The curtain has finally come to an end on the world's largest air battle, and the result of the war, for Britain and France, is simply a big slap in the face. You know, from the very beginning, Britain and France were full of interest, and they didn't think about annihilating all the other side's airship troops, and it was possible to gain the upper hand, and the British and French forces had almost 200 more airships than the Germans.

In one day, the shoot-down ratio of 192:715 suddenly caused a net loss of more than 500 ships for Britain and France, that is, not only flattened the gap between the two sides, but also made the British and French airships also in an absolute disadvantage, the German side left more than 300 airships, plus the southern ones may reach 400, and the British and French, plus Paris, are only 165 ships.

715 ships, according to the cost of 200,000 pounds to calculate, is 143 million pounds, this money, in the 21st century is a huge amount, not to mention in the gold standard, the era of the pound is still the world hegemon, this is almost more than 700 million US dollars, if you exchange gold, it is calculated in 100 tons, such a huge number of weapons, so lost in 2 hours.

65 airships, with the fastest speed, returned to Paris, panicked, did not care about the back at all, threw everything that could be thrown, and even included some ammunition and weapons, leaving only the necessary, high speed, and finally let them return to Paris and report the results of the battle.

The radio waves spread to all directions, and for the first time, they reached the British mainland. The British Prime Minister, who heard the news, immediately couldn't accept it. I even thought it was an April Fool's Day lie, after all, April Fool's Day is not far away.

But I asked again and again. The news of returning from Paris was the same, the entire British government and army were in an uproar, and at that time, a large number of airships were made, and some people complained that such a huge investment, why not invest in the army and navy, and the outstanding performance of the airships, including the current situation in Paris, must rely on airships to support. This can be regarded as dispelling the worries, and now the most nightmare situation has come, although out of 143 million, only about 80 million is a British investment, but this money is equivalent to nearly 30 battleships.

For the Prime Minister, the impeachment of the War Department drifted like snowflakes. Under the premise of the urgency of the military situation, the question of who is responsible for this matter is being discussed, and it has to be said that the British have a lot of leisure.

Britain and France did not yet know that Germany was still striking down the attention of the downed airship. Because after the airship was put into operation, all wars were fought in German-controlled areas, and Germany was careful not to approach the British and French areas. Britain and France also did not expect that the airship would be able to fix the problem. Just wait for ten days and a half months for the gap between them. It is not more than 100 ships, but more than 600 ships, 900 ships were shot down, at least more than 500 ships, which can be repaired, although the British and French airships are not as good as those built in the northwest, but they are finally produced at a huge cost.

It's too late to say anything now, Paris, which could have counterattacked the core, was immediately in a state of turmoil, everyone knows that airships are the key to Paris's ability to defend, and now that airships have been heavily fallen, what is the possibility of holding on, with 1 million to deal with the 2.5 million German troops on the periphery, even if there are other troops involved, but the immediate loss is to be eaten.

The headquarters of Britain and France did not publicize it, but the facts have proved that Paris cannot lose weight, and it is necessary to consider the changes on the entire battlefield after the fall of Paris, some British troops who were preparing to cross the strait and come to the French side have changed direction, and the 3 million troops that were ready to invest in this battle were suddenly reduced to 1.5 million, that is to say, in addition to the million army in Paris, only 500,000 others are still doing the work of containment, striving to let the defenders of Paris run out a little more, as for Paris, Unless Britain and France can still invest huge sums of money to smooth the airship gap with Germany, or complete it in a short period of time, it will definitely not be able to hold it.

After a quarrel, the result was not obtained, the prime minister was impeached, he may have to resign, the secretary of war will also resign, and the people's discussion will gradually subside, Europe is like this, in fact, the political system of the whole Europe is so similar, often as long as a scapegoat comes out, you can divert the attention of the people, when the war starts, the impetuous and unbearable people, there must always be an aspect to pour.

After the scapegoat was released, the strength of the military began to think about why they lost so badly, according to the war report reported in Paris, it was relatively smooth at first, but on land, there was a weapon that could attack the airship, which changed the tide of the war, and the superior British and French airships were blinded by this weapon, not only were hundreds sunk, but the rest were also out of absolute tactical disadvantage.

The powerful faction of the military may not know much about airships, but one thing is known, what that weapon is, if you don't figure this out, you will be under the threat of this weapon in the future, and it will be useless to send out airships, if you don't send them, you will be beaten passively, and it will be even worse.

