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After solving the troubles in the field of fighter aircraft, reports on the twin-engine light bomber and night combat aircraft developed by the Shanghai Aircraft Design Bureau were also sent. The reason is very simple, the light twin-engine fighter of China is a copy of the historical British Mosquito bomber and the later DH108 Hornet twin-engine aircraft. Because of the butterfly effect, the prototype of the Mosquito bomber had already emerged in this Italian civil war and received high praise, so it was only a matter of time before this aircraft appeared in the combat sequence in China. Of course, Xu Jie, as a traverser, will definitely make some improvements to the mosquito plane in order to make him more ferocious!

According to Xu Jie's construction, the first direction of improvement is the use of laminar flow wings. This improvement also has a historical prototype, DH108 Bumblebee is the laminar flow wing used, since they are all twin-engine aircraft, and they are all conventional layouts, Bumblebee can be successful, then the mosquitoes that also belong to the "insect" should also be able to, Xu Jie thought so, so he proposed a wing similar to DH108 Bumblebee grafted onto the mosquito-like body to see if it could be successful.

The second aspect of improvement is the use of an all-metal airframe, although historically the Mosquito aircraft have been known for their wooden wonders. But wooden structures are not as good as all-metal after all. Huaxia is naturally not short of aluminum, and various derivative aircraft of the Mosquito type generally need to perform various high-risk tasks, so it is bearable to be more expensive. This allows the potential of the Mosquito aircraft to be further exploited.

As for the third point. That's not originality, but tapping into the potential of the mosquito body as early as possible. Same as pirate-style. Mosquitoes have also been improved quite a lot, and they are known for their wide applicability, so to speak. Except for the fact that a single-engine fighter cannot be frontal in the daytime and cannot use too heavy bombs, the Mosquito can accomplish almost all other tasks. This plane is a bomber with bombs, torpedoes is a torpedo plane, radar and cannon pods are night planes, and throwing away all weapons and cameras is a high-speed reconnaissance plane. You have to add sonar buoys and torpedo depth charges to him, and he can be an anti-submarine aircraft. If there were extra searchlights and radar, it could also attack submarines at snorkel height at night.

Some people may have said that it is not that difficult. The vast majority of twin-engine aircraft can do well, for example, the JU88 has a modified version of the bomber, night fighter aircraft and torpedo aircraft. No big deal. But it's not actually like that, if the JU88 is not bad at doing things related to bombing, then if it is used as a night fighter aircraft or interceptor, it is definitely not as good as the mosquito, and there are only two kinds of German night fighters in World War 2 that can effectively intercept mosquitoes, one is TA154, and the other is the owl. The reason is very simple, the speed of mosquitoes is too fast, and the speed of mosquitoes in the middle and late stages is more than 630KM per hour. JU88 and the like can't catch up at all! The biggest advantage of this aircraft is that it balances the direct relationship between flight performance and bomb load. The largest bomb-carrying model can hold bombs of about 4,000 pounds. And the flight performance is almost the best among conventional twin-engine bombers. All in all, the performance of mosquitoes is very good.

And in this plane, mosquitoes have one of the greatest advantages. That is, you can get on the ship, this is not made up by Xu Jie, the British have really done mosquitoes taking off and landing on aircraft carriers, and they have also specially developed a mosquito that can fold its wings. It's just that because the opponent was too weak, coupled with the support of the US imperialists, it was not mass-produced in the end. But in this plane. With the increase of the aircraft carrier, and the strengthening of the opponent. It is necessary to use twin-engine aircraft to carry radars to carry out anti-air and sea-to-sea search and vigilance missions. And it can also be used as a guided weapon carrier aircraft when necessary. Don't think about the Fritz X shell, you can still bring a weapon at the HS293 level.

However, considering the name mosquito, it is really not good. plus Xu Jie's bad taste as a traverser. In the end, this Chinese version of the mosquito aircraft was named the Tiger Cat. And this name was originally the nickname of the historical American F7F fighter. The aircraft was designed for use on the USS Midway. Whether this plane will produce F7F Xu Jie doesn't know, but it definitely can't be called a tiger cat!

In addition to the Tiger Cat light bomber, another twin-engine bomber is the Huaxia version of the B25J selected by Xu Jie, which is named the porcupine. There is no other reason, that is, because Xu Jie feels that the machine gun on the B25 is similar to a porcupine full of thorns, of course, the hedgehog is also full of thorns, but doesn't the name porcupine seem more domineering. Of course, before the R2600 class was launched, the performance of this aircraft was still somewhat worse than that of the historical B25J.

