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Chapter 436 Airspace

After cross-examination, we finally learned that the information about the airship has been leaked for half a year, and countries are paying attention to the airship and have planned things from the beginning of the airship. When the airship first appeared in Yunzhou, secret spies from various countries began to move, starting to understand the ins and outs of this magical thing. Then, when the airship attacked the Hunyuan Hall at night and became a terrifying force on the battlefield of Northern Liao, countries became more and more urgent to obtain such a battlefield weapon.

The principle of airship is not difficult at all, especially the so-called airship that Dongping is mastered now is just a hot air balloon after the transformation and strengthening. Although the real hydrogen airship has been successfully tested, Ye Tao has not approved large-scale production and use so far. He has only built a few small hydrogen airships. On the one hand, he further explored technology and data, and on the other hand, he provided some departments that have higher requirements for air stagnation and are more capable of risk-bearing. For example, a special hydrogen airship aviation reconnaissance team was established. To talk about the principle, all countries already know what the airship is, but until now, no country has been able to come out with aircraft comparable to Dongping. The key is that the series of control and communication equipment of the airship carefully built by Ye Tao is really too careful.

The heating part of the new generation of airships is no longer extracting cold air from the outside to heat and injecting into the airbag, but partially extracting the hot air inside the airbag for heating, which only replenishes the lost part. The airbag is no longer an open port like a hot air balloon, but can be closed to form an internal air tight cycle, and maintaining the air temperature inside the airbag with a heater. In this way, the fuel efficiency of the airship is greatly increased and the flight time of the airbag is greatly extended. Although this airship can only be loaded with limited personnel and supplies, the hanging basket part has been redesigned now. It is no longer the hanging basket hanging on a few things and swaying, but in the structure.

It is connected to the skeleton supporting the airship airbag shape, and has some basic aerodynamic cockpits. The Yunzhou-1 airship that Ye Tao was riding has a viewing cabin with glass in the head of the cockpit, and the pilot is in a bubble-shaped glass cabin at the bottom of the airship. This design is from the hands of the masters in the airship workshop, and Ye Tao did not personally participate, but the technical level and industrial feeling reflected by Yunzhou-1 made Ye Tao amazing and loved it. The Yunzhou-1 design has now been put into mass production, and will produce at least twenty ships to be provided to the most important people in Dongping as their airships.

Even the combat airship has been updated in the same period. For example, the four combat airships that are now escorting Yunzhou One are now called "Snow Owl" in the workshop and the army. The power device used by the Xuexiao airship is exactly the same as that of Yunzhou One, but the size of the Big Xuexiao is a whole circle smaller. There are three seats in the viewing cabin, namely the pilot, the signalman and the captain. The glass bubble cockpit at the bottom of the bilge is the position of the bomber. Since there is no air opponent that can threaten the airship, Xuexiao's air resistance is a bit poor. Heavy crossbows are installed on both sides, which are folded and put in the toolbox. When needed,

Install it on the guide rail, and then open the shooting hole in the pod to shoot. The crew members in the middle cabin and the crew members of the boat are responsible for this work. There are not many ammunitions prepared in the cabin. Behind is a small lounge with a total of four bunks. Although the standard crew members on the airship are seven, considering that there are always people on duty, this rest room is enough. In addition to the captain, pilot, signalman, bomber, and turbine operator, the crew members of the boat are usually those who may become crew members in the future. On these escort airships, Ye Tao's guards occupy these quotas. The entire pod occupies the largest space.

It is a load compartment. The airships that escorted Ye Tao are different from those used for combat. Half of the load compartment has been changed to a more comfortable cabin than the rest room. When Ye Tao travels to and from Yunzhou and Danyang, Ye Tao's escorts rest in these cabins, while the other half is loaded with food, drinking water and other daily necessities. On the Xuexiao airship, those dangerous sultanol bombs are hung outside the cabin. The bomb dropper can open the cabin with a shaker. There are four hanging points in each of the cabins, which can be used to hang standard 50-pound sultanol bombs or other types of bombs. The biggest feature of the Xuexiao airship is not that it is not

The often mature functional design is more due to its beautiful appearance. The Xuexiao Airship is the first airship in Yunzhou that does not use a relatively easy-to-process water droplet airbag. The airship carries the first generation of airbag internal frame. Even if the airship airbag airbag airbag airbag airbag is airbag still has its usual rough shape, which ensures that when the flight needs to take off, you can heat the air with all your strength from the beginning without having to rely on the small fire to open the shape of the airbag and accelerate the heating. However, this design gives Xuexiao an appearance that can be more aerodynamic. When the Xuexiao Airship takes off, the entire image always reminds Ye Tao of something - the Q version of the Berren Hill...

