Chapter 883: Airplane Missile
Originally, Zhang Chi also hoped that the "aircraft missile" would soon arrive in Italy and be put into testing, but it soon became clear that this was not easy to do. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The reason is that this "airplane missile" is a big guy with a length of more than eight meters and a width of six meters...... It's a small plane.
Zhang Chi had learned before that Germany's "airplane missile" was only more than seven meters long and more than five meters wide. Zhang Chi was not surprised by this, because the Germans' "aircraft missile" was uncontrollable, and the device would be relatively simple, and once it was required to be controllable and could carry out wireless data transmission, it was necessary to install electronic equipment on the "aircraft missile", and the electronic equipment of this era itself was not small...... Even the wireless walkie-talkies of the U.S. military are still like "Big Brother" that can kill people, so the whole volume quickly went up.
In this way, Liu Zhenguo and others can only choose sea transportation.
Because if you choose to transport by air, you must use the United States, and Zhang Chi does not want the United States to know about this plan.
As a result, it took more than a month for this thing to be transported to Italy.
Fortunately, the battle between the Allies and the Germans has reached a stalemate...... To be precise, the Allies still had the upper hand on the battlefield, mainly because the Allies had a large number of generals, and the two armies could take turns in battle, so that the soldiers had time to rest and could ensure morale.
The German soldiers were not so lucky, they only had a total of six divisions on the front line, and the defensive line was stretched longer and longer, and finally stretched more than 100 kilometers almost across the whole of Italy, so that these six divisions of German troops were not even slightly enough, let alone replaced.
So naturally, after a long time of fighting, the German army could not hold on, and the number of people who collapsed and committed suicide and rushed to the battlefield frantically increased...... In fact, it is not easy for the German army, it can hold out for so long under the high pressure of that kind of battlefield and still hold on, if it is replaced by the British army and the American army, I am afraid that it will collapse and surrender long ago.
Hitler also noticed this problem, so he made some adjustments to the German troops in Italy.
This adjustment simply means that Rommel's Army Group B will all be placed under the command of Kesselring, and Kesselring will merge his Army Group A and Army Group B into Army Group C.
But this is just a change of soup, Kesselring still has no troops available, because the troops that Kesselring can command appear to have 8 more divisions on the surface, that is, Army Group B, which was originally commanded by Rommel, but these troops are stationed in the Alps, so they can't lose the Alpine defense line...... If this is done, what if the Allies either drop in or land directly into the Alps? Then all the German troops will be dead and there will be no place to bury!
The result was that the Allies had the upper hand on the defensive line, but they advanced very slowly, and every inch of advance was costing, in Eisenhower's words, "like snails climbing up in boots, not only slowly, but leaving traces along the way!" ”
(Note: The terrain of Italy resembles a boot, so it is also known as the country of boots)
In fact, the reason why the Allies were able to continue to advance was due in part to the credit of the Zoaf Corps...... The Zoaf Corps was not afraid of night battles, and had strong firepower to suppress the enemy during the day, so compared to the high ground where other troops were stationed, the Zoaf Corps had an advantage in both black and white notices.
This allowed the Zoaf Corps to always break through the enemy's lines and then extend its gains on both flanks with greater firepower and sufficient logistics.
Of course, these are not Zhang Chi's concerns.
How the defense line is offensive and defensive, and what the battle situation is, it seems that it has little to do with Zhang Chi.
Zhang Chi was concerned about the "airplane missile" in front of him.
When he saw it, Zhang Chi really understood why he chose to take more time by sea instead of air...... It is not just a missile body, but also a transmitter, a signal transmitter and receiver like an iron pot, an old black-and-white television and operating instruments, all of which are all combined with the gadgets attached to an "airplane missile" that cannot even be transported by a large truck.
Later, Zhang Chi learned that black and white TV is not an "old-fashioned" thing in this era.
Basille and a couple of French scientists also came...... They didn't come with the "airplane missile", the scientists' time is very precious, and there is no point in transporting it with the "airplane missile", so they flew to Italy only after being notified.
Like all other scientists who are obsessed with science, Basil directly omitted the step of greeting Zhang Chi and directly took Liu Zhenguo and others to start debugging the instrument.
While debugging, Basil said to himself: "Fortunately, they didn't have any problems during transportation!" ”
"Of course!" Liu Zhenguo replied: "We took turns watching it almost twenty-four hours a day, and we were lucky that we didn't encounter a storm on the way!" ”
"It would have been more fortunate that the submarine did not touch the Germans!" Basile said.
Then everyone laughed heartily.
"Oh, General!" After a long while, Basille remembered Zhang Chi: "I think we are ready, let me introduce you...... We call it 'Caesar'! ”
"'Caesar'?"
"Yes!" Basil replied: "It is mainly composed of three parts, of course, which were developed according to your ideas...... Sub-launch control devices, missiles, and receiving feedback devices! ”
As he spoke, Basile pointed to the instruments beside him: "This is the launch control device, through which we give instructions to the missile, for which we have specially hired two pilots, who operate the missile like a fighter plane and adjust its attitude according to experience." Needless to say, compared to the Germans, we installed a video camera and transmitter in the head, and the images captured were transmitted to this TV......"
"Why have two pilots?" Zhang Chi interrupted Basille's words.
"Uh......" Basille replied: "General, you know, this 'aircraft missile' can attack long-range targets, its range is more than 200 kilometers, and its speed is about 550 kilometers per hour, which means that the pilot will operate for about 20 minutes, and we need someone to replace ......"
"Do you mean to say ......" Zhang Chi asked, "This missile is controlled by people throughout the whole process?" ”
"Yes!" Basil nodded.
Zhang Chi couldn't help but be a little speechless when he heard this, these scientists sometimes only consider technical problems without considering their practicality and some cleverness.