"Hurry up!" At this time, on the lawn outside the Lanzhou Aircraft Factory, Zhu Jiaren walked in two steps in three steps, and the assistant behind him quickly followed with a document bag.

"Professor Zhu!" Xiao Mo took two German technicians to greet Zhu Jiaren.

"Commander, Chief of Staff!" In the distance, two small cars approached one after another, escorted by the soldiers of the brigade.

"Well, I heard that there was a prototype from Germany, and the performance was good. I came with the Chief of Staff and them to have a look. Jiang Li motioned to a few people not to be polite, and said directly, "Tell me what's going on with this plane?" ”

"It's going to take a little time to assemble the prototype." Seeing that it was Jiang Li who came in person, Xiao Mo explained nervously.

"It's okay, I can wait when I'm done with my business today." Jiang Li waved his hand, due to the previous layout, the arrangement on the bomber was less, so that now there is no suitable bomber in the northwest. However, at this time, the Northwest and German aeronautical engineers launched several bomber projects at the same time. In contrast, in the later battles with the Japanese army, the first thing is to meet the needs of self-defense, and the cost of fighters is often lower than that of bombers, so the achievements of the northwest in fighter planes have begun to appear at this time due to previous efforts.

"This aircraft is very different from our current Eagle 2." Zhu Jiaren looked at the newly assembled BF109A in front of him with glowing eyes, Zhu Jiaren has always had a strong interest in some new aircraft, not to mention coming from Germany, even the commander came over in person to wait and see.

"What are the aircraft performance parameters? How does it compare to the Northwest Air Force's active Hawk fighters? ”

Jiang Li asked with great interest, the famous BF109 in history, the Germans call it Me109. In the early days of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet air force could not raise its head and swept over Europe, if it were not for the limitation of range. I'm afraid Britain has also become a scorched earth. Japan's Zero War was also rampant in East Asia for a time, and if it still pinned its hopes on a biplane like the Hawk fighter, it would not be known how it would die at that time. The Soviet Union's I15 and I16 fighters had outstanding performance in biplanes, and they also collapsed under the deterrence of Zero War. The development of a completely new monoplane is the way out for the Northwest Air Force on the battlefield in the future.

"The new fighter is called the BF109A, which is an improvement on last year's BF108. Originally, it used a Rolls-Royce V12 liquid-cooled engine, but later switched to a Junkers Jumo 210A engine, and the performance has been greatly improved. ”

"Overall, BF109A makes subsequent improvements and manufacturing easier by reducing parts and man-hours, and mass production is relatively easy. In addition, the riveting structure between the fuselage has been improved, which is not only simple, but also takes into account the strength and aerodynamics compared with the original process. Compared with. Now most of the warplanes of the Great Powers still use the semi-riveting technique. It adopts a retractable tail wheel. ”

"The BF109A has excellent cornering performance, reaching an astonishing speed of 476 km/h after replacing the Junkers engine. It greatly exceeds the Eagle 2 fighters in service in the northwest. The prototype used 2 weapons 7. 9MM MACHINE GUN. After determining the production model, it was possible to consider replacing the 12 with a larger caliber. 7MM MACHINE GUNS, AND EVEN 20MM CANNONS. ”

"476 kilometers per hour!" Zhu Jiaren's eyes were about to pop out when he heard this, this kind of closed cockpit, narrow and smooth fuselage lines, and flying performance parameters. It was enough to deter everyone present who knew anything about the warplane. Especially an expert like Zhu Jiaren, seeing the BF109A subvert various designs in the past. For an insider, this is tantamount to a treasure to be discovered. As a prototype that has been initially developed, it means that there is still a lot of room to be explored. Traveling at a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour is just an idle matter, but now looking up, which country in the world is equipped with fighter planes that can reach speeds of more than 500 kilometers per hour? There may be one in the future, but there is no doubt that this aircraft will be among the best fighters at the moment.

"Relatively speaking. The development of this kind of fighter also paid a heavy price, not to mention the investment of funds and a lot of manpower and material resources, we lost 2 pilots for test flights alone. There was not much in Germany who wanted to be an experiment for Professor Willy Messersmitt. Thinking of the hardships involved in developing this fighter, Xiao Mo couldn't help but say with some bitterness in his tone.

Zhu Jiaren and the others changed their faces when they heard this. It's Jiang Li's expression is more normal anyway, Willie Messersmitt has the title of a pilot killer among his peers, and all the planes he develops are always accompanied by high failures, and the frequency of accidents is very high, so he also offends some people. If it weren't for the sufficient funds provided by Jiang Li, coupled with the increasing trade with Germany year by year, so that the Northwest could still have some relations on the German side, BF109A would not have been developed so early in history. If you add the failure in the event, Willy's comeback killed as many as 3 pilots, if it weren't for Jiang Li's memory of the famous BF109 founder, I'm afraid he wouldn't have invested a lot of money in such a pilot killer. From the perspective of the prototype in front of me, the previous investment will be exchanged for a hundredfold or even a thousandfold return in the future. The BF109A and the various modifications derived from it will definitely not be inferior to the Japanese Zero. As for whether the premature appearance of the monoplane on the battlefield in East Asia will lead Japan to increase its investment in fighter planes and develop more terrifying aircraft, Jiang Li can't care so much.

Soon, the summoned pilot boarded the fighter plane, quickly drove the plane into the sky, rolled, climbed, and after adapting to it for a while, made various difficult maneuvers in the air. Just looking at the agility of the aircraft, it has already surpassed the Eagle 2 in service in the northwest.

"The development of modern ordnance is really changing with each passing day, and the commander is really not wrong at all, with such a sharp weapon, he can not be afraid of Japanese fighters in the future." Feng Zhanhai looked at the vigorous figure in the sky and said excitedly.

"It's all about quantity. Yes, Professor Zhu arranged for someone to lead the team to thoroughly understand the technology of this fighter as quickly as possible, implement self-production in the northwest as soon as possible, and improve the prototype as much as possible. "The appearance of the BF109A made the Eagle 2 fighter in service in the northwest, the improved version of the Italian Ca30, and most of the biplanes of the great powers suddenly become obsolete. However, if this weapon is to really provoke the girder in future wars, it is necessary to reduce the failure rate of aircraft. A fighter with unstable performance cannot become the standard weapon of an army.

"Commander, we still need some manpower for the humble position, the newly graduated students from the United States will be brought back, and there will be some skilled workers and technicians in the aircraft, and the commander also knows that the different fighters and bombers launched at the same time in the northwest have already stretched the original manpower." Zhu Jiaren rubbed his hands excitedly and said. In particular, the research and development and experimentation of the four-engine bomber occupy far more manpower than the combat half plane, and without the large number of German technicians joining in, the northwest would not even have the ability to work on the four-engine bomber at the same time as the research and development of the combat half aircraft.

"You contact the U.S. side for this, and let them transfer another batch of people." Jiang Li hesitated for a while and said that he chose to establish an airline in the United States in order to use the resources and technical talent reserves of the United States in the aviation industry chain to allow Northwest Airlines to start from scratch and avoid detours. Now the airlines over there are on the right track, although the continuous transfer of manpower will weaken the technical strength there, but now after entering the honeymoon period with Germany, the Northwest has leaped several levels in aviation, and has begun to be able to manufacture and design by itself, and has a certain research and development base. After this large amount of capital investment, the industrial chain has begun to be complete, but the scale is not large enough, but it cannot be denied that the progress of the northwest in fighter jets has surpassed that of the United States, so the United States is not so important strategically in addition to profits. (To be continued.) )