Chapter 509 Mustang and Bumblebee

At the end of 1913, it was the busiest season for businessmen. The Columbia storm fell into an endless war of words under the intentional or unintentional push. The small Panama became the focus of the Pacific Ocean, and then the Mexican crisis almost pushed the United States into war, but the oligarchy who really controlled the United States were not willing to go to war. Because for them, Europe's tense preparations have temporarily made up for export losses.

A fleet full of all kinds of materials shuttled back and forth on both sides of the Atlantic. Even the blizzard was unstoppable. When the United States fell into the frenzy, Xinhua merchants were also busy. Although there were not too many new orders, the previous orders from Germany, the United Kingdom and Ottoman had all reached the delivery date, so it was great The small fleet still filled the Suez Canal.

In addition to food, oil, rubber and other things, Germany and Austria, which are crazily expanding their armies, also took a fancy to the 2,000 Maxim machine guns eliminated by the Xinhua Army. Due to the large amount of equipment of the Type 99 light machine guns, the heavy and inconvenient Maxin machine guns were eliminated a lot. After learning the news, the two countries immediately bought them all. Come down.

This is an era when everyone bows their heads and checks what they need to prepare over and over again. It is an era where there are only how many troops and supplies are left in their minds.

This is a suffocating moment of silence.

Trains are driving from all over the country to the border, and rifles are distributed to young and immature faces. Women and children are going to undergo military training.

The huge national machine has been filled with fuel and began to roll forward little by little along the established track. At this moment, even Li Mo, the traveler, can no longer change this trajectory!

Whether the gunfire in Sarajevo will sound or not, it can no longer contain the outbreak of war, because it is just an excuse, an excuse for a group of stupid Balkans to the powerful countries!

Although Xinhua has not yet announced its preparations for war and has not put forward any plans, Britain and France have continuously strengthened its garrison in the southeast peninsula, begun a large number of armed colonial pseudo-army operations, and the Xinhua Parliament's sudden adoption of 10 billion treasury bonds and increased military budget, also give people a feeling of rain. .

In fact, there is no need for Li Mo to say anything at this time. Britain and France have used their manufacturing capabilities to continuously increase the number of puppet troops in Vietnam, Myanmar, India and other places. In addition, the snowflakes of ships from Britain and the United States to Australia show that even if Xinhua does not participate in the war, as long as Britain, the United States, France and other countries solve Germany, The muzzle will be turned immediately!

There is no doubt about it!

No one likes the existence of the Pacific Ocean that can dominate the ocean after taking advantage of the consumption of the European war! In particular, it is still a pagan country!

Britain knows that even if he loses heavily in Europe, as long as he defeats Germany and pulls the United States in again with the equipment manufacturing capacity of the Allies, no more Xinhua may not be able to resist!

As long as you defeat Xinhua, it means that Europe will lose several times more, and it will all come back overnight!

This is the law of muscle!

So although there is no statement in China, driven by a huge amount of funds, ammunition and eggs are continuously shipped to military warehouses in various places. The light weapons reserve is required to soar from the current capacity of 30 divisions to 100 divisions within two years. The first M3 tank successfully got off the production line, and the army Truck orders have crowded all domestic car factories. The second batch of 12 Yangtze-class light cruisers is required to be completed within two years, the first generation of two aircraft carriers must be completed by April next year at the latest, and the construction of the second batch of six will begin immediately after the completion of the first batch!

A large number of purchase orders have made the General Staff and the Prime Minister's Office consider the implementation of the emergency bill for a time, because if a state of emergency is declared, the economy will automatically turn into a wartime planned economy, which means that in addition to wages and the required scarce profits, everything is related to national security and Materials, grain and other enterprises are not allowed to intercept profits in any way. In short, the price of all weapons and equipment has dropped by at least 20%!

However, this proposal was rejected by Li Mo, because once the emergency bill is implemented, it will be too destructive to the national economy. Previously, because of the weak foundation, Li Mo adopted a large number of political axe infrastructure investment and encouraging industry and commerce to stimulate the economy. It used three five-year plans to complete the basic framework of industry and improve The living standards of the people, and with the encouragement and help of the political axe, a large number of new technology enterprises have emerged.

