Chapter 770: The Bloody Battle in Moscow (Part I)

The design idea of strategic ballistic missiles is to pursue higher performance at all costs, especially range and payload, so that they can be used as their special delivery vehicles after the successful development of atomic bombs in the future. At present, the range of the strategic ballistic missile developed by Germany has reached 1,200 kilometers, but it is still far from the mustache's request that it can directly hit the mainland of the United States, and it is too wasteful to use it to hit the United Kingdom, so there has not yet been a mass-produced model.

The positioning of tactical ballistic missiles is different, its task is to replace the responsibility of bombers to bomb important targets of the enemy when the air force fails to seize air supremacy or the enemy's anti-aircraft fire is extremely strong, and clear the way for the offensive of ground forces, so the requirements for range are relatively low, 600 kilometers is enough, and accuracy is more important, but the most important thing is cost performance, that is, to pour as much ammunition as possible on the enemy's head at the lowest cost.

At present, Germany's progress in this area is faster than that of the strategic type, and although the accuracy does not meet the expectations of Braun and other researchers, at least the cost has been greatly reduced, so it has been recognized by the mustache and named the V-2 short-range ballistic missile. It must be noted that although it is positioned as a mass-produced bargain, the performance of the V-2 missile in this time and space is actually much stronger than the historical missile of the same name, and the error has been reduced from 8 km to 5 km (both values at the maximum range of 600 km) under the premise that the maximum range has almost doubled, which is even more rare. Today's V-2 is slightly cheaper than it was historically, and the German industry today is much better off than it was when the V-2 was put into practice, so production is far from historically comparable

Although the accuracy of the V-2 is not enough to focus on smaller targets such as factories when the attack distance is long, but after the defeat of the Soviet army and the complete loss of air supremacy, the Germans can let hundreds of V-2 missiles on board advance to a position less than 30 kilometers from the city of Moscow, so that the accuracy is naturally greatly improved, and one of the benefits of liquid rockets is also reflected, although it is troublesome to have to fill fuel before use, but it is also possible to control the amount of fuel to adjust the range. If it's a solid ballistic missile. With a maximum range of 600 kilometers, it is now impossible to attack targets in Moscow that are only a few tens of kilometers away

After being attacked by hundreds of V-2 missiles equipped with one-ton cloudburst warheads, many important anti-aircraft artillery positions in Moscow were attacked and suffered losses to varying degrees, which caused Moscow's air defense capability to suffer heavy losses. Under the unfavorable situation that the air force was seriously damaged and it was difficult to compete with the Germans for air supremacy in a short period of time. Giving full play to the role of ground-based air defense was already almost the only way for the Soviets to contain the German bombing of cities. Now even the ground air defense Liliang has lost more than half. How can this battle be fought?

The large number of cloudburst bombs used by the Germans again also cast a shadow on the hearts of the Soviet military and civilians, and the current Moscow Military District has no way to go out of the city to fight with the German army, or even to build a complete defense line in the suburbs that is enough to defend the city, and can only rely on street fighting to hold Moscow. However, the bitter lesson of the Battle of Stalingrad has fully demonstrated how terrible the use of cloud burst bombs in street fighting is, and the Soviet military and civilians are no longer afraid of death, nor do they want to sacrifice worthless, and Stalin and other senior leaders of the CPSU also understand that in the grim situation that the Soviet Union has lost nearly 10 million troops so far, every meaningless waste of troops will keep the Soviet Union away from victory.

In desperation, even if he was as tough as Stalin, he had to make the painful decision to temporarily abandon Moscow, but he still ordered a part of the army to stay and hold on, so as to buy time for the transfer of the civilian masses in Moscow, especially the old and weak women and children, and he himself would stay in Moscow until all the old and weak women and children who could be evacuated were all withdrawn, which greatly boosted the morale of the military and civilians in Moscow and even the whole Soviet Union, and "Stalin is with us" also became the most commonly used slogan in the Soviet army later. As a result, the Soviet army not only did not collapse after abandoning Moscow, but became more brave and tenacious.

What's more, I don't know if it's a rush to make wisdom, but in such a dangerous situation, Stalin instead came up with the most targeted street fighting tactics, which greatly weakened the role of the German army's cloud burst bombs. Cloudburst bombs can consume a large amount of oxygen in a certain space, suffocating the creatures in that space. Causing death or coma is especially effective when used in enclosed and semi-enclosed spaces, but Stalin suddenly realized that when used in street fighting, cloudburst shells also have insurmountable limitations

Although Stalin's tactical level was not very good, he had an almost intuitive super judgment on the strengths and weaknesses of various weapons (Note 1), and he found that the cloudburst bomb had a dead angle that could not be attacked in the street battle, that is, the upper floor of the high-rise building, because the cloudburst bomb basically exploded near the ground, and the individual cloudburst bomb, which was the greatest threat to the defenders in the street battle, could not directly attack the higher floors from the street, because the higher the floor, The greater the inclination, the larger the cloud burst bomb, the more likely it is to be blocked by a protruding mechanism such as a balcony and unable to penetrate the window to kill the people inside, and the individual cloud burst bomb is designed to resemble a bazooka, which is very difficult to be accurate when attacking from above.

Even if the Germans invade the building, the cloudburst bomb still cannot be used against the Soviet army occupying the upper floor, because the cloudburst bomb used by the German army is a relatively backward secondary explosion mechanism, and the combustible vapor dispersed by the first explosion is heavier than the air, which is an advantage when used on flat ground, because it can reduce the escape of fuel air explosives before the explosion, but it is troublesome in the corridor, it will flow along the corridor before the explosion, so the possibility of blowing up the German army is much greater than that of blowing up the Soviet army, What's more, because the attenuation of the shock wave generated by the explosion of the cloud burst bomb in the corridor is very small, as long as the German army dares to enter the corridor, the probability of being accidentally injured by it is quite large, and judging from the disparity between the two sides so far in the Soviet-German war, even if it is one for one, the Soviet army can be regarded as a big profit

Note 1: Many classic weapons in Soviet history were set as standard equipment by him after overwhelming public opinion, and Stalin was also aware of the problem early on for many wrong weapon design ideas, such as the design of the tank's multi-turret was ridiculed by him as a "department store", and later the T-34 had a place to come out (to be continued......