I want to be emperor

Chapter 1165 New Air Force

In the past, when companies were developing engines, they generally didn't care much about fuel consumption, and they couldn't care less about it. Their strength was just like that. In order to drive a vehicle up to the horsepower standard, they couldn't wait to make the displacement bigger and better within the limited volume and weight. good.

Therefore, the fuel consumption of early automobile engines, even if it was an ordinary four-cylinder inline engine with about 20 horsepower, was basically more than 20 liters per 100 kilometers, which is very exaggerated.

It was not until last year that Tangshan Automobile Company launched a new generation of inline four-cylinder engines that adopted a series of technologies to reduce fuel consumption, which reduced fuel consumption to 18 liters per 100 kilometers.

This has brought the fuel consumption of ordinary mid-to-high-end cars in the Dachu Empire into the era of less than 20 liters per 100 kilometers!

With the advancement of automobile engine fuel consumption and energy-saving technology, engineers from Tangshan Power Company naturally applied the corresponding technology to aeroengines... thereby greatly reducing the fuel consumption of new aeroengines. This reduces fuel consumption and improves endurance. Naturally, it increased.

Coupled with other technical optimizations, the aircraft's endurance has finally reached 500 kilometers... To be honest, even this is not outstanding among many aircraft. The twin-engine aircraft of Liaodong Aircraft Company are all running for The voyage lasted thousands of kilometers.

But the Heiyan aircraft is safe to fly...

Safety alone outweighs all other advantages.

Another aircraft with similar safety performance is the smaller America One... However, although this aircraft's flight performance is very safe, this safety is only limited to short-distance low-altitude flight. As for the flight safety of mid-to-high-altitude performance, it is not safe either. how.

However, the America 1 aircraft was originally positioned as a small agricultural aircraft. Farmers did not need to fly high to spray pesticides. They only needed to fly at low altitudes to ensure safety.

This is also the reason why the military did not purchase the America 1 aircraft. This thing really can only spray pesticides... It can't fly very high or far, and it's still a single-seat aircraft. It's not that there is no two-seat trainer version. , but the voyage is even shorter, just over two hundred kilometers.

However, the Air Force looks down upon America 1, but farmers and some flight companies with commercial flight needs, such as flying shows, are very fond of America 1 and have many orders.

The Air Force finally chose to equip Heiyan aircraft on a large scale, which also allowed the new Heiyan training and reconnaissance aircraft to quickly enter service with the Air Force after mass production.

With the arrival of this new batch of Black Yan training and reconnaissance aircraft, other single-engine aircraft were completely eliminated, so that in the Air Force's single-engine aircraft fleet, only the Black Yan series aircraft remained.

Of course, in addition to single-engine aircraft, the Air Force also has twin-engine and even four-engine aircraft.

In the current tactical positioning of the Air Force, twin-engine aircraft are used as ultra-long-range reconnaissance aircraft and also as bombers for aerial bombing attacks.

Based on these two tactical positionings, the Air Force mainly invited bids to purchase Liaohe series twin-engine aircraft from Liaodong Aircraft Company. The main feature of this aircraft is its super long range... The latest model has a range of even thousands of kilometers, and the aircraft, If it can hold so much oil and people, it can naturally hold more bombs.

Therefore, this kind of aircraft is also subdivided into two sub-types: long-range reconnaissance aircraft and bombers.

However, unlike the mature and reliable Heiyan aircraft, the reliability of the Liaohe reconnaissance bombers is not very good. Therefore, although the Air Force has purchased a batch, the number is not enough. So far, it has only equipped more than 30 aircraft, and they are mainly used. Come to train and explore aerial bombing tactics.

Finally, there is the four-engine aircraft. This thing is currently only developed and produced by Songhe Aircraft Company... Other companies have not developed this thing, because the cost of four-engine large aircraft is very high. The Air Force has revealed many times that the Air Force will definitely Equipped with four-engine aircraft, but there will not be too many of them... Even the Air Force has not yet figured out how to use four-engine aircraft.

