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The unprecedented scale of the Paris air battle between Germany, Britain and France did not puncture the big hole of China's fabricated "airship winning theory", but made the major powers more and more recognize the role of airships. Everyone felt that this kind of weapon, which played a mainstay role in air combat, could not be compared with a fragile aircraft.

Even if they were the losers of this air battle, Britain and France were no exception, they did not think that this air battle was an airship, but that the planes were too scum to play a covering role. It's as if before the main forces of the two fleets collide with each other, the light ships of one side are defeated miserably, and the formation is disrupted by the lightning strikes of the destroyers of the other side, so of course the battle cannot be won.

But they can't be mistaken, and so is the course of this battle. After the British and French planes were defeated, they became pure airship troops in the face of a joint attack by German airships and planes, so it was strange that they would not lose the battle.

Therefore, after this war, all countries have become more enthusiastic about the "air cruisers" such as airships, especially giant armed airships, and their strength is no less than that of capital ships. In addition, the investment in aircraft, an "auxiliary" weapon for air combat, has also been greatly strengthened.

China, as a leader in air combat theory and aviation technology, will naturally not sit and wait for the opponent to catch up, and in recent years, more and more large airships and giant airships have appeared in the skies over China's big 6. Although the airship has various disadvantages, such as being easily affected by the weather, easy to be damaged when the wind is strong, etc., but in the actual use process, Wen Deji still thinks that the value of the airship is quite large. Because of China's special national conditions, the more Wen Desi used it, the more he felt that the airship was easy to use, so he continued to invest in the exhibition, and the airship was built more and more, and the airship became bigger and bigger. Up to now, China's armed forces and various government departments, enterprises and institutions have owned more than 33o large airships.

According to China's classification standard, the effective load of one ton refers to the effective load under the standard conditions of 156 meters above sea level and temperature of 15 degrees Celsius). those with a payload of less than 6 tons are small airships; With a payload of 6--o tons, it is a medium-sized airship; 3-/o tons, is a large airship. With a payload of 8~15o tons, it is a giant airship. With a payload of more than 15o tons, it is a giant airship.

China's largest airship is the Xiangjing class, which is a semi-rigid airship, 2o meters long, 6 meters wide, 55 meters high (including tail and pod), with 30,000 cubic meters of airbags, empty weight of 1oo tons, the total buoyancy provided by the airbags reaches 3o tons, and the available effective carrying capacity reaches O tons of giant airships.

Half the size of the unfortunate Hindenburg on the original plane. However, this airship, known as the Whale class, was not as fast as the later Hindenburg, because the engine output at this time was not enough, so it was only 1oo kilometers away, but this was enough.

This whale-class airship was originally built to the standard of a military transport airship, and it is a semi-rigid airship, which is lighter than the rigid airship of the Hindenburg type, and does not have luxurious interior decoration and various functional facilities like the Hindenburg, so the cargo space and load capacity are larger than those of the same class of hard airships. If it is used to carry people, one can carry up to one standard infantry battalion of infantry and its equipment at a time, about 3o heavily armed soldiers.

However, the luxury passenger version of the Xiangjing class that appeared later also has a variety of luxurious interior decoration and various functional facilities, so the payload is reduced to 18o tons, which can carry 8o passengers for a transoceanic flight.

The reason why Wen Deji thinks that the airship is easy to use is mainly because the domestic railway foundation is too poor. If it is a place with a dense railway network like Europe, it is better to use railways for large volumes, and if you require fast and small volumes, you can use airplanes, but at this time, the transport planes are not much faster than airships, the range is much shorter, and the load capacity is not comparable. The situation in China leaves him with no choice, the density of the railway network is insufficient, the capacity and range of aircraft are insufficient, and the cost is high. Therefore, Wen Desi felt that for China in this era, there was really no better means of transportation than airships.

For example, for example, the material consumption of the two units currently deployed in southern Tibet is estimated to be about tons per day in peacetime, 2o tons in a month, and about 3o tons in wartime. From the starting point of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in Ya'an to the location of the troops in southern Tibet, the highway mileage is about 21oo kilometers, with the current 6-ton truck running this road on average only about 3 kilometers, a total of 6 hours of driving, assuming that it takes 6 days to run 2 hours a day, counting loading and unloading, overhaul and maintenance, it takes 2 days to run a round trip, and a car can only run two times a month. 2o tons of supplies would require at least 2 trucks, 144 drivers, and multiple supply points in between.

And if you change to an airship, it's very different. Because the air route is basically a straight line, the straight-line distance from Ya'an to southern Tibet is only about 1o6 kilometers, and the Kunpeng class only needs to fly for 1o hours, which is used to load and unload goods at night and fly during the day, and it only takes two days to go back and forth. When flying at an altitude of 66 meters, the Kunpeng class has a payload of 2o tons of cargo (it can reach 2o tons at low altitudes below 6o meters). Therefore, as long as you use an airship and 6 crew members, you can run six times a month, and the volume has the potential to be increased (the aforementioned missions can be dispatched 15 times a month, and the limit volume is 186 tons). Unless the railway from the mainland to southern Tibet is completed, there is really nothing else that can compete with the airship.

