Thousands of miles away from listening to Qin Xiaobai's decision, he was a little depressed, "Boss, is this good?" The Navy wants one piece of heavy equipment, and the Air Force wants two pieces of heavy equipment, but the 6th Army does not have any decent heavy equipment, which is too biased in favor of the Navy and the Air Force and despises the 6th Army! Or, add a tank, armored vehicle or something to the 6th Army? It's not too much of a burden, how about it? ”

Qin Xiaobai said with a smile: "It's not that I'm favoring anyone, sooner or later, the 6th Army will have a sufficient amount of heavy weapons, but not now." 【Full Text Reading】The time is not yet ripe. ”

Thousands of miles do not leave a strange way: "When will it be?" ”

Qin Xiaobai said: "When electronic technology, high-temperature material technology and rocket propellant technology are mature, we will directly develop missiles." At that time, as long as the 6th Army had missiles, it would be enough to form a missile unit, which would be enough to dominate half of the country. ”

Qianli didn't stay for a while, the missile is an upgraded version of the rocket, and now the rocket artillery is still gone, let alone the missile. He couldn't help crying: "By that time, I'm afraid I won't be the chief of staff of the 6th Army for a long time." Even if I get a missile, I don't take the credit. ”

Despite the objections, Qin Xiaobai's decision was finalized at the council of the Zhoushui Alliance.

Ironclad battleships, fighter planes, and bombers are listed as the three major heavy weapons and equipment projects, which are jointly researched and produced by the Zhoushui Academy of Sciences, the Zhoushui Military Factory, and the Zhoushui Shipyard. Qin Xiaobai has his bitterness.

The Zhou Water Academy of Sciences does have the ability to study a few more pieces of heavy 6th Army equipment. However, in this way, the direction of research will be too scattered, and the probability of failure will increase.

Moreover, the Zhoushui Alliance had to consider the reactions of the other eight princes.

In the events of the First World War, there were not many heavy weapons and equipment that could be developed.

The navy has three types of heavy equipment: ironclad battleships, submarines, and corvettes. The Air Force has two types of heavy equipment: fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, and helicopters. The 6 Army had four types of heavy equipment: tanks, armored vehicles, rockets, and artillery.

In total, there are more than a dozen kinds of heavy weapons and equipment. The nine princes will rush to research and produce. To avoid duplicate studies. and highlighting its own military superiority. The best way for them to do this is to choose two or three of them to study.

Study such heavy weapons and equipment. The investment is huge. And there's a high risk of failure. It's not that you put in more money. It will definitely succeed. It is likely to be manufactured to the performance of the product. It's not as good as other producers. The results were not welcomed by the market.

Therefore, there are too few research projects. Once the research fails. will deprive yourself of the superiority in armaments.

There are too many research projects, and it is not good. It's a waste of power. will scatter their own forces. Can't be the best at one project. The more research projects. At the same time, you will have to face more competitors.

Qin Xiaobai wanted to ensure that the Zhoushui Alliance always had an advantage in armaments. Three heavy weapons and equipment projects are the limit. As long as you have an advantage in these three major projects. Other projects can be abandoned.

After the work session.

The Zhoushui Academy of Sciences, the Zhoushui Military Factory, and the Zhoushui Shipyard in Tanggu started to build the first aircraft factory and the first ironclad battleship dock respectively. Began to build fighters, bombers, ironclad battleships. It is commanded by the young bull who wants money and money, and is personally supervised by the military bosses.

As the first experimental aircraft of the Empire, the leaders asked for it simply. Just be able to fly into the sky.

Let it fly into the sky first, and then consider attaching it to a weapon, such as a machine gun, or a few boxes of grenades. With a machine gun attached, it becomes an original version of the fighter. Get a few boxes of grenades up and you'll be a primitive version of the bomber. This primitive version of the aircraft was not very attackable, and its main role was still used for reconnaissance. If the pilots of the enemy and our armies met in the air in such primitive planes, they could actually kill the other pilots with their pistols.

In short, the most important thing is to let it fly into the sky first, which is more important than anything else. Piston engine, twin wings, fuselage, tail, landing gear. composed into the most original version of the aircraft.

The aircraft factory directly designed and manufactured more than a dozen original versions of the aircraft, conducted hundreds of flight tests, and obtained the best relevant data. In just five days, one of the most outstanding primitive planes successfully flew into the sky for thousands of meters, traveled for dozens of minutes, flew more than 50 kilometers, and flew from Tianjin to Tanggukou, and achieved success. The aircraft was named "Scout 0".

Recon 0 Info:

Maximum flight: 100 km / h.

Maximum flight altitude: 1000 meters.

Maximum range: 200 km.

Onboard weapons: None.

Defensive Armor: None.

