the crossing of Ciric, everything is different, as long as the project supported by Ciric, of course, can be developed quickly, and at the same time, Germany's better conditions than in history have also made the development of this aircraft smoother.

If you compare, the double-engine Hs129 is higher than the single-engine Stuka survivability, and the Hs129's speed, ceiling, range, armor, and bomb load are higher than the JU-87G, it can be said that this aircraft comprehensively surpasses the Stuka, you know, the Stuka is still fixed with landing gear, and there is no armor protection.

However, it is the Hs129's dual launch, heavy armor protection, and high firepower that make the Hs129 cockpit particularly narrow and poor in flight maneuverability.

These advantages and disadvantages were shown on the HS-129 of the Air Force, but this aircraft of the Navy improved on the shortcomings of poor maneuverability.

Very simply, the HS-129 has poor maneuverability, in addition to factors such as armor and so on, there is another factor, that is, the engine, the HS-129 of the Air Force, uses a G.R.14M 14-cylinder air-cooled engine with a single power of 700 horsepower.

The Air Force's need for aircraft numbers is so urgent that it is impossible to crowd out the production of other aircraft for such specialized ground attack aircraft, and for the Navy, this is not a problem.

Now, the naval aviation has only a few hundred planes in total, and this attack aircraft, after being taken by the navy, first replaced the low-power engine.

Swap it for what? Almost identical to the FW190, the 14-cylinder twin planetary air-cooled BMW 801!

For the Navy, the use of the same engine can effectively reduce maintenance problems, and the types of accessories can also be greatly reduced, and it doesn't matter if it is extravagant, anyway, there are only a few ships on board now, and even if they are equipped one after another, the total number will not exceed 100.

This engine, which was able to output 1,500 horsepower in the initial model, was optimized for use on the HS-129 and reduced to 1,200 horsepower, which was mainly based on reliability and fuel consumption.

The higher the horsepower of the engine, the better the natural performance for the aircraft, but at the expense of other aspects, the most important of which is life and fuel consumption.

For example, a small QQ engine, after the engineer's modification, can also output 500 horsepower, but it is scrapped in an hour.

After changing this new engine, the disadvantages of the HS-129 due to thick armor and so on have been eliminated, and the maneuverability has been greatly improved, which makes the Air Force envious.

The Air Force can't afford it, and it's reluctant.

Now, this aircraft has just been developed, and there are only a few sporadic aircraft on board, and this is their first actual combat flight, and at the same time, it also has the meaning of testing the performance of this aircraft.

At this time, in the cramped cockpit, the pilot, Second Lieutenant Steinkamp, was methodically preparing for takeoff.

If you look at it from the outside, the cockpit is actually not small, the width is the same as that of a fighter, but inside, almost everyone has to curl up, and this is because of the armor protection.

The first thing to protect, of course, is people, this ground attack aircraft is specially designed with a bathtub-like armor protection, and the pilot almost sits on the bathtub, so that all kinds of shells fired on the ground can be blocked.

At the same time, this bathtub also deteriorates the pilot's environment, and the large bathtub means that the armor is heavier, so the bathtub is naturally as small as possible, which makes the space inside very limited.

These are not the places that Steinkamp complained, and when he heard that even the British bangbang could not penetrate his bathtub armor, as a pilot, of course, he was the happiest.

It's smaller, it's acceptable.

On both wings, the engines were started in turn, and the good forward visibility allowed him to skillfully align with the take-off runway.

It's his turn!

The throttle was fully open, the brakes were released, and the HS-129 attack aircraft, from the warship, slid in style, and before reaching the very front of the deck, it was already pulled up!

With two BMW engines, it's a luxury, a waste! This is the result of compressed power, and if you use the latest model with this 2000 horsepower, it will definitely be even more against the sky!

Strike, strike!

At the same time that the Count Zeppelin was flying carrier-based aircraft, another Adolf Hitler was also constantly flying carrier-based aircraft.

Both warships, both of which have the maximum number of aircraft, are equipped with 72 carrier-based aircraft each, and now, for each aircraft carrier, 5 FW190s are left for fleet air defense, and the rest of the carrier-based aircraft are all released!

More than 130 carrier-based planes rushed towards Scapa Bay, less than 200 nautical miles away.

The Air Force fired the first shot, and their Navy, which was finished in the past, must be beautiful! Not a single one can be left!