On the plane to Iceland, (where the plane needed to refuel to fly to the UK) Ron leaned back in his seat, closed his eyes, and looked like he was napping. But he didn't really sleep, in fact, he was thinking about his mission this time.

Before getting on the plane, Ron looked at some relevant documents from General Arnold, which told him something like this.

Since the adoption of the box-formation tactic, the B-24 and B-17 of the Eighth Air Force have had a magic weapon to defeat the enemy, and since then, the bomber force has been a little ignorant of German fighters, and the intensity of bombing against Germany is greater than in the original history. Almost every few days, there will be a large-scale bombing of 1,000 planes.

In order to deal with the bomber force of the Yankees, the Germans also engaged in a thousand aircraft interception. The 1,000-plane interception skyrocketed the losses of American bombers, but it also skyrocketed the losses of German fighters. The two sides are confronted with consumption, and the Germans really don't necessarily consume the Americans. Later, the P-51 fighters joined the battle, which even more tilted the scales in favor of the Americans again. Li May was once convinced that it would not be long before the Germans' air power would be depleted.

However, just a week ago, there was a sudden change in the way the Germans attacked.

At noon that day, a group of about a hundred bombers, escorted by more than sixty P-51s, attempted to launch an air strike on a coal liquid = one = Ben ~ Read = novel = YBDU chemical plant in the Ruhr area of Germany. When he was about to approach the target, he was suddenly intercepted by German fighters who had been waiting at high altitude. With a batch of BF-109s dragging the escort fighters, about a dozen JU88s fired a rocket at the American bomber group at a considerable distance. This kind of rocket is so powerful and has an extremely high hit rate that in the first round of attacks alone, more than 10 rockets fired by the Germans caused six B-24 bombers to crash and three B-24 bombers to be injured to varying degrees.

Then, before the escort fighters could break free from the entanglement of the German fighters and rush over to disperse the Ju88s, the Germans launched two more rocket attacks and shot down 11 more B-24s. The entire box formation was broken up by these rockets. After the formation collapsed, it was attacked by German fighters, and in the end only about half of the entire bomber group was able to return safely.

Two days later, a larger group of more than 800 bombers, on its way to bomb Berlin, was again attacked by such rockets, and in the end, it lost 124 bombers. The blow was so heavy that the bombing campaign of the Eighth Air Force could hardly continue.

So, Li Mei remembered Ron, who had proposed a similar interception method.

The first word that came to Ron's mind after seeing the report was missiles. Although in his previous life, his specialty was not in missiles, Ron also remembers that the world's first air-to-air missile originated in Germany during World War II. It's just that in the original history, it seems that before this missile could go to war, Germany was finished. I didn't expect them to appear so early in this plane.

Ron couldn't remember exactly what was the case with the original German air-to-air missiles. What does it look like? What is the type of guidance used? Ron didn't know anything.

"Infrared-guided?" Ron thought, but he immediately shook his head, "With the technology of this period, it is impossible to make a truly practical infrared guide head. Moreover, the Germans still adopted the method of head-on attack, which proves that this missile can never be infrared-guided. You must know that the head-on attack capability of infrared-guided air-to-air missiles was not realized until the seventies and eighties of the 20 th century.

Since it cannot be infrared-guided, then there are two common possibilities, one is radio command, and the other is semi-active radar guidance. Forget about semi-active radars, the technology of the Germans cannot be so anti-sky, well, the biggest possibility is radio commands. It seems that Germany developed one of the earliest anti-ship missiles before the end of the game, and it seems that this is the way of guidance. But use this technology to guide air-to-air missiles. This doesn't seem to be a small technical difficulty. The more I think about it, the more I can't figure it out......"

True, the technical level of the Germans was not enough to support the several guidance modes envisaged by Ron. However, Ron, who was accustomed to the characteristics of air-to-air missiles in later generations, forgot about a guidance method that required the least technical level: wired command guidance.

Wired command guidance was used more in anti-tank missiles in later generations. For example, China's Red Arrow 7 and Red Arrow 8 all belong to this kind of guidance method.

But back then, the Germans did use it for air-to-air missiles. This is the X4 type air-to-air missile. The 5.5-kilometre-range missile is commanded using a copper wire dragged behind and a joystick controlled by the weapons manager. This control method is almost exactly the same as those of the old anti-tank missiles of later generations.

