I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

As the opponent looked back in horror, several dazzling metal torrents burst out from the fighter plane's body, instantly breaking through the threshold of the magic shield. The group of griffin knights on the attack trajectory burst out with blood mist that fell like raindrops.

The six rapidly rotating gun barrels on the nose of the aircraft emitted a faint red light, and together with the parallel machine guns on both wings, they formed a death path forged by a metal storm.

The huge dragon was unlucky enough to be targeted by concentrated fire. The dense rain of bullets from multiple six-barreled Vulcan cannons filled every inch of its skin, and its flesh continued to decompose in mid-air, truly proving that we detected a small amount of flesh tissue in the shell.

The fighter formations attacked in a stepped dive pattern based on the speed difference, leaving no gaps in firepower. The Griffin Knights, who had about three thousand remaining when they withdrew from the battle, fell at an extremely exaggerated speed.

Although the fact that they were not in peak condition after experiencing two consecutive battles and had suffered heavy magic power loss, the results achieved by the newly arrived fighters still stunned the Alliance Navy below.

Vanguard-class heavy fighter

It is a twin-engine long-range heavy fighter improved on the basis of the Gringol medium bomber platform.

In the propeller era of the past, heavy fighters did not have much significance.

Because of its bulky and huge fuselage, it will naturally be overwhelmed by ordinary fighters in aerial maneuverability, especially when compared with the Zero fighter, the two sides are not on the same dimension.

But in this world, they have found the meaning of their existence

The Zero fighter has very good air combat capabilities, faster climb speed and more flexible maneuverability, and is suitable for high-frequency small-scale air battles to compete for airspace control.

The Pioneer fighter was a completely different design concept from the Zero fighter.

The air cavalry of the Magic Continent has not only small and medium-sized magical beast mounts, but large ones such as dragons are also common. Fighting a thick-skinned dragon with the firepower of a Zero fighter is like tickling, and even if it always has the upper hand in the situation, it is difficult to kill it.

The Pioneer fighter does not have such a problem, or it was created to solve this problem.

The propeller in the middle of the wing reserves space on the inside of the wing. Two parallel twin-mounted Deschamps heavy machine guns are installed on both sides, and a six-barreled Vulcan cannon is integrated under the nose.

The two-seat Pioneer fighter's four Dexter engines on the wings are operated by a fire controller in the rear-raised cockpit with a better view, while the six-barrel Vulcan cannon on the nose is directly controlled by the pilot.

It was created specifically for large-scale air combat with various knightly orders of the Allied Forces. In the first round of frontal angle attacks, the instantaneous firepower delivery efficiency of machine guns and Vulcan cannons can be called an airspace scavenger.

It means giving up the mobility and flexibility that can compete with Warcraft mounts in exchange for insane firepower bursts and endurance far exceeding that of ordinary fighter jets.

In order to accommodate an entire six-barrel Vulcan cannon system, the Gringol platform underwent a lot of improvements and optimizations before successfully stuffing this big baby into the Gringol bomber.

The entire interior of the cabin is a miniature bullet delivery assembly line that can continuously supply ammunition to the six-barreled Vulcan cannon in the front. The advantage is that you can enjoy it forever after loading it once.

The mechanic in the rear cabin only needs to rotate the feed rack after the terminal feed rotary rack has finished feeding ammunition. If a malfunction occurs, it can be rotated to the next feed port to skip the repair process.

The downside is that reloading this equipment will be an eternal logistical nightmare, with two hours of ammunition and five minutes of fun at the firing rate of the six-barreled Vulcan cannon.

Chapter 262 Lightning Storm

The Griffin Knights were caught off guard and were disbanded before long. The remaining squads with broken morale fled in all directions, while the Dragon Squad, which was an obvious target, was completely wiped out.

The vanguard fighters ignored the other fleeing remnants and, after a brief reorganization, flew towards the direction of the coalition forces.

Their target has always been the elite vanguard of the coalition forces. The Griffin Knights just happened to run into the muzzle of their guns. It would be more appropriate for the Zero fighters behind them to do the rough work of cleaning up the battlefield.

The army, which had just been thrown into chaos by the massive bombing of napalm bombs, had not yet adjusted to put out the fire in the middle of the broken team when it was once again attacked by the Alliance.

In a rage, Ashadron ordered the two saints who were putting out fires to attack and quickly eliminate the annoying swarm of flies at the physical level.

The Saint had already been tortured enough by such harassment, and the Vanguard fighter fleet that began to dive from the sky ran head-on into the muzzle of the gun.

The sky a thousand meters above the fighter planes was as dark as ink, with suppressed lightning flashing continuously in the dark clouds. The atmosphere was chilling, and countless arcs of electricity crisscrossed in the clouds amid the thunder.

In the storm, lightning struck the vanguard fighter group one after another, and the light illuminated the surroundings, as if the noisy world around them was paused by someone and stopped instantly. Only the continuous roar of thunder echoed deafeningly in everyone's ears.

