Although the kingdom has developed some military systems, it is still far away from a flat integrated information platform. Although the existing air force occasionally cooperates with ground forces, the general direction is to provide intelligence and reconnaissance to the staff, independent operations, and assisting ground forces. Coordinate the attack.
Under this system, ground forces have no way to obtain mid- and short-range reconnaissance information immediately, and completely rely on the command headquarters to deploy in advance at a more macro level.
Obviously, the current state has relatively large flaws in dealing with some small-scale sudden high-intensity confrontations. Analyzing past attrition losses from this perspective, roughly half of them can be "attributed" to the vacancy of Army Airlines.
If preparations are made for the establishment of the Army Aviation Force at this stage, the main task is to enhance the information acquisition capability between ten and fifty kilometers ahead of the position, so as to avoid hasty response to the battle due to insufficient information chain transmission.
The most important unit of the Army Aviation is the helicopter, but in the penal colony, Wang Qi never thought of developing it.
The high technical threshold for helicopters is only one aspect. Given the existing turboprop engines, there are no theoretical or technical bottlenecks in the development of gas turbines. The two themselves are at similar levels.
In Wang Qi's thinking, he mainly considered the advantages of magic and the natural disadvantages of helicopters.
The helicopter completely relies on the force obtained from the gas by the main propeller to move. This movement method remains unchanged. No matter how strong the power is, its flight speed will be affected by the linear speed of the blade tip. Even if the coaxial anti-pump mode is adopted and a small propeller in the normal direction is added to the tail, its terminal speed cannot exceed 500 kilometers per hour.
Turboprops fly faster because fixed-wing aircraft rely on aerodynamic force to maintain altitude. The propeller only needs to be responsible for forward pulling force, and the direction of the force is more conducive to increasing speed.
If you want to develop helicopters, it is impossible to touch on coaxial anti-slurry from the beginning. Even from now on, it will not take more than ten years for the flight speed to exceed 450 kilometers per hour. If the industrial base is not enough, it will be far away.
Therefore, if we want to build land aviation, we have to find a way from the magic side, and flying cars are a good carrier.
Magic will naturally gradually change some objects into a levitable state. It has an innate advantage in providing lift, but it is relatively weak in providing traction and thrust.
Assuming that a magic array module with a power of 1 method can provide 1 unit of lift, and a module with the same power is used to provide traction, its comprehensive output can barely reach 0.3 units. It can be understood that when magic provides lift, most of its energy is used to "change gravity."
Magic also has an advantage. It uses "creating explosions" as a bridge for unit conversion on the carrier of aluminum-based gemstones, and its energy density is much greater than that of oil.
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With a little effort, you can make an aircraft with similar performance.
However, the "superiors" represented by Wang Qi don't like them very much. It is difficult for them to form a competitive development system by themselves. When the flight speed exceeds 500 kilometers, it can no longer be solved by arranging the head.
She nodded to Natasha who was accompanying her. She opened her briefcase, took out a folder and handed it to the factory director:
"There are two aerodynamic design plans and one pulse power principle inside. You can modify them according to His Majesty's requirements, and then take the metal model to Blue Sky Heavy Industry for testing."
The aerodynamic design comes from the aircraft design team of Blue Sky Heavy Industry.
There were many difficulties encountered during the development process of Turboprop One, and the cycle was relatively long. During this period, the design team discussed many aerodynamic solutions with speeds of more than 500 kilometers per hour, including short-wing and wingless types, which were quite leisurely. Entertainment component. This kind of entertainment is not about fishing, but the restrictions on going out caused by the high degree of confidentiality. They need to have a channel to relax. Making small aerodynamic models. Compared with designing various complicated layouts inside the aircraft, it can naturally be called entertainment. If the shape is more unique, the effect will be better.
The two aerodynamic solutions brought by Lai Dai are relatively similar in appearance to the flying car made by Hongshi Factory. They tend to be in the shape of a lifting body. The central section is very similar to the wing section. The head is large and the tail is small, with a continuous arc surface and a relatively flat belly. The difference lies in the control surfaces. One is the four tail fins arranged in a roughly X shape, and the other is an upper through-type short short wing that is completely connected to the two vertical tail fins.