However, the development of technology in later generations limited Ron's thinking, which made him completely think about radio command guidance. There are two ways to deal with radio command guidance: one is to interfere with radio communications, and the other is to actively attack the enemy's command center. Here, this command center must be the same ju88 that launched it.

However, Ron's estimate of this missile is quite correct, that is, this primitive air-to-air missile can fight bulky bombers at best, and is basically useless against fighters.

"In fact, no matter what guidance method the Germans use, it is definitely a good idea for the fighter to clear the field in advance." Ron thought so.

By the time the plane arrived in Iceland, it was already past 7 p.m., and it was quite dangerous to fly at night over the Atlantic. So, Ron had to stay in Iceland for another night.

By the time Ron came out of the airport, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, but the sun had not yet set, in fact, since it was July, the sun did not set for almost 24 hours in Iceland.

"When is it dark in this place?" Ron asked casually to the private who was driving him.

"General," replied the private who drove for Ron, "all day today plus all day tomorrow plus ...... In summer, there are no nights here. If you're here in winter, General, there's hardly any daylight here. But then, you'll be able to see the Northern Lights. ”

Nowadays, Iceland has become an important transit point for the US military, and there are hotels affiliated with the US military near the airport. Ron was going to rest here for the night. To say that the conditions here are really good, there are hot springs bathing in the hotel. The only regret is that there is no comfort (river crab) woman or something with the army. After all, Japan has not surrendered, Iceland is not Tokyo, and the weather here is on the cooler side, even in summer. This is not Osaka either, and there are no "custom industries" in the vicinity that provide special services to American soldiers. Curiously, at least in Iceland, the U.S. soldiers did not show the same strong need for "relaxation" as the Imperial Army. This is probably because Iceland is too cold, not as hot as Tokyo.

Iceland is good, but it's not a place to stay. Early the next morning, Ron boarded the plane again and began to fly towards England.

……

Li Mei held Ron's hand, looking like "Comrade, it's finally time for you", "Let's go, go to the war room, I'll tell you about the recent situation." ”

As soon as he entered the war room, Ron saw a large sand table in the center of the room. A group of staff officers were surrounding it.

"In the last two days, there has been a new change in the tactics of the Germans." Li Mei said to Ron. Then he turned to one of the staff officers and said, "Fadel, tell General Ron about the new situation that has arisen in the last two days. ”

"Okay, General." The staff officer nodded to Lee, then turned to Ron.

"General Ron, it is the case that in the first two days of fighting we have found a new weapon that the Germans have put in. You can go next door with me and see the footage from the time. ”

……

On the small screen in the screening room, a strangely shaped airplane appeared.

"Stop!" Ron said.

So the picture stopped.

"Fall back a bit...... This is it, stop! ”

The picture stands still again. In the center of the screen, a blurred but clear view of the basic features of the aircraft.

The aircraft used a typical swept wing design, with an engine pod hanging from each of the swept wings about one-third.

"ME-262 jet fighter!" Ron made such a judgment immediately.

The ME-262 was the world's first jet fighter to enter combat with real combat, and it was an epoch-making fighter. It has a top level flight speed of up to 850 km/h. This speed is more than 100 kilometers faster than those propeller fighters in the hands of the Americans, almost 200 kilometers. And it also has a lot of firepower, with four 30-mm guns in the nose that almost any aircraft can withstand. If you want to talk about the weakness of this thing, it probably has to be regarded as a high failure rate and a low engine life.

"Pilots who have encountered this thing say that this thing has no propellers and is terrifyingly fast. And the firepower is also very amazing. Faddell explained.

"How many of these things have you encountered?" Ron asked

"It's not too much, but every time it comes up, it brings trouble."

Ron knew that in the original history, although this aircraft had been in production in 43 years, it was initially used as a high-speed bomber because of the interference of that Bohemian corporal. It was not until June 44 that it entered the war for the first time as a fighter. And in this time and space, perhaps it was the American bombers that put more pressure on Germany, and as a result, in 43, this thing appeared as a fighter.

"If this kind of stuff comes out in large quantities, it's really troublesome." Ron thought, "Perhaps, I should ask Arnold for more authority, at least, to give me the command of the P-51 fighter jets stationed in England for the time being." ”