It is better for the tanker itself to have an ultra-long range, otherwise even if it can carry a large amount of fuel, it will not be able to provide effective help to the tanker. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The reverse is also true, if there is not enough carrying capacity, the aircraft that flies far is not suitable for conversion into a tanker.

For example, the Li-2 transport aircraft, which should be regarded as a very good medium-sized transport aircraft, has a maximum range of 2,650 kilometers, but the maximum load capacity of the cargo type is more than one ton.

Such a load capacity, even if all the unnecessary equipment on it is removed, after the installation of pressurized fuel transmission equipment and fuel tanks, its fuel capacity is better than nothing for the "ghost" with the world's largest fuel coefficient.

Moreover, the practical ceiling of the Li-2 is only 5600 meters, the maximum speed is 325 km / h, and the cruising speed is only 240 km / h.

If it comes to refuel the "Phantom" in actual combat, the "Phantom" will come down from an altitude of 12,000 meters and then go up, slow down and accelerate again, so a toss, the more than 1,000 liters of fuel added are estimated to be able to toss off a lot!

And the DB-3 medium-sized long-range bomber, which has been available since 1936, has a wingspan of 21.44 meters and a length of 14.22 meters, which is so big!

It's too small.

Although its maximum flight speed is 439 km/h, it is no problem to maintain a stable short-term cruising speed of 380 km, and the practical ceiling has reached 9600 meters, and the range is also 3800 km, which is obviously more suitable than the Li-2 as a "ghost" tanker.

And its carrying capacity is not weak, the maximum bomb load of the latest improved model in 41 has already reached 2500 kg. If all unnecessary equipment is removed, its carrying capacity will be stronger.

But it's the small fuselage space that has a big problem, and if it is used to convert it into a tanker, it will make the designers' heads eight big!

The huge bomb load and 5,000-kilometer range of the Pi-8 heavy bomber, coupled with the maximum practical ceiling of 9,500 meters, although the three indicators will decline after the three indicators are combined, it is still the best choice at present.

As for the planes given by the Americans in accordance with the Lend-Lease Act, the heavy one was not given, and the largest was the B25 bomber, which was easy to use on the battlefield, but it was not suitable for conversion into a tanker aircraft.

As for the US-aided transport aircraft, only the Kazuri-2 is a "cousin" of the C47. As for the C46, the U.S. army was already equipped by then, but it was only made public last month, and it was estimated that it would be a little difficult for the Soviet Union to want a batch.

If there is a C46, it is estimated that the prototype used as a tanker is also good, but I don't know if the Americans will be angry when they learn about this situation!

If you want C46, then you have to rely on the ability of Comrade Molotov.

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When the "Phantom" landed, Stalin specially met with Ilyushchenko and Butovich and encouraged all the personnel involved in the "Phantom" test and perfection to go all out and give the Air Force a super bomber with the fastest speed, quality and quantity!

Everyone was inspired, but I didn't say it! All out in times of war!

Stalin was a very interesting man, and when he was ruthless, he would send people to prison because the designers were too slow; But if it's someone he can see, he'll give that person everything he wants!

Tonight's test flight has come to an end for the time being, leaving only a few mechanics to check the "ghost" after returning home.

This is not a good thing for jets, because the technology is not yet mature, and after each flight, no matter how long it takes, it must be thoroughly inspected - many systems are not reliable enough.

It was late at night, Stalin and others returned to Moscow, and Lin Jun's Mercedes-Benz bulletproof car was temporarily lent to Stalin, and even the guards were lent half of it.

When I got home in a gas, the children were already asleep, and Vuginskaya was already asleep because she was about to give birth. However, the wife couldn't sleep well with a big belly, and when the husband went to the children's room to see the sleeping children, he was still awake when he returned to the bedroom.

The next day, Lin Jun went to the Kremlin and stayed for 3 hours before returning to Zhukov.

Why?

Wife gives birth to a baby!

