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May 2, 1914, 2755 AD, Hanking.
Early that morning, the ambassadors of the three Allied Powers came to see Wen Desi.
French Ambassador to China Conde said eagerly: "Mr.
President, please open your country's fighter jet technology to us."
"Oh, please tell me about our country's fighter jet technology.
Is this a request from France or a request from Britain and Russia?"
Wen Desi asked calmly.
British Ambassador to China Juldian said: "Mr.
President, this is a requirement of our Allied Powers.
If your country is willing to transfer fighter technology, it will gain the friendship of our Allied Powers."
Wen Desi frowned and said, "Everyone, you must know that fighter jet technology is our country's core military technology, so I'm sorry, but it will not be open to the outside world."
Zhu Erdian blinked and said with a smile: "Mr.
President, we will not let your country transfer in vain.
I think we are sincere.
What do you think of 3 million pounds?"
"This is not a matter of money.
Fighter technology is related to our country's national defense security," Wen Desi said.
Mr.
Wen knew that the Allied Powers had been badly beaten by Er Dezi, and he came to the door because he was eager to restore the situation.
France suffered the heaviest losses this time.
The war had only begun for more than half a month, and the five main armies were already overwhelmed.
Most of them were annihilated.
The number of casualties exceeded 300,000, and the wounded exceeded 400,000.
In addition, about 100,000 people entered the war.
German prisoner of war camp.
Later, in the Battle of the Marne, the British and French forces were overrun by German troops.
After suffering more than 80,000 casualties, they moved into Paris.
Then they were pushed again by the Germans in Paris, and nearly 120,000 people were killed or injured.
Including other piecemeal battles, the French have so far killed 350,000 people, wounded more than 500,000 people, and 120,000 people are still in prisoner of war camps.
The British also suffered more than 40,000 deaths and more than 50,000 wounded.
The Germans suffered less than 20,000 casualties, and another 30,000 were wounded.
You know, the current population of France is less than 40 million, and this guy has lost more than 1% of the population, and he is still young and strong, and he is an elite army.
Even the capital, Paris, was lost, which was really debilitating.
But at this time, the French are very enthusiastic.
If they lose their capital, they will lose it.
I will continue to fight and must ooxx and xxoo the hateful Germans.
Seeing that France could still hold on, Britain quickly sent a large number of additional troops to France to participate in the war.
The British and French allied forces defended the Orleans area.
However, the Germans firmly controlled the sky, making the British and French forces extremely passive, and were easily bombed and strafed.
Britain and France were not without aircraft, but in the battle on the Western Front in April, the British and French forces lost nearly 800 aircraft, while Germany only lost more than 70 aircraft.
This was called "Bloody April."
In fact, Britain and France have much more fighter jets than Germany.
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Due to China's leading or stimulating role, the air forces of the major powers have developed much faster than before.
Especially after the Sino-Japanese War, air power Its importance has been recognized by all countries.
Before the outbreak of World War I, Britain had nearly 1,000 fighter jets, France had more, 1,500, and Germany had less than 1,200 fighter jets.
Moreover, it had to deal with Russia on the Eastern Front, and no more than 1,000 of them could be used on the Western Front. .
At first glance, this is a disparity battle between 2,500 planes and 1,000 planes, but the problem is that Germany's fighter jets are much more advanced than its opponents.
Through technical cooperation with China, German and Austro-Hungarian fighter jets were equipped with firing coordinators from the beginning.
The fighter jets of the Allied Powers do not have this technology.
They use pusher propeller aircraft with machine guns installed on the nose or front of the fuselage.
The propeller is at the back and does not affect the machine gun shooting.
For example, France's Farmand f. 20 and British f. e. 2b.
These aircraft mostly adopt a push-type design, with two seats at the front and rear.
The driver is in the back seat and the observer-shooter is in the front seat.
They are usually equipped with one or two machine guns.
However, although aircraft with a push-type design are convenient for installing weapons and shooting, they have poor maneuverability and cannot compete with flexible pull-in fighters.
Of course, Britain and France were not fools.
Seeing that the push-type fighter was not powerful, they quickly developed a pull-in fighter.
The propeller of the pull-in aircraft is installed in front of the nose, which affects the machine gun firing forward.
How can the bullet smoothly pass through the high-speed rotating propeller and shoot to the target without a shooting coordinator without damaging the propeller blade?
Technicians from the two countries came up with a way to install a steel wedge-shaped deflector behind the propeller blade. , to deflect the hitting bullet.
For example, the French Saulnier aircraft is this type.
But the deflector is also very difficult to use, but it is just a little better than nothing.
So the French developed a new layout, which was to mount the machine gun on the upper wing of the Newburgh 11's double-decker wing to avoid the propeller and allow the bullets to be fired directly from the propeller.
This approach was indeed effective.
At the same time, Britain was using a new type of propelled aircraft, the De Havilland D. h. 2.
Before the war began, Britain and France still had confidence in their own aircraft.
