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Text Chapter 1,448 Transport Planes and Fighters

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    This time Crown Prince Wang Zirui went to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, not to Tianjin to take a cruise or warship, but to take a plane directly from Nanyuan Airport!  There were about ten people accompanying him, including Foreign Minister Gu Weijun and other personnel from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!

    The aircraft provided by the Air Force is a passenger aircraft converted from a Y4 transport aircraft.  The Y4 transport aircraft is the fourth transport aircraft developed by the Chinese Air Force and is also the current main transport aircraft model of the Chinese Air Force.  All the airborne troops of the Chinese Air Force use Y4 transport aircraft.

    The Y4 transport aircraft is 19.43 meters long, has a wingspan of 29.11 meters, a height of 5.18 meters, a wingspan area of ??91.7 square meters, an empty weight of 8,200 kilograms, a load capacity of 11,000 kilograms, and a maximum take-off weight of 13,500 kilograms. It is powered by two 1,200-horsepower engines and has a cruising speed of 140  knots, that is, 260 kilometers per hour, the maximum speed is 195 knots, 360 kilometers per hour, the range is 2,800 kilometers, and the practical ceiling is 8,000 meters!  Membership is March and can carry up to 25 people!  Generally speaking, a Y4 transport aircraft can carry all the personnel and equipment of one and a half infantry squads of the airborne troops!

    The Air Force has also developed a long-range bomber based on the Y4 transport aircraft, with a bomb load of up to three tons and a combat radius of up to 1,500 kilometers. It has become the main equipment of the Chinese Air Force!

    At 9:15 a.m., the Y4 transport plane numbered 1558 took off from Nanyuan Airport first, followed by several Air Force F9 Lightning heavy-duty fighter jets, which will provide protection for the transport plane.

    The F10 ¡®Lightning¡¯ heavy fighter is a reliable long-range fighter developed by the Chinese Air Force in recent years.  The F10 'Lightning' heavy fighter is 11.53 meters long, with a wingspan of 15.85 meters, a height of 3 meters, a wingspan area of ??30.43 square meters, an empty weight of 5.1 tons, a load of 7.3 tons, and a maximum take-off weight of 9.4 tons.  Powered by two 1,200-horsepower engines, it has a top speed of 520 kilometers per hour, a combat radius of 800 kilometers, a maximum range of 2,200 kilometers, and a service ceiling of 11,000 kilometers!  Although the combat performance of this heavy fighter is not as good as that of a light fighter, it is thick-skinned and thick-skinned. Its climbing performance reaches 800 meters per minute and it has powerful firepower. The nose is equipped with a 20mm cannon with 200 rounds of ammunition!  There are also 4 12.7mm aviation machine guns on the wings, with 600 rounds of ammunition!  The main purpose of the Chinese Air Force equipped with this heavy fighter is to escort fighter jets carrying out strategic bombing!  Within a combat radius of 800 kilometers, starting from China's military bases in the English Channel or the Mediterranean, it is enough to include important industrial bases in southern and western Germany!  If a large auxiliary fuel tank is carried, the combat radius can be increased to one thousand kilometers, which is enough to include most important cities in Germany within the combat radius!

    Taking a transport plane is obviously not comparable to a cruise ship in terms of comfort!  Although the Air Force has made many improvements inside this transport aircraft, such as adding soft seats.  But when the plane takes off and after takeoff, the violent shaking still makes the passengers very uncomfortable.  Even the Crown Prince Wang Zirui's face turned a little pale. If he was given another choice, he might change his mind and say he would go to the Austro-Hungarian Empire on a battleship.  The accompanying Foreign Minister Gu Weijun was already pale!

    After a full hour, the nervousness of everyone on the plane calmed down!  Although the plane still shook from time to time, overall, there was no danger, and everyone felt relieved!  Because this time we were taking a plane, most of the attaches dispatched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were young people, so everyone had to be more tolerant!

    Foreign Minister Gu Weijun is the youngest cabinet minister in the imperial cabinet. He is only thirty years old this year!  However, he performed very well as an envoy abroad.  Therefore, he was promoted to the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs!  At the beginning, many people thought that he was not qualified enough to hold this position!  But judging from the past two years, his performance is still very good!  At the beginning, although Tang Shaoyi became the Prime Minister of the Empire, he also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Gu Weijun presided over the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the deputy minister.  It was not until last year that Tang Shaoyi resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Gu Weijun took over!

    "Your Highness, this time, thanks to your blessing, I also flew on a military transport plane!" Gu Weijun said with a smile, but his expression was still a little unnatural!  As a literati, the experience just now made him very nervous!

    "Haha, Mr. Gu, when the performance of the aircraft is better in the future, the comfort will definitely be improved! By then, the aircraft will become our daily means of transportation, and everyone will be used to it!" Crown Prince Wang Zirui said with a smile.  The Emperor Wang Yuze once told him a lot about the future development direction of aircraft, and Wang Zirui naturally believed in it!

