readx; When Lin Yan used the lieutenant and others to fly the fighters and the escort fighters in the bomber group to engage in a fierce air battle, more Chinese air force fighters also arrived one after another, some of them joined the entanglement with the enemy fighters, and the other fighters went straight to those bombers with their spare hands. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When these bombers lost the cover of their fighters, they were like lambs in the face of interception by Chinese fighters, unable to resist at all.

Although these bombers are also equipped with self-defense machine guns, and their firepower is not weak, they cannot effectively protect their own safety in the face of fighter interception, and they can only be shot down one after another!

At this moment, nearly 200 bombers and fighters were entangled in the sea and above the sea, all kinds of warring planes were covered in the entire sky, the humming sound of the planes spread throughout the entire airspace, machine gun bullets and machine gun shells were flying all over the sky, and from time to time planes could be seen falling towards the sea with black smoke.

When the fierce air battle broke out, several warships of the Navy were also rushing to the area where the air battle broke out, of course, with their speed did not mean rushing to participate in the air defense operation, their goal was to rescue the pilot who fell into the water, there was a very special warship here, the back deck of the warship was not the same as other warships, but there was a flat deck, a helicopter was tethered on the deck, and the crew members of the helicopter were nervously refueling the helicopter, Then get ready to take to the skies and quickly head to the waters below the air combat to prepare for the rescue of the parachuted pilot.

After searching for more than 10 minutes, the helicopter hovered on the sea, and then lowered the rope, and the pilot wearing an inflatable life jacket on the sea was waving to them.

Combat in the air is important, but the search and rescue work of pilots is equally important, especially these few jet fighter pilots in the Chinese Air Force, all of whom are valuable assets belonging to the Air Force, and are much more important than an aircraft in terms of value.

An hour later, at the Shanghai Air Defense Command, an Air Force lieutenant general was listening to the report of the staff of the Air Defense Command.

"In this battle, about 90 Chinese troops were attacked, and after interception operations, 72 Japanese military planes were shot down, and a small number of enemy planes fled and returned home. We lost eleven F7 fighters, four F10 fighters. In addition, many fighters returned home injured! ”

The lieutenant general frowned and continued to ask, "What about the pilot?" ”

The colonel said: "At present, it has been confirmed that three pilots of our side have been martyred, and the other pilots who crashed are in the process of search and rescue!" ”

The lieutenant general nodded: "Although there were slight losses in this air defense operation, the air defense task was still completed on the whole, and it was able to intercept and shoot down enemy planes one hundred and fifty kilometers away from Shanghai, and protect Shanghai and other coastal cities, and the work of the Shanghai Air Defense Command was still effective!" ”

"Organize and send the combat report to the Air Department!"

Although the people did not know the news of the air defense war in Shanghai, and the citizens of Shanghai did not even know that the Fifth Air Force had dispatched as many as 200 sorties of combat planes in order to intercept this wave of bomber groups, they were still talking about the declaration of war on the Japanese bombers in China and about the large-scale air raid launched by the Air Force against the Japanese yesterday.

In the evening, Chen Jingyun looked at the air defense operation report submitted by the Shanghai Air Defense Command in his hand, and Chen Jingyun, who had already expected this kind of thing in his heart, was not too surprised, but just looked at the data comparison between the two sides, and then nodded when he saw that the enemy plane was intercepted over the coast at the end: "Well, the air defense work of the Fifth Air Force should continue to be strengthened, maintain this momentum, and absolutely not let any of the enemy's bombs fall on the mainland!" ”

Wu Shizhong below: "Chairman rest assured, the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Air Force is still quite good, and the local air defense network is enough to protect the major coastal cities on the mainland!" ”

Chen Jingyun closed the report after reading it, and then said: "This time the F10 fighter's record is better than I imagined, but there are still flaws." Speaking of this, Chen Jingyun paused for a moment and said: "How is the development of the Air Force's next-generation jet fighter, and when will it be officially equipped?" ”

Wu Shizhong said: "The Air Force's next-generation jet fighter, the F12, has entered the final stage, and the service time is approaching! ”

Hearing that Wu Shizhong did not give a clear time, Chen Jingyun showed a dissatisfied look: "Now that all countries have entered the research and development of jet fighters, the jet fighters of the Germans have been put into the war, and the research and development of jet fighters in the United States and Britain has also entered a certain stage, I hope that the new jet fighters of the Air Force can speed up the pace and strive to maintain the leading position!" ”

Wu Shizhong also nodded when he heard this, he naturally understood why Chen Jingyun put so much pressure on the Air Force, because the advantage of aircraft surnamed energy that the Chinese Air Force has been advocating is gradually losing.

If it is said that in 1940 or even 1941, China relied on the F5 of the Air Force and the F8 of the Navy, which were two fighters with superior surnames, to maintain the leading position in the surname, but after 1942, with the successive service of advanced fighters in various countries, such as the United States P51, F4U, F6F, these fighters are not much worse than the F5 and F8 that China has served for thousands of years. Although in order to improve the surname of the F5 fighter and the F8 fighter, the Chinese Navy and Air Force have made many major improvements and upgrades to these two fighters, but the development of propeller aircraft to this day can be said to have reached the peak, it is difficult to make a large breakthrough, there is no technological breakthrough, then the fighter surnames of China, the United States and Britain can be gradually flattened, and it is difficult for the Chinese Navy and Air Force to maintain an absolute surname in the field of propeller aircraft.