It can be said that Xinhua is currently in a rapid upward channel, maintaining a certain proportion of industrial and commercial profits, coupled with the promotion of political axe and large military orders, which can encourage businessmen to invest more actively, expand new factories or increase workers. However, if the emergency bill is implemented, then after the profits are squeezed to a minimum, on the contrary It will curb private investment and force the economy to stagnate.

Taking the five major domestic shipyards in Xinhua as an example, a large number of military orders have made them begin to expand the docks, increase equipment, and train a large number of workers. They only need to wait for two years to change the scale of the five-year-year-old civilian shipyards such as Delta United Kingdom, which means that they can provide more than 300,000-ton docks for the country!

So if they enter a state of emergency at this time, then they will have no profit to complete the construction. Although they will enter a state of emergency sooner or later, the economy will suffer less damage by one day later. Therefore, Tang Shaoyi and Chen Ping both accepted Li Mo's suggestion to use more state-owned enterprises to actively compress profits and private enterprises to compete for quotations. Then, this also reduces the purchase price a lot.

On December 30, the day before the New Year was approaching, Li Mo arrived in Chengdu by train. In name, he came to celebrate Bashu. After ten years of hard construction, the third railway line in the country was finally connected, officially the most important hub in the southwest. In fact, after the celebration ceremony, the air force commander Accompanied by Xue Muhua and HNA Commander Le Fei, they quietly went to the Southwest Aircraft Research Institute on the outskirts of Chengdu.

The country of Bashu not only has abundant resources, but also a deep inland heart, so after the first railway opened a few years ago, Li Mo began to consciously relocate some important factories and research institutes here.

The largest of them are Xinhua Second Aviation Research Institute and Chengdu Aircraft Manufacturing Factory.

After the fleet entered the open factory area, several small monoplanes immediately excited Li Mo. After a year of intense test flight and improvement, the first F4A air force model has left the production line.

This is a real fighter. It uses 750 horsepower Kunlun II liquid-cooled inline V 8-cylinder and Fengshen III 15-cylinder star air-cooled engines respectively. The reason why the two engines are adopted at the same time is not because Li's default is that his logistics is too strong, but considering that the future development of engine technology needs to be diversified. A compromise product.

Compared with the previous F3 double-winged vulture, F4 can be said to be the crystallization of the later concepts brought by Li Mo and the crystallization of Xinhua aviation technology over the past ten years.

The streamlined fuselage adopts a single-wing design, abandons the wooden board and canvas, and all of them adopt the lighter and stronger magnesium aluminum alloy newly developed by the Academy of Sciences. The outer edge of the wing tip is changed from a circle to a pointed shape, which improves the wing resistance. At the same time, in order to ensure the low-speed mobile surname, Larger and more powerful slit flaps have been invented, and the air force liquid-cooled model is equipped with an additional engine fairing to improve pneumatics.

The last three points can be put away from the landing gear, which makes the resistance in flight smaller. In addition, the closed cockpit and the leading powerful engine in Europe and the United States have adopted in-cylinder fuel injection and other technologies, so that it can do any action without oil leakage. At the same time, it also makes the wingspan of 11.5 meters, a total length of 9 meters, and an empty weight of 1.35 tons of F. 4A reaches a cruising speed of 120 knots per hour and a maximum of 320 knots per hour.

In addition to the in-flight fuel tank, the concept of Li Mo's wing fuel tank has also been applied, which not only greatly increased the range to 1,300 kilometers, but also reached a lift limit of 6,000 meters.

The reason why the data suddenly soared is that in addition to the breakthrough made by engine technology after nearly two years of torture in Persia and North Africa, it is also the application of the three-leaf asymmetric propeller. In fact, long after the engine was unable to break through, Li Mo pondered that there were other aviation technologies in history that he did not pay attention to. Because he really didn't know much about airplanes, it was not until he saw the reports that the North African Eagle sent back a series of telegrams saying that there was something wrong with the propeller design that he remembered that his propeller seemed to be one less than the World War II aircraft.

The three-blade propeller technology is not too complicated. After a long period of blowing experiment, the research institute immediately mastered this technology. Because it is asymmetrical, it can not only reduce engine vibration, make the aircraft quieter, ensure stable flight, and provide greater tension, so it can be launched at once. The ability of the machine has been exerted. Otherwise, according to Adel's experiments, if the double-leaf symmetrical paddle continues to be used, the take-off weight, speed and power will be reduced by at least 30%.

