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In this inaccessible place, there is one of the world's most mysterious military bases, called the Royal Security Area, which is never open to the public.

The people in here are not allowed to enter or leave, and even the top brass of the military department do not know what is going on in this military base.

A week ago, Li Weiguo brought the ministers of the army, navy and air force into the base and showed them one of the army's killer weapons, the T90 main battle tank.

Although the T90 main battle tank is still being tested, it basically has combat effectiveness, and under the wise guidance of Li Weiguo, the relevant experts and engineers of the Chinese Imperial Academy of Sciences do not need to take detours, and directly design and develop according to the real tank structure and shape.

You know, the first time tanks appeared in history was in the middle and late stages of World War I, first invented by the British. But it is not a tank in the real sense, at most it is a mobile RV with artillery installed, and the internal structure of various tanks is very backward, and the actual combat effect is too poor, and it is purely a strategic weapon to frighten the enemy and deter the enemy's psychology.

Li Weiguo directly told the experts about the main concept and tactical purpose of the tank, so that when they developed the tank, they had a clear goal, that is, offensive weapons and weapons of mass destruction of infantry.

The purpose is clear, the development of the tank is much easier, coupled with the epoch-making tank design concept, so that the development of the tank has taken a lot of detours and avoided many misunderstandings.

Although there are still some technical problems in the track system, suspension system, gyroscope stabilization system, fire control system, etc., as long as the research and development direction is correct, it will be developed sooner or later.

The officials of the War Department were happy to jump high, and they knew very well that once the T90 main battle tank was put into service, it would definitely beat the children of Europe and the United States.

Just imagine, the steel torrent composed of tens of thousands of T90 main battle tanks directly swept across the European and American continents, what a great feat it was!

The Army was pleased, and this time they were more confident of victory in a decisive battle on land with the Entente in the future.

Lin Jiyun, Minister of the Navy, and Zhuang Jiuxia, Minister of the Air Force, can only envy and covet them, and look forward to the Navy and Air Force also having big killer weapons and killer equipment.

"Don't be envious, the Air Force also has a share!"

Li Weiguo said with a smile, his expression making people feel so mysterious.

Zhuang Jiuxia was immediately happy, but Zhang Xiaoliu was surprised, thinking that it was just the United States of the Army, but he didn't expect that the Air Force still had a share.

Could it be that there is still a part of the navy?

Zhang Xiaoliu glanced at Lin Jiyun, although the atmosphere of the navy and army fighting for power was stopped by Li Weiguo, it could not stop their desire to compete with each other and compete with each other.

Lin Jiyun's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, ...... our navy?"

Li Weiguo suddenly glared, Lin Jiyun's voice quickly stopped abruptly, and his expression suddenly became sullen.

Soon, Li Weiguo and his entourage arrived at an empty square.

This is an airport dedicated to aircraft test flights, which is also a new thing for others, and without Li Weiguo's reminder, Hua Yufang will explain it to everyone one by one.

Plane?

Everyone heard the new term again, but with their previous experience with tanks, this time everyone was not too surprised, and just listened attentively to Hua Yufang's explanation.

The project was not set up for a very long time, and when the Chinese Empire began to develop airships, Li Weiguo thought of airplanes from airships, and immediately ordered the mobilization of experts and engineers from the Imperial Academy of Sciences to start the development of airplanes.

It's just that the development of aircraft is far more difficult than tanks, which is something Li Weiguo did not expect.

Originally, Li Weiguo thought that the development of airplanes should be relatively simple, after all, Chinese farmers in the 21st century can study and build them by themselves.

But it is based on the mature aircraft structure theory and the perfect production process of aircraft parts, which is said to be made by itself, but in fact, it can only be regarded as buying parts by yourself and then assembling them.

However, in the late eighties of the 19th century, not to mention aircraft parts, there was no theory of aircraft structure, and there was no aerodynamics discipline, all of which needed to be set up by Li Weiguo and find relevant scientists to carry out deduction calculations.

Compared with the tank, the tracked chassis, armor protection, artillery system and engine of the tank are all theories on land, and the experts took a look at the sketches drawn by Li Weiguo and listened to Li Weiguo's explanation of the principle, and quickly understood it.

But airplanes will not work, and experts can build an airplane in a short time according to the sketches and principles drawn by Li Weiguo.

But the question is, what about the pilots? The tank pilot can easily handle it, there is no danger, but the plane pilot is difficult, the take-off speed of the aircraft, the flight altitude, the landing speed, and the sense of direction in the sky, each of which is enough to cause the pilot to die.

