Chapter 1623 Heavy Reconnaissance Aircraft
Fighter pilots are the best among the pilots, after all, fighter planes are relatively high compared to other types of aircraft, the requirements are very high, in order to successfully shoot down the opponent, not only need the performance of the aircraft is better, but also need the quality of the pilot itself, not with bombers and reconnaissance planes, the most important way for scouts is to fly, and the rest are not doing their jobs. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Under Chen She's urging, the speed of the last tail landing was accelerating, and soon, in less than 30 minutes, 102 fighters had landed, and Chen Shi also rushed over, and after talking to Wang Diwu first, he asked the question in the sky, what is their mission here.
The furnishings that came with great interest were not good news from Wang Diwu, and this time the flight regiment was stationed, not to attack anyone, but to escort reconnaissance planes and help the future Bolshevik army enter Kazakhstan. I thought that China was going to attack Central Asia, and maybe it would be able to get some combat mission, but I didn't expect it to be an escort mission.
Escort, this is just a requirement in the code, in fact, what is there in Central Asia, even weapons cannot be produced, what can threaten reconnaissance aircraft.
Most of China's reconnaissance planes are flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters, this altitude, even China's strongest 88 mm anti-aircraft machine gun can not deal with, the limit of 88 mm is 9,000 meters, in fact, more than 7,000 meters, visual inspection is already very unreliable, at the speed of the aircraft, when the bullet flies to this height, he has already gone out dozens of hundreds of meters, anti-aircraft machine guns against aircraft, on the one hand, the attack is unprepared, the surprise attack will cause results, and on the other hand, it is necessary to preset positions, when really facing air raids, The role played by the anti-aircraft machine gun was only protection.
The attack of the aircraft is directly related to the altitude, if the bomb is really dropped at an altitude of 10,000 meters, unless it is a carpet attack using a strategic bomber group, God knows where it will fall, at an altitude of 10,000 meters, under the acceleration of gravity, it will take a long time, coupled with the uncertain wind and air current, there are really few people who can aim at the target.
The role of anti-aircraft machine guns is to make the aircraft dare not enter the area below 5000 meters, especially the dive of some fighters and bombers, in the era of World War I and World War II, bombers above 5000 meters, basically just casually lost, pay attention to the range of attacks, but the real dive bombers are precise attacks, in the naval battle between the United States and Japan, most of the warships were killed by torpedo planes, but there were no dive bombers to break through the defense of the task force, torpedo planes really did not have a chance, However, because it is a first-line fighter, the battle loss rate of dive bombers is quite high, but in naval battles, only dive bombers can tear apart the defense line of the fleet.
After knowing this mission, his enthusiasm basically retreated, and he didn't even have the mood to command the mission, but he just followed the escort of the reconnaissance plane, sent two planes over, and then followed, and the rest didn't have to be done.
Chen Shi left depressedly, Wang Diwu's attention returned to the command, just in the time of chatting with Chen She, the second flight regiment has also arrived, this is the bomber regiment, this flight regiment consists of 2 strategic bomber groups and 4 medium bomber groups, not equipped with light bombers, because the task of light bombers, Firebird fighters can be easily completed, in the entire range of China, temporarily only some specific pilots are equipped with light bombers, in the gradual reduction.
This time the landing was much slower, only 95 planes, but it took an hour and a half, and even one of them almost had problems, when a heavy bomber landed, at the other end, the traction of the medium bomber has not been finally completed, if it is not for the ground crew's immediate decision, twisted into the fork in the road, maybe, there will be a tragedy of plane destruction and death.
A medium-sized bomber is nothing, the price of a bomber is only 110,000 yuan, which is equivalent to 55,000 US dollars, but a strategic heavy bomber, the price is at least 440,000, which is more than 4 times that of a medium-sized bomber.
More careful, but reduced the efficiency of one point, the entire landing process was about 20% longer than expected, about 5 hours later, the follow-up bomber regiment and reconnaissance aircraft regiment fell in turn, the whole base was lively, more than 500 aircraft, the hangar was full, such a force, if fully armed, at least could destroy an armored division without air cover and anti-aircraft machine guns, this is just a bomber flight regiment, 95 aircraft, but these 95 aircraft, one-time, 1500 tons of aerial bombs can be dropped at one time, these are 50, 100, 200, 250 or even 500 kg of aerial bombs, not to mention explosives, but the iron lump has a considerable deterrent to ground targets, 1500 tons, which is basically the number of a saturated carpet bombing.
