"The price of 50 km, worth it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Lin Jun said lightly, "We need a bomber that can carry super-heavy aerial bombs, as for the bomb, Robert Orozdi, you don't need to think about it, right?" ”

"Yes, Marshal." When Baltini heard this, he sensed that the marshal's meaning was beyond the scope of the aircraft designer's consideration, although any aircraft designer would take into account the current possession of aerial bombs when designing an aircraft.

"According to your report, if the most fuel-efficient flight mode is adopted, how long can the Ghost reach with different bomb loads?"

"If it's three tons, it could reach 4500 kilometers. If it is reduced to two tons, it will be at least 5,000 kilometers, and if only one ton of bombs is hung or used as a reconnaissance type, some of the empty magazines will be equipped with temporary fuel tanks, and it may even exceed 6,000 kilometers.

If the Wraith takes off at maximum payload, theoretically the thrust provided by the two DP-1-2 engines will be sufficient for its ability to cruise economically at altitudes of 11,000 to 11,500 meters. The Ghost has incredible lift aerodynamic performance, it is a wing, theoretically after entering the high-altitude level flight state, in the economic cruising state, it is two engines to work, and it only needs about 70 to 75 percent of the power to ensure that it does not fall.

However, in that case, the flight speed would be very likely to be intercepted by an opponent's propeller-engine fighter, and the length of the take-off runway could be nearly two kilometers.

The conditions of use are harsh, of course, Marshal, theoretically the Ghost can accelerate with the air start of the other two engines after entering the dangerous airspace, and it only takes a few minutes for it to gain incredible flight speed and altitude. ”

"It seems that the DP-1-2 engine can only be started on the ground, and it is necessary to pre-heat the test with special equipment?"

"This problem has been solved by the notice of the Gorky side, and they have made small improvements to the way the engine is started, saying that it is used to deal with the special situation of the Yi-20 single-engine air stop, but I don't think so."

Lin Jun smiled to himself: "The distance between the two engines of the Yi 20 is so large, and stopping and restarting in the air is not something that ordinary pilots can control." ”

The design of the Yi 20 can be said to be primitive, and the torque brought in that case is not as easy to handle as the propeller aircraft, and it is estimated that once the single engine stops, the aircraft will directly enter the spiral. Baltini was an aircraft designer, and he was no layman: it is estimated that Gorky may have left a hand.

Lin Jun knows that the Yi 20 may be able to be put into actual combat at the end of this year, but it can only be used as an interceptor, and the most suitable jet fighter is not to mount two engines on both sides of the wing like it, but to stuff it into the belly of the aircraft!

"Cruising with two engines to obtain an ultra-long range, in China and the Pacific theater, the pilots of the Zero fighter in little Japan used a similar method of thinking, so that they have an ultra-long range that is longer than the design index, and they are about to catch up with our MiG-3."

"I've heard that, marshal. The Japanese save fuel by keeping the engine at a very low speed when cruising long distances, which loses a lot of speed and makes the pilot fatigue easily, but this method is still very feasible when necessary. ”

Because Lin Jun was sitting in the pilot's seat talking to Baltini, the mechanic on the side took down something from a shelf next to the seat, and Lin Jun hadn't noticed it just now - it was a very special control panel.

Baltini snapped the control wheel into a tube that protruded slightly from the dashboard, and it was done!

"That's a good design!" Lin Jun's eyes lit up, a bit like an F1 car.

"Flying the Ghost is inherently more physically demanding than flying a normal bomber, but in order to provide a relatively accurate bombing effect at high altitudes, we had to install a Type 41 bombing sight on it."

The relatively large bombing sight was mounted underneath the navigator's position, with a sight glass attached to it. Everyone can see that the space on the side of the pilot bomber is crowded enough, and the volume in the cockpit of this double can almost be described as an inch of land!

"If a fixed steering wheel is set up in front of the pilot bomber, there is no way for people to bend down comfortably to observe the bombing sight, and relying on the pilot alone to carry out the whole flight team will be a serious test, and I have to come up with such a method."

As he spoke, Baltini pressed his hand on one of the joints, and the steering wheel was removed.

When the navigator takes over the pilot, the steering wheel is attached, and it can be easily removed when approaching the bombing target, and the design is very good.

