81_81266 The two planes slowly approached the runway, one after the other, and at low altitude, they lowered their landing gear almost at the same time. The flaps of the planes were angled, and soon the landing gear of both planes touched the ground. The force of the impact caused the plane to heav slightly, but they still managed to smoothly transition from flying to taxiing on the ground. Compared to the FW-190D fighter jets parked nearby, the appearance of these two aircraft looks a little special.

Lifting the canopy of the cockpit, a German pilot slipped out of the cockpit of his plane. He proudly boasted to the ground crew who gathered around him, saying that he had shot down 11 Soviet fighters this time.

The engine of the other plane has not been turned off, and the three-bladed wide propeller is still spinning. But as soon as the plane was parked on the runway, ground crews ran over to surround the new fighter. Waiting for the pilot to open the hatch, there were cheers from the crowd.

"The plane is very fast and very easy to handle at high altitudes. The performance described in the instruction manual is very close. As soon as he climbed out of the plane, the pilot handed over his leather helmet and goggles to the ground staff who came forward to greet him, and introduced the test process to the engineer who rushed over with an eager expression on his face.

He put one hand very high, and then signaled to the staff that this was his flight altitude: "We tried this altitude of 13,000 meters, and the engine is still in very good working condition, running normally, and the power output is also very smooth." ”

As he spoke, he thought about it for a while, and then added: "The front end of the plane is too long, and it slightly affects the field of view directly below, of course I think the effort is worth it, the table of this engine is very good, although it is a little more difficult than the FW-190D fighter when rolling, but other performance is much higher." ”

While the pilot was talking about the combat test process just now, several engineers around him were recording in detail the aircraft watches described by the pilot in various flight conditions. They took it seriously, after all, this plane was the treasure they had carefully designed for years.

"There's no way around it, this engine is designed with an emphasis on power output, after all, it's not easy to get a fighter jet to fly to 700 kilometers per hour. The staff member smiled embarrassedly, but still looked at the aircraft he designed proudly, and added: "The sight problem can't be improved, which is also a pity for us." ”

"In fact, the impact is not huge. At the speed of this plane, there is nothing that can hide in the lower part of my front for a long time. The pilot, apparently very optimistic about this aircraft, immediately said: "This is a rare good aircraft, and if we can equip it on a large scale, then there will be no one to be our opponent anymore." ”

As an ace pilot with 25 records, he has flown the FW-190D fighter, and has also tested the Italian production of the ME-109C foreign trade fighter, and a few days ago he also participated in the evaluation of the flight of captured British Hurricane fighters, so his words have a high reference value.

The British Hurricane is generally a slightly inferior aircraft to the German FW-190D, so even if it can cause problems for the FW-190D, it is unlikely to be as good as the new German fighter that has just entered service. The intelligence sent back by the spies was that the Americans had just been equipped with P-40 fighters a few days ago, and the performance was similar to that of the British Hurricane fighters, which made the Luftwaffe very reassuring, at least for now, that they had not been surpassed. Of course, not to mention the Soviet fighters, the I-16 improved fighter was not even as good as the British Hurricane, let alone challenged the new German fighter.

It can be said responsibly that this near-peak fighter design is not comparable to those second-rate piston fighters at this stage. Because of Accardo's covert suppression, the British Spitfire fighters are still missing, and the Soviet fighters are even more backward, so the Luftwaffe can be said to be proud, at least at this stage, there will be no real opponents.

On the other side, another pilot was complaining to the rest of the staff: "The weapon system of this plane is obviously not friendly enough for novices." The lethality of the 30 mm shaft gun with the 20 mm wing cannon is worthy of recognition, but the ammunition carried is very limited, just because of the ammunition problem, we were forced to abandon two Soviet fighters, I think if it were a novice, there would be no way to shoot down 17 Soviet planes today. ”

"If it is against an active enemy fighter, two 13 mm machine guns are enough, of course it is better if it is four. Carrying more bullets is clearly more advantageous. He pointed to the plane and said, "This plane has a larger fuel tank, so it has a longer range and a longer time to stay in the air, so if you return frequently because of the amount of ammunition, it will be worth the loss." ”

Several staff members kept nodding their heads, some jotting down the questions in their notebooks, and some were drawing something on white paper with pencils. This fighter is the latest German technology, and is the ultimate modification of the FW-190D. The aircraft was designated TA-152 internally in Germany, and the official designation of the Air Force was called the TA-152D fighter.

