Regarding the assertion of the suicide plane, what Huang Risheng said is almost the truth, Qin Kai naturally hopes that in addition to the torpedo attack aircraft, the two aircraft factories can turn the research and development direction of the naval aircraft to dive bombers, however, with the strength of the aircraft body in this era, not to mention the dive bombing, it is a large-angle hover, it is possible to fall into a stall spiral that can be called a death trap, so, according to the 45-degree angle dive made by Qin Kai, when he wants to pull up, the plane is either crushed in the dive, that is, it falls into a stall when it is pulled up, Anyway...... The result is one! Play it thoroughly!

Qin Kai also smiled happily when he heard the crooked words that popped out of this thing's mouth, we don't want you to develop a little devil's divine wind turbine...... However, now the main fighter of the Chinese Air Force, although the Harrier fighter has begun to use some aluminum, but the overall strength is not satisfactory, which is largely an engineering and technical problem, after all, the thrust is there! However, in addition to the strength of the dive bomber, the power requirements are not too high, which is the fundamental reason for himself and his willingness to get on the horse.

Originally, in order to improve the hit rate of dive bombs, dive bombers need to install speed brakes on the aircraft to reduce speed and maintain dive stability, but today's Harrier fighters and Sky Wing fighters have a maximum horizontal speed of only 250 kilometers...... Of course, Qin Kai estimated that once the new multi-cylinder air-cooled engine progressed and the engine power was doubled, the dive bomber would need to use the speed brake.

More importantly, the dive bomber has a bomb load compared to today's torpedo attack aircraft, which can only carry one Stinger torpedo. Definitely a huge boost, after all, a huge part of the weight of the torpedo is taken up by the propulsion system, except for the partial reloading charge of the mine's head. Even with today's bomb capacity, a dive bomber can carry two 300-kilogram bombs!

Moreover, the dive bomber attacked the weakest horizontal armor of the warship of this era, diving down from a height of 4,000 meters, with the help of gravity acceleration and the initial velocity of the aircraft to drop heavy bombs, even the 80mm horizontal armor of the dreadnought. It is no different from a piece of tissue paper at all, and what Qin Kai is looking forward to even more is the three-dimensional offensive formed by dive bombers and torpedo attacks!

Of course. Now putting forward this concept is indeed enough to scare the aircraft design expert Huang Risheng, "Huang Risheng, the Northern Laboratory has conducted some theoretical research on this project. It will be submitted to China Southern Heavy Aviation and United Beihang Airlines. What matters is the structure of the airframe and the bomb load, but ...... The entire structure of the aircraft may require redesign and wind tunnel testing......"

When Huang Risheng heard Qin Kai's introduction in a few words, he almost immediately understood the key to it, the reason for the aircraft stall, in fact, the Air Force and the research institute are exploring, and a preliminary plan has been obtained...... But for Huang Risheng. This is not an insurmountable obstacle.

"That's what you say, Chairman. I've got some ideas......"

Huang Risheng was about to continue to discuss the idea of this new aircraft, when the door of the bridge command room suddenly opened, and an officer walked in with a document in a red shell and reported loudly: "Chairman, there is a confidential telegram from the Cabinet, please take a look!" ”

The sudden telegram interrupted Qin Kai's original plan for sea trials with the ship, and after a brief explanation of Huang Risheng's few words, he immediately left in a hurry, boarded a destroyer and hurried back, and later that day, he sent a telegram to the cabinet of Zhou Ruidong in Beijing, and the content of the telegram was only 6 words, "Suggestion, contain the United States!" ”

Since the United States declared war on Germany on August 4, in fact, the entire US government has not taken much action, except for the abrogation of nearly 40 trade agreements with Germany involving arms purchases and energy. Taft's cabinet was in fact quite divided on how to enter the war, and most importantly, President Taft was not resolute in his determination to enter the war, after all, it was a war across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States, and it was indeed not easy to decide to let him devote a large number of troops to Europe and participate in the French battlefield, which was already a puddle of mud.

But the Minister of War, Henry? Stimson was positive about joining the Anglo-French-Russian alliance, and the prosecutor-turned-American politician clearly had a clear understanding of the European war, and although the German Empire was strong in the military and had achieved results on the battlefield in France that shocked the whole world, the French government, despite its poor record, was still able to hold on to large territories, which has exposed Germany's disadvantage.

He made firm recommendations to President Taft...... Immediately enter the war and provide land support to France, but the center of operations is in Asia, because the German Navy in the Asian theater is obviously difficult to contend with the American Navy! And this suggestion was received by the Secretary of the Navy, George Brown? Meyer's support from six cabinet members.

Eventually, William? President Taft adopted Henry? Stimson's suggestion that the sinking of American merchant ships by the German Far East Fleet was actually a minor diplomatic issue, but the increasingly close relationship of mutual trust between the United States and Britain was the key to the United States and Britain eventually having to work together with Britain to deal with Germany.

On 29 August, the United States submitted a note to the Chinese Government that the fleet would be navigable through the Panama Canal, but two days later it received an unexpected reply, saying that the Chinese side rejected the Americans' request for navigation on the grounds that the middle section of the Panama Canal was being dredged and large warships could not pass through.

But, William? President Taft apparently doesn't think so...... At the very least, the leading US politicians who led the United States to join the declaration of war against Germany had this strong desire to intervene in Asia-Pacific affairs, and on 1 September, after fully considering China's warnings, the US Government announced that it would draw supervision from its home fleet to form the Second Pacific Fleet at the request of the British Empire.

However, the U.S. government is obviously still concerned about China's warnings. After sending a note to the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Du Ping, Knox still cautiously stated that the only purpose of the US Navy's entry into the Pacific Ocean was only to deal with the Speese fleet, which was now causing great trouble to American merchant ships in the Far East, and that the United States had no intention of competing with China in the Pacific.

But this pale diplomatic rhetoric obviously did not hide the ambitions of the US government in the Pacific, especially after having two staunch allies, Britain and Australia, on September 3, a powerful battleship formation under the command of Vice Admiral Abor sailed out of Key West Naval Base. President Taft's careful selection of the American general, who served in the U.S. Far East Fleet and eventually rose to the top of the Navy as president of the U.S. Naval Academy, was undoubtedly well considered.

The power handed over to Vice Admiral Abor also fully demonstrates the powerful military strength and sufficient money bags of the US Navy today, the flagship is the first-generation American dreadnought battleship USS Delaware, which was launched just 8 months ago, and in order to strengthen the US Navy's presence in the Pacific, this time, William? President Taft can be said to have put in a lot of money.

In addition, 1 South Carolina-class dreadnought, 2 Virginia-class battleships, and 2 Connecticut-class battleships formed a luxurious battleship corps, including 3 dreadnoughts, which is definitely a large amount for the scale of 12 dreadnoughts launched in the British Empire in this era.

Of course, the 2 Virginia and the former Dreadnought, and the 2 Connecticut-class dreadnoughts are slightly outdated, however, considering the technological changes in the great competition of pre-dreadnoughts provoked by China in the Far East, the United States has also undergone some major changes, and the design of the two last Connecticut-class battleships also adopts the popular design of 3 main turrets, and the 4 8-inch secondary secondary guns in the middle are reduced, and overall, it is also a good maritime armament.

In cooperation with the powerful battleship group, there were 6 Cassin-class destroyers and 8 Obayon-class destroyers...... (To be continued......)