720 Present and Future

In fact, in the past month, Germany's scientific and technological progress is definitely not limited to aviation. In other areas, there are countless technological innovations.

Advanced snorkel-type ocean-going submarines entered service, and with this new snorkel, the submarine can be recharged with diesel engines under the surface.

This technological invention is also bundled with a rubber camouflage invention that can absorb radar waves, and a detector that can receive radar waves.

When the potential adversary, the United States, had not yet popularized radar on a large scale, the German Navy had already begun to take precautions and install corresponding anti-radar warning devices on its submarines.

The tonnage of German submarines is also being expanded in a planned way, and the formation of ocean-going submarine forces is expanding little by little.

At this time, Britain had already been defeated, so everyone knew which targets these submarines were aimed at.

Without the urgent need to produce large quantities of anti-aircraft guns and without the distractions of bombing, the German navy developed a little faster than planned.

Production of older U-boats is already beginning on the French coastline, and the latest models are being produced in Kiel and Wilhelmshaven in Germany.

In addition, the German giant battleship produced for the Z-shaped shipbuilding program, that is, an upgraded version of the Bismarck-class battleship, was completely canceled.

In its place was the German Navy, or the largest aircraft carrier ever built.

Four giant aircraft carriers, converted from battleships, have already been built with hulls and could be completed within two years.

With these four heavily armored aircraft carriers with amazing tonnage, combined with the upgrading and upgrading of carrier-based aircraft, the combat effectiveness of the German Navy can definitely be described as amazing.

Although in the Atlantic, the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers will be restricted, but today's Germany is not only relying on aircraft carriers to achieve superiority.

Bismarck, HMS Tirpitz, HMS George V, HMS Warrior, HMS War-Weyper, HMS Barham, HMS Ramirez – Germany now had a total of seven battleships.

And this is only Germany's own naval power, if you count several battleships of the Italian Navy, plus the battleships of the increasingly obedient French Navy......

Once Germany gains the upper hand in naval warfare, it is very likely that the European coalition will be able to draw more than 10 battleships into the war.

Counting the number of aircraft carriers, the German fleet was almost ready to compete head-on with the US Navy.

At present, the constraints of the German Navy are nothing more than two problems: the first is that the personnel is not neat and cannot reflect the combat effectiveness; The second is that many warships are being modernized, and many warships have not yet been launched.

The above two reasons are also the reasons why the German Navy, although it has an advantage, is unwilling to provoke the US Atlantic Fleet.

"I heard that the first experimental model of the 'Raven' crashed?" With his hands behind his back, Marshal Kesselring, who came to visit the test flight, suddenly changed the subject.

His subordinates also knew about this matter and replied: "Yes, during the experiment of supersonic flight, there was a sudden vibration, and then the plane crashed. ”

Glancing at the marshal, his subordinates continued: "The pilot crashed with the plane and did not survive......"

"Reward the pilot who died?" Kesselring asked another question of his own interest.

His subordinates nodded, and he happened to know what had happened: "The test pilot is not a soldier, so there is no medal...... However, the Federation of Aircraft Enterprises gave the pilot's family a large sum of money. ”

Nodding, Kesselring turned his gaze back to the new F-86-like jet fighter that was rolling in the distance.

"What a beautiful plane...... he said, "He saw the plane make a huge circle in the sky, circled back to the test runway, and exclaimed.

This is already a second-generation German jet fighter, and if the performance is the same as that of the ME-262, then there is nothing to experiment with.

After all, in today's era, the pursuit of aerodynamic layout and the performance of the aircraft is only a design scheme for nose air intake.

The design idea of arranging the engine on the two wings is just a helpless choice due to the lack of reliability of the engine. This arrangement has a serious impact on the roll performance, and naturally there is not much merit.

In the distance, the plane seemed to hear the marshal praising it, and the sound of the engines became even louder. The swarthy crow passed through the field, with the sound of the wind whistling.

"The news just came...... Your Excellency, Marshal! The test flight of the crow broke through the speed of 800 km/h, and the top speed reached 813 km/h! "An engineer came up with a notebook and reported good news to Kesselring.

The experiment was very successful, and it is only natural that it will be successful. The plane has already been tested three times, and if there is no certainty, who would dare to invite the marshal to come and observe the test flight?

In case it falls down and the performance is smashed, it will affect the procurement plan of the future fighter......

Although the Führer still fixed the main armament models of the future Air Force to the piston plane, the jet fighter is after all recognized as the future.

The TA-152 fighter that Dr. Tan Ke personally grasped has also been designed at this time, and because of the hurry, the test flight work will be launched immediately.

On the Crow's side, as a secret weapon, although the experimental speed is faster than Tanke's TA-152, correspondingly, there are more areas that need to be improved.

For example, the Navy needed an aircraft that was stronger enough to withstand the pull of the hook.

The Air Force also hopes to develop an attack aircraft model of this aircraft and try to unify the aircraft models on the front line.

Under Li Le's correction, the current German armed forces are somewhat overkill: they all hope to simplify the weapon system on a large scale and improve the quality of logistics and supply more conveniently.

"Dr. Tanke, I heard that the progress is also very fast, and in a few days, the TA-152 fighter will be test-flighted......" Looking at the R&D personnel of the Mercedes Smitt company in front of him, Kesselring opened his mouth to remind.

"We don't know where the progress of the piston plane is going because we don't care about that. All we know is that jet engines are the future of humanity and that's it. My marshal! After hearing Kesselring's words, the head of the Mercedes Smitt company replied confidently with a smile on his face.

Kesselring nodded in satisfaction, he knew that his troops had the present and the future! For him, the sky of the future belongs to the Luftwaffe.