"A bomber capable of reaching a range of up to a thousand kilometers?" Hearing Yan Shao say such a thing, Feng Guozhang and the others couldn't help but be slightly surprised.

Because the bomber unit of the Army Aviation at that time solved the relationship between a Soviet and Russian cavalry division very lightly, so the people here have some understanding of the bombers of the Army Airlines, at least they know one thing very well, that is, the range of the bombers equipped by the Wehrmacht is only 600 kilometers, and even after throwing away weapons and equipment such as machine guns, their combat range may not be able to increase much.

But now Yan Shao told them that the bomber currently under development had a range of thousands of kilometers, which was a bit surprising.

"That's right, thousands of kilometers." While lamenting that the progress of the aviation industry in this era is indeed too fast, Yan Shao replied. "According to the following, the current design of this bomber has basically entered the design stage, and it will soon enter the finalization and test flight stage, and probably in the next three to five years, it will enter the stage of small batch production, and after equipping this bomber, the Air Force will become an undoubted strategic air force, and its entire combat radius can include most of the Korean Peninsula and the entire Taiwan ..."

In fact, if it were just Pyongyang or Seoul, both would be included in the bombing radius of such bombers. If it's a one-way trip, then the entire Korean Peninsula is fine. No, it can even be said that if it is just a one-way trip, there is no problem even if it is to bomb the Japanese mainland, which shows the performance of this bomber.

Hence the so-called strategic air force. No joke. Not even just on the Korean Peninsula, but even Moscow is within the bombing range of such bombers―――――― of course. Yan Shao will definitely not use the Air Force as a one-way cannon fodder.

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For the capabilities of the following ordnance enterprises, Yan Shao is already quite appreciative. After all, to be able to do this in such a short period of time, their efforts are completely conceivable.

Even the following ordnance enterprises have told Yan Shao if the aviation industry can continue to develop at the current pace. Then it will not be long before a heavy bomber with a range of more than 2,000 or even 3,000 kilometers can be developed, and by that time both Moscow and Tokyo will be within the bombing range of the Air Force. And these two countries will never be able to compete with China.

When necessary, Yan Shao no longer even needed to keep the Soviet Russia as an attractive target, but directly destroyed it―――――― of course. That must be after the success of Yan Shao's Asian strategy, and before that, the survival of Soviet Russia is still more necessary.

After hearing Yan Shaogang's narration, whether it is Cai Yi or Jiang Baili, or Feng Guozhang, who is already old. My eyes couldn't help but light up. For people like them. Naturally, it is impossible not to see the importance of such weapons and equipment.

This weapon is no longer only used to bomb targets on the ground battlefield, but also is a strategic weapon used to bomb enemy cities, ports and industrial facilities. Therefore, if it is equipped with such weapons, then the name of the strategic air force of the Air Force will become worthy of the name.

"But, since this weapon is so powerful, why not use it for the army?"

After all, he was from the army, and Cai Ye quickly raised this question. Even Jiang Baili and Feng Guozhang took a look. If they didn't pay much attention to these planes in the past, then after listening to Yan Shaogang's words. The three of them already did not dare to despise this new weapon.

Because from a certain point of view, even such a weapon alone. You can blow up a country.

If in the future, if we can create a weapon with a combat radius that can cover the entire Japanese archipelago, it will not be impossible to bomb and sink the Japanese archipelago to the bottom of the sea.

"It's very simple," Yan Shao smiled. If this thing is given to the Army, then what else is the Air Force going to do. In Yan Shao's thinking, the Air Force is naturally a strategic Air Force, although it seems that there is no talk of global operations or anything now, but for some strategic bombing and other things, it should belong to the scope of the Air Force.

As for those ordinary ground support work, the Air Force can naturally do it, but most of the time, it should be done by the Army Aviation. After all, ordinary tactical support tasks can be done by ordinary fighters or light bombers of the Army Aviation.

Of course, Yan Shao also thought about helicopters, but unfortunately there is no such thing as helicopters in this era, so it can only be used with ordinary fixed-wing aircraft.

