Chapter 960: Fortunately, the battleship doesn't have to be replaced
"Not only the HNA fighters need to be replaced, but the Air Force fighters also need to be updated as soon as possible!" Meng Xiang said categorically.
On the battlefield on Kyushu Island, the Japanese Army Air Force also took out its latest fighter -- the Type 5 fighter, and its outstanding performance was enough to threaten the Mustang and Thunderbolt series of the Chinese Air Force.
"The Japanese do not have enough production capacity, and how many such advanced fighters can there be? You must know that the funds needed for a comprehensive costume change are ......," Fan Chong frowned unconsciously beside him.
An aircraft is worth hundreds of thousands of oceans, and if it is replaced by tens of thousands, and it is replaced with a jet with more outstanding performance and a higher price, even the fan is a little hesitant.
Even if he wanted all the fighters in Huaxia to have the most advanced weapons, the high cost of those jet fighters on the advanced training ground made him staggering.
If it is a comprehensive change of clothing, then the huge pressure on the finances of a large amount of military spending, even if Zhou Bai is not pointed at and scolded, will attract the chatter of those opposition parties in the parliament and the congress.
"Although there are not many advanced planes of the little devils, if they cooperate with their elite pilots, especially those ace pilots, it will inevitably bring us a lot of trouble and certain casualties." Meng Xiang said solemnly.
Hiroshi Nishizawa deserves to be a super trump card, and in the aircraft carrier battle in the Whale Sea, he drove a gale to shoot down 2 Huaxia fighters alone, and also damaged a Banshee jet fighter.
Active, he naturally became the target of the Chinese fighters, and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, who was regarded as a treasure by Japan and went to the rear on vacation, still did not escape his fate. It is undeniable that his skills are superb, but the gap in the performance of the fighter is still blown up in the air by Yu Guanglei, a recruit of the Chinese HNA Army.
However, from this matter, Meng Xiang still realized the different powers of the trump card and the new weapon.
"Speeding up the replacement can avoid more pilot casualties, and sometimes a small chip can determine the final tilt of the scales of victory in a war." Meng Xiang said, "As for the cost? ”
He paused, and also thought of the parliament and the people's congress that he wanted to put on his head. I couldn't help but chuckle: "It's okay to get out of the special fund!" ”
Almost everyone knows that the special fund is Chairman Meng's private treasury, absolute private wealth, and it is clean.
Although the origin is unknown. However, no matter how the domestic opposition parties and foreign spy agents investigated, there was no evidence of Meng Xiang's corruption and seizure of national wealth. Moreover, this huge wealth that no one knows how much money there is was was also broken by Meng Xiang for the country, and since the formation of the vanguard army at the beginning, he has been supporting various constructions in China.
This leaves even the most critical person speechless.
Fan Chong could only be silent for a long time about Meng Xiang's behavior of paying out of his own pocket again, until the end he said: "Actually, there is no need to completely replace it, we also arm the elite with new weapons." It's enough to cope! It also requires a relaxed adaptation process for pilots, who now have advanced training and are able to fly jet fighters for less than a fifth. ”
In the past, considering the principle of secrecy, coupled with the high cost, the flight training of jet aircraft was only available for advanced training. Meng Xiang originally planned to promote it slowly, but the plan was not as good as the change, and the changes in the world situation made a lot of work need to be advanced.
"We will continue to expand the number of places for advanced training and strive to familiarize more pilots with this new fighter in advance!" Meng Xiang said categorically. "You know, our opponents are not just the Japanese!"
The instability of Germany and the United States. Let Meng Xiang need to use the power of the base as soon as possible to form an absolute advantage in advance and take the initiative.
Huaxia's own jet engine has already begun production in Xianyang, and Huaxia's J-1 fighter has also been successfully test-flown
In order to make Huaxia's resources more cost-effective, the Huaxia fighter planned by Meng Xiang was a jet-like high starting point from the beginning. Moreover, there is the analysis and copycat of the classic models of later generations, which makes the fighters with independent property rights of China have a higher starting point.
Even if there is an accident, with the leading edge of the Huaxia fighter and other advanced fighters exchanged for thousands of tanuki for the prince, as well as more than 30,000 Huaxia pilots who have grown up using the resources of the base, they can also protect the sky of Huaxia.
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"Obsolete planes can be sold to Americans and Germans through shadow companies. And the British. As long as they are priced at the right price, we will sell them, lest they become less and less valuable in the future! After Fan Chong left, Meng Xiang instructed the rat to do the second way.