Some people may think that hydrogen airships are unsafe, but in reality hydrogen airships are not as dangerous as they think.

For example, the "Count Zeppelin" airship, in the B year from 192 to 1937, made 59o flights, including 144 transoceanic flights (14 flights across the Atlantic Ocean and 1 flight over the Pacific Ocean), totaling 17o thousand kilometers, safely transporting more than 34,000 passengers until the last flight was completed on June B, 1937. Shortly after the Hindenburg airship tragedy on June 6, 1937, all airships ceased commercial flight. Since then, the "Count Zeppelin" has been silently imprisoned in the huge airship hangar, and has never returned to the blue sky. In October 194o, by order of the then Luftwaffe Field Marshal Goering, the "Count Zeppelin" was dismantled, and the aluminum that formed its hull frame was diverted to aircraft production.

In fact, Wen Desi has always felt that the Hindenburg tragedy completely stopped the airship in his life, and if there was no inside story, it was the brains of those in power who were in water. Because this is a completely stupid act of choking, completely illogical. As long as we think about it carefully, we will know that the Titanic was also killed, but why did we not completely stop the operation of passenger ships? There were so many air disasters and so many car accidents in later generations, why did we not completely stop planes and vehicles? The number of people who died in these disasters was many times more than the number of people who died in airship crashes.

Wen Desi believes that even if there is no insider in this matter, the Hindenburg is just relatively unlucky, after all, the "Count Zeppelin" airship has been operating safely for B years. And even if the Hindenburg crashed in the air at 1oo meters, only 3 of the 3 people on board died, but if it was replaced by an airplane, 1o people would be thankful that they could survive.

It's a shame not to make good use of such a strong capacity. Of course, Wen Desi also tried his best to improve the operating environment and safety performance of the airship. For example, the airship was greatly affected by the climate, so he asked people to set up weather stations all over the country, and reported the weather to the Central Meteorological Bureau every day by telegram to make weather predictions. In addition, the climatic conditions in the 6th place, especially in the northwest, are much more stable than those along the coast, so the main use of airships is placed here. However, the airplanes of this era will be stormy, and their appearance will not be much better than airships.

As for safety, Chinese designers have strengthened fire prevention measures as much as possible, such as adding asbestos cloth to the material of airbags, applying fireproof paint to structural supports, and installing automatic fire extinguishers. In view of the shortcomings of the hard airship that are easy to be blown by strong winds and destroy the shell, this configuration has been eliminated since the previous year, and it has been fully converted to semi-hard airships and soft airships.

The other is to use the hydrogen airship to transport goods and not people, so that even if the character is really bad and explodes, there will not be too many worries about human life. The people who run the passenger are helium airships, and their safety is of course not to mention, absolutely more than the plane. Because even if something happens to the helium airship, as long as the airbag is not damaged by more than half, it will slowly descend. And once the plane has an accident, you know......

One more advantage that Wen Deji can't give up is that these giant airships have a great morale-boosting effect on the people. It also has a great deterrent and reassuring effect on the people of the new territories, and they are in awe of the astonishing size and oppression of the giant airship flying over their heads.

Presidential palace.

"It's really inconvenient to have no satellites, we only have six unmanned mineral surveyors, and their maximum height is only 10,000 meters, which is simply not enough to monitor the world," said Wendesi. "How far has our launch vehicle program progressed?"

Gu Xiaolu flipped through the computer in his palm and said: "The latest achievement of the 33o1 Arrow Research Institute is to hit the rocket to an altitude of 2o kilometers with a load of 2o kilograms

"The low orbit used by the satellite is 4oo kilometers high, which is too much difference, even if it is a spy satellite, it is also a little lower......" Wen Desi knocked on the table and said: "Let them continue to refuel, and strive to achieve an altitude of 16o kilometers and a payload of 4oo kilograms next year, because according to the 34 Institute (Satellite Research Institute), with the current level of technology, to make a spy satellite with satisfactory functions, 4oo kilograms is the lower limit." ”

Satellites are so useful that China's launch vehicle program began in February 1911. With the technology and information that China now has, there is nothing difficult about small rockets, such as rockets, but only the cost. The most difficult thing is the large launch vehicle, although this kind of thing was not high-tech in the 2nd century, and all kinds of materials are complete, but with the current technology, it cannot be realized in a short time.

In the era when Wende came, except for some special occasions, launch vehicles, which were extremely cost-effective, were rarely used. In addition to anti-gravity devices, there is also a "mass projector" that is more commonly used when carrying out extra-atmospheric transportation. The technology tree of such a thing as an anti-gravity device is too high, and it is estimated that it will not be able to climb without it for 180 years. That is, in addition to the launch vehicle, only the "mass projector" is more realistic. The so-called "mass projector" is similar in principle to an electromagnetic gun, but instead of shells, it shoots satellites, spaceships, and so on. Of course, it can't be built now, but like the rocket project, it has begun to engage in pre-research. Although it will not be possible to do it in the short term, the research of this project will extend to many useful by-products, such as electromagnetic guns, guides, energy, materials, etc.

