novelaction Chapter 307 Hans: I have what you don’t, so you will be beaten
Chapter 307 Hans: I have what you don’t, so you will be beaten
"The first aerial show is about to begin!"
Someone shouted, and Emil Calvin, Lieutenant General Yorick and others who were watching intently were awakened, and then followed the crowd to the performance venue.
The aerial show is another major attraction of this air show, and many people who buy tickets come here for the aerial show.
There will be three aerial performances in the morning of the first day, each lasting half an hour, which is guaranteed to satisfy the audience.
As the first opening aerial show, the 'Thunder' flight demonstration team formed by the Air Force performed.
The aircraft model flown by the Thunder flight demonstration team is the FC-86 fighter jet.
As for the Air Force's active fighter jets, they also have opportunities to perform, but not now.
The limelight on the first day belonged to FC-86 and FC-15, and we couldn’t steal the limelight from these two star models.
After waiting for a while, one after another FC-86 Sabre fighter jets painted in silver-white appeared from the low sky in the distance.
A triangular formation of seven FC-7s flew at an altitude of less than 86 meters from the ground at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour.
Suddenly all eyes were focused on this flying formation.
"boom....."
When the fleet of planes passed by at low altitude at a very fast speed.
The huge roar of the engine and the heat waves of the air flow also whizzed past and blew on the audience.
This moment directly brings the audience’s experience to the fore.
Suddenly there were exclamations and strange cries, especially from these Westerners who had not seen much of the world.
The national pride in the hearts of the ancient country's audiences has reached its peak.
Everyone held their heads high and chests puffed out, feeling as if their bones had never been so stiff before. They couldn't even squat to go to the toilet.
The low-altitude pass of seven fighter jets immediately boosted the atmosphere on the scene.
Then the seven performance aircraft began to climb at a large angle. The turbojet engines at the tail output surging power, pushing the fighters to climb at a speed of more than 7 meters per second.
This scene immediately made Lieutenant General Yorick's eyes widen.
It can be seen with the naked eye that the climb rate of these jet fighters is definitely much faster than that of piston propeller aircraft.
The most important data in air combat are climb rate, ceiling and speed.
Among them, climb rate and speed are closely related to maneuverability.
The higher the maneuverability, the faster the energy is accumulated and the greater the advantage in air combat.
Apart from anything else, the climbing speed alone is enough to kill a piston propeller fighter in seconds.
The purpose of this performance is to show the maneuverability of FC-86 to the audience.
So then the FC-86 fighter jets performed a series of team aerobatic performances.
For example, aerial blossoms, barrel rolls, somersaults, hedges, diamond somersaults, and powered spins.
These are the results of the flight demonstration team's pilots spending half a year on aerobatic training.
During this half-hour aerial performance, the audience below was completely delighted.
Lieutenant General Yorick was also very happy to see it.
As the largest customer in the ancient country's military industry, Hans is also the target of key marketing efforts by the ancient country's Air Force.
Because the Hans Air Force not only has money, but also needs a large quantity.
An hour later, the second aerial show began.
This flight demonstration team was formed by the Southern Military Region Air Force Command and is code-named "Red Falcon".
The Red Kestrel aerobatic team's demonstration aircraft is the FC-15 'Sharp Knife' fighter jet with all unnecessary equipment removed.
That is the domestic version of the MIG-15 fighter.
The performance of the FC-15 is comparable to that of the FC-86. Even at low altitudes, its maneuverability is significantly better than that of the FC-86 Sabre.
The title of low-altitude skateboarder is not exaggerated.
The biggest advantages of the FC-15 fighter are its firepower and low-altitude maneuverability.
Equipped with one 37mm cannon and two 23mm cannons, it is known as an aerial sniper.
Not to mention a small aircraft like the FC-86, even a bomber of the B-29 level could be shot down with two or three shots.
Its 37mm cannon is specially designed for strategic bombers.
Because its aiming baseline is different from that of the two 23mm machine guns.
The biggest advantages of the FC-86 Sabre fighter are fire control and medium and high altitude advantages.
As for firepower...a six-shooter revolver obviously cannot compare to a shotgun.
The six traditional 12.7mm machine guns are similar to the 7.7mm machine guns equipped in the previous notebooks for jet fighters, and are at the level of water guns.
In terms of fire control, the FC-86 has a ranging radar and a handheld long-range rangefinder, which is obviously more friendly to novice pilots.
The FC-15 fighter can only rely on the pilot's sharp eyes.
"Damn it, how do I choose?"
When seeing the information of the two fighters, Lieutenant General Yorick felt that he was suffering from decision-making difficulties.
Both fighters are excellent and have their own advantages.
However, after taking a look at the quotation, Lieutenant General Yorick immediately made a decision in his mind.
The FC-86 Sabre fighter jet is equipped with radar and sophisticated electronic equipment, so the price is relatively high, costing US$18 per unit.
The FC-15 fighter is lighter, which means less material is used and the fire control and avionics equipment are also very simple.
