Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Worried Dr. Braun

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And he had more important things to do, so when he hung up the phone, he put Kenneth Bush, the captain of the guard at the Berlin Chancellery? Branagh and more than 30 heavily armed guards were taken away from the Prime Minister's House.

Chen Yanlong was still sitting in Hitler's favorite Mercedes, and behind him was a large row of black Mercedes cars.

After that, they came to Berlin Airport, boarded three Junkers JU52 transport planes, and finally arrived at the port of Hamburg after a flight of about 300 kilometers escorted by a team of TA152 fighters.

Hamburg is one of the three major state cities in Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen), the second largest city in Germany, and the most important seaport and the largest foreign trade center in Germany; Germany's second financial center, as well as the economic and cultural metropolis of northern Germany, is known as the "bridge city of the world".

Hamburg is an important transportation hub in northern Germany, one of the wealthiest cities in Europe, and has become the center of Germany's news media and industrial manufacturing. Hamburg is one of the world's largest ports and is known as "Germany's gateway to the world". Ocean liners from all over the world come to Germany at the Port of Hamburg.

After Seattle in the United States, Hamburg is the second largest aircraft manufacturing region in the world, producing "Airbus".

However, in the Anglo-American bombing of 1943, most of Hamburg was destroyed, and tens of thousands of people died.

After coming to Hamburg, Chen Yanlong got off the plane as soon as possible, transferred to the car, and came to the port of Hamburg.

After that, Chen Yanlong, under the protection of the guards he brought, entered a villa with very strong guards.

Inside the villa Admiral Dönitz, and Hermann, who had arrived from Penemünde? Aubert, and Weiner? Feng? Braun is waiting for Chen Yanlong's arrival.

Herman? Aubert is the famous father of European rocketry in history, a German rocket expert, and one of the founders of modern astronautics.

He was also a rocket expert who went to the Penemünde Research Center to participate in the development of the V-2 rocket.

Weiner? Feng? Braun was also a well-known German rocket expert and played a key role in the creation of the V-1 and V-2 rockets.

After the war, he led the development of the "Saturn" 5 carrier rocket in 1969, which sent the first manned lunar spacecraft "Apollo 11" to the moon. Later, in April 1981, the first successful test flight of the space shuttle was also initiated by Braun. As a result, he is known as the "father of modern astronautics".

"Hey! Monarch! ”

As soon as they saw Chen Yanlong, the three of them immediately stood up in the large conference hall and greeted Chen Yanlong.

Chen Yanlong was also serious and returned a salute to them.

Then the two sides sat down separately and prepared for the meeting.

"I'm sorry for the rush to let you guys come here for a meeting with me!"

As soon as he sat down, Chen Yanlong said with a gentle smile.

"Nope! We are also very happy to be received by the Führer, but I don't know what is the matter with the Führer summoning us in such a hurry? ”

Before Admiral Dönitz could speak, Braun immediately asked anxiously.

"I intend to strongly support your rocket and missile research, as well as the development of a new type of navy! For example, aircraft carriers! ”

Chen Yanlong was very calm, and smiled calmly.

"What!"

After hearing this, Braun and Dönitz excitedly bounced up from their seats and exclaimed.

"I plan to form a German strategic rocket force and a German aircraft carrier group by the end of this year to carry out counterattack operations against Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as to defend the homeland and the country!"

Chen Yanlong ignored their expressions and continued to explain calmly.

"Thank you, thank you, Führer!"

When the three of them saw clearly and understood that Chen Yanlong was not lying, they were all very excited and thanked loudly in unison.

Although Dönitz still prefers to vigorously develop submarine forces, he also knows that having aircraft carriers is also a great thing, so he is also very happy and excited.

"That's right! Dr. Braun, can you tell me first about the A-4 rocket that you are currently developing, has it been successfully developed? ”

While Dönitz and Braun were secretly happy, Chen Yanlong suddenly interrupted them.

"Ahh Yes, yes! From 1933 to 1941 for 8 years, our R&D team has carried out a variety of small rocket tests, including A1, A2, A3 and A5 (A4 is the V1 missile). ”

Dr. Braun was stunned for a moment, then reacted and replied immediately.

"So what do you think A1 and A5 have in common, or how powerful are they?"

Chen Yanlong asked.

"Ahh How can you say this......"

was suddenly asked by Chen Yanlong, but Dr. Braun suddenly chuckled in his heart, not knowing what the reason for Chen Yanlong's inquiry was, and stammered.

At the same time, he was also very nervous and worried about whether Chen Yanlong would suddenly stop the research of rockets; Although the V1 missile is very inexpensive to build, it costs only 5000 DM.

In other words, the price of a V1 missile is only equivalent to a few dozen rifles, or twentieth of a tank.

Because during World War II, a Mauser K98 rifle cost 56 marks, and a German Type IV tank cost 100,000 marks.

But this cheap missile can inflict a certain percentage of serious losses on the enemy, so this cost performance is still very high and cost-effective.

But he also knew very well that from 1937 to 1940, Hitler had ordered a large amount of investment in the missile project, and invested a huge amount of money of up to hundreds of millions of marks, of which the Nazis invested 50 million marks in the V2 missile at a time. At the same time, the Nazi atomic bomb program, which was also extremely important, only received more than 10 million marks.

But these are not the point, the key issue is that the V1 missile is a cruise missile and the originator of modern cruise missiles.

It's essentially a bomb-mounted drone. From the outside, it looks like a bomb with wings, or a small airplane. It has a body diameter of 0.82 meters, a wingspan of 5.3 meters, and a length of 7.9 meters.

Unlike the airplane, he has a cylindrical engine above the tail. It was a ramjet engine with a powerful thrust of 300 kg. It allows the V1 to fly at a high speed of 644 km/h.

To put it simply, the V1 missile weighs about 2 tons, carries 850 kilograms of high-explosive charge, and has a maximum range of 280 kilometers. It was possible to attack most cities in southern England from the coast of France or from within the Netherlands.

However, the disadvantages of these missiles: the first is that when the missile flies, it will be affected by a lot (such as strong winds), resulting in large deviations; deviated from the target by several hundred meters, thus thus

Therefore, it can only rely on a huge number of people to carry out aimless bombing.

In this way, the number of missiles will be wasted a lot, and a lot of money will be required.

The second disadvantage is that because the technology is not mature, the effect on the target to be attacked is poor, and there are many missile failures.

There are only 30 rounds in 100 rounds, which can be used to attack the target they want to attack.

As reported by the historical sources on the Internet, about 2,000 of the 1,500 missiles launched at Britain crashed on their own within minutes of launch; did not fly through the straits, accounting for twenty percent of the total number of launches.

Even of the 1,200 missiles launched by airplane, only 66 managed to reach London; With a 5% chance of success, it doesn't work much.

Therefore, for a while, Dr. Braun was embarrassed and worried by Chen Yanlong's questioning.