Of course, the leaders of the Eighth Route Army were very happy, because they could see that the Allied representatives liked the Hippo helicopter very much, and indeed such an advanced helicopter, I am afraid that no one would not like it.

After the success of the first flight of the Hippo helicopter, a major event was finally decided, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army decided to build its own navy, which is a very grand plan, and it is not easy to create a navy, because the navy is the most money-burning.

Of course, the Eighth Route Army is not bad for money now, but it doesn't have its own ships yet, so Duan Peng suggested that the Eighth Route Army can build ten gunboats first, because the cost of this thing is relatively low, and two or three hundred tons of gunboats can also play a great role in the coastal waters.

So in the end, the leaders of the Eighth Route Army studied and decided, and they came according to Duan Peng's suggestion, and now Duan Peng is the hope of the Eighth Route Army, because he patted his chest and said that the design and construction of the first ship of the Eighth Route Army Navy was on him.

Of course, Duan Peng had this confidence, because he had received help from the system, so it was not trivial to design and build a gunboat of two or three hundred tons

Now the Eighth Route Army has also been given the shipyard left by Xiaori, and now after transformation, it has the ability to build warships of less than 1,000 tons.

So during this time, Duan Peng designed the overall plan of the first gunboat of the Eighth Route Army, this thing is called the Mustang class gunboat, this time Duan Peng can use the most avant-garde configuration, that is, the wave-piercing catamaran, this type of boat has many advantages, such as its stability and seakeeping, which is very good, two or three hundred tons of catamarans, which is equivalent to the stability and seakeeping of a conventional thousand-ton ship.

Moreover, the configuration of the twin hull can make the space on the boat much larger than that of a single gunboat!

The main gun uses a 76 mm rapid-fire naval gun, although it seems that the caliber is not large, and it is small compared with the main guns of those giant ships in World War II, but its power is still not small.

Indeed, the Second World War was the era of cannon giants, and the warships of this period were very terrible, especially the cruisers and battleships, which were carrying huge naval guns.

The battleship Yamato, like the small day, was equipped with eight 460-mm main guns, and even twelve secondary guns, all of which were 155-mm caliber.

This giant ship is indeed large enough, its displacement is as high as more than 60,000 tons, which is equivalent to the displacement of a medium-sized aircraft carrier after the war, its speed is also as high as 31 knots, and its endurance is more than 8,000 nautical miles.

Of course, the life of this kind of cannon is actually relatively short, only 200 to 300 rounds.

Now the main force of the Navy is the battleship Yamato, of course, this guy is not a Mustang class gunboat, it must be fighters and bombers of the Air Force to do it.

Because the protection of the battleship Yamato is also super, its hull weighs 20,000 tons, the armor plates together are more than 20,000 tons, and the weapon system is more than 10,000 tons, and it can also carry ten large torpedoes.

The battleship Yamato was steam-powered, with a total power of 150,000 horsepower.

After Duan Peng designed the overall plan, he took it to the headquarters to participate in the project establishment meeting of the Mustang-class gunboat.

A leader of the Eighth Route Army presided over the project approval meeting today, and he said happily: "Comrades, today is the most important day for our Eighth Route Army, because we are about to build our navy, and we are going to set up a project today to design and build the first type of ship of the navy, which is the Mustang-class gunboat. So I think this will also open a new era, an event that will go down in history, let's be proud of it! ”

The applause was very warm, and everyone knew that the creation of the navy this time was indeed a huge breakthrough, and in this way, the Eighth Route Army would have all three armed forces: the navy, the army, and the air force.

Of course, the Eighth Route Army does have this condition now, because the base area of the Eighth Route Army has reached more than 1.2 million square kilometers, and there is still enough money, and now the Allies are still ordering a large number of weapons and equipment produced by the Eighth Route Army Arsenal, and the money will continue to come.

Therefore, it became possible to create a navy, and the plan for the creation of the navy this time was first to build a fleet of gunboats, which is expected to be equipped with ten Mustang-class gunboats with a number of 3,000 people.

It's not much, but it's a lot of creation.

The most important thing now is to build the Mustang class gunboats, otherwise there will be no way to call the navy without a ship.

The speeches of the leaders were very inspiring, but the next thing that attracted the most attention was Duan Peng's introduction of the overall design plan of the Mustang-class gunboat.

Duan Peng walked to the stage and opened the design drawings, at this time, everyone saw that a catamaran gunboat with a unique appearance that everyone had never seen before, this was also too different, after all, no one had seen the catamaran at this time, and they had not even heard of it.

Duan Peng smiled and said: "Leaders, comrades, this is our Mustang class gunboat design plan, it adopts a new boat type, that is, the wave-piercing catamaran type, what are the benefits of this structure?" It can be faster, and at the same time the deck space will be larger, with a displacement of three hundred tons, its stability and seakeeping are equivalent to those of a thousand-ton frigate. Its main armament was a 76 mm rapid-fire gun, two 20 mm Gatling guns, and four 14.5 mm machine guns, in addition to carrying six torpedoes. Although it seems that its firepower is a bit weak, there is only one naval gun, like the Tacoma-class escort gunboats in the United States, which have three 76-mm naval guns, two 40-mm naval guns, and nine 20-mm guns. However, our 76-mm rapid-fire gun, its rate of fire is fast, the firing range is long, one gun is faster than the three 76-mm gunboats of the United States, and the firing range is even more than 15 kilometers, not only can be used to hit the enemy's ships, but also to fight aircraft! ”

Can this still jerk off? Everyone thought it was amazing, of course, there were two Gatling guns on the boat, and they could also fight planes, but their range was much shorter, and the medium and long range still relied on the main guns.

The rate of fire of the 76-mm gun was as high as 80 rounds per minute, while the Gath gun was 3,000 rounds per minute.

The main gun can carry 200 shells, which is not bad for sustained firepower.

The Mustang class gunboat, with a displacement of only 300 tons, is very flexible, the power system uses advanced diesel engines, two diesel engines drive two sets of propellers, a single power of 5,000 horsepower, a total power of 10,000 horsepower, so its speed can reach 40 knots.

This is very fast, you must know that the average warship is about 30 knots.