Thomas has a point.

In the experiments at the Portsmouth base, the only thing they could do, whether it was a pistol, a rifle, or even a machine gun, was to poke a few small holes in the thick skin of the "R-100" airship.

The kinetic energy of the bullet is simply not enough to ignite the hydrogen inside the gas bag.

And the air leakage caused by those few small holes is also a drop in the bucket for the huge body of 720 feet, and it is not worth mentioning.

Therefore, according to the technocrats of the Ministry of Engineering, even in the face of the Ming Kingdom's airship group and aircraft, the other side will not be able to cause effective damage to the "R-100".

The two sides can only pick up pistols in the air and shoot each other like gentlemen duel.

Pistols are not easy to shoot at people on the ground, let alone in the air at thousands of meters in the air.

“…… So, Your Royal Highness, as long as you don't get too unlucky, you won't get hurt. ”

Thomas said confidently.

He was one of the first officers in the Royal Air Force, had been systematically trained, and was more composed than a half-naval officer like Alfred.

"Well, I think what you said makes sense."

Alfred nodded, "But I always feel like those guys in the engineering department have forgotten something, but I can't talk about it for a while...... Let's hope God bless us and those damned Ming thugs won't hit us with planes......

I've heard that on the other side of the Atlantic, there is a group of Koreans under that thug Morishita who shout that they will serve the country with seven lives, and in order to join the Ming nationality, they are engaged in a damn kamikaze assault!

They would drive a plane full of explosives to ram our warship, only parachute a few seconds before the plane crashed, and the mortality rate was said to be very high, which was really terrible! ”

"I don't think the Ming people would do that, in my experience, these planes are not inferior planes that appeared on the Atlantic battlefield, but the 'red baron' that appeared in Beijing back then, of course, the 'red baron' is what we called."

Holding up the binoculars, Thomas explained, "In short, this valuable aircraft is usually flown by senior pilots of my rank, and it is definitely not a consumable. ”

Prince Alfred breathed a sigh of relief: "You are worthy of being a veteran general, Colonel Thomas, your analysis is too reasonable...... What a fart! Akito's plane is coming! ”

Prince Alfred pointed ahead in horror.

I saw that more than ten Ming planes escorting the escort formed an attack array and headed straight towards the British airship.

At this time, the applause of the audience in Taksim Square was even more enthusiastic.

Because the soldiers of the British Empire loved the color red, at least for a long time, they wore lobster uniforms everywhere to show off their might, so when the crimson Thunder fighters stood out in formation and appeared over the square, people all cheered enthusiastically, and regarded them as part of the British Air Force show.

This can only be said that the British and Ming are red, but it is just a wonderful misunderstanding.

The guests at the scene took out their smuggled black-and-white cameras, or instructed their servants to point their lenses in the air with clumsy European vertical cameras.

"Wonderful, so wonderful!"

"How exactly did this wonderful flying machine fly? I don't see a flotation device like an airbag at all! ”

"It's a little smaller, but they look as nimble as eagles, and you see, they seem to be gaining altitude!"

"Hey, these new aircraft seem to have fireworks on their bellies?"

"It's so beautiful, it's so splendid, even in the daytime, these British flowers still make people's hearts flutter."

"Yes, those ceremonial flowers appeared like lightning in the daytime, and turned into petals of light, and slowly fell...... Oh, holy poop! The salutes seemed to have landed on the airship. "Oh

"It shouldn't matter, it's just some low-purity black powder droplets, and it won't make any difference...... Oh, holy poop, the airship is set on fire, all on fire! ”

·

Prince Alfred finally knows what he has forgotten!

It's incendiary, damn incendiary!

In Xi'an, in Beijing, in Milwaukee, in Chicago, the Ming people used this satanic weapon again and again, causing horrific disasters.

Chemists at the Royal Academy of Sciences have long since analyzed the main components of the Aketo incendiary bombs.

That's white phosphorus, a very simple chemical raw material.

As early as the seventeenth century, European countries had mastered the process of producing white phosphorus.

However, there is still a huge gap between being able to produce white phosphorus and being able to produce white phosphorus bombs, just as mastering black powder does not mean being able to produce muskets.

How to further improve the purity of white phosphorus, while safely storing and throwing them, is also a problem that the Department of Chemistry of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the British Empire has been tackling.

How could the group of wastes in the engineering department not think of such a simple thing?

"Damn, didn't you say foolproof?"

Alfred grabbed old Thomas by the collar, as if to vent all his fears through rage.

Old Thomas simply had no way of answering.

Because there are too many new equipment in the Ming Dynasty, and incendiary weapons have always been stubbornly believed by Western European military scholars that they can only kill and injure soldiers, and do not do much damage to machinery.

In Europe, the last description of incendiary weapons may date back to the Greek Age of Fire.

To put it simply, careless, no flash!

In fact, if it was just a white phosphorus bomb, it might not have an immediate effect on the British airship.

Although the arson killing ability of white phosphorus is not weak, it is actually not as strong as the people boast.

In the Middle East, the Israelis like to use white phosphorus weapons against their enemies, not so much because of the incendiary ability of white phosphorus bombs, but because they are enjoying the pleasures of torture.

Napalm bombs, as well as various arson metals, and even more advanced fuel-air bombs and thermobaric bombs, which are widely used in Vietnam and other places, are the best incendiary weapons, and the killing radius and power are much greater than that of white phosphorus bombs.

It can be said that Israel is a picture of music, and if you really want to learn the art of cooking, you have to watch Midi's performance.

But again, the weapon itself is not sinful.

Just like the Uchiha's Amaterasu can be a fire of goodness.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty has never objected to its own possession of weapons of mass destruction.

Of course, today's Daming is far from capable of making these high-tech weapons.

Not to mention thermobaric bombs, even napalm of the early twentieth century can't handle it.

The main reason is that the gasoline viscosity cannot be produced.

Although I learned from popular science books that the main raw material of this viscous agent is ordinary polystyrene, that is, foam, but I really want to figure out the specific formula, it is not an overnight thing.