"Chairman of the committee, the plane is about to enter Guangxi, and according to the usual practice, a certain unit of the border air defense force will take off to escort it."

Zhang Shusheng only brought Zhou Duanzheng, Minister of Equipment, and his entourage this time, Zhou Duanzheng is also an old man in the southwest period, from the earliest Minister of Logistics to the Minister of Equipment of the Republic, from a peacetime housekeeper to a big butler of the army, the burden on his body is also very heavy, and in today's tense war preparations, his hair is gray a lot.

Zhang Shusheng motioned for him to sit down, today's weather is very good, although there are still vast white clouds outside the porthole of the plane, but people can see the beautiful scene of the sea of clouds, the sun shines in the sea of clouds, and the golden light is shining. "Correct, you have been too tired in the past few years, and you should pay attention to rest in your usual work."

"Thank you Chairman for your concern, compared to the Chairman and Premier Zhou, my hard work is nothing."

"You, hehe. I remember Guangxi is your hometown, right? ”

"Yes, chairman, my hometown is Liuzhou, Guangxi, and I went back to see it once a few years ago, but thanks to the early liberation of Guangxi, the chairman of the committee has developed very well in recent years, especially the development of tourism is very strong." Zhou Duanzheng was born in a down-and-out landlord's family, his family had more than ten acres of thin fields, and after he made his fortune, his family sold his land, and a dozen or so people followed this promising son to Yunnan, invested some money to do some small business, and became a foot valley Weng.

Speaking of Liuzhou, Zhang Shusheng is very interested, and his impression of Guangxi in his previous life is that the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and there are many delicious foods and beauties. Before the crossing, his fiancée Yutai liked Taobao shopping very much, and she liked to buy the kind of snail noodles that were flown from Guangxi, and the taste was very good.

He still remembered that Tantai's favorite tastes were slightly spicy, while he liked heavy spicy tastes, and for a while, Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but sigh a little and thought about it.

"You guys, snail noodles are a must, this trip to Guilin, you accompany me to go around, try the bridge rice noodles and snail noodles." Zhang Shusheng recalled that when he and Shantai first fell in love, they had a bitter life, boiled a snail noodles, and let her eat them first, but she fed herself soup with a spoon, and liked to naughtily put cowpeas and peanuts into her mouth.

Tantai Jingming is really a very good and quiet girl, even now, Zhang Shusheng is high and powerful, just like the ancient emperors, he will not change his original evaluation of Tangtai Jingming.

When I was with her, I was really happy, and it was not even worse than being with He Ning and Lu Yunyan now.

Thinking of Tantai Jingming, he thought of the righteous daughter in the family again, and I have to say that if it weren't for the fact that Shantai Luoyu looked very similar to her, and even looked very similar, he would not have accepted her as a righteous daughter, and even, in the deepest part of his heart, he didn't want to accept her as a righteous daughter.

He was afraid to watch this girl who looked very similar to Yutai Jingming grow up, and he was afraid that she would bring back more memories of himself when she grew up.

But as Shantai Luoyu grew up, Zhang Shusheng unconsciously gave more care and love, and what is strange is that Shantai Luoyu also relies on this father-in-law, although he is a little afraid of the most powerful father-in-law in China, but if he is free, he likes to be by his side, especially when he gets older.

Once accompanied by Lantai Luoyu sitting on the sofa watching TV, looking at the new white snake in the TV that seemed to be in the past, Zhang Shusheng had an illusion, as if it was back then, when he was holding Tantai Jingming, he bowed his head slightly, and he could see that familiar face. Although Bai Suzhen in this TV was not the one that was Jingming's favorite at the beginning, the person in front of him was very similar to Jingming, and this illusion sometimes even made Zhang Shusheng feel dangerous.

However, he always reminds himself that Luo Yu is his daughter-in-law, which is why he does his best to give her fatherly love and make her happy.

"Okay, don't worry, chairman, I will definitely find you the most authentic one, an old classmate of mine runs the most authentic snail noodles in Guilin, if I take you there, he will become a heavenly signboard." Zhou Duanzheng couldn't detect what kind of thoughts were hidden under the chairman's ancient face, so he just said casually: "You can also bring a few copies back to Hanjing when you go back, and it is authentic air-freighted snail noodles." ”

His casual remarks aroused Zhang Shusheng's interest, yes, air transport back, there is no Taobao in this era, but he has a "private jet", but I don't know if Luo Yu's girl likes to eat snail noodles as much as she does.

The two of them talked about some customs and customs in Guangxi, but the secretary came to report again, and the border air defense force came.

"Well, that's good, two squadron fighters, three J-3 fighters in a three-plane formation."

