Reborn as a police officer in South Africa

Feng Ding relied on the improvement of the hand-operated computer and made a profit of more than one million rand. This amount of money was enough for Feng Ding to live a carefree life as a rich man anywhere in the world.

Surprisingly, Feng Ding was not satisfied. He donated most of the income generated by the hand-crank computer to Nyasaland University and established a computer research institute to continuously improve the hand-crank computer.

Just last month, Nyasaland University built the world's first true electronic computer.

The reason why it is emphasized as the first "real" is because as early as ten years ago, American scientist Vannevar Bush built the world's first analog electronic computer.

The computer manufactured at Nyasaland University is actually an enlarged version of the calculator, which is very different from the computer in Rock's memory.

But this is not a problem. Any new thing needs time to develop before it can truly function. It took decades for computers in another time and space to become what Rock remembers.

At least this is a good start.

Rock told Gavin to continue to pay attention to the development of electronic computers, allocate more funds, and invest more resources, which is related to the future of southern Africa.

For jet aircraft, Rock also gave enough support. Southern Africa and Germany are similar in many aspects. For example, they are both good at concentrating their efforts to complete technological breakthroughs in a major field, which is something other countries cannot do.

It is precisely because of this that southern Africa and Germany can rise rapidly in just a dozen years.

Compared with southern Africa, Germany is more obvious in this regard. Think about it, it only took a few years for Mustache to come to power, and Germany recovered from a serious social crisis and became a powerful country sweeping across the European continent. This is It has a lot to do with the centralized power system in Germany at that time.

Rock has a deeper understanding of the centralized system. Strictly speaking, Southern Africa is actually a centralized country under the cloak of democracy. The strong position of the three major consortiums of Nyasaland, Rhodesia, and Fawalt in Southern Africa ensures that Southern Africa can concentrate and coordinate resources to the greatest extent, and with Roque's golden finger pointing the way, Southern Africa has always been on the right path.

"For jet aircraft, we should lower some requirements. Even if the performance of jet aircraft is not good enough and the cost is relatively expensive, we must promote the service of jet aircraft. After all, jet aircraft are the future." Rock made the final decision, Gavin's expression was calm.

Rock has proven his judgment countless times with facts, just like when Rock advocated abandoning battleships and developing aircraft carriers.

In southern Africa now, Roque is the absolute golden rule, and no one dares to question Roque's judgment.

The technology in Southern Africa is indeed strong. Next day, Rock and Gavin saw the latest version of jet aircraft at the air force base on the outskirts of Pretoria.

Different from the "beautiful man in the sky", the saber, and the black ribbon in Rock's memory, this is a strange fighter plane with a weird appearance, even a bit ugly.

The aircraft's fuselage is extremely thick, a bit fatter than the Air Force's latest "Falcon". The familiar propeller is missing from the nose and replaced by two air inlets.

The engines of the aircraft are not at the tail, but are arranged under the two wings. Like the thick fuselage, the engines are also thick and long, and a bit too fat.

Next to the engine is the rocket launch nest, and next to it are two weapon hangers, which are probably used to mount bombs.

The cannon is located on the nose of the aircraft. There are four 30mm aviation cannons in diamond-shaped divisions.

Rock was a little troubled by what he saw. The aesthetics of aviation designers in southern Africa still need to be improved.

"Our engine thrust is still not enough. When not carrying bombs, the speed of the aircraft can reach 970 kilometers per hour. If it is carrying bombs, the speed drops to only 750 kilometers. Not only is it not as good as the Falcon, it is not even as good as the Cheetah - but even so

, our aircraft are still more advanced than those of the British and Germans -" Martin continued, with a look of pride on his face.

Without Martin's introduction, Rock would not have even realized that both the British and the Germans were working on jet aircraft at the same time.

The progress of the British and Germans was not slow either. As early as the 1920s, British Air Force instructor Frank Whittle proposed the idea of ​​a jet engine and applied for a patent in 1930.

Unfortunately, Whittle's idea did not attract the attention of the British. It was not until 1935 that Whittle established the "Power Jet Co., Ltd." with the funding of some bankers and air force officers.

