In April, the weather in Jiangnan was already bright and bright, and the weather was already relatively warm, but after the 36th Group Army recovered Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai, there were basically no major military operations in Jiangnan.

The main force of the Eighth Route Army and the main force of the Eighth Route Army, after eliminating the Central China Front, began to attack the South China Front of the little devils, preparing to recover South China.

For South China, Zhang Yunfei has no preparation to meddle again, there are so many ** and Eighth Route Army, in addition to a certain amount of the New Fourth Army, to deal with the little devils one front army, only a few hundred thousand people, which is more than enough.

Zhang Yunfei was ready to focus his main efforts on the construction of base areas, as well as on attacking the North Korean devils and recovering the Mongolian steppes.

In the construction of base areas, many achievements have been made in April, among which the landmark achievement is the successful launch of the first strategic long-range bomber.

The long-range bomber was the "No. 2 project" of the 36th Group Army, and a lot of manpower and material resources were invested, and after more than a year, the first plane finally rolled off the assembly line.

Shenyang Airport.

Today, the sun was shining, and the top brass of the 36th Group Army were looking happily at a slender plane in the distance, which was obviously larger and much longer than other planes, and this plane was the first long-range strategic bomber newly produced.

To say that it is a long-range strategic bomber is actually not a strategic word, because there are no nuclear weapons at the moment, it is not a strategic bomber, but this is a large long-range bomber in the actual sense.

Strategic bombers in the true sense generally refer to medium- and long-range bombers used to carry out strategic tasks. It is an important component of the strategic nuclear forces and one of the main carriers of large-yield nuclear weapons.

It can carry both nuclear and conventional bombs; It can not only drop nuclear bombs at close range, but also launch cruise missiles at long distances, and can be used as strategic offensive weapons, and when necessary, it can also carry out tactical bombing missions to support army and naval operations.

Obviously, this aircraft of the 36th Army is still not a small distance from the strategic nuclear forces, but. Zhang Yunfei used to call him a long-range strategic bomber, and in Zhang Yunfei's eyes, this kind of aircraft could also be regarded as a strategic force in his own hands.

Whether it is a long-range strategic bomber or an ordinary long-range bomber, this is just a difference in name.

Today, the plane will take off from Shenyang, witnessed by several high-ranking members of the 36th Group Army. Complete its long-distance maiden flight in the true sense of the word.

This large bomber. It is a long-range bomber in the true sense of the word.

In general, strategic bombers are long-range bombers. But how far is the combat radius considered "long-range"? The definition is different at different times.

In the early days, the combat radius was only about 150 kilometers; During World War II, the range was more than 3,000 kilometers. It was considered a long-range bomber.

For example, the British "Lancaster" Mk2 has a range of 3620 km, the Soviet TB-3 is 3225 km, the American B-24 "Liberator" is 3380 km, and the B-17 bomber is 3200 km, and their combat radius is generally 30% ~ 40% of the range. It depends on the amount of ammunition and the mode of combat flight.

Next to Zhang Yunfei, one of the responsible persons of the "No. 2 Project" was briefing everyone on some of the performance and parameters of this aircraft, and Zhang Yunfei already had a certain understanding of this aircraft, but the rest of the high-ranking officials of the 36th Group Army did not have a very detailed understanding of this aircraft, and it was necessary to introduce it.

The aircraft is a typical four-engine heavy propeller bomber, the largest aircraft in any country's air force at the moment, and one of the most advanced weapons that brings together a variety of new technologies. The new design of the aircraft includes a pressurized cabin. Central fire control, remote-controlled machine guns, and much more.

At the beginning of the "No. 2 Project", Zhang Yunfei envisioned it as a daytime high-altitude precision bomber, but during the project, with the enrichment of scientific research forces, many Jewish scientists and engineers joined in. With the addition of a number of new designs, the aircraft is now capable of carrying out high-altitude precision bombing not only during the day, but also at night, and incendiary bombing at low altitudes.

After introducing some of the approximate performance of this aircraft. The person in charge began to present some specific parameters of the aircraft.

It was a large bomber with a crew of 16 people. Including pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, bomber, navigator, radioman, side gunner (two), upper gunner, tail gunner, etc.

The length of the aircraft is 38 meters, the wingspan is 46 meters, the height is 9 meters, the wing surface area is 182 square meters, the empty weight is 32 tons, the full load weight is 56 tons, the maximum take-off weight can reach 60 tons, and the one-time possible loading ammunition can reach almost 20 tons.

Seeing such a large bomb load, several high-ranking members of the 36th Group Army next to them were full of joy, thinking about the current Mustang fighters, when the Mustang fighters were used as bombers, they could hang six 150-kilogram heavy aerial bombs at a time, with a total bomb weight of 900 kilograms, but they didn't expect that just one such aircraft could reach a bomb load of 20 tons.

