What are the performance advantages of jet fighters?
High maximum flight speed, high ceiling, excellent mid-to-high altitude maneuverability, excellent thrust-to-weight ratio, top climb rate, and strong load capacity. In these fields, jet fighters can be said to completely crush propeller fighters, with their overall performance and combat effectiveness almost doubled. .
The most famous Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter achieved an exaggerated record of shooting down 509 enemy aircraft and damaging 100 in the European skies.
In terms of performance, jet fighters deserve to be number one.
What are the flaws of jet fighters?
Obviously, it consumes huge amounts of fuel, has a low combat radius, lacks low-altitude performance, and its maximum transition range is far inferior to propeller-driven fighters.
In particular, the fuel consumption is almost three times that of a propeller fighter.
As the first practical jet fighter, the ME-262 has a range of about 1,000 kilometers. If it is fully loaded, the combat radius can account for 35% of the range, which is already very good, not to mention the appalling time in the air.
Whether it is a first-generation jet fighter or a second-generation jet fighter, they are basically ‘airport defenders’.
Fierce, but not lasting.
So, based on these objective factors, what impact will it have if the Japanese equip jet fighters in advance?
The time node is set at the transitional stage from the early to mid-term of the Pacific War, around the end of 1942. At this time, the air combat myth created by Zero War was broken by Wildcat and Lightning, and air superiority was gradually lost.
If the Japanese army is equipped with a jet fighter with performance no less than that of the ME-262 at this time, analyzing the Pacific battlefield alone - air superiority will continue to belong to the Japanese army.
Wildcats and Lightnings cannot stop this jet fighter. Only the pinnacle fighters of the propeller era, the big brother F6F Hellcat and P-51 Mustang, can fight with it and barely resist it.
When the Japanese army gains control of the air, it means that the sea surface of the Pacific battlefield will be seriously threatened.
Immediately afterwards, under the threat of jet fighters like the Japanese army, the U.S. military will most likely go all out to develop jet fighters and mass-produce a group of propeller fighters headed by F6F Hellcats and P-51 Mustangs. They will trade quantity for time and barely resist this aircraft. The edge of a jet fighter.
At this point, the intensity of the war between the two sides will reach an unprecedented state.
But will the United States lose?
Of course not.
A defeat on the battlefield will not fundamentally reverse the exaggerated disparity in comprehensive national power between Japan and the United States.
The United States is a giant and Japan is just a dwarf.
"With this kind of jet fighter that has better performance than the Me-262, the Japanese will have a temporary advantage in the Pacific battlefield. Moreover, once they taste the sweetness of jet fighters, the Japanese will use jet fighters with high propellers to satisfy their needs. If the fuel consumption is more than three times, it is inevitable to find more oil fields, which will make you become even crazier and embark on the road of drinking poison to quench your thirst."
Yu Hua thought rigorously, and his thinking computer ran at high speed, integrating all factors and links to conduct mathematical deductions as rigorously as possible.
One jet fighter is equal to three propeller fighters, one thousand is equal to three thousand, and three thousand is equal to approximately ten thousand. These are extremely terrifying oil-swallowing behemoths.
In order for jet fighters to maneuver, their appetite must be satisfied. In the end, they will only continue to consume their own strength and fall into chronic death.
"The results of the Pacific battlefield will not change, but the process will be tortuous. The Americans cannot pick up weak persimmons like they did in the past. At least they have to smash two front teeth and let out more blood. This is good." Yu Hua continued to think: "As for China
The impact on the battlefield...has not changed."
There is no change, not at all. The reason is very simple. Whether it is jet fighters or propeller fighters, the Japanese have established an extremely solid air superiority on the Chinese battlefield and firmly control the air.
This is an unchangeable fact, the result of Yu Hua's thinking computer deduction and analysis.
Anyway, the situation is already at its worst. No matter how powerful the jet fighters are, it will not affect the objective fact that the Japanese have air supremacy over the Chinese battlefield.
In fact, Yu Hua believes that due to factors such as the cost and cost of jet fighters, the possibility of the Japanese applying them to the Chinese battlefield is extremely small, and they must either fully supply them to the Pacific battlefield or use them in the Southeast Asian battlefield.
"Overall, the results of this plan are very good and feasible. It dug a pit of technical traps for the Japanese, allowing them to drink poison to quench their thirst, and then borrowed the Japanese's knife to bleed the United States."
