After reading the comments from book friends, I found that some book friends felt incredible after watching PK75. In fact, this is not YY but a real thing.
Hans did move the 75MM anti-tank gun into the air in 1944. At first, it was used on ground attack aircraft to defeat Mao Xiong's tanks. Later, Eagle Sauce bombed them. Hans's fighter planes could not reach the Eagle Sauce level.
At the height of the bomber, we can only install the 75MM anti-tank gun on the fighter jet to try to make up for the lack of height with range. And even if we do this, there is only one chance to attack: the fighter jet takes off at full speed and uses inertia to reach the highest point before it can hit the Eagle.
Sauce bomber.
The only difference is that Hans only moved the cannon onto the plane in October, a few months earlier in the book due to plot needs.
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Naosaburo Okabe's thinking is correct.
Because the aircraft during World War II, whether they were fighters or bombers, could not flatten a city so that ground troops could directly occupy it... In fact, even in modern times, this can be done very well. To occupy a city, you still have to
Ground troops.
Therefore, Naosaburo Okabe simply did not compete with the Eighth Route Army for air supremacy.
The fight for air supremacy is difficult to win:
Although the BF109 has a speed advantage, the Eighth Route Army's air-to-air missiles have a range advantage.
Although the speed advantage and the range advantage each have their own advantages and disadvantages, it is difficult to determine which one is better, but Naosaburo Okabe knows that the "La 5" fighter with the range advantage is undoubtedly better than the BF109 as a whole.
The reason why I say "overall" is because in actual combat, it is possible that BF109 can achieve a one-to-one record with "Pull 5".
But is one to one a tie?
Of course it can’t be a tie!
You must know that the Empire's BF109 pilots are the most elite pilots, and the Eighth Route Army pilots only need to be able to fly fighter planes in principle to compete with the BF109.
This does not require intelligence, just a little imagination can analyze and conclude: the "La 5" with a range advantage can destroy the BF109 at a distance of two kilometers or even further, so the Eighth Route Army pilots do not need to take any action, because they are still in the BF109
out of range.
All the Eighth Route Army pilots need to do is look at the radar, listen to orders, and then press the button to launch air-to-air missiles.
Does this require quality?
In other words, novice pilots of the Eighth Route Army can trade one for one with elite pilots of the Empire.
In addition, the Eighth Route Army's "La 5" has a wooden fuselage that is low-cost, but the BF109's fuselage is made of high-strength thin aluminum plates using technology introduced from Hans, and the internal parts are also precision die-castings. Its cost and labor hours are
Several times of "pull 5".
In this case, is the result of a one-on-one battle really a close match?
Naosaburo Okabe doesn't think so.
He believed that the Eighth Route Army had already gained the initiative in air supremacy, and that no matter how hard and hard the empire struggled, it would be difficult to change this situation.
So Naosaburo Okabe set his sights on the enemy's tank.
In addition to air superiority, the Eighth Route Army was also stronger than the Empire in terms of tanks and artillery. In addition, it also had an overwhelming advantage because of its artillery detection radar.
If the Eighth Route Army had air superiority and invincible artillery and tanks, then this battle would not need to be fought. As long as the Eighth Route Army had enough ammunition, the Imperial Army would have no choice but to admit defeat.
Therefore, Naosaburo Okabe hoped to open a gap among the three, so that the imperial army, which was in a comprehensive weakness, would be less passive and even take the initiative.
Naosaburo Okabe has thought a lot about this:
Finding a breakthrough through the Eighth Route Army aviation was the first to be abandoned. The Eighth Route Army's air-to-air missiles had already determined that this was almost impossible.
It is not impossible to open a gap through the Eighth Route Army artillery, but it is very difficult.
For example, Naosaburo Okabe considered using the BF109 to attack the Eighth Route Army artillery. The BF109 had the speed and advantage to bypass the "Pull 5", thus suppressing the enemy's artillery.
But does this mean anything?
If the enemy tanks are rampaging on the battlefield, wouldn't it be unnecessary to suppress the enemy's artillery?
So after much deliberation, the only option was to suppress the enemy tanks.
And it is indeed feasible to suppress tanks: if the Eighth Route Army tanks or half-track vehicles can be suppressed, and the infantry of the Imperial Army rush into the Eighth Route Army troops under the cover of the tanks to strangle them, then will the Eighth Route Army's aviation and artillery be able to suppress them?
It’s useless? Will the competition then be about the infantry’s individual qualities or even their stabbing skills?
In these aspects, Naosaburo Okabe is quite confident in the imperial soldiers!
It is for these reasons that Naosaburo Okabe insisted on changing the BF109 originally used for air combat into a ground attack aircraft to deal with Eighth Route Army tanks.
But whether or not you want to change is one thing; whether there are any difficulties is another.
Soon Naosaburo Okabe encountered another difficulty. After using the PK75, he found that its huge recoil had a great impact on the fighter plane. It could instantly decelerate the BF109 by 16 kilometers per hour.
Such a large recoil will not only put the BF109 in danger... the speed of the BF109 is only about 50 kilometers per hour faster than the "Pull 5". Even if the BF109 is at its highest speed, as long as three rounds are fired, the speed will drop to the same speed as the "Pull 5"
Almost there.
This does not take into account whether the fuselage structure of the BF109 can withstand it.
So Naosaburo Okabe, Shinta Kono and other R&D personnel racked their brains to find ways to solve this recoil problem. They installed a muzzle brake on the artillery and increased the strength of the corresponding parts of the fuselage, but in the end the situation remained
Unsatisfactory.
In the end, Shinta Kono believed that the best solution was to reduce the propellant charge.
"Only this method can truly reduce recoil!" Shinta Kono said: "And it can be equipped quickly, because we can keep everything else unchanged, we only need to change the length of the shell and reduce the charge!"
"Your Excellency, General!" Kono Shinta said: "BF109 actually does not need such a strong armor-piercing ability... After all, it is attacking the tank target on the ground from the air at high speed. BF109 can attack the side or even the back of the tank."
Naosaburo Okabe was stunned and found that what Kono Shinta said made sense. After all, the BF109 is an aircraft with a speed of 710 kilometers per hour, while the chariot's speed is only a few dozen kilometers per hour. It is almost like a target on the ground, depending on how the BF109 handles it.
On the other hand, a tank that attacks the ground from the air is actually more suitable for attacking from the side, because the side area to be bombed is large.
"So, how much should be reduced?" asked Naosaburo Okabe.
"I estimate..." Kono Shinta made some calculations in his notebook and said: "We can reduce it by about 25%, which will reduce the recoil a lot and also affect its armor-piercing ability.
Within the acceptable range!”
Naosaburo Okabe was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "Just do it!"