Wang Xuexin attached great importance to Androvich's suggestion.
Chen Songyong even didn't understand this. He asked Wang Xuexin: "Commander, we have new air-to-air missiles that can easily seize air supremacy. By then, won't it be enough to just use fighter planes to protect the tanks on the battlefield?"
Wang Xuexin just asked back: "Have you forgotten that the Japanese BF109 is faster than our army's 'La 5'?"
When Wang Xuexin said this, Chen Songyong became silent.
The fact that the BF109 is faster than the "Pull 5" means that it is almost impossible for the "Pull 5" to effectively intercept it.
"La 5" has air-to-air missiles that can indeed shoot down BF109 from a long distance and maintain an advantage in air combat. However, if the BF109's target is not "Pull 5", that is, it will not get close to "Pull 5" at all, then "Pull 5" will
Can air-to-air missiles still function normally?
It is not difficult to imagine that on the battlefield, the BF109 can ignore the "Pull 5" and instead use its speed advantage to get rid of the "Pull 5" and then swoop to attack the Eighth Route Army tanks on the ground. By then, the Eighth Route Army tank will be a T44 or a "Sherman".
, or the newly arrived T34 will become a living target of the Japanese BF109.
In response to this problem, Wang Xuexin immediately contacted Li Yunlong instead of the research institute.
Because the Eighth Route Army actually already has equipment to deal with "tank can openers", which is a transistor-based air defense system.
As long as the air defense system moves forward with the tank, even the BF109 will be helpless against the tank.
But later Wang Xuexin realized that this was just his wishful thinking.
"Captain Li!" Wang Xuexin asked Li Yunlong on the phone: "How many transistor air defense systems do we have in Chifeng?"
Li Yunlong was stunned for a moment, and then turned his attention to Zhao Gang.
Li Yunlong has always been in command of the ground troops, leaving all air defense matters to Zhao Gang.
Zhao Gang quickly took out a piece of information and said: "There is only one transistor air defense system, and there is another electronic tube air defense system with one hundred and thirty-seven anti-aircraft missiles!"
Wang Xuexin frowned and said: "I will add two sets of transistor air defense systems to you. During the training of the tank battalion, pay attention to the coordination with the air defense system!"
"Coordination with the air defense system?" Li Yunlong was surprised when he heard this, and then he understood after thinking about it: "Xiao Dongbei, what do you mean...it's possible for the Japanese to use aircraft to deal with our tanks?"
"Yes!"
"What kind of aircraft cannot our aviation fleet deal with?" Li Yunlong asked again.
"I will send you a detailed report later." Wang Xuexin said: "You can make a targeted training plan based on the data in this report!"
"Yes!" Li Yunlong responded.
After Li Yunlong put down the phone, he felt strange. The Japanese used planes to fight tanks? Was that a rocket or an aerial bomb?
But none of this is right!
Rockets cannot hit tanks. If aerial bombs want to blow up tanks, they need bombers. "La5" plus air-to-air missiles are fully capable of intercepting them!
Then, as soon as Wang Xuexin sent the report via secret telegram, Li Yunlong understood.
"It turns out there is such a skill!" Li Yunlong said: "They can also mount cannons on planes to fight tanks! This is a bit troublesome!"
From this sentence, we know that Li Yunlong is an expert. He knows that if an anti-tank gun is mounted on an aircraft, it will have armor capabilities and amazing speed. It can be said to combine the advantages of anti-tank guns and fighter aircraft. This is indeed
It will pose a great threat to tanks.
Then Li Yunlong deduced based on Wang Xuexin's report and data, and discovered the problem: the air defense system could not effectively intercept the enemy's tank after it destroyed it...
"Little Northeast!" Li Yunlong immediately called Wang Xuexin's headquarters and asked: "Is this data accurate? Do the Japanese really have such equipment?"
"It can be said to be accurate!" Wang Xuexin replied.
The reason why "can" is used is because Wang Xuexin didn't know whether the Japs would modify it like this. Just because Hans had this kind of equipment and the Japs had BF109, he guessed that the Japs might learn Hans' method.
The anti-tank gun is mounted on the BF109.
Li Yunlong said in a serious tone: "If this data is accurate, then there will be a big problem!"
"What's the problem?" Wang Xuexin was a little surprised.
"That's right!" Li Yunlong said: "This Japanese fighter plane has a speed of 700 kilometers per hour, and the diving speed is likely to be faster, which means that it can fly about 12 kilometers in one minute, and the range of our anti-aircraft missiles is only 10 kilometers, so
That is to say, it may take less than a minute from the time the Japanese fighter plane enters the range to destroying our tank. During this time, our anti-aircraft missiles will not have time to shoot it down..."
Then Wang Xuexin understood what the problem was.
He thought that as long as the transistor air defense system was added to the tank battalion, there would be no problem. Now it seems that he has simplified the problem.
Zhang Zongping asked from the side: "Isn't that just trading tanks for Japanese fighter jets? It's a good deal for us!"
This sounds like a good idea. Even if the Japanese fighter planes destroy the tank, the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft missiles will destroy it afterwards, which is equivalent to exchanging tanks for Japanese fighter planes.
This is cost-effective and acceptable to the Eighth Route Army.
but……
Wang Xuexin replied: "What if the target of the Japanese fighter planes is our army's air defense system?"
In an instant, Zhang Zongping lost his voice.
The air defense system may indeed become a target for the enemy, because it has a radar antenna that rotates on the top and can be seen at a glance from a distance.
And once the air defense system is destroyed by enemy fighter planes... then there is no such thing as trading tanks for fighter planes. Instead, the Eighth Route Army is likely to be unable to destroy even a Japanese fighter plane and will be completely passive.
In the final analysis, the air defense system is more suitable for organizing defense in the city, because then it will have buildings as cover and it will be difficult for Japanese fighter planes to detect it.
Once it is used in field battles, it will immediately become the enemy's first choice target in the wilderness and will be paralyzed immediately.
Wang Xuexin couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
There seem to be only two ways to solve this problem right now:
One is to increase the number of air defense systems.
For example, a tank battalion is equipped with three or more air defense systems. In this way, even if the Japanese aviation forces destroy one air defense system, other air defense systems can also shoot it down.
But this doesn't seem to be a good approach.
Because the Japanese might exchange one fighter plane for one air defense system... The three fighter planes went out to exchange for three sets of air defense systems. After the replacement, the Eighth Route Army ground troops were waiting to be beaten.
Therefore, there is only the second possibility: increasing the range of anti-aircraft missiles.
And this can only be done in a research institute!