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Chapter 425: Hellfire

The appearance of the Chinese Aegis air defense cruiser made the BB party of the Imperial Navy show off their might for a while, and the naval CV party who was unwilling to fail naturally had to find a way to deal with it, and they could not always be ridden by the BB party. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info// Tofu Novel to see the latest chapters //

As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance, so the CV party turned to the Air Force for help, expecting the Air Force to develop a new aircraft that can break through the firepower network of the Chinese Aegis air defense cruisers.

Since its establishment, the Imperial Air Force of China has grown rapidly for the first time through World War I. It is not at all true that war is the catalyst of weapons, and countless large-scale air battles in Europe have brought a wealth of actual combat experience to the Imperial Chinese Air Force Armament Committee.

In particular, the five fighters of the J-1, J-2, J-3, J-4, and J-5 that the Chinese Empire exported to European countries, as well as their reduced foreign trade versions, participated in all air battles in Europe. The Chinese Imperial Aviation Industry has accumulated rich experience in the improvement of fighters through the performance of these fighters on the European battlefield, and through the understanding of the relevant improvement and upgrading technology of the knock-off products of the Chinese Imperial aircraft in European countries.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire's large-scale export of all kinds of aircraft has led to the rapid development of its aircraft manufacturing industry, and the processing and production technology of various parts and components of aircraft manufacturing have become more and more perfect, making the research and development and production of new fighters in the Chinese Imperial Aviation Industry have made rapid progress.

Since Feng Ru launched the all-metal J-6 Thunderbolt fighter on the basis of the J-4 Cat Demon fighter, other airlines have also successively come up with their own main combat aircraft models, striving to obtain purchase orders from the Chinese Imperial Air Force.

It can be said that more than a dozen top international airlines in the Chinese Empire want a piece of the pie, so they have spared no effort in the development of new aircraft, and each has its own characteristics.

Biplanes and polyplanes have been eliminated in the procurement program of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, but they are still very marketable in the civilian sector, as short-range regional aircraft. In addition, on the European battlefield, although the Cat Demon fighters exported to Europe by the Chinese Empire are still in the leading position, the rapid development of biplanes and polyplanes in various countries still occupy half of the world.

France and Britain copied and produced biplanes on a large scale on the basis of the Jian-1 and Jian-2 biplanes of the Chinese Empire, because they were cheap and could be mass-produced in a short period of time to quickly replenish the loss of air power. Although Germany is optimistic about the Cat Demon fighter, but unfortunately the cost is expensive, the number of production in a short period of time is limited, and it cannot make up for the loss of fighters in air combat.

Of course, the main reason why European countries are unable to produce the most advanced Cat Demon fighters in large quantities is still economic difficulties, air combat is always an immutable group fighting tactics, the consumption is too large, the more advanced the fighter production cycle is longer, and the production speed cannot catch up with the consumption rate, so they all coincidentally choose to produce biplane and multiplane aircraft in large quantities.

The combat concept of the air forces of European countries is still at the level that quantity determines everything, but in the Chinese Empire, with the emergence of the Jian-6 Thunderbolt fighter, its speed is super fast, maneuverable, and the firepower is fierce, and it is impossible to appear similar to the scene of thousands of fighters fighting in Europe, because the Thunderbolt fighter requires a lot of space for activities, and intensive operations are very easy to accidentally injure their own people, and they cannot give full play to the overall performance of the fighter.

As a result, the Chinese Imperial Air Force began to take the road of building a qualitative army, and the requirements for combat aircraft were naturally higher.

The giants of the Chinese empire's aviation industry have successively launched a series of monoplane fighters, hoping to satisfy the appetite of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, but among the dozens of monoplane fighters, the only one that can compete with the Thunderbolt fighter is the Hellfire fighter of Royal Airlines.

Royal Airlines is part of the royal industry, so it is indispensable to get the guidance of Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, in terms of aircraft design.

Wang Chenhao on the basis of the Thunderbolt fighter launched by Nanyuan Airlines, integrated a lot of future fighter design concepts, and finally under his guidance, the designers of Royal Airlines launched the Hellfire fighter with performance beyond the Thunderbolt, and won the Jian-7 fighter number awarded by the Chinese Imperial Air Force, officially recognized by the Chinese Imperial Air Force, and mass production.

The Hellfire fighter is upgraded and improved on the basis of the Thunderbolt fighter, and the shape is closer to the shape of modern aircraft than the Thunderbolt fighter, its wing is designed as a trapezoidal straight wing, and the wingspan is angular and large triangular tail, making it have greater handling performance and more modern aesthetics.

