In the traditional military projects of the Chinese Empire, the status of heavy main battle tanks is undoubtedly the m36 armored combat vehicles that the military has spent many years developing successfully. Although the main battle tanks developed by other military enterprises are also very high in performance, they are no match for m36 after testing in the test site.

However, after checking the performance parameters of these tanks, the Imperial Party found many advanced design concepts, so it ordered Royal Weapon Heavy Industry to upgrade some advanced technologies in this area on the m36 armored combat vehicles, making the performance of the Imperial Army's main battle tank more perfect.

The medium-sized m28a3 Leopard main battle tank and the light m35 Hound main battle tank also defeated similar bidding military-industry enterprises, but each military-industry enterprise's bidding tank has its own unique features and is worth learning. Therefore, although the tanks of other companies did not receive purchase orders, the Emperor also gave them some soup, and the production of equipment required for the upgrading and improvement of these two main battle tanks was handed over to them.

Similarly, the w30 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle and the z29 anti-tank fighting vehicle are also handled in this way.

As the main combat weapon of the Chinese Imperial Army armored forces, the m36 tank, w30-infantry tank and z29 anti-tank tank, the dominance of the three armored musketeers has not changed. However, according to the "Regulations on the New Army Organization of Guanghua for the Forty Years" of the Chinese Empire, the Imperial Army armored forces have made significant modifications to adapt to the combat needs of modern warfare.

Forty years after Guanghua, the Imperial Army of the Chinese Empire was re-divided into five levels: A, B, C, D and Wu, and the front-line ace armored units were classified as Class A. The organization was greatly modified compared with the previous 20,000 troops, and the equipment was modernized and upgraded, and the troops were more detailed. While highlighting mechanized combat capabilities, it also strengthened the armored division's ability to deal with various combat targets and combat environments.

Take the First Armored Division of the Royal Imperial Guards of the Chinese Empire as an example. The First Armored Division is affiliated to the First Army of the Royal Imperial Guards of the Chinese Empire, and its garrison is the Beiyuan Comprehensive Military Base. The main combat troops under its jurisdiction are: 1 mechanized infantry brigade and two armored brigades. There are also division artillery units, combat aviation brigades, engineer brigades, air defense brigades, and communications, intelligence, chemical defense, military police and other teams. The total number is about 17,000 people, which is 3,000 less than the standard organization of the 20,000 front-line armored troops of the Imperial Army.

Although the number of an armored division is smaller, its combat effectiveness has not decreased at all, but has been greatly improved.

The Royal Imperial Guards' First Armored Division has a division headquarters and division company, 2 armored brigade brigade brigade and brigade companies (6 tank battalions in total), 1 mechanics brigade and brigade company (4 mechanics and infantry battalions), 1 engineering brigade, 1 air defense artillery battalion, 1 military intelligence battalion, 1 communication battalion, 1 division artillery headquarters (3 155mm self-propelled howitzer battalion, 1 227mm snowstorm multi-barrel rocket artillery battalion), 1 division support headquarters, 1 division aviation brigade (2 attack helicopter battalion, 1 air assault company, 1 aviation command company, 1 rapid response squadron), 1 chemical company, 1 military police company and 1 division band.

The main combat equipment includes: 248 m36a1 Tiger King heavy main battle tanks, 100 m28a3 Leopard medium main battle tanks, 216 m30 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, 100 m35 hound light tanks (also known as cavalry fighting vehicles), and 100 z29 anti-tank fighting vehicles. 308 various armored conveyor vehicles (including ambulances, engineering vehicles, oil tankers), and various armored command vehicles (including radar positioning vehicles, no

There are 167 wire-electric communication vehicles, 36 Guanghua Forty-One Type (GH-41) attack helicopters, 20 38-year GH-38 type armed helicopters, 36 Guanghua 39-year (GH-39) transport helicopters, 44 GH-40 reconnaissance helicopters, 72 Guanghua 39-year m911 155mm self-propelled heavy howitzers (crawler chassis), 30 Blizzard rocket launchers, etc.

