Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2377
Feng Ding relies on the improvement of the hand-operated computer, and the profit from this alone is more than one million rand. This money is enough for Feng Ding to live a carefree and rich life anywhere in the world.

Surprisingly, Feng Ding was not satisfied with this. He donated most of the income from the hand-cranked computer to Nyasaland University, and established a computer research institute to continuously improve the hand-cranked computer.

Just last month, Nyasaland University built the world's first truly electronic computer.

The reason for emphasizing that it is the first "real" computer is because as early as ten years ago, American scientist Vannevar Bush created the world's first analog electronic computer.

The computer made by Nyasaland University is actually an enlarged version of the calculator, which is very different from the computer in Rock's memory.

But this is not a problem. Any new thing needs time to develop before it can really play a role. The computer in another time and space has also undergone decades of development before it becomes what Rock remembers.

At least it's a good start.

Rock urged Gavin to continue to pay attention to the development of electronic computers, allocate more funds and invest more resources, which is related to the future of southern Africa.

For jet aircraft, Rock has also given enough support. Southern Africa and Germany are similar in many ways, for example, they are both good at concentrating their efforts to complete technological breakthroughs in a certain major field, which other countries cannot do.

It is precisely because of this that southern Africa and Germany were able to rise rapidly in just a dozen years.

Compared with southern Africa, Germany is more obvious on this point. Think about it. It took only a few years for Mustache to come to power, and Germany recovered from a serious social crisis and became a powerful country sweeping the European continent. It has a lot to do with the centralized system in Germany at that time.

Rock has a deeper understanding of the centralization system. Strictly speaking, southern Africa is actually a centralized country under the cloak of democracy. The strong position of the three consortiums of Nyasaland, Rhodesia, and Fawalt in southern Africa guarantees Southern Africa can concentrate and coordinate resources to the greatest extent, and with Rock's golden finger pointing the way, Southern Africa has always been on the right path.

"For jet aircraft, we should lower some requirements. Even if the performance of jet aircraft is not good enough and the cost is relatively expensive, we must promote the service of jet aircraft. After all, jet aircraft is the future." Rock made a final decision. Gavin looked calm.

Rock has proved his judgment countless times with facts, just like Rock advocated abandoning battleships and developing aircraft carriers with all his strength.

In Southern Africa right now, Roque is the absolute golden rule, and no one dares to question Roque's judgment.

The technology in southern Africa is indeed strong. The next day, Rock and Gavin saw the latest version of jet aircraft at the air force base on the outskirts of Pretoria.

Different from the "beautiful man in the sky", the saber, and the black ribbon in Rock's memory, this is a weird fighter plane with a strange shape, even a little ugly.

The fuselage of the aircraft is extremely thick, a circle fatter than the latest "Falcon" of the Air Force, and the familiar propeller is not in the nose position, but two air intakes are replaced.

The engine of the plane is not at the tail, but arranged under the two wings respectively. Like the thick fuselage, the engine is also thick and long, a little too fat.

Next to the engine is the rocket launcher, and there are two weapon hangers next to it, which are probably used to mount bombs.

The position of the cannon is on the nose. There are four 30mm aviation cannons in total, which are divided into diamond-shaped divisions.

Rock looked a little confused. The aviation designers in southern Africa still need to improve their aesthetics.

"Our engine thrust is still not enough. When the bomb is not carried, the speed of the aircraft can reach 970 kilometers per hour. With the bomb, the speed drops to only 750 kilometers. Not only is it not as good as the Falcon, it is not even as good as the cheetah - but even so , our planes are still more advanced than those of the British and Germans—" Martin gushed, his face full of pride.

Without Martin's introduction, Rock would not have even realized that both the British and the Germans were working on jet aircraft at the same time.

The progress of the British and Germans is not slow. As early as the 20s, British Air Force instructor Frank Whittle proposed the idea of ​​a jet engine and applied for a patent in 1930.

Unfortunately, Whittle's idea did not attract the attention of the British. It was not until 1935 that Whittle established the "Power Jet Co., Ltd." with the funding of some bankers and Air Force officers.

