Chapter 982: Transcontinental Bombardment (Extra 2)
What does it take to study a nuclear bomb? First of all, scientists. There are a large number of scientists in Europe, all of whom have gone to the United States, and they are all working hard for the United States to develop a nuclear bomb.
The assassination of Albert Einstein did not stop the Americans from developing a nuclear bomb, so other nuclear physics experts in the future will have to go to another world!
At the Oak Ridge base, there must be a large number of experts, and when their own bombers pass, those experts will not end well!
After all, the experimental reactors there are all in operation, there are nuclear materials in them, and once they explode, they will cause radioactive leakage, and those who stay there will end up with death.
At the same time, there are some people who are not in this base, and it is better to be in a big city than a desolate base, and those people are also in Reinhardt's attention.
This time, even if some people hiding inside the United States are exposed, these nuclear experts will be killed!
The human factor is the most important thing, and when these outstanding experts, scholars, and professors all go to another world, then the Manhattan Project in the United States can only come to a halt.
This is a catastrophe in the history of world physics, but Ciric has no choice, if these experts can serve themselves, then of course they are welcome, but how can they let them continue to exist if they fled to the United States and built a nuclear bomb against themselves!
In addition to these personnel and bases, Reinhardt also found out the intelligence of the Americans to buy uranium ore, which of course could not be obtained by the Americans.
No more people, no equipment, no raw materials, see what Roosevelt can do!
Reinhardt was very much in favor of Chiric's plan, and it is true that it is even more important to completely destroy the Americans' ability to develop nuclear weapons.
"So far, the Americans have not made any progress on the night fighter project, so it is completely dangerous for our bombers to carry out precision bombing at night." "We have the advantage of altitude, we have the advantage of night bombing, so even if we don't have escort fighters, we can get the job done," Ciric continued. ”
Even a German ultra-long-range fighter cannot complete the task of traveling to and from Europe and the Americas, although it can be solved by refueling in the air many times, but in the cockpit of a single seat, it is absolutely quite torturous to carry out a round-trip flight.
According to Ciric's assumption, if the transcontinental bomber needs to be escorted, it can only be escorted by the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier, and at present, the German aircraft carrier cannot be too close to the coastline of the United States.
So, only the bombers set off on their own, but Ciric was not worried about danger.
Entering at night, returning at night, everything is carried out at night, and after dawn, it has long flown out of the American continent.
The United States does not yet have specialized night fighters.
Historically, it was not until the end of 40 that Northrop Aircraft Company proposed the design of a night fighter, and by 41 the XP-61 prototype was developed, and at the same time, the required airborne interception radar was handed over to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for development.
It wasn't until the end of '43 that Black Widow took over the task. Prior to this, the United States relied exclusively on night fighters supplied by Britain for night operations.
And now, Britain is all under the control of Germany, and the United States simply does not have suitable night fighters.
On the one hand, at night, on the other hand, at altitude, most of the time, the Junkers-390 flies above 10,000 meters, and ordinary fighters can't get up at all.
Although the current P-38, the main force of the United States, has an altitude limit of more than 14,000, in practice, after this kind of aircraft exceeds an altitude of 8,000 meters, it will have all kinds of mechanical failures, and it will not be able to intercept at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters.
At that time, the American B-29 could wreak havoc in the skies of the island nation, relying on the height advantage.
When Ciric's order was conveyed, the Junker-390 bomber unit immediately became excited.
Hans-Jorg Bescher, in many battles, showed his extraordinary ability, faster than his old boss and others, he has changed from the Junkers-88 bomber, to the Junkers-290 bomber, and now, has become the squadron leader of the Junkers-390 bomber unit!
For him, the bomber was his life, and when he sat in the cockpit of the bomber, he felt that he was one with the plane.
It was exactly the same as in his history, when World War II ended and he was already flying the world's first jet bomber.
Now, when he received the Junkers-390 bomber, he was full of praise for this aircraft, because of the long flight, this kind of aircraft is equipped with an autopilot system, on the route, almost without much attention, at the same time, there are toilets on the plane, there are beds for people to rest, there is hot milk, but not barbecue.
At the same time, he firmly believes that the aircraft he flies is a better combat weapon.
Now, the battle that belongs to them is finally about to begin.
"Lads." In the combat preparation room, Besher looked at the people in front of him and said: "We have finally received a most glorious mission, we are going to fly our bombers to bomb the United States!" ”
Beschel was born in 14 years, and by now, he is not yet thirty years old, and he was able to become the commander of the most advanced bomber unit solely because of his excellent performance on the battlefield and his youth.
Yes, it is a young, intercontinental bomber, which is a great test of the energy and physical strength of every pilot, and only the youngest lad can complete more than twenty hours of flight mission.
Those pilots who are over thirty years old are already powerless, and as for those who are over forty years old, it is even more impossible.
Although they are young, the least of them have flown hundreds of sorties and have more than 30 bombing experiences, and they are completely old birds.
However, they were still excited.
When the Junkers-390 was dressed, everyone was stunned, they didn't dare to imagine that such a behemoth could actually fly, the empire was really amazing!
At the same time, after learning about the range of this bomber, they knew very well in their hearts that their mission was to bomb the United States!
Now, the mission has finally arrived!
"We are still flying on the civil aviation route, pay attention, the most important thing for us this time is to find the target, when the time comes, there will be personnel on the ground to cooperate with us and send us high-precision navigation information. We only have this one chance, and we must not throw the wrong bomb. ”