Zhang Shusheng looked at the porthole on the other side, and saw that three three-plane formations, led by a head plane, smoothly crossed next to Air Force One in the flight posture of a protocol formation, and then a standard air turning tactical maneuver, escorting both sides and rear of Air Force One, and the head plane was still leading the way in front.

After all, Guangxi is an important frontier defense area, and Guangxi also has a large number of important factories and mines, and the Jian-3 semi-metal fighters equipped with them have very strong air combat and defense penetration capabilities, and belong to the air superiority fighters of the People's Army in the next few years.

Under the guidance of escort fighters, Air Force One landed directly at Guilin's Beishan Military Airport, a newly renovated military airfield that was used as a wartime transfer airport.

This is where the new helicopter test flight was chosen, and at the end of a runway, a helicopter covered with a field multi-way camouflage tarpaulin has already been parked.

"Chairman of the Committee, everyone has finally looked forward to you, and we are all worried that you will be entangled in government affairs and will not be able to come."

On the tarmac, Jiang Yulang, director of the helicopter research center codenamed 2304 and a helicopter expert, held Zhang Shusheng's hand and was very excited.

In the process of leading the team to study helicopters, Jiang Yulang encountered innumerable difficulties in the past 10 years, but he gritted his teeth and developed the Z-1 verification helicopter and the Z-2 transport helicopter; however, it was not until great progress was made in engine technology that absolute progress was made in the helicopter project, and the ZW-3 armed helicopter was developed under such circumstances.

And for the sake of secrecy, and the practical surname of the helicopter was not prominent before, the KPA has not been equipped with these two aircraft, only for the training of pilots and special forces, and has always been in a high degree of secrecy.

"You want me to come, and of course I am coming. Let's go, let's go and see the wonderful members of this future KPA aircraft family. Zhang Shu had already seen the surname of this type of armed helicopter before he came, which made him very satisfied, and he couldn't help but smile.

The ZW-3 helicopter gunship is roughly comparable to the UH-1 Iroquois helicopter, which was successfully developed by the United States in the early 50s and used in the early stage of the Vietnam War. Even in later history, the helicopters of the 70s of the Americans could not be completely copied after decades of domestic use, because the problem of engines could not be solved domestically.

On the other hand, in the Republic, the Z-1 helicopter could only be used for pilot training in 1932 and 1938, and the Z-1 helicopter was slow in speed, less reliable, and backward in engine. It can do low-altitude (a few meters above the ground), low-speed (starting from 0 speed on hovering) and maneuvering with the same nose direction and changing the tail, and it can also take off and land vertically in places where even the most primitive conventional aircraft take off.

In addition to one pilot, the Z-2 helicopter can also carry up to six heavily armed soldiers or one-ton combat materials. Since helicopters do not seek high maneuverability and speed like fighter jets, they are capable of carrying loads.

However, there are also some relatively serious problems in the Z-2, such as the engine problem is still the biggest constraint, the cost of construction is expensive, the surname is insufficient, the maintenance cost is very high, and although the reliability of the surname has increased, the fuel consumption and self-weight have also increased by a large margin. The appearance of the Z-2 has basically taken the rudimentary form of a helicopter of later generations, and it is similar to the finalized cargo of the Americans in the late 40s. At present, it has been secretly equipped in some elite special forces for training and actual combat.

However, looking at the development momentum of helicopters in the world, the Germans, Americans, Soviets, and British all had corresponding projects, and even came up with experimental models, and the Germans secretly used helicopters to transport the wounded in the Soviet-German war. Therefore, the plan for the development of a more advanced helicopter was decided by Zhang Shusheng after the Z-2 was finalized.

Regardless of Zhang Shusheng's ability to be a descendant or his extremely excellent scientific and technological mind, and even from the information provided by the dream plane, Zhang Shusheng also knew that the biggest obstacle restricting the development of helicopters was the engine, the piston engines used in Z-1 and Z-2, and the problems of helicopter design and materials were the first to be solved.

At this time, the domestic engine production giant, Taihang Engine Manufacturing Company, was finally able to concentrate on solving the problem of turboshaft engines after concentrating on overcoming the turbojet engine, a huge scientific research project, and putting it into production.

And it was this turboshaft engine that laid the foundation for the birth of the ZW-3 type.

"This turboshaft engine THZ-1 engine specially developed for helicopters is the latest product of our Taihang company, its maximum take-off power has reached 850 kilowatts, the reliability is higher, the maintenance is relatively simple, the problem that has not been solved at present is the problem of fuel consumption, this problem has been put on the agenda, and will be better solved in the THZ-2 or 3 type."