The storm precipitation concentrated in the area ahead of the ground troops was like a river flowing back from the sky. In an instant, it gathered into a huge khaki waterspout, carrying mud, gravel and plant debris and crashing towards the fleet.

Then, the shield that was vaguely covering the front of the Vanguard fighter fleet suddenly shone brightly.

The large magic engines integrated at the rear of the cabins of thousands of heavy fighter jets were running at full power. The shields quickly turned from their previous translucent state to crystallization, blocking the doomsday-like world outside from the fleet.

Countless lightning bolts struck outside the shield, and the surface of the shield spread outwards like ripples on the water after a stone fell on it. The explosive elements contained in the thunder were dispersed and guided away by the shield layer by layer.

The chaotic elemental storm carried by the water tornado below was also blocked outside by the shield, and after the driver pulled the lever to the bottom to output the engine at full power, he successfully broke free from the suction force it generated.

"What's going on? They also know the group shield of the Mage Corps? Didn't they say there are only a few magicians..."

Ashadron was distracted for a moment as he looked at the flock of giant steel birds standing still in the storm and thunder.

When the lightning storm slowly subsided, the Pioneer fighters lingering in the airspace began to fire freely downwards in squadrons, and dense rockets attacked the army below like a meteor shower.

As the free action attack begins, the shield device is changed to a fuselage-fitting mode independently supplied to each fighter. The shield on the outside of the fuselage acts like a fairing, greatly reducing the pressure on the fuselage structure and making the fighter more maneuverable.

At the same time, being intertwined with the coalition forces' formations also prevented the Saint from freely conducting magical covering bombardments, and he could only look for opportunities to kill them.

The army below did not just sit there and wait for death. Countless magic attacks shot upstream towards the fleet of aircraft. A tall giant condensed a hard and huge piece of earth and stone with his hands, and threw it at the fleet of aircraft with a roar.

One of the Pioneer fighters failed to dodge and was hit on the spot. The wing was broken on the spot. It fell to the ground with black smoke and crashed into the army, causing a violent explosion.

Under the command of the legion commander, the Archer Corps fired round after round of magic arrows, whose power was completely comparable to that of anti-aircraft guns, causing many vanguard fighters to be blown up in the concentrated fire.

More fighter planes adjusted the angle of their noses and opened fire at full power. Dense tracer bullets plowed across the ground again and again like a rainstorm, stirring up waves of iron rain mixed with fire and flesh and blood.

All beings are equal under the high-frequency metal storm of the Vulcan cannon and the large-caliber bullets of the four Deshka heavy machine guns. Both the thick-skinned and tough Warcraft mounts and the heavily armored warriors riding on them have suffered fatal blows.

At the same time, several fully loaded squadrons in the rear of the fleet attacked the giant flying fortress at the core of the rear military formation. A large number of rockets were fired, covering the entire guarding cavalry corps in the direction of the fortress.

Ashadron looked at the explosion not far away with a gloomy face. He could even feel the heat transmitted by the air through the air waves, which showed that this place was no longer safe.

However, the defensive forces around him were sufficient, and several bombings by fighter planes were blocked. Moreover, as time went on, more intact legions from the rear arrived at the battlefield, and a large number of collective fusion attacks were launched towards the air fleet.

The napalm bombs began to die down and the aircraft losses quickly began to rise.

Without much hesitation, the commander decisively issued the order to retreat. The remaining hundreds of vanguard fighters began to climb, accelerate, break away from the contact surface and retreat quickly, leaving only a devastated battlefield.

As the war progresses, technology is constantly improving. The chimeric shield has been iterated dozens of times since the early elves developed it, and now can basically achieve an efficiency of about 70% of a single shield generator.

Thousands of heavy fighters converted from bombers naturally have extremely high load-bearing capacity. The shield generators they are equipped with are complete versions that have not been miniaturized, and their own weight alone exceeds two tons.

Thousands of shield generators jointly output magic power to supplement the shield. The group stance shields that are superimposed and nested on each other can withstand the angry attack of a Saint-level strongman, and even if they are attacked with all their strength, they have the capital to escape from the spell bombardment.

This is also the main reason why Media is determined to adjust its industrial composition and emphasize the mechanization of armor. Both the Air Force and the mechanized heavy armored army can be densely equipped with large shields.

An armored army consisting of a thousand fighter jets or a thousand or more medium-sized tanks and large armored vehicles is much stronger in terms of shield strength and density than a full-strength mechanized infantry army of 50,000 people of the Alliance.

Of course, organizing an offensive of this scale would also be a huge test for the alliance's own logistics system.

Just because of this large-scale air strike by Pioneer-class fighter jets, all military airports in the three states entered full capacity operation for several weeks in advance.

Mobilize military supplies and ammunition, prepare ammunition in the cabin, conduct self-inspection and repair of fighter jets, and adjust pilot exercises and training to adapt to the new dispatch system and formation.

Even so, of the more than 1,500 Pioneer-class heavy fighters that were deployed on the day of officially refueling, mounting rockets and taking off for the formation attack, less than 1,300 were on duty, and dozens of them had to return due to various malfunctions.