Pulse power is naturally the pulse jet engine solution.
The pulse engine has not appeared in the Kingdom's aviation development line, but it is not that it has not been researched at all. The reason why it is not used is that its upper limit is not high.
Its basic type consists of the air intake, check valve, combustion chamber, nozzle, and nozzle from front to back. The nozzle accounts for the largest length in the entire structure and is the key to providing stable thrust. Its disadvantage is that the check valve has a short life and needs to be replaced frequently.
The development type has no valve type. Its intake end is not in the front, but is a thinner short tube extending from the combustion chamber in the same direction as the nozzle.
There is also a basic improved version. The check valve becomes a Tesla valve. The advantage of this type of valve is that it has no moving parts, only a series of branched pipelines. It completely relies on the characteristics of the fluid to achieve checkback. It can achieve similar results to the valveless type. reliability, but the process is the most demanding among the three lines.
The overall advantage of the pulse engine is that its structure is extremely simple. It is so simple that it only requires two skills: sheet metal and welding. Normal workers can understand what is going on at a glance, so it is not conducive to confidentiality. To be more reliable, with the Kingdom’s existing industrial chain, seamless steel pipe technology can be chosen.
The disadvantage is that the structure is too simple, resulting in low operability and large fuel consumption.
Wang Qi's requirement for the speed car is to exceed 500 kilometers in a short time, so that it can be used to escape when necessary. The pulse engine is a good choice. It does not have to work continuously for several hours like a turboprop engine, and it can tolerate higher fuel consumption.
The key point is that the production of turboprop engines is difficult, and the supply of related high-temperature resistant materials is relatively limited. Blue Sky Heavy Industry's existing size cannot open another turbojet engine production line, so it still has to build a low-end engine and decentralize it.
For pulse engines and turbines, the combustion chamber of the former is the thickest part of the entire structure, but the latter is the thinnest part, so it is much less difficult to dissipate heat. The Red Stone Factory is next door to the Red Stone Magic Equipment Factory, so it is fully capable of being nearby. As a solution, if you limit the boot time, you can even get some metal fins to dissipate heat.
By the way, the sound of this kind of engine is not very pleasant. It is a bit like the noise in the toilet, and it is also very loud. I wonder if Hongshi Factory will try to solve it later.
After arranging a development work for the Hongshi Factory, Wang Qi took the opportunity to watch the production of the flying car.
The "Crystal Wall" series is larger than the original "Wither" series, and its structural strength and magic protection have been fully upgraded. The special glass is what it should be, but the shell is what really takes the effort.
Along with the administrative vehicles, there is also a special materials purchase license. Like the Dawn of Blackwater Car Factory, it is allowed to purchase some materials from steel plants that are not usually sold.
The crystal wall uses a titanium alloy base triple composite armor solution.
Titanium alloys cannot be cold-rolled. Apart from standard parts such as plates, ingots, wires, and tubes, the steel factory will not help make car doors and other shapes. The Hongshi factory itself does not have corresponding hot-rolling equipment, so you need to find one yourself. OEM for manufacturers with titanium ingot processing capabilities.
The triple composite armor solution also has two layers, the crumple layer in the middle and the hard corrosion-resistant steel layer on the outside.
The crumbling layer is a three-dimensional structure with a shrinkage amount of 65%. A 5 cm crumbling layer will be squeezed to less than 2 cm at most after being impacted. It can be cold processed, but it should be noted that it cannot be welded when combined with titanium alloy. Only riveting can be used. Riveting from the outside will also cause the collapse layer to deform, and the drilling technology requirements are slightly higher.
The outer material is relatively ordinary and can be purchased at ordinary times. It is a 1 cm thick carbide plate, and it is quite troublesome to cold process it.
In a short period of time, the assembly of this set of armored shells with a total thickness of 7 centimeters for flying vehicles has begun, which is enough to demonstrate the integration capabilities of Hongshi Factory. It is also the reason why Wang Qihui wants to hand over the development of the Army Aviation aircraft to them.
