Regarding the construction of the navy, this is a huge project that cannot be rushed, even Wang Sirui knows very well that in the future, battleships will be eliminated and replaced by aircraft carrier formations composed of aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and signed together, and the large-caliber artillery on warships has also been converted into missiles. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But for today's technology, those are still too far away, even if you know where the future will go? Without enough industrial strength and talent to support it, even if this theory is proposed, it will either fail, or it will be taken seriously by other countries, and then continue to be ahead of them.

However, everything may not be absolute, and although the development of the navy cannot be completed overnight, it is not without any shortcuts in the current environment.

The biggest shortcut to the development of the navy lies in the air force, if they can take the lead in using aircraft in military affairs, then the aircraft can make up for the lack of warships, which is why Wang Sirui asked the Americans to reserve a lot of vacant space on the warships, which will be installed there will be high-level dual-purpose anti-aircraft guns, which will ensure the air defense safety of the fleet to the greatest extent possible.

Although this preparation is a bit premature, but in fact, it is nothing, when there is no aircraft, anti-aircraft guns can also scare other small warships, plus the attributes of high and flat dual-use, which also gives these anti-aircraft guns a larger field of view, compared to those relatively fixed naval guns, they obviously have more excellent flexibility, which will achieve a huge advantage on the battlefield.

"Air Force? What kind of class is this? Troops made up of hot air balloons? Wang Shizhen was stunned, obviously a little confused by Wang Sirui's sudden decision.

Hot air balloons can take several people into the sky, in the beginning, people have been discovered his huge military role, has been commonly used for observation, for example, the army to raise a hot air balloon, can be a radius of several kilometers of the situation, once the enemy attack, they can know the situation in advance, so as to make effective preparations.

On the other hand, hot air balloons are also widely used in artillery, and they are the best companion to provide data correction for artillery.

Even many times, the enemy is helpless when looking at the hot air balloon, very speechless, although the flight is not high, only a few hundred meters at a height, but this height is not what their weapons can hit, when encountering the hot air balloon, there are only two options left, either attack hard, or choose to retreat.

But the hot air balloon is not without its weaknesses, slow speed, large target, this is his biggest flaw, at the beginning, this defect has not been discovered, but with the development of industrial science and technology, military equipment is becoming more and more advanced, the fatal flaw of the hot air balloon has been revealed.

In the beginning, those troops equipped with advanced weapons could even use rifles to shoot down the hot air balloon, although it was not so easy, but at least it was already possible. After the invention of the Maxim heavy machine gun, the hot air balloon was completely desperate, and since then, it has basically withdrawn from the army.

The terrifying rate of fire of the Maxim heavy machine gun, coupled with the desperate effective killing distance, the hot air balloon is flying upwards vigorously, and it cannot avoid the attack of the Maxim heavy machine gun, and there is also the possibility of turning off the fire, once the hot air balloon goes out, although it will not fall directly down and kill people, but the hot air balloon will lose control and fall freely.

In recent years, although the aircraft has carried out several test flights abroad and achieved success, it has to be said that the current aircraft is far from reaching a certain level, and in the United States, there is not even a real aircraft factory.

Although the Wright brothers are very ambitious and persevering, and have won the favor of most of the American people, it is only the people, for investors, there are not many people who are really optimistic about them, and Wang Lin is one of them, and he is also the first investor who is optimistic about the Wright brothers.

"Hot air balloons have long been eliminated by history, and it's okay to use them for civilian tourism, but military words are still forgotten. In the future, the air force will be a field that countries strive for, and you should not underestimate the air force, in the future, the air force can even influence the pattern of the war, if we have a formed air force now, it will not need too much, only one regiment of air force will be needed, and our navy will dare to go head-to-head with the Japanese navy, and even win the war with only a small loss. Speaking of this, Wang Sirui paused slightly, not letting Wang Shizhen and Xu Shichang doubt for too long, after all, this is a new thing, and the two of them have never seen it, let alone heard of it.

