super battleship

Chapter 11 The First Battle of the Gunship

After the completion of this special supply aircraft, Zhang Fan immediately began to promote this new type of aerial weapon like the military department. In his description, the gunship aircraft is an aerial killer.As long as there are a few gunboats, the enemy's armored force is a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, vulnerable to a single blow!
As the new hero of the empire, Mustache attaches great importance to Zhang Fan's opinion. Although Zhang Fan is in the navy, Mustache still specifically asks Goering to approve this actual combat exercise!

In order to highlight the powerful power of the gunship, especially the powerful power of this special supply aircraft, Zhang Fan asked to use this gunship to single out an entire armored division!

Hearing such a frenzied request, even Mustache was surprised.Is this a joke, an aircraft against an armored division.But Zhang Fan is very confident. After all, this gunship is a special version, and its armor thickness is enough to resist direct hits from 40mm anti-aircraft guns. Most of the anti-aircraft guns of the German armored divisions are below 40mm, and only a few elite guards There are anti-aircraft guns with more than 40mm, but the number is very limited!Moreover, the rate of fire of these large-caliber anti-aircraft guns is obviously slow, and it is obviously incapable of defeating this kind of air fortress that can move quickly in the air!
Although this request is outrageous!But Mustache still satisfied Zhang Fan's willful request. After all, as a hero of the empire, he must give some face!

The exercise was soon arranged, and on a sunny morning, famous high-level officials from all over Germany participated in the exercise to watch the exercise!

On one side is a German armored division. Although only the second-line German troops participated in the exercise due to the tense front-line battle, there were as many as 10000 people and more than 200 armored vehicles and tanks, not to mention 18 anti-aircraft artillery!Black, the army general in this exercise, looked at Zhang Fan with contempt. He wanted to see how Zhang Fan defeated a German armored division with one plane.If the Air Force is so powerful, why do they need the Army?It's a pity that what he didn't expect was that 60 years later, in the entire war, the Air Force was the most powerful. Whoever controls the air supremacy will gain the initiative in the war!

After the second-level armored division was ready, Zhang Fan's gunboat flew into the exercise site with a huge whistling sound. Since this was an exercise, all the troops used exercise bombs!But even so, if the aircraft armor is too thin, it may still be pierced by anti-aircraft guns!
Soon, the battle began. After all, there was no way to hide from such a big target in such a sunny weather!At first, the German Army General Blake thought that the plane would roar past like an ordinary bomber, and it would be over after dropping a few bombs.Unexpectedly, this gunship machine started to rotate the lighthouse directly. This huge gunship machine just made one circle, two circles, three circles, and kept tilting its firepower towards the ground. The anti-aircraft firepower only launched a counterattack at the beginning, and when the anti-aircraft firepower was exposed, the gunboat leisurely circled around the anti-aircraft firepower stronghold, and all the anti-aircraft guns were misfired!
And how other armored vehicles that wanted to retreat could run past the flying fortresses in the sky, one after another was called by the gunship machine, the hit rate of this kind of gunship machine that rotates the lighthouse is scary!In the past, aircraft bombing ground targets required ultra-low-altitude air strikes, but gunships only needed to maintain an altitude of 2000 meters and tilt their firepower against the ground!
In just half an hour, the armored division was paralyzed, all the anti-aircraft guns were destroyed, the armor strength was lost by 60%, and there were countless casualties!The gunship was hit less than 15 times, and none of them broke the defense.That is to say, the gunboat defeated a reorganization division unscathed!

And the German Army General Blake who was commanding on the field was also dumbfounded. His command vehicle was also destroyed by the gunboat. He didn't even react. The gunboat just spun above his head for a while. The guard tanks were all knocked out!That's right, it was easily pried off like a bottle cap. After all, the top defense of all armored vehicles is the weakest, and it can't stop the large-caliber artillery that hits directly from the sky!
Seeing such a gunboat with such an astonishing record, the Mustache Head of State danced with excitement!
"Great! Fantastic Zhang, you are the God of War in Germany, and you have brought miracles to the empire one after another! This new weapon is really amazing. I don't know how difficult it is to make this weapon!" Mustache asked
"Your Excellency, the head of state, this kind of gunship is basically a large transport aircraft plus a special artillery. As long as you master the lighthouse rotation, the hit rate of the whole machine will be greatly improved. However, I suggest that the head of state add a self-destruct device to the aircraft, because this type of aircraft The technical content is actually not high. If the allied forces get the wreckage of the plane, it will be easy to imitate the same ground attack plane! In addition, this kind of plane basically has no air-to-air capability, and we need our fighter jets before each attack Escort it to avoid being shot down by the opponent's fighter jets! But even with so many shortcomings, the advantages of this ground attack aircraft are still flawless. As long as it is kept secret in advance, a sudden attack will definitely deal a heavy blow to the opponent. Moreover, the use of this kind of gunship can effectively attack the enemy's transportation and supply lines. The general small ground guards can't resist the attack of the gunship at all, but if the enemy deploys a large number of anti-aircraft fire positions in the follow-up, the role of the gunship will not be reduced. Not much! But even in this way, we can flexibly mobilize gunships to attack positions with weaker local anti-aircraft firepower, and deal a heavy blow to the enemy!"

Although Zhang Fan mentioned some flaws of gunships, no weapon is perfect, the key is how to use them!Obviously, everyone here is a high-level German elite, and they quickly saw that the huge advantage of the gunship is to stay in the air for a long time to carry out continuous strikes on the enemy's troops lacking air force and anti-aircraft firepower!And its attack accuracy is scary!
So far in the exercise, Zhang Fan's goal has been achieved. This gunship has been specially approved by the mustache head of state, allowing the air force to purchase in large quantities!And Zhang Fan also took advantage of the opportunity to launch the production company of gunboats - Xinghai Technology Company.A high-tech arms company specializing in the development of high-tech weapons.This company is a joint venture between Krupp and Heinkel, and Zhang Fan also owns 50% of the company's shares.Zhang Fan is one of the largest shareholders. Although he can't be the chairman, there is no problem in naming the company!So Zhang Fan named the company Xinghai Technology.

It was also at this time that Xinghai Technology really showed its prominence, and gradually became one of the largest high-tech arms companies in the future!

After the exercise, Zhang Fan brought the good news to Heinkel and Krupp. The new company received a large order of 500 gunships from the military just after its establishment. You must know that the cost of gunships is higher than that of large bombers. A batch of such a large order allows the company to get on the right track immediately!
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