my bright sword career

Chapter 239 Preferred Target

At this moment, not only Huang Kebiao and the others, but even the dozens of pilots who were not selected and could only continue to study all rushed to the side of the runway, looking at the fighter planes being pulled by the tractor.

"Look...it's a monoplane!" A sharp-eyed student pointed forward and shouted, with inexplicable excitement in his eyes.

By the time of World War II, with the rapid development of materials and technology, the slow biplane had been gradually replaced by the heavier and faster monoplane. However, due to China's weak national strength, it could only rely on the purchase of aircraft from Western countries. Form your own air force.

However, most Western countries are not willing to sell fighter jets to China due to fear of Japan and the ridiculous excuse of maintaining stability in Asia. Finally, after a round of Chinese air force delegations, they found that only the United States was willing to sell fighter jets to China.

But even so, the United States is unwilling to sell newly developed monoplane fighters such as the F4 Wildcat to China, but vigorously promotes the outdated biplane Hawker-3 to China.

To be honest, at that time the Hawk-3 biplane fighters could no longer keep up with the progress of the times, but the Americans just took hold of Huaxia and did not choose this option. Calling out a high price for this already outdated fighter, the Huaxia Air Force delegation, who had no choice in the end, could only bite the toothpick and place the order.

Even so, after the Hawker-3 came to China, it quickly became the main fighter of the China Air Force. It was equipped with the Air Force's Fourth Battalion with Gao Zhihang as the captain. The boys of the Fourth Brigade fought the Japanese invaders with this outdated aircraft and achieved several victories.

It's a pity that as the war continued, the Huaxia Air Force's fighter planes became less and less, and the pilots of the fourth brigade, including Gao Zhihang, almost all spilled blood in the sky, which made people feel sad and regretful.

The students of the flying brigade are of course well aware of this period of history. Their original thinking was that even if the group bought them old-fashioned biplane fighters such as the Hawk-3, they would recognize them, and they never thought of tractors. What was dragged out was actually a monoplane fighter, and everyone jumped up happily for a while.

Slowly, dozens of tractors stopped on the runway, and dozens of fighter planes just parked quietly in front of Huang Kebiao and the others. Under the morning glow, dozens of iron-gray fighter planes shone softly.

The students who couldn't stand it anymore flocked to the plane, but when they saw the appearance of these fighter planes, the group couldn't help but gasped.

There is no other reason, but the appearance of this fighter is really beyond their expectations.

And everyone's first impression is that this fighter is very... burly, and its volume alone is more than a circle larger than that of the wave 2 trainer. At first glance, it looks like a huge milk bottle. At best, he can only be regarded as a teenager, while this fighter is a burly man, the two are not of the same order of magnitude at all.

"My mother... this big guy is so big, it must be at least four meters high?" Huang Kebiao looked up at the fighter plane in front of him and murmured.

"To be precise, this fighter is 4.47 meters high, with a wingspan of 12.42 meters, an empty weight of 4.53 tons, and a maximum take-off weight of 7.93 tons. It has 8 Browning 12.7mm heavy machine guns, which can shred any enemy in front of it! "At this time, a voice sounded behind the pilots.

The students looked back, hurriedly stood at attention and saluted, and shouted in unison: "Hello, group seat!"

The person who came was naturally Gao Hongming, and Huang Huaimin and a group of people followed behind him.

Gao Hongming walked up to the pilots and stood still, grinning and said: "Brothers, this aircraft is the guy I prepared for you. Its full name is the P-47 fighter jet, nicknamed Thunderbolt. From today onwards, they will be your life and death. Friends, my request to you is to familiarize yourself with all its functions in the shortest possible time, and drive it to compete with the Japanese invaders for our air supremacy.

After finishing speaking, Gao Hongming saluted the students solemnly, and the students returned the salute collectively with a solemn expression. Although he didn't say a word, Gao Hongming understood that this was the most solemn promise made by a man.

"Sir... and us... where's our plane?" At this moment, another group of people became anxious, and they were all cadets assigned to the bomber squadron.

"Of course I haven't forgotten you." Gao Hongming laughed, pointed to the other side and said, "Look...your plane has already arrived..."

Accompanied by the direction Gao Hongming pointed, another batch of black-painted planes are also slowly approaching under the tractor, and this plane is the famous U-87 Stuka dive in another time and space. bomber……

In fact, during this period of time, Gao Hongming spent a lot of thought on what planes to equip these students.

To say that in World War II, there were many famous aircraft, such as the Japanese Zero fighter, the British Spitfire, the Soviet Il-2, Yak-9, La-7, and the American Hellcat, Corsair, Mustang, etc., you can Said that Gao Hongming was dazzled.

But in the end Gao Hongming chose the P-47, a relatively little-known fighter.

There is only one reason why he chose the P-47, because this fighter was the fighter with the thickest armor and the strongest firepower in World War II, and it was also the fighter with the strongest survivability.

Although the P-47 is not as famous as the P-51 Mustang known as the universal fighter or the F-6F Hellcat known as the Zero nemesis, it is one of the fighters with the largest output in World War II, reaching an astonishing 15683. The battle loss ratio was 4.6 to 1, and the loss ratio per 7 aircraft dispatched was only [-]. This kind of battle loss ratio was the only one among all the fighters of World War II, and the last point was also Gao Hongming's favorite.

Gao Hongming is very clear that if you are fighting for technology, the newly established flying brigade can only be described as a rookie compared to the Japanese army, so the most important thing for the flying brigade to choose a model is not to look at the aircraft It is not about how good its performance is and how far its voyage is, but its survival rate, which is why Gao Hongming chose the P-47.

For Gao Hongming, if the plane is gone, he can buy it from the weapon store, but if the pilot dies in battle, it will be troublesome. The training period of half a year or even two or three years is very terrible. Look at Japan and Japan in another time and space. Germany knew it. At the end of the war, almost all the pilots of these two countries were exhausted.

In view of this, the P-47 with heavy armor, fierce firepower and high survival rate became Gao Hongming's first choice.

(End of this chapter)