The Chinese Imperial Air Force has obtained a full set of design drawings and related technical and equipment materials for the F17 fighter and the carrier-based F18 fighter, and with the strong industrial strength of the Chinese Empire, the speed of production will be very fast. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The related technologies used in the F17 and F18 fighters are the results of more than ten years of struggle in the aviation field of the Chinese Empire. Even if the German Empire also got the wind tunnel laboratory provided by Hitla, after all, it started late, more than ten years later than the Chinese Empire, and the gap generated in this way, even if the Chinese Empire stopped moving forward and the German Empire was catching up, it would be tired and vomit blood. What's more, the Chinese Empire will not stand still, but will continue to develop like a rocket.

This is destined to be a long-term technology race.

With the F17 land-based fighter and the F18 carrier-based fighter, the Imperial Air Force of China will not be afraid of the Imperial German Air Force in a short period of time, and will have a huge performance advantage over the German Fokker E3 fighter.

In addition, the suppression of the air sphere of influence of the German Empire was not only by fighters, but also by bombers.

Hitra prematurely exposed the bomber achievements of the German Air Force, and an English Channel incident forced the Chinese Empire to also introduce more powerful bombers.

In order to counter the most advanced and powerful Gotha bomber of the German Imperial Air Force, the Imperial Air Force of China has obtained a new bomber this time, which is also a treasure of the Imperial Academy of Sciences that has been developed and sealed for many years.

The new bomber was named F20 by the Armament Committee of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, and the number F19 was directly defaulted. This is because the Imperial Chinese Air Force Armament Committee hopes to use the F19, the default model, to confuse the enemy and make the enemy feel mysterious, and the more they feel mysterious, the more manpower and financial resources they will invest in collecting intelligence, which is also equivalent to a strategic flickering tactic, so that the enemy cannot distinguish between the virtual and the real of the development of the Chinese Imperial Air Force equipment.

This idea was quickly highly praised by the Imperial Chinese military, and the Imperial War Department soon formulated an annex for equipment naming, which added a provision that the new equipment was no longer numbered in order, but rather shuffled the order and numbering, and some numbers were omitted by default, which was used to confuse the enemy and make it impossible for the hostile country to distinguish between the virtual and the real.

As soon as the Gotha bomber of the German Empire came out, it had a huge shock throughout Europe, causing panic in the European countries around the German Empire, after all, this kind of bomber that could throw eggs from the sky and down was almost impossible to prevent.

In particular, the royal families and nobles of European countries are worried all day long, worried that one day a Gotha bomber will appear on top of their house, drop a 50-kilogram smashed egg, and then they and their families will be killed in an instant.

This panic was real, and the garrison of the Chinese Empire in Europe did not carry bombers at that time, but the Chinese Imperial Military reassured the European friends not to be afraid, after all, at that time, the Chinese Imperial Air Force deployed a large number of F16 and F16 modified fighters in military bases around Europe, even if the Gotha bombers of the German Empire flew over, they could be shot down directly.

However, when the German Empire soon developed the Fokker E3 fighter, this fighter posed a challenge and threat to the F16 fighters of the Imperial Chinese Air Force.

With an air exercise of the German Empire, the German army dispatched a large number of Fokker E3 fighters to cover the Gotha bombers to carry out bombing missions, and simulated that after the Fokker E3 fighters intercepted the F16 fighters of the Chinese Empire, the Gotha bombers successfully completed the bombing mission of the capital of a certain country.

As a result, European countries began to be nervous again, and they were terrified of the Gotha bomber, and the media of various countries jokingly called it a Gotha disaster for Europeans.

Now the Chinese Empire has also launched the F20 bomber, which is higher than the Gotha bomber of the German Empire in terms of production technology and performance.

In terms of appearance, the F20 bomber has a wingspan of up to 28 meters, which is a full four meters longer than the Gotha bomber, and the length and height reach 15 meters and 5.4 meters respectively, which is significantly larger than the German Gotha bomber.

The F20 bomber weighs up to 12,000 kilograms, which is three times heavier than the German Air Force's Gotha bomber.

Of course, such a large man will inevitably lead to the impact of flight speed.

Although the Imperial Academy of Sciences of China provided the most advanced aero engines, with a single power of 260 horsepower, using a total of four such engines, it could only propel the F20 bomber to a speed of 170 kilometers per hour.

