readx; After arriving at Chuzhou Aircraft Company, Chen Jingyun also saw the aircraft being assembled and produced in the huge factory for the first time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Qin Guoyong, the former Fuzhou Aircraft Factory and the current general manager of Chuzhou Aircraft Company, walked in front of Chen Jingyun and said to Chen Jingyun: "This modern plant is specially built for the production of a new generation of aircraft, and the plant not only has the electrification level of a modern plant, but also allows us to assemble more than 15 aircraft at the same time because of the huge space!" Qin Guoyong took Chen Jingyun and continued to walk forward.

Pointing to an unfinished aircraft in front of him, only a metal frame, he said: "This is my country's latest F2 fighter!" ”

Chen Jingyun has seen the finished F2 fighter many times, but this semi-finished product being assembled is the first time he has seen it, and he felt a little fresh at first glance, and asked casually while looking at it: "The F2 fighter has also been in service for many years, and some improvements should have been made over the years!" ”

Qin Guoyong immediately replied: "What the chairman said is right, we began to provide F2 fighters to the Air Force in 1922, and we also began to provide F2 fighters to the Navy in 1923, which is three years of service. In the past three years, the F2 fighter has performed well in the Sino-Chinese war, especially the F2 fighter in the air above Lushun has achieved an excellent result of 10 to 1, and the F2 fighter has shot down and damaged more than 20 enemy planes since joining the war, and only one was shot down by the ground fire of the army in the battle, and the surname Nengshang has greatly surpassed the F1 fighter. Although the F2 fighter has achieved superior results in the war, but it has also exposed some problems in actual combat, our company has made design changes to this, redesigned the latest models for the Air Force and the Navy, and now we are looking at the Air Force version of the F2C fighter. In another plant, there is a naval version of the F2D fighter. ”

Chen Jingyun nodded: "Very good, we can't be satisfied with the current results, we must also do better!" ”

As China's first generation after the war, the F2 fighter is also the first all-metal aircraft, China's navy and air force have high hopes for it, and the F2 fighter is also excellent in the war, when China's small number of dozens of F2 fighters almost undertook all the combat escort missions, a large number of F1 fighters have been forced to withdraw from the first-line combat sequence due to the restriction of their surnames, and can only serve as second-line combat missions.

The excellent performance of the F2 fighter in the Sino-Chinese war also means that the Navy and Air Force have more confidence in the F2 fighter and are ready to extend the service time of the F2 fighter after making technical improvements. You must know that the replacement of aircraft in these years is actually very fast, if it is according to the First World War period, a fighter from service to withdrawal from the World War I combat sequence, at most half a year. In the post-World War I peacetime, even if this period was extended, it was only three to five years. Once more than five years have passed, the surname of this aircraft will be far behind the surname of the latest aircraft developed by various countries.

Several of China's aircraft are considered to have been in service for a long time, the F1 fighter began to be developed in 1913 before the war, began to be equipped in batches in 1915, and then has been in service as China's main fighter for eight years, until 1923, China's F2 fighter entered service and slowly withdrew from the first-line combat sequence, but did not completely retire from active service, but continued to serve as a second-line fighter, the total number of F1 fighters equipped in the Chinese Air Force and Navy can be a lot, adding up to more than three hundred, Not counting the aircraft lost due to war damage and accidents over the years, the Chinese Navy and Air Force have accumulated more than 700 F1 fighters, and about 300 have been exported to Russia, Britain and France during World War I. Later, during the Russian Civil War, more than 100 aircraft were sold to the Russian defense, and the total production exceeded 1,100 aircraft. There are still more than 100 F1 fighters in service in the Republic of Russia, and China's own F1 fighters will be truly retired from 1925, when the total production of F2 fighters is enough to equip all fighter squadrons, F1 fighters can be completely retired from active service. And these retired F1 fighters are not wasted, they are directly sent to the Russian Republic as military aid, and it is okay to directly disassemble and replace them.

The F1 fighter has been in service for a long time, and the B3 bomber as a bomber has been even longer, and the B3 bomber is also a product of the same generation as the F1 fighter, but now the F1 fighter is being put into service one after another, but many improved models of the B3 bomber continue to serve in the bomber squadron of the Air Force, in addition to those old B3 bombers are retired, and the Air Force does not plan to retire those improved B3 bombers for the time being, the reason is very simple, that is, the bomber is too expensive, Although the Air Force has newer B4 bombers to replace, what is the price of B4 bombers? The ex-factory unit price has risen to a full 36,000 yuan, and how much is the latest improved B3 bomber purchased by the Air Force in 1922? As long as it is more than 16,000, the price difference between this is a full 20,000. Moreover, this is still talking about the price of a single aircraft, in fact, the aircraft is more expensive is the logistics maintenance system, and it takes three or five years to raise an aircraft to almost allow the Air Force to buy a new one.

