The revolutionary army lacked professional aerial bombs, which was also caused by Wen Desi's thinking blind spots, and Wen Desi never thought of using airships to drop bombs, because he felt that only airplanes could do this well.

However, not long ago, when the airship brigade was transporting supplies to Zhao Erfeng, the pilots were now entrenched in a dangerous high ground with a group of Tibetan rebels, and the old Zhao could not attack it for a long time, so he couldn't help but participate in the battle.

The pilot just threw two grenades down, killing 3 people, and the rebels fell to their knees. It's literally "kneeling". The group of defenders was so frightened by the airship that their morale was cleared and they completely lost their will to fight, and Lao Zhao's troops easily went up to capture the prisoners. This kind of thing happened a few times later, and the effect was all good, as soon as the airship appeared in the sight of the rebels, their morale began to drop wildly, and if there were a few more grenades, it would be basically difficult not to collapse. This is also the reason why Zhao Erfeng's progress is so fast.

At this time, Mr. Wen and his cyborg experts realized that they had underestimated the role of the airship, the actual damage caused by this thing was not large, but the effect of destroying the morale of the enemy army was amazing, completely exceeding the estimation of Wen Desi and others.

At this time, they thought of equipping the airship with professional aerial bombs, although the drawings of the bombs were ready-made, but they also needed to design and build a new production line to manufacture the required molds. This work cannot be completed in a short period of time, and at least this campaign to liberate the southwest will not be able to catch up.

Now there are 3 types of bombs used by the Air Force, all of which are modified with mortar shells, which are called: 1oomm bombs (8. 5 kg), 12omm bombs (16. 5 kg), 16omm bomb (42 kg). The procedure for transformation is very simple: remove and seal the bump fuse originally installed in the head of the shell, remove the projectile and primer in the tail, and put in the impact fuse and fan safety for the aerial bomb. (The fuse of the iron bomb is also head-mounted.) ）

"What's more, our current airships were originally used for transportation, and we didn't consider adding weapons. Therefore, the strength of the skeleton is insufficient, and although temporary reinforcement has been carried out, it is only better than nothing, and at most it can only be equipped with a 75mm gun. Xie Zhangtai continued: "...... We want to design professional combat airships, and the hull structure must be able to withstand the recoil of large-caliber guns, that is the real air warship, and now it can only be regarded as an armed merchant ship. ”

"We in China must form the world's largest air fleet, the largest air battleship must be loaded with at least 3oo mm cannons, and the air cruisers must have 15o mm cannons......" Xie Zhangtai said more and more excited, and he had already started the air fleet in his mind.

"The air warships of each base rushed to the battlefield from all directions to assemble, covering the sky and the sun, lined up a battle line of up to 2o kilometers at an altitude of 5ooo meters, and then ten thousand cannons, ribbon-like ballistics criss-crossed, bright red fireworks reflected half of the sky, and the destroyed enemy airships fell like meteors...... "Lin Shenhe also began to think of a spectacular scene.

Just when these two "airship controllers" were working hard, someone interjected very indifferently: "Deputy Commander Lin, Chief Engineer Xie, your idea is not right! Airships have inherent limitations, and it is impossible to become an air battleship as you think!"

Lin Shenhe and Xie Jintai, who were interrupted from doing good things, turned their heads unhappily, but it was their old opponent, Major Li Mishi, another deputy commander of the Revolutionary Army Air Force, a ridiculous and stupid "aircraft party" person, and the head of the aircraft unit!

"Yo, Comrade Li Mishi. What do you think? Airships can't do it, can you do it with those toys?" Lin Shenhe raised his chin and mocked in a weird manner. He pointed to the airship behind him, and then to a row of planes parked not far away, the two types of flying machines that looked like the difference between an elephant and a rabbit.

Xie Jintai said in a dissatisfied tone: "Deputy Commander Li, the actual operation in the past few years and the actual combat in these days have proved that the airship is the most effective flying machine!"

Li Mishi said without flinching: "I think the airship is a good means of transport, but it is not suitable for participating in front-line battles at all, and at most it can be bombed." Oh, and there's scouting, patrolling, and vigilance. ”

"What's your toy these days? Our airships are firing in the sky, and your planes are only hand-guns. Hahaha......" Lin Shenhe smiled.

This is not bad, now the planes of the Air Force are not equipped with weapons, except for throwing bombs, they can only pull out pistols and attack the enemy. It's not that Mr. Wen doesn't want to install machine guns on the plane, the shooting coordinator is a matter of thinking direction, and there is no technical difficulty at all. He just thinks that there is no heavenly opponent at the moment, and that he can use machine guns to make hair, or to shoot birds? As for attacking ground targets, it is enough to use bombs.

Within a few battles of the Air Force, the pilots of the airplanes were very happy when they saw their fellow airships dropping bombs and firing artillery. The envy, jealousy and hatred in my heart strongly demanded to install machine guns on the plane, but by this time it was already too late. The shooting coordinator is no longer technical, it does not mean that there is one, and the entire aircraft has to be modified. In an aircraft without a firing coordinator, it is more difficult to mount a machine gun, either with the propeller in the rear or the machine gun in the rear. Not to mention the loading wings, the wings of the airplanes of this era were made of canvas and wood, and they were very fragile.

