Chapter 122: Nazi Helicopters

Those who say that there are no heavy bombers in World War II can rest, not that Germany does not have them, and Germany is wrong in strategic understanding, the Luftwaffe does not order heavy aircraft at all, they think that the Air Force in order to cooperate with the army's "blitzkrieg", it is enough to have tactical aircraft, and it is not surprising that the JU89 heavy bomber was shelved. Messerschmitt thought that his hard work would be in vain, but knowing that the Krupp family had suddenly invested in helping him continue research and development, Messerschmidt generously gave the Krupp family 40 percent of the shares, but only the shares of this aircraft, not the shares of the Messerschmitt company.

In order to develop a helicopter that could really be put into service, Fokker Wolf invited famous German aviation scientists, including Dr. Jackel and Dr. Gast. Beginning in 1931, it took 6 years for the world's first helicopter to actually enter service with the troops, the Fw-61, was born. The aircraft uses a specially modified Sh14b engine from Siemens, and the output is increased to 165 horsepower.

The success of the FW-61 gave hope to the Luftwaffe, and they immediately signed a contract with Fokker to develop a large helicopter, the first of which was to develop a helicopter with a payload of more than 700 kg. Fokker immediately began to develop the next generation of helicopters, according to the progress of history, the FA223 helicopter developed by Fokker will make its first flight in August 39, with a load of two tons, but it will not be put into production until 42 years, because of the lack of capital investment, the output is not large, and it cannot change the outcome of the war.

The performance of the Fa-223 was unparalleled for its time: the ceiling exceeded 7500 meters, the payload exceeded 2000 kg, and the cruising speed was 200 km / h. The Germans conducted extensive experiments with the aircraft, such as lifting 75mm anti-tank guns to deliver ammunition and supplies for mountain troops. The transport capacity of the aircraft made the German troops fighting in the mountains jaw-dropping, all the 75mm anti-tank guns of the entire mountain artillery company can be transported from the valley to the combat area at an altitude of 2000 meters with only one Fa-223, and ammunition and supplies only need one Fa-223 to complete the task, if it is transported by mule, it will not work without 40~50 heads.

In the summer of 1942, the Fokker factory was heavily damaged by the RAF bomber formation, and only 2 Fa-223s survived. By 1944, only eight Fa-223s rolled off the assembly line. All right! Such a good thing, but only 8 aircraft were produced, this is purely tyrannical! 8 helicopters is useless for this kind of world war. Germany has major problems in the production of weapons and equipment, mainly in terms of understanding, not in science and technology, and they simply do not understand the importance of helicopters in war, even if they are used as transport aircraft, it is a very remarkable progress.

Now Li Mo is working in the General Command, although he is just a person who does not have a staff officer and does not make a sound, but the General Headquarters is also the center of power in Germany, not to mention that Li Mo has been working in the general equipment of the General Headquarters for several months, and now Li Mo is the operational staff officer of the General Command, Li Mo can more or less suggest to Hitler that a large amount of investment in helicopter production, or the army to buy a large number of helicopters.

The Krupp family of the Fokker company also invested money, and now the Krupp company has been upgraded and transformed, and the weapons and equipment produced by the Krupp company are three or four times that of the previous one, and at the same time, the products of the Krupp company are not worried about selling, and the money is not a matter at all for the Krupp company at this time. Of course, thanks to the generosity of the Jews, without their money, Krupp would not have been able to complete the upgrade.

When Li Mo came to Fokker Company, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, not to mention the remoteness of this place, even the highway is a dirt road, and the road is dusty along the way, and Fokker Company does not have a factory at all, their factory is the farm of Fokker's family, several adobe houses stand next to a dam in an orderly manner, the area of this dam is still enough, there are two or three basketball courts, The dam was built with cement because it had to dry the grain, and this is the only place where Fokker is a little modern, and the rest of the place is completely farmhouse.

Li Mo looked at the scene in front of him, speechless for a long time, Li Mo was not worried that Dr. Fokker had embezzled the money invested by the Krupp family, the Krupp family invested two million German marks in Fokker Company, and this money could be built as a small factory, and at this time, Fokker Company was purely an empty shelf from the appearance, so what was going on?

"Dr. Falk, can you explain? Krupp invested two million in Fokker for half a year, is this such a scene? ”

"Young Master Ondet, that's the case, I have resigned from Fokker Company, Krupp invested in Fokker Achilles Company, because the company was formed, so I spent all my money on research and development, and now the company has more than 30 helicopter research experts, including aeroaerodynamics experts, aero engine experts, etc., the salary of these senior research experts is quite a lot, or I finally dug from major companies, they can work in this remote place, it is entirely because of their dream of helicopters."

The salary of a research expert in Germany can be equivalent to the salary of a German general, German scientific research experts do not have to worry about livelihood at all, small cars and houses can be bought casually, German girls are also very fond of scientific research experts, the state also has enough advantages for scientific researchers, every year the state subsidy allows these scientific researchers to travel abroad for a month, and the cost of hiring a scientific research expert is very high, and Dr. Fokker actually used two million to raise more than 30 scientific research experts, this is a person with strategic vision!

Although Dr. Falk called Li Mo a young master, his attitude was neither arrogant nor humble, and Li Mo also understood his words:

"That's right! Let's go in and have a look! ”

Dr. Falk took Li Mo into the R&D room, this adobe house used to be a cattle pen, because the area was large enough, there were more than 150 square meters, although it was cleaned, but as soon as Li Mo entered the house, he still smelled a pungent smell of cow dung, but Li Mo did not show a look of disgust, which made Dr. Falk have a better influence on Li Mo.

Looking at the scientific researchers who were constantly busy, of course Li Mo would not bother them, but took the initiative to exit the house and ask Dr. Falk outside:

"Dr. Falk, how many more researchers do we need to add if we want to speed up the research process?"

Dr. Falk straightened his glasses on the bridge of his nose, pondered for a moment, and said:

"Scientific research is not an overnight thing, many theories need to do a lot of experiments to be certified, if there are enough manpower, you can still appropriately speed up the research and development process, it is possible to increase 20 scientific researchers, more is a waste, but Fokker company can't afford to raise so many scientific researchers!"

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