Are you talking about using four-engine aircraft for bombing? The Air Force said that twin-engine aircraft are more fragrant... When it comes to reconnaissance, twin-engine aircraft are more favourable. If that doesn't work, I still have an airship!

transportation? What's worth using such an expensive four-engine aircraft for air transport these days?

Aerial bombing and air transportation by large aircraft are definitely needed by the Air Force, but... not now!

Therefore, there are not many orders from the Air Force, only a few are given, and the quantity of each batch is very small!

The purchase orders for these twin-engine and four-engine aircraft are, on the one hand, for preliminary flight training and tactical exploration, and on the other hand, they are also to support Liaohe Aircraft Company and Songhe Aircraft Company!

Among the five major domestic aircraft companies, these two aircraft companies are currently in the worst situation. There are no large-scale mass-produced aircraft that are accepted by customers.

As for the other three aircraft companies, they are more or less supported by aircraft with good sales.

For example, Tangshan Aircraft Company has its flagship product, the Black Swallow series of aircraft. In addition to the Air Force, which has placed orders for more than 500 aircraft, the Guards Air Force has also placed orders for more than 100 aircraft, and the armed tax police have also Dozens of orders were placed, and then the armed patrols, coast guards, and navies of various provinces also placed orders more or less.

Finally, even those private aviation companies and administrative agencies have purchased a lot. For example, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has purchased more than 20 aircraft, mainly for aerial surveying and mapping work.

The total orders for their Black Swallow series aircraft have exceeded thousands, and sales are very good.

As for North American Aircraft Company, despite being in such a barbaric place in America, one might think that their technology is not good enough. In fact, their design and R&D center is in Songjiang City... right next door to North American Automobile Company's Songjiang R&D Center!

The number of orders for North American Aircraft Company's America 1 series of small agricultural aircraft has exceeded 1,000, and it is widely welcomed by private citizens, some administrative agencies, and even some private flying enthusiasts...

Then there is Guangzhou Aircraft Company. This aircraft company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lee Power Company. They are very close to the Navy. They have produced very good seaplanes and have received hundreds of orders from the Navy and Coast Guard. , and other sales are good.

The above three aircraft companies all have their own competitive products, which can survive and have enough profits for subsequent research and development... It is worth noting that the above three aircraft companies are all single-engine aircraft.

But the two aircraft companies, Liaohe and Songhe, couldn't do it... One of them was playing two-engine aircraft, and the other was playing four-engine aircraft. However, due to the restrictions of contemporary basic industries, they both suffered a tragedy...

In order to prevent them from actually closing down and causing the Air Force to lose the source of twin-engine and four-engine aircraft, the Air Force can only give them a small number of orders and a lot of research and development orders, not for the immature aircraft now. , purely to give them some money to subsidize them so that they will not go bankrupt due to heavy losses.

So now there are twin-engine and four-engine aircraft in the Air Force, but not many.

The main force is still those single-engine Heiyan series aircraft.

After the Air Force became an independent force, based on the experience gained from the previous Army Air Force and Naval Air Force, the Heiyan fleet was adjusted and multiple flight groups were established. The flight groups were divided into flying groups, and the flying groups were divided into flying squadrons. , and it is separated from the airport and the flight group, and the flight base is no longer allowed to directly manage the flight force.

In this way, the Air Force establishment system has been initially established. It is no longer the same as before, without multi-level establishment. It is basically managed and trained according to one establishment at each airport. It is simple, primitive and unreasonable.

In addition to improving the establishment and management of the flying force, the Air Force has also officially established the Air Force Officers Academy. As an independent service, it naturally needs to cultivate its own talents.

When the military established service aviation teams before, considering the particularity of pilots, who needed to have a good cultural level and good personal physical fitness, pilots were selected from non-commissioned officers, and although officers can also learn You can fly as a pilot, but usually as a formation commander, not as an ordinary pilot.

Therefore, in the previous air force period of the Dachu Empire, most pilots were actually not officers, but had the rank of non-commissioned officers.

However, after becoming an independent military force, the Air Force decided to significantly increase the salary of pilots in order to enhance the attractiveness of its own service and attract more talents to the Air Force. At the same time, taking into account factors such as the dangers of pilots, the requirements for professional skills, and the cost of training, etc. .

