readx; "Now that the Air Force is expanding at a very fast pace, coupled with the rapid rise in procurement and R&D costs, the military expenditure allocation formulated last year and at the beginning of the year is no longer enough!" Wu Shizhong's face was worried: "Due to the shortage of funds, we have postponed the purchase order of two batches of B11F bombers in a row, and our first-generation jet aircraft has also been officially finalized, and it seems that it will be able to be mass-produced and put into service, but this funding has not been solved!" ”

When Chen Jingyun heard this, he also frowned a little, because not to mention that the air force is short of money, the navy and the army are all short of money, and a large-scale arms expansion war cannot be done with just opening their mouths, and the expansion of the army represents a huge amount of military expenditure. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In 1940, China's total military expenditure reached 10 billion Chinese yuan, accounting for 65 percent of the fiscal revenue in 1940, and this proportion was actually far beyond the scope of what the central government could bear. However, this money is still not enough for Chen Jingyun's determination to build a navy, land and air force that can dominate the world.

In order to support the expansion of armaments, Chen Jingyun has reduced the allocation of funds for political axes for three consecutive years, and the growth of infrastructure, education investment, and administrative expenses has begun to stop growing or even regressed, which has greatly dissatisfied a large number of civil officials in the Government Council. You must know that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China has always been a country with an economy in command, and except for certain war periods, economic development has overtaken the development of armaments at other times, especially in the early and mid-thirties, when the development of armaments has been severely restricted. At the same time, a large number of civilian bigwigs in China are basically economic experts, and it can be seen that the influence of the economic faction in China is very large, and now China's basic national policy has shifted from developing the economy to reorganizing the armed forces, which will naturally cause serious dissatisfaction among those economic officials.

However, those people in the Government Council also know the overall situation, and now that the world situation is so tense, even ordinary Chinese know that China is not far from entering the war, and it is impossible not to support arms expansion at this time.

"Now there are not many reserved funds available on the Ministry of Finance, and I also promised Guan Shijie that I am ready to allocate an additional amount of funds to the Navy for the purchase of naval carrier-based aircraft!" Chen Jingyun frowned, the expansion of the navy is not only to build warships, but also to purchase a large number of combat aircraft, not only aircraft carriers are in name only, in the eighth and ninth phases of the plan, the navy proposed to purchase up to 10,000 combat planes of various types, although this plan is to be implemented in several years, but the pressure on military spending is still very great.

However, the financial pressure on the Air Force side is greater, the allocation of funds for the Air Force has always been relatively small among the three armed forces, and the Air Force has also undertaken a large number of research and development plans, and it can almost be said that the Air Force has supported the development of China's aviation industry.

After all, the Air Force cannot stop the pace of research and development, and it is even more impossible for the Navy to develop aircraft first and then directly apply mature technology, because the technical reserves of carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Navy are far lower than those of the Chinese Air Force.

The Air Force needs to pay a lot of research and development funds every year, and at the same time, it also has to maintain a huge fleet, and the number of air forces in the hundreds of thousands is quite a lot, and the money is also a lot of money.

"But now the reserve funds of the Air Force have bottomed out, and the follow-up Air Force still needs to purchase a large number of new B19 bombers, and then the F10 jet fighter has also been finalized, and it is expected to be equipped in large quantities, which is not ...... money."

Chen Jingyun knows the difficulties of the Air Force, but he can't make money, and before allocating military funds to the Air Force, he also has to know what happened to the B19 strategic bomber and F10 jet fighter that Wu Shizhong said.

There are a lot of losses in the development of the Air Force, such as the B15 strategic six-engine strategic bomber, which is a long-range bomber developed by the Air Force after the B11 four-engine strategic bomber, the design range needs to reach more than 8,000 kilometers, more than eight tons of bombs, and achieve a practical ceiling of more than 15,000 kilometers, which began to be designed in 1935, and as a result, after five years of research and development and design, it was found that there were serious defects in the fundamental design after investing a large amount of funds. The more important production of the three test models all crashed during the test phase, leaving the Air Force top brass in a painful despair of the B15 bomber. In addition, at that time, the strategic bomber development plan of the Air Force was not only B15, but also B16 and B19 plans, and the B19 program was only designed in 1938, which reflected the technical advantages from the beginning, and also had the advantages of price and surname, and finally weighed the weight of the B15 program that had been developed for many years, and began to shift its focus to the B16 and B19 programs. The failure of the B15 program cost the Air Force in the mid-thirties countless R&D expenditures, which can be described as heavy losses.

