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Chapter 335 Air Force Construction Report

Junzi doesn't know that the staff officers of the Kwantung Army are planning to deal with him now, and even if he knows, he probably won't care that the Kwantung Army assassination has been carried out, and it is nothing new to deal with him.

Now he was reading a telegram that Colt sent to him from the United States, which told him that the United States was now developing a new monoplane fighter.

According to Colt told Junzi, Boeing proposed a monoplane fighter design at the request of the U.S. Army Air Corps, and the design of this aircraft has been approved by the U.S. Army Air Corps. The two companies are expected to sign a contract for three prototypes around December.

If the contract is finalized, the first prototype of the monoplane will begin construction in January next year, and the first test flight will begin after completion.

Reading Colt's telegram, Junzi took a deep breath. He knew that the fighter Colt was talking about was a P-26 fighter that was not well-known in later generations, but had a record of shooting down bombers and Zero fighters on ships!

The P-26 was the first monoplane fighter used by the U.S. Army Air Corps and the last mass-produced fighter by Boeing. Perhaps it was the application of aircraft by the military and the Soviet army in the Battle of Harbin that attracted the attention of the Americans, so this fighter, which was supposed to be designed only in 1931, was brought forward!

If the pace of construction in the United States continues, the fighter will be built in March next year, after which mass production and assembly will begin for troops. However, now that the economic situation in the United States is not good, Colt called himself a Manchurian rich man in the hope that he could purchase this fighter.

According to the design of this fighter, its engine is an Pratt & Whitney R-1340-27 air-cooled engine. The rest of the configuration is roughly as follows:

Maximum take-off weight: 1366 kg

Range: 579 km

Maximum airspeed: 377 km / h

Practical ceiling: 8350 meters

Rate of climb: 719 m/min

Armament: Two 0.30-inch machine guns

The fuselage and under the wings can carry 2 bombs of 45 kg or 5 bombs of 13.6 kg.

Even if it is the 91 type, there is not much that the Kwantung Army can equip! They are most equipped with Type 88 light bombers and light bombers. And this fighter is not much different from the parameters equipped with the current Northeast Army.

Therefore, the newly developed fighter plane of the United States is indeed much better than the fighter aircraft equipped with by the current Northeast Army. If it is equipped with a batch of such fighters, then the Northeast Army will have an advantage in air combat!

Junzi thought about it for a while, and continued to write his report. He planned to let Zhang Xueliang purchase at least fifty P-26s, anyway, Xiao Zhang is now extorting a lot from Nanjing. Rather than putting this money in the treasury and in the bank to get moldy, it is better to use it directly to buy arms.

He also wanted to directly buy the design drawings of the P-26 and obtain a patent for production. However, the main idea of the design is not just production, but to learn engine technology and fighter manufacturing technology!

Although the Mukden Arsenal is now able to manufacture fighter jets in-house, the cost of manufacturing engines is still too high. Junzi thought that if he could reduce the cost and allow the Fengtian Arsenal to be self-sufficient in fighter jets, the combat effectiveness of the Northeast Army would undoubtedly reach a new level!

In his report, he first expounded on the importance of the air force to modern warfare, especially focusing on the 1921 Italian air power theorist Giulio Murphy. Du Hei published "The Theory of Air Domination". This book became the forerunner of the military concept of air power in modern times.

In the book, Duhei emphasizes the power of the bombers, which has been demonstrated in the battles of the Bong clan and other units. Almost most of the forces of the domestic warlords would have collapsed in the bombardment of the Feng family. Even if it does not collapse, morale will take a heavy hit.

Even if it is Feng himself, the reason why the defeat on the Middle East road was so rapid was not unrelated to the Soviet army's use of bombing methods. Comparing this kind of combat in which others can hit you, and you can only watch dry, is extremely depressing.

Therefore, it is extremely important to strengthen air power, especially to curb the bombing of the other side with fighter jets! And the design ideas of the Americans in the design drawings, engine construction, etc. are priceless!

Once these mature experiences are absorbed by the Fengtian Arsenal, then the design and manufacturing capacity of the Fengtian Arsenal will naturally be improved! This is especially important, even more so than the fighter itself.

"As long as we buy enough to believe that the Americans are willing to sell this kind of blueprint." I saw that Junzi smiled and said to Zhang Xueliang: "Now Americans are in an economic crisis!" They need orders for planes more than anyone else, and orders for fifty planes are sure they will be tempted......"

The military said this because he knew that the US military had only purchased more than 110 planes. The P-26 sold by Boeing was only given to the Philippines and the Nanjing government.

This adds up to less than 200 planes, and the Northeast Army will naturally be tempted to order 50 Boeing planes in one go! And a large company like Boeing will naturally have its own spokesperson in the US national capital, and there will not be too many obstacles to making some noises.

And at this time, even the Soviet Union was able to purchase American weapons in service, not to mention the Northeast Army?!

At that moment, Zhang Xueliang thought for a while, and asked Chen Dazhang to find Yuan Jinkai, Zhang Zuoxiang, Yan Zhengqing and others to discuss the matter in detail in the Tiger Hall.

While Zhang Xueliang and the others were discussing this matter, on a passenger ship from the United States to Huludao in Manchuria, China, a white man wearing a solemn suit and a square and resolute face was talking to an old Chinese man with a solemn beard and a long robe.

The two of them could be seen talking and laughing on the chairs on the side of the boat, and the sea breeze slowly blowing their suits and robes. Behind the two of them were more than a dozen vigilant men roaming around, vigilantly watching the movements around them.

I saw the white man saying to the old man in Chinese, who was not very proficient: "Oh ~ Situ! You said that Junzi would be surprised to see that I was coming on behalf of the United States?! I guess he must have been freaking out by then, right?! Haha......"