Chapter 651 651 Navy and Air Force
Accardo returned to Berlin in the afternoon, because the fighting on the Eastern Front had leveled off before the onset of winter, and it was only a few localized skirmishes, which did not require a quick reaction from the Führer's decision-making level. So Accardo took the time to go back to Berlin to see his lovely son.
After all, compared to the frequent and varied battles of the special forces, his own son is the one who Accardo really remembers. After all, petty fights on the front line could not shake the foundation of the Third Reich, but his own son was a weak baby who needed constant attention.
Since seeing her son born into this world, Mercedes has forgotten about the business empire that haunted her and devoted herself to accompanying her son. The brilliance of motherhood was so flooded at this moment that little Caesar bathed in the warmest river of love.
In fact, as the son of the head of the Third Reich and the sole heir to a huge business family, little Caesar, who was just over three months old, had not yet come to his senses and become the most powerful man in the world.
"It's already past 3 o'clock in the afternoon, why do you want to go out?" finally waited for Accardo to rush back to Berlin from the wolf's den, and Mercedes had not had time to say a word to her beloved husband when she heard that Accardo was going out in the afternoon, so she opened her mouth with a little resentment and reproached.
In the past, Accardo would not have been so obstructed when he went out, but now the transformation from a woman to a mother has made this woman, who once regarded her career as her first priority, suddenly become a model mother, and she hopes that her husband can spend more time with her son and sit in this house for a few more minutes - this is a woman's not extravagant expectation, whether her husband is a small worker or the head of the empire.
"The itinerary was already arranged before I came back, so I had to go to the cemetery, after all, these people were all fathers who died for the Empire, and they could not share the fruits of the Empire's victory, so I can only give them endless mourning. Wearing a black SS uniform, Accardo stroked the baby in Mercedes's arms apologetically: "I'll come back for dinner in the evening, let's prepare an extra steak in the kitchen." ”
The car was already waiting at the door, and when Accardo came out of the Führer's mansion, there were already many dignitaries and celebrities of the Greater German Party, Krupp who rushed back from Rotterdam, Dönitz and Lütjens who returned to the center of the empire from Wilhelmshaven, all of them were characters who could shake the Quartet with a stomp, but all of them stood straight in front of Accardo, stretched out their right hand and shouted loudly: "Long live the Führer!"
"You have worked hard! The empire can have today's glory, all depends on your efforts. Accardo waved his hand lightly, signaling everyone to finish saluting, but everyone was nervous, the kind of superior momentum accumulated in various aspects in the past twenty years could make people shudder after all.
"Ruetjens, and Catherine and I are in the same car, and the others are following, and I have to ask my two generals something, after all, I have to rush home for dinner, and time is pressing. Accardo made a joke that made everyone relax and laugh. Then the two generals got into the Mercedes-Benz company's special head of state, the lengthened Mercedes-Benz "empire". There are only three Führer-specific cars in the world, named "Imperial", which were prepared for the transfer of Acardo's travels, and the Imperial Constitution clearly stipulates that this car, as well as subsequent derivatives and development models of the "Imperial" series, shall not be used for commercial purposes, but only for the use of heads of state.
The convoy soon reached the outskirts of Berlin, and the three-step, five-step guard proved not only that the German Führer had returned to his capital, but also that there were many bigwigs in the convoy. The townspeople greeted and applauded their Führer, and now that life in Germany had gone from misery to paradise, there was nothing to worry about it, except for the slight tension of the news of conscription and war.
Traffic control has become one of the necessary preparations for the Führer's travels in Berlin, because in this old and huge city, traffic congestion has reached a certain level, many streets are being widened, and more new buildings are being erected, which is the international center, the absolute political and economic center of Europe.
"What happened to the Nighthawk with the search radar installed?" asked Accardo, looking at his Admiral Lütjans. Although he already knew that the joint research and development project of the Navy and the Air Force Nighthawk had been successful, he did not know much about the specific progress.
