Yes, this year, new fighters from all over the world will be launched one after another, the BF109 of the Third Reich, the Hurricane of the Empire of the Sun Never Sets in response, and the MS406 of France. These fighters all feature a cantilevered lower wing, a fully enclosed cockpit and retractable landing gear, and are equipped with more powerful V-shaped liquid-cooled engines for a maximum level flight speed of more than 500 km/h.

For the United States, which has become a world power and maintains its neutral status, it must have a large number of advanced fighters, but at that time, the US Army Aviation was mainly equipped with the old P-26, or a monoplane with a tension structure, although it represented the highest level of the world's aviation industry in the early 30s, but it has long been far surpassed by these new fighters that have gradually appeared, and it is urgent to equip the latest fighters.

Therefore, the U.S. Army Aviation will hold a bidding event for new aircraft in May next year, and the winning models will be used to equip the U.S. Army Air Corps.

As a veteran American aircraft manufacturer, the X-17Y that Curtis is putting into research and development actually performs well, but because a technology is too complex, it has become a loser in the competition for orders, and has instead achieved another small company--- Selveki Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which later became known as Republic Corporation.

Of course, these Liu Lang will not tell the senior consultant of Curtis, who is trying to sell the Hawker III aircraft to him, and only Curtis, who has lost the order of the American Army Airlines, can fully provide the batch of aircraft orders needed by the Chinese Aviation Volunteers.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Richard, but neither Hawke II nor Hawke III will meet our combat needs in the Japanese war." Liu Lang shook his head and resolutely rejected Richard's unrelenting proposal.

"Of course, it's not that the performance of the Hawker series fighters is not good enough, but that they are not suitable for fighting against the Japanese fighters who are invading China, and the Type 96 fighters they are developing are far stronger than the Hawker series fighters that were finalized five years ago in terms of turning radius and pulling up and diving performance." After all, Liu Lang still gave face to the veteran pilot who trained the No. 1 ace pilot of the US Air Force, and directly said the reason for his veto.

Of course, the most important thing is that Liu Tuanzuo still wants to fool this instructor who will continue to be Zhou Dapeng's instructor, and in the past two years, they will be in the United States while receiving planes and training to fly.

"Mr. Liu, I understand what you said, but the aircraft data you proposed is too simple in terms of performance, and the aircraft performance you mentioned does not have an absolute advantage in terms of the newly developed models of the Japanese in addition to the advantages in terms of speed, and we will not spend a lot of manpower and financial resources to develop a model that cannot be included in the mass procurement plan." Richard shook his head regretfully and analyzed from a professional perspective.

From his point of view, the aircraft requested by Liu Lang is quite a bit of a chicken rib, not only can it take on more combat missions, but also cannot completely crush the performance of the new aircraft that his opponent is about to put into test flights and equip, and it is actually of little significance.

"No, I don't need you to re-invest in development, I just need you to put the 75 fuselage that you have now basically finalized, and the aircraft engine that gives you a headache will be negotiated by a strong enough company." Liu Lang is also very firm in his choice.

Yes, since he didn't want to sell the old American export Hawker III fighters, and he couldn't buy new models that the Americans are still at the test site, although Liu Lang knew that the P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang launched by the Americans a few years later, as well as the Spitfire fighters launched by the British, could beat the Zero fighters that the Japanese were proud of to the point that they didn't even know Ma Ma, but that was when the Chinese battlefield had already been turned into a pot of porridge, and the Japanese were also mired in a quagmire and could not extricate themselves. Liu Lang didn't want to wait, and he couldn't wait, so Liu Lang could only find another way.

This is the compromise method that Liu Lang came up with, including Liu Lang's aircraft data performance requirements, which are all designed with reference to the performance of the Thunderbolt aircraft that the American cowboy later beat the Japanese Zero in the Pacific Ocean.

The main fighter of the Japanese in the Battle of Songhu was the Type 96 fighter, which was actually the predecessor of the Zero fighter, and its main advantage was that it was high speed, light and flexible, excellent climbing, turning radius and dive pull-up performance.