A few days earlier than expected, and he really didn't have much to do in the Kremlin: when the superbomb was reported, he waited to return to Ukraine as soon as possible.

But Stalin refused to let him go, and demanded that Comrade Andrei stay for another half a month before returning to Ukraine, citing the health of his deputy.

Physical causes?

If he wasn't in good health, he wouldn't have been allowed to go to Kazakhstan, this was just a reason.

It is a happy thing to accompany his wife to have children, especially in times of war.

Originally, Vukinskaya planned to return to Moscow in two or three days to give birth, but the plan could not keep up with the changes, but fortunately, although the affiliated hospital of the college did not have obstetricians, there were still a few surgeons.

And as soon as she heard that Vukinskaya was about to give birth, two of Moscow's most experienced obstetricians rushed to Zhukov as fast as they could!

However, before the obstetrician arrived, when Lin Jun's bulletproof sedan rushed into the hospital, Vukinskaya had successfully given birth to a 3.4-kilogram baby girl, and the mother and child were safe.

Eliza Andrenovna Plunyakona, this is the name that Lin Jun has prepared for the child for a long time.

When he saw Eliza's little wrinkled face lying beside his mother, Lin Jun said: "My Eliza will grow up soon, you will be the princess of the Soviets!" ”

This is really a child born with a golden key, and life is already destined to be a smooth road from the moment she is born.

During the time when Lin Jun was spending time in Moscow, Kazakhstan and Zhukov, in the direction of Ukraine, a large-scale offensive battle that shocked the world came to a temporary end.

Neither the Soviet nor German sides achieved the expected goal of the campaign, and the tank battle broke out!

On July 18 alone, in an area of less than 150 square kilometers west of Kyiv and north of Zhytomyr, the two sides actually invested nearly 1,000 tanks and self-propelled anti-tank guns!

From 5 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock in the evening, the loss of technical equipment on both sides was as high as two-thirds!

During this period, even the 1st Guards Fighter Division had part of the Lag 5 cameo in the role of anti-tank attack aircraft, using a 23-mm gun and two mounted cluster magazines with 32 PTAB-2.5-1.5 anti-tank bombs inside!

The Il-2 attack aircraft of the front-line attack aircraft unit attacked on all fronts, and the main anti-tank weapon put into operation that day was the PTAB-2.5-1.5!

It weighs only 1.5 kilograms, uses anti-tank rockets inspired by it, and uses shaped armor piercing technology to penetrate armor up to 50 mm thick!

Each Il-2 can carry up to 280 bombs, enough to create a path of death paved with metal jets in the flight path!

At present, this little thing is the first time it has been put into actual combat, but it has already terrified the German officers and soldiers, and it has once again made the Il-2 achieve the prestige of the "Black Death"!

The Soviet Union originally had cluster bombs, but they were anti-infantry: after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the High Command ordered the military-industrial complex to immediately develop a cluster anti-tank bomb.

Originally, the military industry department had been instructed by Lin Jun, but weapon development was not an idea and an order that could be solved immediately, and several design bureaus that developed based on the idea of hollow charge warheads, including GSKB-47, SKB-22 and SKB-35, finally paid off their hard work after experiencing more than a dozen unsuccessful models.

The SKB-22 design bureau finally had a relatively successful design, the product was perfected in just 4 months, and the first live ammunition was urgently delivered to Ukraine.

However, even with the help of new weapons, neither of the Soviet and German sides achieved the expected goal of the battle, and they were exhausted!

The strength of the two sides is too even, and no one has made a mistake in command, they are all equally excellent!

After a month of fierce fighting, both sides found that they could not continue the offensive - at this time, the two sides were intertwined on the battle line, and many areas were ordered to retreat on both sides.

In the south, the Germans were dominant, and part of the territory that had been recaptured by the Red Army was occupied by the Germans, while in the north of Ukraine, the Red Army advanced the front by almost 150 kilometers.

