"Long live our emperor! Long live our leader! Long live our empire!"

When the review convoy of 400 No. 2 tanks were neatly passing the Brandenburg Gate, the bomber formation also flew through the air at the same time... The Germans watching the parade seemed to be intoxicated by the tanks in front of them, and cheered like tsunamis like mountains and seas in a daze.

The German Emperor William, sitting on the temporary parade under Brandenburg Gate, also stood up excitedly, raised his right arm and performed the "Germany ceremony" like his people. Adolf Hitler, wearing a brown military uniform, looked even more proud and frequently raised his hands to the cheering crowd.

The German and international guests who were sitting on the watchtowers on both sides stood up, cheering, applauding or pretending to be cheerful.

As a member of the British delegation, Lieutenant General Hugh Caswal Dowding even forgot about his excitement. At this time, he was tilting his neck, holding a Lycra camera, and slapped a four-engine heavy bomber in the air that he had never seen before.

Today he saw two new four-engine heavy bombers at once! They should be the product of the Luftwaffe bidding for the "new heavy bomber" in 1932. It was strictly kept confidential before, and even a photo was not taken. Unexpectedly, so many appeared at today's military parade.

After a slap, Lieutenant General Dowtin wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Regardless of the cheers of the people around him, he just closed his eyes and began to recall the two new four-engine heavy bombers he had just seen in his mind.

He was a lieutenant general of the Air Force and has been a member of the Royal Air Force Committee since 1930. He is very familiar with various aircraft models and technical routes. So he is different from those Germans who are excited when they see large aircraft. Those are all laymen, just looking at the tricks. And he is an expert, and he can see the tricks at a glance.

The two "new heavy bombers" of the Germans, if you just look at the range and bomb load, you may not have much improvement compared to j.28h. Just look at their size. If these two aircraft are dead, they will carry three or four tons of bombs.

In the eyes of laymen, it seems that the Germans spent a lot of money to develop two not-so-advanced aircraft, although there are still many improvements, such as the use of recyclable landing gear, the use of thinner and thinner high-strength aluminum alloy, and the improvement of aerodynamic performance, etc. However, the progress is not obvious. However, in the view of Hugh Dowding, ju.89 and do.19 are two very terrifying weapons!

Because they use a brand new liquid-cooled engine! Hugh Dowtin will know the appearance of their engines through the camera lens. Both aircraft are equipped with four liquid-cooled engines.

The Germans' technology in this area is not advanced and cannot be compared with their air-cooled engines.

According to the information mastered by Hugh Dowtin, the smooth output horsepower of the best inline liquid-cooled engine in Germany is only around 1,000. The horsepower of their last air-cooled engine must have exceeded 1,600. And this is the performance indicator of the mass-produced model.

However, the Germans used liquid-cooled engines with obviously insufficient horsepower on their bombers. This is definitely not to improve the aerodynamic performance of the aircraft. The four-engine heavy bomber did not care about the little resistance brought by the large air-cooled engine.

So why do they put a good air-cooled large ferry without using it, but install a liquid-cooled engine with a smaller horsepower on the bomber?

Could it be that the engines of Mercedes-Benz and Yumo cannot be sold?

Lieutenant General Hugh Dowding shook his head slightly and whispered a word: "Height!"

"Height?" British Foreign Secretary Aiden and Hugh Dowding sat together, and he also raised his neck to watch the big plane, "It's not very high."

"No, the Germans used liquid-cooled engines that they were not good at, with only one purpose..." Hugh. Dowding saw another batch of large aircraft coming from the sky, picked up the camera and continued to shoot hard.

He continued: "It is a high-altitude penetration! The high-altitude performance of air-cooled engines is very poor. In high-altitude environments, the power of air-cooled engines will decrease rapidly. Therefore, j.28h equipped with air-cooled engines can only be moved in medium and low altitudes. Our ground firepower can easily knock it down.

Therefore, in actual combat, j.28h can only adopt night attacks. The accuracy of night bombing is very low. Although it may cause great casualties to civilians, the damage to our military bases and industrial facilities will not be too serious. These two German bombers are equipped with liquid-cooled engines, which shows that they are pursuing high-altitude penetration performance and are ready to bomb us during the day!"

Of course, the strategic deception of the German General Staff will not tell Hugh. Dowtin, the German aviation industry is now looking for a way to make air-cooled engines have excellent high-altitude performance, and has found a very effective method, which is to install a turbocharger.