However, the fighters designed by the Westerners are inferior to the Japanese in this respect, including the Thunderbolt that the Americans put in active service five years later. It is almost impossible to get stubborn Western designers to change the design of the fuselage. Therefore, Liu Lang used the introduction of a more powerful engine to increase the speed of the customized fighter, and then used the advantages of high protection and heavy firepower to make up for the disadvantage of insufficient turning radius. Attacking the enemy's shortcomings with their own strengths, this is what the American cowboys did in the Pacific Ocean in the future, and the Zero planes with fragile fuselages and no protective steel plates suffered and became ignited firebirds and crashed into the vast Pacific Ocean.

The fuselage numbered 75 proposed by Liu Lang is actually an all-metal fuselage, low monowing, and retractable landing gear design fighter that was officially put into production by Curtiss in 36, which is the future U.S. Army Airlines P-36, which is actually the template for the famous P-47 Thunderbolt designed by Republic Company.

And why Liu Tuanzuo is very stubborn to let this new type of aircraft be able to hang 500 kg of aerial bombs, it is really a painful lesson from the Songhu air battle in time and space. The main fighter of the Chinese Air Force, the Hawker III, can only hang a 220-kilogram aerial bomb, which is obviously insufficient. The Japanese headquarters in Hongqiao, Shanghai, was very strong, so strong that even 200-kilogram bombs could not blow up, so they could resist the attack of 100,000 troops for several days. If he could throw 500 kilograms of aerial bombs on their fortifications like turtle shells, Liu Lang would have reason to believe that he would be able to blow them up into the sky.

It's not that the engine technology of the Americans is impossible, but that's General Electric, not Curtis. Only by using this kind of cooperation can we reduce the cost of Curtis, which Liu Lang has already hoped for in the loss of the US military aircraft order next year, and only then can they salivate over this big pie that has fallen from the sky.

As for what engines to introduce, Liu Lang naturally thought of Rolls-Royce Company, in which the Chinese Commercial Company has a stake, and Rolls-Royce Company, which has restarted the wind tunnel experiment and developed the latest aero engine, will certainly not refuse this order, at least the order of 400 engines will make President Whitebeard smile crookedly.

Of course, as Richard said, the performance of the aircraft required by Liu Lang is actually very simple, even if some of the performance is very good, even beyond their active fighters, but precisely because of the single performance, it is not enough to threaten the main aircraft of Western countries. In fact, it turned out that during World War II, the more the fighter was expected to assume more combat utility, the more the design of the aircraft failed. The technology of this era is not enough to develop multi-role fighters.

More importantly, this is enough for China, which only faces the Japanese threat. Liu Lang only needs to fly the pilots of this copycat version of the Thunderbolt fighter to blow up the Type 96 in the sky over Songhu. Liu Lang did not expect that a mere 100 fighters would be able to wipe out the four aircraft carriers that Japan had deployed at the mouth of the Yangtze River and the 100 warships on the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River, unless China had more than 1,000 fighters.

You must know that the number of Japanese fighters in the Songhu battlefield is more than 1,000, but in fact, the number of Japanese fighters that can take off to meet the battle in the entire Songhu area is as high as 3,000.

Liu Lang is a butterfly, but his current wings are still too immature, and he still needs enough time to grow.

With the good relationship between the current US government and the British government, Liu Lang believes that they will not refuse this fairly good business.

In other words, Curtis will not refuse such a money-picking business.

Richard is sweating profusely, and the number 75 all-metal fuselage is absolutely confidential in Curtis, at least in this half a year, that is the key to Curtis's intention to win the military order, which was actually known by a Chinese. If it weren't for the fact that this is the territory of the Chinese, I am afraid that this person would have shouted to catch the spy.

"Mr. Richard, don't think I'm a spy, it's not a secret that the all-metal fuselage is not a secret, not only you, Boeing, Republic, and that one is not gearing up to win orders with this? On the European continent, the all-metal fuselage has been put on the table. As for the number, can I tell you that I made it up myself? Liu Lang looked at the veteran pilot with a smile, his eyes full of cunning.

Believe in you to have ghosts. The father of the future No. 1 ace pilot of the US Air Force looked at the cunning Chinese fat man in front of him and complained all over his stomach.

The Chinese fat man is right, the all-metal body is actually just a secret in the open.

It's just, how can that number be guessed casually?

Inscrutable.

This is another impression that Liu Lang gave Richard.

Then, the Chinese fat man may feel that it is not enough, and deepen the impression again.