For the time being, the two sides are no longer able to launch a large-scale offensive campaign in Ukraine, and can only wait for the replenishment of forces in the autumn to start the war again.

And on the northern front, Tukhachevsky's Baltic Coastal Front also launched an offensive operation in the summer, but after advancing for dozens of kilometers, it had to take the initiative to go on the defensive!

It was already not far from East Prussia, but in the direction of Belarus, south of Comrade Marshal, the Germans instead advanced almost 50 km in the direction of Minsk!

Tukhachevsky had to divide his forces to help the 1st Belorussian Front: Army Group Center, having been replenished, advanced like a madman in the direction of Minsk, trying to take the Soviet city that had saddened them last year.

But the 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts were not vegetarians either, and after a month of fierce fighting at any cost, the German offensive was contained, and the losses of technical equipment on both sides amounted to almost an astronomical amount!

The battle line seemed to have stopped again, and in the meeting of the Supreme Command, Lin Jun had his own understanding of the current battle situation.

Unlike Stalin, who was originally ambitious and planned to basically drive the German army out of the Soviet Union before the arrival of winter, and is now very dissatisfied with the situation at the front, Lin Jun spoke a fair word for the front-line commanders.

"Comrade Stalin, the war potential of Nazi Germany has not yet broken its bones, especially since its population resources and industrial production capacity are still very strong, and their technical equipment and technology are no worse than ours at the front. And most importantly, their basic military qualities, although slightly smaller than ours, are slightly higher in basic military qualities than ours.

It was unrealistic to capture Berlin in a year before the war potential of Nazi Germany was exhausted. ”

Lin Jun: This is a bullfight with Stalin!

There was no way, Stalin had to think about dealing with some of the senior commanders at the front, and Lin Jun had to fight with the supreme commander!

This made Stalin angry enough!

Stalin sometimes made mistakes, such as the summer counteroffensive plan he decided on in 1942, which cost the Red Army a lot.

At that time, Shaposhnikov voluntarily resigned from the post of chief of the General Staff and went home to recuperate.

Lin Jun often said that he could not actually command the troops, and he had optimistically estimated the current balance of forces between the enemy and us, and completely agreed with the strategic battle plan a few months ago, but the result did not meet expectations at all.

"Hitler still has enough cards in his hand, and we are the same, we can only play the game step by step, and we were too greedy a few months ago to try to make the opponent lose everything."

A meeting of the Supreme Command has completely become a wrestle between the Supreme Commander and the Deputy Commander, and the other five can only keep watering the two guys, one old and one young. But fortunately, it didn't reach the point of tearing his face, and Lin Jun still controlled the fire, lest Stalin be stimulated to lose his rationality all of a sudden.

Stalin, in his rage, was a man who could do anything! However, he also knew that his deputy had never thought of grabbing power, so the bullfight eased down.

"Let's look at the strategy after the fall."

Stalin finally put aside the previous battle for the time being and thought about the next issues.

When the meeting ended, Lin Jun, who had left the Kremlin, suddenly had a very dangerous thought in his head: If he had just quarreled so much that he tore his face, and Stalin wanted to deprive himself of his rights, what would happen to him?!

You must know that the troops that Lin Jun currently commands are only the Kremlin guards, but his own guards are also in the Kremlin!

Their own guards are absolutely loyal to themselves, and that is really tested in battle!

And because their own guards have basically experienced actual combat, their weapons are also stronger than those of the Kremlin guards!

If it really makes trouble to the point of asking for people's lives, he is the only one in the conference room who will always be armed with a gun, and the Kremlin guard captain who is guarding outside the door used to be his staff officer, and his own guard captain is also at the door of the conference room!

If that happens, how will everyone choose?!

Lin Jun in the car closed his eyes and didn't speak for a long time.

(I originally wanted to explode, but I was busy with work for a few days, and the blood bat was a journalist, and I was a little speechless when I was busy with reporters' festivals.) (To be continued.) )