Chapter 135

At the same time, in London, England, the Royal Air Force placed high hopes on Vickers? A group of RAF commanders at shepparman aircraft design are also worried about the news they just got.

"Information from France." An air force intelligence expert looked around his colleagues and said, "in the Spanish air war, the performance of the I-16, the most advanced fighter of the Soviet Red Army, has completely exceeded that of the bulldog fighter our army is using. This is not good news for us."

"Now think of developing future fighters? It's too late An air force pilot sighed and complained, "what have you been doing? A few years ago, we produced a GC fighter (nicknamed cockfighting), but we didn't have the funds to equip it. We managed to produce a few and sold them to the Japanese. "

"Yes! A few years ago, Michelle, our chief designer, returned home on a military transport ship. It's not clear that she disappeared at sea. It's the damned German who killed her! " An aircraft engineer chimed in.

"All right! Don't go further! We are very sorry about the disappearance of Michelle designer. But now we're talking about how to deal with more and more air threats. " An Air Force Colonel knocked on the table and said, his expression was obviously a little strange: "besides, don't mention that bullshit cockfighting fighter. The problem we're going to discuss next is not that old biplane fighter can solve it."

"It's obvious that the advanced Soviet fighter I-16 appeared over Spain. This very fast fighter made all our planes obsolete. But this is not the main content of today's meeting. The main content is that the I-16 fighter suffered heavy losses over Spain!" The air force intelligence officers saw that everyone was quiet and continued to introduce their intelligence.

"God! You mean the Soviet I-16 fighter, which is said to fly 186 miles per hour, was defeated? An Italian plane An aircraft designer asked in disbelief.

British intelligence officers pressed a picture on the table. There was a vague shadow in the picture, but it was obvious that the shadow could show many characteristics, such as the slender fuselage, the closed cockpit, and the single wing structure: "Franco's national army used a super fighter that we had never heard of, Very easily and completely defeated the Soviet I-16 fighter

The intelligence official said: "the information we got from the spies deployed in Germany is not much. It only mentions that several German companies have jointly developed a new type of fighter, named after messmeter company, and the official code name is ME-109 fighter."

After a pause, he pointed to the various parts of the plane in the photo and continued: "this plane should be of all metal structure, with a fully enclosed cockpit. Its aerodynamic performance is terrible. According to our intelligence team in Spain and our people in Franco, the speed of this kind of German aircraft has exceeded everyone's imagination. Many people say that the speed of this kind of aircraft is more than 250 miles per hour. "

An air force fighter pilot looked at his colleagues in horror. His voice changed a little: "it's impossible! No plane can fly that fast! Even Michelle's new fighter pilot program doesn't have that speed. "

The intelligence officer snorted and laughed, then resumed his solemn tone and answered his question: "I'm sorry to tell you! This speed is true! Because we also have spies in the air force of the Republican Army, they have confirmed the existence of German fighters from another aspect! They say it's at least 250 miles per hour! Only a little more! "

"My God! Do you mean that both the Soviet Union and Germany have fighters that we can't match? And one of them can't even do our technical reserves? "

"In fact, the development of the new super fighter has been seriously delayed because of the disappearance of Michelle's designer. Now we have two fighter plans in hand, one is the fearless fighter plan with omni-directional rotating turret, and the other is the Navy Dapeng fighter plan. The design of both planes is similar, and their performance is comparable to that of the Soviet I-16 fighter. " An air force technical officer frowned and said, "but we need time to experiment, more to deploy and produce these aircraft."

"Test both planes now! By the end of the year, I want all the relevant data to reach the level of mass production. " The most senior major general of the RAF at the scene finally set the tone for the discussion: "these two kinds of aircraft will be produced immediately next year! The RAF purchases 500 of each model. "

"By the way! Even if chief designer Michelle is gone, you should continue to develop new future fighters for the RAF! " He got up, went to the blackboard on one of the walls of the conference room, picked up a piece of chalk and said, "the RAF demands that future fighters have a speed of 300 miles per hour!"

