Rise of Australia

Chapter 212 Equipping an Aircraft
But Arthur is still not satisfied with the current performance of these three aircraft, so the aviation laboratory has set its goal on the research and development of Pioneer-3, and after successfully developing Pioneer-3, according to Pioneer-3 It has also successfully manufactured the second generation of three military aircraft, namely the reconnaissance aircraft Eagle-2, the fighter Tiger-2, and the bomber Ghost-2.

What Arthur can be sure of is that in terms of military aircraft, Australasia has successfully been at the forefront of the world, and can even be said to be the most powerful aircraft manufacturing country at present.

Of course, such a conclusion is not unfounded, but a conclusion drawn by Arthur after observing the combat performance of three military aircraft on the spot.

The first is the Eagle-2 reconnaissance aircraft. This reconnaissance aircraft has two seats in the front and rear, the front is the driving position, and the rear is the observation position.

The size of the Eagle-2 reconnaissance aircraft will also be slightly larger, because it is equipped with a larger fuel tank, which also makes the maximum range of this reconnaissance aircraft reach about 600 kilometers. If it is equipped with two auxiliary fuel tanks, the maximum range can even reach the top. thousand kilometers.

Of course, due to the increase in size and weight, the speed of this reconnaissance aircraft has also decreased.

The average flight speed of the Eagle-2 reconnaissance aircraft can reach 190 kilometers per hour, and the maximum speed can only reach 210 kilometers per hour.

Although it cannot be compared with higher-speed fighter jets, such a speed is actually sufficient if used for intelligence reconnaissance.

Speaking of fighter jets, the weapons carried by the current fighter jets are still very simple. Even the Wild Tiger-2 fighter jet is equipped with two MA-05 Maxim machine guns developed by the Australasian military factory, and most of the remaining weapons are pilots. Bring it yourself.

What do you mean, if the two machine guns carried inside the Wild Tiger fighter jet run out of bullets, then in addition to returning to the airport to reload the bullets, the way the fighter jet wants to go into battle can only be carried by the pilot himself.

There is no way around this. Various weapons cannot be well adapted to the current fighter jets. Even the two machine guns on board were manufactured after a long period of research by the military factory.

Because of the use of roulette magazines, the two machine guns have a total of [-] rounds of ammunition.

This is where the Wild Tiger fighter is currently disappointing, but it is believed that his combat weapons will also become diverse with the joint research and development of military factories and aviation laboratories, and eventually grow into a real fighter.

Although there are still many shortcomings in terms of weapons, the maximum flight speed of the Wild Tiger-2 fighter jet has reached 235 kilometers per hour, and the maximum range is [-] kilometers.

From the current point of view, among the three aircraft, the Wild Tiger fighter has the worst actual combat performance and is not very practical.

Of course, this is also the reason why countries in the world have not really realized the importance of aircraft.

Even the famous Wright Brothers in history, although they had successively manufactured Aviator II and III at this time, they did not receive the attention of the news media and the US military.

Their aircraft even sat in the stables for more than two years before the U.S. military finally realized its powerful potential.

In other words, at present, only Australasia is the only one that really uses national power to study aircraft.

This is why Arthur is sure that Australasia is currently the world's number one aircraft power, because there is no opponent at all in a short period of time.

Of course, this also greatly reduces the practicability of fighter jets.Because there are no opponents, the various aircraft in Australasia are still very safe in the sky.

In addition to reconnaissance aircraft, bombers are also considered to be the most practical.

The current army only has artillery to bomb long-distance targets, but the parabola of the artillery is basically fixed, and even the powerful ship-borne artillery cannot be avoided.

This is why the most powerful warships and battleships now only take care of some important facilities in terms of armor protection.

One of the reasons for the elimination of large warships such as battleships is the rise of aircraft.

The heavy armor on the sides and other areas of battleships is useless against aircraft carrying bombs.

All kinds of bombers can easily find the weak points of battleships and then bomb them.

Coupled with the increasingly expensive cost of battleships, this is why battleships gradually fell after World War II.

The firepower coverage of battleships is often only tens of kilometers, but the attack range of aircraft carriers equipped with various types of aircraft can even reach hundreds or hundreds of kilometers.

This means that when the battleship has not discovered the enemy aircraft carrier, the enemy's various reconnaissance and bombers have already come overhead.

Moreover, the design of the aircraft carrier is also very simple. The initial aircraft carrier design is even very simple, and all that is required is the performance and practicality of the aircraft.