Zhang Shusheng was accompanied by Cao Daren, a deputy chief engineer of Taihang Engine Manufacturing Company, an engine manufacturing company located in Chongqing, whose overall R&D capacity has ranked first in the world, and its manufacturing capacity can also rank among the top five.

"The emergence of the THZ-1 engine has indeed solved the biggest obstacle to the development of helicopters, and your Taihang company has made great contributions to this. Of course, the entire engine value chain has contributed. Zhang Shusheng praised, it is not that he wanted to get a turboshaft engine earlier, but it is really the domestic engine development personnel, the burden is very heavy, just a turbojet engine, it took hundreds of researchers, and it was only after night that he caught up with the development progress of the Shenlong jet fighter. In comparison, the development of turboshaft engines can indeed only be ranked behind.

Jiang Yulang also sighed, "The more science and technology develop, the higher the requirements for systematization. If the engine does not have a sufficient quality alloy, the theoretical surname cannot be realized on the engine, and the manufacturing process is also a card. The improvement of the overall level of science and technology has led to a blowout of our country's scientific and technological achievements in recent years, and the credit of the Science and Technology Committee, which is personally chaired by the chairman, is indispensable. ”

"It's all your credit, let me see this good guy too."

The group finally walked to the helicopter, and the helicopter project and engine researchers, ground crew, and two pilots who had been waiting for a long time all stood up and saluted.

Two ground crew members carefully removed the camouflage tarpaulin covering the plane, revealing the true face of the helicopter.

"Yes, yes, it's more shocking than what you see in the picture."

The moment the rain cloth was removed, everyone present couldn't help but applaud.

The helicopter in front of you gives people a strong metallic texture, the long propeller blades also give people a feeling of being strong and powerful, and the front of the cockpit of the aircraft is made of strengthened glass, which has a certain bulletproof effect, and the most shocking thing about the whole aircraft is its weapon system.

The heavy machine gun under the belly of the aircraft protrudes a hideous barrel from the nose of the aircraft, making the nose of the helicopter look like there is an extra probe tube.

The armed short wings on both sides of the helicopter, the latest domestic standard small rocket nest hanging, using the latest 80mm caliber rockets of the republic, because the overall weight and strength of the body has not been completely solved, so each rocket nest only has 7 rockets, a total of 2 rocket nests on both wings, a total of 14 rockets.

This is definitely a helicopter gunship, and in front of it, at this time, including the German tanks, when attacked by the top of 80mm rockets, will be turned into a pile of scrap metal.

"This time we are mainly hanging a larger-caliber rocket nest, considering that the helicopter gunship is used to clear fortifications and deal with the enemy's small-scale armored forces, if it is used to suppress the infantry, it can be replaced with a small-caliber rocket nest, which has more ammunition and higher efficiency, and is also a big killer of anti-infantry."

Jiang Yulang pointed to the two hideous rocket nests and said, this kind of rocket is used to hit clusters of tanks and armored vehicles.

Zhang Shusheng nodded with satisfaction, and walked over to touch the two rocket nests, what a familiar thing, on the helicopters of later generations, this is the standard, but at that time, the rocket nest was more used for fire covering. And now, if the war requires a large number of helicopters to launch an attack on the cluster of armored forces, the effect of rocket coverage is still very good.

Of course, it is still too difficult to rely on single-shot rockets against tanks, and it is necessary to hit them accurately.

Overall, this is definitely a quasi-modern version of a helicopter gunship armed to the teeth, and like a jet fighter, although it may only be a decade advanced in terms of development ideas, it is definitely an innovation in military technology.

The Americans can develop similar armed helicopters in ten years, but it does not mean that they do not have this technology now, according to Zhang Shusheng's memory, in a piece of information seen before, the Americans have made rapid progress in the field of engines, and the jet engine project has entered the final moment, that is to say, once the Americans are interested in helicopters, then not only early helicopters, even if they are the same helicopters equipped with turboshaft engines, the Americans can also come up with them in World War II.

The main reason is that the urgent surname is not high, and the war has not yet begun to catalyze the huge scientific research system of the United States, and they cannot have a high degree of foresight about things like Zhang Shusheng, so they have avoided going the wrong way.

Zhang Shusheng believes that once China's helicopters are unveiled on the battlefield, and whether they perform well in rapid transportation, reconnaissance, rescue, or armed attack on the battlefield, the Americans will quickly and vigilantly develop and produce new types of helicopters.

Similar helicopters are likely to meet on the battlefield between China and the United States, and some helicopters that the Americans could only put into production in about a decade may appear in World War II. Compared with the Germans, the Americans' scientific and technological capabilities are much stronger, and with the catalyst of war, China's advantage is actually far from as great as it seems. Whether it is a jet fighter jet, a helicopter, or even a rocket, China has it, the United States is not far away, and there are even corresponding national laboratories conducting research.

