Chapter 865 Jet Bomber

If we don’t land on the U.S. mainland, how can we make them surrender?

Launch a “hunger war” against the U.S.? Let’s not talk about whether the long coastline and border of the U.S. can be completely blocked; the U.S. is different from an island country that needs to import a lot of food. It is the world’s largest food producer and exporter. Even if it can be trapped for decades, I’m afraid there will be no famine.

It seems that the only way to use the ultimate weapon is the nuclear egg?

But Yannick listed the nuclear egg as the last resort, and did not want to use this “Pandora’s Box” unless it was absolutely necessary.

And up to now, there has been no movement in the American “Manhattan Project”.

In 1939 in the original time and space, President Roosevelt received an urgent letter from physicist Albert Einstein: "Physicists have recently discovered that uranium will become a new and important energy source... A large amount of uranium can be used to build a nuclear chain reactor, thereby generating huge energy... This will guide the construction of the bomb... The power is very huge. Such a single bomb, carried by ship and exploded in the port, will destroy the entire port and the surrounding environment." Einstein suspected that Germany had already started the "Uranium Project" with the purpose of manufacturing nuclear weapons for use in World War II.

The United States naturally did not want to lag behind and formulated the "Manhattan Top Secret Project", which united famous scientists from all European countries except Germany at that time to conduct research. In addition to these more than 1,000 top scientists, there were more than 2,000 civilian staff and more than 2,000 military scientists; at the peak of the plan, there were as many as 500,000 people involved in related work. After these people worked day and night and painstakingly, they finally successfully detonated the world's first atomic egg in July 1945.

However, this time, due to Yannick's advance deployment (Chapter 343), most of the key figures, including Dr. Einstein, had already passed away, and the Americans did not even have the concept of atomic eggs, let alone establish a research project.

And Yannick looked down on the "primitive" atomic eggs that were large, bulky and inefficient. For example, the American "Little Boy" atomic egg was 3 meters long, weighed 4 tons, and contained 60 kilograms of uranium. As a result, when it exploded over Hiroshima, only about one kilogram of it produced nuclear fission in the explosion, releasing energy equivalent to about 13,000 tons of TNT explosives. The remaining uranium was blown into fragments and scattered on the ground, without any effect (the half-life of uranium 235 is as long as 700 million years, the atomic nucleus is very stable, and the biological toxicity of uranium as a heavy metal is much stronger than its radiation toxicity). Ten years later, in 1956, the "Swan" atomic egg detonated by the United States in a nuclear test called "Operation Redwing" weighed only 6 kilograms, was 58 centimeters long, and had a diameter of 5 centimeters, but the explosion equivalent reached 15,000 tons.

Today, German scientists are overcoming the technical difficulties of miniaturizing the atomic egg.

And making a nuclear bomb is one thing, and how to deliver it is another project. After all, it is far from enough to have nuclear weapons that can be effectively detonated. If nuclear weapons are to truly play a deterrent role, it is necessary to ensure that nuclear weapons can be delivered remotely and break through the enemy's air defense network.

Imagine if the World War II island countries in the original time and space had the ability to intercept B-29, what would be the use of the nuclear eggs made by Americans?

Similarly, even if the United States today has made nuclear bombs, let alone whether there are bombers that can carry them, even if there are, it is impossible to approach the European continent. On the other hand, Germany, various heavy bombers, such as ME-264, B-36, B-47, etc., can carry nuclear eggs to the United States, and there is even a B-52 Stratofortress bomber that has completed test flights.

This bomber is the successor to the world's largest bomber, the B-36. At the beginning of its launch, the performance of this aircraft in all aspects was at an absolute leading level in the world. The bomb load can reach tens of tons, and the longest range is more than 16,000 kilometers. Most parts of the world are within its strike range.

The most appropriate phrase to describe the B-52 should be "old but strong".

In the long history of human weapon development, the service life of weapons in the cold weapon era was very long. For example, bows and arrows have been used for thousands of years. However, since World War II, with the rapid development of human military technology, the service life of weapons has decreased year by year. There are only a handful of weapons that can be used for decades, and there is no weapon that can be used for hundreds of years.

This strategic bomber, which was put into service in the early 1950s, has been in service for more than 60 years. Even when the B-1B "Lancer" and B-2 "Ghost" bombers are about to retire, the B-52 is still sitting on the Diaoyutai. The US Air Force even launched a new service extension plan to allow the B-52 to continue to serve for more than 30 years, becoming the first strategic bomber in the history of the United States and even the world to have a service life of more than 100 years.

At this time, a B-52 bomber took off from Greenland and flew over the US mainland.

"What?! Only one bomber?!" Commander Arnold, who received the report, had a bad feeling in his mind. Did the Germans develop a new type of bomber? Otherwise, how could they send one? !

Soon, his premonition was verified.

Because no German carrier-based aircraft were found to escort them, a team of P-51 fighters took off to fight the enemy, but they saw that the bomber above their heads had no propellers! ! And the roar of this bomber was far more deafening than that of a propeller bomber.

"Oh God! How did it fly?!" This propeller-less bomber simply overturned their perceptions. Shocked, they immediately sent the news back to the rear.

"No propeller?" Arnold frowned deeply. "Is it a jet engine?"

The United States is the birthplace of aircraft. Although the aviation technology of later generations is at the top of the world, their development has not been smooth sailing. In the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. aviation technology lagged behind the established European powers for a long time.

When the original space-time jet age was just beginning to take shape, Americans did not pay much attention to this technology that seemed very whimsical at the time. However, after learning that Britain was conducting research on jet engines, General Arnold, the deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Army and commander of the Army Aviation Corps, went to visit and inspect it in person.

Arriving in England, General Arnold saw the Gloster E-28/39 jet aircraft and the Frank Whittle W1 centrifugal jet engine, which were still extremely secretive at the time. The technology displayed by these two new pieces of equipment shocked General Arnold. He wrote in his diary that this technology "can throw all existing aircraft into the garbage heap!"

Although he didn't have the opportunity to see a jet aircraft with his own eyes at this time, he still heard about it. Without propellers, it could only be a jet aircraft.

"The Germans' jet engines have already been put into actual combat?!"

A deep sense of powerlessness spread in Commander Arnold's heart. The speed of development of German science and technology was simply unmatched. Can they still have a chance of winning this war?