As a traverser, in addition to rockets and satellites, another important national defense black technology -- nuclear weapons, Wen Desi is of course even more unlikely to forget this weapon of mass destruction

Since 19o9, Xingke Group has been born by itself or through various vest companies, in Australia, Canada, South Africa, Niger, Malawi (Nyasaland) and other places to acquire uranium ore production areas, but only occupy the land, not immediately. In 191o, after the opening of the Longhai Railway, Wen Desi ordered the construction of huge ore warehouses in several uninhabited and desolate places in the northwest.

In 1911, China began to hoard uranium ore through various channels. Since this year, China has purchased large quantities of uranium ore from the United States, Russia, South Africa, Australia, Canada and other places every year, and stockpiled them in the country. The price of uranium ore in this era was very cheap, averaging only $26 per tonne ($6 per tonne of iron ore in the same period). Because he didn't want the uranium miners to do the refining process, he just asked them to dig up the ore, break it up, sift it up and ship it to China. In Wendesi's plan, the process of making and refining yellowcakes should be completed in China to ensure that the technology will not leak out. In addition, it is also possible to cultivate domestic refining processes by the way.

It is because of this that those uranium ores are sold so cheaply. The local governments, mine owners, and workers didn't know what it was for, and except for some scientists, who occasionally came to buy a few tons, no one wanted it at all, and no one picked it up when it was thrown on the ground, so it was naturally very cheap. Moreover, when Mr. Wen was purchasing, he only asked them to carry out a simple beneficiation after crushing and then delivering the ore, which was really convenient, so he did not raise the price in particular. In addition, the price of something that is more difficult to mine, such as bituminous uranium ore, cannot be lowered, so he did not buy it, and saved it until he bought other crystalline uranium ore. Even if it is not bought and left to European and American countries, it can also increase their procurement costs.

At the same time, Wen Desi asked the miners in the United States, Russia, Australia, South Africa, Canada and other places to expand production, hoping to reach 1o thousand tons per year. Although the mine owners didn't know what this thing was for, since some people were willing to pay for it, they were naturally happy to do it, so who would be afraid of the money? As for the two important producing areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Wendesi did not touch them, because he had already counted these two places as his own.

The natural abundance of uranium ore is O2% on average, so an average of 2 tons of pure uranium can be obtained per 10,000 tons. Spend $1oo dollars a year to buy 4o tons (of course, whether it can be realized is another matter), and there will be 4oo tons of uranium ore in 1o years of accumulation, which is 260,000 tons of uranium. Not to mention building an atomic bomb, it is worth a lot of money just to use it as electric fuel. Although it cannot be completely monopolized, if you work hard, you still have a chance to loot most of the world's uranium mines.

Later generations were well aware of the value of uranium ore, whether it was the dollar, the Chinese dollar, or any dollar, all currencies would depreciate, and even gold depreciated in the 2nd century. But as long as an atomic bomb and a nuclear power plant are built, uranium will never depreciate. In the 21st century, the price of this thing has soared, and it has long been more expensive than gold

As we all know, China is an oil-poor country and a uranium-depleted country, and the little uranium ore produced by the country is only enough to make a small bit of mass destruction, and even nuclear power plants cannot be opened. Internationally, people are stuck, and uranium ore is speculated to be expensive, which is a very depressing thing. If you don't take advantage of the fact that everyone doesn't understand this thing, so the price is cheap, you will regret it later.

In addition, when Wen Desi operated uranium mines, like other minerals, whether it was mining or purchasing, most of them were carried out through foreign vest companies. In this era, there was no such careful logistics monitoring method as in later generations, as long as multiple vest companies were handed down a few more times, even the gods did not know where these ores ended up. Besides, at this time, there is no country to go back and pay attention to the flow of uranium ore.

So far, he has scavenged nearly 20,000 tons of uranium ore from all over the world, all of which are stored in uranium warehouses in the northwest desert. You ask Mr. Wen why he wants to monopolize the world's uranium mines? Well, of course, this is for the sake of the peace and happiness of mankind in the world, so that they can avoid the shadow of nuclear war. Such a great and noble thing can only be done by a person like Mr. Wen.

"Let me tell those vest companies that the mining of uranium ore will continue to expand, and several special uranium transport ships will be put into use in the second half of the year, which is also for the great cause of world peace......," Wen Deji said with a smile.

"Yes, I'll arrange ...... right away," Gu Xiaolu couldn't help but smile and recorded these orders.

At this time, Gu Xiaoqing knocked on the door and came in, and she said to Wen Desi: "Mr. Wen, the German ambassador to China, Hausen, has asked to meet with you......"

"Hausen? What is he prepared for? Judging from the current situation, Germany has a big advantage...... "Wendesi was a little surprised.

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