Li Weiguo noticed the presence of Hitra, as well as the German Krupp III tank and Junker II fighter. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Weiguo had some doubts about the person Xitra, but he was not sure. At the same time, Zhao Kuangyin did not contact him again, whether there was another newcomer who entered indiscriminately, and it was impossible to draw a conclusion.

Although the German Krupp III tank had some bold initiatives, it could not control the land battlefield and could not play a decisive role. As for whether Germany will develop a more powerful tank in a short period of time, this Li Weiguo cannot judge for the time being, and can only make a decision depending on the situation.

And the appearance of the German Junkers fighter made Li Weiguo feel a deep sense of urgency.

Originally, Li Weiguo decided to put F15 fighters into the war on the battlefield in Washington, but he did not expect that European countries would be able to imitate and succeed so quickly, and even boldly surpassed the F15 fighters.

The premature appearance of the Junkers-2 fighter made Li Weiguo realize a serious problem, that is, it will not be long before fighter planes will be used to carry bombs to participate in the war, and even attack surface warships, and even aircraft carriers will appear.

After the outbreak of World War I in history, it took only three months to evolve from the first reconnaissance plane to a fighter plane, and only half a year to evolve from the first fighter to a bomber.

And the appearance of aircraft carriers, again, did not take much time.

Two years after the outbreak of World War I, Britain took the lead in converting the Fury into an aircraft carrier, which shows that European military experts have a deep understanding of the future development of aircraft.

With this in mind, Li Weiguo has absolutely reason to believe that the current militaries of various European countries have sufficient potential to rapidly develop air supremacy fighters.

As a result, Li Weiguo had no choice but to start production of army antiaircraft guns and naval antiaircraft guns, which were originally planned to be put into production in a few years, ahead of schedule and equip them with the Chinese Imperial Army.

Li Weiguo didn't want to suddenly one day, when the enemy's air force attacked the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire's navy and army had no air defense capability.

Anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns are divided into naval and army types, of which army-type anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns include two types, one is a towed anti-aircraft gun, and the other is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun.

The towed anti-aircraft guns are deployed in the same way as the various types of infantry artillery currently equipped by the Imperial Chinese Army, which are towed and deployed by trucks.

So far, the Imperial Arsenal of China has developed a total of 6 types of army-type anti-aircraft guns and 2 types of navy-type anti-aircraft guns.

The first army-type anti-aircraft gun GSP-A, which was 12.7 mm caliber, was technically called an anti-aircraft machine gun, but the Royal Arsenal named it after a small-caliber anti-aircraft gun in order to make it easy for soldiers to distinguish between them.

GSP-A anti-aircraft gun has a body length of 3850 mm, a barrel length of 1340 mm, a total weight of 150 kg, a test muzzle velocity of 930~955 meters per second, a theoretical rate of fire of 550~600 rounds per minute, an actual test rate of fire of 80 rounds per minute, an effective range of 2000 meters (anti-aircraft), 1000 meters (flat fire), a magazine capacity of 80 rounds, and the use of Guanghua 23-year standard gun ammunition, 12.7x110 mm.

This is actually to lengthen the barrel and bullet length of the Thunderbolt heavy machine gun currently used by the Imperial Chinese Army, and then directly use it for air shooting.

Of course, the Thunderbolt heavy machine gun can also shoot into the air, but the previous 12.7mm bullet is short, the charge is small, and the anti-aircraft firing range is limited.

After lengthening the barrel and bullets, reaching a firing height of 2,000 meters, in fact, it is already easy to shoot down the fighters currently equipped by various countries, of course, the premise is that the plane dives down, if the plane has been flying at a high altitude, more than 2,000 meters altitude, it is useless.

In addition, there are special requirements for the bullets of anti-aircraft weapons, that is, after the bullet is discharged, it will automatically explode at an altitude of 2,000 meters, or it will automatically explode after hitting an enemy aircraft to destroy the enemy aircraft. If it is an ordinary lightning heavy machine gun or rifle or something, after firing in the air, even if the bullet can fly to an altitude of 2000 meters, it cannot explode, which will pose a threat to your own personnel on the ground, because after the bullet reaches the highest point, the kinetic energy is converted into gravitational potential energy and falls again, even if the air resistance is counted, the speed of the bullet when it returns to the ground is quite terrifying, and it can kill people.

Obviously, after your heavy machine guns fire into the air, the bullets will hurt your own personnel when they fall.

It is too embarrassing to miss the enemy plane, but to indirectly hit one's own people.

Of course, Li Weiguo would not allow this to happen, so he stipulated in advance that anti-aircraft ammunition would be automatically detonated to prevent accidental injury to his own people.

