433.Chapter 433: Light
Several of the most developed cities in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, such as Suxichang, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, and Yangzhou, fell one after another, and Vice Chairman Lin's strategy of using the Yangtze River as a knife began to bear fruit.
General Lin's strategy has also gradually emerged, because her next combat target is still along the river, with Nanjing as the www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion, and up to the three towns of Wuhan.
This section of the waterway is tortuous, but the vertical distance from Nanjing to Wuhan is only 450 kilometers, and bombers with fuel tanks can easily reach Wuhan, so Wuhan is already under the threat of a surprise attack at any time. Intermediate cities such as Ma'anshan, Wuhu, Anqing, and Jiujiang are gradually blocking traffic by Bluetooth cannons transported by airships.
Since this stage of military operations, the Goryeo army has faded out, and the army of the Chinese Federation has taken on the important task of penetrating deep into the territory of the Great Qing State, so as not to let the people of the Great Qing State always say "devils" and "sticks", and now they are all Chinese, it's hard to say, right?
Wuhan was an important military and manufacturing center of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Army had a large air base here, which often dispatched fighter jets to harass the UN's Bluetooth artillery group. The UN military finally discovered that the Wuhan Air Force was no longer Wuxia Ameng, and there were two more shafts on the wings of their aircraft, and there were small propellers at the four ends of the shafts.
When the plane took off, the angle of the one-leaf rotor on the shaft was parallel to the shaft, and its aerodynamic performance was excellent, and UN's aerodynamic engineers found in the real room that the "facelift" invented by the Great Qing Dynasty Engineering was aerodynamically better than the inclined twin rotors of Windsor.
The best part is that this facelift does not need to be rebuilt at all, it only needs to be installed on the original wing. For the first time, the Qing Dynasty finally stood at the top of the world's manufacturing industry, contributing a magical vertical take-off and landing scheme to the Entente countries, which greatly improved the air power of the Entente countries.
Now, even if Vice Chairman Lin's long-range artillery blew up the Qing army's airfield, their fighters would not be affected in the slightest. A small facelift completely bridges the big disadvantage, which is really amazing.
The only pity is that the Qing Kingdom was surrounded by clusters, and it was simply not capable of using oil-based aviation methanol fuel to get on the Meteor fighter invented by the British. The British themselves did not have much oil, so their hopes were pinned on Canada and the United States.
At present, the Entente relies on Russia and North Africa for oil supply, so these two battlefields are particularly important, and the Entente must keep the Tyumen oil fields even if they go out, where the British, Prussian, Austrian, and Soviet armies have launched a tragic tug-of-war between you and me.
After all, the glider cannon invented by Vice Chairman Lin is gliding, and the speed is not fast when it is in the air, and the probability of being intercepted is still quite large, and the latest anti-air rapid-fire cannon of the Entente countries, which has perfected the skills of close explosion, can intercept most of the gliding guns, plus the opponent's fighter plane has been able to take off and land vertically, so one of Vice Chairman Lin's nirvana skills can be regarded as broken.
Due to the elongation of the battle line, it is nothing now, when Wuhan is taken, if you want to continue the westward expedition, the external fuel tanks are not enough, and UN urgently needs a new strategic fighter that can run a long distance of 1,000 kilometers, otherwise the UN army will be deep in the long depth of the Qing Dynasty.
Asking the master for advice is not Vice Chairman Lin's style, since the master has retired, he shouldn't go to fight his old man, Lin Feier himself and the engineers thought hard, and finally came up with a plan to install the laser thruster on the plane.
The installation site is the tail of the aircraft, and when the aircraft lifts off, the laser on the ground can shine on the small air-blasting engine in the tail. In this way, as long as the aircraft flies along a fixed route, it is constantly powered by energy, and only a small amount of fuel is required.
Ground-based laser regeneration can supply unlimited power, as long as there are mobile lasers on the ground. At present, most of the UN fighters fly at an altitude of 8,000 meters, and theoretically as long as a mobile laser regeneration node is arranged every 300 kilometers in the open area, a fighter can be supplied with zero energy flight.
In fact, in order to allow the fighters to gain greater flexibility, nodes will be arranged approximately every 100 to 200 kilometers in the central city along the river. Based on his own air gossip array, Vice Chairman Lin has arranged 27 laser emitters for each regeneration center, and the fighters in the air will be able to fly in a flight formation of 27 planes.
Other engineers proposed a way to use 27 launchers to support zero-energy flight of twice or three times the aircraft, that is, to power the 27 aircraft in turn, send them to a certain altitude and then transfer to the other 27 planes, and let the aircraft glide at a high altitude for a certain distance.
If you take off at a relatively comfortable angle of 30 degrees, the first formation will reach an altitude of 8,000 meters after a climb of 18 kilometers, and then the second formation can be released, and a distance of 180 kilometers can lift 10 formations in a row, with a full 270 aircraft, which is enough to pose a serious threat to any military target.
However, such a dense formation would allow the aircraft to travel at a speed of only 200 kilometers per hour. The speed will be increased to 300 km in only three formations, 400 km in two formations, and 600 km in only one formation.
All things considered, the formation rushing to the battlefield is often two or three formations, that is, 54 or 81 fighters.
