Chapter 591: Preparing for Launch

One by one, the all-wheel drive off-road heavy trucks, the tires were covered with mud, and at this time, they were already busy on a flat land as their temporary launch position.

If from the appearance, this off-road heavy truck is taller than the general off-road heavy truck, just looking at its tires, it is larger than the ordinary military heavy truck, full of a person as tall! The pattern on it is very deep.

Among them, the front two axles can be steered, which is a four-axle vehicle, which has one more steering axle than off-road heavy trucks, and the four axles are almost evenly spaced.

All this means that this kind of truck is extremely special.

The front of the car is not large, only accommodating two occupants, and the rear compartment is completely wrapped in tarpaulin, and you can see that it is round on it, and I don't know what it is.

In the entire position, there were twenty launchers, and at this time, around them, there were more than fifty wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, more than 500 soldiers, guarding the outside, all of them were holding the most advanced MP38 submachine guns, waiting for them.

On an off-road vehicle, a few personnel walked down, although they were also wearing military uniforms, but looking at their demeanor, there was less murderous spirit of soldiers and more rigor of technicians.

The V-2 missile has been studied for many years, but now it is the first live firing, and in order to ensure the accuracy of the shooting, Braun has worked tirelessly to personally lead the team.

Now, in Germany's rocket research, it is still headed by Goddard, the scientist invited by Ciric from the United States, has been working tirelessly on rockets and has become the leader of Germany, and Braun, under the leadership of Goddard, has matured rapidly.

However, Goddard is already old after all, and Braun is only in his prime, and besides, Goddard's most hope is that rockets conquer space, not as weapons, so Goddard did not follow.

During the Libyan experiment, the rocket was launched directly from a concrete platform, but if you want to put the V-2 missile into actual combat deployment, you need to transport it quickly and deploy it quickly.

In this case, they needed to have a tool for transporting and launching, so they got in touch with the country and put forward a request, and the country produced this special vehicle.

The tall tires are to make it have better off-road ability, and at the same time, the main body of the vehicle is still improved from the original off-road heavy truck. At the same time, the horsepower of the engine was increased, and this special transport launcher became the main force of Unit 14, and if you look at it from the outside, it is actually very similar to the Scud missile launcher of later generations.

The role is also similar, transport and launch!

At this time, Braun was quite busy, and when they arrived here, the first step was to determine the coordinates of the place.

Only by accurately knowing one's own position, and then according to the position of the target, can the correct trajectory of the V-2 missile be calculated.

In his hand, he holds a special device, a sextant, this kind of navigation equipment, which can now also be used on land to determine longitude and latitude, and at the same time, in a car behind him, there is also a radiolocator, a variety of equipment, comprehensive use, to improve the accuracy of measurement.

At the same time, in addition to him, there are also some officers and soldiers of the army, like him, who are also using instruments to orient, and they all admire these experts who have arrived, and now it is just an opportunity to learn and improve.

At the same time, other missile crews were also rapidly preparing, several vehicles similar to fuel tankers, and the missile crews were wearing gas masks and preparing to refuel.

In the past, missiles used alcohol and liquid oxygen, which were non-toxic, but liquid oxygen was just low-temperature, but now, the fuel of missiles has been replaced with metamethylhydrazine and nitric acid, which are highly toxic.

At this time, they were waiting for the final order.

Until the last moment, they can't refuel the missile, because these things are corrosive, and if they refill and the launch mission is canceled, then even if they pump out the fuel, it will bring some damage to the missile.

Now, they are ready and waiting for the order.

Ten minutes later, Braun accurately measured the coordinates of his own launch position, and at the same time, there were orders on the radio, the launch mission, the target, the opposite British air base, and, London!

Calculate now!

The missilemen got into the launch vehicle, and in the front of the launch vehicle, there was also a control room.

This kind of special launch vehicle has a cab in front, and at the same time, behind the cab, there is a space, and this space is the control room for launching missiles!

Inside, there is a special shooting commander similar to a big guy, they set their own coordinates, target data, this big machine is rumbling and turning, synthesizing meteorological data and so on, calculated for more than ten minutes, finally, the data needed for shooting, calculated.

At the same time as they determined the firing data, in the back, the missilemen in charge of refueling were preoccupied and began to refuel the missiles.

Dragging the tube, docking to the open gap on the side of the missile, when docking, a small amount of gas, just like that, leaked out.

The missilemen in gas masks, accustomed to this, made a buzzing sound from the fuel cart behind them, and the fuel pump quickly filled it.

When the tube was unplugged, a puff of white gas came out again.

"No. 1 is loaded."

"No. 2 is loaded."

"Stand up!"

Now, after the loading is completed, the hydraulic cylinder of the launch vehicle slowly lifts the missile up, and when the missile is vertical, the rear of the launch vehicle just protrudes a steel plate as a stable launch platform.

"Gyro activates."

Braun watched from the sidelines, many of these fighters had been trained in Libya, and now they had a very good grasp of every command.

The flight of ballistic missiles depends entirely on the gyroscope to determine the state of the missile, detect various signals, and issue various commands, and it can be said that the gyroscope determines whether the missile can hit the target or not.

"The gyro starts normally."

"The fuel pump is on."

"Countdown to launch."

When the fuel pump is turned on, the launch enters the irreversible stage, metamethylhydrazine and nitric acid, under the action of the fuel pump, flow into the rocket engine, instantly, the tail nozzle, a white gas comes out, this is the steam of nitric acid, and then, the small flame in the combustion chamber is ignited.

"Ignition!"