In this case, Chen Jingyun had to pin his hopes on jet fighters, even though the F10 jet fighter developed a few years ago is still somewhat lacking, but if the F12 fighter under development by the Air Force can be made, it is still quite good, at least it can make the Chinese Air Force maintain a leading position in the field of jet fighters for three to five years.

Jet aircraft is now not only China and Germany in the research and development, since the German ME262 fighter appeared in the skies over Europe, Britain and the United States have accelerated the research and development of jet aircraft, the United Kingdom not to say, the United States a large number of jet fighter projects have been launched in the past two years, although the United States is still in a relatively initial stage of research and development of jet aircraft, but their technical and industrial heritage can not be underestimated, in a few years they will be able to come up with the corresponding products, And when that time comes, China will have to come up with more advanced jet fighters to maintain its superiority.

Therefore, the development of F12 fighters must be accelerated, and it is best to enter the state of mass service this year, so that the Chinese Air Force can survive this embarrassing period.

After all, at this stage, when propeller fighters cannot maintain absolute superiority, China can only maintain a large number of them, and it is very irrational to fight with the Americans.

In this year's war, the war has entered a period in which air superiority dominates the war situation, and even though China has a huge army of 10 million and a large number of surface ships, if it cannot maintain its leading position in the field of aircraft, then the superiority of the army and navy will disappear.

The situation has developed to this point, and it is reasonable for Chen Jingyun to attach importance to the research and development of jet fighters.

After Wu Shizhong left, Chen Jingyun asked the secretariat to connect the phone calls between Fule Electric and Chuzhou Aircraft Company, and personally asked the person in charge of Fule Electric and Chuzhou Aircraft Company about the progress of the jet fighter project.

F12 fighter jet, although in the early bidding was taken separately bidding, but later in order to integrate more powerful domestic resources and forces, under the personal intervention of Chen Jingyun, the F12 fighter project became led by the Air Force, and then divided into several research and development sub-projects, Chuzhou Aircraft Company is responsible for the development of the airframe, and the engine project is simultaneously developed by the engine department under Fule Electric and Chuzhou Aircraft Company, and is expected to be equipped with two engines at the same time. This is to reduce the risk in the development process, after all, the most important thing in an F12 fighter is the engine, and the development risk must be shared. Other electronic systems, including airborne communication systems, airborne ranging radars are also separately tendered, Hanzhong Electronics, Fule Electric and several other large domestic enterprises have participated in research and development, and in order to ensure their research and development of positive surnames, the Air Force's F12 fighter project department has promised a certain number of purchases to these enterprises.

In the specific research and development, in fact, the Navy's F11 fighter project and the Air Force's F12 fighter project have many technical common surnames, such as engines, electronic systems, radars, and airborne weapon systems, and the difference between the two lies only in the design of the airframe. The Air Force's requirement for the F12 is absolutely excellent in air combat, while the Navy's requirement for the F11 is to meet the requirements of the aircraft carrier to maintain sufficient surname ability in the early stage of take-off and landing.

But despite their differences, the two aircraft share quite a bit of technical similarities.

It is also worth noting that the air force and navy are developing jet aircraft not only these two, there are others, such as jet bombers, jet high-altitude high-speed interceptors, naval jet carrier-based bombers, etc., but these projects are progressing more slowly, most of them are still in their infancy, far less than the F11 and F12 projects are progressing as fast, but then again, once the F11 and F12 projects are completed, It will play a very big role in promoting the research and development of other jet aircraft in the future.

Although the F12 fighter has entered the test flight stage, it is still some time before it is put into large-scale service and put into operation, and in this case, the main fighter of the Air Force in the confrontation is still various modifications of the F5 and other types of propeller aircraft.

Relying on the Korean Peninsula, F5 fighters with a long range can easily cross the Tsushima Strait, and then go deep into the airspace over the mainland to compete for air supremacy, and a large number of bombers covering the air force have launched a large-scale bombing of the mainland.

In order to completely wipe out the remnants of the planes over the mainland, the F5 fighters, in addition to escorting the bombers, even went deep into the airspace over the mainland in the size of a squadron and squadron, and then shot down all the planes that dared to take to the air.

Only by maintaining absolute air supremacy can the Air Force avoid massive losses in its bombing operations. After all, although the strategic bombers are huge and sturdy, and they also have a large number of self-defense machine guns, according to the lessons learned from the huge losses suffered by the Americans in the bombing campaign against Germany, the Chinese Air Force was still very careful when carrying out large-scale bombing, and sent a large number of F5 fighters to escort the aircraft in order to avoid a large number of losses in the strategic bombers.

When the Air Force carried out a large-scale bombardment of the homeland, several mobile fleets of the First Fleet of the Navy had already gone to sea one after another to carry out the combat mission of blockading the waters of the Navy, striking at the remnants of the Navy, and creating favorable conditions for the large-scale landing of the Army on the mainland in the future. After all, Chen Jingyun didn't want to watch a large group of transport ships and landing ships approach the coast of Yueben, and then be said to be "this navy broke through and then severely damaged the landing force."

In June 1944, after the outbreak of the war against China, the air force and navy had already entered the most intense combat state, even though the landing force had not yet begun to operate.