This novel re-energizing scheme also has a counter-method - reducing the number of fighters in the formation, for example, reducing the number of fighters from 27 to 9, which can give these nine fighters three times the power to cruise at supersonic speeds, about 1,500 kilometers per hour.
But it is impossible to provide all 27 lasers to a fighter, because the energy plane can't stand it, the biggest limit is the energy of 9 lasers, the aircraft will get 3600 kilometers of three times the speed of sound, and the service life will be greatly reduced, unless it is absolutely necessary.
An increase in the weight of the aircraft by one ton will probably consume 150 kilograms of more fuel, and in the case of the same weight, the laser-propelled fighter can carry 15% more ammunition than the opponent, no matter how far it travels, it will not lose this advantage. The new machine can also directly convert 600 kilograms of fuel into ammunition, basically without losing combat effectiveness, so that the firepower of the new machine will be several times that of the opponent.
Because it can have unlimited battery life, Kobayashi named this new machine "Global Hawk". Strategic aircraft took to the stage of history.
At the same time, the development of a strategic transport aircraft began. It has four large propellers, each of which is followed by a laser-propelled engine capable of transporting 20 tons of cargo. The Entente also had similar military transport aircraft, but they designed a cruising speed of only 500 km/h for fuel efficiency.
And Windsor's new transport aircraft can reach speeds of up to 1,000 kilometers per hour, and if there is an emergency, the frenzied 8 laser thrusters can also accelerate this monster to 2 with all their might. 5 times the speed of sound, that is, 3000 kilometers per hour.
The Windsor Empire of Discovery had well-established maritime supply stations in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and its intercontinental trunk lines had reached the point where there was a node every 50 kilometers. Laser emitters can be easily deployed at these maritime supply stations, which will result in significant savings on intercontinental routes.
Because intercontinental planes have to cross long distances, it's not that large planes can't be loaded with so much fuel, and laser propulsion perfectly solves this problem, so now small planes can also cross the vast ocean. Even gliders can cross oceans at a minimal cost.
The glider propelled by the laser can be amazing, the original limit can only rise to 1000 meters, a glide of 50 kilometers, now it can rise to 8000 meters, the limit glide 400 kilometers, and no longer need to land for the electromagnetic catapult to bounce again, the trip has become quite smooth, and it can be completely carried out passenger transport.
The rotating laser receiver generates a large amount of heat, and the air temperature at 8,000 meters above sea level is 48 degrees lower than the sea level, which is just right to heat up to passengers, and passengers do not have to worry about being frozen into popsicles.
The most energy-efficient speed of a glider is 200 kilometers per hour, and a trip across 10,000 kilometers can be a lot of money at a cost of one euro. This charge is 10 times cheaper than the Entente's large intercontinental airliners, and even better is that it makes intercontinental personal travel possible, if you don't feel that 50 hours are lonely.
Airbus began to introduce "air taxis" at unbelievably low prices, and passengers thought the fare was one zero less. However, for the sake of the confidentiality of the laser thruster, this service is only available to employees and their families of Windsor enterprises for the time being.
Now it is not too easy to mobilize talents within the Windsor consortium, and a 10,000-kilometer flight can be done by taking an air taxi with a price of one euro, or a pattern of waving and stopping.
In fact, one euro is the ideal price, only the fattest passengers dare to sit, because there is no "brother" of the unmanned glider is this price, our Windsor employees are very expensive, the daily salary is two euros, with you for 50 hours can only charge one euro?
So if you want to have a brother or sister to accompany you, you have to add three euros, and then the speed of the air taxi will increase to 800 kilometers per hour, and it will only take 13 hours from Beijing to San Francisco, which is comparable to a turbofan plane. This is much stronger than the 600 km cruising propeller airliner that is the mainstream of the Entente.
At this time, the intercontinental routes of turbofan airliners are more than 8 euros, and air taxis can be so much cheaper than large airliners, the only bad thing is that there are no daily necessities on small planes, whether it is to eat or go to the toilet, you have to land.
In the primary stage, there are laser emitters every 300 kilometers, so it is not possible to go down at any time to solve life problems, but fortunately, 300 kilometers is only 20 minutes, and patience is there.
Later it turned out that human beings really have a fear of heights in different ways, and it was too cold for a euro to spend 50 hours on a plane without any passengers on a "self-help" intercontinental trip. However, there are many business travelers who are willing to take a short time to do emergency travel, although they are not as comfortable as a large plane, but there is no way to do it when something urgent comes.
This kind of good thing is not everywhere, only the warlords of Windsor have formed a powerful intercontinental trunk line in order to fight the war, and these laser thrusters are usually idle, so they will be open to Windsor corporate employees and become a rare and strange way to travel.
Among the first batch of such strategic trunk lines were from the Chinese Federation to the Tyumen oil fields in the westernmost part of the Soviet Union, in order to mobilize troops from the Far East to deal with the endless supply of Allied fighters. They have shooting star fighters that take off and land vertically, and the United Nations has a global eagle with fierce firepower and fierce dragons, and the two sides are fighting each other, and wonderful battles are staged every day, which is really a world war that can be sung and cried