Chapter 946 Dream of Bombing the United States

In the impression of ordinary people, the equipment of island countries has always been relatively small, such as pocket tanks, submarines, such as Zero aircraft, which are all small in size.

Moreover, all of this seems to be attributed to the limited resources of the island country, which prevents them from developing bulky equipment.

Such an opinion is, in fact, one-sided.

The island country still has large tanks, such as the Type 5 tank, which is a total weight of 35 tons. Moreover, the island country also has plans for super tanks of 100 tons and 150 tons, but these are all in the late World War II. Now, the island nation is no longer capable of developing such heavy weapons.

In terms of bombers, the island nation has been spared no effort in pursuing it.

Especially after the outbreak of the Pacific War, they have been working hard to develop a bomber that can take off from the mainland and bomb the United States.

Nakajima's research projects are advancing step by step from G5N "Deep Mountain", G8N "Lianshan", and G10N "Fuji Mountain".

Among them, the final planned project "Mt. Fuji" is similar in size to the B-36 "Peace Defender" developed by the United States at the same time. It is definitely a super weapon. It is a pity that "Mt. Fuji" has not yet had time to test flight, and the island country announced its surrender.

The G8N "Lianshan" is similar to the American B-17 "Air Fortress", but it uses the Nakajima NK9K-L Homaro24 engine with a single power of 2,000 horsepower, which is three years older than the B-17. Two-thirds, so it is faster, and without any armor protection, it can achieve a longer range with the same weight.

It is a pity that this project has been in operation for 44 years. The United States has begun to carry out large-scale strategic bombing of the island countries. The "Lianshan" has not been put into mass production, and the four produced aircraft have not been recorded in actual combat.

And now, it is the island country's first attempt on a heavy bomber, that is, the bomber codenamed G5N Deep Mountain.

This is the four-engine heavy bomber developed by Nakajima Heavy Industries based on the American DC-4 civil airliner. It belongs to the first attempt of the island country. The appearance and aerodynamic layout are similar to the American B-24 "Liberator", but the size is much larger. Take-off weight is also slightly larger than the Liberator. In terms of performance, the bomb load and range of the two are basically the same, but the "Deep Mountain" is not as good as the "Liberator" in terms of ceiling and maximum speed, and it does not meet the requirements of the Navy, so it has not been put into use in history.

Now, this aircraft is in the development stage, which belongs to the trial production stage of the prototype. Nakajima is quite looking forward to this aircraft.

The island country is about to fall into a war with the United States, so the island country is in urgent need of bombers that can bomb the mainland of the United States. Although it may not be able to fly from the mainland of the island country to the mainland of the United States, it can also fly from some bases of the island country in the Pacific Ocean!

Now, the superiors are very urgent on the progress of this bomber. From the design point of view, it can go to and from Hawaii!

The Shenshan bomber has entered the final assembly stage, and the aircraft's designer, young Kenichi Matsura, is supervising the process. When he saw a group of people coming over, he raised his body and greeted everyone, especially when When I saw German visitors, I was even more happy.

"Your Junkers-290 bomber is our most admired aircraft, but we believe that our current deep mountain bomber will definitely be comparable to your bomber," said Kenichi Matsunura.

When they were designing, the only prototype they could use was the Douglas DC-4 airliner. However, many of their projects were aimed at the Junker-290, which has actually become the most powerful bomber of this era. s plane.

Not only island countries, but the B-29 of the United States, why isn't it also targeting this bomber?

Hearing the words of Kenichi Matsumura, Rudel nodded and continued, "An engine of this level requires at least a 2,000-horsepower engine."

His words made Ken Matsura look ugly.

It was just said that it could be comparable to the Junkers-290, but when it came to the engine, Kenichi Matsunura stopped working, and they couldn't make up for this shortcoming quickly.

The engine industry of the island country also started not long ago, and almost all of them are imitations of foreign countries.

Although the Nakajima NK9K-L Homaro24 engine has a power of 2,000 horsepower, it has been 44 years, and now, the only thing they can use is the Mars 12 engine, which has a nominal power of only 1480 horsepower, and it reaches high altitudes , because the supercharger is not qualified, the horsepower will drop to less than 1000 horsepower.

This engine is not qualified. Although it has not been tested yet, everyone knows it in their hearts, and I am afraid that it will not meet the Navy's design target of 500 kilometers per hour.

This aircraft did not have a 1,870-horsepower Nakajima NK7A 11-type 14-cylinder radial air-cooled engine until 1942. Even so, it did not allow the aircraft to meet enough design indicators, and ultimately failed to put into production.

Engine technology, but it is not so simple to enlarge, this is the science of the system, Nakajima company is mainly responsible for the development of the engine, and now can not come up with a qualified power system of 2,000 horsepower.

Seeing Kenichi Matsumura's expression, Rudel secretly scolded himself for talking too much, saying why he was just here to be a consultant, not a master, what level of development they have achieved, it's none of their business!

At this moment, the staff member Yuan Tianshi broke the embarrassment: "Mr. Rudel, in fact, we very much hope that some engines can be imported from you and equipped on our aircraft."

Why bring Rudel here? In fact, the upper echelons have already instructed. After all, the Germans already have this kind of aircraft, and it is not a leak. The technology of the island country is simply not as good as that of Germany.

Island countries are asking for people.

The engine of the Junker-290 is the most suitable for our own deep mountain bomber, which can quickly make up for our own shortcomings. Moreover, once such a mature engine is available, this bomber will be quickly finalized and produced, and it will even be able to catch up with the upcoming war!

Rudel regretted it for a long time, and blamed himself for being so talkative. Why did he ask this?

The engine of the Junkers-290 is exactly the same as the FW190. Now even Germany's own equipment is not enough, how can it be given to the island country? Rudel thought quickly in his heart, this must not be possible!

However, another engine, the DB605 improved from the DB601 engine used on the BF109, is completely fine!

Now, with Germany's huge progress in jets, Messerschmitt is steadily transitioning to jets. The production of BF109 has long been compressed to almost zero, also because the performance of FW190 is much better. , the Air Force is more inclined to purchase FW190.

In this case, the matching engine will be in a redundant state.