Military orders began to be issued in the name of the new General Staff and War Department, and the officers who observed at the front, and the airship soldiers who were lucky enough to escape back to Paris, all received the first inquiries, mainly to inquire about what kind of weapons, and by the way, some wounded airships, and even the bullets of these weapons, which had to be sent back to London as soon as possible.

Soon, the bullets were taken, and this time, no one dared to transport them by airship, but they chose a warship, and dismantled an airship that was too seriously injured and barely flew back to Paris, and sent it back to London in its entirety, and the other samples, collected from other airships, were also sent back.

The British Naval Institute, which is the highest research institute of British weapons and equipment, has a much higher status in the British Navy than the Army, and therefore, all kinds of outstanding talents are also concentrated here, even if it is Army weapons, for the sake of insurance, they are still sent here.

Because they are all bullets, for the Naval Weapons Research Institute, this is not a problem at all, and in less than an hour, it was detected, and the bullets that attacked the airship were 2 types in total, 12.7 and 14.5.

Of course, in the machine gun position, some Makqin were also arranged, and they directly added brackets and changed them to anti-aircraft machine guns, but because the range of Makqin was only about 800 meters, and if there was no reinforcement in the air, it was at most 600 meters.

The German airship was lowered to 600 meters, but Britain and France did not land, only some of the wounded and non-stop falling will be shrouded by Makqin, and most of the airships that can come do not land within the range of Makqin, and it is impossible to get Makqin's bullets, but these two kinds of them have made British arms experts argue

Since the invention of Makqin, from the earliest large caliber, gradually become smaller, small caliber not only represents greater speed, but also represents greater power, so most arms experts think that this caliber will become smaller and smaller, and suddenly such a large caliber appears, which is a retrogression or progress.

What is the reason for expanding the caliber, the arms experts have some intuitive ideas, that is, to increase the range, in the test area, the arms experts directly took out the Makqin for a test, whether it is according to the results of the data calculation, or the actual results, it will not exceed 600 meters, the height of the British airship at that time was about 800 meters, is this this?

With the processing capacity of the United Kingdom, a 1.27 caliber Makqin was soon copied, but the effect was not satisfactory, under the premise of constant muzzle velocity, the height was a little higher than the previous one, but it was very limited, obviously, the 1.27 caliber, there are secrets in it.

The samples taken here are all warheads, no shells or the like, but the arms expert is the arms expert, after calculation, as well as the actual situation, the arms expert made a guess, this thing is a mathematical problem, at most it is fuzzy, the accuracy is not particularly high, the height of the bullet, the caliber, the size, you can calculate the required initial velocity, and then today calculated, the power of gunpowder, the speed of the exit, this is really not difficult, about half a day's effort, the result is out.

The data is out, but no one speaks, sitting here are the top machine gun designers in the United Kingdom, they can be said to have a thorough understanding of the machine gun, and it is precisely because of this understanding that they cannot continue, because, to reach this height, the requirements for the gun are too high.

This is still only about 1000, according to the calculations of some officers, he saw with his own eyes that when flying at an altitude of 2000 meters, an airship was shot down, this is a special case, or a convention, because the data is limited, no one can say, but even if it is a range of 1000 meters - 1200 meters, this machine gun is amazing. According to a conservative estimate, if this gun wants to be put into military use, the strength of the barrel metal is even stronger than that of a 16-inch or even larger caliber naval gun.

This is from the strength and yield of the metal, this does not represent the whole of the 16-inch gun, only metal can not solve the problem of 16 inches, 16-inch guns, including the loading system, turret system, winch, automatic aiming system and other different systems, if you only choose to complete the 16 inches, as the Germans once did, can not guarantee the power and rate of fire of the shells, it is only a pseudo-16 inches.

Arms experts know all this, the metal problem is not the only factor that plagues large-caliber naval guns, but it is the most important factor, large-caliber naval guns can not be produced in the whole world, Britain is, Germany is reluctant, the United States can produce because of the technology supported by Britain, and no one else can produce it.

Compared to the problem of metal, other problems, it seems, are much easier, and can also be generalized with lower artillery systems, and the result is nothing more than the difference in rate of fire and hit, the biggest problem has been solved, and the rest is not much more difficult.

If a problem is not solved, a bigger problem will arise, and it is a question about the lifeblood of Britain, and at this moment, the gunsmiths can not solve the problem, and they have found artillery experts, and brought in personnel at the government level, the army level, and the strategic level, to jointly deal with this may be a major crisis for Britain. (To be continued.) )