Chapter 18: The First Battle of the Gunboats
After the completion of this special aircraft, Zhang Fan immediately began to sell this new type of air weapon like the military department, and in his description, the gunboat plane was the air killer. As long as there are a few gunboats www.biquge.info exist, the enemy's armored force is a lamb to the slaughter, vulnerable to attack!
As the new hero of the empire, Mustache attaches great importance to Zhang Fan's opinion, although Zhang Fan is from the navy, Mustache still specially asked Goering to approve this actual combat exercise!
In order to highlight the powerful power of the gunboat machine, especially the powerful power of this special supply aircraft, Zhang Fan asked to use this gunboat machine to single-handedly take on an integrated armored division!
Hearing such a heartless request, even the mustache was surprised. It's a joke, one plane against an armored division. But Zhang Fan is very confident, after all, this gunboat machine is a special version, and its armor thickness is enough to resist the direct attack of 40mm anti-aircraft guns, while most of the anti-aircraft guns of the German armored divisions are below 40mm, and only a few elite guards divisions are equipped with more than 40mm anti-aircraft guns, but the number is also very limited! Moreover, the rate of fire of these large-caliber anti-aircraft guns is obviously slow, and it is obviously impossible to defeat such an air fortress that can move quickly in the air!
Although this request is outrageous! But the mustache still met Zhang Fan's willful requirements, after all, as a hero of the empire, he always has to give some face!
Soon the exercise was arranged, and on a sunny morning, the whole of Germany was attended by high-level officials with names and surnames!
On one side is a German armored division, although due to the tense fighting on the front line, only the German second-line troops participated in the exercise, but there are also as many as 10,000 people and up to more than 200 armored vehicles and tanks, not to mention 18 anti-aircraft guns! Blake, the army general in the exercise, looked at Zhang Fan with great disdain, and he wanted to see how Zhang Fan could defeat a German integrated armored division with one plane. If the Air Force is so powerful, why do you need them as an army? It's a pity that what he didn't expect was that 60 years later, in the entire war, the Air Force would be the most powerful, and whoever mastered air supremacy would gain the initiative in the war!
After the preparation of this second-level armored division was completed, Zhang Fan's gunboat flew into the exercise site with a huge whistling sound. But even so, if the armor of the aircraft is too thin, there is still a possibility that the aircraft will be shot through the fuselage by anti-aircraft guns!
Soon, the battle began, after all, with such a sunny day, such a large target could not be dodged at all! At first, the German army general Blake thought that the plane would be as dead as an ordinary bomber, and that it would be over with a few bombs. Unexpectedly, this gunboat machine directly began the rotation of the lighthouse, this huge gunboat machine just turned in such a circle, two circles, three circles, and kept tilting the fire to the ground, and the anti-aircraft fire of this armored division only launched a counterattack at the beginning, and when the anti-aircraft fire was exposed, this gunboat machine was leisurely turning around the anti-aircraft fire stronghold, and all the anti-aircraft guns were all dumbfired!
And how can other armored vehicles that want to retreat run through the sky flying in the sky, one after another are named by the gunboat machine, this kind of gunboat machine that does the lighthouse rotation has a high hit rate is scary! In the past, aircraft bombing ground targets required ultra-low-altitude air strikes, but gunboats only needed to maintain inclined fire on the ground at an altitude of one or two thousand meters!
In just half an hour, this armored division was paralyzed, all the anti-aircraft guns were destroyed, the armor lost 60%, and there were countless casualties! And the gunboat aircraft was hit less than 15 times, and none of them broke the defense. In other words, the gunboat machine crushed a reorganized division unscathed!
And the German Army General Blake, who commanded in the field, was also dumbfounded, his command vehicle was also destroyed by the gunboat machine, he didn't even react, the gunboat machine just spun over his head for a while, and his command car and the tanks that had been guarding nearby for several years were all knocked out! That's right, it was easily pried off like a bottle cap, after all, all armored vehicles have the weakest top defense, and they can't stop large-caliber artillery from the sky at all!
Seeing such an amazing record of gunboats, the mustachioed Führer danced excitedly!
"Great! Amazing Zhang, you are the god of war in Germany, bringing one miracle after another to the empire! This new weapon is so powerful that I don't know how difficult it is to make it! The mustache asked
"Your Excellency, this gunboat is basically composed of a large transport aircraft and a special gun, as long as the lighthouse rotation is mastered, the hit rate of the whole aircraft will be greatly improved, but I suggest that the Führer add a self-destruct device to the aircraft, because the technical content of this aircraft is actually not high. If the Allies get their hands on the wreckage, they will easily make the same ground attack aircraft! In addition, this kind of aircraft basically has no anti-air capability, and it needs our fighters to escort it before each sortie to avoid being shot down by the opponent's fighters! But even if there are so many shortcomings, the advantage of this ground attack aircraft is still flawed, as long as it is kept secret in advance, a surprise attack will definitely be able to give the opponent a heavy blow, and the use of this gunboat aircraft can be very effective in hitting the enemy's transport and supply lines, the general small ground escort force is simply unable to resist the attack of gunboat aircraft, but if the follow-up enemy arranges a large number of anti-aircraft fire positions, the role of gunboat aircraft will drop a lot! But even in this way, it is possible to flexibly mobilize gunboats and planes to attack the positions where the local air defense fire is relatively weak, and deal a heavy blow to the enemy! ”
Although Zhang Fan named some flaws in the gunboat machine, no weapon is perfect, the key is how to use them! It was clear that all of you here were high-ranking German elites, and they quickly saw that the great advantage of the gunboat was that it was a long stay in the air to carry out sustained strikes against the enemy's forces lacking air force and anti-aircraft firepower! And its high attack accuracy is scary!
So far in the exercise, Zhang Fan's purpose has been achieved, and this gunboat has received special approval from the head of the mustache, allowing the Air Force to purchase it in large quantities! And Zhang Fan also took the opportunity to launch the production company of the gunboat machine - Xinghai Technology Company. A high-tech arms company specializing in the research and development of high-tech weapons. The company was a joint venture between Krupp and Heinkel, and Zhang Fan also owns 50% of the company's shares. Zhang Fan is one of the largest shareholders, and although he can't be the chairman, there is no problem with naming the company! So Zhang Fan gave the company the name of Xinghai Technology.
Xinghai Technology also really emerged at this time, and slowly became one of the largest high-tech arms companies in later generations!
After the exercise, Zhang Fan brought the good news to Heinkel and Krupp, the new company has just been established and has received a large number of orders from the military for 500 gunboat aircraft, you must know that the cost of gunboat aircraft is higher than that of large bombers, and the first batch of such large orders makes the company immediately on the right track!