Chapter 487: The Power of Technology (Part II)

Unlike Tsarist Russia during World War I, Soviet Russia's institutional advantages allowed it to increase its arms production to an unimaginable extent in the past, especially those key weapons that were focused on in the past, so although those two fighters were finalized in the last quarter of 1910, the output soared, and soon exceeded the total production of aircraft on the side of the anti-Soviet coalition, even considering that the foundation left by Tsarist Russia in this time and space was not broken by the civil war as in history. The Bolsheviks' experience in governing was far greater than that of the early days of Soviet Russia, and most of the member states of the alliance did not carry out a general mobilization for war, which was still enough to dumb the whole world. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

As for the training of pilots, it did not cause much trouble, the control of biplanes is far simpler than that of monoplanes, and although the illiteracy rate in Soviet Russia is very high, it is a semi-industrial country compared with the Western powers, and it is still not very difficult to squeeze out 10,000 or 20,000 reserve talents from other departments who have attained the standard of education and are healthy enough to carry out emergency training.

Although the quality of the pilots trained by this kind of assault is certainly not comparable with that of the enemy, after all, the aviation is still more dependent on hardware, and as a new branch of the armed forces that has only begun to emerge in this war, the coalition side actually does not have many "old pilots" in the strict sense, so the advantage must be on the side of the Soviet Russian Red Army. As for the high accident rate caused by this, hehe, isn't it just a dead man, when was the Red Army afraid?

The combination of these two aircraft, which maintained superiority on the battlefield for nearly a year, and was supported by an absolutely staggering number of aircraft during this period, naturally posed a great threat to the coalition side. In 1910, the Allied Offensive flourished, once forcing the Soviet Russian Red Army on the southern front to completely withdraw from Bulgaria and the area south of the Caucasus Mountains (the oil city of Baku also changed hands for a time), and the northern front even invaded Belarus and right-bank Ukraine, but as the air superiority changed hands, the Soviet Russian Red Army turned the tide of the war again in a very short time......

Budyonny, who hated bombers before, now loves bombers to death, and with bombers that can provide fire support at any time, the lack of heavy firepower in the whole cavalry unit has been greatly compensated. It was also with the strong support of the Red Army Aviation Corps that the cavalry front, which suffered a great loss in 1910, rose again in 1911 and launched the "six Budyonny assaults", which were known as the swan song of the cavalry, and annihilated more than one million coalition troops with the strength of their own front army alone, and took Warsaw, the capital of Poland with great political, economic and military significance......

However, the capture of Warsaw is almost the last glory of the cavalry front of the Russian Red Army, it must be known that the war horses of the cavalry units are lost faster than the personnel in the war, and the war has been fought to this time, the war horses in Soviet Russia have been exhausted (the losses of the previous Three Kingdoms War and the Russian Civil War have been very large), and they have not been able to recover until the end of this war. In fact, long before the Battle of Warsaw, the horses of the Budyonny Cavalry Front had been cut off, and if one died, one would be missing, and after this battle, more than a third of the cavalry had no horses to ride......

In desperation, the instructor could only reorganize the cavalry front into a mixed infantry and cavalry unit, but this led to the loss of its strategic mobility advantage, and Budyonny, who was only suitable for commanding cavalry in terms of style characteristics, soon disappeared, which directly led to the lack of follow-up of the 1911 counteroffensive of the Russian Red Army......

In addition, the coalition side finally developed a machine gun fire coordinator and soon put it into production and actual combat, the Red Army's air superiority that lasted for nearly a year quickly disappeared, and the northern cluster of the Soviet Russian Red Army, which had completely defeated the coalition forces, had to turn offensive to defensive, and Budyonny, whose performance plummeted, was also transferred from his post as the chief of the General Staff of the Red Army. By the way, Budyonny was relieved of military power and weakened the influence of Comrade Iron on the Red Army, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone......

The battle situation on the Southern Front was similar to the situation of the war, due to the overwhelming air superiority of the Red Army, the allied trucks transporting supplies suffered heavy losses, and even the transport ships at sea were sunk by the Red Army planes (the Red Army aviation units quickly thought of the idea of bombing ships with aircraft, but due to the limitations of the industrial base, they were unable to develop practical torpedo bombers during the war, so they were still helpless to take the capital ships of the allied forces, and they were never able to seize sea supremacy on the Black Sea). ), which led to problems with sea transportation, which directly led to the collapse of its ground forces.

To some extent, if it weren't for the battleships of the British Royal Navy, there was nothing to do (Turkey had coastal defense forts, but the fortress guns were not powerful enough to sink the British new battleships, not to mention that the sea area that could be covered by the fortress artillery fire was extremely limited, so even if the Red Army occupied individual fortresses for a time, it would still be useless. The Russian Red Army was afraid that it would be able to realize the dream of successive tsars to conquer Constantinople/Istanbul in the Mediterranean......

But all this has also become a thing of the past with the upgrading of the coalition side aircraft and the large number of special anti-aircraft weapons in the coalition forces. Speaking of which, in fact, the mentor also knows that the advantage of his own aircraft will not last long, so the military industry department has not stopped the research and development of new models, but limited by the relatively weak industrial base of Soviet Russia, the room for design improvement has become smaller and smaller, while the aircraft on the coalition side only needs to improve the design, and the space is much larger than that of Soviet Russia. That is to say, the air superiority in 1911 was simply a one-off, and it was never thought of again, just like the short-lived flash in the pan of the Zero fighter at the beginning of the Pacific War in history.

The change of air superiority made it even more difficult for the Russian Red Army to replenish the situation, and in the past two years, the Soviet Russia has suffered astonishing losses not only in war horses, but also in the main force of land transportation. With the strong industrial strength of the coalition forces, more cars could be built quickly after they were blown up, and it became more and more difficult for Soviet Russian mules and horses to be replenished when they were killed or wounded, so that they had to use a large number of donkeys......