New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

( ) On the plane to Iceland, (the plane needs to be refueled here for the flight to the UK) Ron leans back in the seat, closes his eyes, and looks like he is dozing off.But he didn't really fall asleep. In fact, he was thinking about his mission this time.

Before boarding the plane, Ron read some relevant documents from General Arnold, which told him such things.

Since the box formation tactics were adopted, the b-24 and b-17 of the Eighth Air Force had the magic weapon to defeat the enemy. Bigger than ever before.As a result, almost every few days, there will be a large-scale bombing by thousands of planes.

In order to deal with the Yankees' bomber force, the Germans also launched a thousand-plane interception.The massive interception of thousands of aircraft caused the loss of American bombers to skyrocket, but it also caused the loss of German fighter jets to skyrocket.When the two sides are facing each other, the Germans may not be able to consume more than the Americans.Later, the p-51 fighter jets joined the battle, which made the balance fall to the side of the Americans again.Li Mei once believed that it would not take long for the German air power to be exhausted.

However, just a week ago, there was a sudden change in the way the Germans attacked.

At noon that day, a fleet of about one hundred bombers, escorted by more than sixty P-51s, attempted to launch an air strike on a coal liquefaction plant in the Ruhr area of ​​Germany.When it was about to approach the target, it was suddenly intercepted by German fighter jets that had been waiting at high altitude.When a group of Bf-109s dragged down the escort fighter jets, about a dozen Ju88s fired a type of rocket at a group of American bombers at a considerable distance.This kind of rocket is powerful and has a very high hit rate. In the first round of attack, more than a dozen rockets fired by the Germans caused 6 B-24 bombers to crash and 3 B-24 bombers to be injured to varying degrees. .

Then the Germans launched two more rocket attacks and shot down 88 more B-11s before the escort fighters got rid of the entanglement of the German fighters and rushed over to disperse the Ju24s.The entire box formation was broken up by these rockets.After the formation collapsed, it was attacked by German fighter jets. In the end, only about half of the entire bomber fleet returned safely.

Two days later, a larger fleet of more than 800 bombers was attacked by such rockets again on its way to bomb Berlin. In the end, 124 bombers were lost.The blow was so severe that the Eighth Air Force's bombing campaign could hardly continue.

Therefore, Li Mei thought of Ron who had proposed a similar interception method.

After reading this report, the first word that Ron thought of was missile.Although he was not specialized in missiles in his previous life, Ron still remembered that the world's first air-to-air missile originated from Germany during World War II.It's just that in the original history, it seems that this kind of missile did not have time to go to the battlefield, and Germany was finished.Unexpectedly, in this time and space, they actually appeared so early.

Ron couldn't remember the specific situation of German air-to-air missiles in the original history.What exactly does it look like?What kind of guidance is used?Ron had no idea.

"Infrared guidance?" Ron thought, but he shook his head immediately. "With the technology of this period, it is impossible to come up with a truly practical infrared guidance head. Moreover, the Germans still adopted the method of head-on attack. It also proves that this kind of missile can never be guided by infrared. You must know that the head-on attack capability of infrared-guided air-to-air missiles was not realized until the 80s and [-]s.

Since it is impossible to be infrared-guided, there are two common possibilities, one is radio command, and the other is semi-active radar guidance.It's fine with semi-active radar, the German technology can't be so against the sky, well, the biggest possibility is radio commands.It seems that Germany made one of the earliest anti-ship missiles before it was over, and it seems to be this kind of guidance.But use this technology to guide air-to-air missiles.The technical difficulty of this does not seem to be small.The more I think about it, the more I can't figure it out..."

Indeed, the technical level of the Germans is not enough to support the several guidance methods Ron envisioned.However, Ron, who was accustomed to the characteristics of air-to-air missiles in later generations, forgot a guidance method that required the lowest technical level: wired command guidance.

Wired command guidance is more used in anti-tank missiles in later generations.For example, my country's Red Arrow 7 and Red Arrow [-] all belong to this guidance method.

But back then, the Germans did use it on air-to-air missiles.This is the X4 air-to-air missile.The missile, which has a range of 5.5 kilometers, is commanded using a copper wire trailing behind and a joystick controlled in the weapon manager's hand.This control method is actually almost exactly the same as those old-fashioned anti-tank missiles of later generations.

