Judging from aerial photography intelligence, the effect of using ballistic missiles to attack the enemy is not ideal.
The number and value of targets destroyed by nearly a thousand "Beifeng" ballistic missiles is only equivalent to a thousand-plane bombing.
As long as enough fighter jets are provided to escort the bomber formation, the losses are completely controllable.
This means that the cost of bombing is, most of the time, lower than using ballistic missiles to target enemy targets.
The good news is that this attack proved that the "Beifeng" ballistic missile has the ability to be put into actual combat.
As for how to improve accuracy, that is a matter for the Academy of Military Sciences, and the frontline is only responsible for launching...
Regarding the disciple's report, Emperor Haojing did not plan to invest in the second batch of one thousand "Beifeng" ballistic missiles.
This move will not affect the offensive effect on the front line, because the Air Force has already begun to replace the "Flying Fortress" bombers in batches.
This is the next-generation model of the "Hercules" bomber, which can carry four tons of aerial bombs and fly 4,000 kilometers.
The four thousand "Flying Fortresses" ordered by the Air Force are enough to keep the factory in full production for two years.
The first batch of 500 aircraft will roll off the production line later this year, and then the crews and ground crew responsible for receiving them will begin to receive systematic training.
In order to avoid earthquakes and storms, after initially mastering the corresponding flying methods, all members went to the northwest for training.
The Ming Air Force has dozens of airports in the northwest and western regions, and there are as many as ten airports that can accommodate hundreds of bombers. There is no problem in stationing a thousand-plane formation.
Two months later, when all the members are almost adjusted, we will fly directly to the airport in the Dnieper River Basin.
For Zhu Cixiang, "Fortress in the Sky" is "Fortress in the Sky"!
There is nothing wrong with this sentence!
The reason is that the "Flying Fortress" is a copycat version of the B-17!
The appearance similarity is about 90%, but the internal structure and body performance are slightly different from the original version.
But it doesn't matter. On the contrary, the rightful owner's territory has been planted with the Shen flag, and it is estimated that the Stars and Stripes will never be seen again...
The maximum range under full load can reach 4,000 kilometers. Zhu Cixiang thinks this is a very remarkable achievement.
For the current Daming aviation technology, it is the concrete embodiment of the pinnacle!
Of course, the cost is also very high, and the average price for large-scale mass production is still as high as one million silver coins.
The export price would have to be doubled, otherwise the cost would not be recovered.
The total cost of the 4,000 "Flying Fortresses" ordered by the Air Force alone is as high as 4 billion!
This was despite shortening the construction period during wartime, otherwise the unit price would have reached 1.5 million silver coins.
Four billion silver coins are enough to build ten level nine battleships. Perhaps the latter seems to be more value for money.
But after four thousand "Sky Fortresses" took off, they were enough to blow ten level nine battleships, or even twenty battleships of the same type, into the sea...
The Navy has new battleships, and the Air Force naturally needs new bombers.
If the export sales of this bomber are good, the total cost can be reduced.
I believe that after seeing it, Ibrahim and Poirot will place an order immediately.
Zhu Cixiang estimated that he could export at least a thousand "Sky Fortresses". If the unit price doubled, it would be equivalent to someone reimbursing himself the purchase cost of a thousand "Sky Fortresses".
Does the Air Force need so many "flying fortresses"?
Emperor Haojing thinks it depends on the development of the war!
If we can finish it this year, we can cut half of the orders.
Not only can you save two billion silver coins, but you can also wait for the arrival of the third-generation bomber.
The replacement model of "Flying Fortress" is "Doomsday Judge", and the prototype is B-29!
This bomber can meet the standard of carrying five tons of aerial bombs and fly five thousand kilometers. Even if the unit price is as high as two million silver coins, Zhu Cixiang is more willing to purchase the latter.
By the time the "Doomsday Judge" entered service in the Air Force, it would have been about 1750.
The fourth-generation bomber is ready for test flights. Zhu Cixiang does not intend to let the Academy of Military Sciences conduct research and development on things like the B-32 or B-36. There is no need to waste money.
The B-52 "Stratofortress" can be launched directly. Zhu Cixiang did not even consider the B-47 "Stratospheric" which is a jet bomber.
The former is a legendary model of a generation, and the latter is just a miserable transitional bomber.
If you spend a huge amount of money on research and development, you will definitely choose the B-52!
The original version is equipped with eight engines. If the copycat version of the jet engine is not powerful enough, we can install a propeller engine first, which will only make the speed slower.