Historically, because Germany lacked non-ferrous metal reserves, it could not produce many high-temperature alloys with excellent performance. Therefore, German aircraft engines cannot withstand too high temperatures, and turbocharger will increase the temperature. Therefore, although Germany mastered turbocharger technology, it did not make enough investment and accumulation in this regard. In the middle and late stages of World War II, British and American aircraft generally installed several superchargers, called "n"-class supercharger, while German aircraft usually only had first-class supercharger.

In this time and space, Hessmann has long begun to make strategic reserves of non-ferrous metals. Although it cannot be used openly like the United States, it is still sufficient to ensure that some air-cooled engines are equipped with high-performance turbochargers and superchargers.

The bmw700 series used by Fox F.36 is a "verified product" that is equipped with both superchargers and turbochargers.

However, this BMW700 is very large in size because it is equipped with a huge supercharger (now just the first generation product). It cannot be installed on ordinary fighter jets. This requires continuous improvement, reducing the volume of the turbocharger, and designing a better cooling system (intercooler) to significantly improve performance.

In a sense, the Foxconn f.36 is only to improve the high altitude performance of German air-cooled aircraft engines. In fact, the production of this aircraft is not very large. There are only 90 aircraft, including verification aircraft, bombing type, reconnaissance type (long-range reconnaissance aircraft, pre-equipped with airborne radar to search sea surface targets), transportation type, and attack type (prepared to install artillery to bombard ground and water surface targets).

And now the 30 ju.89 and 30 do.19 that show off their muscles are not all bombing types, they just look like bombers. After the military parade, except for 10 ju.89 and 10 do.19 will be incorporated into the Condor Legion to bomb the city in Spain, most of the remaining 40 aircraft will be converted into passenger aircraft and sold...

Because in the plan of the German General Staff, there was no intention to use thousands of heavy bombers to force Britain and France to surrender. At present, they developed four heavy bombers, precisely in order to deter the Baku oil field, which is the "red ally" of the Soviet Union, in the future, is the goal that needs to be considered in the medium term.

Now Hessmann just wants to divert attention from German armored forces and tactical aviation by exaggerating the influence of the "bombing victory theory".

"Oh my God, how many four-engine heavy bombers did the Germans have?" Morris Ganmolin, vice chairman of the French Army's High Military Commission, was also frightened by the German heavy bombers that covered the sky.

As a top figure in the French side, he had long heard that the "bombing victory theory" has a very good market in the German Wehrmacht.

This theory first started in Italy and was proposed by General Duhe. Fascist leaders such as Mussolini and Balbo were superstitious about this principle. In their opinion, the air force is the key to the outcome of future wars, and the army is just pretending, and it cannot rely on them to fight. If a war between great powers really breaks out, the army can only squat in the trenches and defense lines to block the enemy. If there is really such a stupid enemy, it will hit the solid defense line!

The real victory or defeat depends on large aircraft bombing the city! Think about the beautiful cities like Paris, Lyon, and Reims turned into ruins in cruel air strikes. Will the French people still have the courage to resist?

"Admiral, they still have many tanks!" In Gan Molin's ear, he was a very tall French army colonel named Charles de Gaulle. He was a figure from Weigang and Renault (right pai, fascism, etc.). He is a person who is not very successful in the French army today, but he is not bad at making a fortune. Because he is considered an expert in mechanized warfare, Gan Molin brought him to watch the tanks at the German parade.

Gan Molin shook his head, "I saw it. They are all very small and cannot beat our tanks, and it is impossible for them to break through the Magino line."

This is also a fact! Charles de Gaulle's view of these German No. 2 tanks is the same as that of Ganmolin. They are definitely not opponents of French tanks, and they cannot break through the Maginot line of defense that is as strong as a brick wall.

"What's there to worry about?" Gan Molin looked at Charles de Gaulle, whose brows were still locked. "If they were to bypass Magino, we and our British friends could defeat them with more advanced tanks and cannons. Charles, you don't have to worry... I will support you. The idea of ​​a 100,000 mechanized professional army is good. We need to build such an army."

The "100,000 Mechanized Army" is a vision of Charles de Gaulle, with a mechanized professional army of about 100,000 people as the main strike force of the French Army. This view was not valued by the French Army at the beginning, but after Germany expanded its military preparations and organized a large number of mechanized troops, the French Army still began its own mechanization pace. They began to adapt some infantry divisions into motorized infantry divisions (7 divisions planned to be adapted), and also began to form light mechanized divisions (there was the First Light Mechanized Division in July 1935), and are still preparing to form powerful armored troops and reserve armored divisions (the three divisions planned to be organized).
Chapter completed!