Magic rail guns can bring more tactical options to the army and can also increase the means of effectively combating enemy magic.
It's just that in the garrison, let alone fourth-level mages, even if second-level mages are extremely scarce, some of them are snatched from the Border Agency's orientation training personnel, and most of them are still continuing their training.
The timing is not good enough, but you can equip a small amount, adapt to the weapon form and explore tactics first.
The remaining two weapons are for the Air Force.
After the number of Tornado II types gradually increased, the 12 regiments composed of the Night Clan began to transform into the air force. Due to the increase in light armored vehicles, the original logistics and transportation were gradually taken over by the regiment-level troops themselves.
Therefore, if air weapons are used, they will be used by the 12th Regiment alone for the time being.
There are only two aerial weapons in the report document. The situation is similar to the two on the ground. They are also live ammunition and magic.
The live ammunition is a cannon, but not entirely, because according to reports it cannot be fully functional on the Tornado II, and can only turn the larger body into an aerial gunship.
Of course Wang Qi wants a bigger plane, but he also needs to consider the size of the personnel.
The glider system supported by magic is not as difficult to maintain as a mechanically powered aircraft, but it only requires fewer people. Judging from the work summary of the 12th Regiment, a Tornado II still requires three support personnel, and the service density is relatively high. A whole team.
A full complement of 100 Tornado IIs, including pilots and airport ground handlers, will consume a battalion of manpower, not counting the transportation support of ammunition and other materials across regions.
If we get a bigger plane, not to mention the production capacity, if we can build at most twenty planes, we will squeeze out 12 regiments.
The 12th Regiment was not a combat regiment originally. It had only one combat battalion, and the rest were an engineering battalion and two logistics support battalions.
After the light armored vehicles came off the assembly line, the logistics battalion underwent a certain amount of personnel reorganization and gradually lost some of its logistics color. However, no matter how we did it, the engineering battalion could not move. The logistics battalion had to protect at least one. Let's do it together. We can only take out the 53rd Battalion and convert it into one. Air Force to.
Even if the 12th Regiment is supplemented to five battalions through new recruitment, it will not be able to take on too many large aircraft... It should be medium-sized aircraft.
The 11th Regiment is even worse. There are only a few members in this model regiment, and the task of standing guard in various places and protecting officers at all levels is also very heavy.
Only by expanding the size of the air force by adding 13 new regiments can it accommodate medium-sized aircraft that meet basic combat needs.
However, adding a new night clan group will have to wait.
The total number of Night Clan people who came with us at first was less than 40,000. In the past ten years, there were some births during the work breaks. Since young and middle-aged people made up the majority at the beginning, the growth rate was not low, only less than 60,000.
It is almost equal to one child for every two people in ten years. It is related to the per capita education level and random mortality rate. This growth rate is low. It is extremely low. It is probably because some people are looking for foreign men and women, or it may be because the environment has changed. Fertility has decreased, or fertility is not good in the first place.
In short, the number of adults in the Night Clan is limited, and they are inseparable from the reproduction of administrative, work, and industrial systems. It is too difficult to squeeze out a group that can approach 5% of the total number of the clan. We can only wait for the next generation to grow up.
It is more feasible to find a way from the 20+ regiments and form a new mixed-blood regiment responsible for logistics to completely rescue the 12 regiments.
Back to the weapons.
In the air, weapons in the form of cannons have to face more complicated situations. They are not simply dealing with enemy aircraft, but flying individuals with lower speeds but stronger turning capabilities, as well as cluster targets on the ground.
It is difficult for a single-oriented cannon to meet the demand. There is no prototype for a larger model, and the development cycle will be much longer, so it can only be given up temporarily.
The aerial magic weapon plan is much better in terms of flexibility.
This weapon solution does not require the weapon to be integrated into the aircraft, but is implemented using a mount module.
All modules will use the flying shape-preserving appearance, and different modules are divided into downward attack and forward/backward attack.
Throwing fireballs downwards... The basic lethality of fireballs is really limited, and the flying height cannot be guaranteed. The main choice is ice cones to attack downwards, and experiments on condensing ice cones in the air have also confirmed that the magic power loss will be slightly lower.
Forward/rearward, since the Tornado II model did not initially consider multi-functional mounts, its mounting points could not be adapted in the reverse direction, so the front and rear were divided into two types.
In terms of usage requirements, two types are indeed needed.
Because the tactics do not allow aircraft and flying demons to fight in the air, there is no need to aim when attacking forward. Just hit it directly like a firearm. Just make sure that the attack baseline is consistent with a certain visual point of the driver.
Ice picks can no longer be used here, because ice picks have no flying speed advantage, and the dive speed of the Tornado II is enough to cause the ice pick to hit itself.
The fireball has sufficient speed, but the wake may ignite non-fireproof materials on the wing.
The choice in the report was Heavy Fireball.
Heavy Fireball and Explosive Fireball are the same three-ring advanced variant of Fireball. The difference is that this thing simulates the influence of gravity. It is also mainly used at the tactical level to attack the enemy's rear in the form of projectiles. This magic was provided by the captives of Fartel.
The flight characteristics of the heavy fireball allow it to quickly break away from the flight direction of the Gust II type and make a parabolic strike. The effect is similar to constantly throwing small bombs.
Attacking backwards is more troublesome.
The most energy-saving and economical way is to use magic arrows, which are the basic spells of the energy shaping system. The energy form is relatively pure, close to the basic shaping form of the magic rail gun, but with the "piercing" attribute enhanced.
But if this thing is placed on the Tornado II, and it is operated by Muggles to attack from the rear, the hit rate will be very worrying.
In order to improve the hit rate of interception and pursuit, the report chooses electricity spells, because electricity will automatically find things with more water within a certain distance to hit, such as living things.
However, discharge is a systematic project. Generally, mages should try to avoid wearing metal objects if they use electrical spells. There are a lot of metals on airplanes. In order to ensure the safety of airplanes, pilots, and observers, an additional remote spell casting module is required. Its production and production hours , which will probably reach three times or even higher than the first two modes.
After reading this pile of reports, Wang Qi finally selected the magic rail gun and aerial multi-purpose strike module.
Obviously, the Tornado II model, which was developed in a hurry, has been in service for less than two years since the trial prototype, and has been unable to keep up with demand.
When approving the two reports, Wang Qi signed an administrative order to establish an aircraft production enterprise.
On the one hand, it will relieve the production pressure of the manufacturing bureau, and on the other hand, it will promote the improved version of the Tornado II.
The knowledge system is not perfect enough. Improving aircraft is not an easy task. Simply take this opportunity to build a subsonic wind tunnel. If problems are discovered during the model stage, the development cycle can always be shortened.
