July 19, 1940, Ministry of Armament. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lin Jun was reading the telegram sent back from China by the Air Force for China, he had not deliberately paid attention to the war in the East for a long time, and this extra-long telegram delivered in the morning made Lin Jun's thoughts return to the extremely familiar, but seemingly somewhat unfamiliar motherland.

There was a huge globe next to his desk, and Lin Jun turned the globe to the east, staring at the familiar land and pondering for a long time.

"Gusev, Comrade Andlupf, please come to me. Also, Comrade Porenin, commander of the Air Force of the Seventh Army, should be in the Air Force Committee today, and you sent someone to invite him as well. Lin Jun ordered the confidential staff officers to be called in.

"Yes, chief, I'll do it at once."

Gu Shefu saw that Lin Jun's face was a little strange, and he didn't have any expression, knowing that he must have encountered some problem.

Half an hour later, the car of Andlupuf and Porenin arrived at the armament department, and the two collided just at the gate.

Porenin, who had the rank of major general, saluted Andlupf: "Comrade Andlupf, you are also here for Andrey?" ”

"Just called me like something urgent. How, you too? ”

Porenin nodded to his old boss: "It seems that there is something important. ”

These two can no longer be acquainted, and they have formed a deep comrade-in-arms in China, and starting from Lin Jun's aspect: one is a good brother who shares life and death, and the other is a subordinate who can risk his life for himself - in a hurry to call the two together, there must be something very important to discuss, and it will never be a good thing such as eating, otherwise it will be explained first.

"I have just received a report from the Air Force Aiding China that yesterday in Chongqing together with the Chinese Air Force intercepted a mixed bombing formation of the Japanese Air Force on Chongqing, and both sides shot down four Japanese bombers and six fighters."

"Hehe, good boys! No worse than what we did when we were in China! Andlupuf was very happy, and Porenin on the side also smiled when he heard the news.

"The problem is, comrades, we lost 12 rag 3 3 and 5 pilots died; On the Chinese side, 8 Ir-16 lost 5 aircraft, 5 Il-15 lost 2 aircraft, and only one pilot managed to parachute, while the Japanese fighters had only 16. ”

"What?" Both Porenin and Andlupuf didn't believe their ears, are the lads asleep?!

Since the end of last year, a batch of lagers were provided to the China-aiding air force, and the airspace over Chongqing has always been their world, and except for a few sneak attacks by Japanese bombers, the China-aiding air force and the Chinese air force have surrounded Chongqing like a fortress.

Both of them thought of the question at the same time, and both walked over to the conspicuous globe.

"Andrey, where did the Japanese fighters take off from? How long did the air battle last? "Andlupuf found a serious problem.

"It should be Wuhan, and the air battle lasted up to an hour and a half."

"Whew", the other two heard a deep exhalation from Andlupf, "It's a new Japanese fighter, but Andrey, the combat radius of the Japanese fighter is also ------"

"It should be a Japanese Zero fighter, and the range may be close to 3000 km." Lin Jun said unfazedly.

"Andrey, our current fighter with the longest range is only 1,300 kilometers, is it possible that the aviation technology of the Japanese is already ahead of us, this is impossible."

Porenin also called Lin Jun Andrey, like Andlupf, not Comrade Marshal or anything else, which Lin Jun had particularly emphasized before - if it weren't for this old subordinate, his own life would have been confessed in the snowstorm of Vyborg.

"It's not surprising that Japan is a strange people, they are inferior to us in aviation technology, but they can't be limited to making several freak planes. Porenin, how did the Japanese Type 96 land attack aircraft compare with our bombers? ”

"The performance is about the same, at least the range can be compared with our DB-3, but from the fighter pilots who have competed with it, it looks like a super lighter, just a little bit."

Porenin's expression showed that he seemed to understand something.

"If our fighter aircraft were built with an all-aluminum structure, a superduralumin load-bearing structure with comparable hardness steel, and a large disposable auxiliary fuel tank, drilling holes in the frame of the aircraft to reduce weight, without self-sealing fuel tanks and no armor, the estimated range would be more than 2,000 kilometers. Unfortunately, although our aluminum alloy industry has developed rapidly in recent years, it cannot guarantee that all our aircraft will use all-aluminum structures. ”

This is something that gives Lin Jun a bit of a headache.

"Then this new fighter of the Japanese will also be a lighter, just a little bit." Andlupuf said.

