"Your Excellency, this is a miracle."

- At the test site of Siddeley, British Prime Minister Eden looked at a small plane in front of him and exclaimed.

The latter was rising into the sky in an unbelievable way, it did not make any slides on the ground, but rose vertically from its stationary state, although the ascent was slow and swaying and it looked terrifying, but it really rose into the air, like a helicopter, and then saw the tail of the originally vertically downward vent began to rotate upward, and the whole plane immediately climbed and flew out.

"Well, it can fly out of the airport wall!"

Yang Feng said very melancholy.

This is his Harrier vertical take-off and landing fighter, but it is only a test flight model, and it will take at least three years to enter service, and although the performance of Aikang's Pegasus engine has reached a level that can be called against the sky, such as the maximum thrust is close to nine tons, and the thrust-to-weight ratio is even more incredible 6.3, but it is still not enough for such an aircraft to carry enough ammunition and fuel to carry out even more than 100 kilometers of vertical take-off and landing in the whole process.

That is to say, even if it is in service, the performance will not be much stronger than the early model of the Harrier, and it will certainly not reach the level of the Sea Harrier.

In fact, at this time, a large number of people who studied vertical take-off and landing fighters were mainly frightened by the Soviet Union's powerful military power in Eastern Europe, and everyone knew that once the war started, the major airports in Western Europe would definitely be the targets of the first wave of attacks. Especially when the ballistic missiles of the Soviets are becoming more and more mature, even if it is Gaul, Italy. Airports in Spain in these countries. It is also impossible to evade medium-range ballistic missiles. If you bring a nuclear warhead, then don't think about anything.

So VTOL fighters have become a place of hope.

Not only Yang Feng and Britain are working together, but Gaul and even West Germany, which has just lifted restrictions on the manufacture of military aircraft, are developing this type of combat aircraft.

But they can't get rid of the natural limitation of a short combat radius, and the combat radius is not generally short, for example, Balzac of the Gauls, after the pilot took off vertically into the sky, he was still in the high chaos, ga. There was no gas, so I had to throw the plane out, and it is estimated that the pilot felt like he was about to launch at the peak moment, and suddenly the door was kicked open by the man with the green hat.

But Yang Feng couldn't span too much and directly take out the thirteen-ton Pegasus.

Fortunately, in his design, this fighter is to provide rapid air support for the Marine Corps, and the amphibious assault ship he is about to serve is also large enough, relying on deck wind is also enough for this aircraft to fly directly from the deck, and at most it uses vertical landing when landing, in this case, there is still a combat radius of two or three hundred kilometers.

It's barely enough to make do.

Anyway, his amphibious assault ship could not be too far offshore.

The Harrier scurried twice through the sky. It quickly landed, and to put it bluntly, it was a performance for big customers. As long as you can complete the vertical take-off and landing and be able to fly, you don't dare to stay in the sky for a long time, if you fall, it will be a mess.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, aren't you worried about the Suez Canal at all?"

On the car back to London, Yang Feng asked Aiden with some curiosity.

Qiu Fatzi retired last year, his deputy and niece took over the post of prime minister, it should be said that Britain is still shrinking, or retreating from the colonies, at the beginning of the year Sudan was established, the Maomao movement in Kenya, Africa is intensifying, those who served in the British army in World War II are taking up arms against Britain, and the Social Workers guerrillas in Malaya are also inspired by the victory in North Vietnam, attacking Britons everywhere, and even Cyprus has begun to revolt.

Of course, the most important thing is that under the coercion of Nasser, the British army had to withdraw from the Suez Canal.

Today's Britain is still showing their irretrievable decay in the midst of the decline of the river.

"The Suez Canal? Does Nasser still dare to rob it? ”

Aiden said with a sneer.

"That's not necessarily, people will always be crazy in front of interests, Egypt has not found a decent oil field until now, what else can bring them wealth except for the Suez Canal? What's more, Nasser has the Soviets behind him, with hundreds of thousands of Soviet armed troops in hand, and the Soviets are supported by three aircraft carriers and atomic bombs. ”

Yang Feng said.

Aiden was silent, of course he knew that what Yang Feng said was very possible, Nasser has always been known for being tough, and he has long shouted the slogan of nationalizing the Suez Canal, and recently not only closed the Tiran Strait and blocked the port of Eilat, but also openly supported the Algerian Liberation Army, and has long shown great ambition, to say that he does not want to attack the Suez Canal It would be a pure joke.

However, Aiden still has some confidence in Britain's century-old prestige, not to mention that the Suez Canal is jointly owned by Britain and France, and no matter how ambitious Nasser is, he will not provoke Britain and France at the same time, especially with Canaan eyeing him next to him.

As for the aircraft carrier threat of the Soviets, this is not a big deal, three Georgian-class aircraft carriers, two British Eagle 2-class and three Centaurs-class, the Gallic Clemenceau has also been officially commissioned, the two partner six against three, and have absolute superiority in the Mediterranean, as for the Soviet Union's atomic bomb threat, isn't this still a United States?