Although the B4 bomber surname can be better, but more advanced also means that it is more troublesome to maintain, and now the Air Force has spent its limited military spending on replacing F2 fighters, and it can't take too much money to replace B4 bombers on a large scale, so it can only take its time.

In this way, the service time of the B3 bomber in China is estimated to last until about 1930, and by that time the B3 bomber has really become an antique.

Chen Jingyun did not worry too much about the large-scale service of fighters and bombers; in fact, even if the Chinese Air Force and Navy do not upgrade their aircraft now, the air forces of neighboring hostile countries can still have an advantage, but in terms of air power, the Chinese Air Force is far superior to Soviet Russia and the so-called 'Ben', even if the United States, Britain, and France in the naval aviation are taken into account, China's air power dares to say that it is not lagging behind.

The air force of Soviet Russia has just started, so there is no need to worry, and it is said that "Ben's air force has also just started not long ago, although it has relied on the purchase of French and British planes to form an air force a few years ago, but in the Sino-Chinese war, this army aviation and naval aviation were beaten in the skies over Arthur and North Korea, and now it is said that "although Ben has made great efforts to develop the air force, it cannot buy planes that can suppress F2 fighters by purchasing them, not that others are unwilling to sell them, but that the goods in the hands of Britain and France themselves are just like that." It is not a problem to suppress the F1 fighter, but it is not enough to suppress the latest Chinese F2 fighter. If there is no way to outsource and rely on your own research and development, you will have no research and development foundation and experience, and you will still have a long way to go.

So from a realistic point of view, China's air threat is not big, and more often than not, it is a direct threat to others, rather than others threatening itself. With the size of the 10 wings of the Chinese Air Force plus naval aviation, it is enough for China to gain air superiority in the Asian region.

Another reason why Chen Jingyun is not in a hurry to replace new aircraft on a large scale is that the replacement of aircraft in these years is too fast, and in peacetime, it takes a few years to change a generation, and in wartime, it can be updated in a few months, and it is not at all the kind of aircraft in later generations that takes more than ten years to develop, and then there is no problem in improving equipment for decades. If Chen Jingyun maintained a large-scale air force in peacetime, it would be a waste of money, because this super-large air force may have been quite advanced before the war and in the first half of the war, but after half a year, it will definitely become a backward aircraft.

Moreover, this air force is the same as the army, it is a consuming surname of the military, since it is a consuming surname of the army, then it is said that this air force is a branch of the military that can quickly riot troops, the air force of these years is really not a high-tech branch, after the outbreak of the war, with China's current industrial scale, it is not a problem to produce thousands of aircraft a year, if it is more than ten years later to World War II, it is possible to produce tens of thousands of aircraft a year. It's not like the navy, which can only eat the old book, and can only rely on pre-war stocks to fight.

Compared with the large-scale equipment of aircraft, in fact, the training and reserve of pilots is a more important thing, otherwise once a large number of aircraft are produced after the fight, but there are no qualified pilots, then they will have to rest.

Although it is not necessary to complete the replacement of new aircraft in a timely and short time, this does not mean that China will stop developing new aircraft.

According to Chen Jingyun's consistent demand, the Air Force has a large number of R&D projects, otherwise what the Air Force would do with tens of millions of military dollars a year, it would really not cost so much to buy airplanes and raise people, and a large part of them are all kinds of R&D funds; although the Air Force is the smallest among the three armed forces, it has invested the most in R&D funds for various new projects.

When the F2 fighter officially entered service with the Chinese Navy and Air Force, the research and development of the next generation of aircraft for the Chinese Air Force had already been going on for more than a year.

After looking at the large number of assembled aircraft in the factory, Chen Jingyun saw the prototype of the next-generation aircraft developed by the Air Force.

"According to the Air Force's design requirements for the next generation of aircraft, the maximum speed of the new-generation fighter is required to exceed 360 kilometers per hour, the cruising speed shall not be less than 300 kilometers per hour, and the range shall not be less than the 800 kilometers of the F2 combat in service, and it is required to be equipped with more than two 12.7 mm machine guns, and it is also required that the new generation fighter must have the ability to carry 250 kilograms of aerial bombs and the ability to carry an airborne communication system." The above is the design requirements of the Air Force in 1921 for the next generation of new fighters, and this design requirements have exceeded the technical level of the twenties, you must know that the maximum speed of China's latest F2 fighter is only 250 kilometers, and this speed is far more than 100 kilometers faster than the fighter jets of various countries during the First World War, you must know that the speed of the Chinese F1 fighter was only more than 160 kilometers. In addition to the speed requirements are too harsh, the requirements for range and cruising speed are too high, and high cruising speed must mean that the fuel consumption is large, so the range will be smaller.

This is a pair of contradictory requirements!