    Gu Weijun smiled helplessly. If the comfort of the plane was still like this, he would never dare to fly again!

    The longest range of the Y4 transport aircraft is 2,800 kilometers, but the longest range of the escorting F10 "Lightning" heavy fighter is only 2,200 kilometers!  Therefore, this time flying from Beijing toIn Sicily, you have to refuel a lot along the way!  It took two days to fly via Xinjiang, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Egypt to Sicily!  Although they were taking a plane, everyone including the Crown Prince Wang Zirui felt as if they were falling apart!  After the plane landed smoothly in Catania, Sicily, everyone who was flying for the first time felt a sense of gratitude!

    Admiral Wu Zhiyuan, Commander of the Third Fleet of the Chinese Navy, Lieutenant General Lin Jianwu, Chief of Staff, and Lin Yi, Governor of the Mediterranean Province, went to the airport to greet the Imperial Crown Prince Wang Zirui and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gu Weijun!

    "See Your Highness!" After Wang Zirui, who looked a little pale, walked out of the cabin, everyone hurriedly greeted him!

    "Everyone, please forgive me!" Wang Zirui cheered up and said with a smile.  And the legs of Foreign Minister Gu Weijun who followed him are still shaking a little!  This voyage is definitely an unforgettable experience for him!

    ¡°Perhaps knowing that Wang Zirui and his party were tired from the journey, everyone did not delay at the airport, but took a car to the Third Fleet Headquarters in Catania!

    The Third Fleet of the Chinese Navy includes 4 aircraft carrier battle groups and a task force composed of 6 battleships. It has nearly 200 warships of all sizes and is one of the three major fleets of the Chinese Navy!  Their main responsibility is to ensure the empire's interests along the Mediterranean coast and plan the navies of the countries along the Mediterranean coast!  For example, countries such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and Spain!  However, except for the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the naval strength of these countries is relatively weak and not enough to pose a threat to the Chinese Navy's Third Fleet!  The most important task of the Third Fleet is actually to leave the Strait of Gibraltar after the war breaks out and cooperate with the Second Fleet to eliminate the main force of the German Navy!

    That evening, the Commander of the Third Fleet, Admiral Wu Zhiyuan, hosted a reception dinner for Crown Prince Wang Zirui. Not only the important generals of the Third Fleet attended, but also senior government officials from the Mediterranean Province also participated!  After resting for a long time, Wang Zirui's complexion improved a lot, and he chatted happily with everyone.  In the next few days, Wang Zirui was not in a hurry to rush to Vienna, but spent a few days on Sicily.  It can be regarded as an inspection of the Navy's Third Fleet and the Mediterranean Province on behalf of the Imperial Emperor Wang Yuze!

    Sicily is the first island captured by the Chinese navy in the Mediterranean. Together with China¡¯s many islands in the Mediterranean, it forms the Mediterranean Province.  The entire Mediterranean Province has a small area and a small population. The total number of people who immigrated to the islands of the Mediterranean Province from within the country is less than half a million!  This place is far away from the mainland of the empire, and if a war breaks out, this place will also be the front line of the battle!  Therefore, not only are the people of the empire unwilling to immigrate here, the imperial government has also imposed many restrictions on immigration!  Many residents of the Mediterranean Province are family members of the army.

    In addition to 200 large and small warships in the Mediterranean, the Third Fleet of the Chinese Navy also includes an aviation force of the naval aviation force and an aviation force of the air force stationed in the Mediterranean Province!  The aviation force is an organization above the wings. Each aviation force is composed of 5 wings!  A total of six hundred aircraft!  The aviation force of the naval aviation mainly consists of two wings of fighters, two wings of dive bombers, and one wing of torpedo attack aircraft!  The air force of the Air Force consists of one wing of light fighters, two wings of heavy fighters, and two wings of long-range bombers!  Once a war breaks out, they will undertake the strategic bombing mission against Germany!  Of course, by then more long-range fighters and long-range bombers will also be deployed to various islands in the Mediterranean Province to ensure a heavy blow to Germany from the air!  Of course, those hostile countries along the Mediterranean are also within the attack range!

    On behalf of the Imperial Emperor, the Imperial Crown Prince Wang Zirui inspected the troops on Sicily and expressed royal condolences to them.  At the same time, they met with the immigration representatives of the Empire in the Mediterranean Province. Most of these immigrants from the country can live and work here!

    Three days later, on June 24, the Imperial Crown Prince Wang Zirui and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gu Weijun set off from Sicily to the Austro-Hungarian Empire!  There are still eight days left before the funeral of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Many heads of state from European countries have already arrived in Vienna. If they don't go, they may cause dissatisfaction with the Austro-Hungarian Empire!  Fortunately, Sicily is not far from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If you take a battleship, you can reach Astre in only two days, and then take a train and you can reach Vienna in just one day. It is still plenty of time!  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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