Of course, the only missiles currently in use in the Soviet Union are the R-1 of the V-2 clone and the R-2, a minor modification of the R-1, and the R-3 and R-4, R-5, R-6, R-7 and R-8 projects are underway.

It seems that there are many projects, but the division of labor is still clear, the R-3 will be the first radar-guided air-to-air missile in the Soviet Union, and it is now under intense development. The R-4 is still an air-to-air missile, but this is an infrared-guided one. The R-5 and R-6 projects belong to the Navy, of which the R-5 is a surface-launched ballistic missile, that is, the naval version of the R-2, which is quite simple. The R-6 is a submarine-launched ballistic missile project being promoted by the Navy, which is currently in a state of low-speed pre-research due to financial and technical reasons. As for the R-7, it is needless to say, this is an intercontinental missile project jointly invested by the Army and the Air Force. As for the R-8, it is a medium-range missile with a further increase in range on the basis of the R-2, and according to the plan, this missile will have a range of 1,500 kilometers and a maximum throw weight of five tons of warheads.

To put it bluntly, the R-8 project was specifically tailored for dropping atomic bombs. Fifteen hundred kilometers of range, even if deployed in Poland, is enough to threaten Paris and London. Presumably, it will make the British and French a lot more honest. Anyway, Korolev and Grushko's top priority in the recent period is to get the R-8 and make the Soviet Union's nuclear forces initially have a very high penetration capability.

Of course, this will take time, according to Korolev's schedule, the R-8 will be tested with live ammunition in 1945, and the real service may not be until 1946 at the earliest. Therefore, a certain immortal has to step up his urging to Tupolev and ask him to speed up the Tu-4 project quickly, otherwise the Soviet Union has an atomic bomb but no delivery vehicle, which is called funny.

That's all for ballistic missiles and bombers, and the next thing to talk about is cruise missiles. Li Xiaofeng also attached great importance to this aspect, and in fact, under his influence, the Soviet Union developed these two missiles together. For example, in 1943, the Military Commission officially ordered the development of the T1 ballistic missile and the T2 cruise missile, of which the T1 was the R-1 and R-2 ballistic missiles, and the development progress of the T2 was not as smooth as the T1.

In fact, from the very beginning, the T2 project was in big trouble, what big trouble? That is, no one wants to take on the T2 project. What's going on?

Let's start from the beginning, first of all, we must make it clear that the T2 cruise missile is not a cruise missile in the general sense, and in a certain sense, the so-called cruise missile in China refers to a flying missile similar to a Tomahawk for strategic strikes on the ground. However, cruise missiles in the international sense can not only refer to missiles similar to Tomahawks, such as Harpoon, Exocet and other anti-ship missiles, which can also be called cruise missiles. To put it bluntly, as long as it does not fly in a ballistic trajectory, but maneuvers like an airplane in the atmosphere, it can be called a cruise missile.

So what category does this T2 project of the USSR belong to? Belonging to the Tomahawk category, this cruise missile is responsible only for strategic strikes against the ground and is an addition to the T1 project. The indicators of the T1 project were very high in those days, and even the indicators of the T2 project were not ordinarily high. According to the requirements of the General Armament Department, the T2 should also be able to carry a nuclear warhead, and the maximum range cannot be less than 300 km.

If you think about how many tons of nuclear bombs weighed back then, how big should the T2 cruise missile be if it could carry such a large warhead. It was this that discouraged the design bureaus and designers of the USSR.

Anyway, no one dared to take on this project at that time. It was cold for three months, and when Li Xiaofeng asked about the progress of the T2 project, he found that the total equipment had made such a big oolong. The Nima warhead weighs several tons and can fly 300 kilometers away, or is it flying, how big is this missile?

After Li Xiaofeng discovered this, he immediately gave instructions to delete the item that a nuclear warhead can be carried from the project index and change it to be able to carry a 500-kilogram conventional warhead.

Li Xiaofeng thinks that this time he will not continue to be cold, right? It's just that what he didn't expect was that the Soviet designers and design bureaus still didn't give face, and no one wanted to take over the T2 project. Why?

In fact, the reason is very simple, because this is wartime, most of the design bureaus and designers are full of tasks, and everyone is busy like dogs, where there is time to engage in what cruise missiles.

This situation continued until Li Xiaofeng's second intervention, and when the MiG Design Bureau and the Lavochkin Design Bureau were divided on the advanced power fighter project, Li Xiaofeng made a decision to let Lavochkin take over the T2 project.

