Yingjiang actually knew about the Japanese "Zero Fighter" for a long time.
At that time, Donald of Yingjiang was setting up the "Flying Tigers" in China. When he discovered that the Japanese had put a new fighter with excellent performance into the Chinese battlefield, he immediately reported it to Yingjiang.
(Note: The Flying Tigers were formed in early 2001 and had begun to take shape by the middle of the year)
But at that time, Yingjiang didn't think that he would be dragged into the war, so he didn't take it to heart.
This directly led to the fact that after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Yingjiang still knew nothing about the new Japanese fighter. The result was that in just a few months at the beginning of the war, two-thirds of Yingjiang's fighter jets were shot down, almost to the point of being incompetent.
The point where fighter planes are available.
Davis took out a document from his briefcase and handed it to Wang Xuexin and said: "This is my feasibility study on installing a chassis for the Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Regardless of the cost-effectiveness of this equipment, from a tactical point of view, I think
It’s also not a piece of equipment suitable for the battlefield.”
Wang Xuexin took the document and flipped through it, finding that it was in English.
Yingjiang has many talents, and translating several documents can be said to be a piece of cake, but Davis chose not to translate... This shows that he had no intention of communicating with Wang Xuexin at all, or thought that Wang Xuexin would not understand even if he translated.
Sun Erwei was sensible. He glanced at the document and said, "Sorry, Wang! I will translate it!"
Wang Xuexin put the document aside and asked coldly: "Why?"
"Why?" Davis seemed to have forgotten what he said.
"Why do you think Bofors is not suitable for installing a tank chassis?" Wang Xuexin said.
Davis said "Oh" and replied: "To be precise, it is not suitable for Eagle Sauce. It may be suitable for you, who knows? But for us...do you know what the situation is in the Pacific? We have fighter jets every day
If it is shot down by the enemy, if this continues, within a few months we will have nothing to fly in the sky! And we do not produce aircraft but anti-aircraft guns. This is definitely a mistake!"
After Sun Erwei translated these words, he added: "Wang, I said that if the equipment is useless to us, it is unlikely to be produced!"
Wang Xuexin nodded to express his understanding.
After all, the research and development of equipment also requires funds. Although it is not difficult to install the Bofors anti-aircraft gun on a tank chassis, there are still many details to consider.
The biggest problem is that the manual steering must be changed to electric... The Bofors anti-aircraft gun has enough space on the ground to be operated by a six-person gun squad: the gunner is responsible for command, the first gunner is responsible for observing the ballistics and the deputy gunner, and the second
The gunner is responsible for firing and loading, the third gunner aims high and low and fires, the fourth gunner aims in the direction, and the fifth gunner delivers ammunition.
If the Bofors is moved to a tank chassis, there will not be so much space for gunnery and there will not be room for so many people, so the high and low direction aiming must be changed to electric to reduce operational complexity.
Only Eagle Sauce can complete this in a short time.
What Wang Xuexin didn't know was that Davis' tone sounded like Yingjiang had rejected the plan, but in fact Yingjiang had agreed and even started research and development.
Davis hoped to persuade Wang Xuexin himself, and then use Wang Xuexin's state to persuade Yingjiang to give up the project.
Wang Xuexin replied unhurriedly: "You don't plan to produce this self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. The root cause is that you have no advantage at all in air combat, right?"
"You can say that!" Davis nodded: "So the top priority should be to produce more warships and fighter planes, not this kind of anti-aircraft guns that can only be used on land! If one day, we can use this
Planting anti-aircraft artillery means that we have begun a counterattack, don’t you think so?”
Wang Xuexin nodded and said: "This is actually not difficult to solve!"
"What?" Sun Erwei asked. Sun Erwei immediately forgot to translate what Wang Xuexin said.
As an intelligence officer, Sun Erwei certainly knew that Yingjiang's fighter planes were being massacred over the Pacific at this time. Everyone was helpless about this situation, but this Chinese...he actually said "this is not difficult to solve"!
"He must be crazy!" Sun Erwei shook his head and said to Davis.
"What did he say?" Davis asked.
"He said this problem is not difficult to solve!" Sun Erwei replied.
Davis smiled and said, "Well, let's hear his solution!"
Before Sun Erwei could ask, Wang Xuexin asked: "I heard that all the machine tools used by the Japanese to produce engines are imported from you?"
Davis nodded.
"So, can the Japs' engines be more advanced than the ones you use?" Wang Xuexin asked again.
"No, I don't think so!" Davis replied: "In fact, the Japanese's aero engines have always lagged behind ours."
Davis was right. Many Japanese technologies came from Eagle Sauce, and after the outbreak of the Pacific War, they came from Hans... Hans and the Japanese were allies. He knew that the Japanese were weak in aviation, so he used a submarine to send aviation.
Send it to the Japanese for imitation.
At this time, the aircraft engine "Rong 12" used by the Japanese "Zero War" had a power of only 950 horsepower, while the power of Yingjiang's "Wildcat" fighter R-1830 had reached 1,200 horsepower.
"I think that should be the case!" Wang Xuexin said: "Everyone knows that the more mature the hawk sauce industry can produce better things!"
Wang Xuexin added this sentence to dispel the doubts of Sun Erwei and Davis. After all, as an Eighth Route Army battalion commander, it would not be normal if he knew that the Japanese aircraft engine was not as good as Yingjiang.
But if Wang Xuexin only guessed this result from the industrial strength of Yingjiang, it would be excusable... After all, Yingjiang was the world's largest industrial country at this time, with a GDP far ahead that was several times that of the Japanese, and its aviation engine was more advanced than the Japanese.
That's normal.
Sun Erwei nodded, with even a hint of pride flashing in his eyes.
Wang Xuexin ignored Sun Erwei and continued to ask Davis: "Major, are the Japanese aircraft better than yours?"
"Yes, of course!" Davis replied: "Their aircraft have a long range, strong maneuverability and excellent climbing performance, which makes our fighter planes always in a passive state of being beaten.
…”
"So, Major!" Wang Xuexin asked again: "Don't you find it strange? If the Japanese's aviation engine is not as good as yours, but the performance of the aircraft they build is worse than yours, and not just a little better..."
Davis couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this. This was indeed strange.
Before, because I didn’t know anything about the enemy’s fighter planes, I didn’t think about it in this regard.
Now after listening to Wang Xuexin's analysis, I found that this is really the case...