Chapter 829 Flying Bomb
What's even more terrifying is that Marshall felt that the Germans had no intention of a ceasefire at all.
After all, once the Soviet Union was destroyed, the only threat to Germany would be the United States, and the Germans would definitely want to get rid of it as soon as possible. Therefore, the Germans would put forward such absurd conditions that would not be accepted by their own side at all, and they might even fool their own people into saying that the war would continue because the Americans did not agree to a ceasefire.
At this time, the German high-altitude bombers that had dropped bombs had returned, and the fleet stayed in the sea 300 kilometers away from Boston.
It was obvious that the German bombers would come again.
"Damn it." Just as everyone in the conference room was thinking about countermeasures with a frown on their faces, the sailors on an escort aircraft carrier in the German fleet were busy running back and forth. They moved cruise missiles from the hangar to the deck, and installed them on the launcher with the help of a crane. There were ten launchers on the deck.
"Fire!"
As the order was issued, the first launcher was covered by the smoke ejected by the missile, and the missile soared into the sky and headed straight for the sky.
This is a copy of the original time and space US military's first generation of carrier-based cruise missiles "Tiens". This missile is the pioneer of the US Navy's land attack cruise missiles. Even the "Tomahawk" cruise missiles that were equipped in large quantities in later generations were successfully developed by using its large amount of technical accumulation.
And this missile was improved on the basis of the German V-1. After World War II, the US military saw the power of the V-1 missile by seizing information, drawings and capturing a large number of German engineers, and determined that missiles would be the main tool for future wars. The US military began a series of in-depth research and development of the first generation of cruise missiles, including land-based (Snake, Matador), sea-based (Tiens), and air-based (Hound Dog).
"Tiens" carrier-based cruise missiles are mainly carried on surface ships such as aircraft carriers and destroyers and submarines, and are used to attack local ground strategic targets, such as political/economic centers, large military bases, etc., so it is also called "ship-to-ground strategic cruise missiles", which was the most important long-range strike weapon developed by the US Navy at that time. (This earliest type of ship-to-ground missile has no precision guidance system, and the circular error probability is very large. It is completely a "blind cat meets a dead mouse" for a conventional warhead to hit a target as big as a building. Therefore, in the early Cold War, such large missiles were equipped with nuclear warheads to make up for the lack of accuracy with huge nuclear explosion power.)
The first generation of "Tiensing" missiles uses a head air intake, which also reflects the obvious subsonic airfoil characteristics. Two solid booster rockets are located on both sides of the tail of the missile. The appearance and aerodynamic layout are like a first-generation F-86 jet fighter without a cockpit (the Soviet Union's first-generation AS-1 anti-ship missile is like a MiG-15). After all, the "jet aerodynamic layout" theory was just on the right track when the "Tiensing" missile was developed. It was not as mature as in later generations, and the aerodynamic layout of the missile could not be optimized. Fortunately, more than a dozen models of jet fighters had appeared at that time, so it was normal for the missile to "copy the gourd" and look like an airplane.
Interestingly, this missile was used as a courier not long after it was born. In the late 1950s, Arthur Summerfield, the US Postmaster General, proposed a bold idea: to allow naval officers and soldiers on the vast ocean to easily contact their families (in the early years, the fleet had no communication satellites or relay satellites to communicate with the rear base, only long-wave stations, but the communication quality of long-wave stations was very poor, and only a few letters were transmitted). He hoped to use the US Navy's missiles to send the officers' and soldiers' letters to the post office on the mainland, and then quickly use missiles to send the letters carrying their families to the location of the fleet, so that the officers and soldiers serving on the ship can complete a communication with their families within a few hours.
The Postal Secretary's "brain hole" received strong support from the Navy. He immediately used a "Tiens" missile for modification. After removing the warhead, a mailbox was installed in the vacant position and 3,000 letters were put in for experiment. After nearly 1,000 kilometers of flight, the "Tiens" missile arrived safely in Virginia. The Minister went to the airport to "receive the missile" in person, and the 3,000 letters were intact.
But the test was stopped after only one test, because a "Tiens" missile was worth $250,000, and the per capita GDP of the United States in 1960 was about $1,800. Who would dare to send letters at such a high cost? There was no commercial value in using missiles to mail letters, so they had to give up in the end.
The sea breeze blew away the smoke on the deck, and the second missile was launched. Then the third and fourth missiles followed, and soon, ten missiles were launched one after another.
"Keep loading, we'll fire fifty tonight."
Soon, the American coastal radar detected these aircraft. President Wilkie, who was about to take a rest, was awakened by a phone call from Commander Arnold. "Mr. President, the coastal radar detected a group of unidentified aircraft."
President Wilkie yawned. "What aircraft? Aren't they German bombers?" But something was wrong. The last group of bombers had just left, so why did they come back so soon?
"The speed of these aircraft reached 750 kilometers per hour."
"What?!" President Wilkie was shocked. Flying at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour? ! What the hell is this thing so fast? !
Commander Arnold continued. "I suspect that the Germans launched their 'flying bombs'." They had learned from the Spanish before that the Germans' "flying bombs" had a range of more than 1,200 kilometers, and could be launched not only from land, but also from warships and even mounted on bombers. The maximum flight speed can reach 750 kilometers per hour. Presumably, these unidentified aircraft are the Germans' "flying bombs."
President Wilkie also remembered that there was such a thing. At that time, the Spanish wanted to sell the design drawings of the "flying bomb" for 500 tons of gold, but President Roosevelt and later he thought it was too expensive, and the deal was not reached. For a long time afterwards, the Germans did not use these flying bombs to attack the US mainland, and they gradually forgot about it. "Where are those missiles flying? How many are there?"
"Ten in total, they are heading straight for Washington."
"Damn it!" President Wilkie couldn't help but curse softly. These damn Germans must have known that there were 150mm anti-aircraft guns deployed around Washington and didn't dare to send their bombers, so they used this "flying bomb" to launch an attack. Are these bastards planning to flatten Washington?
(Sorry, there is only one chapter today, I've been a bit busy recently)