From the current point of view, Australasia already has the ability to design aircraft carriers, and it is not far from the birth of the world's first aircraft carrier.

The bomber currently owned by Australasia is the Specter-2, which is an advanced bomber modified from the Pioneer-3.

In order to allow this bomber to have the ability to bomb the enemy at high altitude, the military factory specially modified the current artillery shells and designed artillery shells that can be used by aircraft.

At the same time, in order to adapt to more combat targets, the current shells have two models, namely 35mm shells and 75mm shells.

If it is equipped with 35mm shells, the bomb load of the Ghost bomber is 32. If it is equipped with 75 mm shells, the bomb load of the bomber will drop to about 18 shells.

These shells will be fixed on the gun mount in rows. When the pilot presses the launch button, the shells in the first row will pour down, and then automatically change to the second row of shells.

The amount of ammunition carried by the bomber is still too small compared to the future, but it can basically meet the current mission requirements.

Imagine that when the enemy has no defenses, a large number of shells falling from the sky are enough to cause a large number of casualties to the enemy.

More importantly, all kinds of warships are also one of the targets of bombers.The current warships basically do not have any air defense capabilities because aircraft have not yet become the targets that countries attach importance to.

If you want to talk about prevention and control capabilities, it may be that the naval soldiers on the warship are shooting with rifles.

But warships are not as stable as land, and naval soldiers pay more attention to the control of warships than soldiers' marksmanship.

Under such circumstances, the chances of relying on naval soldiers to shoot down the bombers are really slim.

This also means that current fighter jets can cause huge casualties to current warships, and research on aircraft carriers has also become a possible task.

After watching the demonstration of all aircraft types by the Aeronautical Research Institute, Arthur nodded with great satisfaction, and immediately announced that a reward of [-] Australian dollars would be awarded to each staff member of the Aeronautical Laboratory.

"Director Teodor, what is the current output of these three types of aircraft? If Australasia deploys these three types of aircraft, will their prices be able to be deployed on a large scale?" Arthur asked.

After the birth of the aircraft, the next question is about the production and installation of the aircraft.

No matter how luxurious the aircraft's paper data is, it must be actually equipped in the army after all, and its performance can be tested by training and real wars.

Although Australasia is not currently plagued by war, Arthur already has plans to deploy aircraft on a large scale.

Not only can it improve the combat capability of the Australasian army, but it can also train more pilots for the future Australasian Air Force in advance.

You know, pilots are not like soldiers in the army and navy. After one or two years of training, they can become formal soldiers.

To become a qualified pilot, the training period must be at least two years, and it needs to be accompanied by a lot of flight tests and real wars in order to grow and transform into an excellent pilot.

This is also the real reason why major countries would rather destroy the plane than kill the pilot.

For industrial powers, it is not a troublesome thing to manufacture an airplane.But training a pilot requires a lot of money and time, and the importance of a pilot is far higher than that of an airplane.

Of course, the current aircraft research is not perfect, and the training system for pilots has not yet been established.

The current way of training pilots in Australasia is to rely on the experts of aviation laboratories. As personnel who study aircraft, they are also most familiar with the operation of aircraft facilities.

But despite this, the training and training of pilots is still very troublesome.

It has been more than two years since the birth of Pioneer-1, but the aviation laboratory has trained less than 100 pilots so far.

Although the aviation laboratory has gained a lot of experience in training pilots in the past two years, the speed of training pilots will be much faster in the future.

But it cannot be denied that even for Australasia now, pilots are also very valuable assets.

"Your Majesty, because of the different types of aircraft, their cost also varies. If it is mass-produced, the cost of our Pioneer-3 is about 18600 Australian dollars, the cost of the Eagle-2 reconnaissance aircraft is about 20100 Australian dollars, and the Wild Tiger The cost of the -2 fighter jet is about 22000 Australian dollars, and the cost of the Specter-2 bomber may exceed 23500 Australian dollars." The aviation laboratory has already estimated the cost of these four aircrafts, so Teodor answered very quickly.

Arthur nodded.

Now because there is no reason for war, the currencies of all countries in the world are relatively strong.

The cost of various aircraft in Australasia is basically around 1 pounds, and the most will not exceed [-] pounds.

This is a good thing for Arthur. At least the large-scale equipment of aircraft is not a burden for the current Australasian government's finances, and the Australasian government can still afford it.

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