Germany's fighters are divided into two factions, one is represented by the ME-109E fighter, which takes the smart and gentle route. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The ME-109 fighter was designed to reduce its own weight as much as possible. It's a bit like the Japanese Zero fighter, it's all a system design project.

In this case, the whole fighter is a system engineering design, that is, the engine is integrated into the aircraft design as a design.

The advantage of this is that the aircraft can give full play to the greatest technical advantages of the aircraft itself at the beginning of the design and several subsequent minor modifications.

In other words, many aircraft in the Axis powers, including the Zero and the ME-109 fighter, were born in this way.

They were born to their fullest potential, outperforming enemy weapons in terms of performance and creating a terrible mass advantage.

Another route is the fighter faction that was born on the basis of the engine represented by the FW-190.

Because the ME-109E fighter takes up a lot of water-cooled engine capacity, the FW-190 fighter can only use air-cooled engines as its power system.

The design of the entire aircraft can be said to be designed around the engine, the reason is that the production capacity of the two engines jumo and DB is insufficient, so only BMW air-cooled engines can be used.

This makes the nose of the FW-190 very chunky, which is completely different from the slender Spitfire and ME-109E.

But one of the benefits of such a fighter designed around the engine is that it has accumulated experience in quickly adjusting the design of the aircraft according to the engine.

In fact, the advanced fighters of the late war, including today's various advanced jet fighters, were built on the design of the fuselage around the engine.

A fighter designed in this way has a lot of room for improvement, and the stamina for development is more sufficient. This was also the main reason why the German FW-190 fighter finally developed the TA-152.

Of course, there are many ways to improve engine performance, such as using high-grade gasoline, which can immediately improve the combustion ratio of an aero engine.

The British Merlin engine was actually an engine that took the normal route and gradually surpassed it to achieve ultimate success.

On the contrary, the German DB engine went to the extreme in the crooked way, and finally persisted to the end because of Germany's strong industrial system.

As for the Zero fighter, which is familiar to many people, it is a fragile cherry blossom built by Japan under the premise that its own industry is not strong, with special material technology and overall design ideas.

The Merlin engine came to the end and became the most famous engine in the world because it chose the most orthodox and safe path of development.

The DB engine barely supported to the end, and halfway because the performance could not surpass the opponent and fell into passivity, because Germany used its precision machining advantage to force its life......

The Zero collapsed halfway through, and the reason for losing everything was actually very simple: it followed an evil path, but it did not have strong industrial support.

Because of this, in the German fighter system, Li Le is actually the most optimistic about the FW-190 fighter series, and the subsequent successor is almost the TA-152.

After all, among the industrial products of the last days of Germany, the only thing that can be used to compete with the Allied fighters is the TA-152 fighter.

As for jets, that's a must-have, and it's also a must-have technology. But in the important 41 years, it is obvious that you can't count on that kind of mirror-like artifact.

Of course, Li Le knows that if he spares no expense, Germany will even be able to put the ME-262 into the sky in 43 years, but this kind of aircraft also has no long range, and it is even shorter than the range of the ME-109 fighter.

This kind of "airport defender" is useless for Germany on the offensive, and it is also a chicken rib product for defense!

Why? Germany, the size of the country, can only continue to expand its own base in the attack, and finally defeat those strong opponents.

Once the war becomes stalemate, with the German heritage, let alone the ME-262 for defense, even with the MIG-15, F-86, and even the more advanced MIG-17 and F-100, what can be done?

Even if the United States exchanges 100 planes for you, it is enough to force Germany to surrender and admit defeat, which is the main reason why Li Le does not bet on those doomsday technologies.

On the contrary, he just found a weapon that was truly suitable for Germany's national conditions among the many doomsday technologies in Germany, and accelerated the production within 40 years.

For example, the Stalker tank destroyer, which does not have much advanced technology at all, is a real artifact that has been overlooked by everyone!

A battalion of rat tanks cannot defend the entire Eastern Front, but a division of hunters can hold out on to the Eastern Front for another ten days -- this is the qualitative change brought about by quantity.

In the same way, putting 100 ME-262s and 300 TA-152s on the front line is a completely different concept. The former can scare the opposing air force, but the latter has a chance to regain air supremacy on the battlefield!

While Germany was trying to equip itself with STG-44 assault rifles, a large number of Iron Fist rocket launchers, and mass-produced Stalker tank destroyers, the Luftwaffe was clearly not idle.

They improved their FW-190 for two generations, and finally formed a terrible combat effectiveness. The Luftwaffe by this time was already equipped with a full 500 FW-190A fighters, which were involved in combat operations against Britain.

Together with more than 1,000 ME-109E fighters, the total number of fighters in the British Air Force is still less than a fraction of that of German fighters.

Although more than 300 German planes were shot down in the continuous bombing of the British mainland, the morale of the entire combat force was still high.

After all, they also shot down more than 200 British Air Force fighters and completely bombed Britain's industrial areas into ruins.

The HE-111 bomber had been ordered to stop production by Goering himself because of its unsatisfactory performance in the war.

This is the advantage of having a professional air commander like Goering -- he can analyze the problem himself, and he can make many correct decisions without too much interference from Li Le.

In place of the HE-111 bomber, Juncker's JU-88 multirole bomber is significantly more advanced and can be converted into an aircraft with other functions when appropriate.

The JU-88 was arguably the most versatile aircraft produced by Germany during World War II, not only as a bomber, but also as a night fighter, as a transport aircraft and as a sea attack aircraft.

It can carry a variety of weapons such as torpedoes and bombs, and even provide partial reconnaissance for the navy. So comprehensive that it can almost be said to be omnipotent.

"The work on the development of a new fighter has already reached the stage of drawing demonstration." At the working meeting, Dr. Tan Ke spoke to Li Le and Goering.

The head of Juncker also said that his company is capable of completing work on the design of a new multi-purpose medium aircraft.

And Dornier, another company that produces bombers, was not idle, and Li Le gave them an order that made Goering sound crazy bold.

"Yes, the development of a four-engine long-range strategic bomber! We can do without this kind of aircraft, or we don't need it for the time being, but we can't do without research and reserves in this area! Li Le opened his mouth and commanded.

While throwing the report on the development of German bombers on the table, he said: "We may have to bomb a distant enemy in the future, and we need strategic bombers with a huge bomb load!" ”

"Maybe 1,000, maybe 2,000, until we get a foothold in the Middle East." He confidently stated his intentions.

In Li Le's view, if Germany needs a complete strategic air defense network, it needs at least more than 7,000 active fighters, and another 7,000 aircraft of various kinds of support.

With such a huge army, Goering never dared to think that when Li Le told him that the empire needed about 15,000 fighters, the imperial marshal Goering almost took Li Le for a madman.

However, with the development of time, the Luftwaffe gradually summed up its tactics in the bombing of Britain, and finally found that what Li Le said was really true.

In order to cope with the possible air counterattack by the British, France and Belgium, and even Germany itself, must prepare at least 3,000 aircraft to meet them.

In the same way, Germany is a continental country, and it needs to face the threat from the Russians, and it needs to reserve at least 3,000 or even 5,000 aircraft for combat.

If you include the defense of aircraft stationed in military places such as North Africa, Germany's 12,000 aircraft may not be enough.

In the process of bombing the British with constant sorties, the Luftwaffe had mastered the technology of large-scale air formations and accumulated experience in the use of bombers.

Goering was even imagining in his mind what an enjoyable spectacle it was to fly 1,000 four-engine bombers, or even more, over the heads of the enemy.

Of course, in a real history that he did not know, Goering had seen such a scene with his own eyes, in his despair as American and British bombers flew over his head.