"What? Did an American bomber fly over the Atlantic and drop a bomb on Ireland? ”

In the Chancellery, Hitler, who had just chatted for an hour with Mussolini, the "messenger of peace" who was about to fly to Washington, was at Berlin's Tempelhof Airport and was shocked by the news of the Hersmann report. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Do the Americans have ultra-long-range bombers that can bomb across the ocean?" Hitler hurriedly asked.

"It should be the B-29, and it could be some kind of improved version with an increased range." "But the fact that they dropped their bombs on farmland in County Mayo, Ireland, suggests that they may not have had enough range to sustain a long period of time over the island of Ireland in search of more valuable targets."

In addition, the number of craters found is not large. This means that the plane has very few bomb loads, perhaps only a few hundred kilograms of bombs, and does not pose much of a threat. ”

Adolph. Hitler looked at Hersmann and sighed softly: "Reichsmarshal, I think you know what a bargaining chip is in diplomatic negotiations, right?" ”

"Of course," Hersman nodded, "of course I do!" The Americans are showing us what they can do, and we need to return the color! ”

"The first is to ensure the absolute security of European soil!" Hitler solemnly pointed out that "the prestige of Germany is at stake." ”

"Prime Minister, there is no such thing as absolute security." Hersman didn't dare promise not to let the B-29 come back.

He told Hitler: "I have ordered the Navy to send SP reconnaissance cruisers to the west coast of Ireland, and to have the Air Force deploy anti-aircraft warning radars in the west of Ireland." ”

Germany has long deployed radars on the island of Ireland, but the radars that Germany has placed in Ireland are concentrated in the southwest of the island of Ireland, mainly to provide air defense early warning for the Cork base -- for Germany, only the base in Cork Bay on the entire island of Ireland has some value, so there are not too many radars and fighters.

And since the war on the European continent, especially in Western Europe, had ended with the surrender of Britain proper. Therefore, the Wehrmacht did not invest any money in the air defense alert system of Western Europe - military spending was limited, and it had to be spent on the cutting edge. It would cost a lot of money to create an air defense alert system that would cover Iceland all the way to Gibraltar. With this money, it is better to invest in the Air Force to build a few more Me264s that can kill Reaper 1B missiles.

Besides, from a military point of view, Ireland is of little value, and it is a complete waste to bomb Ireland with long-range heavy bombers.

As for the US carrier-based aircraft, it is impossible to get close, because there is a blockade line consisting of naval vessels, reconnaissance planes and submarines between the Azov Islands on the island of Iceland, and there is no possibility of being quietly broken through by the US Navy aircraft carrier fleet at all.

"Revenge must be taken!" Hitler did not appear particularly annoyed, saying, "Roosevelt sent B-29s to bomb Ireland for the purpose of obtaining favorable terms in the peace talks, which shows that he really wanted to negotiate with us." ”

"I understand," Hersmann agreed, agreeing with Hitler's conjecture, "that a large group of Me264F long-range missile-bombers has been deployed in the Azores and will be ready to launch Reaper-1B missiles at Boston as soon as the night of September 20." ”

The launch of the Reaper-1B missile at a distance of 500 km is a systems project, in addition to the aircraft as a carrier and the missile itself, there will be reconnaissance submarines and camouflaged radio navigation ships involved in the battle.

In order to ensure that the air-launched Reaper 1B missile could accurately hit the target city, the Me264 had to launch the missile at a specific position – including the height of the aircraft, the direction of the nose and the position of the aircraft. The altitude and nose orientation are easy to determine, but it is not easy to locate the position of the aircraft itself. There was no GPS location these days, so it was very common for planes to deviate from direction during night flights.

In order to help the Me264 in the air find the missile launch position at night, the Luftwaffe and Navy adopted X-beam navigation. Dispatch 10 radio navigation ships (2 navigation ships are not enough, because the Lorens beam transmission distance is limited, and multiple navigation ships must transmit beams continuously) to send out two Lorens beams that intersect at a certain location at a designated location, and the intersection point of the two beams is the position where the Me264 launches missiles - the aircraft will first fly along one beam and hear a specific series of sounds through the receiving device on the plane. When the plane arrives at the meeting point, two specific strings of sounds are heard. At this time, you can find the right direction and altitude, and then launch the missile.

The missile, on the other hand, is guided by a simple navigation system and flies 500 kilometers before hitting the city of Boston. At the same time, the U-4001 large observation submarine will secretly sneak into the vicinity of Boston and send several captured US-made OS2U "Kingfisher" seaplanes to approach Boston from ultra-low altitudes pretending to be US Coast Guard planes.

