"Over-the-horizon strikes? What does that mean? ”

"It is to launch missiles before the U.S. fleet discovers our planes, and then use the onboard radar to guide the missiles to the U.S. fleet to attack. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Hearing Hersman's explanation, General Hasegawa Kiyoshi and Lieutenant General Hiroshi Oshima suddenly became short of breath.

This suicide missile produced by Rolls-Royce is the decisive weapon that Japan wants!

Attacks beyond the enemy's "line-of-sight" range can keep your attack fleet in absolute safety. And a level flight speed of up to 800 kilometers surpasses all known American fighters (and Japan does not have one), which will make this suicide missile very difficult to intercept. Moreover, a missile with a speed of 800 kilometers in level flight is likely to exceed 1,000 kilometers per hour in the event of a dive attack, making it difficult for even the anti-aircraft guns of surface ships to shoot it down.

"And our engineers also designed a lock-on attack device that can be used to lock onto the joystick once the pilot starts to dive at the enemy ship." Hersman went on to say, "Even if the missile's pilot is killed, the missile will be able to complete the final stage of flight along the original dive angle." In this way, the exchange ratio of one bullet and one machine can be ensured to the greatest extent! ”

In fact, the idea proposed by Hersman is very much in line with Japan's national conditions. Something like that Germany can do, and Britain can do it (the reason why Henschel cooperated with Rolls-Royce is because Rolls-Royce once participated in the British dreadnought missile project and has accumulated technology in this area), and the American technology is a little worse, but it is not impossible to do it. After all, suicide missiles don't need a high-quality jet engine or rocket engine, as long as they can be used.

Moreover, the United States also obtained most of the British radar technology before the British mainland surrendered to Germany, and it has long been able to produce multi-cavity high-energy magnetrons, so it is also equipped with a sea search radar with a theoretical detection range of more than 300 kilometers.

Therefore, the United States can theoretically create a suicide missile like the Rolls-Royce "Silver Reaper". But the problem is that the pilot of the missile is nowhere to be found......

Countries like the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, because they are countries in Christian circles, have always been relatively reluctant to the issue of suicide, at least the government cannot openly encourage suicide for the country.

Therefore, the United States, Germany, Britain and other countries, even if they produce "artificial intelligence missiles", they cannot find a few "artificial intelligence", and it is impossible to form combat effectiveness at all.

And there is a "suicide culture" in the history of Japan, and it is an honor to commit suicide for the emperor, so it is possible to find a certain number of "artificial" to make suicide missiles "intelligent".

However, Hersman was unwilling to follow the path of "kamikaze attack" in history -- Isn't Japan known as a "craftsman spirit" and wants to keep improving? How can you be sloppy on the issue of suicide attacks? It is pure fool's dream to use a large number of shoddy airplanes, man-operated missiles, man-operated torpedoes, and motorboats to carry out the mission of sending people to death with no return, in a vain attempt to win the war by relying on numerical superiority.

If you can win by numbers, what kind of kamikaze does Japan have? Wouldn't it be enough to use conventional tactics? Now that they know that the number is absolutely invincible, they should give full play to their "craftsman spirit" and pursue the ultimate suicide attack.

"Your Excellency the Imperial Marshal," Kiyoshi Otanigawa was obviously also impressed by this limited edition Rolls-Royce "Silver Reaper", "how much is your country prepared to ask for such a missile?" ”

"The price of a missile is 300,000 euromarks." Hersman offers a shocking price. You must know that the cost of Germany's most advanced Me262 jet fighter is only 150,000 European marks, which is equivalent to 255,000 yen (the exchange rate between the yen and the euromark is 1.7 to 1).

In other words, the price of a "Silver Reaper" is equivalent to 510,000 yen, which is more expensive than two Zero fighters (the Zero costs about 210,000 yen).

"No problem." Hasegawa Kiyoshi didn't bargain with Hirschman, and agreed without hesitation.

Because he only plans to buy four pieces and ship them back to the Japanese "cottage", which is nothing more than a 2 million yen business, of course he will not care about the price.

"You have to buy 200 pieces!" Hersman immediately broke Hasegawa Kiyoshi's wishful thinking, "A total of 60 million euro marks for the goods will be paid in gold or in kind, and cannot be paid on credit...... Because these missiles are all produced by the British company Rolls-Royce. ”

This "Silver Reaper" is a limited edition, and it is planned to produce 225 pieces, of which 20 (of which 18 are two-seater trainer bullets with landing gear) are intended for testing and display. Because of the use of a jet engine with a life of up to 100 hours, the "Silver Reaper" trainer bomb is a very good missile to test the remote control system of the TV, so 18 were sold to Henschel and Volkswagen, 6 were used for testing the "Silver Reaper" project, and 1 was used for display.

