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Chapter 56 Major Flaws of the Zero Fighter

But what Liu Xiu didn't understand was how his cheap dad got injured!

Could it be that the captain, Ichiro Hirata, was injured?
  So Liu Xiu asked Liu Qin:

"Dad, was your injury caused by Ichiro Hirata?"

Liu Qin shook his head and said:
  "It's not that he hit me accidentally. When I looked for Ichiro Hirata, Ichiro Hirata was smashing things in the house and getting angry! A flying vase fragment just scratched my hand! And that's how I got out of Hirata. Ichiro learned the news about the defeat of the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet! And it was an unprecedented fiasco!"

When Liu Xiu heard that it was an accidental injury, he nodded with relief. Fortunately, his undercover identity as a cheap dad was not discovered, but having said that, if his undercover identity was discovered, the cheap dad would probably not be able to come back. Got it!

However, Liu Xiu still reminded:
  "Then dad, you have to be even more careful where Ichiro Hirata is. After all, the little devil's fleet was defeated. This little devil must be in a bad mood!"

Liu Qin nodded and said:
  "Don't worry about this. I won't worry about his misfortune. But having said that, the Japanese fleet suffered heavy losses in this battle! The four main aircraft carriers and more than 300 aircraft were gone! And the United States has just One aircraft carrier and less than a hundred aircraft were lost!"

Liu Xiu was not very interested in what Liu Qin said about the Battle of Zhongtu Island, because what Liu Xiu learned about the Battle of Zhongtu Island before traveling through time was far clearer than what Liu Qin found out about Ichiro Hirata. many.

The reason why the American army was able to defeat the Japanese fleet in this battle was mainly due to their excellent fighter planes and excellent pilots!

Yes, the Japs dispatched the famous Zero fighters in this battle, and on the American side, the F4F Nightcat fighter jets were used in conjunction with the Saqqi Shear tactics to defeat the Japs' Zero fighters.

After all, during World War II, the maritime power competition between the two sides was no longer about whose naval gun had a larger caliber or whose naval gun had a longer range!

The strength of the competition between the two sides is actually the aircraft carrier, or to put it bluntly, whose aircraft carrier has the best carrier-based aircraft.

The data of the Zero fighter, which is the main fighter of the Little Devils, is not very good.

Its length is nine meters, its wingspan is twelve meters and its height is three and a half meters. It weighs 1.6 tons in the air and has a maximum take-off weight of 2.6 tons. It is powered by a 950-horsepower radial piston engine.

Its maximum flight speed is 530 kilometers, its maximum flight altitude is 4,200 meters, and its maximum range is 3,300 meters.

In contrast, the Mi Army Night Cat fighter is different. Its length is 8.7 meters, wingspan is 11.5 meters, height is 2.8 meters, 2.6 tons in the air, maximum take-off weight is 3.6 tons, and power is It is a radial piston engine with 1,200 horsepower.

Its maximum flight speed is 512 meters, its maximum flight altitude is 12,000 meters, and its maximum range is 1,200 kilometers. Just from the data point of view, compared with the Japanese Zero fighter, the Night Cat fighter of the US Army flies higher and has more horsepower. Apart from the focus on the fuselage, the rest is nothing. The maximum flight speed and maximum range are not as fast. It's only one-third of Type Zero.

But why did Night Owl attack the Zero fighter? Apart from the Saatchi scissors tactic, the remaining major weaknesses of the Zero were discovered by the American army.

As for what the Saatchi scissors tactic is, it is very simple, that is, two fighter planes fly cross-flying, one fighter plane acts as a decoy and the other fighter plane is responsible for the attack. But the little devils are not fools, so they can't just follow this tactic.

Therefore, in addition to excluding human factors, another point is the performance of the fighter aircraft itself.

You must know that the Night Cat and the Zero are both about the same length, and even the Night Cat is smaller in size. So why is the empty weight of the Zero only 1.6 tons and why the Night Cat can reach 2.6 tons? It weighs tons!
  This is naturally the result of the Little Devil's Zero cutting corners to make it as light as possible. After all, the lighter weight means less inertia, making turning in the air more convenient, and even the fuel consumption is reduced a lot, just like In the future, cars manufactured by Little Devil will be the same. The lighter the weight, the lower the fuel consumption. As for the car body, it doesn't matter if there is a pit when the car is pressed. If the car crashes, it can only be blamed on the driver's poor driving skills! After all, cars are meant to be driven, not crashed.

But the American Night Cat fighter jet doesn’t think so. How to make it safe? For example, if you are afraid that the pilot will be shot, then you will naturally add steel plates around the cockpit. For example, if you are afraid that the aircraft fuel tank will be hit by a bullet and catch fire, then you will naturally add steel plates Installed a self-sealing fuel tank!

So if you add it here or somewhere, the weight of the aircraft will increase unknowingly. And if it becomes heavier, the engine power of the aircraft will be too small and it will not fly. It is easy to increase the engine power! So I built a 1,200-horsepower engine and started it!
  As the weight is heavier and the horsepower is higher, the fuel consumption will naturally go up. The Zero and Wildcat both have a load of one ton, and the Zero can fly more than 3,000 kilometers, while the Nightcat can only fly more than 1,000 kilometers. , but that doesn’t matter. After all, the United States is a major oil producer. As long as safety can win, this little fuel consumption doesn’t matter!

After all, the Wild Cat has added a ton of protection, so it’s not easy to destroy it easily!
  However, the most critical factor in the Zero's defeat to the Night Cat was the major flaw of the Zero, and this flaw was the flight height between the two aircraft.

Yes, there is a huge difference in the maximum flight altitude between the two. The maximum flight altitude of the Zero Fighter is only 4,200 meters, but the maximum flight altitude of the Night Cat is indeed more than 12,000 meters. There is a huge difference between the two. Almost three times more, and such a seemingly inconspicuous flaw has become a talisman for the Zero fighter on the battlefield.

In the early stages of the battle between the Japanese Zero and the American army, because the Japanese Zero was light and had good maneuverability, the turning radius was small. Therefore, the Japanese fighter often had not yet turned around, and the Japanese fighter It had already easily turned and bit the tail of the US army's aircraft, so in the early stage, the Little Japanese's Zero fighter plane naturally pressed against the US army's fighter plane.

However, since the US Army obtained the complete wreckage of a Zero aircraft and dismantled it, it was found that its engine was not equipped with a turbocharger. Therefore, after repairs and test flights, it was found that the flying altitude of the Zero fighter was only more than 4,000 meters. , the Type Zero nightmare is coming.

That's right. From now on, on the battlefield, if the American fighter planes are bitten by the Japanese Zero, they will be directly pulled up to climb higher.

As for the Little Japanese fighter plane, it was naturally impossible to pursue it because its maximum flight altitude was only a pitiful 4,200 meters. Therefore, after the American fighter plane climbed to a height that was beyond the reach of the Zero fighter plane, it would turn around and attack the Zero fighter plane at a high altitude. dive.

This kind of combat method was equivalent to making the American aircraft in an invincible position, which is why the Japanese Zero fighters were defeated so miserably in the subsequent battles.

This situation is like two people driving to the world's highest plateau at an altitude of four or five thousand meters. One person's car has a T, which means it has a turbocharger, and the other person's car does not have a T and is naturally aspirated. .

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