"My Führer. "Lütjans is obviously in a very good mood now, he has made history as an admiral of the Imperial Navy, his aircraft carrier fleet has dominated the North Atlantic, the German sea transport routes have never been so unimpeded, countless raw materials from South America and Africa have been delivered on time to the German-occupied French ports, the Dutch ports, and Germany's own ports of Wilhelmshaven and Kiel, German warplanes are running at full speed, and the speed of weapons and equipment production is staggering.
Lu Teyans happily replied to Accardo's question: "The take-off and landing of the Nighthawk is really perfect, but there is no way to solve the problem of radar detection and attack matching of the weapon system for the time being. Technicians are working on guided weapons to fill this gap, and the more mature plans are a guided bomb codenamed 'Fritz', and a guided torpedo. ”
You must know that even if Accardo does not change history, Britain and the United States will develop a search radar for anti-submarine use in three years, which is enough to detect the snorkels of two submarines on the sea surface -- the radar developed by Germany now can find targets the size of warships on the sea surface, and this is definitely not a scientific and technological progress, but a historical necessity formed under the impetus of Accardo.
"Let's continue to be practical, we must try to solve the problem of reliability, after all, if we want to maintain the same lead and suppression on the battlefield, we must always hurry up our own weapon systems, and we must not be complacent!" Accardo is quite satisfied with the progress of the Nighthawk program of the Navy and the Air Force, and heard that the Air Force night air defense fighter has begun production, and it is first ready to be used in the airspace of the Romanian oil fields and the airspace of Berlin.
After he finished speaking, he turned to Catherine of the Air Force, the general who had recently been a little troubled by the development and replacement of weapons, and the Air Force's long-range strategic reconnaissance plane was intercepted by the jet fighters of the British Royal Air Force in Icelandic airspace, killing two crew members and destroying a butcher reconnaissance plane, which made Catherine, as the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, very nervous.
After all, there is a terrible replacement weapon on the side of his opponent, which will be a lot of pressure for any general. In the past few days, Catherine has gone crazy and asked the generals of the equipment department to allocate all the newly produced Ta-152 fighters to the Luftwaffe and the Luftwaffe Air Force stationed on the British Isles.
"Don't worry, my Air Force Deputy Commander-in-Chief, after all, the enemy's air force hasn't hit me yet. Accardo said with a smile to his confidant Catherine. The young de facto commander of the Reich Air Force, although he did not have any radiant and extraordinary appearances, had been steadily commanding the Luftwaffe to victory after victory, and under his command the Third Reich Air Force had not suffered a single defeat since the beginning of the war, and it can be said that he was a general who made Accardo very reassuring.
"My Führer, now my Air Force is not afraid of a scarce number of jet fighters, which, according to information from intelligence, are very unreliable, and I am in a hurry, anxious when our jet fighters will enter service. Catherine looked anxious and said to her most admired Imperial Führer Accardo: "The Air Force needs jet fighters, and I think this kind of aircraft with faster engines is also the future development direction of the Air Force." ”
Accardo was stunned for a moment, and then had to admit with some loneliness that the current Germany has completely come out of the adverse effects brought about by the "Treaty of Versailles", and the period of confusion and exploration in the direction of science and technology and weapon development has passed.
"Because of the relatively low output of the current engine, the engine can only use twin engines to ensure safety and speed, which makes the jet fighter at this stage only have a slight speed advantage, but no combat advantage. Accardo smiled and explained to his generals: "This kind of specialized interceptor will not allow our air force to further expand its air superiority, what is the use of producing it?"
Seeing what Catherine was going to say, Accardo stretched out his hand to stop him and continued: "And although the new Bai Lanhua Group has developed a stronger engine blade material in the field of new materials, it will take 5 months for the new production line to be completed, and by that time, the production line of jet fighters has also been established, and that time is the best time for us to mass-produce jet fighters!"
"Now that you have a plan, I don't have anything more to say. Catherine nodded, abandoning the radical idea of rushing into production of the ME-262 test machine.