Some comrades may want to say that you are nonsense, Lavochkin is the designer of airplanes, how can you let him engage in missiles? Doesn't this make him a monk halfway? Isn't that a waste of talent?

That's really not the case, Lavochkin is famous for designing fighter jets, but after losing to the MiG-15 in history, he basically gave up the aircraft project and turned to missiles in an all-round way, and the first missile model he designed was the V-300, that is, the S-25 Golden Eagle missile system.

You may be a little unfamiliar with the name S-25 and Golden Eagle. In fact, this is what the West calls the SAM-1 anti-aircraft missile. And the more famous Sam-2 is also the S-75 missile system, which also came from the hands of this designer. And his design bureau was later particularly good at developing missiles, and he was a good hand at ramjet engines.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng didn't put all his eggs in one basket. He chose two design bureaus for the T2 project, the second of which was Myashev.

Myashev is actually similar to Lavochkin, both of them jumped ship halfway to work on missiles. In history, in 1951, when Comrade Iron and Steel asked Tupolev to develop a jet strategic bomber but the old designer flatly refused, Comrade Iron and Steel was furious, and directly kicked Tupolev aside and appointed Miyashev, who was just 48 years old at the time, to work on this project.

At that time, Myashev had little to offer, except for a period of time as a prisoner under Tupolev during World War II. However, Stalin's vision of people was still good, and although Myashev was engaged in strategic bombers, he was still very successful in developing missiles.

But in 1944, when Li Xiaofeng ordered Lavochkin and Myashev to develop cruise missiles, the two did not seem very happy. Lavochkin also wanted to pull back a game on the plane, and Myashev wanted to design the bomber. However, in the Soviet Union at that time, the designers could only follow the baton of the ****** and did not listen to the orders of the head of the Central Committee.

So in June 1944, Lavochkin and Myashev reluctantly began the project of a cruise missile. It is also interesting to say that the cruise missile schemes of Lavochkin and Myashev are quite similar, both are two-stage missile schemes, the first stage uses a liquid rocket engine (booster), and the second stage uses a ramjet engine (cruise engine).

Among them, Lavochkin was designed as the 350, or V-350. The entire missile adopts a cluster bundle booster, and the booster and the missile body are side by side, and the length of the two is about the same. The V-350's cruising class is similar to the plane's symmetrical aerodynamic layout, consisting of a cylindrical body with a main wing and tail. The engine used in the cruise-class missile body is the RD-670U liquid ramjet engine developed by the Bondar Yuko Design Bureau (OKB-12), which is actually an improvement on the RD-40 engine. The ramjet engine uses a head shock cone multi-wave intake duct, and the shock cone is followed by a straight-through ramjet combustion chamber.

In contrast to jet engines, ramjet engines do not need a compressor in front of the combustion chamber. Around the tubular intake duct and combustion chamber are annular fuel tanks, which contain aviation kerosene, which account for 70% of the total weight of the missile, and the weight of the missile body is only 22%, and the warhead weighs 8%.

When the ramjet air enters the inlet through the head of the missile, it reaches the combustion chamber after multiple shock wave deceleration and diffusion through the inlet channel, and the flow rate at this time has dropped to ensure that it can be mixed with the fuel normally for combustion, so as to form a stable high-temperature gas, and finally spray out at high speed through the nozzle to generate thrust.

The V-350 needs a booster for takeoff, and an S2.1100 rocket engine is hung under each of its wings. This is the engine developed by the Isaev Design Bureau for the later famous Scud, that is, the R-11 missile. The engine has four parallel nozzles with a kerosene/nitric acid two-component propellant.

The warhead of the V-350 is inside the shock cone, and the weight is kept secret for the time being (there are surprises), but the power is quite amazing.

The Miyashev Design Bureau's T2 missile project, codenamed RSS-40, is also a cluster bundle structure in which the booster surrounds the missile body. Slightly different, the RSS-40 has four boosters and also uses a nitric acid-kerosene two-component propellant. The engine was designed by the aforementioned Grushko, which is actually the RD-12 engine of the R-211 missile. It's just that the RD-211 engine of that year had a lot of problems, and it was not completely solved until 1950. By 1952, Myashev couldn't stand it anymore and switched to another RD-213 engine designed by Grushko.

As for the ramjet engine of the RSS-40 missile, it is also a product of the Bondar Yuko Design Bureau, the RD-018A ramjet.