What Zhang Shusheng is trying to do is to expand this advantage, instead of lying on it and sleeping because a little bit of forward-looking surname and advanced technology in his hands have made advanced physical objects.

He always remembers one thing: do not think that the weapons in your hands are so advanced, the Americans are definitely a formidable adversary. The best way to deal with such a formidable enemy is to defeat them carefully and thoroughly with weapons that are always a little more advanced than them.

Zhang Shusheng waved his hand: "Let's test fly." ”

In the past two or three years, a large number of new scientific and technological achievements have emerged in the Republic after a long period of mourning, and helicopters are one of them. However, Zhang Shusheng was too busy, except for the real technical support provided when the project was established, as well as some indirect technical support in the follow-up, he had no time to take care of it.

For example, he only came to Guangxi for the helicopter project when the ZW-3 was finalized, and because the use of helicopters was too small and there was almost no equipment, many high-ranking generals of the republic only stayed in the theoretical classes of the military academy and had not even seen the actual thing.

Speaking of which, the successful development of the ZW-3 helicopter gunship is definitely a major achievement in the development of military science and technology of the People's Army.

"Yes, Chairman." As the test flight commander, Jiang Yulang walked up to the test pilot and said solemnly, "Comrade test pilot, start the test flight according to the test flight procedure." ”

"Yes, Chief."

After the technicians finally checked the plane, the two pilots skillfully climbed onto the helicopter, and Zhang Shusheng and his party also stayed away, the noise and movement of the helicopter taking off was not small, and the wind could blow the people standing close to the eyes of the people.

Watching the helicopter start under the command of the ground crew, the propeller on the top rotated from slow to fast, and finally the plane slowly left the ground, and after half a minute of hovering, the plane began to rise rapidly.

I saw that after the ZW-3 rose into the air at an altitude of more than 50 meters, it began to hover again, and then flew forward at a speed of about 140 kilometers per hour.

Then, the first to emerge from the treetops were the propellers of the helicopter, followed by the entire aircraft.

In the whole process, the armed helicopter sometimes hovers, sometimes flies, sometimes the nose does not move, keeps the fuselage maneuverable, and sometimes it is an emergency climb, on the whole, the surname of the helicopter can be very prominent, the mobile surname can be strong, and the maneuverability and speed given by the engine have been greatly improved compared with the type 2 helicopter.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The helicopter performance won unanimous applause from the officials, researchers, officers and men present.

"Chairman, the next step is live firing."

In accordance with the safety regulations, Jiang Yulang said to Zhang Shusheng and the central security personnel next to him that according to the regulations, this kind of live firing on the spot requires safety and security work.

Sure enough, Zhang Shusheng saw that the two security officers picked up the walkie-talkie in their hands, and the four self-propelled air defense vehicles driven by the guards in the distance had already turned their muzzles, and the anti-aircraft machine guns with the surname Gao were loaded on them, which could take emergency measures in case of emergency.

"Let's get started."

Zhang Shusheng shook his head, not to mention the loyalty of the pilots, even the live-fire shooting range was also on the hill far away from the airport. These defensive measures also prevent the aircraft from losing control and shooting indiscriminately.

After receiving the radio order, the helicopter quickly flew towards the hill in the distance, which was a small hill near the airport, which was temporarily opened up for live firing.

I saw that the plane soon came to the front of the mountain, and immediately, a flash of fire erupted from the nose of the plane, and then Zhang Shusheng and others saw from the telescope that a target on the mountain was hit.

Applause rang out.

Then, under the wings of the plane, the rocket nest began to exert force, and the fourteen flames lit up almost instantly, making it difficult to distinguish clearly, only to feel that the plane flashed countless fires at a rapid pace, and then, several dilapidated test vehicles parked on the hill fell into a sea of fire.

After completing the shooting mission, the gunship returned to its home and finally stopped firmly on the runway.

Subsequently, Zhang Shusheng praised the hands of the two test pilots, and said to Jiang Yulang with emotion, "After the armed helicopter is completed, your task is still very heavy, and our troops still lack large transport helicopters. ”

In fact, Zhang Shusheng's mission to the research institute has made it clear that they should develop two types of aircraft, such as the Black Hawk helicopter and the Chinook helicopter. With the engine solved, he believed that after several types of helicopters, including the ZW-3 helicopter gunship, were developed and equipped one after another, China would have another kind of weaponry on the battlefield of World War II, in which the enemy was at an absolute disadvantage.

(To be continued)