Chapter 1085: The Americans' Helicopters
"That's the helicopter of the Americans?" Li Youtian looked disdainfully at the 8 black dots that were gradually flying in the air.
Since the appearance of the Chinese Black Hawk helicopter on the battlefield, the Americans immediately accelerated their own helicopter research and development.
Although both the Sikorsky Company and the Bell Company are controlled by the Shadow Company, and it is difficult to produce results by using only the manpower and technological resources of the United States to reap benefits from China, after all, the Americans have a profound background, and under the attention of the Department of Defense, some half-dead helicopter researchers have ushered in the spring of American helicopters.
In fact, the history of human development of helicopters has not stopped. It is the difficult research of generations of talents that can lead to the success of future generations standing on the shoulders of giants.
As a later person, Meng Xiang only corresponded to the developing Sikorsky Company and Lawrence Bell's Bell Company based on a little insight that was widely circulated in later generations. However, companies such as Piaseki and other companies that are not well known to Meng Xiang are easily missed by shadow companies, perhaps under the suppression of shadow companies, the US helicopter industry has been sluggish, but as long as the Americans begin to pay attention and spend a lot of money, they will be immediately resurrected on the spot.
A large number of talents and even companies in other industries have also stepped into this industry under the temptation of huge profits, promoting the rapid development of American helicopters.
Later, Textron and Howard Hughes, which acquired Bell Company, discovered the business opportunity and bought early. Veteran arms dealers, such as Boeing, are rushing in to grab food. Even a number of helicopter research companies and talents in France and Britain were brought in by the Americans.
In order to dilute those interests, and for the sake of more convenient direction and related resources, Bell and Sikorsky, which are controlled by the shadow company, also joined the competition. Bell even won a large order for an improved military helicopter from the Bell-47, which was only slightly ahead of others. Sikorsky also made a fortune on the S-51.
Without them, the Americans would have risen as quickly as possible.
Originally, Meng Xiang also planned to postpone the delivery of Sikorsky's S-55, the world's first military transport aircraft, but Textron, which relied on some helicopter civilian talents and workshops to start, actually copied the Black Hawk helicopter, and with the key funding of the Ministry of National Defense, developed a military transport aircraft with performance that is not weaker than the S-55.
Moreover, in the upsurge of helicopter development in the United States, under the disputes of various families, the issuance of military code names accelerated, so that this transport plane coincidentally hung H-19, which originally belonged to the military code name of S-55.
The flying banana of the Piathes company was also born ahead of schedule. The latest model already has a prototype of the CH-47. And Hughes also had a plan for armed helicopters in advance based on the intelligence of Huaxia combat helicopters. It's just that because of the power or piston engine, plus some material and technical factors, these plans are still just on the proving ground.
After all, the cross-generational gap in technology and materials requires time to precipitate, even if Huaxia has a reference for base manufacturing, it needs a precipitation process, and Rao is the world's leading technology. It will also be difficult for Americans to cross that crucial step.
However, with the Bell-47 and H-19, the Americans had hastily built up their own air cavalry and came directly to the battlefield of Edmonton to show their faces.
Perhaps they also knew that their hastily modified helicopters would not be able to fight against Huaxia's Black Hawk and Hind, so they learned to target Huaxia's tank and armored forces.
After the placement of tanks such as the Overlord and the Conqueror on the front line, the pressure on the front line dropped sharply, so the Americans, who were aware of the flexibility of the helicopters, used the small number of helicopter formations to raid the logistics line in China.
So far, the Americans have always believed. As long as there is a problem with the logistics line of China, the Chinese army that invaded the American continent will collapse without attacking.
As a result, this US Air Cavalry squadron, consisting of four H-19s and four Bell-47s, appeared over Li Youtian's logistics convoy.
"Captain, the American devils are here! Let's fight! The non-commissioned officer next to him, Zhang Guigui, kept muttering and urging.
The Chinese National Defense Force, which has always attached great importance to logistics, has many elite veterans when arranging logistics personnel. However, according to the sweeping momentum of the Huaxia armored forces, it is difficult for the logistics troops to gain too many achievements, and they can only deal with those fish that slip through the net or harass the troops. As soon as there is a war, these rusty veterans who feel that their bodies are idle become extremely excited.
"What's the hurry?" Li Youtian glared. shouted to the subordinates who were around him, and his eyes had changed. "This thing runs fast, and the American devil is timid and small. If you don't let them get closer, how do you make dumplings? ”
"Lao Li, the safety of those devices depends on you!" Zhao Jian said uncomfortably beside him.