Old Li Mishi's face turned red and he argued: "The chairman said that our current planes are only training planes, and there will be professional fighters and bombers in the future. When our fighters come out, the airship will be the target. Airships have a natural disadvantage in degree and maneuverability, which cannot be overcome. The plane circles around you a few times, and you can't turn around. The biggest drawback is from above, as long as we rush down from above to attack, not only will the airship not be able to fight back, but it will not even be able to appear, hahahaha......"

"Ahem, Deputy Commander Lai. Of course, airships have inherent shortcomings, but airplanes don't have them? The carrying capacity of airplanes is absolutely incomparable to that of airships, which means that they cannot be equipped with large weapons. Don't forget that the airship we are using now is only a modified transport airship. You say that it is difficult for airships to appear and attack targets in the upper hemisphere, this is also only a transport airship, and a real combat airship will of course have turrets and observation cabins above and on the sides. Xie Jintai immediately refuted it from a technical point of view, and took out a notebook and a ballpoint pen and immediately drew a sketch of a combat airship.

Chief Engineer Xie's painting skills are very skilled, and the famous comic "Current Situation Map" is his masterpiece. Now the combat airship he painted is full of sci-fi style, with 3 turrets above and on both sides of the hull, and turrets directly in front and rear, which really don't seem to have any dead ends. It looks even more fierce than Kirov.

When he saw this painting, Li Mishi's face suddenly turned pale, and he couldn't answer for a while. Seeing that his old opponent was deflated, Chief Engineer Xie was secretly refreshed, so he said very angrily: "Deputy Commander Li, how can there be a weapon in the world that can fight a single qiē? Although airships and planes have different purposes, they are all part of the air force, just as the navy has a distinction between battleships, cruisers, and destroyers. For our Air Force, airships are battleships, cruisers, and airplanes are destroyers, and neither can be missing......"

"Hmph, the Air Force and the Navy are different, what the Air Force wants is a degree, and the Air Force without a degree is nothing......" Li Mishi said stubbornly, then turned around and left.

In fact, don't look at his toughness, in fact, he is not very bottomed in his heart. Although he was very confident in the aircraft, he never dared to think of replacing the position of the airship. In fact, he just wants to get more share of the aircraft, not like more than 95% of the resources are now tilted to the airship.

Lin Shenhe stretched out his thumb and laughed: "Comrade Chief Engineer, it's still up to you! Hahahaha......"

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Base canteen.

The crew and crew members who are about to leave are having a meal, and of course they don't know about the disputes of several bigwigs.

Zhang Yang swallowed a mouthful of black pepper steak, then looked at the six dishes and one soup in front of him, and said in an envious tone: "Huh, the food of your air force is really good! Our 6th Army is really pitiful." If my son wants to become a soldier in the future, I must make him an air force!" Zhang Yang is a heavy machine gun shooter who was seconded from the 6th Army last month and is currently the machine gun shooter of the No. 6 armed airship.

On the first day, he thought it was a reception banquet, and it was normal to eat well, but then it was a feast like this every day. There is also a special airship responsible for transporting fresh vegetables, fruits, chickens, ducks and fish. But this simple young man can be thundered very lightly, Nima, is your air force here to enjoy happiness or to fight?

For example, the recipe for today's lunch meal is: black pepper steak, Peking duck in the oven, roasted catfish with garlic, braised winter melon with golden hook, sweet and sour lotus white, stir-fried spinach, mushroom bone broth, and dessert after dinner, a plate of pumpkin pie, and finally fruit, an apple. It is said that Deputy Commander Lin came up with the idea of eating apples before attacking, and this has become a tradition that has always been maintained by the Air Force of the Republic in the future.

The captain of the boat team next to him picked up a slice of roast duck, dipped it in the sweet noodle sauce, sandwiched it in the dough and took a bite, and smiled at Zhang Yang: "This is an air crew meal, and the ground crew is similar to your 6th Army." How about it, why don't you apply to our Air Force, so that you can eat this often......"

"We can't help but be righteous, uh, it depends on what the superiors mean......" Zhang Yang was a little shaken in his heart, he wanted to enjoy food often, but he also felt a little ashamed of his comrades in the 6th Army by doing so.

Of course, he did not know that it was impossible for the superiors of the 6th Army to agree to this request, even if the commander of the Air Force personally asked for it. What are you kidding? Heavy machine gun shooters are a technical branch, and our Sixth Army is not enough, and if it were not for General Wen's personal order this time, it would not have been possible to even be seconded! If your air force wants it, train it yourself!

At this time, the radio in the hall sounded: "Attention all commanders and fighters who are dining! Attention to all commanders and fighters who are eating! The time of sortie is advanced to half past one in the afternoon! The time of sortie is advanced to half past one in the afternoon!"

The team leader looked at his watch and said, "Ah, it's early! It looks like the front line needs support, and it's half past twelve." Let's hurry up, let's go back and prepare after eating!"

Everyone immediately sped up their meal, and swept the plates in front of them.

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