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Hearing Yan Shao say this, Jiang Baili and Cai Ye nodded, not saying anything. Because Yan Shao said very clearly, if it is true that all the bombers for this strategic purpose are given to the army, then what does the air force want to do, it is better to simply continue to keep the army aviation.

Later, Yan Shao and Cai Ye talked about many things related to the Air Force and the Army Aviation, but basically they were all related to command. There is no doubt that both Cai Ye and Jiang Baili have long accepted the fact that the Army Aviation Association will be independent, and the only thing they care about is how the army and the air force can fight together in the future.

Of course, the most important question is how to divide the military expenditure in the future, which is probably what Cai Ye and them are most concerned about. After all, there are so many military expenditures every year, and it is already very tight just for the army and navy to divide equally, not to mention that now there is an additional air force―――――― in the past, the air force, as a part of the army, naturally has no right to ask for military spending, so it can only fight for it, and then wait for the army bosses to be kind enough to give them some charity.

But as the Air Force gained the same status as the Army and the Navy, the situation changed. At least they have the right and qualifications to fight for more military spending, so that the already very tight military spending will naturally be...

And, of course, there is the question of naval aviation ...

In fact, this is also what Sa Zhenbing is most concerned about.

"It's nothing wrong with military spending..."Lowering his head and thinking about it, Liang Shiyi on the side said. Although the government's fiscal revenue is still very tight, with the development of Kuwait's oil fields, it is believed that it will not be long before the fiscal situation will be more abundant, so it should be no problem to increase some military spending. ”

Liang Shiyi's side is also broken, anyway, even the concept of the welfare state has been put forward, and even the army has been given such a big promotion, so it seems that it is nothing to spend more.

However, after a deep groan, Yan Shao spoke. "Money is not an issue, so why did we have to be that part of the Middle East in the first place? Isn't it because there is a lot of oil there, which is a great boost to our finances? ”

"With the development of Kuwait's oil, the financial constraints have eased considerably, and the situation we need to face is much simpler. Under such circumstances, the military expenditure of the armed forces should increase by a large margin, to the point where it is completely permissible for the three branches of the army, navy, and air force to be equally divided and develop healthily. ”

Speaking of this, Yan Shao glanced at everyone, and then continued to speak. "In fact, I have an idea, in the past, the Ministry of Defense has always complained to me, saying that with the current territory of China, more than 2 million troops are completely insufficient, and can only barely ensure the security of our territory, especially those areas that are more likely to have conflicts, but only reluctantly."

"After all, there are at least four regions where our country is currently likely to come into conflict with other countries. the Shenyang Military District in the northeast, the Urals and Astana in the northwest and the Chengdu Military District in the southeast ...

"At present, at least half of China's more than 2 million army forces are stationed in the four military regions mentioned above, and each military region has at least one corps and at most one army group size. If it is just an ordinary local war, such a force can naturally be dealt with simply and lightly, but if it is a full-scale war, it will be a bit stretched, at least during the outbreak of a full-scale war, these areas also need to be stationed with considerable troops, and other areas that are unlikely to have a war do not have too many troops to draw. So the only possible way is to call up reservists from all over the country. ”

"At present, there are about more than 10 million reserves in our country, and if necessary, we can even call up 30 or 40 million reserves―――――― provided that our country can support such a huge logistics and provide so many weapons and equipment..."

"The problem is that there is still a big gap between the reserve and the regular army after all, and it can be said that it is inevitable to rush into the battlefield and suffer heavy casualties."

"Therefore, my proposal is that in order to solve this problem, our country should increase the current number of standing troops from the current more than two million to three million! In order to ensure that there are enough troops to ensure the security of the homeland! Naturally, this would certainly increase military spending, but with Kuwait's oil already being developed, at least there would be no big financial problems..."

In fact, Yan Shao had wanted to do this for a long time, after all, in the past, such a large territory area, more than two million was already stretched. It needs to be increased to at least three million to barely be able to use some, but because of the support of the Ministry of Finance, it has not been possible to do so.

There is no way, although the war is over now, whether it is Soviet Russia, Japan, or the colonies of Britain and France in Southeast Asia, these are all areas where armed conflict may break out, so it has become inevitable to retain considerable troops. (To be continued......)