Once the jet engine reaches the performance target, it can be replaced. If eight engines are not enough, then a twelve-engine engine will be used. On the other hand, the wingspan of the prototype is large enough, leaving room for installation.
Zhu Cixiang's tentative plan is to put the "Stratofortress" into service before 1770. There is currently more than thirty years of research and development and production time, which should be relatively sufficient.
When the European War is over, there will be no need for the Air Force to purchase a large number of expensive propeller bombers.
The battleships purchased by the navy can at least be used for escorting and transporting supplies, and they can still be sold at a good price after serving for twenty years.
If the Air Force's bombers are to be sold after 20 years, they will probably be sold to scrap collection stations...
Before the "Flying Fortress" makes its debut, the "Hercules", which can be used both as a military and civilian weapon, needs to continue to be produced.
Even after its debut, "Hercules" can continue to dominate most of the commercial aviation market with its relatively low price.
What Zhu Cixiang means is that after the war, the Air Force only needs to maintain a scale of about 3,000 bombers, and it does not need to feed too many swallowing monsters.
Without a big fight, it is obviously not cost-effective to raise "Hercules".
This thing is different from the battleships that have a construction period of four to five years, and a bunch of them can be rolled off the assembly line in an average of two to three months.
Even after the war breaks out, three to four thousand can be built and put into the battlefield through temporary rush work.
If the "Hercules" production line is not dismantled, there will be no need for the Air Force to continue purchasing.
The main difference between the military version of "Hercules" and the civilian version is the spherical turret, shooting hole, openable bomb bay and sight. The other parts can be said to be the same.
"Sky Fortress" will not consider the commercial market for the time being, and all orders will meet the needs of the European battlefield.
Zhu Cixi also hopes that through this official appearance, this bomber with advanced performance will be displayed to potential customers, thereby opening the door to export sales.
June 1st is a good day!
On that day, the 482 "Flying Fortresses" stationed at airports in southern Poland used local airports as bases for the first time to participate in the carpet bombing of Munich.
If the expensive new bombers are stationed at the airport in Bohemia, Zhang Huangyan really cannot afford such heavy losses if they are attacked by enemy forces.
Fortunately, the "Flying Fortress" has a long enough range that bombing Munich from southern Poland is not a problem at all.
When a huge fleet of thousands of bombers and thousands of fighter jets flew over Munich, they were not intercepted by enemy planes.
Previously, in fifty-nine days, the Ming Air Force carried out twenty-five large-scale bombings on Munich despite many days of rain and rain.
The number of bombs dropped exceeds 200,000 and has destroyed the main buildings in the city. It is just because the opponent has not taken the initiative to surrender.
The addition of nearly 500 "Sky Fortresses" has greatly increased the strength of the air attack formation, and will also completely eliminate the possibility of the opponent's comeback.
It was not that Joseph, who had long been living in an underground air raid shelter, did not want to fight back, but that the Imperial Air Force had lost the ability to fight back.
In the three months since the war began, the Imperial Air Force had lost an average of less than forty combat aircraft per day.
It doesn't seem like much, but cumulatively over three months, that's more than 3,000 aircraft.
The strength of the Imperial Air Force was greatly damaged, because most of the fighters lost were advanced "Eagle" and "Falcon" types.
Facing the enemy's new single-engine fighters, the old "Albatross" has long been unable to participate in large-scale air battles.
They can only find the right opportunity to defeat the opponent with absolute numerical superiority, or simply participate in ground support operations.
It is enough to defeat the Tatar cavalry, but it will not have much effect on the current battle situation.
After losing military aid from abroad and losing more than half of the areas it controlled.
The empire's military industrial production capacity has also suffered a great loss, and now it can only produce twenty or thirty fighter planes every day.
And they are all produced in Stuttgart and other places. Most of the aircraft factories in Bavaria have been destroyed by the enemy.
Munich bore the brunt of the losses, which had reached the point of threatening Minsheng's safety.
Let alone the normal production of weapons, it would be very difficult for Jun Min to survive.
It's okay on a rainy day. Most of the yellow-skinned monkeys' fleet won't come to bomb.
Once the weather is nice, those yellow-skinned monkeys who deserve to be killed will be eager to drop bombs every day!
Since the opponent flies very high, except for fighter jets, the anti-aircraft firepower is simply out of reach.
Not only did the various artillery pieces have no results, but they were beaten in vain, which made the losses even greater.