Compared with the slowness of the British, the progress of the Germans is faster.

In 1934, German flight designer O'Hain began to study turbine engines, but the progress was not great.

By 1939 Ohain and Heinkel teamed up to develop a true jet aircraft, the German He-178.

Like the "not in a hurry" British, German jet planes are also ill-fated. Mustache is very happy after learning about the performance of jet planes, but mustache thinks that jet planes can only be used to produce bombers, so Significantly delayed the deployment of jet aircraft.

"How fast is the fastest Falcon?" Rock asked the most critical question.

"If you don't use the external auxiliary fuel tank, the speed is 790 kilometers per hour." Martin is proud. This speed is indeed something to be proud of, almost the pinnacle of propeller aircraft.

"Why put a bomb on a jet?" Roque didn't quite understand the designers' thinking.

"To deal with the enemy's fighter jets, Cheetah and Falcon are enough. The ideal jet plane should be able to break through the enemy's defense at high speed, and attack the enemy's key targets, such as command posts, ammunition depots, airports, or traffic. The bombing of facilities requires the aircraft to have a strong bomb-carrying capability—” Martin explained in detail, and this answer is obviously not perfect.

The design of the aircraft has a lot to do with the way it is used. Sometimes the seemingly obvious shortcomings do not affect the use. Not all data must be perfect.

For example, the near-ground support aircraft equipped in southern Africa has the biggest shortcoming in the range. Even if the "Cheetah" does not use auxiliary fuel tanks, the range is as high as 1500 kilometers, while the range of the near-ground support aircraft is only about 600 kilometers.

This is not a design problem, but has something to do with the requirements of close-to-ground support aircraft. The requirement of the southern African military for close-to-ground support aircraft is to cooperate with ground armored forces to break through enemy positions. This role can even be replaced by helicopters. Too far is useless, the bomb load is the key. The word "close to the ground" fully explains the positioning of the aircraft.

The Air Force's positioning of jet aircraft is similar to that of a mustache, using jet aircraft as bombers.

This positioning cannot be wrong. The future of jet aircraft is bright, but now it is not as good as propeller aircraft, and its weaknesses are still obvious.

The Ministry of National Defense of Southern Africa has repeatedly practiced the confrontation between jet aircraft and propeller aircraft, and the results are [-]-[-]. Jet aircraft cannot form an overwhelming advantage over propeller aircraft, especially at low altitude and low speed, propeller aircraft have obvious advantages.

The advantage of jet aircraft is that it cuts into the battlefield at high speed to launch an attack, and then leaves at high speed. The speed of propeller aircraft is not as fast as that of jet aircraft and cannot catch up.

This is why Feng Ding proposed to develop an attack beyond visual range. If this idea can be successful, then jet aircraft will completely change the form of air combat.

Just like an aircraft carrier is to naval warfare.

In the evening, Rock and Gavin had dinner at the air force base, accompanied by Martin and Feng Ding who had just arrived.

Seeing Rock, Feng Ding was still very excited. He was very cramped at the table and didn't even take a few bites of the food.

"How's the computer research going?" Compared with missiles, Rock still cares about computers.

Jet airplanes were important, but computers were the foundation of the Industrial Revolution.

The Allies could have defeated the Axis without jets.

Without computers, Southern Africa would be left behind.

Rock knew that Americans were also working on computers, but they didn't know how they were progressing.

"Our computer can already achieve [-] calculations per second, and this is far from the end. In the future, the calculation speed of computers may reach hundreds of millions of calculations per second—" Speaking of his field of expertise, Feng Ding instantly became confident .

Rock also finally realized the feeling of aviation designers.

Computers now do [-] operations per second.

You're starting hundreds of millions of times per second.

Don't you want to die?

This is the Living Years series again.

"You're a computer and a jet plane, are you busy?" Rock wondered, people like Feng Ding are real geniuses.

People are really different. Some people just go to school to listen to the lectures, and never read books when they come home from school. They can do the same question type once, and some questions can know the answer at a glance.