China's aircraft, because of the advance attention to aerodynamics and excellence in the field of engines, especially the completion of the research of the epoch-making engine of the turboprop, so that China's bomber force is not far behind the US military in World War II, and even to a certain extent, equivalent to the US military in the late stage of World War II, such air superiority is too obvious, many times, in the exercise, one side loses air supremacy, it is an extremely passive situation, if it is an armored force in the open field, basically can admit defeat, It is really complicated mountains and forests, and if it is a little better, it can only hide in the mountains like ground mice.
It is also the strength of the Chinese Air Force that gave birth to air defense weapons, and at present, China's largest caliber anti-aircraft machine gun is an 88 mm anti-aircraft machine gun, which can threaten aircraft at about 9,000 meters, and even a mobile air defense weapon has been developed specifically for armored forces, and on the territory of a heavy tank, an 88 mm anti-aircraft gun is installed, and 16 vehicles are jointly composed of a phalanx system, which is specially designed to provide armored forces for air defense of armored divisions.
Among the more than 500 planes, the most eye-catching are dozens of big guys, this kind of heavy bomber modified from a heavy strategic bomber, this was not originally a project arranged by Yang Yuanzhao, in Yang Yuanzhao's impression, reconnaissance planes are all light, and later generations will appear large high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance planes, which are at an altitude of more than 20,000 meters, flying at a maximum speed of about Mach 3, that is the object that even missiles have no way to deal with.
In Yang Yuanzhao's impression, propeller planes are mostly used in ********, and compared with fighters and bombers, reconnaissance planes do not have much effect, but in practical application, light reconnaissance planes are easy to be hit, and in military chess deductions, they are the first objects to be dealt with.
This heavy reconnaissance plane, in fact, was born out of China's heavy strategic bomber, this kind of 4 rounds, take-off weight of more than 85 tons of bombers, can carry close to 30 tons of aerial bombs, is China's most fierce strategic firepower fighter, when 1,000 fighters composed of a sea of aircraft, can put 30,000 tons of aerial bombs on the premise, this thing is simply the biggest killing weapon, destroying a city is not a problem.
As a reconnaissance purpose, on the basis of heavy bombers, considerable changes have been made, reducing some of their own weight and self-defense weapons, strengthening aerodynamics, so that the flight altitude can reach an altitude of 13,000 meters, which is not available to bombers, the weight of bombers and the indicators of performing tasks, it is impossible to fly to such a high altitude, because it is unnecessary, and a lot of lift will be wasted, to the reconnaissance aircraft, even if it is equipped with comprehensive equipment, it will not reach the huge tonnage of 35 tons, The strength requirements for the fuselage will not be so high, so this reconnaissance aircraft named Owl has a maximum take-off weight of only 60 tons, which is at least 2,500 meters higher than the strategic bomber.
At this altitude of 13,000 meters, in addition to China's current production of high-altitude fighters for this height, other countries do not have this project at all, to ensure high-altitude and high-speed, but also to ensure combat effectiveness, this is very difficult, China is also in the theory of aerodynamics to reach a certain height, coupled with the materials provided by the all-in-one machine, this is the completion of such a fighter, but even if it is such a high-altitude interceptor, the effect of dealing with this heavy reconnaissance aircraft is not very good, after all, this aircraft is on the basis of strategic bombers, Modified, Yang Yuanzhao directed the strategic bomber, almost born from the B29, even if the reconnaissance aircraft reduced firepower, did not use large-caliber cannons, but used light machine guns, 18 light machine guns are distributed in all aspects of the reconnaissance aircraft, towards every angle, there are at least 6 machine guns to play a role, in addition to the solid fuselage, this kind of sturdy fuselage, this is born from the B29 solid fuselage, it is difficult for ordinary fighters to hit his vital point, multiple arrangements and surface armor, to ensure that this reconnaissance aircraft, Although it has not been tested on the battlefield, it is still guaranteed to have sufficient survivability under the premise of being hit by a large number of hits, but in the extreme test of the aircraft's approaching service, when carrying out a destructive attack on the fuselage and wings, at least 300 machine gun bullets are still guaranteed. (To be continued.) )