The first aircraft was successfully developed. The whole Zhoushui Alliance was greatly excited. It also caused a sensation in the entire Tianjin City and Tanggukou, and countless players flocked to watch it, and took a video to commemorate it, on the official forum. It quickly attracted the attention of players from other countries and caused a storm of saliva on the forum.

The bigwigs of the Zhoushui Alliance were not satisfied with the performance of this aircraft, this original version of the aircraft was at most a "primitive barbarian of the Stone Age", basically had no combat effectiveness, and was far from the "Bronze Cavalry of the Bronze Age". There is no hope of gaining air supremacy with it.

They urged the aircraft manufacturing site. Intensify the development of fighters and bombers.

Despite the fact that the performance of this first aircraft was very rough. However, it received a large order from Africa, and the commander of the African Navy, Sea Soul, purchased 100 "Reconnaissance 0" in one go. Requests to be sent to Africa as soon as possible.

Now the Chinese fleet and the European fleet have reached a stalemate on the coast of Africa.

The Chinese fleet and the Allied fleet in Asia used South Africa as their base camp to expand their influence in neighboring African countries. With Senegal as its base camp, the European fleet resisted the expansion of Asian powers. The two sides are vigorously consolidating their own power and territory.

Now the battlefield has gradually penetrated from the coast into the hinterland of the African Big 6, fighting for control of the hinterland of the African Big 6. In the hinterland of the 6th in Africa, the fleet is useless, and it completely relies on the 6th Army to fight.

A group of Asian allies have penetrated deep into the hinterland of Africa, and the armies of European players have seized territory. The hinterland of Africa is dominated by grasslands, deserts and forests, and is rich in natural resources, and is a natural place for the operation of the large corps.

Don't look at the "Reconnaissance No. 0" aircraft is inconspicuous, and its performance is not very good. However, it was the first weapon to successfully take to the skies, able to overlook the earth from the air and accurately see the deployment and movement of enemy troops. And there are no weapons that can threaten hundreds or even thousands of meters of sky. With the "Reconnaissance No. 0," it is undoubtedly possible to obtain accurate military information not only in the hinterland of the Inner 6 but also on the coast, and the "Reconnaisance No. 0" aircraft is far faster than that of warships, and it is more convenient to use aircraft to monitor the movements of the fleets of various countries, respond in a timely manner, and strike at the merchant ships and naval reconnaissance fleets of Europe.

It is for this reason that Sea Soul came to the first order, urgently purchasing 100 aircraft, ready to sell them to Nigeria, Central Africa, Chad and other battlefields. Sea Soul left 10 for reconnaissance, and sold the rest to the Asian and African allies to support the allies and fight the enemy.

As soon as the Zhoushui Aircraft Factory opened, it became an instant hit, and when it received its first order, it naturally did not refuse, and immediately started producing the "Scout No. 0" at full capacity and sent it to Africa by ship.

The performance of "Scout 0" is not outstanding, and it can only rely on the advantage of the first to obtain some benefits. Once European players have produced their own fighters or anti-aircraft guns, Recon 0 will lose its advantage and withdraw from the African arena. Therefore, the existence of Reconnaissance 0 is not destined to be too long, and it can only take advantage of some advantages.

Moreover, following the first order, the Zhoushui Aircraft Factory soon received 30 orders from South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam and other Asian allies in the Japanese battlefield, as well as 50 orders from neutral players such as Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Iran in the Middle East battlefield, and 2 orders from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Players from dozens of countries have purchased the world's first original aircraft.

There are not many orders from each of these countries, and the main purpose is probably to try the effect and see if the "Reconnaissance No. 0" is good or not. If it is easy to use, I am afraid that the follow-up orders will continue to increase.

The most important thing is that the total number of these orders is as high as 2 to 300 planes, which is enough to recover the research costs invested by the Zhoushui Aircraft Factory in the "Reconnaissance No. 0" aircraft, and there is also a large amount of profit.

Encouraged by the big sales of the "Scout No. 0", the research work of the aircraft factory was accelerated.

After the success of the original version of the "Reconnaissance No. 0" aircraft, the Zhoushui Aircraft Factory began to show the real J-1 and H-1 in accordance with two completely different ideas of war.

One is aerial combat, which emphasizes altitude, high mobility, and aerial firepower. The goal pursued is to destroy enemy planes and other military aircraft with flying air attack weapons in the air, gain air superiority, and make the sky their own.

One is the air assault, which emphasizes strong assault power, long range, and large bomb load. On the premise of having air supremacy, carry out fierce fire bombardment on the enemy's ground and water surface, and use the advantage of the sky to gain ground control and let the ground belong to itself.

These two research paths correspond to the J-1 and H-1, two different military aircraft.