Looking at the whole world, all countries are basically attacking enemy planes in the air with heavy machine guns or even rifles, and they are not aware that the bullets fired by their heavy machine guns are very likely to injure their own people by mistake.

Of course, in a battlefield environment, when there is a fierce battle, even if one of your own soldiers is shot, no one will think that it was their own people, they will think that it was the enemy.

Historically, this was a problem that countries generally ignored and was not corrected until World War II.

The GSP-A anti-aircraft gun belongs to the machine gun type, which is actually a transitional product of the Thunderbolt heavy machine gun from flat fire to anti-aircraft fire.

Of course, because there is a market, Li Weiguo did not cancel the development and production of this weapon, according to his estimates, the GSP-A anti-aircraft gun can survive for at least twenty years, as long as it is not a jet aircraft, in the case of propeller fighters, this kind of anti-aircraft gun can theoretically shoot it down.

Starting with the GSP-B anti-aircraft gun, it was a real anti-aircraft gun, with a caliber of 12.7 mm to 20 mm and a multiplier diameter of 100, which allowed it to easily shoot shells to an altitude of 5,000 meters. When the German Junkers II fighters thought it was safe to fly to the top ceiling of 5,000 meters, they were shot down by the GSP-B anti-aircraft guns.

And the GSP-B anti-aircraft gun has another use, that is, when he fires flat, it can penetrate 30 mm thick Chinese special steel within a kilometer, which means that it can easily penetrate the T23, T25 tanks, and even the frontal armor of the latest German Krupp III tank.

The GSP-B anti-aircraft gun in flat fire is an anti-tank gun, of course, it can be used as an infantry attack like a cannon.

The 5,000-meter shooting height could not satisfy the Chinese Imperial military, especially Li Weiguo, who knew very well that in the middle and late stages of World War I in history, the ceiling of fighter jets in various countries generally reached more than 8,000 meters.

When the GSP-B anti-aircraft gun is put into the battlefield, it will inevitably attract the attention of the militaries of various countries, and they will speed up the development of fighter jets, so that they can raise the airspace above 5,000 meters to avoid being shot down in level flight.

This will certainly stimulate countries to speed up the development of fighter jets with a high altitude limit, and perhaps break through the historical limit, directly from an altitude of 8,000 meters to an altitude of 10,000 meters.

These are very likely, so Li Weiguo naturally has to take precautions.

In response to Li Weiguo's warning, the Royal Arsenal launched the GSP-C and GSP-D anti-aircraft guns on the basis of the first two anti-aircraft guns.

Among them, the GSP-C anti-aircraft gun is 37 mm caliber, with a total combat weight of 2650 kg, a double-mounted design, a gun body length of 2740 mm, a barrel length of 2315 mm, a muzzle velocity of 850 meters per second when using a 1.5 kg grenade, and a muzzle velocity of 880 meters per second when using a 1.45 kg armor-piercing projectile, a maximum firing range of 8500 meters, an effective oblique distance of 3500 meters, an effective firing height of 3000 meters, a high and low firing range of -10 degrees to 85 degrees, with a rotating chassis, and 360-degree all-round shooting.

8,500 meters altitude, this is Li Weiguo's pre-made provisions, if history has not changed much, the maximum ceiling of fighter jets in various countries should reach the top of about 8,000 meters, as for the height of 10,000 meters, although it is possible, but the possibility is not high, after all, the air at 10,000 meters at high altitude is thin, and it is not suitable for the current Guoben fighter, and the requirements for pilots are too high, and it is generally unlikely.

Therefore, the shooting altitude of 8,500 meters is a watershed, and it is difficult to fly above 8,500 meters unless the military of Europe and the United States develops a high-altitude oxygen supply system in advance.

The GSP-D anti-aircraft gun, in fact, is based on the GSP-C anti-aircraft gun, which realizes 4 parallel installations, that is, four barrels are fired at the same time, and the fire is fierce.

In addition, there are two types of anti-aircraft guns, GSP-E and GSP-Ji type, the former is a 20 mm caliber, the basic configuration is the same as the GSP-B anti-aircraft gun, the difference is that it is vehicle-mounted, using 4x4 wheeled combat vehicles, with high mobility, and can follow the infantry for mobile air defense.

The latter is 37 mm caliber, because the weight of the anti-aircraft gun is large, the weight of the ammunition is not light, and the wheeled combat vehicle is inconvenient to carry, so it is changed to a tracked type, and the structure of the anti-aircraft gun basically follows the GSP C type or D type, the difference is that there are twin and quadruple loads, the twin pack carries less ammunition and the speed is slightly faster, and the quadruple carries more ammunition and the speed is slightly slower.

