Germany spent another $2 billion on the research and development of other weapons and equipment, such as the ME264 strategic bomber with a range of 15,000 kilometers, which cost the Führer Rommel $500 million in research and development, which is still the research and development cost needed this year. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

If Germany wants to get the ME264 strategic bomber, it will cost at least 1.5 billion, which is not counting Germany's early investment in the ME263, Rommel, the traverser, clearly remembers that the United States spent as much money as the Manhattan Project to develop the B29 strategic bomber, a full 3 billion US dollars.

Back in 1937, the Messersmitt company began designing a four-engine long-range strategic bomber (codenamed P1061). Due to the fact that the production of BF109 and BF110 fighters occupied a priority position at that time, the design work on the P1061 progressed slowly.

It was not until 1940, considering the growing possibility of the United States entering the war, that the Luftwaffe issued a tender to various aircraft factories for the design of a bomber with a range of more than 12,000 kilometers.

This allowed it to take off from its base in France to reach its objectives in the eastern part of the United States, which finally gave the seemingly moribund P1061 a chance to survive, and soon it was given the designation ME264.

ME264 was a project set by Hitler, but Hitler did not invest much in research and development.

The Führer Rommel, of course, knew the importance of strategic bombers, and wasn't the United States going to war? Doesn't the United States think of itself as a God-favored nation? When hordes of bombers flew over the continental United States, I wonder if the Yankees would be scared.

Germany's strategic bomber was also developed because of the foundation laid in the Hitler era, and now Führer Rommel continues to develop it, so it only costs half the money of the United States.

Another example is the research and development of various missiles, which cost Rommel $300 million, and the research and development of the Leopard 2 main station tank, Rommel invested $200 million.

All the weapons and equipment research and development expenses add up to $4.4 billion, and Rommel asked Swiss banks to help sell the looted art and gold, a total of $5 billion, leaving a mere $600 million.

The $600 million Rommel didn't keep it, and Speer used the $600 million to produce weapons and equipment.

Didn't Rommel ask Speer to turn on the whole of Europe's industrial horsepower? The $600 million is only enough for the advance payments to those producers.

The industry of the whole of Europe has just been revitalized, and it is impossible for Rommel to owe money to the producers, and even the advance payments have been paid in advance, so that the enterprises that have only resumed production have enough funds to keep afloat.

The prosperity of the arms industry can actually lead to the prosperity of related industries, and this is the case in the United States in history.

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After talking about the armament of the German army and air force, Rommel did not forget about the armament of the Navy, and the Zeppelin aircraft carrier was completed a year ago at Rommel's expense.

Before Goering died, the Zeppelin aircraft carrier could only be parked in the harbor, and could not even go to sea trials, because there were no planes on the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, and it was in vain to go to sea trials.

When Goering was alive, he arrogantly declared: "Everything that can fly in Germany is under his command." "The German Navy wanted to have its own planes, but there were no doors.

When Goering was executed and Führer Rommel came to power, Führer Rommel sent enough planes and pilots to the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, but Zeppelin still could not go to the open sea for sea trials, because British warships were waiting in the open sea, but Britain was afraid to enter the German shore-based aircraft attack radius.

The Zeppelin aircraft carrier can only walk in the near sea, whether it is a bend or not, the Zeppelin aircraft carrier has begun real sea trials, and the pilots are also simulating training on the land base.

To be honest, Rommel was also not optimistic about the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, not because the Zeppelin aircraft carrier was not advanced, and not because Zeppelin had no combat experience.

Rather, it is because Britain already has seven regular aircraft carriers and sixteen converted aircraft carriers at this time, and the United States is about the same, but the United States can build more than 20 regular aircraft carriers a year, and Britain can build seven or eight a year.

And Germany has only one, the enemy has so many aircraft carriers, and there is an unprecedented construction capacity, even if the Zeppelin aircraft carrier has the ability to work every day, it will be sunk!

Germany occupied all of Europe and integrated most of its industry, but it also did not have the ability to develop its navy and army and air force at the same time.

Germany simply does not have the ability to fight for warship consumption at sea between Britain and the United States, and Germany cannot afford to fight, the century-old navy is definitely not an empty word, all the warships are piled up with gold, and Germany does not have so much money and resources to pile up countless warships.

Is the German navy doomed to inaction? Of course not, Germany's wolf pack tactics in the early stage achieved very brilliant results, but at the beginning of the 41st Company, the British invented sonar, which made the wolf pack tactics of German submarines unsustainable.

Rommel carefully analyzed the situation that Germany was facing, and he also felt that Hitler's submarine strategy was not wrong, but it was only the emergence of new technology that caused problems in Germany's submarine warfare.

It's all a matter of spear and shield, and definitely not a problem with submarine warfare. To put it simply, German submarines had to be equipped with new weapons against enemy destroyers.

The British destroyers now have no more than anti-submarine means of detecting German submarines with sonar, and then rushing up and dropping deep bombs.

And the sonar on the British ship can detect the depth and course of the German submarine at any time, so that as long as the German submarine is discovered by the British ship, it will be difficult to escape.

And what if German submarines could launch submarine-launched anti-ship missiles under water? Relying on the backward anti-submarine means of British warships, rushing up can only be killed.

Isn't Germany developing ground-based missiles? Isn't Germany developing a variety of more advanced radars? If Germany integrates the two technologies and installs missiles on submarines, then this submarine-launched missile will not be completed.

Rommel is thinking in this way, whether Germany can successfully develop a submarine-launched missile depends on which researchers.

Navy Commander Dönitz and the head of the research and development of the two projects of missiles and radar were summoned by Führer Rommel to the Reichstag in this way.

The meeting was again held in the office of the Führer Rommel, and the first question Rommel asked was the commander of the Navy, Dönitz:

"General Dönitz, I have seen the results of the recent battle reported by the Navy, and the losses of our submarines in the past few months are too great, in just a few months, we have lost sixty-five submarines, which is almost half of our submarines.

I have an idea, I want to develop a missile launched from a submarine, let's call this missile a submarine-launched missile for the time being! Do you think this idea is feasible? ”

After listening to Rommel's words, Dönitz was at a loss, he Dönitz knew about missiles, such as V1 and V2, but the error of that thing is too big, it can land dozens of kilometers away from a few hundred kilometers, and this thing can hit a ship moving hundreds of kilometers away? That's hell alive.

[Thank you brothers for the rewards and monthly passes, ......brothers have a happy Mid-Autumn Festival] (To be continued.) )