Chapter 537: The Decisive Battle Against Russia (1)

This bomber is even more powerful than Boston's newest B29 bomber, it uses six turbojet engines, and each has a maximum thrust of 3,243 kilograms, or about 2,900 horsepower. With a wingspan of 35.4 meters, a length of 33.5 meters, a height of 8.5 meters, a maximum take-off weight of 93 tons, a maximum level flight speed of 975 kilometers per hour, a practical ceiling of 12,400 meters, and a maximum range of 6,400 kilometers, this aircraft can be described as the first strategic bomber in the true sense. In addition, this aircraft is equipped with six 12.7 mm machine guns with a maximum ammunition load of nine tons, which is an absolutely terrifying weapon.

The attack aircraft wing of the Guards was partially replaced with Vulture 2 attack aircraft for trial, while the Albatross dive bombers and Vulture 1 ground attack aircraft of the Wehrmacht Air Force were not replaced, these planes were mainly used for ground attack, and it was useless to be too fast, and they were dispatched when they were in absolute air supremacy, and they did not have the task of conducting air combat.

At any time, the most important weapon in the army has always been a single weapon, and the Imperial Chinese Army has been fully equipped with a new Type 18 gun family, which includes automatic rifles, general-purpose machine guns, light sniper rifles and anti-materiel sniper rifles, except for the anti-materiel sniper rifle using a 12.7 mm caliber, the other gun types are still a unified 7 mm caliber.

This gun family is not much improved from the previous weapons, except for strengthening the accuracy of the weapon and increasing the effectiveness of the man-machine, but the original heavy wooden part is replaced with a strong, non-deformable and lightweight engineering plastic, which makes the burden on the soldiers a lot less. In addition, rocket launchers, mortars of various calibers, second-generation grenade launchers attached to rifles, and even a small number of first-generation individual anti-combat vehicles and anti-aircraft missiles began to be equipped in small quantities in the troops.

For the same reasons as the Kunpeng 2 bomber, the Grizzly 3 weighed 42 tons, had an 800 horsepower diesel engine, and had a maximum road speed of 70 kilometers per hour and a range of 600 kilometers. The frontal armor was made as thick as 400 mm homogeneous armor due to the use of ceramic composite armor and bevel design, and the 115 mm smoothbore gun was used as its main battle weapon, in addition to a 7 mm coaxial machine gun and a 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun.

In order to increase accuracy, the vehicle is equipped with a combined optical monocular rangefinder, a laser rangefinder, a simulated ballistic computer, a gun commander's aiming periscope, a gun commander's night aiming telescope, a commander's day-night observation periscope, an infrared searchlight, a manual/motorized gun pitch drive mechanism, a gun trunnion tilt sensor, an aiming point injection device, and a fire control panel, which greatly improves the vehicle's hit rate, in addition to eight smoke launchers to cover the retreat.

In order to reduce research funds, scientists have also studied a series of self-propelled guns on the chassis of the Grizzly 3 tank, which is called the Storm Bear 2 series of artillery, which mainly includes the Storm Bear 2 anti-tank destroyer equipped with a 128 mm cannon, the Storm Bear 2A self-propelled howitzer equipped with a 155 mm howitzer, and the Storm Bear 2B self-propelled howitzer equipped with a 240 mm howitzer.

In addition, there are Storm Bear 2C self-propelled mortars with 280 mm mortars, Storm Bear 2D self-propelled anti-aircraft guns with four 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, Storm Bear 2E self-propelled rocket launchers with 103 mm 40-barrel rocket launchers, and White Bear 2 armored personnel carriers that can transport ten soldiers at the same time.

Three types of helicopters, including the Land Wasp reconnaissance and ambulance helicopter, the Viombee attack helicopter and the twin Wasp transport helicopter with two engines and two propellers, have also begun to equip troops on a large scale.

In addition to these equipment, the Second Guards Artillery Corps, which was established on the basis of the Guards Heavy Artillery Regiment and specializes in the use of missiles, was announced, and they will be equipped with various types of Dongfeng series surface-to-surface missiles and Hongqi series anti-aircraft missiles produced by the Chinese Foundation, as well as a series of super heavy artillery.

As for missiles, countries have no concept of missiles, and in their impressions they should be equated with rockets, but the Chinese Imperial Army's numerous self-propelled guns, the Air Force's jets, and the Navy's six twin aircraft carrier fleets put a lot of pressure on the Boston Empire, for which the Boston Empire also began a plan to expand its army.