One of the key points is that pilots all have officer ranks!

After the reform of the Air Force, all noncommissioned pilots were adjusted to officers with the rank of warrant officer... Of course, according to the practice of the Dachu Empire, especially the emphasis on military officers, these pilots theoretically need to attend the newly established Air Force Officer Academy Study for three years.

As for the military students of the officer academies of several branches of the Chu Empire, they are admitted with the rank of warrant officer, so they are in compliance with the rules.

However, considering that there are nearly a thousand pilots who need to fly daily, their study plan is also relatively special, and they will rotate to the Air Force Officer School for several months.

But the schooling duration is still three years!

In fact, one of the main reasons for the establishment of the Air Force Officers Academy is to solve the problem of the military ranks of these pilots.

The second is to recruit more professional talents. After all, the Air Force as a service has more than just pilots. In fact, the number of pilots only accounts for a small part of the Air Force.

In addition to pilots, there are also a large number of ground staff, airport management and maintenance personnel, airport security personnel, and other technical personnel.

The management and command of many personnel other than pilots also require corresponding professional officers.

Therefore, the Air Force Officer Academy not only recruits pilot officers, but also officers in other fields, such as logistics, aviation ordnance and even meteorology professionals.

Just like the Army Officer Academy, when they recruit students, they not only recruit students from the traditional infantry, cavalry, and artillery departments that are classified as command departments, but also recruit students from transportation, engineering, machinery, military affairs, communications, Students in meteorology, navigation and navigation (the army also has a large number of combat ships) and many other miscellaneous majors.

The Army Officers Academy is a comprehensive training school for officers. They train all the talents the army needs.

Of course, the mainstream ones are infantry, cavalry, artillery, logistics, engineering, and the newly established armor department in the past two years, and these are all classified as command departments, because no matter which one you study, you will be able to do it after graduation. To lead troops directly from the grassroots level, it is nothing more than the difference between infantry and cavalry, or artillery, engineers, baggage troops, and armored troops.

The same is true for other Naval Officers' Colleges and Guards Colleges... Among them, the Guards Officers' College may not be considered small in size and has fewer enrollments, but it actually offers more majors, basically the majors required by the Army, Navy and Air Force. They all have it!

It doesn’t work without it!

After all, the Guards is a military branch with complete land, sea and air capabilities, and it cannot function without any one of them.

It's just that the overall size of the Guards is not large, so it seems to have many majors, but most majors have very few enrollments each year.

The same is true for today's Air Force Officer Academy. In addition to the aviation major, there are also many other majors.

However, no matter what major you study, as long as you pass the exam, you will be a warrant officer, and after graduation, you will be a second lieutenant, a serious officer.

The Army, Navy, Guards and now the newly established Air Force in the Chu Empire, these four officer schools are the only four schools in the Chu Empire that specialize in training officers, and only from these four officer schools Only after graduation can one become an officer.

Even among soldiers who have made meritorious service on the front line, if they want to be promoted to an officer, they must first be arranged to study for three years before they can be legitimately promoted to an officer.

Even if the situation is urgent on the front line, the soldiers have great military exploits, and the front line will be unable to leave for a while after being promoted. Even if the situation eases afterwards, they still have to go to the officer school for three years before they can obtain the rank of second lieutenant.

Whether you are directly admitted to a military academy by taking the joint entrance examination, or you are promoted as a soldier by meritorious service in the army, or you are a soldier who takes a special internal admissions examination in the army, if you want to eventually obtain the status of an officer, you must take these four steps. I walked through all the military academies.

This is an established procedure and cannot be changed!

It cannot be changed... because this is an important measure to ensure the transcendent status of officers and attract countless outstanding students to join the military.

The military wants outstanding talents to join it. You can't let just an ordinary person have the same officer rank and social status as him!

This will cause a big mess!

Even if the current Air Force wants to promote its nearly 1,000 pilots to officers, they still have to go to military academies for three years... Even if it is just a three-year training and training period in name, this process cannot be saved.

With the establishment of the Air Force Officer School and extensive publicity, many outstanding senior high school students found that they had one more school to apply to this year.