The remaining 200 Silver Reaper will be sold to Japan, 20 of which are training bombs, which are actually small two-seat jets, and 180 are ordinary bombs used for attack.

And the empty weight of a "Silver Reaper" is as high as 1.8 tons. After adding fuel, high explosives and an "artificial intelligence system" (usually one of Japan's elite pilots), the full weight can reach more than 2.8 tons (the specific amount of "up" depends on the weight of the Japanese pilot, according to the recommendation of Rolls-Royce: the pilot cannot weigh more than 100 kilograms), and the ceiling is 12,000 meters.

In addition, in order to improve the battlefield survivability of the missile, two 20mm cannons can also be selected - including leather seats, DSC tape recorder and 20mm cannon. The color of the missile's casing can also be chosen, and additional money is also required.

"60 million Euromarks...... That's more than 100 million yen! ”

Kiyoshi Hasegawa and Hiroshi Oshima both had painful expressions on their faces when they heard Hersman's request.

"What is 100 million yen?" Hersman glanced at the two of them and said, "Now that the war has been fought, does anyone still care about money?" Now what is really valuable is not the money, but the lives of good pilots! If you want the Silver Reaper to be truly effective, you must also select some pilots to fly dive bombers to Germany for training, and since the elimination rate of the training is more than 50%, it is recommended to send 400 people to participate in the training...... Each person had to pay an additional 150,000 Euromarks for training. ”

That's another 60 million European marks!

But this money is not unreasonable. Because the "Silver Reaper" is actually a jet that can reach a speed of up to 800 kilometers per hour on the equinox! It was very difficult to fly this plane for a dive attack, and it was necessary to train rigorously.

According to the plan drawn up by the German naval aviation, the Japanese pilots participating in the training were first trained with Me262A-1b (bomber) worth 150,000 European marks. It takes at least 100 hours to fly (scrap 2 engines) and burn a lot of expensive jet fuel. Then you will be eligible to play the "Silver Reaper" training bullet.

The only aircraft capable of dropping the 2.8-ton Silver Reaper missile is now the modified Me264 heavy bomber. The fuel consumption of such a large aircraft is even more amazing in one flight!

It can be said that the training of 60 million Euromarks for 400 pilots of the "Silver Reaper" (with an elimination rate of more than 50%) was an absolute loss for German naval aviation.

The contribution of 120 million euromarks, combined with the lives of 180 veteran pilots, is a worthwhile investment for Japan.

Because a 2.8-ton "Silver Reaper" missile has a charge of more than 500 kilograms, it can break through the defenses of any kind of American fighter aircraft at a maximum speed of 800 kilometers per hour, and can also dive into US aircraft carriers or battleships at a speed of 900 kilometers or even more than 1,000 kilometers per hour.

Such a weapon, even if it can't change a ship with one bullet, can at least paralyze a large surface ship of the class of a large aircraft carrier or battleship with one bullet!

180 Silver Reaper, even with a 50% hit rate (100% is possible if a highly trained AI can really not be afraid of death), can cripple 90 large aircraft carriers or battleships!

According to Hersman's vision, the Japanese could use the Me264 to hang the "Silver Reaper" to copy the lair of the US Pacific Fleet.

"84 Me264s with 84 'Silver Reaper' flying straight to San Diego," Hersman said, "even if only a one-half hit rate could break at least 42 large American surface ships!" It's worth it, right? ”

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"120 million Euromarks......" Yamamoto Fifty-six gasped in the conference room of the Japanese Navy Ministry, "the Germans are really lions open their mouths...... But we can't refuse, the 120 million euro marks must be given, and the pot must be smashed! ”

He had already received a detailed report from Kiyoshi Otanigawa personally brought back to Japan, including dozens of color photographs of sample missiles, including several color photos of the Rolls-Royce W1B jet engine -- this 500-kilogram thrust jet engine was a good thing that the Japanese had always wanted, but repeated requests for purchase were rejected, and now they can get 200 units at once, and these engines alone are worth 120 million euromarks.

Moreover, the Germans were willing to help train up to 220 jet pilots (the eliminated Silver Reaper pilots could also fly jets).

With the Rolls-Royce W1B jet engine and 220 elite jet pilots, Japan may be able to build up its own jet force in a very short period of time - in fact, Japan has long noticed the German Me262 and joined forces with the new Roman Empire to start the development of jet aircraft, but the development process has been very slow because of the delay in obtaining samples from Germany (the Silver Reaper is actually a jet......