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Chapter 777 The main model of the Volunteer Army (3)

Yes, this year, new fighters from all over the world will be launched one after another. The Third Reich’s BF109, the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets launched the Hurricane in response, and France will launch the MS406. These fighters all use cantilevered lower wings, and the entire

It has a closed cockpit and retractable landing gear, equipped with a more powerful V-type liquid-cooled engine, and has a maximum level flight speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour.

For the United States, which has become a world power and wants to maintain its neutral status, it must have a large number of advanced fighters. However, at that time, the U.S. Army aviation equipment was mainly the old P-26, which was a single type with a tensioned structure.

Although wing fighters represented the highest level of the world's aviation industry in the early 1930s, they have already been far surpassed by these new fighters that have gradually appeared on the scene. It is urgent to equip the latest fighters.

Therefore, the U.S. Army Aviation Association will hold a bidding event for new aircraft in May next year, and the winning aircraft will be used to equip the U.S. Army Aviation Forces.

As an old American aircraft manufacturer, the X-17Y that Curtiss is investing in research and development actually has good performance. However, because the technology is too complex, it has become a loser in the competition for orders and has become another small company.

---Selvey Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which later became the famous Republic Company.

Of course, these Liu Lang would not tell the senior consultant of Curtiss Company who was trying hard to sell Hawker III aircraft to him. Only Curtiss, who had lost the order from the US Army Aviation, could fully provide what the Chinese Aviation Volunteers needed.

of this batch of aircraft orders.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Richard, neither Hawker II nor Hawker III can meet our combat needs in the war against Japan." Liu Lang shook his head and firmly rejected Richard's unwillingness to give up again.

"Of course, it's not that the performance of the Hawker series of fighters is not good enough, but it is that they are not suitable for fighting against the Japanese fighters that are invading China. The Type 96 fighter they are developing is both in terms of turning radius and improved dive performance.

It is much stronger than the Hawker series of fighters that were finalized five years ago." Liu Lang finally gave face to the veteran pilot who trained the first ace pilot in the US Air Force, and directly stated the reason for his rejection.

Of course, the most important thing is that Liu Tuanzuo wants to trick this person into continuing to be Zhou Dapeng's instructor. In the past two years, they will receive aircraft and fly training in the United States.

"Mr. Liu, I understand what you said very well, but the aircraft data you proposed are too single in terms of performance. Moreover, apart from the advantages in speed, the aircraft performance you mentioned cannot be newly developed by the Japanese in other aspects."

We have an absolute advantage in terms of models, and we will not spend a lot of manpower and financial resources on research and development just because a model cannot be included in the mass purchase plan." Richard shook his head regretfully and analyzed from a professional perspective.

From his point of view, the aircraft Liu Lang requested was quite useless. It could neither serve in more combat missions nor completely overwhelm the performance of the new aircraft that his rivals were about to put into flight test and equip. The meaning was actually

Not big.

"No, I don't need you to reinvest funds in development. I just need you to finalize the 75-type fuselage that you have now basically finalized. As for the aircraft engine that gives you a headache, a company with sufficient strength will come to you to negotiate.

." Liu Lang was also very determined in his choice.

Yes, since he doesn't want to sell the outdated American export-type Hawker III fighter jets, and he can't buy new models that the Americans are still testing in the testing ground, although Liu Lang knows that the Americans will launch the P-47 Thunderbolt a few years later.

The P-51 Mustang and the Spitfire launched by the British can beat the Zero fighter that the Japanese are proud of to the point where they don't even recognize it, but it is the Chinese battlefield that has been reduced to a pot of porridge, and the Japanese are also deeply

It was time to get stuck in the quagmire and unable to extricate himself. Liu Lang didn't want to wait, and couldn't wait, so Liu Lang had no choice but to find another way.

This was the compromise that Liu Lang came up with, including the aircraft data and performance requirements Liu Lang proposed, which were all designed with reference to the performance of the Thunderbolt aircraft that would be used by American cowboys in the Pacific to beat the Japanese Zero to a bloody pulp.

During the Battle of Songhu, the main fighter that the Japanese participated in was the Type 96 fighter, which was actually the predecessor of the Zero fighter. Its main advantages were its high speed, lightness and flexibility, and excellent climb, turning radius and dive pull-up performance.

