69novels Chapter 647
Chapter 647
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Starlin wants to pay attention to the air force, he naturally can’t continue to be so partial!
However, he also attaches great importance to the army’s new tanks, and the domestic resources are limited, so he can’t take care of both the army and the air force at the same time.
So, after thinking it over, Starlin made up his mind and simply carried out a total war mobilization. In this way, he can concentrate more power on the development of industry, so that he can take care of both the army and the air force at the same time!
“The development of new fighter planes for the Air Force must be accelerated. New fighter planes must be developed based on the Il-15. Their performance must be better than that of the Il-15, and they cannot continue to be biplane fighters!”
The performance of the Il-15 fighter plane has been greatly improved compared to the previous Il-3 and Il-5.
This fighter plane was designed by Nikolai Nikolayevich Polikarpov, a famous designer from the Central Design Bureau of the Russian Bear. He has been a very famous aircraft design master in the country since the Tsarist Russia.
After World War I, a large number of the bourgeoisie fled to Europe and the United States during the October Revolution.
The industrial strength of the Russian Bear was seriously damaged.
Although Nikolai Nikolayevich Polikarpov stayed, facing the devastated Russian Bear, he had nowhere to display his talents.
He could only draw the design drawings himself in his office, hoping that he would be able to continue to complete the design work of the aircraft after the industrial strength of the Russian Bear was restored in the future.
Although
Starling was interested in the air The army did not pay much attention to it, but he still allocated part of the funds to support the work of the Central Design Bureau. Therefore, after the end of the civil war, after 1923, Polikar began to design the first fighter plane of the Russian Bear – the I-3 fighter!
The performance of this fighter plane is not inferior to the latest fighter plane of the British Empire at that time, so Starling asked the Russian Bear factory to start producing this fighter plane. He thought that with this kind of fighter plane, it would be able to meet the combat needs within ten years! Unexpectedly
, the emergence of the Hans Air Force completely broke the balance in Europe. The performance of the German fighter planes, bombers, dive bombers and other aircraft was far ahead of other countries.
In the Benelux Air Battle, the Allies had a nearly three-fold advantage in manpower, but were still defeated by the German army. The Allied army was completely routed, and in the end, because too many planes were shot down, the Allied pilots began to refuse to take off to meet the enemy.
That air battle was the first time that Starling realized the strength of the German Air Force, but he did not care too much at the time. It was not until the German army used bombers to defeat the Allied forces rushing to Dunkirk that Starling realized that something was wrong. He found that he seemed to have underestimated the strength of the air force!
The German bombers could cause such heavy casualties to the enemy when fighting in the field, which made him begin to pay attention to air supremacy!
It happened that Polikar was developing the I-1 at the time, so he slightly allocated some resources to help him complete the development work as soon as possible.
The war broke out in November 1927, and the German army began large-scale bombing in April 1928. Landing on the mainland, although Starling attached importance to the air force, he never invested a lot of resources in the air force.
Until this time, after seeing the tragic situation of being bombed, he could no longer sit still. In order to avoid the tragedy of the sun never setting from happening to himself in the future, Starling felt that he must attach importance to the air force!
In order to prevent themselves from being bombed by enemy bombers, their primary task is to develop new fighters and fight with the enemy for air supremacy. If there is no air supremacy, the enemy’s bombers can bomb them unscrupulously. Sooner or later, they will be bombed like the sun never sets. Devastated.
In order to fight for air supremacy, there must be a fighter that can compete with the German BF109 fighter or even suppress the BF-109.
The performance of the Il-15 is considered to be a very advanced fighter among biplane fighters, but the emergence of single-wing fighters makes Starling not have much confidence in the performance of biplane fighters. After all, single-wing fighters represent the trend of the future, and biplane fighters will be eliminated sooner or later!
Therefore, after meeting Polikar, Starling bluntly put forward his own requirements: a single-wing fighter must be developed immediately, and the performance of this single-wing fighter must be much better than the current I-15!
In order to help Polikar complete the work as soon as possible, Starling directly mobilized the whole country, recruited a large number of young and middle-aged people to join the army, expanded the army, and expanded the Soviet army’s strength from the current four million to seven million.
In addition, about five million young and middle-aged people were incorporated into the factory to build a new industrial base in the area east of the Ural Mountains.
Because the German bombers were too brutal, Starling did not dare to concentrate all the factories together. If all these factories were concentrated together, the German army could easily destroy them all.
At present, the factories of the bear are mainly concentrated in the lower reaches of the Volga River near the Stalinger area and around the capital Moscow. There are also some factories in the Leningrad area in the north. Their factories are mainly concentrated in densely populated areas!
These big cities are the strategic fulcrums of the bear. It can be imagined that if the German army wants to attack them, they will definitely bomb here, so it is difficult to keep the factories here in the bombing!
Therefore, the factories are moved to the east, the farther away from the front line, the better, so that the German bombers cannot directly threaten them!
In Starlin’s plan, if the factories east of the Ural Mountains can be successfully built, they will all produce weapons and equipment, including tank production lines, aircraft production lines and army guns and bullets production lines!
With such a heavy industrial zone, even if a large area of the land in the west falls, they can rely on the industrial base in the east to deal with the enemy, so as not to collapse and have no resistance!
These works were originally started after the Great Purge. Before the outbreak of the war in 1941, the work of moving the bear’s factories to the east had not been completed, but the factories that had been moved there played an important role in the Soviet-German War.
It can be said that Starlin’s decision is particularly important. If it weren’t for his breach, the history of World War II would most likely be rewritten!