So its selling price is $15 per unit, a full $3 less.
If converted into marks, they are 45 and 37.5 respectively.
So Lieutenant General Yorick did not hesitate too much and chose to purchase the more cost-effective FC-15 "Sharp Knife" jet fighter.
What's the big deal about the simple fire control equipment? Given the excellence of the Imperial pilots, there is no need for these fancy things.
As the Director of the Munitions Department, he was very sensitive to prices.
So he is also a notorious stingy person in the Imperial Air Force.
So when negotiating, he also showed his stingy nature.
In the end, I negotiated him down to $14.3 per unit, which was a huge reduction of $7000.
And the quantity they purchased was exactly one thousand.
The total price is US$1.43 million, which is just the price of the naked machine and does not include after-sales service.
Work such as the maintenance of jet engines can only be performed by maintenance personnel from ancient countries.
The ground crew of Hans Air Force can only do some minor maintenance.
1.43 million US dollars, converted into Huayuan is 3.57 million.
The exchange rate between the Huayuan and the Reichsmark was close to 1:1.
Receiving such a large order on the first day of the air show is undoubtedly a good start for the ancient country's aviation industry.
In particular, the general manager of Shenzhou Aircraft Industry Group had wrinkles on his face from smiling so hard.
An order for 1000 aircraft is enough to keep their factory busy for half a year.
Such a big thing naturally needs to be publicized.
As a result, the news that the ancient country and the Hans Air Force had reached an order for one thousand FC-15 jet fighters spread throughout the venue at an extremely fast speed.
John, Gaul and the official exhibition team of Tsarist Russia were all shocked.
"Damn it Hans, they're so rich."
Air Force representative John gritted his teeth.
Previously, the Hans Air Force purchased thousands of advanced propeller fighters from the ancient country, which gave them an air advantage to a certain extent and created great pressure on national defense.
Now that their Spitfire fighters had finally caught up, the pressure was finally relieved.
Now they have turned around and bought jet fighters from the ancient country, and a thousand of them.
This pressure is enormous for them.
If I have something that you don't, then I can come and beat you, unless you have it too.
So John, the Air Force representative, had to leave early.
His purpose of leaving was naturally to contact the country.
Also leaving were the representative teams from Gaul and Tsarist Russia.
Two hours later, the men returned to the air show and began reconciling accounts.
Air Force representative John said gloomily, "The Air Force Command has decided to increase the purchase quantity."
“It’s the same in our country!”
The Gaul representative hummed.
Originally, John and Gaul planned to purchase more than a dozen aircraft for disassembly research, imitation, test flight, and comparison.
But now Hans has purchased 1000 of them, which forces them to buy them.
After all, their jet fighters were not very mature, and they encountered many problems during the maiden flight, especially with the engine, which was a very serious problem.
So their jet fighters are still some way off from being deployed.
They also found that the performance of the jet fighters they developed was far behind that of the jet fighters produced by the ancient military trade.
After testing, the maximum speed of their verification aircraft during its maiden flight was only over 600 kilometers per hour, which is the same as their Spitfire fighter.
It is precisely because the jet fighter project is not progressing smoothly that they can only hold their noses and follow up to purchase a batch.
Otherwise, without jet fighters, they would not be able to resist the huge jet fighter force of the Hans Air Force.
The act of giving money to the ancient people made them very uncomfortable.
"What? $18? Why is it $15 more expensive than the FC-?"
"Because it is larger, equipped with an onboard ranging radar and a more advanced fire control system, its cost is higher."
"Can you offer a better price?"
"Sorry, we don't accept bargaining."
Representative John left the scene in frustration and told the Gaul representative the news.
"So we also purchase FC-15?"
"No, no, no, we can't buy the same fighter planes as Hans."
Purchasing the same fighter jets means that both sides will fully understand the performance of each other's fighter jets.
So they had to hold their noses and purchase the more expensive FC-86 Sabre fighter jets.
John gritted his teeth and placed an order for 380 aircraft, while Gaul was even poorer and only bought 200 aircraft.
These 580 orders brought at least $1.044 million in revenue to the Guguo Rongcheng Aircraft Manufacturing Group.
Seeing that John and Gaul had bought it, Tsarist Russia no longer hesitated.
After obtaining the Tsar's permission, they also placed an order for 600 FC-15 fighter jets.
Although the relationship between Tsarist Russia and the ancient country was very poor, even hostile, this did not affect the business between the two sides.
Anyway, even if Tsarist Russia was equipped, it would still be unilaterally attacked, so there would not be much difference.
Citigroup saw that John, Gaul and Tsarist Russia all bought it.
So the United States, which came to watch the fun, also placed an order for 120 FC-86 Sabre fighter jets with the permission of the president.
These five countries alone contributed 2300 orders to the ancient country.
As these top powers took action, the rest of the countries no longer hesitated and followed suit by placing orders, and the atmosphere at the air show instantly became heated.