In fact, Liu Fu has no interest in the Indian region at all. He no longer needs to help Germany gain a greater advantage. If Britain is hit too hard and Germany has no worries, the Soviet Union may not be able to handle it.
Without Germany's all-out attack, once the Soviet Union is finished, Britain will not be able to hold on for long. Germany, which has unified all of Europe, is something the South China Sea Federation does not want to see.
Although Mustache is very friendly to the South China Sea Federation, and Liu Fu also believes that he will probably stop the war after acquiring a large area of land in Eastern Europe, Liu Fu still has deep feelings for a leader like Mustache who is both smart and decisive.
According to the current state of the South China Sea Federation, the best outcome is Germany and the United Kingdom. No one of the three Soviet Union can defeat the other. Europe must at least become the three powerful countries of Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union coexisting in order to ensure the long-term future of the South China Sea Federation.
For a period of time, there will be no strong external enemies.
As for the United States, Liu Fu himself doesn’t know how he can defeat it, and he is not even sure whether he can win in the end. This country is too big and too difficult to deal with. With the current military strength of the Federation, it cannot be as powerful as a small country.
Beard mobilized millions of troops to push back the United States, so we have to think of other ways to deal with the United States.
There are not enough infantry to attack fortresses, and there are not enough tanks to penetrate the depths of the enemy. So what else can be done to defeat the United States? Liu Fu currently has another weapon in his hands, and that is the air force. The federal aircraft research and manufacturing department has begun batch production
Produce a long-range bomber with a longer range, larger bomb load, and better self-defense performance. In fact, this type of aircraft has already appeared in the operation to bomb cities on the West Coast of the United States. However, it is not the protagonist because the number is too small.
This new type of long-range bomber is named ab-3 and is only equipped with the Federal Air Force because the take-off and landing conditions it requires cannot be endured by naval aircraft carriers. Its wingspan is 44 meters long and the fuselage is 30 meters long.
It is 9 meters tall and has a mid-wing layout. Two large 2,500-horsepower piston air-cooled engines are installed on each side of the wings, providing the aircraft with a total thrust of 10,000 horsepower.
With strong power, the maximum speed of the ab-3 bomber can reach 633 kilometers per hour. It is even 2 kilometers faster than the af-3 fighter equipped by the federal government. Of course, this is flying at a specific altitude and no-load condition.
The ultimate speed is difficult to reach in actual use. Its cruising speed is still below 400 kilometers. However, the range has been greatly improved.
When fully loaded, the ab-3 bomber can carry 13 tons of bombs. It can fly 2,800 kilometers at medium altitudes at cruising speed and 1,900 kilometers at high altitudes. When it carries 3 tons of ammunition, it can fly at cruising speeds.
It can fly 3,700 kilometers at medium altitude and 2,500 kilometers at high altitude. Its effective combat radius is more than double that of the original ab-2 bomber.
In terms of weapons and equipment, the ab-3 has slightly reduced the number of cannons on the fuselage. It is only equipped with four 19mm cannons, which are located at the tail, back, and belly of the fuselage. The reason for the reduction is because Air Force designers believe that ab-3
-3 can currently use its high speed to break through the interception of fighter jets, so it does not need so many defensive weapons for the time being. After the speed of local fighter jets increases, the existing ab-3 can also be modified to increase the number of its own defense weapons.
, anyway those weapon positions are reserved.
In addition, due to the use of hydraulic and electric remote control, the four cannons only require 2 gunners to operate, and the crew is reduced by 2 people compared to the original ab-2 bomber, only 7 people are needed, and there are organic
Captain, co-pilot, navigator and communications officer, radar operator, 2 gunners and mechanics, and bombardier.
With more powerful engines, not only new bombers can be designed, but new fighters and attack aircraft will also follow. Like the af-4sf-4 fighters of the air force and navy, abt-4sbt-4 attack aircraft, etc., most of them are
A more powerful engine was installed on the original fuselage, and the aerodynamic shape was slightly adjusted. Except for a slight increase in speed and range, there were no major changes.
