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Chapter 186 Li Yunlong’s fiasco!

As a result, Liu Xiu had no choice. After all, although he was said to be on empty feed now, he couldn't control the logistics situation.

It's just that this problem was solved when the news of a defeat came here.

The cause of the matter was naturally because of Li Yunlong, who fought the first large-scale battle after October 49.

And it was still successfully defeated. Yes, this battle was the Battle of Xiu Island. Of course, the more critical thing was not the defeat on Li Yunlong's side, but on Liu Xiu's side!

You must know that in order to defend the island, they directly used land, sea and air. Not only that, but more importantly, the Air Force also obtained the most advanced fighter aircraft of the US Army, the F86. Yes, the F86 fighter was just equipped in May . Appeared in the sky above the island.

Naturally, an airport was arranged here, and wooden Cricket fighter planes were dispatched to assist Li Yunlong in seizing the island!
You must know that in 1948, as the chassis became larger and larger, the air force in Liu Xiu's hands was dispersed one by one with thousands of wooden Cricket fighters.

But in order to better cooperate with ground operations, the scattered aircraft and pilots will not only accept the command of Liu Xiu, but also the command of the local offensive team, such as bombing a strong fortification or something!

So naturally the wooden Cricket fighter planes were sent out this time to attack the island.

However, the Wooden Cricket, which used to be able to fight back and forth with propeller-driven fighters due to its flexibility and dexterity, has no power to change hands when faced with fighters like the F86 that can reach a speed of more than kilometers per hour!

Twenty to zero, yes, all the twenty Cricket fighters dispatched by Liu Xiu were shot down by the Saber fighters, while one Saber fighter was not damaged.

There is no way, if it requires speed, it can't be compared with speed, if it requires climb rate, it can't be compared with it, if it requires maximum flight altitude, it can't be compared with it, and if it requires firepower, it can't be compared with it.

The F86 Saber fighter is equipped with six mm heavy machine guns. Therefore, with the huge gap, the outcome of the Wooden Cricket fighter versus the Saber fighter is naturally doomed.

Fortunately, Liu Xiu taught these pilots swimming, low-altitude skydiving, and diving to avoid bullets.

The only air combat weapon equipped by the Wooden Cricket fighter plane is a Maxim machine gun.

In addition, although the wooden Cricket fuselage has no bulletproof capabilities, Liu Xiu still equipped the pilot door with heavy bulletproof inserts!

Therefore, except for two unlucky ones who were shot in the head by 12.7mm bullets fired randomly, the remaining eighteen pilots swam back safely.

And the weather temperature there in October is still 20 or 30 degrees Celsius! So it’s okay to swim five or six kilometers in the sea water back to the shore!
Now it is different from the one-type fighter planes used to deal with the Japs during the Anti-Japanese War. The top speeds of both sides' fighters are almost the same, so they can still fight. The Cricket fighter planes are even better because they are lighter and more flexible. but·······
Of course, this is not what troubles Liu Xiu the most. The side that troubles Liu Xiu the most is that the main reason for the defeat on the battlefield is attributed to Liu Xiu!
Fortunately, Liu Xiu was relieved that the superiors did not directly demote Liu Xiu because of this incident, but asked Liu Xiu to analyze the reasons and report to the superiors!
Liu Xiu was also unambiguous and went to report after a little preparation. He reported several key points to measure the performance of the fighter plane, such as the maximum climbing altitude of the fighter plane, the maximum speed of the fighter plane, and other performance. .

He also said that before his new fighter is developed, the only one that can fight the Saber fighter in the air battlefield is the MiG-15 fighter!
"Of course, everyone, everyone knows the results of the purchase of MiG-15 fighters. Therefore, before our steel rolling mill was built, we did not have fighters that could deal with Saber fighters at all. The gap now is like that of our war in the War of Resistance. It’s the same as when you used broadswords and spears to deal with the little devils in the early days! But such casualties..."

Following Liu Xiu's last metaphor, the superiors finally realized the effect of the weapons gap, so the steel rolling mill that was originally supposed to be built in May next year was invited to shorten the construction period to February and it must be completed.

At the same time, the higher authorities also made great efforts to build an aircraft research institute under the name of the Air Force, which was directly managed by Liu Xiu. The steel rolling mill after it was built was also directly managed by Liu Xiu.

Of course, in addition to this, a new group of negotiators who requested the purchase of MiG-15 also went to the Soviet Union again to negotiate and discuss the purchase of MiG-15!

Of course, there is no punishment for Liu Xiu. After all, Liu Xiu is talking about objective things. Secondly, this battle was not directed by Liu Xiu, so no matter what happens, Liu Xiu cannot be blamed!

After all, failure to grasp the law of tides, failure to grasp the timing of combat, and wrong intelligence will lead to the ultimate failure of this battle!
Of course, the construction of the rolling mill is construction. The two guys Liu Xiu and Liu Qin stayed in the research room and began to design and discuss the appearance and aerodynamic shape of their first jet fighter.

Although the appearance of the Saber Killer Mosquito fighter was already used as a reference, Liu Xiu was still not satisfied with the effect of such a Mosquito.

Because Liu Xiu's innermost idea was to design a fighter aircraft with a high thrust-to-weight ratio, preferably higher than the 0.9 thrust-to-weight ratio of Zuna, and high flexibility, specially used for air combat.

As for abilities, the ability to bomb the enemy, range, etc., Liu Xiu doesn't care. The only thing Liu Xiu cares about is the ability to fight in the air!
Therefore, the Mosquito fighter, whose fuselage design was not suitable for supersonic flight, was eventually excluded by Liu Xiu. After all, Liu Xiu now had afterburner technology. Later, Liu Xiu began to think of the fourth-generation aircraft that were more flexible in air combat. models, such as the Gripen fighter and the Jianshi, which have front canards and a delta-wing rear main wing.

The fuselage characteristics of this type of delta wing and canard ailerons are not only suitable for hypersonic flight, but also suitable for high maneuverability.

It's just that the designed performance looks very good, but there is one thing that is difficult to achieve in actual operation. That is, the turbojet engine used as the heart of the aircraft cannot meet this requirement. It was taken from the ME262 aircraft. The thrust-to-weight ratio of the turbojet engine is only . Even with the newly installed afterburner, the thrust generated is not enough to reach a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than .

Liu Xiu's requirement for the newly designed fighter aircraft is that its thrust-to-weight ratio can exceed one without afterburner.

Therefore, if a new fighter jet is manufactured using the jet engine of the M3262 Feiyan fighter jet, this requires that in addition to the weight of the engine itself, the weight of the fuselage must not exceed kilograms.

That's right, the Feiyan fighter's turbojet engine weighs 750 kilograms and has a thrust of 900 kilograms, so the engine's thrust-to-weight ratio is one point and two.

(End of this chapter)