In reality, building an air base is not a computer game that can be selected with a single click on the map, and just selecting a location is a very time-consuming process.

First of all, the airport should not be too close to the town, which can reduce the interaction with the residents, and at the same time facilitate the security and confidentiality of the base. Of course, the base should not be too far from residential areas, and the transportation must be convenient, preferably close to rail and road hubs, to facilitate the transportation of large quantities of logistics materials.

German bombers did not use a two-plane formation with long wingmen, and usually three bombers were built into a flying squad, which was the basic unit of the bomber force. Three of these squadrons formed a squadron, which then formed a squadron from three to four squadrons, and eventually three or four squadrons formed into a flying wing, the largest tactical combat unit of the Luftwaffe.

Except for the squadron, which consisted of two twin squadrons, the remaining squadrons and squadrons were organized in the same way as bombers.

An airfield usually has three to five squadrons stationed, and the total number of aircraft directly under each squadron headquarters and brigade headquarters is generally about 50 to 60 aircraft.

For example, a Heinkel III bomber has a crew of five (captain and pilot, bomber and navigator, flight mechanic and head machine gunner, radio operator and back machine gunner, and belly machine gunner), and such a large aircraft needs to be equipped with a five- to six-person ground crew to be responsible for the combat readiness and maintenance of the bomber.

To complete the operational rearmament of a bomber, it is impossible to rely only on these ground maintenance personnel, but also engineers and mechanics who are responsible for the replacement and modification and maintenance of parts, oil squads responsible for filling all kinds of fuels and oils, ammunition squads for handling airborne ordnance and bombs, and so on.

After the plane returns from the mission, in addition to the personnel of the above units, there are more fire brigades that undertake fire fighting and rescue work, medical personnel who provide emergency care to the wounded, and even cleaning teams that are responsible for cleaning and scrubbing the blood stains in the cabin.

If these units are combined, there are almost five or six hundred people, and this is not counting the number of command, administrative, internal support, and communications departments of the squadrons and brigades.

In addition to these people, don't forget those logistics support units, such as the slaughtering company, bread company, and automobile transport company, the cooking classes directly under each squadron, the kitchenette of senior officers, the pilot's bar club, and the military post station, laundry room, military service department, fitness center, etc., etc., can add up to seven or eight hundred people.

A large airfield of the air force must have at least one battalion of anti-aircraft fire around it, and the same number of garrisons on the ground is needed, and this is still an airfield in Germany, and if it is a base outside the country or even close to the border, the defense force may more than triple.

In the end, the Air Force calculated a strategic bombing base at the wing level, and the total number of working and combat personnel was likely to exceed 15,000.

The daily consumption of supplies by these people will be calculated in ten tons, and this is only the share of food that people eat and chew off, and if you add the fuel used daily by airplanes, vehicles, and various power generation equipment, as well as the ammunition consumed in normal training, the tonnage is probably enough to add a zero to the back.

Without the support of a well-developed transportation network, relying on the Air Force's pile of half-ton trucks alone, even if the SS shoots a logistics staff officer every day, it will not be able to keep up with this daily consumption rate, not to mention that after the outbreak of war on the Eastern Front, the related consumption will increase even more.

Historically, the RAF has spent weeks preparing for a large-scale strategic bombing campaign to assemble aircraft, personnel, equipment and ammunition for the war, not only because of the depletion of the British national power, but also because of the pressure on the transportation system caused by the demand for supplies. At the end of the twentieth century, it would not have taken 24 hours to gather the same amount of supplies.

The High Command has already begun to work on the site selection of the new airport, which requires careful survey by the professional engineers of the Air Force, so no matter how anxious Xu Jun is, he knows that this kind of thing will definitely not be fast. However, it also takes time to build the aircraft and train the pilots, and Xu Jun only hopes that everything will be completed smoothly according to the planned schedule.

If someone asks, now that there are planes and airfields, then strategic bombing can be carried out, right? The answer, of course, is no.

In reality, it is impossible to be like in the movie, when a certain general draws a circle on the map, and the bomber group of Wuyang and Wuyang flies over. Every strategic bombing operation that goes deep into enemy territory must be calculated in detail in advance, and reckless actions usually do not yield good results, and the bomber crews of the US Army Air Force may be well aware of this.

The most critical of these was navigation, a technical difficulty that could not be avoided in any case, because even the most advanced bombers of the time would not be worth more than a pile of scrap metal after being lost.

A costly strategic bombing, as a result of which a large number of planes could not reach the target location due to miscarriage, if replaced by the commander of the army unit could not explain it to his superiors, but in the bomber unit at the beginning of World War II, this was within the acceptable range.

The German invasion of Norway caused an unprecedented air chaos when the German invasion of Norway encountered fog, and an important turning point in the British air battle was also due to the accidental loss of two German bombers. At that time, the lost German pilots threw bombs into the residential areas of London, and as a result, the British retaliated and bombed the city of Berlin, and public opinion and Hitler's pressure forced the fat man to shift the focus of the bombing to London, giving the Royal Air Force, which was already on the verge of collapse, a respite.

To say that the German radio navigation system should be quite advanced in terms of the technical level at that time, but the Germans believed too much in their technological advancement and did not notice the hidden flaws of this system, and as a result, they encountered targeted British electronic jamming in history, which almost caused a crisis of confidence among bomber pilots.

Xu Jun did not dare to guarantee that the Soviet Union's electronic warfare capabilities would reach the heights of the British, but it would not be a big mistake to be careful.

Germany needed to build a series of large radio navigation base stations on the Eastern Front, using the simple principle of triangulation, and the radio navigation device carried by the bomber would calculate the coordinate point of the aircraft at that time according to the strength of the beams emitted by different base stations. Theoretically, the greater the number of such base stations, the less likely it is to encounter enemy interference, unless it encounters indiscriminate full-band interference, which of course will have a greater impact on the Soviet army itself.

In addition to these radio navigation base stations, the Germans also had to establish a series of ground-based radar stations along the eastern defense line, and some of the long-range radars were tasked with providing ground guidance and command services for strategic bombing.

Radar is also readily available, including Germany's Würzburg and Freya systems, as well as the UK's local chain series of products, and Xu Jun's goal is to build an invisible electronic blockade on the eastern front by June 41.

As early as 39 years, the Soviet Union began to equip itself with the radar RUS-1, which is currently mainly deployed in the Caucasus and the Far East, which is a long-wave radar with a wavelength of up to four meters, which is still quite primitive in technology, and the difference between the transmitting station and the receiving station is 35 kilometers, which can only detect the number and direction of the target, and cannot provide parameters such as distance, altitude and speed of the target.

However, the performance of the second-generation radar RUS-2 that the Soviet Army has just put into use has improved a lot, at least it can get the height and angular coordinates of the target, but because of the weak processing capacity of electronic products in the Soviet Union, this radar is quite expensive, and only twelve units were produced until the outbreak of the war.

The performance of the new Soviet radar can only be said to be not as good as they themselves advertised, and historically, because the number was too small, it hardly played much role in the war.

Now that Germany has planes and pilots at hand, a dedicated air base and supporting navigation and radar systems, all that Germany needs to prepare is intelligence gathering in the target areas.

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