People of this era, although they dream of becoming birdmen and flying, but when they really let them fly into the sky, even if they only fly a few tens of meters high, they will be scared to pee.

Therefore, the development of aircraft is not as simple as imagined.

Every time Li Weiguo thinks about this, he has to admire the Wright brothers, why the Wright brothers only flew a dozen meters high and a few hundred meters away for the first time test flight, but they shocked the whole world. In the past, Li Weiguo always looked down on the Wright brothers, believing that the engine technology was mature, and as long as an airplane frame was made, anyone could fly the airplane.

It wasn't until Li Weiguo began to preside over the development and test flight of the aircraft that he really understood the difficulty.

However, the hard work paid off, and with the strong support of Li Weiguo, the plane as a whole has now taken shape and can fly.

Of course, this flight is still relatively primitive, but the plane can be five or six meters above the ground, fly one or two hundred meters and land on the ground once, and then fly again after taxiing, and so on.

It's not that the newly developed aircraft can't fly higher, just for the sake of the pilot's safety, every flight, for the pilot, is training, is to accumulate experience, from the very beginning like a car on the airport runway back and forth, and then one or two meters above the ground to adapt, and so on to fully adapt to this altitude, the pilot has accumulated enough experience to take off, taxi and land safely, and then gradually increase the flight altitude and flight distance.

This looks so stupid, but in fact, it is quite good for people of this age.

Li Weiguo led everyone to watch the plane fly back and forth in a circle from a distance, and although the plane only flew at an altitude of five or six meters, it still shocked everyone in his entourage, even more shocked than when he looked at the tank before.

After all, it's flying!

The dream of mankind for countless years!

How can you not be shocked!

"Airplane, this is the machine that can fly!"

Everyone seemed to have made up the definition of the plane on their own, Li Weiguo smiled slightly, without explanation, and understood it like this.

"This is the fourth prototype aircraft we have developed, and the first aircraft that can fly, and we took the pinyin initials of the flying word and numbered it F4."

The F4 aircraft used the earliest biplane structure.

Li Weiguo also wanted to use a monoplane structure, but unfortunately the concept was too advanced, the technology could not keep up, and the thinking and knowledge of the engineers could not keep up. After several experiments, it was found that the lift was not enough, so we could only use a two-wing wing structure with a larger wingspan area and more lift.

The fixed landing gear, equipped with the simplest elevator and horizontal rudders, with a V80 gasoline engine, 80 horsepower, two-bladed propeller, is just enough to pull a 200-kilogram aircraft off the ground.

In fact, the current engine technology of the Chinese Empire is very developed, which can provide higher horsepower engines, but in the end it was not adopted, because the engine power is too large, the aircraft is too fast, and it is too dangerous for novice pilots.

This is actually similar to learning to drive, novices must be very slow when they start practicing driving, like a snail. Even if you are careful, you often hit the benchmark? Not to mention flying a plane! There's no coach with you, it's just your own life!

"Your Majesty, what is the purpose of this plane? Don't we have airships? ”

Wu Yong saw that Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun didn't dare to speak easily, so he asked for them.

"Now it seems like the plane is flying very slowly, very low, but as we continue to improve the structure and performance of the aircraft, the pilots will be able to take to the skies when they learn to actually fly the aircraft. Compared with airships, the speed of the aircraft in the future will be very fast, hundreds of kilometers per hour is very easy, and it can be used for aerial reconnaissance on the ground, and the enemy's bases and movements are well understood. What do you say would be the result if machine guns and ZHA shells were installed on the planes and attacked the enemy on the ground directly from the air? ”

A rhetorical question surprised Wu Yong, and the other military personnel also instantly realized the huge role of the aircraft.

"That's true, the speed of the airship is too slow, if the plane can fly hundreds of kilometers per hour, it is really too useful!"

"Yes! As long as you can fly in the air for an hour, then it is a distance of several hundred kilometers. Considering that on the battlefield, we can detect all the enemy's movements within a few hundred kilometers, and it is too easy to strike at the enemy! ”

"And that's just the scout! As His Majesty said, in the future, machine guns and ZA shells will be installed, think about how spectacular it is to think that when tens of thousands of enemy troops on the ground are charging, our planes suddenly kill and burst through the enemy on the ground with bloody heavy machine guns! ”

"Drop Z bombs from the air, and blow up wherever there are more enemy troops, and blow up a large area, it's so cool!"