The new warships of the Navy include 48 30,000-ton Essex-class aircraft carriers, 36 50,000-ton Missouri-class battleships equipped with 381-millimeter guns, and 210 2,000-ton Corinthian-class general-purpose destroyers.

Thanks to the efforts of a civilian laboratory, the Boston Empire inadvertently acquired a turbojet engine, which, despite its primitive nature, had already overjoyed the government, and after a surprise study by aeronautists from across the country, a new F84 jet fighter was developed.

Although the thrust of his engine is only 2,540 kilograms, or about 2,260 horsepower, it has a maximum speed of 885 kilometers per hour and a combat radius of 725 kilometers. In addition, it has a practical ceiling of 14,000 meters and six 12.7 mm machine guns, and can carry 24 rockets or four 500-kilogram bombs.

In terms of comprehensive strength, this aircraft has basically reached the capabilities of the Golden Eagle 4 fighter, and the Boston Empire did soon install this kind of aircraft in the Air Force and Navy shore-based aviation, but when it came to the selection of carrier-based aircraft, the Boston Imperial Navy made a difficulty.

Based on the principle that the better the Boston Empire, the better it is, the better it is, the aircraft carrier must be on the jet plane, but because the F84 needs a runway of at least 800 meters to take off, the runway of more than 200 meters on the aircraft carrier is obviously insufficient, and the Boston Empire has never carried out steam catapult research like the Chinese Empire, so that they cannot use jet aircraft on warships.

The Boston Empire's newest Essex-class aircraft carrier is basically a copy of the Governor-class aircraft carrier of the Chinese Empire's foreign trade type, with only a full load displacement of 35,000 tons making it unable to carry more aircraft, but this has little impact on the Boston Empire, in their opinion, the speed of the aircraft carrier is very important, and the lack of aircraft carrier can be made up by relying on a large number of aircraft carriers.

As a result, each Essex-class aircraft carrier ended up carrying only twenty-six F4U Corsair fighters, thirty SBD dreadnought dive bombers, and twenty-four TBF Avenger torpedo aircraft, plus eleven replacement aircraft, for a total of ninety-one aircraft. Naturally, such a huge shipbuilding plan could not be accomplished overnight, so the Boston Empire determined a special additional armament appropriation for several consecutive years to be used exclusively for naval shipbuilding.

The arms race between the countries was in full swing, and despite the same equipment of propeller aircraft, the Sahr and Nantes empires built eighteen and thirteen Essex-class aircraft carriers respectively, and at this time the Boston, Saar and Nantes empires were getting closer and closer, and there was a tendency to form alliances. Soon a consensus was reached between the two defeated states, the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire, and the Pulse-La Défense Axis Agreement was signed, in which the two countries declared a joint response to threats on land and at sea.

At the end of August 919, the three countries signed the Boston-Pool-La Défense Axis Agreement in Boston, the capital of the Boston Empire, and a new Axis bloc came into being, becoming the third military bloc after NATO and the Allies.

Subsequently, under the joint suppression of the three countries through economic and diplomatic means, the Grand Duchy of Gothenburg, which had always maintained its neutrality, the Viking Kingdom, which had been unwilling in the Allied bloc, and the Kingdom of Moss, which had been divided and only the northern territories, and the Republic of Hungary and the Slovak Republic, which had always been fond of the Boston Empire, soon joined the group.

Originally, the Boston Empire also wanted to bring Red Russia into the bloc, but the utopianism of Red Russia made all countries in the world extremely disgusted, not to mention that NATO has been in a state of war with Russia, which made the Boston Empire a little hesitant. During such a hesitant time for the Boston Empire, the Chinese Empire, together with the Cossack Empire and the Istanbul Empire, jointly launched an offensive against Russia.

Just when various countries had just expanded their armaments, Fang Ruijun had a hunch that Russia, which had been used to contain the Cossack Empire and train troops for its own defense forces, had lost its role, and if it continued to be indulged, it was very likely to be used by other hostile forces and become a nail buried behind his side.

Therefore, Fang Ruijun had already begun to move troops against Russia, first of all, the Second Heavy Armored Army of the Guards Army secretly infiltrated the Ural Military District with the opportunity of the annual routine exercises, plus the troops of the five mechanized corps, two heavy armored corps and eight polar infantry corps of the Ural Military District, nearly 800,000 troops began to secretly cross the Ural Mountains and assemble in the territory of the Cossack Empire.

Accompanying them in providing cover were two fighter wings and three ground attack aircraft wings of the Guards, eight fighter wings and four bomber wings of the Wehrmacht, which formed the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which was personally commanded by General Gao Deyu, who succeeded Wei Lihui as commander of the Ural Military District.