I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Through continuous learning, it has gradually grown to the point where it no longer needs the Queen's special care and can continue to give Medea an authoritative scientific institution that can surprise her.

They can naturally also experiment and discover other technical routes. For example, in certain circumstances, the quality of wood can be used as an alternative or even a preferred option to replace metal.

For example, airplanes made of balsa wood are very light, have low engine power requirements, and have advantages such as easy maintenance, wide distribution of raw materials, and extremely fast growth. However, the Alliance does not use it.

The situation that Ernesto was currently facing happened to be able to use the technical route that they had sealed, and Wellington was overjoyed.

Of course, this is just an idea on paper. It only proves the feasibility of its technical route and nothing else. It has not been implemented, so it will take some time to manufacture it properly for verification.

The carrier-based aircraft has reached the final stage and does not require too much manpower for continuous attention, so during this period the experts at the Aircraft Design Institute have focused most of their energy on the design of a new wooden fighter.

A lot of design drawings were left over from the previous iterations of the Alliance fighter jet design and manufacturing. They took out the appropriate ones and re-optimized and modified the designs.

First, a batch of wooden aircraft models were made for small wind tunnel testing, and then the required birch balsa wood was delivered.

In less than a month, a fighter jet that was built based on the manufacturing concept of old wooden ships, with a wooden fuselage frame, triangular wood strips and bakelite skin was pulled out of the manufacturing workshop in a decent shape.

The fuselage frame is made of 5-8 layers of birch strips glued together according to the different structural strength requirements, and is impregnated with phenolic resin and borax and used together with the bakelite layer.

The bakelite layer is a combination of birch layers bonded to a bakelite film at 150 degrees Celsius.

The empty weight of the fighter is about 2.6 tons, and its fully loaded takeoff weight is 3.4 tons, which can be said to be quite light.

If phenolic resin is not exported by the alliance, it will be difficult for Ernesto to obtain it. Pine wood can also be used as a substitute. Pine wood is very light, so the total weight will not change much.

The firepower configuration is two general-purpose 20mm machine guns. Due to its insufficient carrying capacity, it is necessary to seek maximum killing effect with the smallest ammunition reserve, and the 20mm machine gun is undoubtedly a very good option.

The 20mm machine gun alliance has a very long history of use and has served on various platforms on land, sea and air. Its design has been simplified to the limit and its failure rate is extremely low, making it the king of cost-effectiveness.

The Seris Alliance can give Ernesto the machine gun drawings for free and help him complete localized production.

But there are two most important equipment that can only be solved and provided by the Alliance, that is, the soul of a propeller fighter, the propeller and the engine.

Chapter 264 Empress-class aircraft carrier

The Alliance's engine design model is basically to use parallel technical iteration and research and development of magic power and fuel power.

In other words, under the same technical standards, two engines with two energy supply methods will be produced, one of which will be used, and the other will be kept as a technical reserve after verification.

This is the basic policy established after Medea witnessed the effect that could be achieved by the elemental suppression mist extracted from the ocean, to prevent such means from being used against the alliance itself by the enemy one day.

This is also the reason why many heavy weapons in the Alliance Army use dual cores, that is, the fuel engine provides power, and the shield generator comes with a set of magic power packs to provide power.

In fact, many equipment can be equipped with a magic engine like a fighter jet to supply energy for propulsion and protection at the same time, and can also maximize the use of energy.

The engine given to Ernesto was the Magic Engine alternative engine installed on the Zero fighter, a 1500-cylinder air-cooled radial engine with 14 horsepower.

In the subsequent flight test, the wooden fighter code-named H-5 reached a peak speed of 640 km per hour.

Moreover, because the wooden fuselage is light in weight, it also has a very good climb rate and maneuverability, which perfectly meets Ernesto's needs. This fighter was born for Ernesto.

Ernesto only needs a period of alliance training to complete the production of bakelite layers, birch boards for wooden frames and other accessories, and he has a very good foundation for expansion.

Ernesto has very rich forestry resources. Living off the mountains and the water, Ernesto naturally has no shortage of skilled carpenters. The tasks can be delegated and shared, and production and manufacturing can be carried out in a collective workshop model, and finally the final assembly can be completed by the assembly plant.

The alliance only needs to provide engines, propellers and a complete set of cockpit control systems, which greatly increases the efficiency of material assistance.

After all, the fundamental purpose of aid is to fill the gap between supply and demand, and the transportation capacity is generally constant, and the amount of aid delivered each time is basically limited.

In order to make way for other scarce materials, Ernesto has begun a nationwide quota distribution to ensure the supply of basic materials, and even a small-scale famine has broken out in some areas.