Wang Sirui smiled slightly and continued: "Fortunately, at present, our aircraft technology is already in the leading ranks of the world, and we have preliminarily researched the models that can be used in the military. ”

"Huh?" Wang Shizhen was stunned for a moment, and said in confusion: "Your Majesty, there doesn't seem to be a research project on aircraft in our research institute, right?" ”

"Hehe, it's true, but in fact, about the aircraft, we have already started the project research five years ago, and for the sake of secrecy, the aircraft project is not in the country, do you know Juan?" Wang Sirui looked at the two important ministers with a smile, the loyalty of these two people was basically not said, but he didn't tell them about it before, not because he felt that they were unreliable, but because there was no need to tell them, and now Wang Sirui has the idea of forming an air force, so he can no longer hide it from them.

"Juan? Is that the Chilean who made deals with His Majesty in the early days? Xu Shichang suddenly thought.

In the early years, Juan's reputation was indeed great, but it was only limited to the military, because there were clear rules, and no one dared to talk about Juan casually. Therefore, over time, Juan gradually disappeared from everyone's sight, so everyone forgot about Juan as a person.

When Wang Shizhen and Xu Shichang took refuge in Wang Sirui, Juan had not come to the Chinese Empire for almost two years, and they knew that Juan had only heard this name when chatting with his colleagues, and they knew that most of the equipment of the early Han army came from a Chilean named Juan.

But no one knows more specific information about Juan, and Juan did not appear in China later, which made people mistakenly think that Juan had made enough money here and went back to enjoy his happiness, so he didn't care.

"Yes, that's him. The Americans say that the plane built by the Wright brothers was the first in the world, and the French believe that the first aircraft in the world was the Clement. Invented by Adel, the Brazilians believe that the first airplane was Albert. Tosanto. Stumont invented, but it doesn't matter, all of them have some connection to us. Through Juan, I provided them with financial support, and as a condition, they were required to give me a copy of the research materials on the aircraft.

Subsequently, through Juan, I took advantage of the economic crisis in the United States to poach several talents in the field of aircraft, and gathered hundreds of students to go to Chile to participate in the research and manufacture of aircraft.

Two years ago, they developed an aircraft that could be used for military reconnaissance, with a maximum speed of 200 kilometers per hour and a continuous reconnaissance force at an altitude of 2,000 meters for three hours.

However, the data on this aircraft is not perfect, so I did not order them to go back, but continued to conduct in-depth research in Chile, and conducted research on the other two types of aircraft.

A year ago, this reconnaissance plane was able to conduct continuous reconnaissance for four hours at a speed of 230 kilometers per hour at an altitude of 2,500 meters. And now we not only have reconnaissance aircraft, but two other models have also been successfully developed, one is a combat version, equipped with a 12.7 mm aviation machine gun, and the other is a bombing version (land and water), which can carry one 75-kilogram bomb, or two 30-kilogram bombs.

And the aviation industry in other countries can only do postal transportation at present, and there is no way to compare with us. We don't really have much advantage in the navy, but once we have the air force, the enemy's warships will lose their superiority, and we will be the masters of the battlefield. Wang Sirui told the ins and outs of the whole thing.

In fact, at the beginning, Wang Sirui was also wondering, can those students who stayed abroad be able to do it?

But later, those students who studied abroad told Wang Sirui with facts, they are no worse than anyone else, after getting all the technology of three different models, these students studying abroad are even more brain-opening, including a foreign student named Hong Wubing, after reading three materials, he put forward an amazing theory, this sentence in history will be put forward by another great man after half a century, but now, Hong Wubing is in the research of the aircraft proposed.

Seek common ground while respecting differences.

Since the three aircraft with different design concepts can fly, it shows that the aircraft has some commonalities, and through technical comparison, those commonalities were quickly discovered. So, when designing a new model, keep these commonalities and compare them with the best performing aircraft, and then make changes accordingly.

For those different designs, it is also necessary to find the principle of the design, and then make corresponding changes.

Through this design concept, the team in Chile only took two months to build the first prototype, and the test flight was successful, the effect far exceeded the three prototypes, so the subsequent design was almost all designed according to this concept, although some failed, but most of them were successful, for example, the land and water models of the bomber, but the wheels under the aircraft were changed to the shape of a skateboard, and then some sealing and waterproof changes were made.

Of course, it's far from that simple, but at least it gives them a completely new design idea.

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