Macho Wars

"My dear, you give a comment! Are those who drive the airship too wide?"

After listening to Yunlong's narration, Dragon was thoughtful.

Regarding the issue of military ownership after the aircraft was launched, he personally prefers the establishment on the other side of the earth. Not only must the air force become an independent army, other services must also maintain a certain amount of aviation power.A big, obstinate man like Goring is absolutely undesirable!

However, many times, things are not what you expect and they will happen.It is already normal for the various branches of the empire to compete for power.As long as there is a chance, no one will give up eating more.

So scramble is inevitable, and Dragon is in such a big environment, naturally, it is inevitable.

There is no doubt that as a new air force, aircraft can control the future by mastering it, and Dragoon is undoubtedly the person who understands it the most profoundly in the world.

Others have to explore and summarize by themselves, as long as he can refer to the successful experience from another world as much as possible.

"It seems that after a few days I have time, I should talk to General Howard again."

A few days later, Dragon once again met General Howard who came to inspect at the military academy.After the two met, Dragon took out the materials he had prepared and introduced other future air powers straightforwardly.

Howard took the material he handed over, flipped through a few pages, and was attracted by the content.

"This is all you came up with?"

"Not all, some of them are knowledge from Dragon Palace Island. Their original owners cannot realize these ideas on that barren island, but we can use them directly."

"Simple pragmatism... It seems we need to find a place to talk in detail."

It took a full three hours, and Howard became his staunch supporter under Dragoon's lobbying.He promised Dragon face to face, at most a week, he would find a way to get all the resources he needed.But as a return on investment, Dragon must also produce visible and tangible results in the next two years.

Regarding Howard's request, Dragon, who was full of confidence, naturally patted his chest and agreed on the spot!

Chapter 366

By lobbying Howard, Dragon asked Dr. Dornier's aircraft development group for all the resources they needed.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the young aviation force is still in its infancy. Although it has had a brilliant performance in the Far East, the overall scale and technical level are still very insufficient.

So far, the Third Agricultural Machinery Factory has built two types and three types of aircraft, but the total output is only 50.

Among them, 36 were delivered to the army, and 24 were successively put into the Far East battlefield, and were fortunate to participate in actual combat.

In addition, 12 bi-wing gray seagulls and two land-based flying swallows were delivered to the colonial aviation school, which has trained more than 120 pilots and a large number of ground crews for the army.

However, to this extent, it is far from the multifunctional air force in Dragon's mind!

Therefore, the first step for Dragon is to add new aircraft types according to the functional needs of combat.

The aircraft currently owned by the air force are all fighter jets with basically the same positioning. They can only perform combat tasks such as reconnaissance and patrol, air interception, and ground strike.

There is nothing to say about the air. When other countries only have airships, fighters equipped with incendiary bombs and rockets are well-deserved air overlords.

However, this advantage is based on the premise that the enemy’s technical level is not equal. If it is replaced by ground or sea, the level of armament of the two fighters is quite insufficient.

During the war in the Far East, the pilots who participated in the war complained to their superiors more than once that their aircraft had too few weapons and too weak firepower. The 50-kilogram bombs were thrown out just like a cannon. It was not exciting at all!

In response to these problems exposed in actual combat, Dragon summarized a detailed report after the war and sent it directly to Dr. Dornier's team, urging them to speed up the development of new aircraft and related weapon systems.

In accordance with Dragun’s suggestion, Dr. Dornier’s team will then develop three new models, including medium transport aircraft, medium horizontal bombers, and dive bombers.

The Ryugu Island Technical Miko, headed by Akashi, is responsible for weapon development and upgrading Shuangyan.

The future Feiyan II will be replaced with a new engine with more powerful horsepower, and the original 8mm machine gun will be upgraded to a more powerful .50.The greatly increased load capacity allows the new aircraft to carry a 250 kg aerial bomb on its belly, which can basically meet the combat needs of the aviation team.

On the other hand, the training problem of the aviation team has also been solved.General Howard made a phone call and went directly to the head of the God Capital Guard Fleet. Without much effort, he asked him to make concessions to the small air force.

After negotiation, the two parties agreed that the airship unit allows pilots of the air fleet to take off for training at a specific time each day, and at the same time restrict the flight area and not enter the air over the city without authorization.