In terms of strategic maneuverability, except for the vanguard of the division and the division's aviation brigade, which can be quickly delivered through the Imperial Aviation Command's Y-8 Pegasus large transport aircraft, the remaining heavy equipment of the division (various tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, fully tracked (wheeled) armored personnel transport vehicles, self-propelled heavy howitzers, blizzard multi-barrel rocket launchers, etc.) must be transported by sea or onshore, from front-line deployment areas to crisis areas. In order to enable the division to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, all the division personnel are usually airlifted to the war zone, and the war zone preset and sea preset transportation tools are activated.

In terms of tactical maneuverability, the entire division has more than 5,700 combat vehicles and transport vehicles, and 136 helicopters of various types, with strong ground and air tactical maneuverability. The ground maneuverability speed during the day is 30 kilometers per hour and 25 kilometers per hour at night. Under non-combat conditions, the maneuverability distance can reach 500 kilometers in one day and night, and under combat conditions can reach 150 to 200 kilometers in one day and night. The maneuverability radius of the two attack helicopter battalions of the division's aviation brigade can reach 130 kilometers. Transport helicopters can transport an infantry company at one time, and the air maneuverability speed can reach 200 kilometers per hour. Even if they fly at a ground-sweeping height (7 to 30 meters), it can reach 150 kilometers per hour, which is 3 to 4 times the maneuverability speed of its tanks and mechanized troops. It can cooperate with the armored division to carry out company-level air assault combat and aircraft landing operations.

The quick counter plan formulated by the Imperial Army Department is that the armored division adopts the strategic maneuver method of "people air transport, equipment sea transport or land transport", so that the main force can be quickly and safely delivered to the battlefield, achieving unexpected strategic goals.

The First Armored Division of the Royal Guards of the Chinese Empire has always been a model of the Imperial Army's innovative equipment. All new equipment must be officially equipped to other troops after being verified by the First Armored Division.

For the Imperial Chinese Army, high-performance combat vehicles and rocket launchers are no longer new things. Even after the establishment of the Army Air Force, the aircraft was once allocated to armored troops. However, various helicopters served the Imperial Army, which is a huge new thing.

In fact, the Chinese Empire had already carried out the development of helicopters. When Wang Chenhao proposed to develop aircraft, he mentioned the concept of developing helicopters. However, Wang Chenhao could not do everything personally. In the early development of the empire, all aspects needed Wang Chenhao's careful guidance. Human strength was always limited. When the Imperial Air Force seized the hegemony of world aviation, Wang Chenhao had long forgotten about the helicopters.

However, the Empire's fanatical worship of the emperor has not decreased at all. People always remember every word Wang Chenhao said clearly. Although Wang Chenhao, who was busy with state affairs, forgot about helicopters, the Imperial Aviation Commission spent all his thoughts on aircraft and did not pay attention to the research on helicopters, so that the helicopter development project had been established for a long time, the progress was very slow. Mainly because the funds for the development of helicopters were all misappropriated to other projects, the personnel who developed helicopters dreamed of developing aircraft, and they did not have enough passion for helicopter research and development.

But there was a man who had been persisting, and he firmly believed that every word of the Emperor of the Empire, Wang Chenhao, had far-reaching significance. This has been believed by the entire Chinese people and even the whole world, who firmly believed that Wang Chenhao was a superman with the ability of a prophet.

This person is Feng Kecai, the son of Feng Ru, director of the Imperial Aviation Commission of China. Feng Ru's family, who are deeply favored by the emperor, often come to the palace to meet the emperor. Feng Kecai has been full of fanatical admiration for Wang Chenhao since he was a child. Once when Feng Kecai was playing with bamboo dragonflies, Wang Chenhao remembered the helicopter and mentioned it to Feng Ru around him. However, at that time, the Chinese Empire was fully developing aircraft, and the theory and experience of helicopters were blank. Feng Ru focused on developing advanced fighter jets. He had no time to tinker with helicopters, so he soon forgot.

