It backfired, and until the sun went down that day, the Royal Air Force, which had repeatedly taken off to reconnoitre, found nothing but 4 bombers, and could not find the German fleet at all, and even the Ozawa fleet was lost. When www.biquge.info he reported to Churchill in the evening, Pound was sweating, but his words were tactful: "Prime Minister, after repeated reconnaissance by the Royal Air Force, we are convinced that there is no enemy fleet within 1,000 kilometers of the island of Ireland, and we suspect that the Germans may have delayed the landing." ”

Admiral Charles Potter, Chief of the General Staff of the Air Force, who was next to him, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: although Marshal Pound's temper was a little worse, he was still so-so, and he did not fall into the trap.

"What about the SS Irish division?" Churchill breathed a sigh of relief.

"It is reported that it is still in the vicinity of the port of Brest."

"So the Germans are bluffing again?"

"Not really, today, the German army's slightly lightened bombing intensity has been strengthened a little, and it is very targeted, focusing on bombing our army's air defense facilities, especially radar stations." "The Germans bombed so hard and accurately," said Admiral Portal, "that we lost 27 radar stations in one day, and that the radar stations in the southern region are beginning to fall apart, and that we are currently in urgent repair and restoration." ”

"What?" Churchill's voice suddenly raised an octave, "What's going on?" Someone leaked? ”

"It should ...... Probably not. ”

"What's going on?" Churchill said displeasedly, "You have to think about things quickly, the last super secret matter has not finally been discovered, is this spy active again?" ”

"No, the Germans used new equipment, and although we didn't capture the real thing, the experts deduced the principle...... "Admiral Potter said in a cold sweat, "The experts call this bomb an anti-radar bomb, and think it is a new invention of the enemy." ”

Admiral Potter's conclusion was correct, and it was the world's first anti-radiation (radar) bomb -- the German-developed BV346 -- that was dropped on southern Britain today.

This anti-radiation bomb was designed by Hoffmann several months before the original history after he visited the Peneminde base, and was designed by Dr. Walter with a very clear goal - to drop bombs outside of enemy anti-aircraft fire and destroy radar stations with hard kill, and to provide guidance for the bombs was German radar radiation. Originally internally codenamed BV246 and nicknamed "Hail", it was upgraded to BV346 after continuous improvements, but Hailstone's nickname has been retained.

The Hail has a very simple shape: a cigar-shaped fuselage, slender wings, and a normally arranged tail, which provides it with good gliding performance and can hit targets up to 175 kilometers away when launched at an altitude of 7,000 meters. If the Ju-188 is dropped at an altitude of 9000 meters, its maximum attack range can reach 200 kilometers.

And the most special feature is that the two long main wings are cast from reinforced concrete. This design was designed for two purposes: first, because the bomb was sensitive to ionizing radiation, and the direct use of steel as the main wing would cause interference, and wrapping it in concrete was the lowest cost method to reduce ionizing radiation; The second is that the bomb needs to be heavy when it is dropped, so that the bomb and the carrier aircraft can be separated cleanly and neatly, so as to avoid mutual interference and danger.

Dr. Walter originally designed the Hail, like the Hs-293\393, with radio command remote control, but the latter had been engaged in actual combat and was known to the British, while the Hailstone had not been combated. The reason why the Hs-293 was quickly upgraded to the Hs-393 was because Britain began to master jamming technology after suffering losses in the Mediterranean naval battle, and the 293 gradually became ineffective, while Hail thought of this problem in advance, and actively abandoned the radio command control and replaced it with a passive radar guidance head, which became a very ideal anti-radiation weapon.

Because Hoffman attaches great importance to radio and with the progress of the German army in the field of radio, the development level of passive radar guidance head is better than in history, and the success rate of bombing is also higher than in history, and the overall hit rate is nearly 50% (within 2 meters of the landing point error), of course, the test results are not equal to the actual combat results, so Hoffman wants to take this opportunity to test, the Ministry of Armaments has produced a total of 1,000 "Hailstones", and today 300 were knocked out in one go.

Since the radiation intensity has a great impact on the hit rate, the Air Force used a small trick when it was launched, first sending planes to spread aluminum foil to jam the British radar station. This very common electronic countermeasure was prepared for the British, adjusting the frequency on the one hand, and increasing the radar power output on the other, and only then did the hail begin to appear, and it was smooth to pounce and bomb along the increased radiation intensity. Judging by the visual situation, there is no problem with a real combat hit rate of more than 40%, but the shortcomings of the insufficient power of the explosion also appeared, and at least 4-5 bomb hits were required to completely destroy a radar station. And when the radar is turned off, the bombs that lose their radiation guidance will fly around.