The Chinese tactical air force is composed of the above four types of aircraft, the Shicha Falcon is an army fighter, and the Tiger Cat and Porcupine are used as tactical bombers. As for the selection of single-engine attack aircraft and carrier-based aircraft plus torpedo aircraft? Xu Jie plans to let the pirates do it alone! Anyway, the pirates have done enough firepower on the ground. The range is also good. With a slight change, you can also install torpedoes, even if you can't reach the level of 3 pylons of the later F4U7, it is absolutely no problem to install at least one torpedo rack with 2 auxiliary fuel tanks. Xu distinguished himself with respect for his favorite single-engine propeller aircraft, which Huaxia still named the Corsair. Of course, if the pressure of air combat in the later period is not so great, Xu Jie is also willing to consider using an aircraft that is more inclined to the ground like the AD1.

The tactical aircraft selection is finished, and then it is time for strategic bombers, and the classic heavy bombers of World War 2 in history are none other than B17, B24 and Lancaster, plus the later B29. Overall, the first three types of bombers are half a pound. Considering Lancaster's vulnerable firepower for self-defense, as well as the B24's poor maneuverability. Xu Jie finally decided to use the B17 as a model. However, using the B17 as a blueprint does not mean that all qiē are designed according to the B17, and the B17 itself also has weaknesses, that is, the download bomb volume of the same voyage is relatively small, for example, the B17 has a range of 1,500 miles in the case of a bomb load of 11,000 pounds, and a range of only 2,000 miles in the case of a bomb load of 5,800 pounds. The Lancaster, on the other hand, has a range of 1,660 miles at 14,000 pounds and 2,250 miles at a 10,000 pound bomb load. So much so that when the B17 first arrived in the UK, the British jokingly called it a heavy bomber, but the weight was only the bomb load of a medium bomber. And Lancaster has another ability that the B17 can't learn, that is, it can carry super-large bombs. Not to mention this modification after removing the skin on the lower part of the magazine, even a normal Lancaster bomber could carry 8000 pounds of bombs!

Of course, the B17's excellent armor protection and strong firepower will definitely take up a considerable part of the weight. If you count this part of the weight, the performance gap between B17 and Lancaster will not be as big as reflected above, but there must still be a gap, as for the reason, Xu Jie is not specialized in aircraft, but he feels that this should have something to do with engine performance, Lancaster uses a Morin 24 engine, which has a take-off power of up to 1620 horsepower. At an altitude of 3,000 meters, the maximum output is 1,240 horsepower, and if you use a supercharged device, it can reach about 1,600 horsepower! Moreover, it is a liquid-cooled engine, which itself has the advantage of a small windward area. And the weight is only 685KG.

The R1820-G205A engine used in the B17 is much inferior, it is an air-cooled engine, the frontal windward area is huge, and the power is low, and the take-off power is only 1200 horsepower. Only 950 horsepower output at an altitude of 2900 meters. The weight is quite a bit lighter than the Morin 24, 595 kg. But the power-to-weight ratio is far worse! The power of the latter is more than 30% higher than that of R1820, coupled with the advantage of low resistance of the liquid-cooled engine, so it is stronger than B17 in flight performance, of course, this is only one aspect, as for the air resistance of the fuselage, Xu Jie can't figure it out, but Lancaster is undoubtedly much stronger than B17 in terms of engine.

Therefore, after some weighing, Xu Jie's idea is to optimize the aerodynamic shape of the B17 as much as possible while maintaining the armor protection level and self-defense firepower of the B17, and at the same time replace him with a larger horsepower engine, the British Morin engine is obviously a good choice, but considering the vulnerability of the liquid-cooled engine, Xu Jie thinks that it is enough to replace the B17 with an R2600 level engine. Of course, it would be better if you changed to the R2800, but this engine is expensive! First for the fighter jets!

This bomber, which combines the advantages of both sides, was named Bull, (well, directly took the code name of the historical Maozi version of the B29.) If nothing else, this bomber will become the main bomber in the early days of the Chinese War, as the war continues, bombers like the B29 will definitely appear, and the American B26 may also go to the battlefield, and with the appearance of the B26, the B29, a heavy bomber with a maximum take-off weight of 60 tons, immediately became a medium bomber. However, Xu Jie didn't plan to engage in a 6-round monster like B36 now, the size of the bomber and the development of technology are closely related, and it is also related to combat needs. However, if the technology tree in this plane can make the turboprop engine out of the line ahead of schedule, then Xu Jie would consider getting a smaller version of the Bear bomber.

There are fighters and bombers, and all that remains are auxiliary aircraft such as transport planes and seaplanes. For these models, Xu Jie really doesn't have much research. So there is not much to propose in the build. Just after he had finished dealing with the development plans of various types of "electric fans", the General Armament Department came to the door with the development plans of "hair dryers."

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