Chapter 928: The Cockpit

It's the fifth watch, what about the monthly pass? Tomorrow will continue the fifth watch, the monthly pass will be more fierce, just seek the first classification!

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While Qin Chuan, Rommel and others were listening to music and enjoying the best French wines in the fortified area, the Allies held an emergency meeting in Paris.

The meeting was attended by several key Allied officials.

Among them were Charles de Gaulle and General Giraud...... The reason was that de Gaulle had been "fighting" for the importance of France in the Allies.

This did not start now, the main meeting of the previous Normandy landing "Operation Overlord" did not allow de Gaulle to participate, which attracted him to protest again and again...... In fact, this is quite normal, the "Fighting France" led by de Gaulle is only an army under the command of the British army, and the United States does not recognize the "Fighting France", whether in terms of political or military secrecy, De Gaulle has no reason and no need to attend high-level meetings.

To put it simply, the French army only needed to complete the orders given by Montgomery, and it did not play a big role in strategic command at all.

But de Gaulle was smart, and it was not a question of whether he would play a strategic role, but whether he would be able to find a presence among the great powers.

In fact, Eisenhower still did not want de Gaulle to attend this meeting, because he thought that De Gaulle's participation in such a meeting would only add to the chaos.

But Montgomery said: "General, this is France after all, and we are fighting the enemy on French soil, and if we do not allow the French general to participate, then the call for true freedom for France in the south of France will be heightened."

Eisenhower thought about it, but on the other hand, he was tired of De Gaulle's constant protests in his ears like a fly, so he could only nod his head and agree to let de Gaulle attend the meeting.

Since De Gaulle participated in this meeting, General Giraud, who was supported by the United States, was naturally indispensable, otherwise it would mean that the United States recognized De Gaulle's dominance.

"Gentlemen!" Eisenhower looked at the documents while habitually tapping the desktop with his pen, and said with a solemn expression: "We're in big trouble, look at this ......"

As he spoke, Eisenhower raised his head at his assistant, who understood and distributed the documents that had been prepared long ago to everyone in the meeting.

"This was captured by our reconnaissance plane!" Eisenhower said, "What do you see? ”

After a moment of silence, Barton said, "I didn't see anything except a little smoke!" ”

"Yes, nothing but a little smoke!" "But that's exactly the problem, because this was a few minutes ago, it was determined that it was here, and a 'self-detonating plane' was launched," Eisenhower said. Sorry, some of us may not know what a 'self-detonating plane' is! ”

Eisenhower stood up, pulled the telescopic indicator and stood sideways a little so that the projector could hit the curtain behind him.

A photograph appeared in front of the officers of an ME163 in flight, as it still had a long wake trail behind it.

"This is a picture taken by our reconnaissance plane!" Eisenhower said: "It was a 'self-detonating plane', and in a few seconds, it hit a B17 at a speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour, and then exploded, blowing the B17 to pieces!" ”

"At what altitude is the B17?" Bradley asked.

"10,029 meters!" Eisenhower replied.

There was an uproar among the officers in the conference room, who had always thought that the Allied bombers were "foolproof" at this altitude.

"That's a plane?" Barton then asked, "Or is it a missile like the V1?" ”

"We don't know!" Eisenhower replied: "We don't know anything about it, we don't know if it's manned, we don't know how it works, we just know that it automatically changes direction to track our bombers!" ”

"Auto-tracking bombers?" Patton was in the Army, but he knew what it meant.

"Yes!" Eisenhower nodded and replied, "We don't know how they did it, but this thing ...... I mean a 'self-detonating plane', if it misses the target the first time, it will turn around in the air and fly towards the target a second or third time until it hits the target or runs out of fuel! ”

The generals in the conference room couldn't help but be in an uproar, only Charles de Gaulle and General Giraud did not change their faces...... These questions have nothing to do with them, they need to be more concerned with how to increase their prestige and seize the rule of France in an all-round way.

"General!" A staff officer speculated: "We know that the Germans have a rocket that can automatically track tanks, could this be related to this equipment?" ”

"Maybe it's related to it in a way!" Eisenhower said: "But the 'controllable rocket' is controlled by a wire connection, and this 'self-detonating aircraft' does not!" ”

"It's remotely controlled by radio like the V1!" General Bradley said.

By this time, the Allies had discovered the German way of radio-controlling the V1, so when the V1 missile was fired into the UK, every British household turned on the electric shaver.

It is said that this was discovered by accident...... When a British pilot was chasing a V1 missile, he was surprised to find that the V1 missile, which had been flying smoothly, staggered off its track like a drunken man.

He reported the incident, and British scientists believed that there must have been some electrical interference with the flight of the V1 missile.

After much investigation, it turned out to be a razor...... When the shaver turns, it produces weak electromagnetic waves that happen to have a wavelength similar to the wavelength of the radio waves of the guided V1 missile, which has an effect on its remote control commands.

Eisenhower shook his head and said, "We've tried, and we can't interfere with it in the same way that we interfere with electromagnetic waves." That's why we're not sure if there's anyone driving it......"

Eisenhower said: "Look at this photo, it has an arched cockpit at the head, and it's made of clear glass. If it's unmanned, why would there be this cockpit? ”

This analysis is plausible, and with the fanaticism of the German SS, such a suicidal offensive is entirely possible.

If Qin Chuan heard this, I was afraid that he wouldn't know how to feel...... The ME163 was originally designed and built with a manned driver, but it was later changed to a driverless one.

The reason why there will be a cockpit and clear glass is simply because there is no time for further improvements.

And the Allies misunderstood that ME163 was manned because of this...... If it's a human driver, it means that there is no interference.

This can be considered an unexpected surprise.