While the German Navy and Army were still discussing the issue of air force, Huaxia was also considering the structure of its own air force system in the future; as early as the end of World War I, Yang Yonglin, the boss of the navy, and Peng Yi, the representative of the army, were running around for the "navy" and "army aviation" to be established. It's not just about fighting for more budgets and quotas in parliament. At the same time, it is also integrating the aviation industry, after all, there must be a suitable factory to provide aircraft for itself, and the requirements of land aviation and Hainan Airlines are not the same. Therefore, the navy supported the aircraft factory in Shenyang, and the army supported an aircraft factory in Chengdu, which was later known as the Shenyang Aircraft Factory and the Chengdu Aircraft Factory! The former focuses on fighter jets with air-cooled engines, while the latter focuses on aircraft with liquid-cooled engines!

In fact, at that time, Huaxia was also preparing to set up a special manufacturer of heavy bombers, transport aircraft and civilian passenger aircraft, but because these have little to do with the current navy and army, Yang Yonglin and Peng Yi are not very sad. It's not that Huaxia doesn't have V1500 bombers similar to the British and the Germans' giant bombers, but most of these big guys are grouped alone, except for the navy with some four-engine bombers as long-distance reconnaissance at sea, the others are not in the hands of the navy and army, and there is already a faint possibility of forming an army on its own.

"I will arrange the navy and army aviation according to the situation and needs of the navy and army, and in addition, I will also establish a third branch of the air force in addition to the navy and army, alongside the navy and the air force." At a meeting of the Ministry of Defense, the Minister of the Navy and Army, who was in hot pursuit. Xu Jie gave the other party a bottom. And this allowed the two to form a "united front". "If there are so many commanders, it will definitely cause confusion in the command. The HNA is responsible for the vicinity of the port and the sea-based aviation, and the army is in charge of the rest. Why bother? Yang Yonglin and Peng Yi expressed their incomprehension of this!

As a traverser, Xu Jie has a deep understanding of this, the Air Force will have to stand on its own sooner or later, and in history, the U.S. Army handed over all the fixed-wing aircraft after the end of World War II, and then formed the U.S. Air Force. And from the perspective of the 2 wars, the air force can basically be divided into two types, one is the tactical air force, which is based on the German and Soviet air forces. Its focus is on ensuring its own air supremacy and supporting ground combat, and its ability to strike at targets in depth is very limited, while the other is the strategic air force. For example, the United States and Britain launched a protracted strategic attack on industrial bases, cities, and various transportation hubs under the command of the British Royal Air Force and the United States' Eighth Air Force in a large number of four-shot long-range bomber formations against local industrial bases, cities, and various transportation hubs.

In Xu Jie's plan, under the technical conditions of World War II, the army can have a certain number of aircraft to ensure the safety of its own airspace. and providing various types of support to the frontline. But this aviation, which is subordinate to the army, will not be very large. It is possible to perform only tactical tasks, at most partially in the performance of campaign support tasks. Some people may ask why they don't give the army a lot of space, and Xu Jie thinks about this in this way, as the army side, they are concerned about whether the ground forces can complete their tasks. For this reason, all actions will revolve around such an arrangement. And the aviation force will be somewhat limited and affected under such rules, for example, during the Russian World War 2, the requirements of the army were put in the first place. Air Force combat units are deployed around the Army, and if necessary, attack aircraft must force the opponent's heavily defended areas. The fighters responsible for air cover must also hover over the battlefield at all times to provide cover, and they lack the flexibility they should have, even if they have the advantage in battle, they cannot leave the battlefield to pursue the opposing air force, which causes some unnecessary losses.

From the point of view of training personnel, it is clear that a pilot is much more laborious than training a tank group. From an economic point of view, a single-engine aircraft is cheaper than a tank, but a twin-engine aircraft is definitely much more expensive than a normal tank, and the cost of a four-engine aircraft is even more frightening. And more importantly, the army generally focuses on the battlefield, while the four-engine heavy bombers generally perform long-range horizontal bombing, targeting important facilities and transportation hubs in the rear. For front-line tactical attacks, single-engine and twin-engine aircraft are generally sufficient. There is no need to bring heavy bombers. A 4-engine bomber cannot dive bomb at a large angle, and its accuracy for tactical targets is very average, unless it is a carpet bombing, it is better to use a single or double bomb that can dive to carry out tactical missions.

