If the German fighter jets choose to remain almost the same under strong historical inertia, then there is also this problem in attack aircraft. One of the ultimate reasons for maintaining history is the demand of the German army, that is, the German army needs high-intensity and high-precision ground support firepower. [Le_Read] Novel.23 The German Air Force also believes that the fundamental determinant of whether an attack aircraft is successful is the following: First, whether it can provide sufficient firepower to cover the ground attack, and second, whether it can survive from the opponent's dense air firepower. As for other aspects, it is placed in the secondary aspects. This also creates a very serious problem, that is, when air supremacy is at the scene, the German ju87 Stuka attack aircraft can be said to be a god of death, and when air supremacy cannot be guaranteed, it is decisively beaten to the dog by the opponent's fighter jet!

Is this Stuka aircraft classic? The answer is yes. The ju87d dive bomber has a strong attack power until the end of the war. Its maximum plug-in bombs of 1,800kg can be hung on the shaft, or a 250kg bomb on each wing. Moreover, the large dive angle gives this attack aircraft a very strong attack power. It did play a role in heavy load in the early stages of the war. In terms of attack power and bomb load, ju87d

It is much stronger than the Il 2 of the same period. What's even more amazing is that one of the improved models of ju87 can also be equipped with torpedoes. If it is a carrier-based aircraft, it will be the world's first attack aircraft for dive bombing and lightning strike. Xu Jie personally believes that the performance of ju87 is stronger than that of Il 2. But all this has a premise, that is, air supremacy is in your hands! If the ju87d, whose maximum speed is only in the early 400s, loses air supremacy. If an egg is swept down, it will be the result of a sweep!

The dive bomber concept proposed by Juncker (i.e., the historical Ju87 concept) shines brightly in the bidding of the Luftwaffe. According to the requirements of the Luftwaffe, this dive bomber can carry at least 250kg bombs for dive bombing and has certain upgrade potential. If nothing unexpected happens, the development of Germany's ground attack aircraft will be the same as in history. But at this time, an accident occurred, or it cannot be an accident. Instead, the German Army discovered that the Russian army attacking Denitz in China and the Allies in the late battles on the Western Front often used a large number of attack aircraft to carry 12.7mm machine guns or 20mm machine guns and repeatedly circled in the air, repeatedly scattering targets on the ground. Although the power of the 20mm machine gun is limited, it is enough to attack infantry and cars that are almost unprotected. It is precisely because of the continuous low-altitude fire suppression of the Allies that has caused serious losses to German transport units and light protection targets.

After comparing the Germans, it was found that the bombs of dive bombers are indeed powerful, and they are useful for destroying solid bunkers and firepower. However, the bombs are gone after being thrown once. If a wave of attacks does not work, it will be completely compensated. You need to go back and re-hang up the bullets. Even if the opponent's support is destroyed, the lethality of the opponent's subsequent reinforcements and the remaining infantry is limited. However, the low-altitude attack aircraft equipped with small caliber is different. It can hover over the target area for a long time, hunt light armored targets, and drag the opponent's actions at the same time. (In this reading, Russia's Il 2 has an advantage. The maximum reserved capacity of each of the Il 2's Ledu mm cannons is as high as 300 rounds, and the N.37 Cannon is probably 50 rounds, which is more reserved than the 37mm cannon of Stuka. Of course, the armor-piercing performance is still not as good as the 37mm cannon of the Cannon.)

"Even if our attack aircraft cannot destroy the opponent's tank, as long as we can destroy the opponent's infantry and logistics vehicles, their tanks cannot go further." At a meeting with the Air Force, an air force officer proposed such a reading. At the same time, he also mentioned that it is really difficult to read if you want to use small-caliber machine guns or bombs to destroy tanks. The former is not powerful enough, while the latter is really difficult to read if you want to hit a very small moving target. No old birds can do it! In fact, there are not so many old birds. It is much easier to use machine guns and other rapid-fire weapons to hit trucks or infantry. If you hit a truck twice, you will have too much bullet reserve than bombs. And hitting a truck does not require too much power.

This idea has the idea of ​​the attack of Il 2 during the war, but one problem is that such an aircraft is also a serious problem when performing combat missions, because you have to hover on the opponent's land-based head for a long time, and the opponent's air defense weapons are definitely not decorations, which requires the aircraft to have strong protective performance. The result of adding armor is an increase in weight. The allowable load of an engine is limited when the aerodynamic layout remains unchanged, so the load capacity will inevitably decrease. Moreover, due to the increase in weight, the dive performance of the aircraft will also drop sharply. One of the reasons why Il 2 cannot throw large bombs at a high angle is that it is too heavy, with an empty weight of more than 5 tons, which is almost the weight of a twin-engine aircraft. (There is a saying that Il 2 is a steel body, and this side position cannot be determined, but Il 2 is too heavy.)