As early as the time when the Luftwaffe was equipped with the FW-190D fighter and began to completely replace the original ME-109A fighter, the Focke-Wolf design team began to develop a replacement for the FW-190D fighter.

Originally, this fighter was developed to increase the range of the FW-190D fighter, because the Luftwaffe was preparing for mass production of a four-engine long-range strategic bomber, which later became the butcher bomber, so a new long-range fighter that could provide long-range escort was needed.

Soon, the TA-152 fighter with an increased wingspan and engine power was taken out, and this aircraft could fly 1,100 kilometers for escort missions without carrying external fuel tanks. If this aircraft is equipped with an external auxiliary fuel tank, it can fly 2,000 kilometers to escort the butcher strategic bomber, completely solving the so-called short-leg disadvantage of the Luftwaffe.

However, then General Catherine, who was still the commander-in-chief of the Air Force at the time, believed that the new fighter should not only have the task of escorting bombers, but also be able to intercept high-altitude strategic bombers such as the Butcher. He was worried that the emergence of the Butcher strategic bomber would prompt other countries to develop such high-altitude long-range bombers to attack Germany, so he ordered that the new Luftwaffe next-generation fighter must be capable of high-altitude interception.

In response to this requirement, the TA-152 was further strengthened, replaced with more advanced engines, and the climb altitude was increased to 13,000 meters, which was 2,000 meters higher than that of the butcher bomber. In addition, a 30 mm nose cannon and a 20 mm wing cannon were installed for this fighter.

As a result, because of this "magic change" requirement, the design of this aircraft was greatly delayed, so that the butcher bomber had been mass-produced and equipped with more than 300 units, and after the bombing of London, the capital of the United Kingdom, this long-range fighter escorting the butcher bomber had just completed the design and finalization work.

The German engineers who pursued perfection not only completed the design of the fighter according to the requirements of the Luftwaffe, but also added an unimaginable feature: the engines of this aircraft can be sprayed with a special liquid MW50 by Guò, which can temporarily increase the engine power and fly at an astonishing "anti-sky" speed of 740 kilometers per hour.

After subsequent reliability tests, Accardo reluctantly ordered the start of trial production of the TA-152D, and Wolf finally got the coveted order to start producing the military's first new fighter order, 40 TA-152D fighters. However, now it seems that this fighter can indeed be said to be the crystallization of the wisdom of the German aviation industry, and it has appeared, just like the FW-190D fighter, making the fighter jets currently in service around the world obsolete.

Of the TA-152D fighters produced, 20 were sent to the Eastern Front for combat testing, 4 were sent to North Africa for special environmental adaptation tests, 10 were reserved for local air defense and deployed to the Berlin Air Defense Command, the other 2 were transported to the French coast to participate in actual combat against the United Kingdom, and the remaining 4 were handed over to the Navy to test the performance indicators of carrier-based aircraft.

Soon the results of the battle at the front were transmitted back to Berlin, and the TA-152D fighters achieved brilliant results in shooting down 19 enemy fighters, without losing a single one of them. This reminded the Luftwaffe commanders of the days when they had just been equipped with the FW-190D, and calls for mass production of the TA-152D fighter grew louder and louder.

However, the news from the Navy is not as good as that of the Air Force, because the nose is too long, the aircraft carrier take-off and landing of this aircraft is more dangerous than the FW-190D aircraft, and the Navy has no good opinion of liquid-cooled engines, they prefer to equip air-cooled engines that do not require fresh water and are more reliable.

After all, naval aviation does not have the air force's need to "intercept high-altitude bombers", so the FW-190 naval fighter that can be used and reliable is more favored by admirals, who are more concerned about the two aircraft carriers under construction No. 7 and No. 8 than the new fighters.

The staff here is constantly recording the information fed back from the battlefield, and the pilots over there are constantly putting forward their own opinions. For example, the TA-152D fighter jet has a longer wingspan and then descends on roll, and the pilots wrote in the operation manual to give the pilots a better understanding of their aircraft's performance. For example, adding hardpoints to the wings of an aircraft can be used to carry bombs to complete simple ground support missions during patrol missions.

There are all kinds of buildings, some of which are very useful and good, and some of which are built with strong personal habits of pilots, but these are meticulously recorded and sent to the weapons research and development center in Berlin