Although the speed of the F20 bomber is only 170 kilometers per hour, it is also 30 kilometers per hour faster than the German Gotha bomber.

The key is that the F20 bomber is large in size and weight, and the advantage is that it can carry more pilots, be equipped with more heavy machine guns, and throw more aviation smashing eggs.

According to the design specifications of the F20, up to seven heavy machine guns could be installed, which was four or five more than the Gotha bombers of the German army. Forty-two fifty-kilogram aviation smashers could be thrown, more than four times as many as the German Gotha bombers. It can also be converted into six 200-kilogram aviation smashing eggs, which is a capability that the German Gotha bombers do not have.

You must know that the difference between the power of a 50-kilogram aviation egg and the power of a 200-kilogram aviation egg is huge, and it is not an order of magnitude at all, and the relationship between the two is not four times, but an exponential multiple of the fourth power.

If a Gotha bomber drops a 50-kilogram aviation smash that can blow up a 50-ton gunboat or damage a 300-ton frigate, then an F20 bomber that drops a 200-kilogram aviation smash can destroy a 1,000-ton destroyer or a 10,000-ton heavy cruiser.

If it is a group operation, even if the German army dispatches a hundred Gotha bombers, it can only severely damage a dreadnought battleship of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and it will not be able to damage the super battleships of the Chinese Imperial Navy at all, because the super battleships built by the Chinese Imperial Navy are not only equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, but also thickened horizontal armor, which can withstand bombing below 200 kilograms of aviation smashing eggs.

On the other hand, if the Imperial Chinese Air Force dispatches a hundred F20 bombers, then if they carry 200 kilograms of aviation smashing eggs, they can directly sink any super-dreadnought battleship of the main force of the German Imperial High Seas Fleet, because the super battleships of the German Empire have not done enough in horizontal armor protection.

Of course, today's German Imperial High Seas Fleet has been aware of this problem, especially under the deliberate guidance of Hitla, Wilhelm II has ordered the modification and upgrading of all the main warships in service, one of which is to strengthen the horizontal armor protection capability, as for the horizontal armor defense capability, the Chinese Empire is still unknown.

Even so, once the F20 bombers of the Imperial Air Force of China enter service in batches, it will put tremendous military pressure on the Imperial German Air Force and will offset the air deterrence capability of the German Empire against neighboring European countries.

The same are bombers, the German Empire's Gotha bomber has advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that the cost is cheaper than the F20 bomber of the Chinese Empire, but the disadvantages are also exposed, after all, the Gotha bomber is made of solid wood, which will greatly reduce the life of the bomber.

But the German Empire also had no choice, because they were short of funds and could not mobilize more funds to develop a bomber fuselage with metal skin, so they could only use a wooden fuselage with acceptable hardness.

In addition, even if the German Empire had enough funds to develop and produce the Gotha bomber, its fuselage would have to be made of wood, because the German industrial technology was inferior to that of the Chinese Empire, and the metal skin used for the aircraft needed to be considered in terms of weight and structural strength. Aluminum is naturally the best choice, but unfortunately the strength is not enough, and the strength of steel is enough, but it is too heavy. The technology of the German Empire in terms of metal materials still lagged behind that of the Chinese Empire.

On the other hand, in the Chinese Empire, as early as before the World War, Li Weiguo successively established magnesium and aluminum alloy production bases in the Chinese Empire and Australia.

The magnesium and aluminum raw materials that the Chinese Empire has hoarded over the years have been piled up, and they can be used to manufacture metal aircraft fuselages with light weight and strong structure anytime and anywhere, which is also something that Li Weiguo has planned for a long time.

Due to the low power of aero engines in this era, the monoplane fuselage design concept could not be used, so it could only be biplanes.

For bombers, the biplane fuselage is faced with the problem of excessive structural tension, and the ordinary wooden fuselage has a very short life, and it is easy to be dangerous in the air, and the probability of disintegration is very large.

In order to solve this problem, the F20 bomber of the Chinese Empire adopted a semi-metal fuselage design, and the metal material is magnesium-aluminum alloy.