Under this circumstance, even though newly produced fighters from all over Württemberg continue to fly to Munich, they still cannot reverse the current unfavorable situation.
This cannot be won by accumulating hundreds of fighter planes in two or three days. If you want to avoid being attacked by air attacks for a long time, you must gather thousands, preferably two or three thousand fighters.
There is a huge gap in national power between the Holy Roman Empire and the Yellow-skinned Monkey. If it becomes a war of attrition, the Holy Roman Empire will undoubtedly suffer.
This is the last thing Joseph wants to see, but it has happened in all previous wars.
After summer, the epidemic that Joseph expected did not affect the opponent's air raids.
On the contrary, the scale of the opponent's bombing has become more and more intense, and it can be estimated with the naked eye that the number of enemy planes is greater than before.
Three generations of Leopold's grandparents couldn't come up with a good response when they came together. In the end, little Joseph had an idea.
The solution is to launch a large-scale ground war and infect the disease to the yellow-skinned monkeys.
If this goal can be achieved, the opponent will soon retreat.
Otherwise, if our own fighter planes are insufficient and there are not many tanks left, the outcome will be obvious...
After thinking about it, Leopold and Joseph agreed to this almost desperate plan.
Now the northern area of Munich has fallen behind the Whampoa Monkeys, although most of Württemberg is still in our own hands.
However, the local area was filled with a large number of Tatar cavalry. Even after multiple clearings by armored forces, the number was still as high as hundreds of thousands.
Joseph planned to use this plan to inflict heavy damage on the enemy on the south bank of the Danube.
As long as you can throw the diseased pieces of meat onto the opponent's tanks during the battle, you will achieve your goal.
The First Army defending Bavaria, the Third Army from Austria, the Fifth Army retreating from Saxony, and nearly 30,000 Russian cavalry troops attacked from south to north.
The Second Army stationed in Württemberg, the Fourth Army which retreated to the south of Württemberg, and the Sixth Army which was driven south by the Rhine, used the cover of the Danube River and forests to attack from west to east.
Joseph planned to concentrate six armies and six Russian cavalry brigades, and at the same time send out all available fighter planes to fight a battle that would be remembered in history on both sides of the Danube.
The main armored forces of the Holy Roman Empire were not stationed in large cities, so doing so would not be of much help to city defense, and they would still be bombed.
Joseph deployed it in the forests west of Augsburg, the forests west of Regensburg, the forests east of Stuttgart, and many mountainous areas in the south.
After being disguised, you can hide for a while and wait until the critical moment to perform extraordinary feats for the empire.
Although the Ottoman army on the southern battlefield is easier to fight, if the main force of the yellow-skinned monkeys on the northern front does not retreat, the military pressure on the empire will not be significantly reduced.
After much consideration, Joseph still treated the yellow-skinned monkeys as the number one enemy of the empire, striving to repel them first, and then free up his hands to deal with the Ottoman army that had repeatedly invaded the empire.
Starting on June 3rd, the Imperial Field Army and Russian troops in various places received combat orders one after another, and the generals also learned about the general combat plan.
How to implement it is their own business, because when the yellow-skinned monkey controls the air, it is impossible for the empire to concentrate all its forces and then fight the decisive battle with the yellow-skinned monkey.
The battlefield is not just one place, as long as the yellow-skinned monkey can be defeated, that is the best battlefield.
Joseph believed that the empire was at a critical moment, and so was every soldier.
If you don't want to be captured by the yellow-skinned monkey and sent to mine, you have to fight to the death to win a new life for yourself.
There is no need to mobilize to fight the yellow-skinned monkeys. They occupy the empire's land and the families of the soldiers.
If the hatred of the country and the family are intertwined, then we must unite and support each other to defend against the enemy, so that we can win the battle.
Ordinary empire soldiers are confused about the future of the empire and themselves. However, after receiving the order to attack, they are still willing to give it a try, just in case like the previous two times, the empire will be protected by heaven!
The yellow-skinned monkey is not invincible. Crown Prince Joseph has prepared a powerful secret weapon for him, which can beat the hell out of him.
After forcing the Nuremberg garrison to surrender, Lu Xuecheng did not continue to lead his Third Army south to besiege Munich.
The field troops of the Holy Roman Empire have not suffered serious losses so far. According to aerial reconnaissance, they should be hiding.
Maybe he's just waiting to besiege the city and call for reinforcements!
Maybe we can play a trick!
But if you don't follow his wish, you might be able to plan the opponent's battle plan.
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