readx; Therefore, Wu Shizhong is preparing to use the B3 bomber for a simple modification and carry 250 kg of aerial bombs for preliminary training, of course, this is only training, and bombers specially designed for dive-to-sea bombing are still needed in the future. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The problem of heavy bombers is easy to solve, but torpedo machines are not so easy to handle, the reason is very simple, that is, the existing torpedoes are too heavy, taking the American-made torpedoes that the national army is now equipped with and about to introduce as an example, these torpedoes are all 533 mm heavy torpedoes, that is, the so-called 20-inch heavy torpedoes, these heavy torpedoes are not only huge in size, but also weigh more than 800 kilograms or even 1,000 kilograms, even if they are specially designed and modified and optimized, the weight is difficult to reduce to less than 600 attacks.

At present, the level of the world's aero engines at the beginning of 1914 is far inferior to the level of aero engines three or four years later, and the B3 bombers of the Nationalist Air Force use two engines in order to obtain a full load of 600 kilograms of bombs, and adopt a double-engine mode. Most of the torpedo planes after 1917 were single-engine torpedo planes, and their speed and range were far superior to those of today's B3 bombers.

Since it is impossible to increase the bomb load of existing aircraft in a short period of time, Wu Shizhong just thinks that it is necessary to start with torpedoes, and those heavy torpedoes of 800 kilograms or even previous kilograms are not needed, but the Shanghai Arsenal, which is responsible for the manufacture of torpedoes, has put forward the design requirements for aviation torpedoes! There is only one design requirement: that is, to control the weight under 600 kilograms!

After passing two rounds of military aid programs, the Shanghai Arsenal has initially possessed the ability to imitate and produce American-made torpedoes, and although it is inevitable to import various core components and equipment from foreign countries, it will be able to achieve the ability to mass-produce torpedoes on a small scale, and the torpedo output at that time will not only meet the needs of the old warships of various types, but more importantly, to meet the torpedo needs of the high-speed cruiser fleet that is about to return to China.

After the Air Force put forward the design requirements of the aviation torpedo, the Shanghai Arsenal directly reduced the existing 533 mm heavy torpedo, at first it was intended to be reduced to 500 mm, but it was found that the weight was still more than 600 kilograms, so the Shanghai Arsenal technicians continued to reduce the size of the aviation torpedo, and finally reduced it to 18 inches, that is, 457 mm, before the world's first aviation torpedo appeared, which was named ' The other designs of the 1914 aviation torpedo are basically all imitations of imported American-made torpedoes, but they are simply reduced in size and weight, and the weight of this aviation torpedo is only 500 kilograms after some modifications, which is a lot less than the original 533 mm heavy torpedo, and of course the power is also correspondingly greatly reduced.

However, it is good to say that it has finally been figured out, and the existing B3 bombers can be hung up, so after there are aviation torpedoes and heavy aerial bombs, a sea bombing squadron converted from B3 bombers is slowly taking shape, of course, these are not mentioned later!

Chen Jingyun put the hope of coastal defense on the Air Force, and the news that the Air Force Department was about to set up a naval bombing squadron reached the Navy, which also aroused the opposition of many generals in the Ministry of the Navy. The implication is that all combat missions on the sea surface should be merged into the navy, and the air force should not stretch out too long!

At first, it was only a few generals who talked in private, but within a few days, Sa Zhenbing solemnly submitted a proposal to Chen Jingyun to form a naval aviation unit, claiming that if the air force was responsible for air intelligence and sea bombing tasks on the sea, it would cause coordination problems between the air force and the navy.

Although a large number of reasons were listed, there was only one purpose, that is, to ask the air force to transfer the sea bombing squadron to the navy, and in the future, the navy would organize its own aviation units to cooperate with the fleet in combat.

I have to say that this should be the first navy in the history of the world's navy to face up to the air force, although at the beginning his purpose was not to value the anti-ship capability of the air force, the initial purpose was only to prevent the air force from getting involved in the combat mission of the navy. This is a typical battle between the branches of the military.

Chen Jingyun is also a little uncertain; judging from the experience of later generations, it is normal for the navy to have naval aviation units, but now that the Chinese air force has just started, the basic ones that can fly planes are in the air force of the national army, and if the navy insists on forming an aviation unit, it will have to pull people from the air force or even divide a lot of military expenses, and this is probably also something that the air force group cannot tolerate. Moreover, it is very important to ask the navy, which has no experience in aviation, to form an aviation unit, and it will probably take several years before it becomes an army!

In addition, this matter is not simply a better question of the belonging of the naval aviation troops, but has already involved the competition for funds between the air force and the navy and even the overlapping of combat missions, and once it comes to the dispute between the branches of the military, even Chen Jingyun, the boss of the National Army, has to prepare the opinions of those generals under him.

For example, when Chen Jingyun wanted to allocate additional funds for the navy to build ships, he encountered the opposition of a large number of army generals, although Chen Jingyun's prestige could be forcibly suppressed, but after all, it was not a good thing, and it was easy to transfer the contradictions between the branches of the military to himself in the long run, and this kind of thing was not what Chen Jingyun wanted to see.

Therefore, whether it is with the mud or the truth, Chen Jingyun hopes to reconcile the contradictions between the three major services. But it's funny to say that the contradictions between these branches of the army are also Chen Jingyun's acquiescence, not only the disputes between the military branches, but even the emergence of many factions in the army are also allowed by Chen Jingyun's acquiescence. If the three armies are all of the same mind, and all the generals of the army have no factions, and they all call each brother and brother, it is estimated that Chen Jingyun will not be able to sleep every day.

