Chapter 201 The British Empire’s Gliding Flight Guided Bomb! (Please subscribe, please vote)

George Kelly was the father of aerodynamics in another timeline! If it weren't for a light enough engine, then it might not have been the Wright brothers but this man who invented the airplane.

Nowadays, he is also one of the giants in the field of aerodynamics. He presided over the development of the first wind tunnel in the British Empire. He also opened a company engaged in manufacturing airships. Because of the outstanding performance of the airships he manufactured, he was selected by the British

The king made him a knight. While making airships, he did not give up making airplanes, and he had already achieved a certain degree of success!

However, because the British gasoline engine was not as good as the Ming Dynasty's engine, what George Kelly invented was not an airplane that relied on its own power to take off. Instead, it installed an engine and a propeller on a glider, and then used an airship to launch this "powered glide" from a high altitude.

"Aircraft". Not long ago, the test of this "powered glider aircraft" has been successful.

"Earl, Sir Kelly is really a great inventor. His 'Skywalker 1' is the one in the photo. It was dropped from a large Kelly 3 airship with a flight altitude of 2,000 yards and was carried by itself.

The thrust generated by the engine and the thrust generated by gliding downwards allowed it to glide for more than 100 miles before successfully landing at an airship field! Sir Kelly said that if a more powerful engine can be built next, "Skywalker 1"

'Maybe it can take off from the ground under its own power! In the future, maybe we can hang bombs on this kind of flying machine to bomb the fleet of the Ming Navy."

George Yilu became more and more excited as he talked about it, and by the end he was almost dancing.

However, First Sea Lord Lord Nelson was not as optimistic as Yilu. He looked at Yilu and asked: "George, does Ming Dynasty have the ability to build the same aircraft?"

"This." George Yilu was stunned, and then his expression became serious, "Count, aerodynamics is not an unknown mysterious theory. There are many people in the Ming Dynasty studying it, such as the flying dragon airship.

The manufacturer, Dr. Zhuge Feilong, is an expert in aerodynamics."

"Then what should we be happy about?" Earl Nelson asked, "Our enemies may have already possessed similar aircraft. And their internal combustion engines are ahead of us!"

"Earl," George Elliot smiled, "Sir Kelly has already thought of all the questions you can think of. Look at this! This is a secret weapon designed by Sir Kelly for the Royal Navy."

As he spoke, George Elliot took out another blueprint from his pocket and spread it out in front of Earl Nelson. Earl Nelson looked down and saw that there was still a glider on the blueprint, but this glider had no power at all.

There was no cockpit, and the original cockpit position was replaced by something that looked like a bomb!

"What is this?" Earl Nelson didn't understand.

"This is a guided glide bomb outside the standoff zone!" George Elliot said with a rather high-profile name.

It's outside the defense zone, it's guided, and it's a glide bomb. It sounds awesome!

"George, say something understandable!" Earl Nelson glared at George Elliot.

Yilu said: "The so-called outside the defense zone means that the ammunition is dropped outside the range of the enemy's anti-aircraft weapons, so that there is no need to worry about being shot down. The so-called guidance means that the bomb is controlled by someone and can fly to the enemy's warship.

Drop. The so-called glide bomb is a glider plus a bomb."

"Wait a minute," Earl Nelson immediately realized something was wrong, "A man made a bomb? Then wouldn't this person be killed?"

"No, it won't," said George Elliot. "Considering that the bomb operator's emotions may be tense due to the certainty of death, which will affect the execution of the flight mission, Sir Kelly designed a separation device for the glider and the bomb. In

After the bomb is dropped, the bomb operator can still fly the glider for a certain distance."

"Then what?" Nelson looked at George Elliot.

"Then jump into the sea!"

Nelson was startled: "You'll drown!"

George Elliot said: "Count, we can choose bomb operators who can swim."

"Can you swim? How far can you swim?"

George Elliot said: "If you are lucky, our speedboat will pick them up. If you are unlucky, then we can only ask for God's blessing."

"That means," Earl Nelson said with a frown, "I'm afraid we can't use this standoff guided glide bomb to sneak attack the enemy's base."

After hearing Nelson's words, George Elliot immediately laughed: "Earl, you are right, this weapon is not suitable for sneak attacks on the enemy's base. But in the decisive battle of the fleet, its role is great! Originally we needed

The effect that only 100 airships can achieve can be achieved by sending out only 10 large airships and letting them each carry 10 gliding bombs. Moreover, airships are too easy to be shot down. Once shot down, the losses will be too great.

Far less cost-effective than using glide bombs. Even if we can't recover most of the bomb operators."

Nelson also smiled and said: "As long as a few enemy battleships can be severely damaged, their sacrifices will be very valuable. On the battlefield of the decisive battle of the fleet, the severely damaged battleships are a burden to the entire fleet! By the way, how about the sale of battleships?

How many countries have agreed to cooperate with us?"

"Count," George Elliot replied, "Currently France, Prussia, Austria, Rakshasa, the United States, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, the Kingdom of Sardinia, Belgium and other countries have agreed to cooperate with us. However,

France said they will not choose between us and the Ming Empire and they will still purchase battleships from the Ming Dynasty."

"Hmph!" Earl Nelson snorted, "As expected!"

"Prussia, Austria and Spain have stated that they will each purchase at least one Hero-class and one Hero-class. They hope to use this opportunity to learn from the Ming Dynasty's advanced shipbuilding technology. In addition, several countries hope to purchase a

As for the Rakshasa Kingdom, they have not made a statement yet. However, the United States has made its position clear this time and made it clear that it will not purchase the Hero and Haohan."

"I know." Earl Nelson smiled, "Someone must have taken our parameters and sketches to Ming Dynasty experts for study, right?"

George Elliot smiled and said: "Others don't know, but Louis XVII and the black-haired Louis will definitely do this."

"Two ungrateful boys!" Earl Nelson smiled coldly, "They will not end well if they do this!"

He paused and asked again: "How many heroes of the Ming Dynasty have been sold?"

"Count," George Elliot said, "according to the information we have, many countries have expressed their intention to purchase the Ming Dynasty's hero and hero classes. However, the only ones that have clearly expressed their intention to purchase are the Mexican Empire and the Kingdom of France.

Even the Rakshasa Kingdom is still hesitating. Earl, should we stop it?"

"Stop?" Earl Nelson shook his head, "No, no need. We have already stopped it in the form of joint development, and that's enough. In case we use too much force, Nicholas I really doesn't want to buy it. In fact, we

The purpose of joint development and verbally preventing other countries from purchasing Ming Dynasty's Heroes and Heroes ship is not that they really don't want other countries to buy it and everyone will not buy it. Ming Dynasty may build dozens of Heroes and Heroes ships for its own use, so our window period will be gone.

Really? Our purpose is to find out the true stance of each country, and at the same time paralyze the Ming Dynasty with high targets for developing new battleships, causing them to misjudge."

"Count," George Elliot hesitated and said, "Are you really not worried that Nicholas I will use a few Hero-class battleships to fight against our empire?"

"Don't worry," Earl Nelson shook his head and said with a smile, "I was a little worried at first, but now I'm not worried at all because we have stand-off guided glide bombs!"
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