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Chapter 233 PT-19 Trainer and New Airborne Radar

Border area airport.

A C-47 transport plane landed very smoothly at the airport.

This transport plane from the rear area, loaded with factory equipment needed by the border area and urgently needed instruments used on tanks and fighter planes, taxied to the simple apron.

As the ladder was placed in front of the hatch of the transport plane and the door was opened, a familiar soldier appeared on the ladder.

"Hello, dear General Shi, welcome back to the border area to guide our work." When Staff Officer Ye saw his old acquaintance General Shi getting off the plane, he quickly walked up to the transport plane and welcomed him loudly with a smile on his face.

Staff Officer Ye was actually very happy to see this old acquaintance again, because it meant that there was another big gift package to be received. General Shi had come from a thousand miles away, so it was impossible for him to come empty-handed.

Of course, General Shi will not return empty-handed. In fact, judging from previous transactions, what General Shi took away from the border area was actually more valuable than what he brought. The Rogue Eagles made a lot of money from the Rockets alone. Now with this powerful weapon, the Rogue Eagles are constantly bleeding the three major cities in Germany.

"Hello, my dear Ye, look what I brought you this time? A large number of instruments and meters, enough for you to build hundreds of tanks and hundreds of P51Ds. There is also a surprise, the production materials of the PT-19 trainer aircraft. I believe this is what my dear Ye wants most." General Shi smiled as brightly as a peach blossom.

He spoke very bluntly. He had done business with Staff Officer Ye many times, so there was no need to beat around the bush when talking about many things.

Besides, he could not be unhappy about the current situation in the north. What the Eighth Route Army was doing was completely beyond his imagination. The Eighth Route Army, on its own, had almost attracted the main force of the Japanese invaders in North China.

Outside the Great Wall, we also cooperated with Suiyuan to capture the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army in the Northeast!

It can be said that the current situation in North China is exactly what the Rogue Eagles have always dreamed of.

Let the main force of the Japanese army rot in North China, so that in the Pacific, the Rogue Eagle will not face the endless reinforcements of the Japanese.

Although the main force of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet has been destroyed.

But on the island, even if they left a large battalion, the Rogue Eagles felt very disgusted and it was difficult to catch and kill these little devils one by one.

Therefore, after acquiring the ability to hold back the main force of the Japanese, the Eighth Route Army has now completely risen to a higher level within the Rogue Eagles.

Start to approach the position of the preserved fruit quickly.

Of course, in terms of aid materials, the Rogue Eagles still had to focus on the Preserved Fruit. After all, they had more troops and occupied a larger territory. In order to maintain the precarious Preserved Fruit, the Rogue Eagles also worried a lot.

Only General Shi always strongly called for more support for the Eighth Route Army, because the same supplies would produce at least several times more benefits in the hands of the Eighth Route Army!
From a purely business perspective, investing in the Eighth Route Army business is much better than investing in preserved fruits.

No one can refuse greater practical benefits.

For the Rogue Eagles, they currently do not have a reliable teammate on the Asian battlefield, which makes them very uncomfortable. Now that hope has suddenly emerged from the Eighth Route Army, General Shi hopes to win over such a reliable teammate.

Although the Battle of Central Henan has not yet ended, the defeat was so severe that General Shi felt that there was basically no hope for him. The hundreds of thousands of troops that he had armed with great effort were not as effective as the tens of thousands of guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army. At least in terms of delaying and consuming the main forces of the Japanese, the results of the battle on both banks of the Yellow River were too obvious.

The battle started almost at the same time. The battle situations on both sides of the Yellow River were very different. On the south bank, the enemy was advancing like a hot knife through butter, while on the north bank, the Japanese were stuck in a quagmire. Such a difference made it impossible for General Shi to choose the preserves.

However, at home, the call for insisting on dealing with preserved fruits is louder, and with the assistance of large quantities of weapons, equipment and materials, it is difficult for General Shi to reverse all this.

However, in other aspects, such as matters concerning pilots, General Shi used all his strength to help the Eighth Route Army solve their problems.

In the current Condor Squadron, more than half of the foreign pilots are veterans who have fought in Asia for more than one year, which keeps the combat effectiveness of the Condor Squadron very good.

With elite pilots leading the way, Ren Zhong was not worried about the battle for air supremacy over Jin. The performance of the P51D was already ahead of the Zero fighters. With elite pilots, Ren Zhong was not really worried about the battle for air supremacy over Jin.

Today, General Shi came here in person, obviously not for the cooperation that has already started, but after receiving the results of Dongfeng Express's attack on Yanjiao Airport, General Shi came here on orders.

After having so many dealings with the border areas, General Shi also has a clear understanding of this mission.

The first thing he brought when he arrived was a big gift package that Staff Officer Ye could not refuse - a PT-19 trainer aircraft.

Sure enough, after hearing about General Shi’s gift, Staff Officer Ye immediately gave General Shi a big hug.