What's more, Britain's atomic bomb has also been loaded with Meteor medium-range ballistic missiles.

Who is afraid of whom!

Yang Feng just smiled at his reaction, and when the people of the United States joined the Soviet Union to deal with Britain and France, it is estimated that the prime minister would not have this self-confidence, refused to provide a nuclear umbrella for Britain, sold pounds in the market, stopped giving loans to Britain, and directly convened a meeting at the United Nations to demand that Britain and France withdraw their troops, and even the US military entered a state of alert, and then it would not be an ally.

But that's for the best, if not. And how can he pull a knife in NATO as a whole?

The Suez Canal War was his best chance to divide Europe and the United States. When the people of the United States suddenly tore off the masks of their allies. When the Soviets forced, together with the Soviets, to force Britain and France to give up the fruits of victory that had already been gained, the Ming would stand firmly in the camp of their friends and give them all the help they needed.

He was even prepared to send troops directly to aid if necessary.

In fact, because of his support for Canaan, Führer Yang has offended all Saracen countries, especially Egypt, so Egypt's control of the Suez Canal is not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, because more than half of the merchant ships running on this canal are Ming people. Once Nasser took control of the Suez Canal, it choked the Ming trade with Europe, and the last time he threatened to blockade the Suez Canal. But the control of the canal in the hands of Britain and France can only be addicted to it, but if he really controls the canal, it will not be addictive.

Nasser's blockade of the Strait of Tiran had already affected the Ming trade with Canaan, which had previously been supplied with the vast majority of Canaan's oil from this port, and now the business had to be transferred to North African oil.

Therefore, Yang Feng must not let Egypt control the Suez Canal, even if he needs the Ming army to participate in the war, he must avoid this kind of thing from happening.

After returning to London, Yang Feng immediately took a special train to Liverpool to visit his aircraft carrier Suncheon, because he specifically requested that it must be completed in the shortest possible time. The Ryder shipyard showed their drive in World War II. Anyway, they have already built a Royal Ark, everything is familiar with everything, and the power system is directly transported from Daming. So at this time, it has basically taken shape, and it is estimated that it will be absolutely fine to complete it in the middle of five or seven years.

And so it goes to five or eight years. The Ming Navy will be able to achieve the goal of his three aircraft carrier formations, one cruise, one combat readiness, one overhaul, although the three aircraft carrier formations are very strong, but they can only rank fourth in the world, the first in the United States, the second in Britain, the third in the Soviet Union, the fourth in the Ming Navy, the fifth in Gaul, and the pattern of the world's five major maritime powers has been established.

Although the Soviet Union now has only three aircraft carriers, their Georgia has not been decommissioned after all, but the repair speed is slow, but it is still no problem to repair it in five or eight years, so the ranking is still in front of the Ming Dynasty.

But if you add the performance factor of carrier-based aircraft, then this ranking is very difficult to say.

The Crusaders and Super Tigers of the Mi people must have been equipped with a large number of their aircraft carriers by five or eight years, and at that time their four Forrestal-class aircraft carriers will all be in service, these super monsters with a full load displacement of 80,000 tons, plus supersonic all-weather carrier-based aircraft, and A4 Skyhawk attack aircraft, are enough to defend their maritime supremacy majesty, not to mention that they also have terrifying A3 air samurai heavy nuclear attack aircraft, which is definitely far ahead of the domineering side leak.

The Britons are still two 50,000-ton ships of the Eagle and the Royal Ark, and there are three 30,000-ton Centaurs, Albioon, and Fortress, and the first two carrier-based aircraft are still two-seater chasing the wind, and the last three are all replaced with the latest tiger sharks because of their small size in order to ensure combat effectiveness.

The first two of the carrier-based attack aircraft are the latest Marauders, because they obtained the Tamron IV engine technology from Daming, and Rolls Dis Bay quickly completed it, and the Marauders at this time are close to the level of MK2 in the original history, but the last three are pirates purchased from Daming, after all, the Marauders are a little bigger.

The four aircraft carriers of the Soviet Union are still Yak-25 carrier-based aircraft, but now they have been replaced with improved models, with greater engine thrust and more reliable radar performance, and they have also begun to be equipped with radar-guided K5 air-to-air missiles, but the performance is very bad, the maximum range is only five kilometers, and it is basically impossible to hit fighters, that is, it can be used to fight bombers.

As for the attack aircraft, their Il-40 is finally in service, of course, it is not a pig's nose, and the appearance layout is a bit like the Il-102, but because it uses the same engine as the Yak-25, it is much smaller than the Il-102, and there is no ferocious and funny tail gun in the back, in short, the performance is not as good as the A4 but it is okay to use.

As for Gaul, which is at the bottom of the platoon, there will be two heavy aircraft carriers at that time, the second ship of the Clemenceau class, the Fuxi, which can basically be put into service at the end of five or eight years, and these two aircraft carriers are all Daming goods, tiger sharks, pirates, catapults, and even the power system are purchased from Daming. (To be continued.) )

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