But Feng Kecai remembered that in his future study career, he gave up his father's path of aircraft design and specialized in helicopter theory research.

Guanghua was thirty years old. After Feng Kecai graduated, he was directly assigned to the Imperial Aviation Commission because of his father. His colleagues looked at him differently and said that he came in through the back door.

Feng Kecai was born strong and immediately gave up his work in the aircraft design room and instead opened a helicopter R&D laboratory alone. He stayed there for eight years.

In eight years, Feng Kecai relied on his amazing perseverance, with insufficient special funds and absent-minded laboratory assistants, he actually completed a comprehensive argumentation of the helicopter from theory to practice.

The original theory was the Chinese bamboo dragonflies. China's bamboo dragonflies provided inspiration for the invention of modern helicopters and pointed out the correct thinking direction. Bamboo dragonflies are also called flying spirals and "Chinese gyroses", which is a unique invention of China's ancestors. Some people believe that China had bamboo dragonflies in 400 BC, and another more conservative estimate was in the Ming Dynasty (around 1400 AD). This folk toy called bamboo dragonflies has been passed down to the present. Although modern helicopters are tens of millions of times more complex than bamboo dragonflies, their flight principles are similar to bamboo dragonflies. Modern straight

The rotor of the picket is like the blade of a bamboo dragonfly, and the rotor shaft is like the thin bamboo stick of a bamboo dragonfly. The engine of the rotor is like the hands of our hands that rub the bamboo stick with force. The blade of the bamboo dragonfly is round and blunt in front, sharp at the back, with a round and arched upper surface, and a flat lower surface. When the air flow passes through the upper and lower surfaces, its flow rate is fast and the pressure is small; when the air flow passes through the straight lower surface, its flow rate is slow and the pressure is high. Therefore, a pressure difference is formed between the upper and lower surfaces, which produces upward lift. When the lift is greater than its own weight, the bamboo dragonfly will rise in the air.

Feng Ke believed that the principle of the helicopter rotor generating lift is the same as that of the bamboo dragonfly. Based on this principle, he first used an electric motor to drive the bamboo dragonfly to take off, and then constantly corrected the propeller to summarize the relationship between lift, engine power and helicopter weight. Then, after forming enough theoretical data, then conduct simulation experiments, that is, use a large aircraft engine to fix it on the lift testing instrument, and use a full horsepower to test the speed and lift value of the propeller. Until the lift value exceeds the self-weight of the simulated helicopter and can fly directly, then start designing and installing the helicopter body and control system.

However, Feng Kecai's helicopter R&D funds were often misappropriated or occupied by other scientific research departments. The stubborn Feng Kecai refused to find his boss, and did not want to mention his father-son relationship with Feng Ru. So he discussed with his mother, and his mother handed over Feng Ru's 200,000 dragon coins to Feng Kecai. Feng Kecai used the 200,000 dragon coins to open a children's toy company, which specialized in the production of electric helicopters toys for children. Due to the prosperity of the Chinese Empire, there were quite a few children who bought electric helicopters. The product quickly became popular.

Feng Kecai thus had a stable source of funds and gathered a group of people who loved helicopters and were interested in helicopter research to discuss it. The first homemade helicopter was soon released.

f-12 (f represents Feng's surname) is the first single-engine light helicopter developed by Feng Kecai Helicopter Company. The development began in the 37th year of Guanghua. The test aircraft f1 to f12 successively flew one after another within two years. By the 39th year, the F12 was basically formed. On March 1 of that year, it obtained the airworthiness certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of the Empire of China. This is the first civil helicopter in the world to obtain an airworthiness certificate. The aircraft is a single-rotor tail rotor layout with a two-blade blade seesaw rotor. There is a stabilizer rod under the rotor, which is at a right angle to the blade. Ordinary automatic inclinator can operate the total distance and periodic distance. There are two full metal tail rotors at the back of the tail beam.

