The adjutant Wald immediately brought a cup of coffee and green tea, and Rommel the Traveler had long since switched to green tea. Rommel and Andrew held their cups and talked by the big sand table:

"General Andrew, have you received the twelve FA223 transport helicopters sent by Fokker?"

"Received, our pilot is very interested in this kind of aircraft, and I didn't expect such an ugly helicopter to be able to carry 4,000 kilograms."

These FA223 transport planes are the latest products of Rommel's support for Fokker, which also produced FA223 transport helicopters in history, but they did not have the money to buy high-power engines, so the carrying capacity was only 2 tons.

Since Fokker received $100 million in Rommel support, it immediately set out to improve the FA223 transport helicopter and began to build a production line, and the first FA223 improved models were urgently sent to the front line to practice because Rommel was going to do something about the Gibraltar fortress.

Another Fokker gunship FL282 is still under study (now the starting point can not send pictures, everyone Baidu FA223 and Hummingbird helicopter, so there is a more intuitive impression.) ）

The FL282 gunship is the originator of modern helicopters, and its appearance is no different from that of modern helicopters.

In July 40, the prototype of the new carrier-based Hummingbird helicopter developed by Fly rolled off the assembly line. At the beginning of 1941, the aircraft began to conduct test flights and performed well. The Germans were overjoyed and immediately ordered 15 pre-production and 30 full-production models, to be assembled mainly at the new plants in Johannest and Bart Tolz.

In order to get the aircraft on board, Frett organized pilots to fly the Hummingbird helicopter to test take-off and landing in the 4-meter x 4-meter landing area carved out on the German Navy cruiser, and the Hummingbird helicopter was completely able to take off and land in such a small area, even at night

The Hummingbird helicopter previously produced by Fokker was a naval model, and the load of this gunship was simply too small, only a pitiful five hundred kilograms.

This helicopter is not very useful to Rommel except for reconnaissance, so Rommel did not ask them to use the hummingbird helicopter for practice.

Rommel gave $100 million to Fokker, and Fokker gave Rommel 40 percent of the shares.

Since Rommel is the majority shareholder of Fokker and the Hummingbird has such an advanced design concept, how could Rommel not vigorously support this huge gunship!

Of course, Rommel knows the performance of the FA223, but the FA223 transport helicopter is really ugly, but the role of the helicopter in attacking the Gibraltar fortress will be irreplaceable, and this is Rommel's secret weapon for attacking the Gibraltar fortress.

Rommel thought for a moment and said to Andrew:

"In that case, let the direct flight brigade return to the headquarters of the construction army!"

Andrew, the commander of the 4th Aviation Division, who was drinking tea, held coffee in his hand, opened his mouth, and looked at Rommel in a daze.

Andrew was completely stunned, it turned out that he was empty and happy! He became a pilot himself, and he worked hard to organize flight training, and the result was to make wedding clothes for others.

The Luftwaffe and the Luftwaffe certainly couldn't pee in a night pot, and Goering simply regarded the Air Force as his own private property.

In this case, Rommel must find a way to master his own direct navigation troops, otherwise when you want to use direct navigation troops, Goering can make Rommel have no direct navigation troops available with a single order.

If Rommel didn't want to go against Goering, the FA223 transport helicopter produced by Fokker had already begun mass production, and Goering and other troops needed transport helicopters, so they just had to buy them with their own money.

As for the role of the FA223 transport helicopter, there is more, to quickly transport materials and troops, this is only the most basic ability, especially to lift heavy weapons such as cannons to the top of the mountain.

For example, to transport an artillery battery and related ammunition to the top of a mountain more than 2,000 meters high, it takes at least 200 mules and horses, and then it can be completed in two days.

And what if the FA4 transport helicopter with a load of 223 tons is used? There are only two of them, and the time spent on these two transport planes is no more than 2 hours, and the gap between the two is so huge, and this is the power of technology.

Andrew and Rommel have worked together many times, and he also admires Rommel very much, since General Rommel raised this question, Andrew nodded and said:

"Okay, I'll get the direct flight unit back to the army as soon as possible, and those pilots will also follow the plane to the army!"

This Andrew is really good, a qualified pilot is a baby bump at any time, Andrew actually sent it with the pilot, of course Rommel couldn't ask for it.

"Thank you so much, General Andrew, but Marshal Goering needs you to carry it."

"I understand."

Then the two began to talk about the Battle of Gibraltar, and Rommel gave Andrew the following orders:

"Don't wait for the arrival of the army and immediately launch an air attack on the Gibraltar fleet."

Rommel is the commander of the coalition forces, and how the air force fights is Andrew's business, and Rommel will never interfere indiscriminately.

Skipping command has always been taboo, not to mention that Rommel is only an army commander, and he has no experience in commanding the air force.

If you don't die, you won't die...... Internet quotes, the traverser Rommel still remembers it vividly!

Since the advent of the Air Force, most wars have started with the Air Force, and this winged aircraft has been given a completely new mission as soon as it appeared.

The German 7th Panzer Corps quickly advanced towards Gibraltar through the French and Spanish railway systems.

And the air battle in Gibraltar suddenly began the morning after Rommel received General Andrew.

After receiving Rommel's orders, Andrew transferred his air force to several airfields around Magala overnight.

The Fourth Air Division originally had nearly 500 aircraft, but after the Battle of Great Britain, the division was replenished and had only more than 300 aircraft, of which there were more than 120 JU87 dive bombers, and the rest were fighters.

The German fighter BF109 is certainly much more advanced than the two British carrier-based aircraft, which are the Swordfish and the Seagull.

Both carrier-based aircraft are outdated products, slow and weak in firepower, and are simply no match for the BF109.

The British Spitfire had too few fighters, and there were no carrier-based aircraft at the moment, and in Gibraltar, where there was no land airfield, the British Spitfire could not support the battlefield at all.

The area of the Gibraltar Peninsula is only 6.5 kilometers, and the territory is mostly limestone rocks, not that the British did not want to build an airport, but they could not build an airport at all.

Germany's JU87 dive bomber is an artifact of precision bombing, this kind of aircraft will emit a terrible scream when it dives and bombs, and this scream makes people tremble, so JU87 has another nickname - the screaming Grim Reaper.

The JU87 Stuka dive bomber can carry 1,000 kg of bombs, which, combined with its precision bombing capability of no more than one meter, gives the JU87 invulnerable.

The most successful pilot with the Ju87 was Hans. Ulrich. Rudel, who was Germany's most famous pilot in World War II.

His record included the destruction of 519 tanks large enough to form five Soviet tank corps, as well as 150 artillery positions, nearly 1,000 other vehicles, 70 ships, three aircraft, the sinking of the Soviet battleship Marat, the wounded battleship Red October, and the sinking of two more cruisers and one destroyer.

This shows the terrifying combat power of such aircraft, and it is not for nothing that Rommel took the lead in using the air force to launch a surprise attack on the Gibraltar fleet.

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