Some people study hard every day, work hard until 12 o'clock every night, wake up at 04:30 in the morning and don't even have time to eat. When the test results come out, they pass 60 points, and then look at the 100-point student next door, and they almost fail in one breath.

"It's okay. Researching computers is also for researching jet aircraft services. There are too many data to be calculated. At the beginning, we hired 100 people to do the calculations. Later, we found that 100 people are not as good as one computer. Now we have four A computer." Feng Ding smiled brightly, because the computing power was not enough, and the quantity came together.

"The requirements for jet aircraft don't need to be too high, and we can't come up with too advanced aircraft at one time, just a little bit ahead of our enemies." Compared with professionals like Feng Ding, Rock is the real profiteer .

This is not right either, in terms of business, Rock is also a professional.

Rock had had enough of being choked up in his previous life, and now it was the turn of other countries in Southern Africa to be choked.

Just like when southern Africa sold propeller planes to foreign countries, even if you have more advanced technology, don't rush to take it out, you have to squeeze it out bit by bit like squeezing toothpaste, so as to maximize the benefits.

The same is true for jet aircraft, defeating the Axis powers is not the ultimate goal, but selling to the British and Americans to make money is the goal.

From this point of view, the southern African army has to work harder, occupy Berlin before everyone else, and get all the advanced technology and scientists of the Germans to southern Africa, so that southern Africa can continue to maintain its technological leadership.

Another space-time American and Russian jet, both developed on the basis of German technology.

So the Germans are the real masters.

Feng Ding's eyes widened, feeling as if his idol's house had collapsed.

"Our enemies are not only the Germans and Japanese, but also the Americans and the British—" Martin hit the nail on the head, and after the war ended, another more brutal war was about to begin.

Gavin didn't speak, and ate quietly, taking Martin's remarks for granted.

Regardless of the fact that the United Kingdom has always regarded itself as the suzerain of southern Africa, the attitude of high-level officials in southern Africa is not grateful for the United Kingdom.

As a former colony, what is there to be grateful for.

Appreciate the British for bringing a more advanced way of life to southern Africans?
Thank you grandma for having a leg.

"It's not an enemy, it's a competitor." Rock corrected, it's better not to say this so bluntly, it would be so sad for the British and Americans to hear it.

"It's all the same. You can see from their attitude towards the Russians. These people have no benevolence or morality at all." Martin sneered. The relationship between southern Africa and the United States has always been bad, and the United Kingdom is also temporarily cooperating with the pressure of Germany. The Anglo-Saxons are the real family.

"There is essentially no difference between a jet plane and a propeller plane. There are fighter jets and bombers with propellers. Jet planes don't need to be large and comprehensive, and there are specialties in the technical industry." Rock does not want to discuss this issue publicly, standing on the standpoint of the Southern African Union countries, There is no benevolence or morality in southern Africa, and no one has the right to blame others.

"I understand. In fact, we already have two sets of plans. If it is purely fighter jets or bombers, we can deploy troops within this year." Feng Ding still did not give up bombers, which is indeed a shortcoming.

The fighter jets in southern Africa are very strong, as are the strategic bombers, but the performance of the dive bombers used for ground bombing is average, and it has even declined year by year in recent years.

Compared with strategic bombers, dive bombers are more dangerous, and their losses are not directly proportional to their achievements. This has led to the southern African military gradually abandoning dive bombers. For the same reason, the number of torpedo planes installed by the navy is also decreasing.

In the Guam naval battle, none of the 24 torpedo planes survived the first two waves of torpedo planes that the U.S. military attacked the Japanese aircraft carrier.

Much more dangerous than the French Prime Minister.

The speed of jet aircraft is much faster than that of propeller aircraft, which brings huge advantages. Therefore, if jet aircraft are used for bombing, the potential is still great.

"Before the precision-guided bombs are installed in the troops, it is better not to equip too many bombers." Rock's thinking has never changed, and technology has crushed it.

(End of this chapter)