From the point of view of concentrated use, only when the number of heavy bombers reaches a certain range, its combat effectiveness will have a qualitative change, which is not only reflected in the accumulation of bomb load, but also in the tactical application, for example, there are more planes, can be placed in a dense box formation to resist the attack of the opponent's fighters, before the appearance of anti-aircraft rockets, the German pilots who simply rely on the machine guns to rush into the box formation are still quite afraid of the B17 with more than a dozen more than 50 machine guns on the body. This dense firepower can be described as airtight. In the later stage of the war, a large number of bombers with electronic warfare equipment, with dense full-coverage electronic jamming to counter German radar also achieved excellent results, with the German feedback, even if multiple radars use different frequency bands to detect, its efficiency will drop to less than a quarter of the time when there is no electronic interference. Of course, there are factors that Germany has relatively backward radar technology, but the power of the concentrated use of a large number of electronic jamming equipment must not be underestimated.

Therefore, there is no need for the army to have too many aircraft, it is enough to ensure the needs of general campaigns, and if it has to run into a few difficult targets, it can coordinate with the air force. A large number of long-range bombers and long-range fighters will be used as strategic forces. It is indeed necessary for the navy to want an independent navy. However, in addition to a few maritime patrol aircraft used for reconnaissance or anti-submarine, Xu Jie does not plan to give HNA too many 4-engine heavy aircraft, HNA is mainly composed of land-based aviation and sea-based aviation, the latter needless to say, most of them are single-engine aircraft, the former is mainly to carry out sea attack missions, and in the face of sailing ships, the effect of horizontal bombing is relatively average, it is better to use twin-engine bombers that can dive.

In short, in Xu Jie's planning, the main aircraft equipped by the Army Airlines are short-range low-cost fighters that can be mass-produced (similar to the BF109 in wartime) that emphasize flight performance. Ground attack aircraft with strong protection (such as JU87) can be used as a fighter-bomber integrated aircraft (such as FW190, Tempest, etc.) and twin-engine bombers (such as JU88) that can dive with the advancement of technology in the later stage. and twin-engine night fighters, or night bombers, which are smaller than the standard two-sided bombers like the JU88, but have higher speed and better flight performance. (e.g. mosquitoes)

In order to snatch the performance of the ship, it is necessary to require good performance at low and medium altitudes, and if you want to say that the best carrier-based aircraft in the history of World War 2, it is naturally the Pirate series, which integrates air combat and sea attack, and can do almost everything except that you can't throw torpedoes (but the Corsair 2 post-war derivative AU1 attack aircraft can carry torpedoes), and even night combat planes can. However, if you want to open this tech tree, you need the artifact R2800, which is slightly more difficult. Therefore, at the beginning, fighters and attack aircraft still had to be separated, and the latter was relatively easy to achieve as long as the development of science and technology was not particularly tragic and the design was better, (historically, JU87 had an improved torpedo machine.) As for land-based aviation? Considering that the radius of naval combat requirements is generally relatively large, an aircraft like the P51 can be considered if the technology tree allows, of course, the B type may still be almost hot, and the D type has enough range, but the flight hard indicators, such as speed and climb, have decreased a little. The performance of the low-altitude performance is more severe. Of course, when it comes to P51H, it will be mighty and domineering! As for twin-engine aircraft? Xu Jie thinks that the historical mosquitoes and JU88 work very well, and there is no need to add something else.

Finally, there is the Strategic Air Force, which is directly under the Ministry of Defense. If history does not deviate greatly, relying solely on long-range bombers to bomb is not promising, and heavy bombers are still bombing Germany with heavy casualties, and it is only when escort planes join in that they finally crush the Luftwaffe. If you want to talk about heavy bombers, Xu Jie still prefers B17 aircraft with heavy armor and heavy firepower, although Lancaster can also do it, but the protection and firepower are obviously worse, HE177? Let's solve the heat dissipation problem first. As for the B29, it belongs to the equipment on the later Gundam. In the case of fighters, there is only one best option in 2 battles, and that is the P51. Although the P47 has enough range, it is too expensive, and its performance at medium and low altitudes is average. The most important thing is to eat the engine, and the non-R2800 is not competent. The P51 is almost enough to have an engine similar to the Morin 61 or DB605, and of course, the 2nd level supercharging is indispensable.

As a later generation of naval party, Xu Jie still has a certain understanding of this kind of aircraft that the navy is most afraid of and the most powerful at the same time, in short, the general direction chosen will not be wrong, the only problem is to climb the science and technology tree. The two fundamental pillars of the performance of the 2 fighters, the engine, the R2800 twin Wasp engine and the British Griffin liquid-cooled engine are naturally the best. The worse ones are the BMW 801 and the DB series and JUMO series engines. (Okay, on paper, both Maozi and the book are stronger than the BMW 801 series, but let's solve the problem of stability first!) And there is no precedent for the aerodynamic layout, Xu Jie only knows that the most NB aerodynamic design in the 2nd World War at that time was P51, this guy is not just a laminar wing! The goal is set, and the following is to use more than ten years of hard work to do all kinds of accumulation and climbing technology!

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