First of all, the number of carrier-based aircraft is too small, more than 50% less than the aircraft carriers of the same tonnage in the United States and Japan, and the proportion is seriously out of balance, and the fighter is only a quarter of the bomber, no matter how powerful the German fighter ace is, it can't be busy at all! Secondly, it is obviously an aircraft carrier, but a full 16 150mm naval guns are installed on it, isn't it nondescript? Whether it is the current Germany, the later Soviet Union, or even the current Japan and the United States, it is difficult to completely abandon the tradition at once, but compared with Germany, which made the real aircraft carrier into four different ones, the US and Japanese navies specially built "aviation cruisers" or "aviation battleships", and the losses suffered are still much smaller after all

In addition to these problems that can be found just by looking at the data, the Zeppelin aircraft carrier has an even bigger hidden danger, that is, carrier-based aircraft. Objectively speaking, although the German aircraft during World War II were subject to the pit engine or the high-temperature resistant material and generally had short legs, the performance of the German aircraft was still relatively good, but for the carrier-based aircraft, Germany had no experience in design and manufacturing, and could only use land-based aircraft to modify.

But even during World War II, there were some differences between the design requirements of carrier-based aircraft and land-based aircraft, among which the requirements for bombers were low, as long as they could take off and land safely on the deck of the aircraft carrier, which was not difficult to achieve for the sturdy Stuka dive bomber.

At the same time, the main targets of carrier-based bombers are warships that are much stronger than tanks, so bomb load and bomb delivery accuracy are more important than any other parameters, followed by range and maneuverability, the first two of which are Stuka can be said to be the best in the world, and the maneuverability is too good to say. As a carrier-based bomber, it couldn't be more suitable. The only drawback was that the voyage was shorter, but this was quickly solved after Hu Weidong provided Germany with the formula and process of high-temperature resistant alloys, and there were new materials with high quality and low price (relatively speaking). The successful development of exhaust gas turbochargers, new engines and lean oil combustion jishu has more than doubled the range of German aircraft, while other performance has not decreased in the slightest, but has improved to varying degrees. Therefore, the improved Stuka bomber is fully capable of the work of carrier-based bombers, and because of its large bomb load and almost 100% terrifying hit rate under the control of excellent pilots. The Stuka carrier-based version and its various modifications are generally considered by later historians to be the most haode carrier-based dive bomber during World War II

Therefore, Hu Weidong only made a few small suggestions for the Stuka carrier-based type, such as foldable wings, and even thought that the Stuka bomber's amazing bomb load. In fact, there is no need for special torpedo bombers, and it can be easily done by direct dive bombing against early battleships or other ship types with weak horizontal protection, and against new battleships of various countries with greatly strengthened horizontal armor, you can also destroy their air defense capabilities with dive bombing first, and then replace the Stuka bombers with torpedoes for attack

Compared with the Stuka bomber, the BF109 fighter, which was converted into a carrier-based fighter by the Germans, was very unpopular with Hu Weidong. Even a land-based prototype wasn't very good (it was still very advanced when it first came out, with a number of groundbreaking designs such as retractable landing gear, but after the outbreak of World War II, the weakness of the bf109's low upgrade potential was increasingly exposed, and it was soon replaced by more advanced models such as the FW190 fighter). ）。 Historically, the prestige of the early World War II relied more on the excellent performance of the German fighter ace, especially the degree of its short legs was simply outrageous, and when flying over the narrow English Channel to escort the Stuka bombers, they were unable to follow the whole process due to the defects of the range, which is obviously not only a problem with the engine. In fact, in history, the BF109 fighter had the upper hand in performance against the wooden aircraft built by the Soviet Union, and all other enemy fighters fell behind in the duel, and I don't know if so many super aces of the Luftwaffe were forced out by its inferior performance

And more importantly, the difference between carrier-based fighters and land-based fighters is much greater than that of bombers, for example, land-based fighters are dominated by liquid-cooled engines, while carrier-based fighters are air-cooled engines. Because of this, historically, the carrier-based fighters of the United States, Japan, and Britain were specially designed rather than modified from land-based models, but the problem is that Germany has no experience in this area at all. From this point of view, even if the fat man did not interfere with it in history, it is unlikely that Germany will build an aircraft carrier with sufficient combat power before the end of World War II. But in this time and space, because of Hu Weidong's crossing, things have taken a big turn, and Hu Weidong just remembered the design of the strongest carrier-based fighter in the history of World War II - the "F4U Corsair Carrier-based Fighter".

As a carrier-based fighter, the excellent performance of the F4U "Corsair" in history has been beyond the reach of many land-based fighters of the same era, with a maximum speed of 717.75km/h, a practical ceiling of 12649m and a maximum range of more than 2500 kilometers have reached the top level in the middle and late stages of World War II, let alone now. In addition, the F4U "Corsair" can also carry aerial bombs for tactical bombing missions, and its 900kg bomb load even exceeds all light bombers currently in service in Shijie countries

What's even more rare is that the F4U "Corsair" did not use many new jishu invented in the late World War II, and with the level of German technology and industry, it also encountered some difficulties in terms of engines. Historically, the American Pratt & Whitney "Twin Wasp" air-cooled engine used by the F4U "Corsair" has now been successfully developed, but it is almost impossible for the Germans to buy it from the Americans, and the Americans sold some finished products to Japan out of a reward for Japan's war with the Soviet Union, but when Germany asked Japan to buy at a high price, the Japanese demanded that Germany suspend cooperation with the Red Party, which was obviously difficult for the strongman, so the Germans did not even have the opportunity to get a sample back from the copycat. But the problem is that if the F4U "Corsair" does not have such a powerful engine, it is just a very mediocre fighter, and Germany is very confident that it has made a major breakthrough in the field of engines after obtaining the jishu and technology of high-temperature resistant materials, but this is far from quenching the thirst of the near after all. (To be continued.) )