Chapter 940 Gliding Guided Bomb (3)

"Oh, God!!"

Seeing dozens of large and small warships parked in the port being sunk like this, Major General Torres almost fainted.

But the bombing did not end because of his despair. The German bomber formation only dropped 100 glide bombs, and they still had 800 bombs left to drop.

The next target is the large outfitting dock, floating dock, and dry dock of the shipyard; in addition, there are processing workshops, segmented workshops, machine assembly workshops, armor workshops, electrical assembly workshops, and other workshops; none of them can Avoid glide bomb attacks. And what was fired this time was not an armor-piercing high-explosive bomb, but a terrifying thermite bomb.

Along with the sound of explosions one after another, the entire shipbuilding base was filled with smoke and flames.

However, these thick smoke affected the view of the subsequent bomb shots. The TV screen on the bomber was only full of thick smoke, and the target could not be seen at all. The operator could only throw the bomb randomly into the smoke. As for whether it could What you hit depends entirely on luck.

As the German bombers returned, news of the bombing of the Newport News Shipbuilding Base also reached Washington.

Vice President Truman looked in disbelief. "Where are our anti-aircraft guns?" Didn't it mean that 50 150MM anti-aircraft guns were deployed there? Why are you letting people explode? Even the fleet in the port was almost completely wiped out?

Commander Arnold sighed habitually. "The bombs dropped by the German bomber formations were outside the range of the anti-aircraft guns. They should be gliding bombs."

Vice President Truman still didn't quite understand. "But how did they manage to hit a warship with just one bomb?" The bomb dropped thirty kilometers away accurately hit the warship. Although the warship stopped, the hit rate was too high. Bar!

Of course, Commander Arnold could not know how the Germans did it. "Perhaps the Germans used some advanced guidance system?"

General Leahy guessed somewhat uncertainly. "Could it be that the Germans plagiarized our 'Pigeon Guidance' system?" After all, with the Germans' intelligence capabilities, this is entirely possible. However, there is no way to confirm this speculation, unless they can get the German glide bomb to know what guidance system was used. But this possibility is almost zero. So far, the German army has launched thousands of missiles into the United States and has not found a single dumb bomb. They naturally guessed that the Germans must have installed some kind of safety device, regardless of whether it was a missile that landed. Or a bomb, it will definitely explode and there will be no duds for them to study.

Vice President Truman turned a little pale. "Does this mean that even the 150mm anti-aircraft guns are useless now?"

This is obvious.

"Yes, if the Germans equip a large number of such gliding bombs, our army's 150mm anti-aircraft guns will indeed become a decoration." German bombers can safely drop bombs outside the range of anti-aircraft guns, so what is the use of anti-aircraft guns on the ground? ? "However, I think that the German army's guided bombs are expensive to make and will not be equipped on a large scale."

But this is just his guess. If the Germans are really equipped with such glide bombs on a large scale, then the United States will have lost its final ability to resist and allow the Germans to bomb anywhere in the United States at will; unless the entire population hides underground , reclaiming an underground world.

The atmosphere in the conference room was extremely depressing. Most people were smoking in silence. In the huge room, the only thing that could be heard in the huge room was the sound of the big pendulum of the floor-standing clock in the corner swinging back and forth.

At this moment, in the Berlin Palace on the other side of the Atlantic, Marshal Kesselring reported the results of the bombing to Yannick.

"Your Highness, this bombing has severely damaged the Newport News Shipbuilding Base, including sinking many major warships."

Yannick nodded with satisfaction. "Not bad." These Americans think they have been huddled in the port and dare not go to war, so there is nothing they can do about it? I'll kill you anyway!

"However, according to the operators' reports, the TV guidance system is also defective. If the Americans had released the smoke in advance, the bombing might not have achieved such results."

Yannick nodded disapprovingly.

Because not only TV guidance, other guidance methods also have various defects.

For example, inertial guidance is a guidance technology that uses inertial measurement equipment to measure missile parameters. It has the advantages of strong anti-interference, good concealment performance, and is not limited by weather conditions. The disadvantage is that guidance accuracy decreases with flight time (distance).

There is also terrain matching and scene matching guidance, which uses telemetry and remote sensing methods to draw a digital map based on the elevation data of its ground coordinate points and store it in the missile-borne computer in advance. When the missile flies over these areas, the missile-borne computer will pre-store the data. Compare it with field data, correct the ballistic deviation according to the instructions at any time, and control the missile to fly to the target.

The disadvantages are that the terrain matching mission planning cycle is long, the flexibility of missile use and anti-interference ability are poor, and it is difficult to attack maneuvering targets. In addition, it is not suitable to be used on terrains with low undulations such as plain areas and the sea. The guidance system will also cause the pre-stored terrain information to become outdated due to changes in terrain and seasons, causing it to get lost.

In addition, there is laser guidance. The laser emits a laser beam that illuminates the target, and the receiving device receives the light wave reflected by the target. After photoelectric conversion and information processing, various parameters of the target are obtained, and then transmitted to the guided weapon.

The disadvantages are also obvious. For example, the laser has a short range of action, and the transmission loss in the atmosphere is large. It is easily affected by meteorological conditions. Clouds, fog, rain, smoke, and dust can all produce strong scattering and absorption of lasers, and it is easy for the opponent's laser warning device to detect the attack intention. These disadvantages also allow the opponent to take corresponding protective and countermeasures, such as releasing smoke, taking camouflage measures, and even implementing active laser interference or laser blinding, so that laser-guided weapons fail and optoelectronic aiming equipment fails.

Therefore, the advanced guidance of later generations is to realize composite guidance by combining various guidance means such as laser, infrared, radar, and television, which is more conducive to improving guidance accuracy and coping with various complex battlefield environments, and giving full play to the advantages of all-weather operations.

Unfortunately, with the current technology, they can only use these "primitive" guidance systems, but they are still much more advanced than other countries.

"Technological development cannot be achieved overnight, and it needs to be accumulated step by step." Yannick asked after sighing. "Do you still have TV-guided bombs in stock?" The United States has more than one large shipyard, there are also several other naval shipyards, such as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, etc. Yannick intends to destroy them all in one go.

"Your Highness, this bombing has used up all the TV-guided bombs in stock."

"..."It seems that it is impossible to destroy all the shipyards in the United States in a short period of time. "Then let the US Navy survive for a few more days."