Compared with the slowness of the British, the Germans are progressing faster.

In 1934, German flight designer Ohain began to study turbine engines, but the progress was not great.

By 1939, Ohain and Heinkel teamed up to develop a real jet aircraft, the German He-178.

Like the "not in a hurry" British people, German jets were also ill-fated. Mustache was very happy after learning about the performance of jets. However, Mustache believed that jets could only be used to produce bombers, so

This greatly delayed the introduction of jet aircraft.

"What is the fastest speed of a Falcon?" Rock asked the most critical question.

"Without the use of external auxiliary fuel tanks, the speed is 790 kilometers per hour." Martin said proudly. This speed is indeed something to be proud of. It is almost the pinnacle of propeller aircraft.

"Why install bombs on jets?" Rock didn't quite understand the designers' thinking.

"To deal with the enemy's fighter jets, the Cheetah and Falcon are enough. The ideal jet aircraft should be able to break through the enemy's defense at high speed and attack the enemy's key targets, such as command posts, ammunition depots, airports, or transportation.

"To carry out bombing of facilities, this requires aircraft with strong bomb-carrying capabilities -" Martin explained in detail, this answer is obviously not perfect.

The design of the aircraft has a lot to do with the way it is used. Sometimes there may seem to be obvious shortcomings, but in fact it does not affect the use. Not all data must be perfect.

For example, the biggest shortcoming of the close ground support aircraft equipped in southern Africa is the range. Even if the "Cheetah" does not use auxiliary fuel tanks, the range is as high as 1,500 kilometers, while the range of the close ground support aircraft is only about 600 kilometers.

This is not a design problem, but related to the requirements of close ground support aircraft. The Southern African military's requirements for close ground support aircraft are originally to cooperate with ground armored forces to break through enemy positions. This role can even be replaced by helicopters, and the range

It's useless if it's too far away. The bomb load is the key. The word "near ground" fully explains the positioning of the aircraft.

The Air Force's positioning of jet aircraft is similar to that of Mustache, using jet aircraft as bombers.

This positioning cannot be wrong. Jet aircraft have a bright future, but now they are not as good as propeller aircraft, and their weaknesses are still obvious.

The Ministry of National Defense of Southern Africa has repeatedly practiced confrontations between jet aircraft and propeller aircraft. The results are 50-50, and jet aircraft cannot form an overwhelming advantage over propeller aircraft. Especially at low altitudes and low speeds, propeller aircraft have obvious advantages.

The advantage of jet aircraft is that they can enter the battlefield at high speed, launch an attack, and then leave at high speed. Propeller aircraft are not as fast as jet aircraft and cannot catch up.

This is why Feng Ding proposed developing beyond-visual-range attacks. If this idea succeeds, jet aircraft will completely change the form of air combat.

Just like aircraft carriers are to naval warfare.

In the evening, Rock and Gavin had dinner at the air force base. In addition to Martin, they were accompanied by Feng Ding, who had just arrived.

Feng Ding was still very excited when he saw Luo Ke. He acted awkwardly at the table and didn't even take a few bites of the food.

"How is computer research going?" Compared with missiles, Rock is still concerned about computers.

Jet aircraft are important, but computers are the foundation of the industrial revolution.

Without jets, the Allies could still defeat the Axis powers.

Without computers, southern Africa would be left behind.

Rock knew that Americans were also researching computers, but he didn't know the progress.

"Our computers can already reach 10,000 calculations per second. This is far from the end. In the future, the calculation speed of computers may reach hundreds of millions of times per second -" Feng Ding instantly became confident when talking about his areas of expertise.

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Rock also finally realized the feelings of aviation designers.

Today's computers only do 10,000 operations per second.

You are doing this hundreds of millions of times per second.

Don't you want to die?

This is another lifetime series.

"You are both a computer and a jet plane, can you handle this?" Rock was curious. People like Feng Ding are real geniuses.

People are really different. Some people just listen to lectures when they go to school and never read when they get home from school. They can do the same type of questions once and know the answers to some questions at a glance.