Speaking of which, some comrades may have doubts, is it 1944, and the T2 project has been carried out for eight years without results? Don't say it, Li Xiaofeng is also quite troubled by this, because according to his idea, what he wanted to obtain was a tactical missile with a range of 300 kilometers. But I don't know for what reason, neither Lavochkin nor Myashev understood his good intentions and turned the T2 project into a strategic strike weapon.

Let's put it this way, Lavochkin's V-350 missile has a total length of 19 meters, a total weight of 96 tons, and can carry a 2.9-ton warhead and fly 8,500 kilometers at a speed of Mach 3. And Myashev's RSS-40 is even more exaggerated, with a total length of 24 meters and a total weight of 125 tons, which is also capable of carrying a three-ton warhead and flying 10,000 kilometers at a speed of Mach 3.

Now you know what a surprise is, right? Anyway, Li Xiaofeng was shocked, and after a long time, Lavochkin and Myashev were ready to argue with Korolev, didn't you engage in R-7 missiles with a range of more than 8,000 kilometers? Then we also have to engage in a cruise missile project that is not inferior to yours, let's compete to see whose missiles are more awesome!

It was already 1945 when Li Xiaofeng discovered the methods of Lavochkin and Myashev, and at this time he had no way to stop these two big and inappropriate projects. Because Sverdlov was very interested in the T2 project and was a strong supporter. Li Xiaofeng can't rush up and slap Xiao Si's face directly.

However, Li Xiaofeng also knows that this time the T2 project is probably going to be tossed yellow, because even if the V-350 and RSS-40 can be realized, its performance does not have much significance compared to the R-7. This ramjet cruise missile flies slower than ballistic missiles, flies at an altitude that is within the strike range of the first post-war anti-aircraft missiles (such as the S-25), and is technically complex and expensive, so it is better to build the R-7 than to build them.

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng has already made up his mind, once Xiao Si retires, he will immediately cut these two projects. With the technical capabilities of the time, it was a bit too advanced to engage in such a hypersonic strategic cruise missile. And for the Soviet Red Army at that time, such weapons were also not necessary and could not be used.

Therefore, because the T2 project could not be stopped, and Li Xiaofeng wanted to get a tactical cruise missile, he had to give Lavochkin and Myashev a supplementary project in 1945. Later this project was called the T2-1, or subsonic tactical cruise missile project.

This time, Li Xiaofeng set dead targets for Lavochkin and Myashev, with a maximum range of 500 kilometers, a warhead weighing 500 kilograms, a maximum speed of no more than Mach 0.8, a total weight of no more than two tons, and the ability to hit targets within a circumferential radius of 100 meters.

For Lavochkin and Myashev, the first few indicators are drizzling, and the most important one is the last one, which is too high. You must know that the RSS-40 and V-350 they designed have a hit accuracy of 10 kilometers, which is simply deadly.

Anyway, the last indicator was stumped by the two designers, and it was not until 1947 when the Soviet Union made a breakthrough in laser devices and made a laser gyroscope with higher accuracy that this accuracy index was realized. And before that, Lavochkin's V-360 and Myashev's RSS-41 had an accuracy of only 300 meters, which, to be honest, really didn't look good.

Of course, this missile actually entered real combat in June 1945. Four of the newly tested models were sent to Germany to attack a key bridge in the path of the British and American Allied advances with live ammunition. As for the results, in the official Soviet version, the missile flew 300 kilometers and delivered a high-explosive warhead weighing one ton (which can be replaced with a larger warhead by reducing fuel) to the target with relative accuracy, and achieved complete success.

Of course, in fact, all four warheads deviated from the target, and the closest one was 90 meters away, and basically the bridge suffered only minor damage. In the end, it was the Air Force's Kh-3 TV-guided missiles that destroyed the bridge. Five Kh-3s hit the bridge deck accurately, breaking the bridge at the waist.

As for the V-350 and RSS-41, they did not receive the official designations of Kh-4A and Kh-4B until 1950, and they were generally equipped at the army front level, and existed as a long-range strike means for the army.

However, the reason why the V-350 and RSS-41 are mentioned here is that in June 1945, it had a special mission. At that time, at the request of the Military Commission, Lavochekin and Myashev respectively created special experimental models. Bold and elongated missile body, and two boosters were bundled. In one fell swoop, the maximum bomb load of the special test model was increased to two tons.

Don't underestimate this two-ton figure, because in May 1945, a special experimental model of Myashev carried a Soviet first-generation combat atomic bomb to attack targets on Novaya Zemlya and achieved complete success. A month later, Lavochkin's experimental model carried out a historic test with the same atomic bomb.