However, once the war began, the two countries discovered that the aircraft they had worked so hard to build were turned into scum in front of the German Albatross D-type fighter jets and were beaten.
Killed like a duck.
Even the latest models of the Newburgh 11 and de Havilland D. h. 2 is no match for the Albatross D-type, and even suffered a 10 to 1 battle loss with both serves.
Aircraft are indeed cheap these days, but pilots are hard to find.
These are not infantry on the ground.
They only need to be issued a gun and trained for a month before they can go to the battlefield.
Although there are still more than half of the planes in the two countries left, these are older planes, and they even deliver food on board.
After discussion, the leaders of the Allied Powers felt that this could not continue like this, but aviation technology was not something that existed.
It was impossible for them to make any breakthroughs in a short time on their own.
It would not matter in peacetime, but now It's wartime, and we can't afford to delay it no matter what.
China is recognized as the number one in aviation technology in the world today, and Germany only has its current Albatross D-type fighter jet after conducting technical cooperation with China.
Yes, Sino-German military cooperation is carried out in secret, but there is no airtight wall in the world, the Allies are not fools, and so many intelligence personnel are not all just for free.
Even if the details are unclear, I still know a few general things.
Since Germany can get some technology from China, we should get it too.
The big deal is just the cost.
The most urgently needed technology for the Allied Powers now is the technology to "make bullets propellers smoothly", but they have been bullied miserably by the albatross.
Things like shooting coordinators are not complicated in the first place.
Even if China does not sell them, they will be able to develop them themselves in a short time.
So it was better to take advantage of the opportunity and make a profit.
After pondering for a while, Wen Desi agreed.
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After the two sides negotiated for a while, the Allies purchased 500 new pull-in fighter jets and related technologies from China at a cost of 60 tons of gold worth 8.2 million pounds, as well as a full set of drawings and production authorization.
What China sells to them is the export-oriented fighter jet produced by Chengdu Aircraft, the J-3 Swift fighter.
The appearance of this fighter is closer to the "Furious" KII fighter produced by Hawker Aviation in the 1930s.
It is a kind of A single-engine, single-seat biplane with a composite structure, a streamlined landing gear tire fairing, and a small air inlet under the front fuselage to enhance engine cooling.
It has a streamlined body, elegant appearance, and pretty good performance.
The "Swift" fighter has a total length of 8 meters, a wingspan of 9.2 meters on the upper wings and 7.5 meters on the lower wings, a height of 3.1 meters, and an empty weight of 1,300 kilograms.
It is equipped with a "hhy01w type" piston liquid-cooled engine.
The model with w added means it is an export type, with a hardwood three-blade propeller.
The maximum speed reaches 290 kilometers, the cruising speed is 200 kilometers, the practical ceiling is 7500 meters, and the range is 600 kilometers.
Its nose is equipped with two 7mm machine guns with 1,200 rounds of ammunition.
Although this "Swift" fighter is an export model, it is already very conscientious, and its performance is not much worse than the initial version of the J-1.
Of course, if there is no radio station, they don’t ask for it anyway.
More than 400 "Swift" fighter jets have been stockpiled here in China, so the first batch of 400 "Swift" fighter jets was delivered.
And because the Allies were in urgent need, they spent an additional 20 tons of gold and hired Chinese pilots to transfer these planes directly to Egypt, where British and French pilots took over.
As long as money is given, Mr.
Wen always respects the requirements of customers.
For the sake of gold, Mr.
Wen even sent several large airships to follow.
The airships were equipped with spare pilots and supplies, as well as fuel, as well as 20 million ordered by the Allied Powers.
To issue 7mm machine gun bullets, although they are also working hard to change the production line, it still takes time.
This transition flight was very spectacular. 400 J-3 Swift fighter jets departed from Chengdu, arrived in Kunming, and then transferred to India, Iran, Iraq, and then to Egypt.
The entire journey was more than 6,000 kilometers and took 12 days.
Fortunately, the planes in this era are very light and do not have high requirements for airports.
Otherwise, it is really impossible.
Many places in the middle do not have official airports.
After the Allied Powers obtained these aircraft, they immediately dispatched a group of top pilots to familiarize themselves with them.
After two weeks of familiarization, they became familiar with them.
The British and French coalition forces put these aircraft into the battlefield on May 28, and they had immediate results.
The "Albatross" who were so awesome in the previous period can no longer be awesome after meeting the "Swiss" from China.
The British and French air forces faced the German Air Force for the first time and achieved a good result of 1 to 1, which was regarded as a turnaround.
As the pilots gradually became familiar with this kind of aircraft, their results got better and better, and later they achieved an exchange ratio of 3 to 2.
After regaining air supremacy, the Allies gradually recovered their defeat and completely stabilized Orleans.
Moreover, the guerrillas in the occupied areas of France were also very active.
They attacked Germany's logistical supply lines aggressively, causing the German army a huge headache and having to spend a large amount of troops to guard the supply lines.
As a result, the two sides formed a tug-of-war from Orleans to Le Mans
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