In terms of landing gear, for the first time, the Hellfire adopted a retractable landing gear, which greatly reduced drag and speed when flying. The same all-metal construction is used, and load-bearing all-metal skin technology is applied to reduce the weight of the structure.

Unlike the cockpit of the Thunderbolt fighter, the cockpit of the Hellfire fighter is fully enclosed. Moreover, it is a two-section glass cover in the shape of a goose egg in line with hydrodynamics, the front half is fixed, and the rear half is sliding, which is convenient for pilots to enter and exit the cockpit.

The pilots didn't like the enclosed cockpit of the Thunderbolt fighter, forcing Feng Ru to change it to a semi-enclosed cockpit. This is because Feng Ru originally designed a square glass cockpit, which was fixed horizontally and vertically with many iron sheets in order to strengthen the glass, which affected the pilots' vision when observing the enemy's situation. However, the goose egg canopy designed by Wang Chenhao is made of two pieces of thick glass stamped at one time, and the streamlined design reduces drag without affecting the pilots' vision.

On the issue of propellers, Wang Chenhao has put a lot of effort into it. Because the reason why the speed of aircraft in this era cannot be greatly increased has a major relationship with the propeller.

The propeller is responsible for converting the power of the engine into forward thrust, the importance is self-evident, the principle of propeller propulsion aircraft is different from the rocket, and it is also different from the marine propeller, the rocket is advancing because of the relationship of conservation of momentum, if the aircraft also relies on the principle of conservation of momentum, then the propeller should blow the air as fast as possible and as much back as possible, the shape of the propeller should be as wide and short as the electric fan blades, not as slender and long as we see now, the shape of the fan blades is similar to the marine propeller, but the efficiency is very poor, Because the fan engine, accelerator tubes and supports block a lot of airflow, and the air sent by the fan is not fast enough, and the quality is not enough.

The propeller designed by Wang Chenhao for the Hellfire fighter is a double propeller, only three inches wide, and in order to trim the two ends and counteract the reaction force, the variable pitch method is adopted. Wang Chenhao originally planned to use the turboprop method, but the engineers could not communicate clearly with Wang Chenhao on this issue, and finally gave up and continued to use the piston type.

It can be said that in the shape of the whole body of the Hellfire fighter, the Hellfire fighter designed by Wang Chenhao is designed with reference to the shape of the propeller regional aircraft of the 21st century, with most of the characteristics of aerohydrodynamics, with the purpose of reducing drag as much as possible and increasing speed. The retractable landing gear, closed cockpit, three-inch variable-pitch propeller and all-metal lower wing, together with an 800-horsepower Adel M liquid-cooled engine and a simple supercharger, allowed the Hellfire to reach speeds of up to 380 km/h, far exceeding the Thunderbolt's top speed of 250 km/h.

In terms of firepower, Wang Chenhao does not like the way the nose is equipped with a heavy machine gun, although there is a shooting coordinator, it still affects the rate of fire, and the firepower of a machine gun is also insufficient.

Wang Chenhao remembered that the advanced fighters during World War II were all equipped with two to six heavy machine guns, and in order to suppress the Thunderbolt fighter and the H2 bomber in firepower, Wang Chenhao transferred the weapon system of the Hellfire fighter to the wings, and arranged two 12.7 mm M2 heavy machine guns side by side on each side.

Two heavy machine guns near the engine room have 800 rounds each, and the other two have 300 rounds of ammunition. It can carry 2 227 kg bombs under the wings, or 8 rockets.

The rocket is a weapon system specially designed by Wang Chenhao for the Hellfire fighter, and he originally wanted to install a 20mm cannon for the Hellfire fighter, but he felt that it was a bit of a killer to install this large-caliber cannon now, because the armor protection of European and American fighters could not even block 7.92 bullets, and the four 12.7mm M2 heavy machine guns equipped with Hellfire were enough.

However, the advantage of the all-metal fighter is that the wings are very strong, and it is very easy to mount 4 M2 heavy machine guns. In the past, the Cat Demon Fighter and the Thunderbolt Fighter had bombs and torpedoes mounted under the belly of the aircraft in wartime, but the effect was not good, especially when attacking the ground, the bomb had insufficient penetrating force, and many times it could not destroy the enemy's fortifications.

For this reason, Wang Chenhao thought of the air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles of later generations, but obviously that was impractical, but Wang Chenhao thought that the predecessor of the missile was a rocket, and it was very simple to make a rocket.

