"Your Majesty, I know that the army will definitely need this plane, after all, they will definitely need it for reconnaissance and bombing. And our Navy doesn't need this plane, right? At most, our navy needs some aircraft to conduct a small amount of coastal reconnaissance, and I think the army can do it. And our coastal defense forces belong to the army, so we don't need too many pilots, right? A few meanings are fine, not too many. Qiu Baoren said.

Qiu Baoren, a general from the navy, is obviously not very enthusiastic about this aircraft, because the navy's enthusiasm for aircraft is not too big, and it still belongs to the era of large artillery and giant ships, and naval operations are all carried out by battleships, adhering to the classic idea of Yu Dayou back then, big ships are better than small ships, many ships are better than widowed ships, big guns are better than small guns, and many guns are better than small guns. And this law has hardly changed so far, it is all the same, it is just that the artillery is more powerful, the firing range is longer, the rate of fire is faster, and the armor of the warship is thicker and harder.

However, Qiu Baoren obviously did not know the future development direction of this navy, which was also the characteristic of his era.

"Qiu Baoren, don't underestimate this plane. And I'm sure that this aircraft will definitely play no less role for your navy than for the army, and your navy will benefit more from it when the time comes! Wang Guorui said.

"How so?" Qiu Baoren asked incredulously.

Wang Guorui asked: "How far can the current naval guns shoot?" ”

"Theoretically, the farthest range of our current warship guns is about 20 kilometers, but in fact, the range of 20 kilometers is impossible to hit. At extreme range, the chances of hitting an enemy are almost as high as hitting the moon. Generally speaking, the distance of effective combat, that is, within ten kilometers. Qiu Baoren said.

Qiu Baoren is still relatively familiar with the navy, and the effective range of warships in this era is still less than 10 kilometers. Once you exceed 10 kilometers, it's all up to you. Even within 10 kilometers. The hit rate is also low, and ten percent of it is already blessed by the gods and Buddhas. More than ten kilometers, I am afraid that the hit rate can be one percent, which is already high incense. In the First Sino-Japanese Naval War a few years ago, Japanese warships often fought at a distance of only one or two kilometers, not far.

"Qiu Baoren, let me ask you. What do you think would happen if this plane was capable of carrying bombs weighing up to a hundred kilograms, and then the charge was more than eighty percent? What would happen if such a bomb hit the battleship? Wang Guorui asked.

Qiu Baoren suddenly gasped, because the consequences were really unimaginable! Because Qiu Baoren was born in the navy, he naturally knew about the cats in the navy's battleships. Don't look at the navy, a shell is very heavy, and it can weigh hundreds of kilograms at every turn, but in fact it is called a pit! A battleship artillery shell of several hundred kilograms often has a charge of only a dozen kilograms, which is not bad. A charge of more than a dozen kilograms is not high. The proportion of the weight of the shells accounted for was not large.

The reason why the charge of the naval gun is so small is that during the firing process of the naval gun, the chamber pressure of the gun is extremely huge. And a part of it must be reserved for ****** to use, and these ****** will not participate in the battle, so ****** cannot be considered a warhead. And the bore pressure is so huge, it is natural to use a thicker shell to protect the shell to ensure that the shell will not explode on its own in the barrel. Once a shell explodes inside the barrel, the consequences are catastrophic. When the time comes, you will not have to fight yourself with the enemy, and you will perish.

So in this case, the protection system of the weighted shells is also necessary. This further compresses the space for the gunpowder charge.

But what if the bomb was dropped from the sky? Bombs dropped from the sky. He didn't have to bear the problem of the chamber pressure of the cannon, and threw it directly from the sky. And for the corresponding protection system, it can also be saved, and even some inferior steel can be used. Because there is no effect of the shell chamber pressure, they can increase the proportion of the charge as much as possible. In the case of aerial bombs, the charge factor can be increased vigorously. Aerial bombs with a charge of 80 percent. That's quite a lot. So a 100-kilogram bomb, then its charge reaches 80 percent, that is, the charge reaches 80 kilograms. The weight of this shell is only a fraction of the weight of a heavy artillery shell, but the power is more than several times the power of those battleship guns!