However, the development of technology in later generations restricted Ron's thinking, which made him completely think about radio command guidance.To deal with radio command guidance, there are two ways: one is to interfere with radio communications, and the other is to actively attack the enemy's command center.Here, this command center must be the ju88 that launched it.

However, Ron's assessment of this missile is quite correct, that is, this primitive air-to-air missile can hit heavy bombers at most, and it is basically useless against fighter jets.

"Actually, no matter what guidance method the Germans use, it is definitely a good way for fighter jets to clear the field in advance." Ron thought so.

When the plane arrived in Iceland, it was already past 7 o'clock in the evening. Flying at night in the Atlantic Ocean is quite dangerous.So, Ron had to spend another night in Iceland.

By the time Ron came out of the airport, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, but the sun hadn't set yet. In fact, since it was July, in Iceland, the sun didn't set for almost 7 hours.

"When does it get dark in this place?" Ron asked the private who was driving him.

"General," replied the corporal who was driving Ron, "all day today and all day tomorrow plus... In summer, there are no nights here. If you come in winter, General, it's almost There’s no more daylight. But then, you can see the Northern Lights.”

Now Iceland has become an important transit point for the US military, and there is a hotel belonging to the US military near the airport.Ron will rest here for the night.To say that the conditions here are really good, there are hot spring baths in the hotel.The only regret is that there is no comfort (river crab) comfort woman or something with the army.After all, Japan has not surrendered yet, and Iceland is not Tokyo. The weather here is cooler, not hot even in summer.This is not Osaka, and there are no "custom industries" nearby that provide special services to American soldiers.But the strange thing is that, at least in Iceland, the American soldiers did not show too strong a need for "temporary relaxation" like the imperial army.This is probably because Iceland is too cold, not as hot as Tokyo.

Iceland is nice, but it's not a place to stay forever.Early the next morning, Ron boarded the plane again and started flying to England.

……

Li Mei held Ron's hand, with a look of "Comrade, I'm finally waiting for you", "Go, go to the war room, and I will tell you about the latest situation."

As soon as he entered the war room, Ron saw a huge sand table placed in the middle of the room.A group of staff officers were surrounding it.

"In the past two days, the Germans' tactics have undergone new changes." Li Mei said to Ron.Then he turned to a staff officer and said, "Fadell, tell General Ron about the new situation that has arisen in the last two days."

"Okay, General." The staff officer nodded to Li Mei, then turned to Ron.

"General Ron, the situation is like this. During the battle two days ago, we discovered a new weapon thrown in by the Germans. You can go next door with me to watch the video materials at that time."

……

On the small screen in the projection room, a strangely shaped airplane appeared.

"Stop!" said Ron.

So the screen freezes.

"Fall back a little... it's here, stop!"

The screen freezes again.In the middle of the screen, although a plane is blurred, the basic characteristics of this plane can be clearly seen.

The aircraft has a typical swept-wing design with an engine pod on each side about a third of the way down the swept wing.

"Me-262 jet fighter!" Ron made such a judgment immediately.

me-262 is the world's first jet fighter put into actual combat, which is an epoch-making fighter.It has a top level flight speed of up to 850 km/h.This speed is more than 100 and nearly 30 kilometers faster than those propeller fighter jets in the hands of the Americans.And its firepower is also very strong, the four [-]mm guns on the nose are almost too much for any aircraft.If we want to talk about the weakness of this thing, it probably has to be regarded as the ridiculously high failure rate and the ridiculously low engine life.

"Pilots who have encountered this thing said that this thing has no propellers and is terribly fast. And the firepower is also amazing." Fadell explained on the side.

"How many times have you run into this thing?" Ron asked.

"It's not too much, but every time it shows up, it will cause trouble."

Ron knew that in the original history, although this aircraft had been put into production in 43, it was initially used as a high-speed bomber because of the interference of the Bohemian corporal.It was not until June 44 that it entered combat for the first time as a fighter.In this time and space, perhaps the American bombers put more pressure on Germany. As a result, in 6, this thing appeared as a fighter jet.

"If this kind of thing appears in large quantities, it will be really troublesome." Ron thought, "Maybe, I should ask Arnold for more power, at least let him take command of the p-51 fighter jets stationed in the UK. Leave it to me for now."