The first German computer, and the first in the world, still used paper tape for data input and output, which led to inefficiencies, and as a result, Ciric proposed a new way to design a solidified compiler that replaced machine instructions with mnemonics, which greatly increased operational efficiency.

The input device has been replaced with a keyboard, which can be used for fast input.

At the same time, after the first one was built, using the first one as a model, Germany began the peak of building the first computer, which was needed in many places, Braun for the research of rockets, Dr. Messerschmitt for the study of jets, and for the Nuclear Weapons Agency.

The missile launch base here can be allocated one, and that is also after the special instructions of Ciric.

At this time, the operator's hand quickly pressed to the keyboard, entered one instruction after another, and the huge computer began to enter high-speed operation, calculating the shooting elements.

The firing of short-range missiles is only a few hundred kilometers, and it is enough to use the earth as the coordinate system, but the launch of medium-range missiles is different, and it is necessary to take into account the rotation of the earth, the wind speed at the launch site, and other conditions. Transmitting from high latitudes to low latitudes also takes into account the difference in linear velocity at different latitudes.

At such times, a mechanical calculator is absolutely not enough, only this kind of electronic computer will do.

At the same time that the electronic computer was calculating the firing elements, the preparations for the launch were being carried out intensively and effectively at the launch site.

After the fuel was filled, the seal was tested, the various parts of the bomb were systematically self-tested, the gyroscope was ready to start, the fuel pump began to exhaust air, everything was going on normally, and the serious Germans were quite serious when they carried out these experiments.

"The computer has done the ballistics calculation." At this moment, the humming sound of the huge computer system disappeared, and instructions appeared on the screen of the terminal.

"Assigned to the various silos, stapled into the missile system."

Time passed little by little, and at this time, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, and the night in Iceland was slowly coming.

The sun slipped below the sea level in the west, but soon it would rise again in the east, and although it was not as good as the absolute polar day in the Arctic Circle, the real night would not last more than two hours, and it would not be completely dark, but always a gray feeling.

All the preparations have been completed.

"Silo 1 is ready."

"Silo 2 is ready."

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When silo 20 finished its report, Colonel Dornberg looked at the clock on the wall, and it was eleven and fifteen.

"Launch begins!" Colonel Dornberg said: "Let the earth of the Americans tremble, let them know that no city is undefended in front of our 14th unit!" ”

Launch begins!

Following Colonel Dornberg's order, one of the launchers pressed his hand hard to the launch button on the console.

Silo 1.

The three conical engine nozzles suddenly emitted a stream of white gas, which was the rapid gasification of nitric acid, and then, in the turbine sound of the fuel pump, dimethylhydrazine was sprayed into the combustion chamber of the rocket engine, and quickly burned.

The red-hot air current, emerging from the vent in the tail, quickly excreted outside along the diversion trough, and the entire silo was enveloped in a puff of white smoke.

In the white smoke, the silo began to shake regularly, becoming more and more violent, and like a dragon out of water, a milky white V-4 improved missile jumped out of the silos.

When it left the silo, it was not fast enough to even get out of the white smoke, and it rose in the white smoke like a fairy.

Then, its speed began to get faster and faster, clearing the white smoke and flying upwards, its tail emitting a blazing fire, and outside the firelight, there was gray smoke and dust, which quickly spread outward, becoming wider and wider, as if it was a column of air, rising upward.

It's like the big chimneys after the earth entered the industrial age.

There is more than just a column of smoke.

Twenty silos, almost all launched at the same time, one missile after another, all dragged a gray column of smoke up, and the column of smoke spread rapidly, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and as the rocket climbed, the smoke column was constantly elongated.

This scene looks incomparably magnificent.

At this time, the setting sun was shining the last rays of sunlight on the horizon, and due to the obstruction of the surrounding mountains, the launch site had been darkened, and in everyone's eyes, all they saw was the huge pillars of smoke.

"It's beautiful!"

If the warhead carries a nuclear weapon, the launch of such a missile is an apocalyptic scenario, and now, the warhead carries only a conventional warhead.

No one witnessed all this, only the officers and men of Unit 14, who served here, watched the missiles they released fly out, and their hearts were extremely happy.

"Clean the silos, and in eight hours, the next missile will be loaded." Colonel Dornberg continued to give orders, and they did not have time to delay.

At this time, those missiles that were launched had already climbed rapidly, and soon exceeded the speed of sound and continued to climb.

A large radar on the top of the hill of the base is closely monitoring, and one by one the missiles throw away the lower stage that has been burned, and after separation, the upper stage continues to ignite and accelerate.

By the time it exited the atmosphere, it had already exceeded Mach 10, and then, in a graceful arc across the sky, began to turn southwest.

When the rocket's engine stops running, it is completely ballistic, no different from a flying shell, and it flies completely by accurately calculating the trajectory in advance.

The gyroscope on board monitors the flight status of the missile's warhead, a half-ton warhead, traveling in outer space.

At this point, the target is unaware and unguarded.

Newport News Shipyard.

By the time the war came, the isolationism that had prevailed in the United States since the end of World War I had disappeared, and Americans knew that the Germans' ultimate goal would be the United States, and that if they failed, freedom and democracy would leave the land.

They are all preparing for war.

The shipyard worked day and night, workers worked overtime, many of them working more than 12 hours, and the unions were silent.

At this time, on the outfitting dock on the side, the lights were shining, and the USS Essex, a new generation of aircraft carriers of the US Navy with a full load displacement of more than 30,000 tons, was in the final finishing touches.