The Ghost's cockpit can be said to be more crowded, just like two fighter cockpits put together, and even there is only one set of flight instruments. Coupled with the fact that there are many more instrument panels and controls than fighter jets, the pilot bomber really has to do something different if he wants to take on the role of co-pilot.

However, because of the small space, the navigator has to look at the flight data instrument on the pilot's side, and he can see it when he turns his head slightly.

Lin Jun suddenly patted Baltini on the shoulder, which made the designer a little at a loss: Lin Jun hadn't done this for a long time, and many Russians had a hard time accepting such a way of expressing their behavior.

"According to your estimating speed, when will it be ready for actual combat?"

"If it's just as an emergency reconnaissance or as a symbolic test bombing, it's okay tonight. If the performance is basically stable, it will be the end of the year at the earliest. ”

The designer's words are reasonable, during the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union did something completely new, the performance was not perfect, and even the only number of equipment was put into combat, such as the "For the Motherland" heavy tank in Leningrad in Lin Jun's memory.

"Robert Orozdi, turn your range theory into reality, we need it!"

With a three-ton bomb load, long range, high speed, and high-altitude performance, Lin Jun already intends to put the Ghost into experimental use in war. No matter how advanced a weapon is, if it has not been tested in real combat, it can be said that it is not reliable.

Why does Lin Jun care so much about its voyage? Ghosts are difficult to detect, and at some point in the next few years, Lin Jun needs Ghosts to become a sword of Damocles on his strategic opponents in the future!

The Americans will soon establish a ring of control in North America that will cause headaches for their opponents, and it will be up to the specter to break through it -- theoretically, and no country or leader will dare to challenge the theory in an era when a nuclear war may break out.

If it is a range of 6,000 kilometers, when a miniaturized atomic bomb is developed, the sword of Damocles will hang over the heads of the Americans. Although the Pis-8 long-range bomber can also take on such a mission, in the presence of ghosts, it is still difficult to detect the deterrent power of ghosts.

As for the formation of a one-way suicide mission team that the mission requires, the Soviet Union had such fearless pilots: the Soviet Union organized it in the long history that Lin Jun remembers, and it can now.

Moreover, Lin Jun needs the Red Navy to maintain a certain strategic presence in several oceans in the future, that is, at least long-range submarine long-distance cruises, which will provide a glimmer of hope for survival for the ghost pilots' one-way attacks.

As for the maximum single-payload bomb of more than three tons, it may have been needed before the end of the world war - not conventional super-heavy bombs, but the original atomic bombs, which were not much smaller.

The two of them got out of the cockpit, and a one-armed mechanic was standing with Arkhipov, "Vasily, when did you come back?"

Lin Jun asked as soon as he got out of the cockpit. Here came his old friend, his mechanic Comrade Vasily, who was in Spain and China back then, Senior Warrant Officer of the "Middle Vasily" of the three Vasilys in Zhukov, and now the chief mechanic of the Ghost Design Group.

"Last month, it was only ten days."

Some time ago, he went to the Jet Engine Research Center for training for a period of time to familiarize himself with the construction and characteristics of jet engines. Of course, the engine part of the ghost was handled by specialized engineers, and Vasily did not need to study it in depth or learn to repair it, otherwise he would have stayed there for at least two or three years.

Vasily was responsible for the overall coordinated maintenance of the entire flying wing, and surrounded by a group of designers, he did not have many problems to solve. Of course, small troubles such as hydraulic problems can be solved almost with his eyes closed.

At this time, Baltini said: "As soon as Comrade Vasily returned, we did not solve the problem of the sometimes unresponsiveness of the rear aerofoil, which helped us designers a lot!" ”

"Comrade Vasily is one of the best mechanics in our Air Force!"

Vasily shook his head and said: "Andrey, after spending some time in the institute, I feel that I am outdated, and maybe in a few years I will have to repair transport planes. ”

"Earlier, you will have at least another 15 years before you can retire us." Arkhipov said with a smile on the side: No way, because of his age, it is difficult for Vasily to learn the maintenance and repair of jet engines from scratch, and he probably doesn't have that energy.

He was a specialist in piston engines, he belonged to the propeller era.

Lin Jun encouraged the busy crowd in the workshop and prepared to leave.

Arkhipov also walked out of the workshop together, and said as he walked: "Our Lag-7 will be sent to the 1st Guards Division the day after tomorrow, and the testers have already given some operational advice, and they have all been sorted out." ”

"Oh, it's fast enough."

