The Third Reich: I Became Emperor

When he opened his eyes again, August was already in the arms supermarket. This time he did not go to the third floor, but the second floor.

In addition to replenishing some ammunition, such as BM-21, Katyusha rockets, and bullets for AK-47 assault rifles, his main target was still carrier-based aircraft.

Although several aircraft carriers were exchanged, the carrier-based aircraft had not been finalized. Who could blame the Third Reich for being good at everything except the navy?

Before this, the navy did not even have a decent aircraft carrier, so there were no carrier-based aircraft. But now that they have an aircraft carrier, they find that there are still no carrier-based aircraft, which makes August very depressed.

Someone suggested using ME-109T for improvement, but August directly rejected it.

ME-Although the 109T is a good land-based fighter, it is not necessarily a good carrier-based aircraft.

First of all, a good carrier-based aircraft requires a good take-off and landing vision, and the Me-109 has a high landing gear and a long nose.

The vision is greatly affected during take-off and landing. It is possible that the pilot cannot see the signal of the landing commander. When landing, the pilot must rely on the landing commander's command board to send flag signals to understand whether his landing point is too high or too low.

If you can't see the landing commander's gestures, you may not see the landing hook. Similar problems have occurred in all countries when producing carrier-based aircraft.

Secondly, an excellent carrier-based aircraft must have good low-speed performance. Although the Me-109T has good low-speed performance, its wing load is too high and cannot meet the standard.

When landing, the carrier-based aircraft needs to use the landing hook to hook the arresting cable on the deck to land well, and to successfully hook the arresting cable requires good control of the aircraft.

Therefore, the design of carrier-based aircraft needs to consider the controllability of 85 kilometers per hour. This problem does not need to be considered for land-based aircraft, but for the high wing load of the Me-109T, the low-speed control performance cannot be met at all.

Then a good carrier-based aircraft requires reliability and simple maintenance, so most of them use air-cooled engines, while the Me-109T uses a liquid-cooled engine, which requires more maintenance, consumes a lot of extra fresh water, and is not as reliable as an air-cooled engine.

Finally, a good carrier-based aircraft requires as low a wing load as possible so that it can take off on the shortest runway possible. The Me-109T's wing load is too high, which means that the take-off distance will be very long.

More importantly, carrier-based aircraft require reliable landing gear, and the landing gear of the Me-109T is too close to the center line, which can easily cause the wing to hit the deck. Considering these, August directly rejected the request of the Navy Design Department. This carrier-based aircraft boarding the aircraft carrier is the greatest harm to the pilot.

After thinking about it, August decided to lock the target to the F8F carrier-based aircraft in the arms supermarket, which has powerful power, maneuverability and short-range take-off capability to carry bombs.

What he values most is the short takeoff capability. The deck of an aircraft carrier is not long. If it is equipped with short takeoff capability, the takeoff time will be greatly shortened and the combat capability of the aircraft carrier will be improved.

In addition, it can also be equipped with rockets. To be honest, it is no different from modern fighters. The only difference is that it is still powered by a propeller, not a jet carrier-based aircraft. However,

August does not care for the time being. Even if he is given a jet carrier-based aircraft now, he cannot afford it. The aviation kerosene alone is enough to make him drink a pot.

"I need one hundred F8F Bearcat carrier-based aircraft."After thinking for a while, August said slowly

"50,000 per plane, a total of 5 million."

The price is not expensive, mainly because it takes advantage of the propeller plane. If it is replaced with a jet fighter, even the first generation of jet fighters, the price will be several times higher, because the engine is expensive.

These 100 carrier-based aircraft are only used by the navy to train pilots. When they can truly form combat effectiveness, by then, with the empire's military industrial capabilities, they can already be copied.

August has made up his mind to start large-scale upgrading of military equipment, using the current advanced equipment as a blueprint for large-scale imitation.

Fortunately, the empire's precision processing capabilities are the best in the world, especially after the discovery of tungsten mines in Austria, a large number of weapons can be built. After thinking for a while, August considered the East In order to ensure the logistics supply of the front line, he decided to purchase another 100 C-130 medium transport aircraft.

With a load capacity of 40 tons and a range of 4,000 kilometers, it can run two round trips after a full tank of gas, which is enough to make up for the consumption of land transportation.

Although special forces have been dispatched to encircle and suppress the guerrillas, the efficiency is average. The safest way is still air transportation. Although the Yun-5 is fuel-efficient, its load capacity is too small. If it is normal times, it can be replenished slowly, but now it is wartime.

The Eastern Front was originally short of supplies, and now there is a war. The supply line is very fragile and may be interrupted at any time. What he lacks now is time. As long as he is given another two months to capture North Africa and have oil, he can consider a full counterattack on the Eastern Front, so right now... The most important thing is to hold up the Eastern Front.

The C-130 transport plane can make up for the shortcomings of the Y-5. He believes that one hundred C-130 transport planes are enough to pull back the supply line that has long been fragile.

One plane weighs forty tons, and one hundred planes weigh four thousand tons. If they run two round trips a day, they can transport a total of eight thousand tons of supplies. At the same time, combined with the transportation of the Y-5 and railways, at least more than ten thousand tons of supplies can be delivered to the front line every day, which is enough to meet the basic consumption of the Weichs Group.

If the railways are squeezed a little more, they can transport a lot of soldiers to make up for the losses of various troops. If there is enough fuel in the later stage, he decided to purchase another thousand.

I believe that with these one thousand C-130s, it will be absolutely If the German army on the Eastern Front can be fully restored, then they can confront the Soviet Union head-on and see who is the real king of land warfare.

Seeing that the remaining funds are enough to buy some weapons, August decided to send some weapons to the Model Group. Now that the Weichs Group has Gulian's reinforcements, it should not be a problem to temporarily block the Soviet Union's attack.

The only thing to worry about is the Model Group. Although this so-called master of defense is rarely broken by the Soviet Union, there is one thing, that is, the Model Group also lacks supplies.

He believes that with Zhukov's intelligence, he will definitely find the flaws of the Model Group. He believes that it will not be long before a gap is opened in the Model Group.

"This time, it may not be so easy to break the Model Line."Looking at the large number of weapons purchased, August sneered and returned to reality.