As the Americans become more and more powerful, Meng Xiang has rarely had such a "capital enemy" approach. But some money is not made for nothing, and many times he needs to sell between the Germans and the allies. Only then can the number of special funds continue to jump up while funding Huaxia free of charge.
Even if the Americans rejected foreign arms dealers, Meng Xiang still reaped enough benefits from the US ** purchase through shadow companies, and also stifled the rise dream of many American companies in advance.
"These fighters were given to the Americans and the British, and if there was an accident, they were all unlucky anyway. And the equipment in exchange for it has undoubtedly made Huaxia itself a little stronger! Meng Xiang is such a view.
Once jet fighters show their formidable power on the battlefield, I am afraid that Britain and the United States will soon rely on their strong industrial strength to catch up. At that time, the piston plane will be even cheaper, and these weapons that are not of much use in the hands of Meng Xiang, who has the support of the base, are not as good as they should be shot in advance.
"The Pearl Return operation can be intensified, and some fighters can be incorporated into it." Meng Xiang continued to instruct.
The plan to return the pearl is the tanuki exchange plan for the prince with base-made weapons in exchange for advanced weapons of various countries.
Fighters, warships, artillery, and even firearms, Meng Xiang has exchanged many reserve weapons from the United States, Germany, Japan, etc., which make Meng Xiang brave, and he is also relieved to plan a high starting point for China's military industry.
For example, the Huaxia Gun Clan series in the Chiyou Nine Soldiers Plan has begun to equip elite troops one after another.
If it weren't for the fact that the Suomi submachine gun was still strong against the Japanese and those natives, Meng Xiang would have to update the guns of the entire army in advance this time.
After all, such a large amount of money, even if Meng Xiang's small treasury can support it, the impact is too great.
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"Thankfully, there's no need to modernize the battleship! Otherwise, it will be troublesome to deal with! Meng Xiang sighed.
Compared with the rapid replacement and elimination of fighters, the gap between guns is not so obvious, and those warships are often in service for decades and can still be old. What's more, these warships in service in Huaxia are definitely the most advanced and the most enduring classics at this time.
When these advanced classic battleships encountered those old antiques and defective products of the Japanese, the results were self-evident.
Having lost air cover, the support fleet of the Japanese was the first to meet an attack from the Huaxia aircraft carriers.
More than 3 tons of weapons carried by the A1 Sky Raiders were poured into the Japanese warships with weak air defense, especially the Kaga and Sea Eagle aircraft carriers in the rear.
Without the support of air fighters intercepting it, the Kaga could not defend itself against the attackers at all by relying on the 25-mm anti-aircraft artillery that the HNA still insisted on.
Even though the 100mm anti-aircraft guns were a bit more threatening, the Sky Raiders who could dive down at an 85-degree angle were always able to evade their deadly attacks, dropping various bombs, including 907-kilogram aerial bombs, on the Kaga's head.
The Avengers even took advantage of the fire to rob and threw out a lot of torpedoes like money.
This time, the Kaga did not have enough cover from her teammates, and she could not match the speed of the plane, and finally sank to the bottom of the sea with the scars of 3 torpedoes and 6 bombshells before it ran aground on the shoreline.
Before sinking, Toyoda committed suicide.
The carrier of the Sea Hawk, which was converted from a transport ship, was even more unbearable, although the training ship was equipped with the latest 37-mm anti-aircraft guns, but the scarcity of numbers posed a threat to the Sky Raiders at all, and the fragile defense was even supported by only 1 torpedo and 3 heavy bombs, which lasted less than half an hour before it was completely submerged by the sea.
At the same time as its sinking, the Fuso was engaged in a classical battleship battle with the second-class dreadnought battleship Pingyuan.
But this battle did not last long, the Pingyuan resisted two heavy attacks from the Fuso's 356-mm guns, and took advantage of the situation to smash seven 406-mm shells on the Fusang's head.
There was only one result, and after struggling at sea for more than 3 hours, the Fuso was sent to the bottom of the sea by 2 torpedoes from a Kidd-class destroyer amid continuous explosions.
The other main Japanese ship, the Kongo, came from the west and was supposed to bombard the Oki Islands, which were occupied by the Chinese.
But once again, it ran into the Vanguard cannon.
A newly upgraded third-level vanguard cannon made three steady and ruthless attacks, and completely turned the King Kong into a large torch floating on the sea.
Without the protection of these leading warships, even those four cruisers could only be used as targets for the Huaxia fleet, and were sunk into the sea by naval guns and carrier-based aircraft. (To be continued......)