768 New Airlaunch*

Chu Tingchang let the enemy slip out of the position, this is his purpose, he knows that the enemy will never be able to run in the field, and he will not be able to defeat his own mechanized troops, of course, the difficulty of the operation is that the timing is more difficult, too early, the enemy may retreat. He had to wait until the enemy blew up his heavy weapons and had no way out.

Chief of Staff Tada led a brigade to jump out of the encirclement first, and after making sure that there was no enemy blocking it, he informed the rear that the breakthrough had been successful. At this time, the Japanese troops on standby in the trenches began to destroy the heavy equipment, which was a necessary procedure for them to break through.

Chu Tingchang waited for the explosions on the enemy's position, and he knew that the enemy had cut himself out. At this time, the first group of Japanese troops to stand out left about five or six kilometers, and the breakthrough was considered a success.

However, Chu Tingchang had already set up an ambush position in a distant area, just waiting for the enemy to collide. However, as soon as the enemy runs out, it is inevitable that they will scatter and run around, and there will always be some leaks between his fingers, which he has also calculated, for him, it is better to run away from a little enemy than to attack the position and kill more of his own people.

After the last wave of the Japanese army broke off, Tao Mingzhang's troops immediately went out to close the passage for the enemy to retreat, and then the second group of troops occupied the position. The enemy positions were in shambles, in addition to the heavy weapons that were blown up, there were also a large number of seriously wounded who were killed, and the Japanese retreated and took away the lightly wounded, apparently these people could not walk, but only committed suicide, in fact, it is difficult to say whether they committed suicide or killed their own people.

Captain Nakagawa found that the breakthrough was too smooth, and was suspicious, just when Chief of Staff Tada, who was running with his head covered in front, suddenly fell into an ambush, he immediately led his troops to run east, temporarily escaped, and after dawn, they would also face the interception and catch up of Chu Tingchang's tank.

No matter how many people in the second wing can slip away, the 14th Division, as a whole formed force, is already doomed to be wiped out. Along with it, the 3rd Brigade and several other security brigades were annihilated. Now not only in northern Thailand, but also in northern Myanmar as a whole has been lived. It was pointless for the Japanese to continue to hold on to the railway, as they were unable to get any supplies from the railway. Only a week after the opening of the railway, Chu Tingchang waved his army south, adding the greatest disgust to the entire southern army, and now the nightmare of Shouichi in the temple is gradually coming true, Chu Tingchang wants to control the railway, and the day of elimination is coming in a blink of an eye, which is only January 1943.

At the naval weapons test site in Kagoshima, Kyushu, Makino hides in an underground bunker, anxiously waiting for the new weapon to be tested in an hour.

The aftermath of the coup d'état in Tokyo has not yet subsided, and there are still several important candidates for the new war cabinet, and he can't wait to get here in the race from all sides. In his opinion, staying in Tokyo for one more day is a crime, Japan's gas is rapidly depleting, although Australia or the Central Plains are still winning the war, but China's nuclear submarine, and the big Chu Tingchang with that submarine, will be a huge variable.

He carried with him a calendar made by Eisaku Sato, which had a deadline of July 15, 1945. This was the time of the first nuclear test by the Americans. The calendar was made with his intention to remind him that time was running out. According to his original intention, once this day is approached and the war situation does not improve, Japan must decisively choose to surrender, and the weapons systems and drawings developed will not be destroyed, leaving only a small number of drawing developers as the capital for Japan to maneuver under the post-war pattern. But there are many signs that Chu Tingchang will not let this calendar be torn up.

The other day, he had talked to a depressed Ishihara about how to deal with himself if Japan still failed.

Ishihara believed that if the explosion in Japan could finally be avoided, there would be no huge casualty figures to deter the Soviet Union. The post-war landscape will inevitably change. He predicted that the East-West confrontation would come earlier, and that a third world war, which did not take place in Makino's space, would break out in 1948 or 1949.

Ishihara's logic, Makino naturally can't understand, but avoiding * explosion is obviously conducive to the survival of post-war Japan. Now, in addition to developing new weapons and presiding over the salvage of Kasugamaru, he also needs to classify these technologies. Deal with the possible defeat that is coming. According to his assumptions, after the defeat, some technologies needed to be provided to the allies, some needed to be kept absolutely secret, and some people involved in secrets needed to be solved in advance. The core secret is the equipment on the Kasuga Pill that involves traveling through time and space, which is a secret that needs to be kept strictly more than any other technology on the Kasuga Maru.

Fearing being chased by ubiquitous drones, he did not dare to go to the open to observe the test launch of the new air-launched anti-ship model, so he could only hide underground and observe the outside through a periscope system. All conductors are connected to the outside world via telephone lines.

