Chapter 359: Paratroopers
Although both the Provisional Executive Committee and the Military Intelligence Department had repeatedly assured Diana that it would be impossible for the Manchurians to impose a blockade on the Liaodong Peninsula in the proper sense, Diana still demanded that the Logistics Department make up for the specially customized silk she had requested as soon as a month earlier. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
This girl from the paratrooper unit wants silk not to make cheongsam, this girl who doesn't like red makeup and only loves arms has only one purpose to apply for silk - parachute!
In fact, the native paratroopers who had crossed the crowd were already being trained, along with some of the Jews who had excelled in recruit training. Although none of these soldiers have officially gone to the sky, they have basically done enough basic training for some paratroopers, and they are waiting for the parachute and the "Daystar 4" aircraft with a larger payload capacity to leave the factory.
The technical representatives sent by the John Bull Navy disagreed with the Voyagers over the design and finalization of the Daystar 4, feeling that it was inconvenient for the aircraft to be hoisted onto a warship, and insisting that the cooperation project should devote resources to designing smaller seaplanes.
Yes, after seeing the incredible range and power of the BB63's sixteen-inch main gun, the John Bull Navy has set its sights on the giant ship cannons. In their minds, airplanes are used for reconnaissance and correction of the landing points of artillery shells, and there is no need to make such a large volume.
The traverser was happy to see John Niu enter the era of giant ships and cannons early, so they decisively stopped the development of a larger aircraft in the cooperation project, and redesigned a seaplane with foldable wings according to the requirements of the Niu Niu Navy, and named it "Warship Bird Type 1".
However, they did not stop developing large aircraft, and they created the larger "Daystar 4" transport/bomber on the basis of the "Daystar 3".
The design of this aircraft is borrowed from the French Amio 143 bomber, and the biplane shape of the previous models of the "Daystar" imitation of the American-made Keystone light bomber is adopted, and the layout of the monoplane and the twin engines is adopted. Its thick metal wings accommodate six fuel tanks, a design that largely frees up the interior space of the fuselage, making the Daystar 4 a common model for both bombers and transport aircraft. This design will increase the probability of the aircraft being destroyed, but in this era when there are no air defense weapons and fighter jets, who cares about this?
Hans's fooled engineers made good progress on the metallurgical project, which allowed the star engine to be further slimmed down, which gave the Daystar 4 a large heart, well, an expensive heart that is still not in mass production.
When the "Daystar 4" is in bomber form, it has a crew of 4 and can carry 4 bombers of 200Kg (440 lbs). bombs, or 64 pieces of 12.5Kg (27.5 lbs) bombs? Play.
And when it is in the state of a transport aircraft, he can carry 10 fully armed soldiers. Judging from the weapons that the Crossing Crowd has equipped their airborne troops with, a platoon can generally carry the soldiers of a company of hair. Maozi's army has already begun to purchase Mosin Nagant rifles, but judging from the tradition of corruption in its army, it is unknown what year this new rifle was installed. According to Kekai information, Maozi's front-line troops are still using single-shot Bodan rifles with black powder bullets. With the current equipment of the indigenous paratroopers, there is no problem with a company of exhaustion.
Therefore, Hao Dajian and Zhao Lang hoped to save up three of these planes before the war with Maozi, and if necessary, to show their potential buyers, the Jewish consortium, a new equipment and tactic.
"Who are we?" Diana asked the Aboriginal and Jewish paratroopers aloud.
"We are paratroopers!" A group of yellow and white men with shaved heads replied loudly.
"What is our mission?" Diana continued to ask loudly.
"We are born to be surrounded!" The group of recruits replied loudly.
"Okay, keep your morale up. Your weapons must be serviced immediately after disbandment, and if I find even one rust spot on your bayonet, the next training session will be doubled, understand? Diana copied everything she had been trained in the light curtain of the dome.
"Yes, sir!" The recruit replied loudly.
The recruits began to return to their camps in an orderly manner after Diana announced their disbandment, carrying on their backs the Lee-Metford LMC Mk I carbine produced by John Bull. Compared with the Lee-Metford Mk.II rifle that Niu Niu had just equipped with the front-line troops, the carbine used in this Crossing Airborne Force did not have a double-row magazine with a load of ten rounds like the former, and the Lee-Metford LMC Mk I carbine only had a five-round magazine, but it was much shorter than the former and was more suitable for paratroopers. In addition to the Lee-Metford LMC Mk I carbine, the paratroopers were also armed with replica M3 "grease guns" that had just been amassed by the Traders.
The original intention of the Provisional Executive Committee in approving the formation of this paratrooper unit was not to be airdropped behind enemy lines for special operations, and they did not expect that the engine materials of the "Daystar 4" would make a breakthrough in such a short period of time.
In fact, there are no special forces available in this cross-cutting uniform, except for Diana's paratroopers and An Yanxin's Navy SEALs, which is unacceptable to the cross-border officers who are accustomed to the tactics and tactics of the 21st century. You can't let the traversers go on any dangerous mission, the Homeland Security Agency and the Military Intelligence Service have their own Indigenous task forces, so you don't have to call the S.W.A.T team for everything, why the military has to have its own indigenous special forces, right?
As soon as the Provisional Executive Committee discussed it, it gave the military the establishment of three special forces, and let the navy, land, and air forces gather their own special forces. Lu Xiangyang has a lot of things to do, and he can't care about this for a while, and An Yanxin is too picky about the selection of special forces, and after a long time, he still can't get together the indigenous special forces of the navy.
Hao Dajian had a flexible brain, and as soon as he got the news that his air force was expanding, he immediately went to fool the Jews. As soon as the military advisers sent by the Jewish consortium to the Liaodong Peninsula heard the "decapitation tactics" described by Hao Dajian, they immediately clapped their minds and said: This is what we want!
Is there a better tactic than killing important people on the enemy's side, paralyzing the enemy's chain of command, and winning the battle and the entire war at the lowest cost? The answer of this military adviser is no, this is what he wants!
As soon as the Jews made a decision, the money was in place, then the equipment was in place, and soon the people were in place! Even the workshops that produced the M3 submachine guns bent over the five buckets of rice and gave priority to fulfilling the orders for the paratroopers.
Of course, the paratroopers who received Jewish funding had to complete the training plan they had promised, but Diana said that training a platoon was also training, and training a company was also training, so it didn't matter, as long as the father of the owner was happy.
So there was a scene of yellow-skinned people and white-skinned people during the training of the paratrooper troops, and those indigenous soldiers found that the white-skinned foreigners did not have to be much better than themselves, although they were tall and big, but they could use their flexible skills to make up for the lack of strength. Then, they learned that the Qing Dynasty had been defeated repeatedly in the fight with the whites in the past hundred years, but the Qing Dynasty itself was too watery, not the whites were powerful! Then they found that only here in the Great Song could they be on an equal footing with the white people.
That's what Zhao has always advocated for the Indigenous: Reach out and then understand, don't demonize whites. Whites are strong, and we're not weak either. As long as you're strong enough, you'll eventually gain white recognition, and then you'll have equality.