The reason why the semi-metal fuselage is used is that magnesium and aluminum alloy is still too expensive, and the cost of building an F20 bomber is five times that of the German Gotha bomber, even if the high labor cost of the Chinese Empire is not considered, it has reached three or four times.

Fortunately, in this era, the semi-metal fuselage is already very tall, so the Chinese Imperial Military is not too picky, as long as it can suppress the German Gotha bomber, as for the cost, as long as it does not affect the performance, it can save a little.

Of course, there is also a secret that the Air Force is still not treated well by the Navy and Army, so the military has to consider these factors when funding Air Force programs. After all, if you build an F20 bomber, you can build 20 tanks, and the army will complain or use excuses to increase military spending.

The cost can be said to be the only drawback of the F20 bomber.

In addition, the advantages of the F20 bomber are very many, in addition to the new technology applied to the F17 fighter and the F18 fighter, the new bomber fairing is also the highlight of the excellent performance of the F20 bomber.

When it comes to fairings, we have to mention the inevitable problem of resistance between air and the body.

In fact, in the study of air resistance, experts from the Imperial Academy of Sciences have also summarized a large amount of data through wind tunnel tests.

One of these findings is the disturbance drag caused by the aerodynamic flow interference of the wing-body assembly. By the time of the founding of the 4001 Dynasty (1901), researchers at the Imperial Academy of Sciences had found through extensive experiments that the lower wing of a biplane could have the greatest interference drag of the wing-body assembly, which could cause stability and maneuverability problems.

However, by installing a rectifier device such as a wing body fairing, this problem can be greatly improved, and some advantages of the overall layout of the F20 bomber in terms of structural design and aerodynamics make this layout ensure the flight stability of the F20 bomber to the greatest extent, and lay the foundation for the development of the future Chinese Imperial bomber.

There is also a new technology exclusive to the F20 bomber, that is, the torque conversion metal propeller. This is equipment specially developed for the F20 bomber.

Already in the days of the World War, the experts of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of China realized the great potential of the torque conversion propeller in terms of increasing engine power and its own efficiency. However, before the advent of metal propellers, torque conversion propellers were still theoretically limited due to the structural limitations of wooden propellers. With the completion of various tests of metal propellers by the Chinese Imperial Academy of Sciences, the metal propeller entered the formal practical stage in 4001, so the torque conversion propeller was finally realized, and it was preferentially used on the F20 bomber, mainly to meet the purpose of the F20 bomber's long-term cruise in the air, because the metal variable pitch propeller has a vital role in long-term cruise.

When it comes to propellers, it has to be said that another key piece of equipment, which is also the core component of the fighter, as the engine cooling system of the heart, will always be an important research topic.

In fact, since the beginning of the development of aero engines in the Chinese Empire, fixed-cylinder engines have always had cooling problems. During the World War, rotary cylinder engines were unique because of their high cooling efficiency.

In actual combat, the Chinese Empire designed an annular engine hood for air-cooled engines, which had a good drag reduction effect while achieving cooling. Then the Imperial Academy of Sciences designed a pneumatic engine cover for the air performance of the F16 fighter, completely encapsulating the engine, so that the aircraft has a better aerodynamic shape, which is directly applied to the F17 and F18 fighters, and on the F20 bomber, a flow regulating device is added, which has a better drag reduction effect.

These new technologies, which were eventually focused on the F20 bomber, created a miracle.

For this miracle, perhaps the entire Chinese empire will cheer, and the whole world will be shocked and tremble, but for Li Weiguo, he is not as happy as he imagined.

After reading the report on the new fighter and the new bomber, Li Weiguo just nodded lightly, because these were originally completed under his supervision, in fact, after the successful development at the beginning, Li Weiguo was indeed excited for a while, but when he looks at it now, he will naturally not be as excited as he was at the beginning.

The new fighters and bombers of the Air Force will be prioritized for deployment to Europe, which is also the plan given by the internal staff, and a large number of F17\F18 fighters and F20 bombers will be deployed around the German Empire to maintain the air blockade of the German Empire, which is the way for the Air Force to retaliate against the German Empire.

Finally, the army has also drawn up a strategy, but unlike the air force and navy, once the army takes retaliatory action, it is easy to misfire, after all, the air force and navy are a contest of equipment, while the army is basically a direct confrontation between people.