All these sacrifices are made to reduce the food quota and save transportation capacity. Therefore, every time the demand is reduced, the single delivery quota of other urgently needed materials can be increased.

However, although the problem of fighter jet manufacturing and production has been solved, the training of pilots is not so easy. Even the alliance itself is facing certain pressure to expand the number of pilots.

Neither side said it explicitly, but they both knew in their hearts that in critical moments, many pilots could only learn how to fly fighter jets on the extremely dangerous battlefield...

However, there is no good solution. All the Alliance Military can do is send a group of flight instructors to train Ernesto as a pilot.

At the same time, a group of professional logistics technicians will be dispatched to Ernesto to serve as technical supervisors, helping to develop the logistics and maintenance system through the method of old leading new.

However, Wellington is extremely optimistic about this. He believes that the current situation is already a very lucky result.

It’s not that the Alliance refused to provide Ernesto with heavy firepower weapons, but it mainly focused on artillery and artillery shells. Other aspects such as tank bodies would be useless because Ernesto had no logistics support system.

Without a sound maintenance and support system, these equipments would be of almost no value. It would be better to send two more heavy artillery pieces. Ernesto's artillery units had frequently destroyed many of the coalition's armored strongholds.

Therefore, Ernesto's army has always adopted a life-for-life strategy, using human lives to close-range street fighting, sneak attacks, sabotage, and hidden shootings, etc. to narrow the gap between the armored forces and heavy firepower of both sides.

The coalition's air fighters have a very good field of vision and can find the hiding Ernesto fighters more easily than ground troops, and then surround and destroy them.

But in other words, if they also have fighter jets and can drive the coalition air force out of the battlefield, then they can use the fighter jets to clear out the coalition forces on the ground.

The wooden H-5 fighter jets are the only thing they can hold on to, and mass-producing them is the life-saving straw that can turn the tide of the battle from defense to offense!

While the Fighter Design Institute was designing and manufacturing fighter jets for Ernesto, at the Third Warship Manufacturing Plant in Kopalaq, a warship with a length of nearly 230 meters in the dry dock completed its preliminary construction ahead of schedule, and water began to be filled at the bottom to enter the sea trial stage.

It looks very strange. It is completely different from the mighty main turret of the Dreadnought-class battleship. Instead, it has a deck that goes straight to the bottom. The bow is also closed, and a huge flat chimney is located on the starboard side.

This is an armored aircraft carrier converted from the chassis of a dreadnought-class battleship.

In order to meet the increasing demand for air force fire support, about half of the battleships in the second phase of the battleship construction plan were converted into aircraft carriers.

And this is the first aircraft carrier of the alliance

HMS Sierra, the first ship of the Empress-class aircraft carrier

The single-story hangar has two elevators, a full-length flight deck of 231 meters in length, a 5.5%uB0 angled deck design, a full-load design displacement of 24000 tons, and a combined propulsion power system of a steam turbine-magic engine main engine.

防护装甲与致远级巡洋舰相当，主装甲带79-127毫米，机库甲板50毫米，机舱上部76-114毫米机库设计可容纳120架飞机。

舰载武器防御双联四座位于舰桥前后的20门120毫米口径高平两用炮，以及25门四联装40毫米高射炮以及15门20毫米机炮。

This time, the construction and design concept of the aircraft carrier was basically carried out in accordance with the design indicators and requirements given by Medea, otherwise Medea was worried about making a fool of himself.

Although aircraft carriers appear simpler in appearance and easier to build than battleships, there are also cases where the designs are well designed but have hidden problems that cannot be discovered in actual use.

For example, in order to allow fighter jets to take off and land better, the layout of the island cannot be in the middle but must be biased towards the sides to maximize the reasonable and effective use of space.

But this leads to a problem, that is, the center of gravity of the warship is not in the center, so an angled deck and an outward expansion elevator are needed to balance the center of gravity.

At the same time, in order to equip a large number of fighter jets, in addition to the fighter jets parked in the lower hangar, part of the deck must be reserved for parking fighter jets.

The tail of an aircraft carrier that takes off, lands and recovers fighter jets must be equipped with a hydraulic cylinder brake arresting cable to prevent the landing fighter jets from colliding with the fighter jets parked in front. At the same time, the existence of the angled deck can also speed up the efficiency of the aircraft carrier in launching fighter jets.

And through precise calculations, an optical lens landing assistance system is set up to assist the landing of fighter jets, thereby minimizing the cost of training carrier-based aircraft pilots.

This is precisely the biggest advantage of having experience, which is that you can avoid possible problems in advance.

Building a new ship requires sea trials, actual combat, summary, feedback, optimization, and meeting standards before mass production can begin.

However, Medea can skip this lengthy process and start mass construction directly. It only needs to send the first ship to start sea trials and outfitting to verify whether there are any errors in its design.