"Judging by the telegram, the climb rate and turning radius of the Zero are excellent, and there is no advantage in grappling with the Zero at low altitudes. However, if it is at high altitude, its vertical maneuverability is not very outstanding, and it may be that the lack of strength of the fuselage leads to aileron reaction at high speeds. And its dive speed is not fast, we have a pilot after being bitten by the Zero, immediately dived at a high speed and rolled to easily get rid of its pursuit, but you can't use the means of climbing to get rid of it, and you can't chase the Zero with a sharp climb, otherwise it's not good news. ”

"Generally speaking, except for the range, our lag does not have a disadvantage to the zero, and the speed is still faster than the lag, and it is estimated that the zero-type is about five hundred and forty-five. The few aircraft we lost in yesterday's air battle were in the first 20 minutes, and the lads are not familiar with the opponent yet, so I don't blame them. ”

Lin Jun handed the telegram to the two of them, and Andrupf read it, "Andrey, you didn't just call us here for this matter, right?" ”

"Some time ago everyone was focused on the situation in Western Europe, and probably ignored our own business. Polenin, the bomber corps will soon have a completely new heavy long-range bomber. Our joint design group of Comrades Polikarpov and Petryakov has made a major breakthrough in the study of heavy bombers, 4 prototypes have already been built, and I have already made a production approval, the model is the Pi-8. ”

After Lin Jun finished speaking, he handed a thick folder on his desk to Porenin, making him fascinated.

This is no longer the old problematic Pi-8 in Lin Jun's memory, but a new bomber with bomb load and range far beyond the B-17, the most mature heavy bomber in the world.

"Andrey, how much production do you approve?" Andlupf on the side asked.

"The first batch of 200 aircraft is too much to affect the production of other departments. It will be produced in the Urals, and if the raw materials are sufficient, I will produce this type of bomber in large quantities. We predicted that the future war with Germany would be fought with potential, and that they would not be able to threaten our industrial regions in the Urals. While the superficial appearance of war may be the hand-to-hand combat that we and they are all accustomed to, if we have the ability to form a sufficient strategic bomber force, their war potential will be inferior to ours. ”

Lin Jun knew very well that the war between the Soviet Union and Germany was a "bayonet-eyed" battle, and there was basically no such thing as strategic bombing -- historically, the Germans did not have long enough legs, and the situation on the Soviet side's side was not much better: they were busy with things in front of them, and they had no time and energy to deal with things behind the mountain.

Of course, the starting point for forming a powerful strategic aviation unit is good, but it is also necessary to do what we can, otherwise we will waste resources in vain and will not be able to form effective combat effectiveness, not to mention that it will affect other production.

Lin Jun This is after thinking about it holistically, the Soviet aviation industry production has been able to withstand such a burden. In order to save aluminum, the civilian sector over there did even more desperately: because of Lin Jun's speech at a central meeting the year before last on the lack of aluminum production, the comrades in charge of the production of civilian daily necessities did something that went against historical development: the production of aluminum pots and pans was restricted, and from last year onwards, there were almost no lightweight aluminum pots and shovels on the market, and new stainless steel products were replaced.

In contrast to the precious aluminum, the Soviet Union had chromium and nickel, and the Soviets, the strategic metals, which were lacking in other countries, were not lacking. And the stainless steel formula for manufacturing daily necessities was given by Lin Jun, which surprised the experts on the metallurgical front.

As long as you are good at high school chemistry and physics, it is easy to come up with a few simple stainless steel recipes.

After learning that the streets of the Soviet Union were full of new pots and pans, the German metallurgical engineers deliberately asked the embassy to buy a batch of research, and the result was that Hans almost vomited blood: a steel pot used by a Russian aunt to stew potatoes had a combined chromium and nickel content of nearly 20 percent!

In the past two years, a variety of stainless steel materials have been developed, many of which have been applied to military production, which has saved a lot of valuable aluminum.

"If this new type of bomber is in service in large quantities, other issues will not be considered, and we need to prepare a new long-range escort fighter for it." Porenin looked very far away.

"I have already thought that now all aviation powers are developing new models of aircraft, which can be described as blowouts. We have the same problem with the Germans' fighters, the range is too short, and the use is okay, but there is a lack of a long-range fighter. ”

Lin Jun handed his brother another drawing: "This is the design of the aircraft I drew in Sochi, and the engine is a MiG-1 model." Now that the engine development department has a more powerful and fuel-efficient version, I would like to leave this to the design bureaus of Mikoyan and Grevich to see if it is feasible. ”

This is a detailed design drawing with a knife, using an all-metal design, and if you show it to Andlupf in a few years, he will probably blurt out: "P51?!" ”

Lin Jun has seen a full set of reverse drawings of the P-51 in a flyable state by aviation enthusiasts, in order to have a ready-made long-range fighter, copy it.

Of course, it would have been better if it had been possible to use a hybrid structure of gold and wood, but it would not have affected the production and improvement of existing fighters, because what the Soviets urgently needed at the moment was a front-line fighter that could be produced quickly. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )