Chapter 1621: Ili Airport
This military base in Ili has been prepared, the first phase of the base that is enough to accommodate 300,000 people has been built, not only including 300,000 people to live in the barracks, dormitories, positions and training grounds, although the training ground is not large as a whole, but can ensure a training of 20,000 people, as an advance base, such training, enough to ensure 1 hour of recovery training every day, after all, this is not a station, it is a place to serve the war, and the troops stationed are strictly trained, and even have been on the battlefield, as long as they don't change their clothes and don't use updated tactics, in other cases, 1 hour of proficiency is enough. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
As a base that can meet the needs of up to 2 million people, 300,000 people is just a foundation, this is the first phase of the project, but also the limit of temporary construction, according to the agreement with Stalin and others, the future army will be divided into 3 parts, at most no more than 300,000 people, as for the future, the expansion project will be carried out one after another, and finally reach the standard of 2 million people.
The construction of the military base has come to an end, and at the beginning of the Bolshevik troops, from the vanguard to the follow-up troops, when most of the troops have entered Kazakhstan, the base will be officially expanded, and it is only the final sweeping work, and there are only a few hundred people working in the base, and all the construction personnel have not been withdrawn, but have been assigned to another base, which has only recently been temporarily decided.
Outside this base, almost 12 kilometers away from this base, is a newly built base, different from the base here, there are very few rooms there, most of them are underground semi-submersible, on the wide open field, a straight runway is being built, this is for this mission just built airfield, enough to meet a large number of fighters docking and combat huge forward airport.
Since the supply base had to be stationed in the Bolshevik Army, the airfield, a highly secrecy unit, had to be separated, but fortunately there was nothing else here, but there was a lot of wasteland, and after searching, a suitable location was finally found, and the surrounding area was open, and it was not easy to block the take-off and landing of aircraft.
The construction of airports, China has enough experience, whether it is in the early days of China's establishment, in the country, large-scale construction of field airports, or after 1913, with the improvement of transport aircraft performance, the project of passenger aircraft has also begun to be used, itself China's heavy transport aircraft, are the use of turboprop technology, which in the later eighties and nineties, are advanced technology, passenger aircraft as long as the noise and stability of these two points, transformed into passenger aircraft more suitable, China's demobilization is vast, the population is large, Coupled with the high income level of the people, a large number of aircraft passengers have been directly generated, and the airport has become the most convenient means of transportation, and it has also been built on a large scale throughout China.
In the construction of a large number of airports, China has accumulated a lot of experience, and therefore, the construction of the airport is quite fast, such a huge airport in the entire western region, at the beginning, it was just leveled, with 3,000 large machinery, it took a full 10 days to level it was completed. Then a full 19,000 meters of runways were transported, the total weight of these exceeded tens of thousands of tons, relying on China's huge railway network, which was quickly transported, after all, time is urgent, if all the high-standard runways, it takes at least 3 months, Stalin simply can't wait for such a long time, these have long been made of special steel temporary runways, as long as the assembly is completed, you can use, it is the Air Force to build temporary runways, because the Air Force has no task at present, it is used here, to a certain extent, such runways are expensive, maintenance is not easy, but it is the best choice for field airfields.
The airport has undergone almost a month of intense construction, mainly a large number of houses, oil depots, ammunition depots, pilot apartments, canteens, these things must be had, fortunately, most of the temporary use of steel structure method, the future needs to be changed, will be built in accordance with the way of the first-class base, for air raids have a strong resistance to air raids, but also more hidden.
After a month of construction, China's architectural strength can be seen, the entire airport has begun to take shape, the most eye-catching, but several huge runways, the longest runway is 3,500 meters of runway, the shortest is more than 2,000 meters. These are not final runways, they are all made of black steel, and according to certain rules, when assembled, they are enough to take off and land large aircraft.
On the side of this runway constructed of special steel, is the real high-standard runway, they are about 7 kilometers away from the location of this airport, after all, in the construction of the airport is easy to delay the take-off and landing of aircraft, this temporary airport, will become the future airport expansion project, when the number of runways will be expanded from the current 11 to 21, from a large airport to a super large airport, can accommodate at least 2000 aircraft combat.
3,000 large machinery from the supply base, and now 4,000 machinery, a total of 7,000 machinery, plus 3,000 vehicles to pull away the earthwork, just the motor vehicle is as high as 10,000, the driver plus the construction personnel, at least 80,000 people are busy on this construction site, but the indicators of the airport are very high in all aspects, and the amount of work is also quite large, at least it will be built for about 3 months, and it will become the largest military airport in Xinjiang in the future, in terms of importance, It will surpass the Urumqi military airport, which is China's largest investment in Kazakhstan this time.
After a short period of assault construction, equipped with a steel runway and a large number of steel houses of the airport, finally basically completed, today this airport opened the first day, the temporary tower has begun to operate, just from Urumqi to transport the radar, has been installed, the radar high antenna erected, in silence, to the surrounding radar waves, around 200 kilometers of the air movements, can be in the radar monitoring, this is also the main way for the tower to guide the aircraft home, This is also a temporary equipment, the real command tower in the future, will concentrate at least 6 radars, the antenna is also quite huge, at least can detect the surrounding 400 kilometers, 400 kilometers of all aircraft indicate the direction, provide some early warning and command.
In order to ensure the intelligence and safety of this time, there will be four regiments of aircraft, stationed here, respectively, two regiments of reconnaissance aircraft, one regiment of fighters, and one regiment of bombers, reconnaissance planes are mostly some medium-sized reconnaissance planes, mainly providing accurate reconnaissance within 1,500 kilometers, which is also the focus of intelligence provided by the Chinese side, with this guidance, the Bolshevik army will not be afraid of the sneak attack of cavalry units.
According to the current establishment of the Air Force, the flight regiment is the most basic command organization, the flight regiment is below the brigade, the brigade is below the squadron, a squadron has 6 aircraft, a brigade is composed of three numerous 18-20 aircraft, a flight regiment is about 5-8 brigades, generally between 100 and 160 aircraft, and the four regiments have at least more than 500 aircraft, they are all subordinate to the Northwest Military Region, the headquarters is in Yinchuan, they are flying directly from Yinchuan, and the airport runway has been cleaned up at this time. According to the airport's 11 runways, at least eight runways can accept the landing of aircraft, and some of these light reconnaissance planes can even use temporary runways of less than 500 meters, and can reach a maximum of 11 runways.
This is also the benefit of large airports, at a critical moment, up to 11 runways, can take off 19 aircraft at the same time, because 11 temporary runways, is one-way, and even can only take off fighters, if this airport is the old airport in the rear, then no problem, fighters can land 19 at the same time, transport aircraft and bombers can also land about 16 at the same time, but unfortunately this is a new airport, the ground staff of the airport is temporarily transferred over, the level has not been run in, they can get together at most 15 groups of people, It is not enough to take care of all the runways, temporarily come to the flight group, they are not familiar with the airport, they can not be like a well-trained pilot, fast and smooth landing, even the command of the tower, is far from the extent that the run-in is completed, except for a small number of familiar hands, the rest are new, so for the sake of safety, this landing, at the same time will only receive 3 aircraft, the largest three, 3500 meters of runway, 3300 meters of runway and 2800 meters of runway at the same time to accept aircraft, In this way, even if there are some problems, they can be adjusted in time, so as not to cause serious consequences due to busyness or negligence on the part of ground staff.
Air Force Colonel Yili Airport Commander Wang Diwu, is standing on the tower to personally command, he is a senior airport commander, is from the ace pilot, squadron leader, captain, regiment commander, all the way to the position of airport commander, it can be said that the experience is extremely rich, under his order, the airport tower command is carried out in an orderly manner, at least more than 100 people of the tower is concentrated, at this time everyone's work is assigned in place, is working in an orderly manner.
According to the radar, the current group of aircraft is more than 200 kilometers away from their position, and there is no data on the radar, but China is not just judging according to the radar, the local flight transition, there are radar relay guidance along the way, the time when the message came from the previous radar station, it was already 10 minutes ago, according to the flight speed of the aircraft, it was about 120 kilometers away from the radar station, and it may be more than 100 kilometers before it can enter the enveloping range of the airport radar. It's time for the airport to be busy. (To be continued.) )