For these more reasonable requirements, the aviation team naturally agreed very readily, and promised to show the flying swallow-type fighters to the airship team.

In Dragon’s view, the airship unit is not an antagonistic relationship with them, but a partner for cooperation. He deliberately sells bombers that are still in the research and development stage to the other side, and seduce these guys into the "flying bombing". road.

After dealing with these matters, Dragon once again put his mind on his studies.The three-month general class is not 100% graduation.All students must prepare a final essay at the end, which can be passed after the school's deliberation.

At first, Dragon wanted to write a related graduation thesis based on his own job-amphibious warfare.But now he has changed his mind and wants to write an article about aviation power.

It is important to know that the final essays of the generals are not the teachers from the military academy, but a large number of giants in the imperial military, and even the emperors of the empire. This is easier than lobbying one by one in the past. many.

Dragoon, who calmed down to learn, just passed a month steadily, returning to the Lexington to pick up people in the New World, and returned to China with his sister and the crew and supplies.

The two aircraft carriers brought back a total of 4,000 newly trained marines and a large amount of new equipment.

These personnel and equipment will make up for the vacancies of the three existing regiments of the First Marine Brigade, and the other two regiments needed for future expansion into the division are an armored regiment and a heavy artillery regiment. These will be supplemented directly from the home side. .

On the day the recruits were incorporated into the army, Dragon came back from the military academy on purpose.Before the appointment of the deputy commander was officially issued, he was still the commander of the Independent Marine Corps.

After the recruits and weapons were in place, Dragoon's troops finally recovered to their heyday, but the original tank battalion was transferred to form a new armored regiment, leaving them with only one company.

As compensation, the superior assigned them a batch of light wheeled chariots, but the officers and soldiers generally didn't like these gadgets. The tall and mighty tanks gave them a sense of security.

Seeing the neatly lined up and majestic group of three thousand people on the school field, Dragon couldn't help but feel a sense of melancholy.

The independent regiment was the unit he brought out, and it was also his greatest pride.Many old subordinates have been with him for three or four years, and they have shared joys and sorrows together, and have also fought side by side. They have cultivated deep comrades in arms.

Dragon was very reluctant at first, for fear that he would go to the division as the deputy commander, and send an incompetent new regiment commander over to bring his troops down alive.

Similar situations are not without precedents in the Imperial Army. There are many well-known trump troops. The first chief military officer is indeed a general, bringing out a group of brave and capable soldiers.But as soon as he was promoted, he was replaced by a mediocre person, and the combat effectiveness of the troops immediately declined.

The most ideal successor in Dragon's mind is naturally Jack, who is now the deputy commander.Not only are they familiar with the situation in the regiment, but the old men are also convinced enough by him.

But the problem is that Jack is currently only a lieutenant colonel, his rank is not enough to serve as the chief military officer of the first-class main force, and now it is non-war time, it is difficult to find any reason to promote him.

Fortunately, after brigade commander Kane learned of this, he helped Dragon resolve this worries.It happened that Oren Shatz, the deputy commander of the 772 regiment, was promoted to colonel not long ago. Kane originally planned to transfer him to take over the heavy artillery regiment, but now he is directly transferred to the independent regiment as head of the independent regiment.

Colonel Chatz, 46, is an experienced veteran military officer and his performance during the Far Eastern War is also remarkable.

It is a good choice to let him take over the independent group.

Chapter 367 Birds in and outside the cage

Calculating the time, it has been almost three months since Karen came to the Sidney Empire.Early May in the subtropical climate is a good time for cool and pleasant temperatures, and flowers of all colors are blooming.

Out of respect for the status of Queen Tarrans, before the official wedding, the empire arranged Karen and her accompanying servants to live in the summer palace in the east of the city.

On the day of staying here, Karen finally met Sidney XIV and was invited to have dinner.

Contrary to the rumored brutality and violentness, Sidney XIV’s first impression of Kallen was that he was an elder who was gentle and not angered with prestige, and he was a king of majesty.

Karen was nervous at first, but none of the things that might happen as expected occurred.Sidney XIV showed a very gentlemanly demeanor in front of her, except for the kiss of hands when they first met, and there was no physical contact with Karen.

This made Karen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and her shy and restrained attitude also made Sidney XIV greatly satisfied.