The subordinates are monolithic, which no leader wants to see.

This time the maritime aviation unit caused a competition between the navy and the air force, not only Sa Zhenbing personally went into battle to ask for the establishment of a naval aviation unit in the navy, but Wu Shizhong of the air force also did not care about the respect for Sa Zhenbing, the old generals and predecessors, and said that the plane belongs to my air force, the pilot belongs to my air force, and the ground crew is still my air force, why let your navy rob it!

In the face of the contradiction between the navy and the air force, and Chen Jingyun also knew that it was indeed better to hand over the air combat mission on the sea to the navy, and whether or not there was such a thing as today, the navy always wanted to build up a naval aviation unit, and today was just ahead of schedule.

After careful consideration, Chen Jingyun made a compromise plan, approved the navy's plan to form a naval aviation unit, and demanded that the air force's subordinate naval bombing squadron, including planes and pilots, as well as relevant ground and technical personnel, all be allocated to the navy. In order to make up for the losses of the air force, Chen Jingyun transferred a part of the navy's military expenditure in 1914 to the air force, and the air force's military expenditure was already small, and with this additional military expenditure, it would not only be able to replenish the squadron that had been transferred, but also be able to build a new bombing squadron, and it was hoped that the three wings of the national army air force would be fully established within this year.

In addition, Chen Jingyun also promised the Air Force to add a part of the military expenditure to the Air Force in the 1914 military expenditure allocation, which would be used for personnel training to supplement the loss of pilots and ground support technicians.

However, it also demanded that the Nanjing Air Force Academy, which is subordinate to the Air Force, accept cadets from the Navy, because after all, the naval aviation unit was just starting out, and it was no longer necessary to count on them to build a new aviation school on their own in a short period of time, but they could only borrow the strength of the Air Force first.

After Chen Jingyun made a compromise solution, although the air force was still dissatisfied, it had no choice but to obey. The navy picked up a big bargain, although the military budget in 1914 was missing a part of the military spending, but this part of the military expenditure for the navy, which was about to have a high-speed cruiser fleet and more than a dozen new warships, the losses can be directly ignored. In order to support the high-speed cruiser fleet, Chen Jingyun greatly increased the military budget for the navy in the 1914 budget.

As far as the navy is concerned, in addition to cutting off the air force's involvement in maritime affairs, it has also gained the opportunity to form an aviation unit, which allows the navy to directly abandon the air force in the future and carry out combat missions such as aerial reconnaissance and sea bombing on the sea surface, which makes some admirals of the navy feel a new round of opportunities.

Although there have been no similar examples before, some generals of the navy have placed high hopes on the naval aviation unit after seeing that the air force's planes have achieved outstanding results on land, hoping that the planes can provide the fleet with more efficient reconnaissance and even anti-ship capabilities.

The Chinese navy is now weak, and even after returning home from the warships ordered from the United States this year, it will still be a weak fleet, and its strength is simply not enough in front of the navy. As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will think about change, and no matter how arrogant those admirals are, they never expect to be able to confront the navy head-on, and use the strong ships and guns to fight hard with the huge fleet of the navy. Of course, they still don't know that in the future, the planes will be able to inflict such a heavy blow on those strong ships and artillery, and now Cheng Biguang and other naval generals still have a role in letting the planes carry out reconnaissance missions, and although Cheng Biguang and others have hopeful for the bombing mission, they did not say that they have put the bets on it.

At present, Cheng Biguang and other admirals are concerned about the reconnaissance capability of the aircraft, but the reconnaissance capability of the aircraft is also limited, and judging from the fact that the current aircraft have a range of only four or five hundred kilometers, they can only operate along the coast, and there is absolutely no way to provide intelligence for the far-sea fleet.

I have to say that Chen Jingyun far underestimated the imagination of the group of people in the navy, the navy has just set up a naval aviation department, and after receiving three or five planes from the air force, the people of the naval aviation department have put forward a plan that is far beyond Chen Jingyun's imagination, "a feasible surname for test aircraft to take off and land on ships"!

As soon as the navy, which had just received the plane, realized that the plane could not provide all kinds of support for the far-sea fleet, it immediately came up with the idea of taking the plane to the open sea, and immediately put forward the feasible name of testing the aircraft to take off and land on the ship; in their opinion, since the plane can fly more than 100 meters on land, then if the navy can provide a ship with a deck more than 100 meters long, then the plane should also be able to take off from the ship. As soon as this idea was proposed, it was immediately strongly supported by Rear Admiral Cheng Biguang, commander-in-chief of the First Fleet, and without Chen Jingyun's knowledge, the group of people in the navy were already preparing to study the plan for the plane to be put on the ship. Not only did it put forward the plan of using existing aircraft to board the ship, but even proposed an aircraft that could take off and land directly on the sea surface, that is, a seaplane plan.

And when Chen Jingyun heard the news, he almost dropped his jaw, he assured that he had never told outsiders about the concept of aircraft carriers, not even seaplane carriers! He also thought that after the torpedo bombers and dive bombers were finalized, and after the navy had a cruiser fleet, he would start testing aircraft carriers himself, and it would be better to be able to build aircraft carriers in the navies of various countries. But he didn't expect that before he took the initiative to mention it, the group of admirals had already begun to prepare to get the plane on the warship, which made him extremely surprised.

So before Chen Jingyun knew it, the Navy of the Nationalist Army had already started research on aircraft carriers!