The tank attendance rate of the Tank Army is even lower than that of the Air Force. It has always adopted a large-scale production model to replace and repair new tanks to reduce troop losses. Both services need to maintain a large number of logistical forces at the same time.

In comparison, the army is obviously more cost-effective and puts less pressure on the military-industrial system. The different emphases of different countries on different branches of the military are due to comprehensive considerations in this regard.

However, Media prefers a more heavily mechanized model, so the alliance's military experts can only try their best to find a solution to the failure rate problem.

For example, parts in areas with high failure rates are optimized and improved, and a large number of spare parts packages are used for production and assembly. When a failure occurs, the parts package in that area is directly replaced at a designated location.

Faulty kits with problems that are difficult to repair in a short time are sent directly back to the rear professional factory for repair.

However, this would require a thorough underlying innovation and optimization of existing heavy weapons platforms, as well as improvements to production lines and technical standards to reduce manufacturing difficulty.

Therefore, for the time being, it is still in the scope of paper discussion and the project plan has not been implemented.

Chapter 263 Wooden fighter?

The Luke air battle was a step-by-step offensive plan, which first used rocket launchers to deliver magic suppression bombs to eliminate the ability of local troops to mobilize magic elements, and then used napalm bombs to cause effective casualties and block local battlefields.

After creating battlefield conditions favorable to our side, we will use our air forces to launch a second wave of large-scale air strikes to further kill our manpower.

Large-scale clustering is the alliance's most adept way of fighting and the only way to win.

In this battle plan, except for the loss of about 30% of the second wave of main attackers' vanguard fighters, the losses of the alliance in other aspects were negligible.

But according to rough statistics, the coalition forces suffered nearly 7 casualties, and almost one-third of the elite troops died inexplicably in the Luke area. The exchange ratio can almost be said to be a complete victory.

The only drawback is that the navy's delivery force is ultimately too weak. The hundreds of carrier-based Zero fighters can only play a supporting role and help clean up the miscellaneous troops. The organization is basically equivalent to the auxiliary arms of the land-based air force.

For this reason, many naval department leaders felt ashamed and kept urging the shipyard to complete the launch of the new warship as soon as possible, which made the leaders of the Ministry of National Defense Construction and the Navy Ship Design Bureau very worried:

"It's not that we don't want to hurry up, it's just that there's no point in hurrying up. Think about it, after I build a ship, there must be a matching carrier-based aircraft, right? If I have a ship but no fighters, then I'll have to wait. I suggest you urge the Fighter Research Institute..."

Upon hearing this, one of the naval officers secretly rolled his eyes and muttered in his heart: "If they weren't worried about being targeted by the Military Police Corps directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they would have rushed into the institute long ago."

They are the ones who will pick on the weak. Who doesn't know that? The reason why I bother the Design Bureau is that there will be no consequences if I bother them. Besides, the Design Bureau is also a brother unit of the Institute. If I talk too much, the news will eventually get to them.

The Fighter Aircraft Research Institute did temporarily put aside its current work on carrier-based aircraft design, and with Anna's help, met a guest who had come all the way from Ernesto.

A few weeks ago

Wellington looked at the old man from the alliance in front of him rather embarrassedly as he explained to him the air pressure that Ernesto was currently facing.

It is hoped that the Alliance Aircraft Design Institute can design a fighter jet for them Ernesto that is suitable for their local manufacturing and production.

For this purpose, he brought with him extremely detailed statistics on Ernesto's land resources, as well as general natural environment data. It can be said that Ernesto basically made himself one-way transparent to the alliance.

This was only one aspect of Wellington's embarrassment. On the other hand, in terms of land resources, Ernesto was in great shortage of the mining resources that he most needed, especially iron ore, aluminum ore and rubber resources.

The resources currently discovered are not enough to support their existing military-industrial system, and they still need assistance from the alliance to fill the gap, not to mention using them to build large-scale products such as aircraft, tanks, and artillery shells.

In other words, Ernesto has an urgent need for fighter jets, but they don't have the resources they think they need to manufacture them, but they want the Alliance to help them find a way out.

Exposing the weak side of one's own country will make anyone who loves his or her country feel an indescribable sense of pain.

Fortunately, the old expert did not think there was anything wrong. Instead, after putting on his glasses and looking at Ernesto's land resources, he smiled and said, "There are not enough resources. There are plenty of them."

Wellington replied blankly: "Huh?"

The expert pointed to a very eye-catching line in the report

Forestry resources

Birch: 34.6%.

Balsa wood: 19.5%.

Pine: 22.3%

"Wood?!!! You can build airplanes out of wood!"

"Yes! Not only can we build it, but we can also build it well!"

When lighting up the aircraft route, Medea did not consider using wood as the frame foundation, because the basic mineral resources of the subcontinental alliance are extremely rich and there is no shortage of metals.

However, as the scientific knowledge system framework was accumulated and built from scratch, the experts in the alliance, who only knew the facts but not the reasons, restored the real objects through "archaeological" methods based on the technical information provided by the Queen.