The first helicopter was released. It was not overly concerned by the global aviation community, but it reminded Wang Chenhao who was busy.

Soon, Wang Chenhao summoned Feng Kecai, highly praised his efforts in the research and development of helicopters, and ordered the Imperial Aviation Administration to immediately establish a helicopter research and development committee and allocate 220 million dragon coins to develop projects such as armed helicopters, attack helicopters, transport helicopters, etc.

Wang Chenhao's attention to helicopters naturally attracted the attention of the Emperor* side. Feng Ke was later appointed as the director of the Helicopter Committee, fully responsible for the development of military combat helicopters.

Based on the F12 civil helicopter, Feng Kecai strengthened the fuselage and wing structure, added appropriate armor protection, and equipped with two light machine guns. So the F12 turned into a GH-38 armed helicopter.

According to the definition of the Chinese Emperor's Committee, the so-called armed helicopter refers to a helicopter with a certain amount of defensive armor and a small number of self-defense weapons. The difference between it and an attack helicopter is that the attack helicopter is armed to the teeth and is equipped with a powerful weapon system specially used for attack. It is very simple to transport helicopters. It is to pick up a small number of people and materials to the battlefield at any time.

The GH-38 armed helicopter has an air weight of 858 kilograms, a range of 402 kilometers, a fuselage length of 9.63 meters, and a fuselage height of 2.83 meters. The rotor diameter is 11.32 meters. The power unit uses the Adel DK92 aerospace gasoline engine and provides 308 horsepower, a carrying capacity of 4 stretchers and 800 kilograms of cargo. The normal cruising speed is 165 kilometers per hour, the practical ceiling is 5,365 meters, the maximum cruising speed is 205 kilometers per hour, the maximum take-off weight is: 1,740 kilograms, the maximum flat flight speed is 249 kilometers per hour, the ground-effective hovering height is 5,060 meters, and the ground-free hovering height is 4,480 meters. As an armed helicopter, it is equipped with weapons, two 7.92 mm Browning light machine guns, and each equipped with 300 rounds of ammunition.

After the transportation helicopter was greatly improved by Feng Kecai's F12 civil helicopter, the single-engine twin-rotor coaxial light transport helicopter was obtained, named Guanghua 39-year-old GH-39. It adopts the new technology of Beiyang Weapon. The two pairs of 3-blade coaxial rotors with opposite rotation directions, and the blades are made of wooden structure. A 475-horsepower nine-cylinder star-shaped piston engine is equipped with a steel pipe welded structure, with light metal skin and hard shell tail beams. The cockpit can accommodate 1 driver and 4 fully armed soldiers. A four-wheeled landing gear is used, and the front landing gear wheels can be turned freely.

According to Wang Chenhao's requirements, helicopters should be used to support ground troops' combat, especially when large-caliber heavy machine guns are installed to strafuse the ground enemy's biological power is more effective than the ultra-low-altitude fire of the powerful attack aircraft. After being equipped with anti-tank rockets or high-explosive rockets, it can cause fatal blows to the enemy's armored forces. In Wang Chenhao's mind, attack helicopters are the enemy's nightmare and the nemesis of the armored forces.

Due to Wang Chenhao's special instructions, the Emperor's side paid close attention to the attack helicopter.

The attack helicopter was directly developed by Feng Kecai's helicopter company, which was also a reward from Wang Chenhao to Feng Kecai. The research and development funds of up to 110 million yuan were directly injected into Feng Kecai's company, making Feng Kecai and the staff of the entire company immediately work hard as if they had taken stimulants.

During this period, Wang Chenhao informed Feng Kecai of the characteristics of the attack helicopter (Changbow Apache) in his impression in person. This naturally benefited a lot for Feng Kecai. Many other airlines successively obtained news and started the development of helicopters to get a share. However, without Wang Chenhao's special guidance, they did not grasp the specific performance requirements of the attack helicopter, so that the products they brought out could not be comparable to Feng Kecai's.

