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Chapter 1180 From land to sky (first update, please subscribe)
tactics!

In order to maximize the performance of weapons, you must have suitable tactics.

In fact, tanks are the most obvious example.

In another world, for the first 20 years after the tank was born, the tank was no more than a support weapon for infantry attacks.

The role of tanks on the battlefield is only to support infantry, and tanks are regarded as a "machine gun destroyer" and auxiliary cavalry offensive firepower.Based on this understanding, it has become a common practice in many countries to disperse tanks in infantry companies.

It wasn't until San Dezi successfully implemented the "blitzkrieg" that tanks became the main attack platform for mechanized warfare and one of the sharp blades for cutting through barriers.

"When the technological tide is surging around us, what is most needed are newer, braver minds."

When Emperor Zhu recited this sentence from a certain mentor, he deeply realized that he had fallen into a certain misunderstanding—the misunderstanding of only weapons!

Advanced weapons are important, but what really matters is tactics.

To unleash the full power of new weapons, it must be equipped with advanced tactics. Compared with weapons, the tactics themselves are the most important.

"Air-ground integration? Blitzkrieg..."

On this day, Emperor Zhu thought a lot. After thinking about it, he naturally thought of airplanes. After several years of development, although the empire's airplane technology has become increasingly mature, airplanes are still like toys.

As far as the air force is concerned, those toy-like planes have no other advantages than airships other than flexibility.At best, it is used to counter airships and carry out close-range reconnaissance—even in reconnaissance missions, it cannot keep up with airships. After all, airships can be suspended at an altitude of several kilometers and stay in the air for long-term reconnaissance.Moreover, the airship has a large ammunition load, which is beyond the reach of those "little toys".

Similar to this, before World War I, the major European military countries generally believed that the role of aircraft was mainly to conduct aerial reconnaissance and support ground operations, so they were only used as aerial observation posts.Foch, a French military strategist, even said that aircraft "are of little use to the army."

"Is it really useless?"

Emperor Zhu smiled slightly, and his smile was full of sarcasm.

Like tanks, the role of aircraft was underestimated in the first ten years of its invention.

Even in this world, the role of airplanes is not only underappreciated, but even neglected to some extent.

Because compared to airplanes, airship technology is more mature now, and airships have been tested in actual combat. Under such circumstances, how many people would value airplanes like toys?
Even when Emperor Zhu attached great importance to aircraft, the empire's emphasis on aircraft was very ordinary.

After all, the airship is the real tried and tested weapon.

……

In the early morning, on the tarmac of an aviation airport in the belly of the Patagonia High Army Base, dozens of small planes were parked, including a dozen monoplanes.

This is the only aviation force in the Ming Empire, and the only aviation force in the world.

Different from the floating force, its weapon is an aircraft—a kind of aircraft that is heavier than air. In the past few years, the aviation research personnel of the Empire have developed various types of aircraft, and even the engine has been developed. For several generations.

Perhaps because of a historical coincidence, although the empire's first aircraft was developed based on a monoplane glider, with the in-depth research on maneuverability and aerodynamics, the biplane was finally chosen.

Compared with monoplanes and biplanes, it is more flexible, has better maneuverability and handling performance, and is not easy to stall, which is why he was chosen.

On the take-off lawn of the airport, several young military officers are practicing flight formation. They ride bicycles to maintain the formation on the grass. This is part of the training of junior cadets, and the purpose is to train the coordination of the body.

Three bicycles are lined up in an "A" formation, which is the most basic type of flight formation. Although they have already conducted dozens of hours of flight training on the plane, they still need to use bicycles for tactics on the ground. train.

If you want to become a pilot, you must first learn to ride a bicycle-this is to maintain your body's balance.

All the pilots in the Empire are converted from glider pilots, and they know the importance of maintaining body balance.

Sun Guowei, who is on the far left, concentrates on controlling his movements in order to maintain the position between him and the "friend machine".

Li Zekai, who was leading the flight in front of the "formation", had already seen another "formation" riding towards him, and the leader of the formation was Xu Wende, the captain of the second team.

"Pay attention to maintaining the formation, pay attention to the distance from the wingmen, and prepare to stagger with the second team."

Li Zekai, who led the flight, gave the order calmly, as if they were in the air at this time.

"understand!"

Peng Kunlun and Ding Haodong agreed in unison that the conversation between the wingmen in the air is carried out with gestures, flare guns, and small blackboards. Because it is inconvenient on the ground, they use words instead. In fact, when in the air, occasionally You can also rely on "roar".

While speaking, the "Second Squad" on the opposite side had already "flyed" in front of them.

Li Zekai wanted to aim at the gap between the formations, but the two pilots on the opposite side "flyed" wobbly, making it difficult to aim.At the moment of crossing, when he was about to hit the one on the right, he turned to the left quickly and just let it pass.

Become!

Before he was about to cheer and celebrate, he heard a clanging sound behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that a group of people had already turned their backs on their backs.

The pilot that Li Zekai avoided lost his balance in the process of dodging, and bumped into Peng Kunlun who was behind, causing a domino effect—a piece fell.

"Oh, it's a good thing we're on the ground. If we were in the air, we'd all be dead."

"Yeah yeah……"

Everyone lay on the grass, "lucky", they just looked up at the sky like that.

The sky belongs to them!

At this moment, a black spot appeared in the sky, and when they heard the roar of the engine vaguely, they saw a plane approaching from far away, and then swooping towards the airport at a large angle.

At the same time, there was a piercing whistle in the air.

A sharp sound across the sky of the airport.

"Um……"

The harsh whistle compressed the air and stimulated everyone's auditory nerves. Li Zekai and others who were lying on the grass stood up one after another under the stimulation of the whistle. They looked up at the plane that was diving in the sky.

"It's that kid again!"

Amidst the harsh whistle, Li Zekai and others took out their wallets from their pockets one after another, and said.

"I bet he will still fail this time."

"I bet he'll hit the target this time, good angle this time..."

You only need to hear this special whistle, and the big guy knows who it is. It is Cheng Kewei from the Second Squadron, a very thoughtful pilot. In the past few months, he has been studying how to use the dive method to increase bombing precision.

In order to increase the deterrence of the dive, this guy even specially designed a wind whistle, which will sound when the plane dives. I have to say that accompanied by the sharp whistle, it sounds really shocking...

(End of this chapter)