"Fixation completed!"

"Lift down!"

The ground crew in dark blue overalls recited the order loudly, the hydraulic jack bracket and the rocket launcher were separated and slowly lowered, and the squad leader sitting on the support car secretly glanced at the company commander behind him, and the stopwatch made a "click" sound, and the young maintenance sergeant swallowed his saliva.

"6 minutes and 48 seconds. ”

The company commander shook his head expressionlessly, and the heart of the training officer almost jumped out of his mouth in horror because of this action, and before they could get ready, a violent storm came.

"Third squad leader! What kind of soldier are you bringing? The literary and artistic soldiers of the art troupe? The firehead soldiers of the cooking squad? He looks like a bear! It takes more than six minutes to hang up the bombs and prepare them! How many things will be delayed during the war? How many brothers will be killed!......

All kinds of foul mouths were fired like machine guns, and the third training squad desperately tensed their bodies, lest the trembling appearance of their bodies attract stinking scoldings such as "sissy", "soft egg", and "sissy".

Every recruit goes through something similar, and it's a necessary journey before he grows into a self-disciplined veteran, and now the company elders who loudly reprimand the recruits have survived all the way, as do the heavy assault planes behind them, the St87.

After the Seven-Day War, all branches of the armed forces began to improve their existing equipment in light of the lessons learned in actual combat and in view of the various problems that had been exposed. However, the St87 assault aircraft is not an improvement of this kind of rush, but the result of the natural development of military technology.

The Air Force of the Defense Forces is basically satisfied with the existing MDS and the high-low combination mode of large floating warships, and the MDS drives away and intercepts small targets such as griffins. Battleships and MAs are responsible for destroying high-value targets such as warships and fortresses. The actual battle also fully showed that this combination is powerful enough to deal with most troubles. However, as the Albion Floating Fleet began to install the new thing of assault boats, the Air Force of the Defence Force, which had always prided itself to be the world's leader, found itself lacking the means to effectively strike at this "new" air ship.

The assault boat is about 30 meters long, streamlined in configuration, fully enclosed structure, covered with a layer of copper skin, and is specially designed for assault operations.

Albiang's original intention in building such small ships was to take advantage of the superiority of the assault boats in terms of maneuverability and protection when the fleet was bombarded in formation. Interspersed harassment of enemy fleets. And then disrupt the ranks of the enemy fleet and form your own tactical advantage.

The Defence Air Force did not think that Albion's little calculations could be used on them, but they found that this humble little creature had potential that they could not ignore - a good ground attack platform, a good vehicle for suicide attacks. If a certain number of musketeers and mages are carried on the assault boat. This kind of small boat will immediately become an extremely primitive and quite effective battlefield attack aircraft. Gunboats flying in the air. Relying on the thick skin and rough meat. Before being shot down by the fire nets of MDS or self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, the assault boat could have been haunted and killed by the Wehrmacht. And once the explosives are filled into the ship's hold, they are used to ram the enemy warship. This is yet another horrific suicide weapon.

The above speculation is not without exaggeration and speculation, but the attitude of the defense forces is quite serious, and the technicians are quickly called in to tinker with the "assault boat killer" - this is the origin of the St87 "Super Cannon Bird" project.

This assault aircraft is characterized by its all-round heavy-weight armament configuration, heavyweight power system and heavyweight airframe structure. This combination of heavy duty provides the Air Force with a stable platform for firing in the air. The platform relies on powerful firepower to lightly shred small and medium-sized armored targets such as assault boats, and then calmly leave the battlefield with sufficient speed, return to base, replenish ammunition, and launch another attack.

In order to achieve the above goals, the St87 chose the shape of the aircraft, the fuselage section is close to circular, and the four groups of Storm Jet Crews are arranged in the wing roots in a side-by-side manner, forming a wing-body fusion structure with the fuselage, the wing is swept back 45 degrees, and the pilot and the radio and gun controller sit side by side in the cockpit in a staggered manner, and the overall layout can be described as advanced and avant-garde.

But no matter how brilliant the design of the airframe is, its ordnance configuration is the most important. One BK8.8 88mm cannon under the nose and four BK5.5 55mm cannons built into the wings are so powerful that they are almost excessive. The density of firepower is comparable to that of an army tank platoon - imagine the effect of moving 1 Tiger and 4 infantry fighting vehicles capable of self-loading to add a 30-meter dinghy...... But the jaw-dropping thing is yet to come.

When a certain general of the General Staff visited the prototype, the head of the clay-legged head asked the accompanying technician next to him: "It's so big, can it fit a shift?"

......

In order to be able to deceive ...... To apply for more funding to complete the project, it is important to make the chief happy. The group of technicians wearing labor protection gloves sacrificed a mud-legged artifact -- ground fire! Also known as rocket launchers!

The improved St87 has a full 10 hardpoints on the fuselage and under the wings, and has a bomb load of up to 10 tons. In addition to being able to carry all kinds of aerial bombs, the most hung is the pile of 57mm/90mm/130mm rockets. During the firepower demonstration project of the new machine, the group of labor protection gloves immediately recited the mantra "All the bullets fire!!" and bombed indiscriminately, and the fire show that almost turned over the small hill immediately captured the hearts of the bigwigs. With a stroke of the pen, the budget is in place.

At this point, the ST87 has finally begun to enter the stage of mass production and installation, and has officially become an important part of the air power of the defense force. It is not only used to combat air targets, but also to provide close air support in conjunction with the MDS, and it has been widely praised and expected by everyone from top to bottom.

The success of ST87 also brought an unexpected consequence, since then, the addicted labor protection gloves elves began to chant spells frantically, whether you kill Ji or Ji, as long as there are labor protection gloves, there is the cheapest full bomb launch show, full bomb launch has become a tradition that cannot be lost in the defense force.

Now, this heavy assault aircraft and the recruits who serve it are only one chance to prove their worth, extract the medal of merit from blood and fire, and let the world remember the horror and power of the "Super Cannon Bird". It is no longer the name of the bomb B that was still unknown to everyone that year. Thor, who inspected the assault hangar, looked at his designated specially modified cannon birds, which the mechanics had already hung under the wings of the high-powered loudspeakers to test the sound. Listening to the soprano's high-pitched singing, he looked forward to the twenty-sixth day of the wind and moon three days later. (To be continued......)