In fact, for the chassis of the T25 tank, the speed of the twin and quadruple is basically the same, and later after the actual combat test of the Chinese Imperial Military, it was uniformly changed to a double tank, which was used as a heavy anti-tank combat vehicle on the battlefield, and the effect was much better than that of air defense.

Finally, there are two naval anti-aircraft guns.

Because the navy has a huge hull and load capacity, the size of the navy anti-aircraft guns can be relatively large.

There are only two types of anti-aircraft guns of the navy type: 20 mm caliber and 37 mm caliber, and the overall configuration is similar to that of the army types, but the degree of parallel connection is much higher than that of the army type.

In fact, Li Weiguo also ordered the Royal Arsenal to develop a phalanx, but considering that the navy could not use this kind of mass killing weapon for the time being, it only stayed at the drawing stage and did not actually develop it.

Of course, the fundamental reason is that Li Weiguo does not want other countries to know that the Chinese Empire has installed air defense on naval warships, and if it is discovered by other countries, the navies of various countries will inevitably follow suit and strengthen the air defense capability of the warships of various countries' navies, which is not in line with Li Weiguo's strategic plan.

In Li Weiguo's view, it is best for the navies of Europe and the United States to ignore the air defense of warships, and only in this way will the Chinese Imperial Air Force have stronger offensive power and tactical effects when it raids their naval warships in the future.

Even at the critical moment of the naval battle, the Imperial Chinese Air Force suddenly dispatched, and the enemy navy lacked air defense capabilities, and the result was inevitably abused, and even the Imperial Chinese Navy could achieve a decisive victory.

Therefore, based on this consideration, Li Weiguo was reluctant to deploy air defense weapons to warships.

That's probably what every leader thinks!

Historically, the British Navy built aircraft carriers in World War I, which shows that the British leaders are very aware of the role of aircraft carriers, otherwise who is idle has nothing to do to develop aircraft carriers. But then Britain deliberately slowed down the development of aircraft carriers, which on the surface seemed to be a mistake by the British leaders, but who would know that it was not deliberate by the British leaders? The purpose is the same as Li Weiguo's current thoughts, and he does not want other countries to pay attention to aircraft carriers.

After all, Britain was the strongest naval force in the world at that time, and the actions of the British Navy were bound to affect the development direction of the navies of other countries. So the British are not necessarily unaware of the importance of aircraft carriers.

Now this situation is happening to Li Weiguo, and it is not difficult to find the key to the fact that he has shifted his position to the level of other countries after comparing his heart to his heart.

Under the influence of this ambivalence, Li Weiguo could only choose a compromise method, that is, to secretly install anti-aircraft rapid-fire artillery weapons on the warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and not to make a big show, not to be too high-profile, and to keep a low profile.

In this way, on the warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, in addition to the large-caliber main guns, other secondary artillery systems will be secretly converted into high-level dual-purpose guns, which can fire at the air or flat, and the appearance is not obvious, and it is difficult for ordinary people to find the cats.

The Navy's large-scale refit plan was soon introduced, and the main ships of the various fleets of the Chinese Imperial Navy took turns to enter the dock for repairs, claiming that the barrels were replaced because their life was exhausted in battle, but in fact they installed Gaoping dual-purpose guns with two types of shooting capabilities.

Anyway, the Imperial Chinese Navy does not have too important combat missions at present, the US and Japanese navies were destroyed, and on the European battlefield, because allies such as Germany, Italy and Austria were playing cautiously, they refused to allow the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy to go to Europe to help in the war, and on the battlefield of the United States and Japan, they were basically inland, and the navy basically could not help, so at present, the Chinese Imperial Navy has become the most idle force.

However, when the ships of the navy entered the dock one after another to replace the gun barrels and anti-aircraft sighting systems, Li Weijun was ordered to meet him, and Li Weiguo told him some important strategic plans in person and asked him to go back and make secret preparations.

It is impossible for the Imperial Chinese Navy to remain idle, and a series of recent changes on the European battlefield have made Li Weiguo feel bad.

Li Weiguo was worried that the German Empire would break the balance of the European battlefield, and seeing that the economic bearing capacity of the German Empire had reached its limit, Li Weiguo hoped that until the last moment, the European battlefield should be balanced, and Britain, France, Russia and Germany, Italy and Austria would finally reach a draw, which would be in the best line with the core interests of the Chinese Empire.

It was only a large-scale naval battle between Britain, France, Germany, and Italy that took place in the North Sea that completely broke the balance of power at sea in Europe, so that Li Weiguo had to let the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy intervene in the European battlefield early. (To be continued.) )