The breakthrough of the aircraft has made the flight research institute easy to arrange the interior. Four 12.7mm aircraft machine guns improved by the big viper, two doors are arranged in the same axis of the nose, and two doors are located at the root of the wing, with a total of 1,800 rounds of ammunition.

Although the equipment department is developing 25mm cannons, it can't catch up with the progress at present, but in the current situation, the layout of the four machine guns is enough to sweep the wooden shelves in the sky.

Advanced short-wave radio stations, radio navigators and other equipment, gyroscopes and other equipment make the aircraft not only beautiful on the outside, but also full of a sense of the times.

Finally, after watching the F4A flight show, Li Mo flew it in person. Because it is a new plane, although everyone is confident, it is still strictly forbidden to do big maneuvers.

When Li Mo got off the plane, he immediately thought of the Japanese Zero fighter that swept the sky at the beginning of World War II. It can be said that Xinhua's current F4 can definitely be a mini version of the Zero, not only because it looks more similar, but also because it will make all countries experience the embarrassment of the United States at a Zero in the beginning of World War II. .

After experiencing a new aircraft, Li Mo visited the two extended models of F4C and F4D, which are being assembled in the laboratory, which are waiting for test flight. The C type is actually a naval air combat type. According to Li Mo's idea, a folding wing was developed to strengthen the landing gear and fuselage structure, but also because these fuselages are much heavier, the surname can be better than the air force. The shape is worse.

As for F4D, it is a special attack aircraft. Both the wingspan and length have been increased a lot, mainly to obtain better air efficiency after the load. Because the requirements of the air force and the navy are similar, it has not been subdivided for the time being, but considering the aircraft being developed The weight of the empty torpedo may reach 700 kg, and it will be equipped with two pilots. If the folding wing is used again, it may cause the weight to be too heavy to fly. Therefore, the F4D wing cannot be folded for the time being, and the final decision must be made after the counterweight test flight.

In addition to the F4 that he was most concerned about, Li Mo also visited other kinds of planes. To be honest, many of them shocked the traveler. For example, have you ever seen dinosaurs equipped with 8 propellers?

However, Li Mo did not stop this exaggerated whimsy, but greatly encouraged him. In fact, after the liberalization of the domestic civil flight market, a large number of individual aircraft enthusiasts have emerged among the people. According to the previous report, the number of pilots registered nationwide has reached 50,000, and this number is still The rate of thousands of people is growing every year.

All kinds of whims have been brought up, and the modified aircraft has become the favorite of young adventurers. There are countless racing competitions, and businessmen also like to take the opportunity to promote their products by funding some competitions, which has stimulated the development of the aviation industry more and more.

Finally, Li Mo also visited the assembly workshop. According to the accompanying staff of the equipment department, the three largest aircraft manufacturing plants in Xinhua, including Chengdu, Fengtian and Zhengzhou, can now produce 2,000 such aircraft per year. If you add full horsepower, plus the small civilian aircraft factory, it can even reach 5,000 to 7,000 per year. The ability of the shelf.

Although Li Mo's heart was surging, he couldn't wait to make 10,000 racks overnight to fill the sky first, but the price also soared to the price of 5,000 blue coins, so he still stopped when he came to his mouth.

Now it's rich, but it's not so urgent to spend money. What's more, from the simulated air battle exchange ratio of the enhanced F3G Condor and F4 during this period, the fierce construction can only be spent indiscriminately, and the new rocket-assisted ejection seat is still in the final experiment. According to Adel, it will take half a year at the earliest. Only then can it be equipped in batches, not to mention that the technology has developed so fast. In case a stronger one or two years later, then the waste is more serious than the war damage.

So nodded according to the plan. First, let the Air Force order 500 single-seat and 500 two-seat models. The latter is mainly to let the pilots adapt to this new aircraft as soon as possible, while the navy needs to wait for the C and D models to decide how many orders to place after the test flights.

After asking Xue Muhua and Le Fei for the advice of Xue Muhua, Emperor Li, who had been excited for half a month, personally named the F4 Air Force and Navy, Mustang and Bumblebee.

(to be continued)