Beiyang 1917

Qian Tianfu quickly drew circles and aircraft symbols representing the flight brigade on the map, then turned to point at Tsaritsin and said,

“前线航空队第2战斗轰炸机联队同样辖1个se5战斗机大队、1个dh4侦察轰炸机大队和1个中华fr-18卓越者战斗轰炸机大队，整个联队124架飞机，联队部和中华fr-18卓越者第2战斗轰炸机大队驻防在察里津，se5第2战斗机大队驻防在卡缅斯克-沙河津斯基，dh4第2侦察轰炸机大队驻防在顿河畔罗斯托夫，整个第2战斗轰炸机联队同样是124架战机！”

"Counselor Qian, where are our Handley Page 0400 and V1500 heavy bombers? Where did the coalition air force hide them? Or, Chief of Staff Chiang, wouldn't they all be changed to transport planes to transport arms and supplies by air? "Pepelyaev asked puzzled. (.

"Don't be impatient, Your Excellency Pepe, below is the 3rd Heavy Bomber Wing, which has two Handley Page O2 bomber brigades and one Handley Page V400 heavy bomber brigade, as well as a fr- The 1 Brilliant Fighter-Bomber Brigade and the 1500rd Heavy Bomber Wing have a total of 1 combat aircraft, which is the trump card of the coalition's front-line air force, and the wing headquarters is also stationed in Tsaritsyn!" Qian Tianfu smiled and drew pictures around Tsaritsyn There are 18 signs representing the flying brigade.

"Look, Vasily Nikolaevich, we have more than 412 front-line combat aircraft that can be used in the Ukrainian campaign, which is three times the number of the German 4th Flying Wing in the opposite Ukraine. Three fight one. How about this? It should be more than enough. If you can’t win, I think the boys in the aviation team have been practicing for nothing this year. Besides, our air-ground coordination and night bombing subjects in the Battle of Ufa were pretty good! Now you should rest assured ?” Jiang Hongyu smiled from the side.

"That's right! No matter how powerful the Luftwaffe is, if there is a fight in Ukraine, firstly, the number of aircraft will be three times that of theirs. Second, our FR-18 Excellence is the best fighter-bomber of this era. It is not three times fighting one. , I guess it would be possible to fight 3 or 1! If the commander-in-chief did not stop the FR-3 excellence from being exposed to the Germans too early, we would have killed the opponent's 18th Flying Wing long ago!" Qian Tianfu In the end, he was young and energetic, and said confidently from the side.

"That's not to say, the Luftwaffe is the ace force on the Western Front, and it's a miserable beating for the air forces of Britain and France. Although their Red Baron was unlucky and was shot down in April, but like Manfred There are still many ace pilots like Albrecht von Richthofen in the Luftwaffe.

Therefore, we must not underestimate the enemy. The German Air Force's Albatross series biplane fighters are less capable than our se5, but the enemy's Fokker dr-1 triplane fighters are more maneuverable than our se5 and dh4. Se5 and dh4 Fighting in the air with the opponent's Fokker aircraft may suffer a bit, and in the end it is estimated that the Zhonghua FR-18 will have to come to the final decision! "Wang Geng warned with a slight frown.

"Let me tell you, Commander-in-Chief, we should equip more Chinese FR-18 Eximus fighter jets as soon as possible. This kind of all-metal monoplane is the only one in this world, and it flies faster than all fighter jets of the Allies. , the ammunition load is even higher than that of ordinary bombers, and the climbing speed and flight altitude are also second to none, why do we still equip and use those old-fashioned British aircraft, I think the se5 can’t fly the opponent’s Fokker aircraft!"

Vasily Nikolaevich Pepelyaev obviously does not understand why the coalition forces continue to use the SE18 and DH5 after they already have the Chinese FR-4 Excellence fighter developed exclusively by China. Already a bit outdated aircraft.

Jiang Hongyu, the logistics commander here, explained helplessly when he heard the words, "Your Excellency Pepe, the overall performance of the Chinese FR-18 fighter-bomber is very good, but our current domestic aircraft factory is already operating at full capacity, and the production capacity is very high." The bottleneck cannot be solved in a day or two, and as a multi-purpose combat aircraft, the training and training of Chinese FR-18 fighter pilots will take more time than SE5 and DH4, and it is impossible for us to eliminate all the front lines in the short term se5 and dh4."

"Vassily Nikolaevich, you don't actually know that when we designed this FR-18 fighter-bomber, we focused more on ground attack. It can improve a lot, but it will delay the time. After all, the plane can’t come down to catch the prisoners. Compared with the bomber, the lethality of a fighter jet to the ground troops is negligible. Do you enjoy watching the low-altitude sweep? That’s more It is a psychological threat. In terms of damage to ground personnel and vehicle fortifications, an aerial bomb that hits accurately is much stronger than the bullets of aircraft machine guns!"

In fact, Wang Geng still felt that there was not enough time left for himself. Otherwise, he could have designed a fighter and a bomber instead of designing a fighter-bomber like the Chinese FR-18 to take into account both air combat and combat. ground bombing!Taking both into account will inevitably mean compromising and sacrificing part of the performance of air combat, because the weight of the aircraft will increase if the ammunition load is increased.

Here Qian Tianfu continued, "In addition to the three flying wings of the front-line air force, the defensive air force of the coalition air force also has two flying wings. The fourth wing is stationed in Samara, focusing on Bashkir autonomy. The air defense of the republic, Samara, Saratov, Uralsk, Orenburg and other second-line areas. The 2th Flying Wing is stationed on the Don River and the North Caucasus Autonomous Republic, and mainly cooperates with Wu Peifu’s southern front.”

"We have used two-thirds of the coalition air force in the Volga Federation. From the east of the Ural Mountains to the Northern Federal Autonomous Region of China, we have only stationed the 6th Flying Wing in such a vast area. In addition The 7th Flying Wing is stationed in the Northeast, and the 8th Flying Wing is stationed in Gyeonggi Idai!

If I were given another six months, the size of our air force would at least double!It's a pity that time waits for no one. The Allied Powers can't hold back on the Western Front. We can only take advantage of the winter to try our best to collide with Germany and Austria! "

After Wang Geng said this, he felt a little lonely. Although the scale and production capacity of the Zhonghua Aircraft Manufacturing Factory located in Nanyuan, Beijing, has been expanding again and again, and the aviation school has also continued to expand the number of pilot students, it is obviously impossible to do it overnight. China's industrial foundation And the growth of the manufacturing industry takes time. You must know that in the previous life, in 1919, after the defeat of Germany, there were 1.6 aircraft and 2.7 aero engines handed over to the Allied Powers. China's industrial base is too weak.