Chapter 265 The final madness

Anna brought back a plan for a wooden fighter plane designed by the Aircraft Design Institute for Ernesto.

After reading it, she was very impressed. She thought the design plan provided by the institute was very consistent with actual needs and was the optimal solution.

This also gave her a new idea, which was to provide this series as aid to the allies, popularize muskets and artillery in the national war, and further open up the era of national air combat.

In addition to this H5 fighter, she also has the design ideas for a wooden bomber to hand over, which is the Mosquito bomber.

Fighter planes, or rather fighter planes in the propeller era, really do not have much technical difficulty.

Four requirements: a piston engine, an aircraft shell, a mechanical transmission and a few instruments, that's it.

Generally speaking, the most suitable material for aircraft shells is metal, such as duralumin, but it also has many problems.

As for wood, in fact, the strength of many woods themselves is not worse than common metals, and the wood bonding process can be similar to that of alloys through gluing and stacking. Its biggest problem is weight.

To put it bluntly, the design ideas are different due to the different focuses caused by the differences in national needs and technical strengths.

Everyone wants to design a perfect fighter jet, but it's very difficult.

For example, the Zero fighter currently in service with the Alliance also has some sacrifices made to meet the required performance indicators.

After all, its half-predecessor, the Zero lighter, was a compromise for the ultimate low- and medium-altitude maneuverability with a weight of 2.3 tons.

In order to ensure its extremely light weight, the Zero had no armor, and its cockpit and fuel tank had no protection. The fuel tank had no self-sealing device or fire-fighting equipment. Everything that could be simplified was simplified, but it would catch fire at the slightest hit.

Don’t the designers and the country know about this problem?

Know, but can’t say.

Because from the very beginning, this was a complete product. It was designed based on an engine and there is not much room for subsequent upgrades and improvements.

So when others were iterating their technology, his engine, which had 900 horsepower, remained at 900 horsepower. As time went by, its performance began to lag behind, and there was no other way except to use crooked ideas to continue to simplify the configuration.

What do you want others to say about this? No matter how much you say, it will be like this.

The Alliance's Zero actually borrowed the design concept of the Gale, and its own weight has been hovering around 3 tons.

Because the engine to be accommodated is larger, the weight of the engine alone is about 300 kilograms and the diameter is 1200㎜, so the fuselage design cannot be too small.

However, this also left ample room for subsequent technological upgrades. From the initial 100 horsepower to the later 3-horsepower engine of the Zero-1500, the power and frame structure strength were enhanced while the weight remained largely unchanged, and various data indicators rose sharply.

The requirements for a fighter jet can be simplified to include speed, firepower, and, of course, protection.

The biggest disadvantage of wooden fighter planes is that they cannot balance defense and weight. If the engine power is insufficient, the fuselage will be too heavy and the maneuverability will be poor. However, its advantage is that it is very simple to manufacture, produce and maintain.

The Alliance's 1500-horsepower engine is already powerful enough to fly bricks. It has no pressure at all to fly an Allied country's wooden fighter, and it can even bring out the advantages of wooden fighters.

Bezutsk

Although the three Vatican super fortresses did not hinder the alliance army for too long due to the factors of an unknown witch, the subsequent follow-up work did not go so smoothly.

The corrupt transportation system, the large number of surrendered Vatican soldiers, and the hungry people caused the alliance's logistics supply to be overloaded, and the maintenance of stability also required a large number of manpower.

It took several months of repairs and additions to get it back in place.

However, taking advantage of this gap, more tanks, armored vehicles and artillery were transported across the strait to Bezutsk for replenishment, including new heavy tanks and self-propelled tracked multiple rocket launchers.

The Bezutsk Front received a large number of reinforcements in personnel and vehicles, and the army commander was suddenly promoted to commander of the Vatican Front, taking full responsibility for the entire Vatican Front campaign.

The army includes four tank armies, six mechanized armies and two front-line aviation armies with a total of about 6 people.

There are more than 3500 tanks of various types, more than 800 self-propelled howitzers, 152 1500mm artillery pieces, more than 1600 fighter jets and more than 700 bombers, as well as tens of thousands of light and heavy transport vehicles of various types.

The army gathered in Orstad State, and the assistance of waterways could greatly ease the logistical supply.

Their ultimate goal was the Vatican's capital, Itzamain, but they did not plan to launch a strong attack. Instead, they divided their forces into two groups and used two tank armies and four mechanized armies to surround Itzamain and besiege it, trapping all its forces in the capital and daring to support it.

The other team adopted the hook punch tactic, using the Orstad Canal as a supply line to move from the side to cut off the connection between the capital and other states and completely form an encirclement.