Chapter 37 Planning 18
After discussing the other performance data of the tank in detail, Yannick then talked about aircraft.
"Although the Treaty of Versailles restricts us from owning aircraft, I can guarantee that we will restore the air force before 1935. I need new aircraft, specifically new fighters, attack aircraft, and bombers."
According to the treaty, the German Army can only retain 7 divisions and cannot exceed 100,000 people. However, during World War I, Germany had 2 million soldiers who died on the front line alone. Now it can only have an army of 100,000 people. Moreover, the German Army cannot possess tanks, heavy artillery, or even heavy machine guns! In this way, Germany is left with only one police force, and even external defense becomes a problem.
In terms of navy, the German navy could not exceed 50,000 men, and it could not have submarines, aircraft carriers, or battleships. The German fleet was pulled to the British naval anchorage and scuttled. If the requirements for the German army and navy are very strict, then the German air force will not be allowed to you at all. The Allies wish that Germany could not fly anything except kites.
Otherwise, how can we say that the Germans are smart? Although the Entente restricted Germany from having certain weapons, they invented the world's first general-purpose machine gun. When mounted on a bipod, it becomes a light machine gun, and when mounted on a tripod, it becomes a heavy machine gun. If I am not allowed to have a tank, then I will do it secretly and test it secretly. Doesn’t it limit the number of my army? I asked all retired soldiers to become policemen and spies. As long as there is a war, we can immediately raise an army of hundreds of thousands of people. Aren't you denying me an air force? I set up an aviation club. You have nothing to do with civilian gliders. I will use gliders to secretly reserve aviation talents.
"The fighter has only one mission, which is to shoot down enemy aircraft and gain air supremacy. I need this fighter to have excellent climbing performance, whether it is a steady climb function at an elevation angle of 20 to 30 degrees, or using speed to dive and pull up. The instant climbing function should be excellent. At the same time, it should have excellent dive performance and the structural strength to be able to pull up at extremely high speeds without breaking the wings. Simply put, what I want is to fly from high altitudes. A high-speed fighter that swooped down and hit and ran."
"This kind of fighter needs retractable landing gear, an openable canopy, automatic flaps, lowering wings, etc." Speaking of the cockpit, when I used to play War Thunder, I always felt that it would be great if the fw190 had a "water drop" cockpit. . The German designers seemed to have a grudge against the pilots. They created such a narrow cockpit and were not afraid of suffocating the pilots to death.
Unfortunately, the technology for blowing water-drop canopies is mastered on the other side of the Taiwan Strait. When the Americans were working on wild ass, they even went to England and found out that the British Spitfires were using such a bad canopy design, so they put them in the wild. On donkey d and later models.
The characteristic of this "water drop" canopy is that it can provide a 360-degree unobstructed view, and there is almost no deformation of the scenery when viewed from the inside.
Although I don't know if German technicians can solve this technical problem, he still drew this "water drop" canopy. In this way, he drew the entire appearance of the "improved version" of the fw190 fighter jet on the blackboard. Finally, just label the data of each part. "Fighter weapons are equipped with six machine guns in the early stage, and can be upgraded to 7 mm or 20 mm cannon in the later stage. They can also be combined appropriately. The maximum flight speed must reach at least 600 kilometers per hour." Compared with the fuselage space, the space is too small. , the bf109 with limited room for improvement, he prefers the fw190 with large room for improvement and more potential for development (it has derived many modifications from A to S). [Germany's bf109 follows the same agile and gentle route as the island country's Zero. Although it does not go to the extreme like the Zero, it can still be regarded as taking a sideways approach. When it encounters the fire-breathing one who is walking on the orthodox route, Flow, the consequences will be to be beaten up unnecessarily. 】
As soon as these words came out, there was a gasp of air below, and everyone looked embarrassed. After all, the British "Gamecock" fighter jet that was in service in the past two years only had a speed of 250 kilometers per hour. Now Yannick's requirement of 600 kilometers per hour is a bit overwhelming.
Yannick also saw everyone's reaction and smiled. "I'm not asking everyone to develop it right away. Just like the tank I just mentioned, everyone has five years to develop it. I think this time should be enough." The original BF109 was issued for tender by the German Air Force in 1934. At that time It only took Messerschmitt, the chief designer of the Bavarian Aircraft Factory (Be), to develop it in just one and a half years. Although the bf109 is now being skipped to develop the fw190 directly, five years and the design plan he gave should be enough to successfully develop it, right?
Sure enough, after hearing the deadline given by Yannick, everyone finally relaxed and nodded.
As for the BF109, Yannick doesn’t know what to choose.
The Bf-109 fighter jet is Germany's first practical military aircraft with a cantilever lower single wing and retractable landing gear. It adopts more straight-line modifications in appearance, and in terms of structure, it rationally uses high-strength thin aluminum plates and precision die-casting parts, reflecting the advanced level of German industrial technology at that time.
It is not only the fighter that shot down the most enemy planes in World War II, but also the symbol of the German Air Force in World War II and the cradle of the German Air Force aces in World War II. The ace pilot Marseille, known as the "Star of Africa", once created a record of shooting down 12 enemy planes in one day while driving the Bf-109F "Yellow 14" aircraft; Germany's top ace Major Hartmann also used the Bf-109K aircraft for a long time. He personally shot down 352 enemy planes, setting an absolute record in the history of air combat in human warfare.
However, the shortcomings of this aircraft are also obvious. First, its single-wing beam design is very backward, which directly leads to the BF109 being a conservative and backward aircraft from birth. The structural strength brought by the single-wing beam is not enough, resulting in the landing gear only being installed at the wing root. The small distance between the landing gears makes take-off and landing more difficult. In addition, the high nose obstructs the front view, making the Bf-109 very skillful when taking off and landing, which makes many new pilots very uncomfortable. According to statistics, 10% of the damaged Bf 109s were caused by take-off and landing accidents.
Because of the limited room for improvement, the later Bf-109 has entered a dead end of adding water and flour. While continuously improving firepower and speed, it is forced to increase the weight of the fuselage. The weight of the fuselage forces the engine horsepower and fuselage structure to continue to increase, which in turn leads to an increase in weight. As a result, an extreme model such as the BF-109K4 was produced (but even so, the K4 model still has climbing performance and firepower that can compete with all opponents. For an old model from the 1930s, this is not easy).
Such reasons made Yannick hesitate whether to make the Bf-109.