The new* uses active radar homing mode. In the past year, he has used the information salvaged from Kasuga Maru to transform Japanese communication technology, and has not achieved any results, but technology always needs time to accumulate, and in recent times, in tube technology such as multi-cavity magnetrons, Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. (Toshiba) has gradually improved, although miniaturization has not yet been possible, but it has been able to meet the production of a primitive type of air-launched active guidance*. Technically, it's a two-step jump.

Makino is not a person who likes technological leaps, and his experience tells him that it is inevitable to suffer if he is ambitious in technological upgrades, but he does not have time to go step by step now, starting with the ship-launched type and semi-active guidance mode, and Japan has no time.

The Army's continuous and secret development of the V1 cruise missile has become the biggest opportunity for the current one.

Because the speed of the V1 is too slow, the army has removed the engine above the missile body since last year, and stuffed a liquid rocket engine provided by Germany in the tail section, this engine uses liquid oxygen and dimethylhydrazine as fuel, the advantage is that the specific impulse is very high, and the disadvantage is of course that the range is worrying.

Basically, the Army's man-man* is technically lackluster, but for Makino, after all, it is a ready-made platform that solves the problem of unmountable bombers and low speed caused by engine position. If you redesign a projectile body, it is inevitable that a lot of calculations will be made in terms of center of gravity and aerodynamics, and a lot of time will be wasted. Of course, it is not without problems, after all, this platform is liquid-fueled.

Army experiments have shown that the man-operated rocket can remain in level flight even if the pilot is not operating. In fact, the difficulty in operating this thing to fly is to control the speed to avoid overheating the nozzle.

There are many technical problems, the biggest problem is the radar, which can only emit electromagnetic waves with a wavelength of 15 centimeters, and the accuracy is not enough, and the problem of sea clutter can still not be solved, but experiments and actual combat show that when the enemy's warship is large enough, the accuracy of the decimeter wave radar is barely enough.

Thanks to last year's actual combat run-in, the technology of autonomous driving and inertial navigation has matured, and the accuracy of Meiji Electric's gyroscopes has reached the level of the original products provided by Germany, and is still improving.

This one* has not yet been officially named, and its appearance has caused all the experts in the weapon design section to gasp. Japanese weapon design has always been mainly plagiarized, and the creativity is far from enough.

Combining cutting-edge technologies such as radar, navigation, and autonomous driving, we can create such a thing. It was beyond everyone's imagination, and in the argumentation stage, everyone gradually realized that this solution might be feasible. For example, the target update rate provided by a bad radar is just enough. The autopilot is combat-tested and barely viable,* controlled at a length of 7 meters, and weighs 2.8 tons, which is a lot heavier than the V1*, but the heavy bomber is just enough to be mounted. The range is very short, only about 35 km, but it doesn't really make sense to be too far.

When the phone called, the deep mountain bombers that had taken off from the naval airfield 200 kilometers away had successfully taken off.

Makino breathed a sigh of relief, the first level of the day has passed, and there is still the capture of the target and the launch ...... and other difficult problems waiting for assessment.

On the sea, a target ship is quietly floating on the sea, this is a French freighter forcibly requisitioned by the Japanese army when it occupied Vietnam, and it is large enough. And the use of * test launch without charge, that is, the mission is used for tinkering, and the Navy estimates that the risk is not large.

Makino can see the target ship in the distance through the periscope. As expected, the bomber will fly along the coastline, and the pilot will perform a tedious maneuver at a distance (estimated 30 to 40 km) after the target is visually discovered, and it is expected that the * will be launched after 3 minutes, that is, at a distance of about 20 km from the target. In fact, due to the lack of a search radar to provide target designation, this is still a * within visual range.

In the distance, large bombers with four rounds slowly approached. The pilot searched for the target with all his eyes. A command from the ground command informed that the target was due south and could be searched using the * radar.

At the moment* the aircraft is connected by a cable, and the aircraft can be searched using aircraft electricity. This is the first experiment of the day.

The operator turned on the radar and began to search the sea. The machine-swept radar rotates left and right at a narrow angle to look for targets. Soon a reflected signal from the sea surface was received.

Finding a target from such clutter requires the operator to distinguish it by audio. Once you hear a continuous stream of screeching audio, it means that a large target may be searched. The next step was to narrow down the scanning angle and limit the target. Once aiming (locking) is complete, * follows the simple logic of no longer scanning a large area, but limiting the beam to this range and tracking the target.

The operator, sitting inside the navigation glass in front of the bomber, could not tell from the clutter of audio which part of the callback was valuable, and apparently the first experiment of the day, using * to search for a target, failed. He could already see the target through a fixed telescope, about 35 kilometers away, judging by the length of the hull and mast.

He switched to the target with an optical sight, and then turned a side knob to limit the length of the target to the middle of the scale, which would allow the radar to accurately scan the target and form a relatively fixed waveform match to distinguish the clutter of the sea surface clutter.