After the Tang army landing troops successfully seized the beach, they immediately built beachhead fortifications and built temporary trests to facilitate the landing ships to dock and transport other Marine officers and soldiers.

Although the Fijian Indian army was equipped with a large number of British weapons, it lacked training and tactical command personnel, and it was like a pile of loose sand and vulnerable to a blow.

Six pilot platoons of the Tang Army Marine Corps built simple beachhead fortifications. During this period, the Indians launched three large-scale counterattacks to try to drive the Tang army out of the sea.

The Tang army built heavy machine gun positions on the beachhead position and blocked the charge route of the Indian army with a cross-fire network.

Tatta! Tattata!

Several M2 heavy machine guns on the Tang army's heavy machine gun position fired violently, with bullets densely as rain, and the enemy fell one after another, flying flesh and blood, extremely tragic.

Faced with the almost perverted huge lethality of the M2 heavy machine gun, the Indian army was immediately frightened and its offensive was weaker and weaker every time.

As the Tang army's SRA medium tank arrived ashore, the 18-ton tank suddenly turned into a bloodthirsty monster in the eyes of the Indians, directly crushing out bloody paths.

When the 75mm caliber grenade tank gun fired violently, the Indian army was forced to retreat, and the Tang army quickly launched an attack under the cover of the tank.

The Indian leader, McGrady, was very regretful. He thought the Tang army would be afraid of the British and dared not take action. As a result, his mistake caused more than a thousand Indian troops near the refugee area to be wiped out by the Tang army.

McGrady immediately asked the British for help, but before the British could reply, the Tang army's larger-scale retaliatory military operations began.

According to Zhang Meng's order, the landing troops of the Tang army not only wanted to protect the safety of the Chinese refugee areas, but also took the opportunity to expand the scope of the refugee areas. The entire Tang Navy Air Force dispatched to carry out large-scale air strikes on the Indian army, Indian tribes, and other tribes opposing the Latou Grand Chief.

In the dim sky, clouds are covered with clouds.

Suddenly, several planes penetrated through the clouds, making harsh and screams.

There were six aircraft in total, all of which were painted black and shining with metallic luster. A blue-based white eagle logo in the center of the fuselage was particularly conspicuous, indicating that they belonged to the Tang Empire.

Below them is a tribe of the Indians. A group of Indians fled into this tribe just now. They thought that hiding in their houses would prevent the Tang army from chasing them, but they didn't know that they would kill all the other Indians.

Yi-yi-yi-yi-

Several Tang army bombers that followed quickly dropped aviation bombs weighing 250 kilograms.

Bang—bang—bang—bang—

Accompanied by a series of violent explosions, the all-wood structure thatched hut was instantly destroyed by the explosion shock wave, and the entire Indian tribe instantly turned into a sea of ​​fire.

The fire is burning and the smoke is rolling, just like the fireworks of hell.

A small tribe with a population of less than 300 people completely disappeared from the earth in the blink of an eye.

The six bombers who completed the bombing mission circled around the small tribe for a few more times, and then turned around and flew away after confirming that no living person had escaped.

It is a new bomber of the Naval Air Force of the Tang Empire and is affiliated to the Flight Squadron of the USS Chiguo Tianwang aircraft carrier. They have a common name - Hellfire.

Hellfire is a heavy carrier-based bomber tailored by the Tang Empire Raptor Airlines, a Russian aircraft specialized in the Tang Dynasty, for the battle group of the first aircraft carrier of the Tang Dynasty.

In terms of appearance, the Hellfire Heavy Carrier-based Bomber was designed by the famous aircraft designer Reginald Mitchell, a British man from Tang. It adopts a single-wing streamlined mechanical appearance design. Its wings are designed as trapezoidal straight wings to enhance firepower matching and provide strength support for carrier-based aircraft folding. The large cross tail wing looks very powerful and has greater handling performance.

The overall appearance is close to the basic shape of modern propeller regional aircraft. It has obtained extremely high scores during the wind tunnel testing, becoming the most in line with air fluid mechanics in the world.

Just looking at the appearance, Hellfire has become the most dazzling star model in the world. Especially the black metal brushed skin craftsmanship, which is domineering and reveals the name of Hellfire.

When other aircraft still use fixed landing gears, Hellfire has taken the lead in using advanced retractable landing gears, which greatly reduces the resistance during flight, reducing unnecessary speed losses. The landing gear also uses advanced hydraulic shock absorption technology, and the wheels are also changed to pneumatic tire type to reduce the reaction force damage caused by the ground to the aircraft during landing.

The cockpit of Hellfire carrier-based bombers does not expose the pilots like other aircraft, and realizes the closed glass cover. The glass cover conforms to fluid mechanics, uses high-strength glass and has certain bulletproof functions. The glass cover is divided into two pieces, the front half is fixed and the back half is sliding, which serves as the pilot's entry and exit door.

Hellfire uses the production and processing technology of aerospace alloy aluminum materials obtained from the Bavarian aircraft manufacturer, and is made of integrated magnesium and aluminum alloy. The same thickness of metal skin is used by Hellfire 23% lighter than other aircraft, but its strength is 85% higher than ordinary aluminum alloy. This allows Hellfire to consider allocating the saved weight to key parts that affect the performance of the aircraft, such as armor protection, power systems, firepower systems, etc.

