Chapter 354： Li Yan's vision for the future of the navy and air force

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Just as Li Yan expected, after this incident, Mary Joa didn't care about Li Yan for a while, but put all her energy on the revolutionary army.

It's not without reason why the five major families let the fourteen families mess around.

Because these families are needed!

Then, why are the Fourteen Families, who have been doing nothing all day and have been completely degenerated, needed again?

This has to do with the Heavenly King, the ultimate weapon that the Tianlong people can suppress this world!

The activation of the Heavenly King also has many restrictions, otherwise, it would have been used long ago, and among these restrictions, there is a price that requires Tianlong people to pay their lives.

It is precisely because of this that no matter how depraved and noisy the celestial dragons are, Im will continue to feed them deliciously.

After all, they are all important nutrients, and they are the nutrients necessary to use the king!

However, Li Yan is satisfied with this development, but some people are more wary of him because of this.

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Gaya Island, 10,000 meters above the sky.

Not far from Angel Island.

Appayado.

A huge modern air base has been built.

Not only the air force base, but there are also several huge factories on the side of the base. This is the production line of fighter jets. Currently, 50 Mustang fighter jets can be produced every month.

As for the first batch of fighter jets off the assembly line, except for the 24 Draganas, the rest have been deployed here.

As for pilots, the Eighteen Branches have also completed the training of nearly 100 people.

What I have to mention here is that there is one thing that surprised Li Yan. Most of the soldiers recruited from the Shandia people have a high degree of enthusiasm for the profession of pilots, and they have shown flying skills. Absolute talent.

However, Li Yan was relieved when he remembered that this group of people used to step on "skateboards" or "skates" all day long, traverse the clouds at a height of 10,000 meters, or perform various difficult movements.

In short, under the same training time, the seamen from the 18th branch were no match for the Shandia people in the air combat simulation. maneuvering action.

So much so that Li Yan was set up in the Air Force Academy in Appayado. Among the textbooks that were just put into use, more than 80% of the maneuvers were created by the people of Shandia.

It's... simply.

However, this is also a good thing for Li Yan.

With the existence of the Shandians, the development of their own air force can be greatly accelerated, right?

The main tower of the Air Force Base.

Looking outside through the glass, Zefa also sighed at the runways that were even thousands of meters long, as well as the various facilities and buildings in the base.

However, he also has a question.

"Li Yan, I think you can take off these fighter jets at a maximum of 500 meters, but why are the several runways in the base thousands of meters long, and the longest runway even reaches more than 4,000 meters? "

Yes, Zefa did not understand at all, what was the point of such a long runway.

Isn't this a waste of human and material resources...

"Mr. Zefa, fighter jets are only part of our air force."

"You mean, there are other types of fighter jets that need to use longer runways to complete takeoffs?"

"Yes, Levin has already started the development and control of the bomber after the Mustang fighter was finalized."

"bomber?"

I heard a new term, but Zefa didn't understand what a bomber was.

"Because other forces currently don't have an air force, you have the wrong feeling that fighter planes are used to attack the enemy, but in fact, the main task of fighter planes is to control the air!"

"Look, the Mustang can only carry two aerial bombs at most, right?"

"So, although the Mustang fighter has the ability to attack the ground, it is not strong!"

"On the one hand, there are too few aerial bombs. On the other hand, whether it is bombing or strafing with cannons, it needs to be lowered to a very low altitude, or even relying on diving to complete it. This is not only inefficient for fighters. It's also very dangerous."

"In this way, even if it is the Corona Type 18, as long as there are enough numbers and the timing is accurate enough, it can completely give the fighter a certain threat when it dives and strikes."

"So, Levin started to study a kind of aircraft that has no air-to-air capability and simply strikes the ground, and it was named a bomber."

"The bomber's airframe is much larger than that of a fighter plane. It can carry dozens of times the ammunition of a fighter plane at a time, and it can directly bombard the enemy in a very high position."

"Of course, with such a huge fuselage, coupled with the weight, the gliding distance required for take-off is naturally longer."

On the side, after hearing Zefa's question, Li Yan also opened his mouth to explain.

Not to mention, before Li Yan explained this, Zefa really thought that the so-called fighter planes were used to attack the ground.

But unexpectedly, Li Yan told himself that this was a misunderstanding?

"It turns out that, I didn't expect the Air Force to have fighter jets and bombers, it's really insightful!"

"Actually, there are more than these two!"

"still got more?"

Hearing this Zefa's eyes widened.

"Yes, let's take an analogy. Before I build the East China Sea Navy, the warships in this world are only distinguished by size."

"Nowadays, the navy in the East China Sea is divided according to function, and is divided into battleships, cruisers, destroyers, frigates and patrol ships, and there will be several other categories of ships in the future."

"In this way, when designing warships, you can design warships that are more professional in certain aspects according to different types, and professional people do professional things. This sentence is the same on warships."

"And the Air Force I built will follow this concept in the future. In my expectation, the Air Force will have reconnaissance aircraft, transport aircraft, early warning aircraft, etc. "

"Even in the future, I will combine the navy and the air force to create a special kind of warship, which is hardly armed, but has a flat deck hundreds of meters long, can carry a large number of fighters, and can Let it take off and land on it."

"This kind of envisioned warship, I named it an aircraft carrier."

hiss...

At this moment, Zefa really wanted to open his disciple's head to see how long his brain was, and he was able to come up with so many novel ideas.

The point is, what he thinks is not just thinking, but is being realized little by little.

A special warship that can carry a large number of fighters, cruising on the sea, can strike any target within a thousand kilometers at any time.

What a terrifying power will this be?

After imagining that picture, Zefa was also shocked.