"What did the British and Americans think about the Paris uprising?"

After finishing his work with technical issues, Li Xiaofeng finally had time to focus on political issues, and it had been some time since the Paris uprising was successful, and it was time for the British and Americans to react.

Yakov replied: "Churchill was angry and accused de Gaulle of not taking into account the overall situation, and relations between the British Government and the French National Liberation Committee were very tense for a time...... Girard also took the opportunity to attack de Gaulle, and the two were almost incompatible. ”

Li Xiaofeng is very satisfied with this result, because this is the result he wants to see. Churchill finally tore his face with de Gaulle clearly, presumably at this time De Gaulle had seen through the true face of the fat man, and this fat man could no longer pretend to be a smiling tiger. As for Girard, history has proved that he is indeed inferior to de Gaulle, and if he comes to power, it is estimated that the future France will really become the little brother of Britain and the United States, and he will be played around.

Yakov asked: "Do you want to give De Gaulle some support through the channels of public opinion, his pressure has not been ordinarily great recently!" ”

Li Xiaofeng immediately rejected this suggestion: "We can't do anything now, especially not to support de Gaulle through public opinion, which will only be a bad thing!" ”

The reason is very simple, the pressure on De Gaulle came from Britain and the United States, and if the Soviet Union helped him to say good things, it would only make Britain and the United States think that De Gaulle had completely fallen to the Soviet Union. With the British and American bellies, that is 100% intolerable, I am afraid that they will really get rid of De Gaulle and give him the way to play in Madagascar, as Roosevelt said.

So, the USSR could not do anything, it was better to pretend that it was not their business and hang high. Of course, it is still possible to give de Gaulle some comfort in private, but that can only be done but not said.

"Did the British and Americans mention how to solve the problem of Paris?" Li Xiaofeng continued to ask.

Yakov scoffed: "They want to learn from what we did in Warsaw, but they really can't pull their faces, and now they are in a stalemate, and it seems that they are ready to take one step at a time." ”

Li Xiaofeng did not think that Britain and the United States had any other choice, according to Yakov's report, the whole of Paris was completely under the control of the rebel army. Even if the Allies wanted to turn a corner in Paris and dodge, the rebels in Paris would take the initiative to find them, and at that time, could Britain and the United States pretend not to see it?

In Li Xiaofeng's view, Britain and the United States at this time are just dead ducks with hard mouths, and these people probably want to pretend to be deaf and dumb until they really can't accept the reality of Paris. But this doesn't matter to Li Xiaofeng, anyway, this advantage has already been taken, so there is no need to rub salt on the wounds of Britain and the United States to disgust people.

But what Li Xiaofeng didn't expect was that there was really no shortage of such pig teammates in the Soviet Union, and Li Xiaofeng's cold treatment of the tone set by the Paris uprising was actually stealing fun by ignoring it on the surface. On the third day of the victory of the uprising in Paris, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Garrahan suddenly issued a statement: "Warmly welcome the victory of the people of Paris in the uprising, and salute the heroic and great people of Paris!" ”

Although this statement is similar to shouting slogans, the impact is indeed extremely bad. Although Yingmei didn't say anything, they actually held a grudge. Garahan's lip service and untruthful behavior made Li Xiaofeng furious.

At the enlarged meeting of the ******, Li Xiaofeng fiercely criticized Garahan's behavior: "Lev. Comrade Mikhailovich, who authorized you to issue such a statement. The question of Paris was a question of unity within the Allies and a complex political struggle in France. What you have done has put our country on the cusp and will cause great difficulties for us to divide and disintegrate the imperialist alliance in the future! ”

The person concerned, Garahan, did not dare to fight back, because when he made this statement, he did not consult the ****** and the People's Committee, and it was a private firearm. This is a huge violation, so Li Xiaofeng criticized him, and he could only bear it silently.

However, Garrahan was not too worried, because the reason why he wanted to fire this cannon was not because of his big mouth, let alone because of a hot head, but because he had deep political reasons. It was actually Sverdlov who instructed him to make this statement, otherwise he would not have dared to talk nonsense.

So now the question is, why did Sverdlov suddenly instruct Garrahan to make this statement at this juncture? Could it be that Xiao Si can't see the complicated relationship?

Sverdlov would not be so politically minded, he was naturally clear about the twists and turns of the opposite, and it was precisely because he knew the relationship that he resolutely ordered Gallahan to fire the cannon, because he had his considerations...... (To be continued.) )