So this aerial bomb, just listening to the qualified effect. It also made Qiu Baoren break out in a cold sweat! If a battleship was hit by such a 100-kilogram bomb, once the bomb fell, the battleships that were lagging behind might be scrapped on the spot. And even advanced battleships, how many times can they withstand it? If war is about delivering the maximum density of firepower in the shortest time, so that the enemy can withstand the maximum amount of firepower in the shortest time, so that the blows they receive in the shortest time are also the most deadly.

In the military, it is also said that it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten fingers, because ordinary injuries may be able to recover quickly, and then there is not much damage. However, once they are attacked by enough saturated firepower, then their losses will be very huge, so that they will definitely withstand the attack of maximum firepower in the shortest time, then they will definitely not be able to stand it.

Add a 500-kilogram bomb and a battleship shell of the same weight, maybe the battleship shell can only cause the opponent to suffer minor injuries, but a 500-kilogram bomb, the charge reaches about 400 kilograms, then maybe one bomb is enough to blow a battleship in two, this is not a joke.

"Lao Qiu, did you see it? If bombs can hit from the sky, even battleships are vulnerable. And will the battleship be able to fight against the planes in the sky with its main guns? Obviously not, they are not so flexible. And what about airplanes for battleships? There is no need to choose how many planes at all, and the battleship is such a big one-person target, and it is not very easy to clean them up? If you go down with a bomb, you don't have to pick anything, no matter where you throw it, most of the battleship will be crippled if you don't die. ”

"You see, and next, how much does an airplane cost? Now I have seen this plane, if you don't count the cost of research in the past, the cost of this plane is only about 1,000 yuan, and the large battleships of foreigners often cost millions of pounds. And the cost of millions of pounds, you should know what to do, right? We are 1,000 yuan, and after large-scale manufacturing, the cost is lower. Even if the plane is more expensive in the future, it will not exceed 5,000 yuan. And even if it is ten planes for one battleship, then we will earn it. To put it another way, even if we have ten pilots, they have died many more. There are more than 600 people on a battleship, although the cost of training our pilots is relatively high, but is the cost of training all the talents on a battleship low? They are hundreds of sailors, and the cost of various training is definitely higher than the cost of our aircraft pilots. They lost a good battleship captain, several vice-captains, and a lot of good sailors. And our losses are no more than ten pilots, so we also earned. ”

Although Wang Guorui's words are a little hurtful, it is also like this in the army. To a large extent, the army also requires an exchange ratio, and there is a ratio between how much it has lost and how much the enemy has lost. The closer the exchange ratio, the closer the strength of the two sides, the more brutal the battle. However, if the exchange ratio is large, of course, it is whichever side has the advantage. Although such data is cold, it is actually true. At the level of strategy, what should be considered is the exchange ratio between the two sides, not what is said to cherish life.

When it comes to the position of a country's military commander, of course, we can't daydream that we can fight a war without dying and without dying. Of course, as a military commander, what you can consider is to reduce your own exchange ratio to the other party, and then make the other party's exchange ratio higher. As for what kind of war does not die, as a high-ranking general, I don't have this kind of thought. For high-ranking generals and politicians of a country, that's just a number. However, the only thing that can be done is to make this number lower and more pretty. 、

Therefore, Wang Guorui said the advantages of this aircraft, that is, the price of an aircraft is low, and the cost of training officers is also very low. Well, this inexpensive is relative, just very inexpensive compared to the enemy's battleships and huge fleets. So even if ten planes are exchanged for one battleship for him, it will be earned by himself. An airplane may be built on an assembly line in a day, but what about the battleship? The construction cycle of battleships is often several years! Even if the speed of building ships increased during the war, it was definitely not comparable to the speed of building aircraft.

It is said that if there are many ants, they can bite and kill elephants, but this plane is not an ant! This plane can be loaded with bombs, and a bomb is more powerful than the battleship's naval guns, so it is definitely a "poisonous" ant, even an elephant can't withstand the bite of this ant!

Therefore, this aircraft is definitely the development trend of the future, and it is the development trend of future naval warfare.

"Next, I'm going to have people do research, to do a project study called a sea airfield, to study how the aircraft take off at sea and then conduct operations, and the corresponding combat platform." (To be continued.) )