Now a group of 36 Me264F long-range missile bombers has been deployed to the airport of Porto Sangra in the Azores, but the two camouflaged radio navigation ships (disguised as merchant ships of the neutral Roman Empire) and the U-4001 large reconnaissance submarine for navigation have not yet arrived, so the American people in Boston will need to wait patiently for a few more days before they can appreciate the power of German cruise missiles.

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September 18, 1944, 2 p.m.

On the tarmac of the large airfield at the Port Heroes Air Base, 36 huge Me264F long-range missile bombers have long been lined up, waiting to strike. Ground crews belonging to the Luftwaffe's 1st Missile Aviation Regiment drove bomb/missile tractors and towed the Reaper 1B air-launched cruise missile on a flatbed truck under the belly. The flatbed was then raised, the missile was fixed to the electric rail launcher, the safety bolt on the missile was removed, the line used to transmit the ignition signal was inserted into the special electrical socket, and finally a special guide tube was inserted into a socket on the missile, which was used to transport the exhaust gases produced by the aircraft engine to preheat the missile.

Since this was the first time in history that an air-launched cruise missile was used in real combat, the Luftwaffe attached great importance to it, and the commander-in-chief, Field Marshal Kesselring, the chief of staff, General Jeshunek, and the commander of the newly established missile aviation Corps, Admiral Költen, arrived in Sangra Sansmanjísmo ahead of schedule.

At this time, the three of them were working with the commander of the 1st Missile Aviation Regiment, Helmut. Colonel Poeller talks.

Helmut. Colonel Poehler, a veteran bomber pilot, also participated in the bombing of Scapa Bay at the beginning of World War, when he was a captain squadron leader of the Ju88 Squadron, personally piloting a 500-kilogram bomb on a British battleship.

However, Helmut, who has a lot of combat experience. Colonel Pouller, however, found the missile attack he was about to lead a little bored.

When a missile is launched in the air 500 kilometers from Boston, and as soon as it is finished, it will not see the appearance of the bombing of Boston, and most of the enemy planes will not be seen. Such a mission is not a real combat at all, but a training flight.

"Colonel, do you know what to do?" Marshal Kesselring asked.

"Yes," Helmut. "Take off, fly along the Lorens beam, lower the altitude to 2,000 meters when you reach the intersection of the two beams, and then aim at 95.86 degrees and shoot the Reaper 1B missile, and you're ready to return," Colonel Pohler said. ”

"Air Marshal, this is a very safe mission, the missile launch site is 500 kilometers from the continental United States and more than 200 kilometers from the Nova Scotia Peninsula in Canada. Basically, outside the detection range of the enemy's air defense early warning radar, it is impossible to get lost even with Lorens beam navigation, so it is not necessary to fly in formation. ”

The reason for not forming is not only that combat operations are very safe, but also that the purpose is to increase the combat radius.

Because there is a distance of more than 3200 kilometers from the airport of Herosmo Sansmo to the point "X" where the missile was launched. For the Me264F, which has a 2.5-ton Reaper 1B cruise missile on board, it is definitely a very long distance. If the target of Me264F is New York, then point "X" is 3,400 kilometers from Anglo-Heroís-Marshato.

So the Me264F had to save every drop of gasoline, not only the formation flight was omitted, but even the machine guns and cannons on the plane were all removed, and the machine gunners, of course, did not have to get on the plane. The engines used in the aircraft are also not equipped with turbochargers, which in turn reduces the empty weight by thousands of kilograms.

The weight saved was all used to carry gasoline, not only the fuel tank in the engine was fully filled, but also a dozen barrels of gasoline were placed in the cabin. This will ensure that the aircraft has enough fuel to go back and forth to point "X".

"The Me264F can reach a cruising speed of up to 400 km / h, and a range of about 3200 km takes 8 hours," said Helmut. Colonel Pohler went on to say, "The Reaper 1B missile is fast, reaching 900 km/h, and will reach the skies over Boston about 20 minutes after launch. ”

Field Marshal Kesselring nodded, then turned to the commander of the missile aviation, Admiral Corten, and said: "That is, it will be possible to know whether the missile hit or not at most 8 and a half hours after the first Me264F takes off." ”

"Marshal," Admiral Korten replied very confidently, "the first Me264F will take off in 30 minutes, so in nine hours you will surely get the news that the missile has hit the city of Boston." ”

"One hundred percent?" Kesselring asked.

"Yes!" Admiral Kolden nodded, "The reliability of the Reaper 1B missile is extremely high, reaching almost 100% failure-free rate, and it flies at a high speed, up to 900 km/h, making it almost impossible to intercept. ”

"Good!" Kesselring laughed, "Then Hans and I are waiting in Porto Sansíma, "Then we are waiting for the good news in Porto Sanjurijo!" ”