It is not possible to have both fish and bear's paw. However, for Germany today, it is not a problem to develop and equip two attack aircraft at the same time. Therefore, the Germans began to develop another attack aircraft, carrying small-caliber machine guns and small bombs to continuously kill soft targets on the ground for a long time. In the future, this weapon will also carry rockets and other weapons to attack the ground. This type of do-87 low-altitude attack aircraft, which was later called the Scythe of Death, was born, and it is called the aircraft that the Allied Army was most afraid of in the early stage of war. The results were quite brilliant.

After solving the problem of tactical support of the army, the navy came to the door again. They also hoped that the Air Force could build a carrier-based attack aircraft according to the actual needs of the navy. In this plane, the Germans realized the importance of dive bombing and lightning compatible attack aircraft. This was thanks to the British. In the later battles, the British sailfish torpedo aircraft brought huge damage to the German high seas fleet. If it were not for the existence of these terrifying killers carrying the torpedo, the German fleet would have a chance to completely defeat the high seas fleet. Although the German bombers also caused great damage to the other side.

Damage, but the Germans found that the attack effect of bombs with limited weight on the main ship can only be described in general. At present, it is obviously difficult to dive a single-engine aircraft with a weight of more than 500kg. Therefore, the only thing that can really cause fatal damage to the main ship is torpedo. It is necessary to develop carrier-based torpedo aircraft, but at the same time, the German Navy also found that torpedo aircraft also has great disadvantages. The first disadvantage is that the torpedo capacity is too small! According to the aircraft carrier planning of the German Navy, the number of aircraft torpedoes in large German aircraft carriers is only between 36 and 45!

Aviation torpedoes are different from bombs. Each torpedo is more than 5 meters long and has a diameter of about 450mm. The huge volume occupies a large amount of space in the ammunition depot, and space is required for debugging before use. According to the German Navy's plan for the first-level 16,000-ton aircraft carrier, the carrier-based aircraft volume is about 72. According to the ratio of 1 to 1 to 1 between fighter jets, dive bombers and torpedoes, the number of torpedoes is about 24, while there are only 36 torpedoes in total, that is,

To say that there are only 1.5 base numbers of torpedoes! This means that after the two aircraft carriers fight, at most two attacks, the torpedo aircraft will face the problem of torpedoes being knocked out. If the torpedo aircraft cannot be equipped with torpedoes and can only bomb horizontally or dive bomb at a small angle, then both bombing accuracy and power will be greatly reduced. Therefore, the German Navy requires the Air Force to develop an attack aircraft that can take into account both lightning strikes and dive bombing in this bidding. At least it must have the ability to compatible with both attacks in terms of future potential.

In addition to single-engine attack aircraft, the Luftwaffe also plans to make a small twin-engine aircraft as a supplement. If we only look at attack power, this type of thing seems to be a bit redundant. The positioning of this type between a single-engine attack aircraft and a normal twin-engine bomber seems to be very embarrassing. In terms of bomb load capacity and range, it is not necessarily much larger than a single-engine attack aircraft, which is far less than a twin-engine attack aircraft. However, it requires two engines, resulting in high costs. Many people inside questioned whether it is necessary to produce such bombers?

Regarding this question from the government and enterprises, the front-line personnel of the Luftwaffe gave a very positive answer. "In terms of bomb load capacity and range, this type of aircraft does not have any advantages, but in terms of flight speed, twin-engine light bombers have obvious advantages under the same load, which means that in the face of certain positions with higher defense strength, twin-engine light bombers have better survival." Richterhoven said. In addition, there is another reason that cannot be said to outsiders, that is, the Luftwaffe is preparing to develop an "electromagnetic detection equipment" and use it on fighters as a night combat aircraft.

After a period of discussion, the attack aircraft project finally located three small projects, namely dive bombers, shallow dive attack aircraft and twin-engine light bombers. In addition, according to the needs of the three armies, there are some sub-projects below these small projects. If the fighter aircraft project and attack aircraft project are jointly planned by the army, navy and air force, and the air force must consider the needs of the navy and the army, then in the last twin-engine bomber project and the four-engine strategic bomber project, Richterhoven's air force will dominate! This is also the power he and his colleagues dream of having! Use the air force to crush the ground!

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