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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 665 (3) Full Metal Structure

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    The AF18 fighter attack aircraft adopts an all-metal structure, a lower single wing, and a single seat. It is equipped with a Chinese Eagle ixv8 liquid-cooled engine with 360 horsepower, driving a three-blade propeller, rear 3-point landing gear, and the main landing gear can be retracted  Inside the wing, its shape is slender and streamlined.  The fuselage is 8.8 meters long, the wingspan is 9.8 meters, the aircraft height is 2.80 meters, and the take-off weight is 1,352 kilograms.

    Members: 1 person

    Body length:?28ft8in(8.8m)

    Fuselage wingspan:?32feet4in(9.88m)

    Body height:?9ft1in?(2.80m)

    Aircraft unladen weight:?1,422lb (645kg)

    Maximum take-off weight: 2,980lb (1,352kg)

    Engine: 1xchinaeagleixv8, 360hp (265kw)

    Maximum flight speed: 180mph? (290kmh)atsealevel

    Maximum flight distance:?700mi(m)

    Maximum flight time:?4hr45m

    Practical ceiling: 25,000ft (7,620m)

    Climb rate: 1,800ftmin (548mmin)

    Weapons:

    Guns:.

    Bombs:?4x245lbor8x125lb??(450kg)ofbombs

    Since the AT18 uses a large amount of aluminum alloy structure and all-metal skin, especially the lighter Chinese Eagle ixv8 engine, the weight of the aircraft is about 100 kilograms lighter than that of the FR18, and the maximum take-off weight can still be maintained at  On the order of 1,352 kilograms, this has significantly improved the speed, climb rate, firepower, and flight altitude of the AT18 fighter attack aircraft. Not only is it equipped with two Browning 12.7mm large-caliber machine guns, but the amount of ammunition it can carry has also increased from  The weight has been increased from 300 kilograms to 450 kilograms, which will greatly increase the firepower during ground attacks in the future.

    At the end of July, in addition to the AT18 completing the design plan and starting formal research and development, the research and development work on the self-sealing technology of the fuel tank after being shot and the streamlined auxiliary fuel tank design that Wang Geng originally requested to develop are also coming to an end, and are preparing to take the lead in the AT18 Predator combat attack.  For use on board.

    According to the AT18 research and development progress reported by Wang Zhu and Bayuzao, this latest single-engine, single-seat, single-wing, metal-structured combat attack aircraft will strive to complete the prototype test flight and finalization in October. The production volume in November is expected to be 24  In December, it was 48 aircraft. By the first quarter of next year, the production capacity will be expanded to 120 aircraft per month.

    In order to solve the loss of fighter jets of the Allied Air Force before AT18 was officially put into service, as early as early July, Wang Geng decided to temporarily purchase another 300 SE5s produced in the United States from the United States to supplement the Allied Air Force. Of course, the account must be credited first.  In fact, in Wang Geng's previous life, the British produced only more than 1,300 SE5 aircraft themselves, and the remaining 4,000 aircraft were limited to domestic production capacity in the United Kingdom, and were all authorized to be produced in the United States.

    These 300 SE5s produced in the United States will arrive in Vladivostok at the end of August, and then be transported all the way to the Volga Federal Frontline via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Since there is no railway from Ufa to Samara at this time, Samara is constantly being widened, reinforced and renovated.  Along with the construction of the road from Mara to Ufa, the construction of the Sauer-Ufa railway has also become the focus of Volga Federation Prime Minister Vasily Nikolayevich Pepelyayev's recent work.

    Since Japanese companies have made a lot of money from railway construction projects in China, it is considered a big favor for Wang Geng to continue to give Japan the railway and highway projects in the Volga Federation. Of course, at this moment, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Allied Forces  Tanaka Giichi was even more satisfied with the fact that he had secured 500 places for Japan to become the first batch of pilot cadets of the Allied Air Force.

    This morning is destined to be a busy morning. The matter of establishing the Samara Aviation School of the Allied Air Force and recruiting 500 federal, Japanese and Chinese flight cadets has just been decided. A Japanese staff officer from the war room came in a hurry.  , holding in hand the latest telegram received.

    "Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, there is a call from Moscow. The Soviet Red Army is fighting Kolchak on the southern front. The other party wants us to provide the location of Kolchak's main force and the deployment of troops!"

    The person who came to report was surprisingly one of the staff officers in charge of the morning shift in the war room, Japanese Army Captain Kotaro Kameyama.

    July 29, 1918 8:00 Saransk Soviet Volga Front 1st Army Headquarters

    "Comrades, the situation is very serious. The main force of Kolchak's Western Route Army has rushed towards us. According to Moscow intelligence conveyed by the front army headquarters, Kolchak's Western Group heading south consists of the 3rd, 4th and 4th Don Cavalry.  The five Cossack cavalry divisions of the 5th, 6th and 7th divisions formed a powerful cavalry group, equipped with 10 artillery companies and 10 heavy machine gun battalions. The total strength of this wave of White Guards was nearly 60,000, led by Alexander Vasilyev  Chi. Kolchak is personally in command, and the Cossack leader Roman Mikhailovich Krashilnikov is his deputy!¡±

    "The Front Army Headquarters has judged that the march route of Kolchak's Western Route Army is moving southwest from Cheboksary, with a direct target at Sarask, and is prepared to use lightning speed to annihilate the Soviet Union that is reorganizing and recovering.  The First Army of the Russian Volga Front. What's terrible is that Budyonny's 1st Cavalry Army has already moved eastward in advance.Movement, preparing to join Gidis's Tenth Army. Our original decision to stay in Sarask and wait for food and ammunition to be replenished before taking action now seems a bit hasty.  "

    The person pointing with his baton and speaking in front of the battle map was the political commissar and chief of staff of the 1st Army, Pyotr Alexeevich Kobozev. In Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, this guy later served as a member of the Soviet Revolutionary Military Commission.  He is also the chairman of the Military Committee of the Eastern Front. Of course, at this moment, the Soviet Eastern Front no longer exists. Kobozev can be regarded as leaning on the thick legs of the commander of the Front Sverdlov, becoming a group military political commissar, and also serving as a staff officer  long.

    The headquarters of the Soviet 1st Army is located in the Sarask Municipal Government Building, and the war room is quite spacious. This city serves as the assembly, reorganization and reorganization location of the 1st Army and the 1st Budyonny Cavalry Army. In the past half month  The biggest difficulty faced here is the lack of food
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