Get in the car, "It's not fast, it's not good, the design bureau and the Air Force Commission urge it once every two days." ”

Lin Jun didn't know what Big Brother said, he couldn't control that much.

Back at runway 2, Stalin-Vasily and Svetlana had already changed their flight suits, two brand-new Lag-7s and a small Wave 2 trainer were parked on the runway, and Vasily was communicating with several test pilots of the academy.

One of the guards held a flight jacket and said, "What, you're going to try it too?" Arkhipov asked.

"It's a little tickling."

Lin Jun took off his marshal uniform jacket and changed into a flight jacket.

The Lager 7 is reliable, fast, and powerful! It has a wingspan of 9.84 meters, a length of 8.63 meters, a wing area of 17.5 square meters, a AR82PHB engine, and an external fairing that reduces drag quite successfully, allowing it to reach a top speed of 680 kilometers per hour. In addition, its climb speed has been improved, and it only takes 4 minutes and 30 seconds to take off from the ground with the brakes released to reaching an altitude of 5000 meters!

"It is powerful and concentrated, equipped with three HC-23 tube-retreat 23mm guns designed by the Nordermann-Sulanov Design Bureau, each with 120 rounds in reserve and a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute. The cockpit is equipped with an ammo counter that lasts for 12 seconds if fired continuously. ”

The persistence of fire and the power of the projectile are already a problem, like the Mercedes 109, a 7.92mm machine gun has 500 rounds per ammunition, and it is difficult to continue to attack and fight in the air, unless the jet fighter has enough power reserves in the future to load the frightening volume of the magazine.

However, the current Soviet pilots like such large-caliber firepower, at least Vasily is very satisfied with the Lag 7 - as long as one or two shots are hit by the opponent's fighter in one attack, the opponent will have to go around without food!

As for the bomber, it was almost enough to hit a point shot, and the 23-mm shell was the same as that used by the ВЯ type, and it was twice as powerful as the 20-mm Б-20 aircraft gun shell that the Lager-7 originally designed to use.

The B-20 20mm cannon has now stopped the next step at the prototype stage, and Lin Jun remembers that it was originally installed on the Il-2, Yak-1, Yak-7П, Yak-76, Lag-3, La-5, La-7, Tu-2 and Il-10 aircraft. At present, various artillery factories are preparing to produce the HC-23 at full capacity, and there is a tendency to replace its predecessor ВЯ type of aircraft gun.

Lavochkin chose the 23-mm HC-23 gun because of its outstanding performance: it was the same as the ВЯ and the original 23-mm МП-6 gun, the recoil was smaller, and more importantly, the weight was lighter, only 37 kg, while the ВЯ and МП-6 guns exceeded 60 kg.

The HC-23 was even lighter than the heavily armed 20-mm ШВКА cannon, which weighed 40 kg, 42 kg and 44.65 kg for wing, rotary and engine versions, respectively.

In this case, the designers did not hesitate to use the HC-23 aircraft gun as the weapon of the Lag 7. Of course, this choice also comes at a cost, which will produce the Yak series fighters and various attack aircraft and bombers, which can only be used in ШВКА, ВЯ or МП-6 until the production capacity of the various artillery factories is completely converted.

It is normal for several design bureaus to fight openly and secretly, but this time Lavochkin took advantage of it: he also had a price to pay, and on the other hand, his Lag 7 production could not be compared to the Jacques until the artillery factory completed the production conversion without reducing the total output.

"Marshal, this is the plane I want! Compared with 109 and it, the vertical performance is the old woman who can't walk! ”

Vasily liked the new plane, the 109F took 5 minutes and 20 seconds to climb to an altitude of 5000 meters, and the G-type, although faster, was not as good as the Rag-7 at any altitude. Just like what he talked about with Lin Jun when he came - the horizontal performance 109 was originally not comparable to Lager, and now Lager can completely overwhelm the opponent in vertical performance.

As for the 190, although it has begun to enter the battlefield in an all-round way, and will soon squeeze the Type 109 into the status of an auxiliary fighter other than high-altitude combat, its vertical performance is even worse than that of the 109.

(Working overtime in the middle of the night, I can finally get a chapter first.) (To be continued.) )