Thinking of this, Chief of Staff Zuo said excitedly: "Commander-in-chief, such a bomb load is simply too exciting, 20 tons!" What is the concept of a 20-ton bomb! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yunfei just smiled slightly, and thought in his heart, the more exciting and exciting parameters are still to come.

The person in charge saw that several leaders were so happy, so without pausing, he continued to introduce the following.

This bomber, in terms of power, uses the newly developed supercharged star engine, each with a power of 2,300 horsepower, and a total of four such engines for one aircraft, providing strong power to the aircraft.

In addition, the maximum speed reaches 580 km / h, the cruising speed is 350 km / h, the maximum range is 6500 km, and the combat radius is more than 2000 km. The practical ceiling is 10,200 m and the climb is 280 m/min.

There are also good performances in terms of weapons, there are 8 remote-controlled 12.7 mm machine guns, and at the tail, there are also two 30 mm machine guns, of course, this machine gun is not remote-controlled, it needs to be operated manually, and two tail gunners will be deployed in the tail accordingly.

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The person in charge told everyone in detail about the performance and data of this long-range bomber, and after listening to such attractive data, the eyes of these high-ranking members of the 36th Group Army had already lit up.

Zhang Yunfei was also slightly looking forward to it at this time, in Zhang Yunfei's heart. Many operational plans may have to rely on this newly commissioned large bomber to be realized.

Seeing that the person in charge had finished introducing the relevant performance and parameters of the aircraft in detail, Zhang Yunfei waved his hand and said loudly: "Comrades! The first flight of our aircraft began immediately. ”

Actually, test flights of this aircraft have already been carried out several times. And according to the results of test flights of this aircraft. Several improvements were made on the basis of the original, and now the aircraft is technically more mature.

Seeing Zhang Yunfei order the first flight, more than a dozen crew members immediately trotted all the way. After boarding the plane, ten minutes later, the plane roared in everyone's expectant and excited eyes.

The huge propeller spins faster and faster and creates a strong air current. The plane began to taxi along the runway, and it didn't take long for the plane to leave the ground and fly into the blue sky.

As the plane flew higher and higher, several high-ranking members of the 36 th Group Army, such as Zuo Qingquan and Deng Wenping, took out their binoculars one after another and stared at the plane.

The plane is getting farther and farther away. Gradually disappeared from people's sight.

Gradually, the plane went away smoothly, and everyone suddenly burst into bursts of thunderous cheers, although the first flight of the plane was not alarming, but everyone's expectations for the plane were getting higher and higher.

According to the first flight plan. The plane will climb to an altitude of 10,000 meters, then fly a large circle around Shenyang, and begin to return half an hour later, covering a distance of nearly 200 kilometers. For the first flight of the aircraft, this can be regarded as a relatively long-distance flight.

Half an hour later. The plane began to return home, heading towards the Shenyang airport.

"Look, everyone! The plane flew back. ”

Everyone looked into the distance, only to see that the plane was flying towards Shenyang Airport, and it didn't take long for it to start lowering its altitude and preparing to land along the runway.

After the plane landed steadily, Zhang Yunfei personally led everyone to greet him, and Zhang Yunfei even personally shook hands with the dozen or so crew members who walked down from the plane one by one.

At this moment, Zhang Yunfei's heart is also very happy and joyful.

Zuo Qingquan, chief of the General Staff, said even more happily: "Commander-in-chief, our aircraft is so powerful, we need to produce it in large quantities immediately." ”

Zhang Yunfei nodded, "Hmm! We'll do mass production right away, Lao Fang, and I'll leave this matter to you. ”

Comrade Fang Zheng, director of the General Logistics Department, immediately looked straight and replied loudly: "Commander-in-chief, don't worry, this matter will be handed over to me." ”

Now is the era of war, the production of aircraft naturally has to seize all the time, save more than half of some cumbersome test flights and test time, as long as there is basically no problem, it can be mass-produced immediately, and some details can be continuously improved in the process of production in the future.

Comrade Deng Wenping, who was next to him, saw that the plane was about to be mass-produced, and couldn't help but say: "Commander-in-chief, we have such a good aircraft, but we don't have a name yet?" Otherwise, the commander-in-chief would have given this type of aircraft a name on the spot now. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yunfei also nodded, such an excellent long-range bomber is indeed to take a better name, now, the American B-29 bomber has not yet come out, and this aircraft is not capable of being worse than the American B-29 bomber in terms of performance or design.

So, Zhang Yunfei immediately thought of a very domineering name, Zhang Yunfei smiled slightly, and said with full of anger: "Comrades, our aircraft will be called Super Flying Fortress in the future." ”

"Super Flying Fortress!"

After a few seconds of silence at the scene, everyone applauded, this name is too apt, too suitable for this kind of aircraft, such an aircraft is a super air fortress.

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