Chapter 235: The Bloody Battle of Baku (4)
Because of the overwhelming superiority of Germany's "Sixth Master" aircraft, the United States produced the P59 two years ahead of schedule, and the United States naturally had this technical reserve, and hurriedly started the research and development of jet aircraft.
"Okay, okay, General Marshall, you must urge them to speed up the production of prototypes, produce prototypes as soon as possible, and then test flights, we need this jet, otherwise in the future, the sky of our US military will be dominated by Germany, which we cannot tolerate, so everything is up to General Marshall, what the R&D company needs, you can give it."
"Yes, Mr. President."
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Prime Minister's Office, London, United Kingdom:
Churchill also received a report on the development of jet aircraft, and Britain also successfully developed a jet fighter called "Meteor", which made Churchill ecstatic and hurriedly summoned Frank? Whittle, Frank? Whittle was the inventor of the British jet engine.
Even the German jet engines were in Frank? Whittle's research was based on the development of jet aircraft.
In the 30s of the 20th century, the RAF mechanical engineer Frank? Whittle designed and patented a jet fighter that could reach speeds of up to 500 miles per hour (about 800 kilometers). However, when Whittle proposed a plan to the RAF to create a jet fighter, he was told that the plan was "completely unrealistic" and that the RAF chief was reluctant to invest a penny in the project. What does that mean Frank? Whittle was forced to publicize his patent internationally, hoping to find a private investor to invest in the invention. But the document fell into the hands of the Germans, who used Whittle's blueprints to develop the German jet fighter project
Whittle allowed his patent documents to be kept secret, and a few months later the documents arrived in Berlin, Germany, where they were distributed to numerous aviation agencies. That document sparked a lot of interest among German engineers and they began to develop their own jet aircraft.
In 1931, eight years before the outbreak of World War II, Whittle proposed the idea of building a jet to his superior, Dr. A.A. Griffiths, a senior engineer in the British Royal Air Force, but Griffith rejected it on the spot. Whittle, confident in his invention and unwilling to be put on the shelf, disseminated his patents internationally in order to find a private investor or private investors to invest in it. The details of the crucial jet aircraft patent were published in their entirety, obtained by the German aerodynamics research institute, and the documents were sent to Hans? Feng? O'Hain's hands.
With the help of this blueprint, O'Hain succeeded in developing the Messerschmitt ME-262 jet fighter, which went into mass production in 1944. Whittle finally relied on two businessmen for Britain's first jet fighter to enter service in 1944. But Goley claimed that without Whittle's invention patent, Ohain's German jet fighter would never have gone into the sky. You know, jets fly much faster than propeller planes, and they also fly higher, up to 33,000 to 49,000 feet (about 10,000 to 15,000 meters).
It was widely believed that the Germans independently invented the jet engine, but this view is wrong.
Now because of the appearance of Zhang Jun, Zhang Junyi provides a little shape, can only omit the step of the blowing tunnel, the jet engine is the most important, in fact, German scientists are borrowed from the British scientist Frank? Research and design by Whittle. Facts are facts and cannot be tampered with, but German research is "better than blue".
Churchill and Montgomery carefully discussed the production and research and development of the "Meteor", and what they meant was that a large amount of money and scientific and technological forces must be invested to make the "Meteor" jet fighter mass-produced as soon as possible.
Germany's "Sixth Master", the United States' P59, Britain's "Meteor", which made the whole world enter the jet era a few years in advance, Zhang Jun originally thought that his jet fighter's technical superiority would last for two years, but unfortunately since the "Sixth Master" appeared in 39, it was only a little more than a year, Britain, France and the United States have developed their own jet fighters, of course, I don't know how effective their jet fighters are, at least these three countries have realized the importance of jet aircraft, And already a strong step has been taken in the development of jet aircraft.
Although the Soviet Union did not have the ability to produce jet aircraft, the Soviet Union's artillery and tank research and development did not lag behind at all, especially the mass production of T34 and the accelerated research and development of IS series tanks.
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On May 21, 1940, the battle of Baku kicked off again, this time as soon as the war began, Zhang Jun asked Hartmann to divide the aviation army into three parts, and continuously bombed the positions of the Soviet army, focusing on the Soviet airfield first, Zhang Jun didn't want his artillery to be attacked once, the second task was to open the way for the tank, ju87 dive bomber two 500 kg bombs, all fortifications are scum.