In terms of airship design, Yunzhou has already had a very mature system, and it has matured so much that everyone is trying to study what else can be improved under the existing technical conditions.

Nowadays, the signalman can operate the signal lights on the front, sides and tail of the airship without leaving his seat, and complete signal interpretation on his workbench without leaving his seat, and the conditions are already very good. But the next improvement includes using more power-saving and longer-lived light emitting diodes to replace those light bulbs... When there are such technical conditions, Ye Tao's brain wants to make the next lesson of the transistor circuit: use relays to control the diode array to spell characters and patterns.

The workshop is interested in more practical technologies, such as studying various methods to make the shell of the airship smoother and make the airship lighter and more comfortable. In Yunzhou, an experimental airship is already conducting various tests. The airship's airbag also has an internal frame, and the thickened canvas on the outside are specially customized. A special weaving method is adopted at the predetermined joints. After the connection is attached to the frame, sew and connect it to each other, and then touch the glue. When the hand caresses the airship airbag, people can feel the material changes, but they can feel as little uneven as possible. Then, throughout the airbag, the entire airbag can feel the material changes, but they can't feel any unevenness.

The outside was coated with bright white paint, and then the sand holes on the dry paint surface were polished off, and a layer of clear and transparent grease paint was added. This was the case in part of the airbag, and the pod was even more like this. When the airship took off and all the devices were put into the cabin, it looked like two drops of milk were merged together. Tan Weixin, who made an inappropriate evaluation of this thing, asked Ye Tao and after learning that Ye Tao did not interfere with the process of appearance design, she sighed and asked: "Is it that Steve Jobs also came here? Or Jonathan Iver?"

Such an entire technical system, constantly tracking the endless new products and technologies in the Ye Workshop Research Institute and constantly evolving forward, has made Ye Tao feel pressured in promoting the technology tree, and has made Ye Tao have the idea of ​​returning to the design field to show his skills. How could those neighboring countries get some technical data to crack? However, can other countries also have airships? Maybe they really want to go far in technology, but they have great morale, the confidence of the army and the people.

The impact of . When Ye Tao was summoned to discuss the impact of this matter, Zhuo Mang even proposed that when the opponent has an airship and can start to try various tactics of the airship, and then use the airship to carry out large-scale bombing or other operations, the effect may not be so good. Not only that, when the opponent also begins to understand the air vision, the reconnaissance ability will be greatly enhanced, and the anti-air reconnaissance ability of the ground forces will also be improved accordingly. During the discussion, Ye Tao had to bring out a concept of "battlefield air supremacy".

"I don't believe that the other party will have enough airships to let me shoot. Not to mention those drawings, even if I give Chunnan the drawings of the full set of Xuexiao airships, Chunnan will be three to five times higher than mine if I can build one. This is not only an idea, but also a problem of materials, technology, etc. The air heating pipe that has taken into account various requirements and has undergone countless modifications, we have conducted no less than two thousand tests and improvements in Yunzhou. The final determined heating pipe cost each one is 120 yuan, Yunzhou No. 1 and Xuexiao.

Each airship needs four. As for the high-speed propulsion nozzle on the tail of the airship, the cost is not much lower than this. I don’t underestimate the level of Chunnan craftsmen, but even if they have the same function, this price can drag down Chunnan. At that time, the airships they built are still just my target. The things that Xue Xiao knocked away are indeed not very good now, not as good as those models before. However, since I know that others can fly, I can naturally make something that can be used to knock out the aircraft... In fact, I had ordered to build some

It's not clear what the progress of the workshop is." Ye Tao seemed to say helplessly. He advised Tan Weiming, "Your Highness, especially you, don't take this matter to your heart. Things will never be just one aspect. Since Chunnan has these simple information, then... they must want more, right? They must be eager for airships. Even if Chunnan is so rich, they can't help but mess around, right? This is not only a matter of cost, but also a pilot training and ground facilities construction, even if we have it.

What if Chunnan is tight? And I'm going to take money from you and give you the lowest price goods so that those craftsmen can have some food, but what about Chunnan? As they buy some simplest military equipment from us, so many people can reach out, and how much more pressure can they add to Chunnan's military expenditure? If it's not too sensitive and I'm too lazy to spend a lot of time to convince you, I originally wanted you to agree to sell the original models of airships to Chunnan. Since now, they may be able to build it, why don't we sell it?"

Ye Tao's ease made everyone feel relieved, and the various methods that Ye Tao described to drag down the opponent's finances made everyone feel refreshed. God knows that Ye Tao knows the specific case. Although the space occupied by airships cannot be as magnificent as "Star Wars", the imbalance between productivity and price elements in various countries is even more serious than that. This kind of strategic fraud may have a higher possibility of success.

"Really...we are so much ahead?" Tan Xiaopei and others didn't believe it.
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