Two Tianyi I torpedo attack planes, numbered B001 and B002, slowly accelerated one after another, jumped up from the Jiangsu aircraft carrier, and spat out this black smoke and rushed into the blue sky, which immediately ushered in a round of applause from the aircraft carrier...... Qin Kai stood on the platform on the side of the bridge with his hands behind his back, a new era of aviation has quietly opened in his own hands, and the meaning of torpedo attack aircraft for naval warfare is an important moment to transform this offshore platform into a battlefield killer.

After the two torpedo attack planes took off, they quickly pulled up, pierced into the sky in full view of everyone, and when they almost disappeared into the clouds, they suddenly flipped back, and as a target ship, a retired destroyer was slowly moving on the sea several kilometers away from the Jiangsu......

The two torpedo attack planes that fell from the sky circled and immediately chose to pounce down from the side of the sun, this tactic made Qin Kai also a little surprised, HNA is worthy of gathering the top aviation talents in China in this era, this backlight tactic is undoubtedly one of the most effective tactics on the sea, in the era when sunglasses were not popular, it is really a sinister move that is difficult to deal with.

The speed of a fully loaded torpedo attack aircraft has dropped significantly compared with that when it is unloaded, but it has also reached a high-speed raid of more than 200 kilometers, which is obviously far beyond any form of torpedo attack in the past, after all, the most advanced Chinese stinger torpedo in this era sails at a speed of only 32 knots, but the torpedo projected by the aircraft at high speed, the strike speed will be increased to a considerable extent.

After a series of maneuvers to evade a frontal attack, the two Navy pilots fired the slender Stinger II aerial torpedo under the belly less than 2,000 meters from the target ship. The torpedo with the kinetic energy of the aircraft, driven by a thermal engine, slammed straight into the target, finally. Both steel torpedoes hit the target ship directly with exceptional accuracy...... Of course, the torpedoes for training were not equipped with a minehead warhead!

This scene was a very perfect joint air attack, which made Qin Kai also quite emotional, the real difficulty in the progress of the industrial field is not entirely in the concept and technology...... Today, China's aviation industry has reached the height of leading the world, especially the 420 horsepower air-cooled engine successfully developed by Beihang Airlines, which is still at the forefront of the era from a technical point of view. But technological and conceptual advances have almost reached the limits of engineering progress.

Although the country has trained two to three generations of skilled workers in more than 30 years, but. This does not mean that the domestic engineering technology has been ahead of Europe, in fact, although the domestic machine tool industry has begun to distribute a large number of special machine tools, and has achieved a large number of advanced technological results. The products have also been sold to various countries for a long time. However, it is still necessary to introduce some German and British equipment in part of the precision machining industry chain.

For the industrial system, theoretical things are the easiest to understand and the easiest to learn from all countries, but they must be transformed into engineering industries, especially cutting-edge engineering industries. What is needed is a spiral process of continuous accumulation, precipitation, promotion, re-accumulation, precipitation and promotion, and there will never be a big industry that can be achieved at one touch.

Compare the Mustang I 8-cylinder air-cooled piston engine and the Taihang I 9-cylinder air-cooled piston engine developed by China Southern Heavy Aviation and Beihang Airlines. There is no doubt that the two engines are based on the continuous development and improvement of water-cooled engines in the early days, and then finally solved the heat dissipation process of air-cooled engines, and quickly made industrial breakthroughs and developed new aero engines.

Of course, Qin Kai provided a number of theoretical suggestions such as engine fairing, exhaust gas turbocharging, and variable pitch propeller technology to the two major aviation R&D institutions through the Northern Laboratory, which directly led to a significant improvement in the performance of the two air-cooled engines.

The Tianyi I torpedo attack aircraft that participated in sea trials on the Jiangsu aircraft carrier was equipped with the Taihang I modified air-cooled engine developed by Beihang Airlines with a power of 440 horsepower, and after abandoning the old two-wing pattern, the overall weight was only 1,400 kilograms, but it had a take-off weight of 2,700 kilograms...... This means that, in addition to carrying enough aviation gasoline, it is enough to carry a Stinger torpedo with a diameter of 550mm and 630 kg.

At the same time, after carrying torpedoes, the Tianyi I torpedo attack aircraft still has a endurance of 6 hours, a practical climb ceiling of 4,000 meters, and a speed of 200 km/h that can still be achieved under carrying full fuel oil and ammunition, and the maximum level flight speed has exceeded 250 kilometers, and it definitely has first-class assault performance on the sea.

However, Qin Kai naturally understood the shortcomings of the torpedo attack aircraft, after all, the torpedo attack aircraft had to launch a horizontal attack from the flank of the battleship's most powerful firepower while having huge lethality, which also meant that the thin aircraft had to face the frontal bullet rain to launch a surprise attack, and the surprise attack from this angle was almost like a barrage charge with heavy machine guns on the battlefield of World War I for the pilot.

Although the naval pilots have demonstrated very high flying skills, in fact, with both sides in possession of anti-aircraft defense measures, the battle loss rate of torpedo attack aircraft will be very high...... Although we have a lot of talents in Greater China, it is not easy to train a pilot, and it is still a huge challenge to have the courage to fly to the moon even in the era when national education has been fully popularized.