The gh-41 armed helicopter was only launched in the early 41st year of Guanghua. After Wang Chenhao's guidance, this world's first armed helicopter achieved amazing combat performance.

The gh-41 armed helicopter, two rated crew members, a pilot and a co-pilot and gunner, is located in the cabin arranged in a tandem with a very wide field of view. The aircraft is 13.8 meters long, rotor diameter 13.62 meters, height 4.2 meters, empty weight 3.1 tons, and maximum take-off weight 5 tons.

In order to obtain strong lifting capabilities, the GH-41 abandoned the piston engine and switched to a mature turboshaft engine, the Adel dpk-3000 gasoline engine, with a 1880 horsepower output, making the helicopter's maximum speed reach 277 kilometers per hour, a range of 510 kilometers, a practical ceiling of 3720 meters, and a climb rate: 8.2 meters per second.

Weapons are the two largest points of GH-41. Under Wang Chenhao's special instructions, Feng Ke designed and equipped two 12.7mm m2 heavy machine guns with parallel 12.7mm, each equipped with 1,200 rounds of ammunition, located below the nose, and can rotate the attack angle, mainly attacking enemy personnel on the ground. In addition, four hanging points extend out of both sides of the helicopter body, which can be equipped with four 70mm rocket launchers, which are equipped with 4 rockets, and can be equipped with a total of 16 external ones, which are used to attack enemy solid positions, oil depots, armored vehicles and other targets.

In general, it is a celebration for the Chinese Empire to develop advanced armed helicopters in the early 1940s. However, because the helicopter technology is not mature overall and the production cost is too high. In order to save costs, most helicopters use piston engines. This engine has low power, low power (about 1.3 kilowatts/kilogram), and low volume (about 247.5 kilograms/m3), but the price is also low. In addition to attacking helicopters, it is necessary to use expensive turboshaft engines to improve combat performance, other helicopters do not need to install high-performance engines for the time being.

But there are still many disadvantages. For example, except for attack helicopters, they basically use rotor blades with wooden or steel-wood mixed structures, with a short lifespan of about 600 flight hours. The blade wings are symmetrical, the tips are rectangular, with low aerodynamic efficiency, and the rotor lift-resistance ratio is about 6.8. The rotor efficiency is usually 0.6. The body structure adopts an all-metal frame type, with a relatively large air weight and total weight, about 0.65. There is no necessary navigation equipment, only visual flight instruments with a single function, and communication equipment is electronic tube equipment. The dynamic performance is poor, the maximum flight speed is low (about 200 kilometers per hour), the noise level is about 110 decibels, and the ride comfort is poor.

Although helicopters still have various defects and shortcomings, overall, the Chinese Empire was able to take out helicopters and equip them to the army armored forces, which greatly improved the combat capabilities of the first-line armored forces. Especially the GH-41 attack helicopter, its powerful firepower is definitely a nightmare for the enemy's ground forces. This also made the GH-41 nicknamed the God of Death as soon as it was launched, and soon made a brilliant debut in World War II.

For the Imperial Air Force, with attack helicopters and armed helicopters, these helicopters can be used as warning defenses around large transport aircraft when taking off and landing.

If the Imperial Air Force's attack aircraft are used for ground attack combat missions, the effect will be better. After evaluating the role of the attack helicopter, the Imperial General Staff believed that the attack helicopter will bring an additional 40% attack power bonus to the armored forces, and the combat power cannot be underestimated.

Therefore, the Imperial Party vigorously purchased various military helicopters, especially the GH-41 attack helicopters, and purchased 1,200 attack helicopters in one go, but the unit price of up to 350,000 dragon coins. The wealthy Imperial Party also felt a headache. Wang Chenhao explained to the Congress alone and finally convinced the Congress to add this huge helicopter purchase fee to the military.!~!
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