Hartmann suffered a big loss last time, this time he was ruthless to find the field, the overwhelming group of aircraft flew over the positions of the Soviet army, dropping one or two bombs from time to time, what fortifications could withstand a 500-kilogram bomb? It was only possible to build reinforced concrete fortifications more than two meters thick, but Zhukov was not able to build so many permanent fortifications in the field.
And the German artillery poured countless shells onto the positions of the Soviet army, and countless explosions made the first line of defense of the Soviet army shattered in an instant, the minimum caliber of these cannons was 120 mm, and the trenches dug by the Soviet army in the first line of defense were useless, and a single shell could blow up a large section, and the people in the trenches had absolutely no hope of living.
In this offensive, Zhukov did not send planes to attack the German SS in a sneak attack, mainly because Zhukov had no planes to send, although Zhukov did not have aircraft support, it does not mean that Zhukov did not have a killer weapon, Zhukov still had a killer weapon, and Zhukov had already arranged a big meal on the route of the German SS's possible attack.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
The SS shelling lasted twenty minutes before stopping, and Zhang Jun did not want to waste ammunition, the first two Soviet lines of defense did not need to be shelled so fiercely, and now the SS shells were transported from thousands of miles away, and they could not be used indiscriminately, they had to be used in key places.
In this offensive, Zhang Jun mobilized nine armored divisions for the offensive, behind the armored divisions were ten infantry divisions, and the nine armored divisions were divided into three assault groups, each assault group had three tank divisions, each assault group attacked with one tank division at a time, one tank division followed, and one tank division maintained, and the frontal width of each tank division was 2-5 kilometers wide.
When three red flares rose from the sky, the SS tanks began to attack, each armored assault group was about ten kilometers apart, needless to say the Soviet cannon fodder in the first line of defense, the SS tanks and armored vehicles directly crushed the past, there was basically no resistance, and the SS artillery had already made those cannon fodder disappear.
Zhukov, of course, knew how powerful the SS artillery and tanks were, and the front line was full of cannon fodder units, and these troops did not have many heavy weapons, and the most in their hands were anti-tank grenades and explosive packs.
Flitz was demoted to the rank last time because of greed, and now he is only the rank of sergeant squad leader, but Zhang Jun still let Frieze continue to serve as the commander of the "Scythe of Death" armored regiment, and today Flitz was assigned to the front line again, Flitz led one hundred and fifty-two tanks and the same number of armored vehicles, and behind them were two other tank regiments following up, their task was to rotate the "Reaper's Scythe" armored regiment when the "Scythe of Death" armored regiment attacked a certain distance, and would come up to rotate the "Reaper's Scythe" armored regiment, Behind the assault group of the armored regiment was a whole five infantry divisions.
This infantry division that followed was to occupy the positions broken by the armored assault group and completely tear apart the defensive lines of the Soviet army.
"Boom...... Rumble......"
"Report to the regiment commander, the first line of defense of the Soviet army has been destroyed by artillery, and there is no resistance, please instruct."
Flitz thought about it, or picked up the microphone in front of him, and began to report the situation to his superiors, after getting the answer that the order to continue the attack, Flitz did not hesitate, and quickly ordered his tank to open up a group of horsepower to crush the second line of defense of the Soviet army, now Flitz is much more careful, in the process of impact, do not forget to contact the air force on his head, Colonel Weiss is the "nanny" of Flitz's group of armored assault groups.
When Fritz contacted Colonel Weiss, Weiss directly told Fritz that the Soviet troops in the front two lines of defense were not very strong, and Colonel Weiss told Fritz to throw off his arms and charge.
Since the threat of the Soviet army is not great, Flitz of course wants to throw off his arms and rush, but Frieze, who is carrying the punishment on his back, does not dare to be arrogant, otherwise his acting head will be removed.
"All tanks remain in formation and continue to attack and advance."
Soon Flitz and the others assaulted in front of the Soviet army's second line of defense, and Flitz adjusted his formation and prepared to assault.
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Newich was a Georgian peasant who lived on a collective farm, and had a good harvest of grain, but every year the grain had to be transported out in large quantities, resulting in a lack of food on the farm where Newiqi and his family lived, and people starved to death every year, but no one dared to resist, and even if they said the wrong thing, they could face the end of execution.
Suddenly the war broke out, Nevich was forcibly pulled into the army, Naviqi was assigned to the second line of defense, the soldiers here are all peasants who have just enlisted in a hurry, only the battlefield discipline personnel led by the political commissar are veterans, these people are fierce, as long as anyone dares to escape, they will be immediately executed by the political commissar...... (To be continued.) )