Over the years, Zhao Jian has become accustomed to running around. In order to explore mineral resources in various places, Southeast Asia and Australia, Zhao Jian has run through. His mentor, Xie Jiarong, is now studying Moroccan phosphate in North Africa. Even his younger brother Liu Dongsheng, who has been studying the Loess Plateau, has now gone to Germany to study the Loess Belt in the Ruhr area.
It is even more common to run behind the army. As soon as the Chinese iron hoof is crossed, the scientists accompanying the team will immediately carry out more detailed research to determine the possible development plans of these areas, and make various long-term plans accordingly.
However, Zhao Jian did not expect Huaxia's development plan to extend to the North American continent.
Only when he saw the exploration machines that the team carried with him, Zhao Jian would be full of pride in the North American exploration plan that stepped on the nose of the Americans.
"Don't worry, Lao Zhao! Those machines are absolutely safe. Even the supplies we are transporting cannot be ruined by the Americans. Those conspicuous places are all empty city plans set up by Lao Li for them! Instructor Zheng Keshu smiled and comforted.
Although they cannot directly intervene in military command, instructors who focus on the thoughts and rights of soldiers also need to understand military affairs. This empty city plan itself was first proposed by Zheng Keshu, who was born in a military academy.
The Americans had no idea that as soon as their helicopter appeared, it was detected by a Kirov airship hovering high in the air.
In this era when missiles were not prevalent, taking advantage of the superiority of high altitude, the radar was moved to the Kirov airship, which had a huge payload, and with the addition of radar stations on the ground and satellites that could determine more detailed targets, a network of heaven and earth was arranged. If the Americans wanted to raid, it would be difficult to escape the eyes of Huaxia.
As soon as the American helicopter was dispatched, the command airship in the air transmitted the news to the relevant troops.
Under the guidance of base manufacturing and Mengxiang's forward-looking vision, and under the foundation of technology from all over the world, including the United States, Huaxia's electronics industry has developed exceptionally rapidly. As a result, the communication performance and coverage of the Chinese army even surpassed that of the Americans. Even this time this logistics brigade learned the news early. I couldn't help but let the people who were eager to fight use their brains and prepare the trap in advance.
As soon as the American light cavalry saw this particularly obvious logistics convoy, they finally flew over angrily.
"The Americans will not use helicopters if they have them!" Li Youtian breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that only the helicopter was flying, and he said even more disdainfully.
The speed and low-altitude flight of the helicopter were easy targets for anti-aircraft artillery, especially in this empty North American wilderness.
At the end of World War II, all countries had put air defense in an important position, and even in small formations, there might be anti-aircraft machine guns.
When a Huaxia helicopter is operating, it is generally necessary to call an attack aircraft or a fighter with a ground function before the operation to deal with the anti-aircraft fire on the ground first. Just like the Talon Eagle on the front line at this time, it has been the Black Hawk helicopter companion in the North African campaign.
Helicopters will also carry out some raid missions on their own, but whether it is the Black Hawk transport aircraft built at the base or the Hind helicopter gunship, they all have high-strength armor, which is far from being comparable to the Americans' relatively poor first-generation helicopters.
As soon as this helicopter formation of the Americans broke into the ambush circle, it was immediately surrounded by a dense network of anti-aircraft artillery.
The Americans have always been a little outdated in their intelligence about Huaxia, and although they also know that there is a special anti-aircraft version of the multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicle, they do not know that even the 20-mm cannon of the general multi-purpose combat vehicle has a stronger anti-air effect than the ground.
Even though the multi-purpose combat vehicles built by the base are not distributed in the logistics team, the 12.7 mm heavy machine gun for ground and air use has been widely deployed on many vehicles.
What's more, this logistics brigade was accompanied by 3 Getter tanks.
While some of Yuri's forbidden biochemical units are not yet available for production, things like the Getter Cannon and the Getter Tank are beginning to unravel a corner of Yuri's units as the end date of World War II passes.
Meng Xiang was very impressed by the super anti-aircraft Getter tank, so the first-class Getter tank with two 25mm five-barrel Gatling guns appeared in the Huaxia team.
It is considered that the Americans are unlucky, after occupying air superiority on the front line, they are worried that more and more fighters from the Americans will harass the logistics, and the logistics brigade has exactly a gate tank squad with 3 tanks.
As soon as the barrel of the Gatling cannon spun around, the roar of death approached the Americans.
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"Damn, we've been ambushed, let's go! Come on! Lieutenant Colonel Ron, the commander of the air cavalry, shouted as he stood at the door of the H-19 helicopter, holding the Americans' newly equipped 7.62mm M4 automatic rifle and firing downward.
But a 25mm shell quickly tore open a larger hole where he stood, and the rain of blood that was falling everywhere was the last scene he left in this world. (To be continued.) )