"Rogue Eagle wants the warhead technology for Yanjiao Airport?" In the evening, Ren Zhong received a call from Staff Officer Ye. He fell into deep thought for a moment about the request made by General Shi.

Cluster bomb technology is not new in this era, as simple cluster bombs have been developed long ago. However, the technology of combining cluster bombs with rockets to give them long-range attack capabilities is still unique to the Dawn Research Institute.

In particular, the unique technology of low-altitude explosion ensures the maximum killing radius.

Although Rogue Eagle can slowly reverse-engineer the technology based on the principles after understanding the combat process, this will consume a lot of time. Now there are hundreds of Rogue Eagle soldiers bleeding on the front lines every day, and they don't want to waste even an hour.

However, this technology is the Dawn Research Institute's most valuable asset now. After it is taken out, Ren Zhong does not want this thing to fall on his own heads if he has to fight against the Rogue Eagle in the future.

After all, this thing is too inhumane.

It would be bad not to give it, as General Shi came with full sincerity.

Although the PT-19 trainer aircraft is not a top-notch trainer aircraft, it is still considered a first-class trainer aircraft in this era.

Of course, it is something that the border area needs very much now.

In addition, Ren Zhong also needs to obtain some things from Rogue Eagle, especially instruments and meters. Now tanks and fighter jets are equipped with a large number of them from Rogue Eagle.

The honeymoon-like opportunity now exists as a result of constant transactions between the two parties.

"Give it to them." After thinking it over, Ren Zhong decided it would be a good idea to give it to them.

"However, we also need some of their things. In addition to the trainer aircraft, Staff Officer Ye might as well ask them to provide the AN/APS-6 radar and the GR-1 autopilot. With these two things, our fighter jets can be transformed into new night fighters that can fight in all weather conditions!"

Westinghouse's AN/APS-6 radar can use radar to search for enemy aircraft in zero visibility conditions, and the scan data is displayed on the x-axis and y-axis panels. In addition to being used for target search and tracking, the APS-6 radar can also be used for navigation. The GR-1 autopilot enables pilots to maintain a stable flight attitude, which is even more significant in night battles, allowing pilots to devote all their efforts to combat and observation.

This is an indispensable item for fighter jets to conduct night operations at this stage.

"Okay, as long as we can get good stuff in return, it sounds like this is a pretty good thing. If our fighter jets can fight at night, can we bomb the Japanese airports at night?" Staff Officer Ye's thoughts were very jumping, and he suddenly thought of something more far-reaching.

"Yes, before the Japanese airport has radar, we can indeed use night attacks to greatly reduce our chances of being hit by anti-aircraft fire and bomb the Japanese airport." Ren Zhong said with a smile.

"Besides, the Japanese fighter planes are blind and have to stay on the airport at night. If we bomb them at this time, we will hit them accurately and the effect will be the best."

The deal was struck immediately. General Shi agreed without hesitation and returned with satisfaction, bringing with him the cluster bomb rocket technology from the Dawn Research Institute.

If nothing unexpected happens, both the Germans and the Japanese will soon experience the power of this powerful weapon.

The production capacity of the Rogue Eagle is not comparable to that of the Border Region. Coupled with the production capacity of the John Bull, the German Three Mustaches, who are still struggling to test the V2 rocket, will soon suffer.

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

Ren Zhong did not expect that missile technology, thanks to his promotion, would soon be used on a large scale.

But Ren Zhong didn't care about all this. At this point, there was nothing to say to the Japanese devils. He had to take ruthless action to destroy them before they would behave themselves.

The production technology of trainer aircraft is not much different from that of fighter aircraft. The main thing is that the tail part is a little more troublesome to be made entirely of wood. There are not so many qualified woods in the border areas, so Ren Zhong simply modified it to aluminum alloy.

The weight is increased, but the wood processing is simplified, which simplifies the production line. It can be produced on the same line as the P51D production line.

So the first batch of four prototypes were produced quickly. After being test flown by the aviation class's training pilots, they were found to be almost the same as the original Rogue Eagle.

In this way, the aircraft manufacturing plant in the border area began mass production of the PT-19 as the second fighter. Since the production of this trainer aircraft was much simpler than that of the Mustang fighter, the weapon system was a simple simulation, and there was not even a cabin door cover on the aircraft. Since the training was conducted at low altitude, there was no need to equip the cabin cover. Compared with the P51D, too many things were omitted, and they really saved wherever they could.

With this minimalist model, Ren Zhong estimates that the border area will soon be able to produce more than 19 PT-51 trainer aircraft. After these trainer aircraft are put into use as training aircraft for novices, the border area will be able to convert some of the PD fighters currently used as training aircraft into dedicated combat aircraft, instead of using some of them to train rookies.

This avoids the problem of a large number of rookies having to become familiar with the P51D on the ground before daring to fly alone. The new trainer aircraft has two seats. After a short training in basic operations, the instructor can accompany the rookies to fly for aerial teaching. This not only greatly speeds up the training of pilots, but also enhances the safety of the rookies.

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