However, the fighters designed by Westerners are not as good as the Japanese in this aspect, including the Thunderbolt, which was put into active service by the Americans five years later. It is almost impossible for stubborn Western designers to change the design ideas of the fuselage. Therefore, Liu

Wai used the introduction of more powerful engines to increase the speed of the customized fighters, and then used the advantages of high protection and heavy firepower to make up for the disadvantage of insufficient turning radius. Since it is not as flexible as it is, it is more resistant to beatings. It only takes a dozen shots to do it.

If you don't kill me, I can kill you. Use your own strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses. This is what American cowboys will do in the Pacific in the future. The Zero aircraft with fragile fuselages that don't even have protective steel plates suffered.

The ignited firebird crashed into the vast Pacific Ocean.

The Curtiss fuselage numbered 75 proposed by Liu Lang is actually an all-metal fuselage, low-wing, and retractable landing gear design officially put into production by the Curtiss Company in 1936.

The future U.S. Army Air Forces P-36 was actually the template for the famous P-47 Thunderbolt designed by Republic Company.

And why Liu Tuanzuo is so stubborn that this new type of aircraft can carry 500 kilograms of aerial bombs? That is because the lessons of the Songhu air battle in the past were too painful. The main fighter Hawker III equipped by the Chinese Air Force can only carry one.

The 220 kilogram aerial bomb is obviously not powerful enough. The Japanese headquarters in Hongqiao, Shanghai, is very strong. It is so strong that even a 200 kilogram aerial bomb cannot be blown up, so they can withstand the attack of a hundred thousand troops for several days. If,

Liu Lang had reason to believe that he could drop 500 kilograms of aerial bombs on their tortoise-shell fortifications and blow them up into the sky.

The American engine technology is not incompetent, but that is General Electric, not Curtiss. Only by using this kind of cooperation can we reduce the cost of the Curtiss Company that Liu Lang has chosen to lose the US military aircraft order next year.

Only then can they drool over this big pie falling from the sky.

As for what engines to introduce, Liu Lang naturally thought of Rolls-Royce, a company in which Huashang Company has a stake. Rolls-Royce, which has restarted wind tunnel experiments and developed the latest aero engines, will certainly not refuse this order. The order for at least 400 engines will be

It made the white-bearded CEO smile crookedly.

Of course, as Richard said, the performance of the aircraft required by Liu Lang is actually very single. Even if some of the performances are very good and even exceed their current fighter aircraft, it is precisely because of the single performance that it is not enough to threaten the West.

The main aircraft types of various countries. In fact, facts have proved that during World War II, the more fighters were expected to take on more combat effectiveness, the more the aircraft design failed. The technology of this era was not enough to develop multi-purpose fighters.

More importantly, this is enough for China, which only faces the threat of Japan. Liu Lang only needs the pilots flying this copycat version of the Thunder fighter to blow up the Type 96 over Songhu. Liu Lang

It is not expected that just a hundred fighter planes can kill the four Japanese aircraft carriers stationed at the Yangtze River Estuary and the hundreds of warships located on the Huangpu River and Yangtze River, unless China has more than a thousand fighter planes.

You must know that the number of Japanese fighter planes invested in the Songhu battlefield was more than 1,000, but the actual number of Japanese fighter planes that could take off in the entire Songhu area was as many as 3,000. This huge gap in national power cannot be made up by the small regiment leader Liu Lang.

of.

Liu Lang is a butterfly, but his wings are still too immature now, and he still needs enough time to grow.

With the current relationship between the US government and the British government being relatively good, Liu Lang believed that they would not reject this fairly good business.

In other words, Curtis Company will not refuse such a business that is like picking up money.

Richard was sweating profusely. The all-metal fuselage No. 75 was absolutely confidential in Curtis Company, at least for the past six months. It was the key to Curtis Company's intention to win military orders. This

A Chinese actually found out. If he hadn't considered that this was Chinese territory, he would have shouted for a spy.

"Mr. Richard, don't think that I am a spy. The all-metal fuselage is not a secret. It's not just you, Boeing, and Republic. Are they not gearing up to use this to win orders? The all-metal fuselage over there in continental Europe

The body has been put on the table openly. As for the number, can I tell you that I made it up casually?" Liu Lang looked at the senior pilot with a smile, his eyes full of cunning.

You are the only one who believes it. The father of the future number one ace pilot in the U.S. Air Force looked at the cunning fat Chinese men in front of him, and he was full of complaints.

The Chinese fat man is right, the all-metal body is actually just a secret kept in the open.

But, how could that number be guessed casually?

Inscrutable.

This was another impression Liu Lang had on Richard.

Then, the fat Chinese may feel that it is not enough and deepen their impression again.


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