In addition to the Air Force and Navy getting new types of equipment that can be replaced one after another, the Federal Army, which has always been at the bottom of the three services, can finally get its own new equipment like the Air Force and Navy. The Army's equipment mainly includes two types, one
It is an individual anti-tank weapon and the other is an artillery support weapon.
Let's talk about the individual anti-tank weapon first. Its name is "Crossbow", which is actually a rocket launcher in later generations. It is also called RPG internationally. In later movies and TV shows, this kind of weapon is carried on the shoulder by a person like a small cannon.
This thing can be called an artifact of a poor country, because if used properly, it can be used to fight airplanes, tanks, and fortresses. It is easy to carry, has strong attack power, is easy to maintain, and is cheap to build. Anyway, except that it cannot automatically track, it is covered all over the body.
advantage.
The reason why the weapon organization of the South China Sea Federal Army developed this thing was mainly due to the guidance of Liu Fu. Liu Fu believed that in this era when tanks are becoming more and more popular, it is not enough to rely on tanks to fight against tanks.
It is not enough to use guns for anti-tank, because these equipment are heavy equipment, which not only requires high manufacturing precision, but is also very expensive and cannot be distributed to every soldier, or even equipped with all federal army units.
At this time, an anti-tank weapon that can be carried by soldiers is needed to make up for the dilemma that ordinary army infantry units cannot fight or escape after encountering enemy armored units. Therefore, Liu Fu suggested that the federal government
The Army Weapons Research Department will develop this aspect to see if it can make a breakthrough.
In fact, during World War I, an individual anti-tank weapon appeared. The anti-tank gun is also called a combat anti-tank gun. It is actually a special high-power rifle, coupled with special armor-piercing bullets, used to deal with armor.
Relatively thin tanks and armored vehicles. But this kind of gun will soon be unable to keep up with the growth rate of tank armor. The development of tank engines is far faster than the development of human shoulders to withstand the recoil, so in anti-tank warfare, this gun
The gun is increasingly unable to hit its target.
Originally, the federal army's weapons research department also planned to start with anti-tank guns to see if they could design a better and sharper model, but Liu Fu suggested that they take another path and no longer worry about larger caliber and stronger recoil.
Instead of low-cost gun weapons, think about whether the cannonballs can be propelled by gunpowder like the flying monkeys released during the Chinese New Year, which would have both speed and strong recoil.
For the federal weapons research and development department at the time, this requirement was not difficult. They quickly developed something similar to a large rifle grenade, using a steel pipe as the launch tube and propellant to launch a modified grenade.
The 40mm hollow-point armor-piercing projectile can vertically penetrate a 150mm thick homogeneous steel plate at a distance of 50 meters.
However, the accuracy of direct fire of this crude equipment is very poor, and it cannot even guarantee to hit a tank within 30 meters. It can only be more reliable by using a drop-fire method like a mortar. For this reason, the Army Weapons Research Department specially found
went to the Air Force Research Institute, and with their help, designed a missile with a more
It is longer, has better aerodynamic performance, and is equipped with a new warhead with 4 folding tail fins. In this way, the performance of this large rifle grenade has been stabilized, and a simple ruler can be used to accurately hit a tank within 70 meters.
Or an object the size of an armored vehicle, and can penetrate 150 mm of armor vertically.
Just when the Army Research Department was excitedly preparing to finalize this weapon and mass-produce it, Liu Fu stopped the upcoming large-scale production and equipment after watching the demonstration shooting. In Liu Fu's view, this weapon
There was no rush to equip the troops, because the European War had not yet begun, and the federal troops did not have the task of large-scale confrontation with enemy armored groups, so there was no need to equip this new weapon. More importantly, Liu Fu believed that its performance should be greater.
Amplitude increased.
The anti-tank weapon that was finally produced was rejected by his own president. The army research department was not happy. The army did not want the navy and air force to replace new equipment as often as the navy and air force. Now they have new equipment, and the performance is not bad.
Even the Army Armored Division soldiers who tried it liked it very much, but the president rejected it on the grounds that the performance could be greatly improved (To be continued...)
