Chapter Twenty-Three: Two New Fighters and "Domestic Bomber Manufacturing"

Taiyuan, headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

In the busy production and preparations, the time came to August 8, 1941.

Today is an extremely special day, and the last decision in the Awakening Brave Tiger system, "Domestic Fighter Manufacturing", has finally been successfully unlocked.

Although the decision took half a year, the content and rewards were definitely worth the money. Not to mention the various bonuses given by the new manufacturer, the dazzling array of fighters of various models alone will make people's saliva flow.

After all, no soldier can resist the temptation to soar into the sky.

After closing the doors and windows and instructing Wang Dexing to guard the door, Huang He rubbed his hands and concentrated on opening the system in his mind.

"Let me see what's new!"

"As long as there are new fighters, the strength of the 1st Air Division will definitely be able to reach a higher level."

"After the troops are dispatched to Suiyuan, both the Mongolian Army and the Kwantung Army will have to peel off a layer of skin for me, so that you can experience the intensity of the Pacific Theater in advance."

The first type of machine that catches your eye is inevitably a close-range support machine that combines violence and visual enjoyment.

The starting model of this tech tree is a very traditional old biplane, and the design details of the whole aircraft are reminiscent of the early Hawker style.

As a well-deserved antique, the Hector bomber, which entered service in 1933, has long been abandoned by the times.

Its performance is completely insufficient on today's battlefield, and its maximum flight speed is only 300 kilometers per hour, and it will definitely become the target of the devil's army aviation when performing tasks.

The weapons are also relatively shabby, only equipped with two 7.7mm heirloom aviation machine guns, and the only bright spot is the two 50-kilogram aerial bombs mounted under the belly.

Perhaps considering that this old machine in service in 1933 was really unreachable, the Awakening Yonghu system actually opened the production right directly in a very humane way.

If you want a production line, you need to unlock the honest and practical research slot.

"Qi, outdated equipment."

"This thing is of limited use, at most it can be used as a bargaining chip for a much-needed resource in the border area."

As a loyal fan of 7+ coloring games, Huanghe naturally looks down on old-fashioned equipment that has long been outdated.

After a cursory look at Hector's basic data, he directly locked his eyes on the next stage of close support aircraft, the second of the Hawker Triwinds - the Typhoon fighter.

It was a fighter born to intercept the Fw190, but it was famous in the European theater for its effectiveness in ground attack.

When a floor licker can reach a maximum speed of 640 kilometers per hour at an altitude of two thousand meters, and a maximum speed of 660 kilometers per hour at an altitude of five thousand meters, the average fighter plane will never be able to arouse the desire to chase and drive.

The model provided by Awakening Yonghu is the modified MK.2 model, which not only improves the reliability and stability during diving, but also gives the engine more power.

The current Typhoon is equipped with four 20-mm western guns, and each gun has as many as 140 rounds of ammunition, which is longer than any fighter in service with the 1st Air Division.

There are also a variety of combinations of weapons on board, and fighters can choose between two 227-kilogram bombs or a 454-kilogram bombshell, depending on the needs of the mission.

When the troops attacked Taiyuan, if the 1st Air Force Division had such a big treasure, it would not have to go through any effort to insert aerial bombs into the wall, and a few more 1,000-pound bombs could directly blow up the city wall.

Of course, rockets, which have gradually become a tradition of our army, cannot be lost.

If you are confident in your shooting skills, you can bring eight more Red Sun rockets to the battlefield.

With such a ferocious close support aircraft, Huang He could imagine Fang Ziyi's excited face, as well as the appearance of the Mongolian army crying for his father and mother.

"I remember that the typhoon in the British was officially put into combat after May 1942."

"The Eighth Route Army was a few months ahead of them, and even ahead of the final magic version of the three models."

"It's good, and it can save a lot of money on production licenses. After all, more is better than less, and after the war, Qiu Fatzi of the province came to the door to collect debts. ”

After complaining slightly, Huang He moved his gaze to the fighter technology tree on the side.

Now that the Gladiator and Hurricane have been unlocked in the system, the next stage is our old friend Spitfire.

In the Yellow River's vision, next year, the main force of the 1st Air Division will be equipped with Spitfire and Typhoon according to their personal development direction, and rookies and new graduates will continue to fly Hurricane fighters.

Based on the production capacity of the military factories in the system and the military industrial bureaus of the border areas, the air force of the Eighth Route Army will soon enter the era of aircraft and others, and Jin Province will definitely need to open an aviation school.

The last type is the Heavy Fighter, and at the top of the tech tree is a twin-engine fighter that entered service in 1935.

Blenheim has a lot of potential for upgrades, and in addition to being used as a fighter, it can also be used as a bomber, a night fighter and an AWACS reconnaissance aircraft.

It's a pity that the Yellow River's scientific research projects are a bit biased, and no radio and radar-related technologies have been unlocked, so Blenheim can only be used as a heavy fighter and bomber.

The model provided by the Awakening Yonghu system is MK.5, which has a range of 2,300 kilometers and a maximum speed of 428 km/h.

In terms of armament, Blenheim was armed with six 7.7 mm Browning aviation machine guns. Four of them fired forward in the belly, and two were in the turrets in the upper part of the back.

With such firepower, it is absolutely enough to deal with the Type 97 fighters of the Japanese Army Aviation. When the enemy was replaced with a more advanced type of falcon, Huang He began to replace the western artillery or the 12.7 mm machine gun.

Its mounted weapons are two 227-kilogram aerial bombs, plus eight 20-kilogram melons, which can definitely give a little shock to the devils who have not seen much of the world.

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After admiring the two new fighters, Huang He turned his attention to the decision tree.

The bombing intensity of the ground licking aircraft and heavy fighters was not enough, and if you want to alleviate the phobia of insufficient firepower of the Eighth Route Army, you still have to use professional tactical and strategic bombers.

Next year, the troops will definitely attack the devils entrenched in Shandong, and as long as they take a few coastal cities, the 1st Air Force Division will have the conditions to bomb the devils' homeland.

Although there is a high probability that they will not be able to attack before Doolittle, the troops can definitely make Li Mei unemployed.

"Domestic bomber manufacturing: After mastering the manufacturing technology of single-engine aircraft, we can start to try to develop heavy multi-engine bombers and apply them to ground support missions.

Effect: Gain unlock access to all RAF bombers after 180 days.

Note: Bombers include Navy Bombers, Tactical, and Strategic Bombers, but not De Havilland Venom, Canberra Tactical Bombers, and Warrior Strategic Bombers.

In order to unlock the Jet Bomber, you will need to unlock the rest of the pre-research projects and decisions.

Enabling manufacturer: AVIC Hafei

Effect: +15% production speed for military factory bombers in the system, +10% combat radius for close support aircraft, tactical bombers, and strategic bombers."

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