Now everyone highly admires the foresight of the Führer, long before the actual battle of the hail, Hoffman pointed out the lack of power of the bomb and the possible loss of guidance, and suggested upgrading the new model, and even the direction of technical development was designed for Dr. Water, suggesting that the new model (BV446) use a ramjet engine rocket as a carrier to replace free gliding, to achieve faster speed and longer range, and at the same time install inertial guidance and infrared guidance on the seeker, so that even if the other party cuts off the radar signal, Anti-radiation missiles can still switch to other ways to attack.

The technical specifications of the tender of the Ministry of Armaments determined that the overall weight should not be more than 250 kg, of which the warhead should not be less than 75 kg, which can be carried by all aircraft, including fighters. As for the ramjet rocket technology, there is also a ready-made reserve at the Penemünde base - the V1 missile with a pulse jet engine is not manufactured by Germany itself except for Japan, but it uses the ramjet technology to form an upgraded and improved V3 rocket, the only problem is that the V3 is relatively heavy, the overall weight is nearly 800 kg, far exceeding the requirement of 250 kg, and 800 kg is obviously uneconomical for anti-radiation dexterous bombs.

But both Walter and other experts are confident that a breakthrough will be made in 2-3 years - who could have concluded that the V2 rocket would not only succeed but also hit 400 kilometers three years ago? Now Germany is not only crushing the Allies in the field of anti-radiation smart bombs, but also has launched the development of a new generation of missiles.

Hoffman, who was full of bad taste, gave the BV446 a new code name - Mozu Bird, and the technical team led by Dr. Walter immediately devoted themselves to it, and in order to show the importance of the Führer's personal guidance on the research and development work, the new project code name was named Mozu.

This unexpected episode made Churchill feel unhappy, but he did not pay special attention to it, he was now most concerned about the movements of the German fleet, several radar stations were not in his eyes for the time being, in addition to asking for immediate repair, he also made a request to Pound: "Yesterday Nimitz and Cunningham said that they would go around and come back? ”

"Yes, you want to?"

"Let them get closer and scout so they don't miss anything."

"What do you think?"

"If the Germans hadn't come to land in Iceland or Ireland, and they did send another fleet, and we haven't been able to find them, there's a terrible explanation......" Churchill sighed, "will they go to Newfoundland to land?" ”

"Newfoundland? No...... No way. ”

"Who knows? What if the Germans go crazy? Churchill said, "After this fleet crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, we lost the news of the fleet for three days and three nights, and if we add tonight, it would be three days and four nights, and if they kept running in the direction of Newfoundland, where do you think they could go?" ”

Pound gasped: "Azores! No, after tonight, even the Azores may not be more than that. ”

"It will take as long as they can get to Newfoundland."

"This, is it possible?" Brooke interjected, "The U.S. military in Newfoundland now has a much higher level of protection. ”

"There is nothing impossible about war, did you foresee the last time you fought Newfoundland?" Churchill sneered, "Tell the Americans my judgment and let them have more snacks, for Newfoundland, though a direct territory of Great Britain, is now clearly more important to the United States than to us." Imagine what would happen to the catastrophic consequences of having 8-10 German Panzer divisions on board under the protection of 1-2 aircraft carriers? Even if you have aviation, you can fight 8-10 cover planes that fly together on carriers? Not to mention those 5-6 world-class battleships! ”

Pound immediately asked: "How much power does Newfoundland have now?" ”

"2 Canadian divisions, 2 American divisions, 500-600 aircraft, and a number of other coastal defense units"

"Not enough, not enough, far from enough." Churchill shook his head like a rattle, "It's not that I underestimate the Americans, if the Germans really go to 2 divisions, this point of defense will not be able to stop it!" Don't you say that Iceland's 80,000 troops are not enough? Newfoundland is bigger than Iceland, and the current defense force is less than 100,000. ”

"Can the Americans reinforce it?"

"At most, you can send an airborne division, and then let Li Qiwei fight!" Churchill sneered, "I'll make a bet for you, if I go to the General Staff now to issue a bet, with 5 US and Canadian divisions and 500 aircraft on one side, and 2 German divisions and 10 aircraft carriers and 6 battleships on the other, who do you guess the people below will bet on?" ”

Pound, Portal, and Brooke, you look at me, I look at you, and no one can say anything - if there are no reinforcements on either side, they think that 80% of the officers will bet on the Germans to win this gamble!

Hearing that the Germans might come to attack Newfoundland, the Washington Joint Chiefs of Staff could not sit still, and while ordering the defense level to be raised and requiring all reconnaissance planes to be released early in the morning, the TF46 fleet was ordered to rush forward to reconnoitre......