When the two Tianyi I torpedo attack planes returned home and landed on the deck of the Jiangsu aircraft carrier, Qin Kai's eyes caught a glimpse of another group of people hiding in a dark corner and pointing, which made him very curious...... Of course, this so-called group of people, to be honest, is actually the most disappointed in today's sea trials of torpedo machines!

"Zheng Tieshan, that guy is really lazy, he copied our harrier-style monoplane shooting, and the wing area didn't change at all, so he directly plugged it into their Shenma Tianyi chicken...... What kind of torpedo machine is doing this, it is completely crooked! The little head of the frustrated man was obviously quite critical of the sea trials of the torpedo planes, and at this moment he was pointing to several torpedo planes parked on the aviation deck under the observation platform and constantly making all kinds of crooked theories!

"Huang Gong, this Chief Engineer Zheng came to our factory last time. It's good not to give them a full set of information! Let them go and play with the wings, didn't Chief Engineer Zheng always think that the wings were stable! The young technician with a notebook on the side who was desperately recording the observations of the torpedo machine began to help happily, and he was only thirty years old. There are already 2 golden hammer armbands on the cuffs of overalls, which are level 7 engineers in large private enterprises, and these words immediately attracted a low chuckle from several people.

"Huang Risheng, what are you making trouble here, aren't you still convinced by the products of Beihang this time?" Qin Kai suddenly emerged from behind the R&D team of Southern Heavy Aviation who boarded the ship to visit and study, and startled Huang Risheng, the chief designer of Southern Heavy Aviation, who was holding glasses.

"Don't scare me, Chairman! We are here to learn from Beihang University. There will be no convincing! Huang Risheng, who is now in an important position, is undoubtedly the first-class aircraft designer in China, under the team he leads. Domestic aircraft have gone through a complete development process from airships to biplanes, from water-cooled engines to air-cooled high-power engines, and the team of Southern Heavy Aviation is also the developer of the Harrier fighter, the main fighter of the Air Force.

In the past, the Harrier fighter with its advanced monoplane design and aluminum component processing technology can be said to have completely defeated the Falcon fighter of the United Beihang in the air force bidding. But obviously. Zheng Tieshan, the chief designer of the United Beihang Airlines, was full of combat effectiveness, and after coming to Huang Risheng's team to study blatantly, he went back and completed a series of designs and test flights of the new model of Tianyi torpedo aircraft in less than half a year.

The result is naturally undoubted. After Zheng Tieshan successfully flew the test, he went directly to the Ministry of Military Affairs to sell it. This thing was naturally taken by Xu Shoushan at the first moment, a flying torpedo boat, this mother...... How exciting it must be! And for Southern Heavy Airlines, it is definitely a defeat!

At this time, I saw Qin Kai take the initiative to talk to his team, which was a good opportunity to fish for the project, but before he could speak, Qin Kai had already asked with a smile, "Huang Risheng, I saw you submit a research plan for a new type of aviation artillery to the Science and Technology Committee before...... Have you already started working on a new model of the Harrier? Machine guns don't meet your design philosophy? ”

At the mention of this, Huang Risheng immediately followed as if he were a demon, "Chairman, our institute has discussed this a long time ago...... We thought that if we could install enough engines, we could really mount a cannon on an airplane...... If we can build a large enough plane, we can even put giant artillery on the plane and ...... it from the sky"

Qin Kai heard this whimsical concept, and really admired this guy, the Harrier fighter is already a fully covered fighter jet, and it looks like he has learned that the aircraft has a fight after World War I, which can almost be said to be the prototype of the current aircraft, but to be honest, with the Harrier fighter's speed of 250 kilometers per hour and the attack ability to carry two 60 kg bombs, it is really difficult to say that it can form air superiority.

But well...... The concept of imagination is undoubtedly the basis of innovation, and Huang Risheng's design ideas have not deviated too much, after all, it is the bomber that can carry a large amount of ammunition that really transforms air power into a dominant force, but with the current engine and body structure, it will take time, and he immediately began to pour cold water on this goods!

"Huang Risheng, your idea is very full, but the power of China Southern Airlines' air-cooled engine doesn't seem to have seen any qualitative leap! So, for the time being, your idea is to let the Harrier carry two more aerial bombs at most, but this day to throw bombs, to be honest, is there a more unreliable hit than this thing? ”

Qin Kai smiled and looked at the faces that were in a daze after being poured cold water, and now a big problem that puzzles the Air Force is how to transform air supremacy into real supremacy, the Tianyi I torpedo attack aircraft has undoubtedly taken a very important step, but what about the Harrier fighter? Is it possible to rely on machine guns on both wings to complete hegemony?

Huang Risheng undoubtedly saw the key point! Bombs, only bombs, shells, these big guys, are the kings of war, but the planes of this era obviously cannot play carpet bombing like the World War II era in later generations, and throwing bombs in the air, especially when flying at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters and at high speed under the condition of considering safety, is really a super difficult technical job.

Just as Huang Risheng and his gang were stunned by Qin Kai's teasing and completely fell into the trap of the so-called uselessness theory of aerial bombs, Qin Kai unexpectedly raised the Tianyi torpedo model in his hand, made a move that surprised them very much, and then said with a smile: "In this way, the bomb dropped by the plane is comparable to flying out of the muzzle, and the bomb is not a useless thing, but will become a real big killing weapon!" ”

After being stunned for a full thirty seconds, Huang Risheng popped out of his mouth with a sentence, "Chairman, is this thing called a suicide machine!" (To be continued......)