In addition to bombers, since the second half of 1938, the Air Force has also ambitiously tried to mass-produce jet fighters, leaping from the propeller era to the jet age in one fell swoop, and the jet engine thrust used at that time was only 350 kilograms, although two engines were selected, but the thrust was still insufficient, and the first-generation jet engine was extremely unreliable, and the life span was only 40 hours. After spending a lot of military spending, the Air Force produced more than a dozen jet fighters, and finally found that it could not even win the F4 fighter, and finally had to temporarily terminate this plan, preparing to wait for the jet engine to mature before mass production of jet fighters, and at the same time, the focus of the new generation of fighters was put on liquid-cooled engines, that is, F5 fighters and F7 fighters.

It has to be said that as a leading air force in the world, the Chinese Air Force needs to pay a greater price than other countries to maintain its technological and conceptual superiority, and constantly explore to find the best solution.

This kind of exploration requires a huge amount of resources, and this is why the Air Force spends so much money on research and development every year.

As for other countries, it is much simpler, basically the design target of the new aircraft is aimed at China's new aircraft, and it is said that the zero type is designed according to China's F4 fighter for confrontation, Germany's BF109, Britain's Spitfire, etc., most of them are also different degrees of reference to China's F4 fighter series, as long as the design and industrial level are qualified, it can be made.

Before the Air Force decided to put the B19 strategic bomber and F10 jet fighter into service on a large scale, Chen Jingyun had to know whether these planes had a practical surname, so he didn't get anything after spending money at that time. If the surname can really be as reliable and excellent as Wu Shizhong said, then it is okay to grit your teeth and squeeze out some funds to support the Air Force.

In order to win funds, Wu Shizhong of the Air Force and other high-ranking members of the Air Force quickly sent several F-10 jet fighter test planes to Nanjing to prepare for a flight show in front of Chen Jingyun.

However, to Wu Shizhong's surprise, Guan Shijie of the Navy also watched the flight of the F10 jet fighter with him, which made Wu Shizhong despise the Navy again: "I want the white wolf with empty gloves, and I don't want to see if the deck of your navy can take off these jet fighters!" ”

He naturally didn't know that the reason why Guan Shijie came to watch the flight of the F10 fighter was that he wanted to determine how far China's jet fighter had developed, and if it had reached a mature stage, then the navy would have to consider the jet fighter ship plan, and the jet fighter was very difficult to get on the ship, which required the navy to carry out major reforms in the future aircraft carrier design.

Jet fighters are not only related to the Air Force, but also to the development of the Navy.

The winter in Nanjing is not too cold, and at the Nanjing Air Base, a large group of high-ranking military officials are wearing overcoats and holding binoculars in their hands, and among these high-ranking military officials are not only high-level officials of the Air Force, but also high-level officials of the Navy and the Army, who surround Chen Jingyun and whisper something from time to time.

Lieutenant General Lin Feiyang, Minister of the Third R&D Department of the Air Force, which is responsible for the R&D and planning of jet-powered aircraft, was explaining to Chen Jingyun about the four jet fighters not far away.

"Among the four aircraft, the jet engines used were provided by the power department of Chuzhou Aircraft Company and Fule Electric Aviation, and the technical sources of these two engines were obtained during the technical cooperation between China and Germany, and then the two companies were imitated and in-depth research and development, the volume and weight of the two are similar, the engine thrust of Fule Electric is larger, reaching 600 kilograms, and the engine thrust of Chuzhou Aircraft Company is smaller, reaching 570 kilograms, However, in terms of service life, the engine of Chuzhou Aircraft Company is better, reaching 70 hours. ”