He wrote a number "300" on the blackboard with chalk, and then continued: "with a fully enclosed cockpit, the plane can fly to a higher altitude! In addition, single wing structure must be used! Do you understand? "

"Yes! Sir Everyone stood up to attention“ Designers and manufacturers, I know that you always develop airplanes and provide us with choices, but now is an extraordinary period, so I have to change some of the traditions that we continued before! I hope you can understand! "“ no problem! We support the decision made by the RAF! " Several designers and businesses nodded and said General blauchich, commander in chief of the German defense forces, is looking through this month's report on the expansion of the army. In the top secret cover, he records the important achievements of the expansion of the German defense forces in the past two months. Over the past few days, the German army has received 70 heavy guns produced by Krupp, all of which are 150 mm in caliber. These guns are the biggest caliber guns used in Germany at this stage. With the new type of shells, they can strike targets 20 km away. They are absolutely world-class artillery weapons. If you add the 28 trucks, 41 tanks provided by Mercedes Benz, more than 5000 G43 semi-automatic rifles produced by various factories, and 12000 recruits - then the process of German military expansion in these two months can be described as perfect. In fact, his strength is enough to make the British and the French startled. The total number of the national defense forces is close to 1 million. He has the largest number of cars and motorcycles in the world, and is equipped with 2700 tanks and armored vehicles of various models. In addition to the 30 me-109a fighters transported to Spain to support Franco, the air force has deployed 110 of them in the country. Based on the experience in Spain, the staff have improved the me fighters produced later, slightly increasing the fuel tank inside the aircraft, and adding two general hangers under the wing, which can hang auxiliary fuel tanks or small bombs. Catherine, commander in chief of the air force, has another trump card. This month, he received 17 ju-87 dive bombers named Stuka by akkado. This kind of aircraft is specially designed for attacking the ground, which gives the small German air force another function: attacking enemy ground targets. Of course, if the German army has basically recovered, and the German air force is constantly growing, then the changes in the German Navy this month can be described as earth shaking. In Kiel's Shipyard, Germany has stepped up its vigilance. In several large docks farthest away from the civilian area of Kiel port, the shipbuilders began to weld the huge hulls in sections. This shipbuilding plan code named "q-1a (H)" is to build the first aircraft carrier in German history, and one is to build two. The two ships are highly expected by the naval generals to become the only striking force in the German naval surface fleet that can challenge the enemy warships in the future. It became the core of the two German naval formations. All of these are carried out in an orderly way in the plan of the head of state. Germany, a huge war machine, has been operating efficiently and is ready to fight for its humiliation. Thinking of this, there was a wry smile on the corner of blauchich's mouth: the equipment was conceived by the head of state and the military together. It did not pass the test of actual combat. It seemed powerful, but it was really bottomless. In fact, some of the army's equipment has achieved good results after the actual combat test, and the air force is even more happy to wake up in their dreams. Only because the navy has no actual combat test, many generals doubt the development direction formulated by the head of state, but they are still cautiously developing the weapons and equipment designated by the head of state. Major general gascol of the intelligence department knocked on the door he did not close: "lieutenant general, we have just smashed a spy organization affiliated to France and captured four key personnel. They attempted to steal our fighter plane drawings and were caught by the Gestapo. What do you want to do with it? "“ Asked the Embassy? " Brauchich put down his papers and asked. Gascol nodded and replied, "yes, our diplomats have contacted their embassy. The French are the same. They don't admit any espionage activities. These people don't exist in France. So they're at our disposal. "“ Then deal with it as before! Send it to the concentration camp and produce socks! " Said brauchich“ Yes! General Gascol turned and walked out“ Gascol... "Blauchich suddenly asked," do you believe everything about the Fuehrer? "“ Of course Without thinking about it, gaskel replied, "he is a gift from God to the German people! I will follow him to death. "“ Me too!... " Brauchich breathed out as if he were talking to himself or persuading himself.