Yu Hua turned off his thinking computer and let his thoughts go. While looking at the beautiful scenery around him, he picked up a military kettle and put it to his mouth: "But if you want to implement this plan, you still need to plan a lot. The Japanese are not fools and will never mount a horse and spray easily.
fighter jet project, after all, the country’s power is limited, and their thinking is that something can be done with 1 yuan, and it must not be done with 1 yuan and 10 cents. If propeller fighters can control the air, they will not use jet fighters.”
"The best way is to let them intuitively feel the charm of jet fighters. It would be best to kill some people, and then I will leak the jet fighter technology to the other party..."
From an objective point of view, jet fighters completely crush propeller fighters. If the Japanese can follow Yu Hua's ideas, it will be great.
But you can't ignore subjective factors. Jet fighters are good, but these little guys can't stand up to their backward and conservative thinking. In addition, the national power is limited, so it's impossible to directly develop jet fighters.
The best way is to let these little guys feel the charm of jet fighters.
As Dr. Gatlin did, what perfected violence and destruction was not the picturesque medical skills, but the song and dance of bullets.
"Report, call back from headquarters." At this time, Lu Junyu's voice interrupted a series of thoughts in Yu Hua's mind. He ran forward with the message in hand and raised his hands in salute.
Yu Hua came back to his senses, temporarily put aside his thoughts, took the message and read it, and the content came into view.
Yu, the expedition team called:
It is known that Sancha Bay is surrounded by water on three sides, with dense population and convenient transportation. It is already under construction. After discussion, it was decided to confirm the location of the test furnace and steel plant here. It is planned that the Red 1st Division will be the main construction project for the preliminary construction work.
Team, can you?
Chen July 20
The First Red Division is responsible for the main construction work?
Yu Hua read the entire telegram and was slightly surprised. Wasn't the First Red Division building the Shenmu Highway?
After thinking about it, Yu Hua did not object. He shook his head slightly and looked at Lu Junyu: "Comrade Lu, please call the headquarters. I have no objection to the selection of the main construction team."
"Yes!" Lu Junyu nodded, turned and left.
Soon, a top-secret message was sent out again, flying to Yancheng hundreds of miles away. Immediately afterwards, Yu Hua and all the soldiers of the expedition team left this high slope, and under the guidance of the soldiers of the 1st Red Division, headed for Yulin.
Go to the city.
Just a few hours later, Yu Hua and his party returned to Yulin City and went to Sancha Bay for surveying and mapping to carry out the design work of the Yulin Steel Plant.
Whether it is a bloodletting plan or a technological trap, these are put aside for now and will be discussed later.
Now, let’s take care of the Yulin Iron and Steel Plant first.
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Time flies and three days pass.
Sancha Bay has beautiful scenery, luxuriant water and grass, flat terrain, and the intersection of three winding rivers. If Yulin is the Pearl on the Wall, then Sancha Bay is somewhat similar to the Pearl of Yulin.
In the past few days, Yu Hua has traveled to almost every place in Sancha Bay on horseback to learn as much as possible about the surrounding conditions, and then design the steel plant based on these basic data.
After three rivers converged in Sancha Bay, they flowed southward from the Yuxi River and ran through the north and south, dividing it into two areas: the left and right areas. The right side is the core area, covering an area of about five square kilometers. The terrain on the left side is slightly undulating, covering an area of about ten square kilometers.
Five square kilometers.
Based on these data, Yu Hua sketched out the appearance of the Yulin Iron and Steel Plant project on this blank drawing paper like a painter.
The entire Yulin Iron and Steel Plant project consists of Phase I and Phase II.
The first phase of the project includes the test furnace, with an annual steel output of 35,000 tons. A medium-sized blast furnace and two small blast furnaces continuously supply molten iron. It has two main processes: casting and rolling. The steel type is mainly low-carbon steel.
High carbon steel, alloy steel, tungsten steel and silicon steel, electroslag remelting furnace is reserved, which can produce seamless steel pipes, steel plates, steel ropes and other end products.
There is no rail network built inside the factory, and tractors are responsible for transporting end products and towing torpedo tank cars.
The second phase of the project will be expanded on the original basis. The annual steel output will reach 100,000 tons. Four tic-shaped rail networks need to be built inside the factory to transport torpedo tankers carrying molten iron and various end products, improving transportation efficiency and overall efficiency.