The officials of the War Department exchanged heads and ears, and suddenly became excited.

Lin Jiyun suddenly couldn't help it, and snorted coldly: "What are you excited about?" This plane is clearly not your army's! Didn't Your Majesty say it, this is a killer equipment for the Air Force! ”

Zhang Xiaoliu suddenly glared at Lin Jiyun fiercely, wanting to reply to him twice, but suddenly remembered that the bag on his head had not yet become swollen, and suddenly a spirit suddenly glanced at Li Weiguo secretly, and swallowed back what he wanted to say.

Zhuang Jiuxia suddenly said excitedly: "Your Majesty, is this plane really a killer piece of equipment prepared for our Air Force?" ”

Li Weiguo smiled slightly, nodded and said, "That's right!" Airplanes are equipment flying in the air, so they are naturally assigned to your air force! ”

Zhuang Jiuxia and other Air Force officials suddenly became excited, as if they were instantly raising their eyebrows.

You must know that the Air Force is very angry, and when you see the army and navy on weekdays, you have to nod and bow down, and your momentum is three points weaker.

Although under Li Weiguo's strong constraints, the Air Force is also one of the three major arms of the armed forces, at the same level as the Army and Navy, in fact the Air Force is still a secret department and has never appeared in front of the world, and its status and prestige are naturally inferior to those of the Navy and Army.

Zhang Xiaoliu, Lin Jiyun and others suddenly looked envious, eager to take the Air Force into their pockets.

Of course, just thinking about it in my heart, but I don't dare!

However, Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun glanced at each other, and the two reached an agreement instantly.

"Your Majesty, since our army also has an airship unit to serve as a reconnaissance mission, can we also set up a reconnaissance unit that specializes in the use of aircraft?"

Zhang Xiaoliu asked first, and then Lin Jiyun also spoke.

"Your Majesty, our navy uses airships to carry out artillery shell firing and sea reconnaissance, and it is also in urgent need of this kind of aircraft, and we should also establish an aircraft force under the jurisdiction of the navy, which will play an important role in future naval warfare."

These two guys began to fight the idea of the air force again, and even directly proposed the establishment of an aircraft unit specially subordinate to the navy and army.

Isn't this the concept of army aviation and naval aviation!

Li Weiguo suddenly smiled bitterly, and wanted to reprimand the two of them, but there was no reason to speak, after all, what they both said made sense.

"Naval aviation and army aviation are going to be established in the future, so you two are happy, right?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun were immediately overjoyed, while Zhuang Jiuxia was dumbfounded.

This Nima still wants to carve up Lao Tzu's air force!

He looked at Li Weiguo pitifully and asked, "Your Majesty, is there no need for our air force to exist!" ”

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "Don't worry, even if the army has army aviation, it will be a small number, all of them will be replaced by planes, what are they doing with ground tanks and infantry?" The same goes for the navy, even if there is naval aviation, it is still a small number of reconnaissance units, and the main force must be warships. As for the Air Force, it lies in future air supremacy, and the presence of your Air Force is the most important. ”

Hearing Li Weiguo say this, Zhuang Jiuxia suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it was not to abolish the Air Force. Since he became the Minister of the Air Force, he has already developed feelings for the Air Force, and naturally he does not want to be divided by the Navy and Army.

The Air Force is the most important? Above the army and navy?

Zhang Xiaoliu and Lin Jiyun were stunned for a moment, and the joy just now flew away in an instant, looking at Li Weiguo with a puzzled expression.

Li Weiguo smiled: "Think about it? When there is no navy, the army is the main force that overrides everything! When there is a navy, sea supremacy becomes one of the key factors in the war, and without sea supremacy, it is difficult for the army to hold on. Similarly, in the future, if there are aircraft reconnaissance in the sky, when the aircraft attack ground or sea targets, it will be equivalent to air supremacy. If one side of the army does not have air supremacy, then their actions are in the hands of the enemy, and they will be attacked by the enemy's air at any time, is it easy to be defeated? Therefore, air supremacy overrides sea supremacy, and finally land supremacy! ”

Zhuang Jiuxia suddenly asked happily: "Your Majesty, do you mean that in the future, the air force will become the key to the victory or defeat of the war?" Above the Navy and Army? ”

Li Weiguo smiled and said nothing, noncommittal.

Zhuang Jiuxia and other Air Force officials were immediately happy, and finally raised their eyebrows.

Zhang Xiaoliu, Lin Jiyun and other naval officials darkened their faces, and their expressions were quite unhappy! (To be continued.) )