In addition, aviation rockets have a greater flight speed and range than bombs

Strong armor-piercing ability. Compared with aviation shells, the rocket deorbit speed is small, the recoil is not large, and the launcher is relatively light. The caliber is large, and the warhead is powerful. In the active segment it is possible to continue acceleration, so the firing range is long. The structure is simple, inexpensive, and suitable for mass use.

However, the disadvantages of aviation rockets are the eccentricity of the reaction force, the asymmetry of aerodynamic characteristics, the influence of muzzle velocity disturbance and gusts of wind when deorbiting, poor ballistic characteristics, large dispersion, and low hitting accuracy.

Wang Chenhao knew that the rockets of later generations were not used for air combat, but were mainly used for ground attacks or attack bombers, that is, attack planes or interceptors.

Now that Europe already has a large number of fighters and bombers, it is necessary for the Chinese Empire to develop attack aircraft and interceptors, so Wang Chenhao is necessary to start guiding the Imperial Air Force and Army in this regard for this consideration, as well as to guide the Imperial Air Force and Army to achieve coordinated ground and air operations in the future.

The rocket was developed by Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry, and due to its simple structure, an air-launched rocket with a caliber of 47 mm was soon developed, which was used to mount under the wing of the Hellfire fighter.

In terms of firepower, the Hellfire almost reached the level of firepower of the Mustang fighter (6 heavy machine guns, 10 rockets) during World War II.

Due to Wang Chenhao's highly and perfectly combined new aviation technology in the future aviation fighter, the use of advanced trapezoidal airfoil, highly concise fuselage design, reasonable cockpit and in-flight equipment layout, which greatly reduces its aerodynamic resistance, and in the case of size and weight comparable to similar aircraft, the fuel load has increased by 3 times. This gave it a range of 1200 km, which was enough to cover the H2N1 bomber for the longest range of attacks. And this is something that the Thunderbolt fighter cannot have.

In addition, in terms of the practical ceiling, the practical ceiling of the Hellfire fighter reaches 6000 meters, which is far more than the Thunderbolt fighter, becoming the biggest advantage in seizing air supremacy, because no aircraft can climb to this height at present, and the Hellfire fighter can occupy the commanding heights and attack the enemy aircraft below anytime and anywhere.

The Hellfire fighter designed by Wang Chenhao surpasses the current Thunderbolt fighter in all aspects of performance, and is several times more advanced than the fighter jets of Europe and the United States, and no fighter is the opponent of Hellfire.

The Chinese Imperial Air Force Committee immediately began to purchase Hellfire fighters, because the order for Thunderbolt fighters has not been fully completed, and Nanyuan Airlines has opened 12 production lines for the production of Thunderbolt fighters, the production cost has dropped from the initial 330,000 to 210,000, and at this time the fighters of European and American countries are not opponents of Thunderbolt fighters, so the price of Thunderbolt fighters is more in line with the requirements of large-scale equipment of the Imperial Air Force.

Eventually, the Imperial Air Force Council decided to continue the large-scale procurement of Thunderbolt fighters, and the number of production lines for Hellfire fighters was not enough at this time, so the first batch of only 200 Hellfire fighters was purchased, and when the price of Hellfire fighters dropped, when Thunderbolts were no longer capable of dominating the air, then mass production of Hellfire fighters was at that time.

The Navy CV Party was very interested in this state-of-the-art Hellfire fighter from the Imperial Air Force, and despite all the obstruction of the BB Party of the Imperial Admiralty, they managed to secure an order for 240 Hellfire carrier-based fighters from Royal Airlines.

However, compared with the carrier-based version of the Thunderbolt fighter, the shipborne design requirements of the Hellfire fighter are very high, because the technology is complex, and it is no longer possible to develop it in a few months. In the end, the carrier-based version of the Hellfire fighter was not completed until the seventeenth year of Guanghua.

But the Navy CV Party has a way, in order to be able to put pressure on the BB Party, in order to be able to break through the air defense fire network of the Chinese Aegis air defense cruiser, Ye Zugui and others finally decided to purchase 200 standard Hellfire fighters in advance, although they cannot be folded, but they can also be used on the Emeishan-class aircraft carrier, but they can originally be parked 120 planes, and they can only be parked on the open deck without folding, and 30 can also be parked.

The first batch of 30 Hellfire fighters procured by the Navy was delivered in May of the 16th year of Guanghua, and the Navy immediately launched aircraft carrier aircraft tests to practice its defense penetration capability in an effort to achieve victory in the next large-scale exercise.

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