As for the ones who are not excellent... What is the Air Force Military Academy for you? Even if the score is low, it is probably only second to the three military academies of the Army and Navy Guards. No need to guess, it is definitely better than the top liberal arts and sciences schools such as Imperial College and Jinling University. The admission score of the university is still high.

For no other reason than to obtain the status of an officer as soon as he passes the exam, to be granted the rank of lieutenant upon entering school, and to obtain the rank of second lieutenant without any major accidents upon graduation.

An officer's social status in the contemporary society of the Great Chu Empire is still very good... How should I put it, as long as you pass the exam, you will be an official, and it is not a low-level official like the eighth or ninth grade. From the perspective of social status and actual treatment, it can be compared to Cong Qipin at least.

Therefore, even if you have no interest in joining the army in your heart, you can still apply for the military academy first, and then wait for a few years to wait for the arrangements for retirement and career change... Then you can smoothly enter politics, and the starting point is better than ordinary people who take the imperial examination after graduating from university. The candidates are taller and their future is brighter.

Taking the age of thirty as an example, under normal circumstances, those who apply for a military academy and then switch to politics will have a higher average grade than those who directly apply for university and then take the imperial examination to enter politics... The universities mentioned are Guozijian University, Jinling Institute of Technology, and Yingtianfu Universities these top universities.

Not talking about those ordinary undergraduates, let alone junior colleges.

Therefore, even if it is for the future of politics, it is the best choice for candidates to directly apply for military ranks.

However, the military academies of the Great Chu Empire are too difficult to pass... Except for the Royal Institute of Technology, which is a university in name only, but is actually beyond the reach of ordinary candidates, there are three military academies that are the most difficult to pass. .

Countless candidates compete every year, but very few actually succeed.

But this year, there is an additional Air Force School. Although the enrollment is not large, only more than 400 people, it still makes countless students' grades not good. They are a little short of applying for the three major military academies, and they are not willing to go to the Imperial College, Jinling A new hope for these semi-academic masters of science and engineering and Yingtian University!

And Meng Xingxian is one of them... He doesn't even understand what the Air Force does, but he has decided to make the Air Force Officer School his first choice.

Not for anything else, just because as long as you pass the exam, you will be an officer!

Meng Xingxian is not alone in doing this. Similar situations have occurred in many places. Many half-step academic masters who are stuck between the three major military academies and several top universities, as if they have discovered a new world, have taken this school one after another. Consider it your first choice.

Of course... To dare to make the Air Force Academy your first choice, you have to be at least a half-step academic master. As for other ordinary candidates, they don't even have the courage to take a look!

Because anyone with any brains would directly compare the admission difficulty of this new military academy to the three major military academies... Even if the admission score is lower than the three major military academies, it is definitely not much lower.

Therefore, ordinary candidates are better off focusing on those ordinary universities.

Well, top monsters are not included here!

Many of the real top monsters don't take the college entrance examination. It would be of no use anyway. In the end, they still have to take the independent admissions examination of the Royal Institute of Technology.

A very small number of students have received admission notices from the Royal Institute of Technology before taking the independent examinations.

In the Great Chu Empire, the Royal Institute of Technology is different from other universities!

If you work hard and have some talent, you can still get into other colleges and universities...even military academies.

But Royal Institute of Technology, this thing is really not something you can get into just by working hard. The contents of its independent admission examination are not even high school content. They are all content that can only be taught at other universities.

The difficulty comparison between the joint entrance examination for universities and the independent admission examination of Royal Institute of Technology... It is probably that the joint entrance examination is about addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, while the independent admission examination of Royal Institute of Technology tests calculus... They are not on the same level.

Even college students who have studied for four years in other universities basically cannot pass the exam!

The end point for ordinary college graduates is just the starting point for others... There is no comparison!

Otherwise, there would be no situation where a student from a certain county was admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology, and the main officials in charge of education in the county were collectively promoted... because this means that you have discovered and trained a top scientist for the empire. seed!

For this achievement, the empire will not treat you badly!

Otherwise, officials in the education departments in many parts of the empire would not be so keen on discovering and cultivating super geniuses... As long as they can find and train one, they will be promoted in minutes!