Some people study hard every day, working hard until 12 o'clock every night. They get up at 4:30 in the morning and don't even bother to eat. When the test results come out, they see that they have passed the exam with a score of 60, and then look at the student next door with a score of 100, and they almost can't pass in one breath.

"It's okay. The purpose of researching computers is to study jet services. There was too much data to be calculated. We hired 100 people to do calculations at the beginning. Later we found that 100 people are not as good as one computer. Now we have four

A computer." Feng Ding smiled brightly. This was because he didn't have enough computing power and had to make up the numbers.

"The requirements for jet aircraft do not need to be too high, and we cannot produce too advanced aircraft at once. We only need to be a little bit ahead of our enemies." Compared with professionals like Feng Ding, Roque is the real profiteer.

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This is not right either. Roque is also a professional in business.

Roque had enough of being choked by others in his previous life, and now it is Southern Africa's turn to choke other countries' necks.

Just like when southern Africa sold propeller planes to foreign countries, even if you have more advanced technology, don't rush to take it out. You should squeeze it out bit by bit like toothpaste, so as to maximize profits.

The same goes for jet aircraft. Defeating the Axis powers is not the ultimate goal. Selling them to the British and making Americans money is the goal.

From this point of view, the Southern African army must work harder to occupy Berlin before everyone else and bring all the advanced German technologies and scientists to Southern Africa, so that Southern Africa can continue to maintain its technological leadership.

In another time and space, American and Russian jet aircraft were developed based on German technology.

Therefore, Germans are the real academic masters.

Feng Ding's eyes widened, feeling as if his idol had collapsed.

"Our enemies are not only the Germans and Japanese, but also the Americans and the British -" Martin hit the nail on the head. After the war is over, another war with no gunpowder, but a more cruel war is about to begin.

Gavin didn't say anything and ate quietly, accustomed to Martin's remarks.

Even though Britain has always regarded itself as the suzerainty of southern Africa, the attitude of senior leaders in southern Africa towards Britain is not grateful.

As a former colony, there is nothing to be grateful for.

Are you grateful to the British for bringing a more advanced way of life to southern Africans?

Thank you grandma for your legs.

"It's not an enemy, it's a competitor." Roque corrected. It's better not to say this so bluntly, because it would be so sad for the British and Americans to hear it.

"It's all the same. Just look at their attitude towards the Russians. You can tell that these people have no morality at all." Martin sneered. The relationship between Southern Africa and the United States has never been good, and the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom are temporarily cooperating under pressure from Germany.

The Anglo-Saxons are the real family.

"There is essentially no difference between a jet aircraft and a propeller aircraft. There are propellers for fighters and bombers, and jets don't have to be large and comprehensive. They have specializations." Roque did not want to discuss this issue publicly. From the standpoint of the Southern African Union countries,

There is no benevolence and morality in southern Africa, and no one has the right to blame others.

"I understand. In fact, we already have two sets of plans. Pure fighters or bombers can be commissioned into the army within the year." Feng Ding still did not give up on bombers. This aspect is indeed a shortcoming.

Southern Africa has very strong fighter jets and very strong strategic bombers, but the performance of dive bombers used for ground bombing is mediocre and has even declined year by year in recent years.

Compared with strategic bombers, dive bombers are more dangerous, and their losses are not proportional to their achievements. This has led the southern African military to gradually abandon dive bombers. For the same reason, the number of torpedo planes installed by the navy is also decreasing.

During the Battle of Guam, the first two groups of torpedo planes that the U.S. military attacked the Japanese aircraft carrier, none of the 24 survived. This on the one hand proved the courage of the U.S. military pilots, and on the other hand it also proved how dangerous a torpedo plane pilot is a profession.

Much more dangerous than the French Prime Minister.

Jet aircraft are much faster than propeller aircraft, which brings huge advantages, so if jet aircraft are used for bombing, the potential is still great.

"Before precision-guided bombs are installed in the army, it is better not to equip too many bombers." Rock's thinking has never changed. Technology is crushing.

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