Since it is a heavy carrier-based aircraft, integrated forming technology is adopted from the nose to the tail, especially the tail hook used for landing, which runs through the entire body. At the same time, thanks to Datang Heavy Industry's 10,000-ton hydraulic press equipment, the tail hook is formed at one time and has greatly improved its strength. Even the landing speed of the jet aircraft is sufficient to ensure the service life of at least 5,000 times. For the landing speed of the propeller aircraft, the tail hook does not need to be maintained for life.

It is precisely because the tail hook of Hellfire runs through the entire fuselage and is extremely strong and the least likely to be damaged, so the tail hook has become the most special place of Hellfire and also acts as the second antenna of the onboard radio equipment.

Although airborne radio equipment in this era is still a luxury, under the premise that Zhang Meng gave priority to ensuring the construction of aviation power, each Hellfire was equipped with radio equipment, allowing the Air Force Command to directly contact every pilot, directly grasp the latest combat situation on the front line and conduct front line command, which plays a huge role in overall strategic arrangements and deployments.

Since Hellfire is designed as a heavy carrier-based bomber, the payload will naturally not be reduced.

According to Zhang Meng's request, if the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire wants to fight against the threat of battleships from the Japanese Joint Fleet, it must have aviation bombs and aviation torpedoes that sink the battleships.

Based on the comprehensive considerations of the horizontal armor protection capabilities of the main battleships of the Japanese Navy, as well as the possibility of modification and enhanced defense in the future, Raptor Airways designed a carrier-based bomber that can carry two 500 kilogram aviation bombs or four 250 kilogram aviation bombs or a 900 kilogram aviation torpedo.

Among them, 500 kilograms of aviation bombs and 900 kilograms of aviation torpedoes are used to deal with thick armored battleships and other super-large surface warships, while 250 kilograms of aviation bombs are used to deal with relatively thin armored small and medium-sized surface warships, and can also carry out ground bombing missions.

As the world's aviation technology is changing with each passing day and is constantly developing, the weight and quantity of ammunition carried by bombers are constantly increasing. Therefore, the international standards for bombers are different in each country, and they are changing every year. Bombers carrying 10 30 kilograms of aviation bombs during World War I were considered heavy bombers. By the 1930s, the performance of aircraft was greatly improved, and fighters that could carry 2 250 kilograms of aviation bombs were considered heavy bombers.

The carrier-based bomber has never been defined. The A1N1-3 aircraft equipped on the USS Fengxiang aircraft carrier can only carry 2 30 kilogram aviation bombers. Compared with the Japanese carrier-based bombers, the Hellfire carrier-based bomber developed by Raptor Airlines can carry two 500 kilogram aviation bombers, so it is naturally considered a heavy carrier-based bomber.

However, according to Zhang Meng's requirements, heavy carrier-based bombers not only refer to their bomb load capacity, but also include their three aspects of armor protection, speed and firepower.

Thanks to the use of advanced magnesium-aluminum alloy technology, a lot of weight can be saved to be distributed to key parts such as fuel tanks, cockpits, cooling systems, etc. to implement key protection to ensure that it remains stable in flight under the attack of enemy fighters.

The Hellfire weighs 3.1 tons, of which the additional armored part accounts for 140 kilograms. Key parts such as cabin pilot guard plates and fuel tanks can protect the close-range shooting of machine gun bullets below 10 mm caliber.

In terms of firepower, although Hellfire is a carrier-based bomber, it has installed a 12.7mm M2 heavy machine gun on each wing, with 100 bullets standard. There are a few standard bullets, because after all, it is a bomber rather than a fighter, and firepower is only used for self-protection.

Hellfire added armor protection and payload, and was equipped with strong self-defense firepower, making the standard takeoff weight more than 3 tons.

But the speed requirement of Hellfire is to ensure a speed of at least 350 kilometers per hour. Considering that in order to push the 3-ton aircraft to take off, it must take off on the 130-meter deck of the aircraft carrier. Removing the afterburner of the catapult, Hellfire's own aircraft engine horsepower will also require at least 1,500 to be enough.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, although the horsepower of aircraft engines in laboratories in various countries had reached 1,800 horsepower, too few were really used for practice.

The just-in-coming Datang Empire aviation industry cannot buy everything with money. Although Raptor Airways had previously produced two core technologies: the Grayback Falcon 63 water-cooled aviation engine produced by Ronaldo and the DB600A aircraft engine of Germany's Daimler-Benz. The latter's horsepower has reached the minimum requirement of 1,500 horsepower, some key components, Datang Empire's own factory cannot produce it.

Zhang Meng knew very well that engines were the key to aircraft and could not rely on imports. Under Zhang Meng's supervision, the Quincy Air Compressor Factory had settled in Datang. In order to develop large air compressors for the Yanjing Super Wind Tunnel Group, Datang had already obtained the manufacturing technology of turbo-aviation engine engines.

Although the turbo aero engine engine produced by Datang itself is relatively basic, the efficiency of the turbine is more than 2 to 3 times higher than that of the piston engine. Datang's own primary turbine engine can generate 1,600 horsepower, which is enough to meet the 350-kilometer-hour speed of Hellfire.

Therefore, Hellfire became the world's first propeller aircraft powered by a turbo engine. With this alone, Hellfire is enough to become an excellent aircraft in the history of world aviation.

In the end, the Hellfire Heavy Carrier-based Bomber reached a maximum speed of 410 kilometers per hour during testing, and the normal cruise speed was maintained in the range of 330 to 350, which was faster than the fighter jets in other countries.

Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers are ahead of all aircraft in all aspects, in terms of speed, defense, firepower, bomb load, or avant-garde design and high-tech.
Chapter completed!