Chapter 977: American Strategy (11)
Hearing that the production of T-28 heavy tank destroyers was only one every two days, Vice President Truman asked anxiously. "Can we reduce the production of other tanks and produce more of this T-28?" In his opinion, the more of these big guys that can crush German tanks, the better, and producing 100 a day would not be too much. "Aren't we producing M3 light tanks and M3 'Grant/Lee' medium tanks? These tanks..."
Marshall knew what Truman was going to say and shook his head with regret. "Mr. Vice President, these two tanks have been discontinued for a long time. Most of the industrial areas in the northeast were bombed into ruins by the German army, which seriously affected tank production, and the remaining production capacity was also occupied by M26, and there was no extra production capacity to produce more T-28s." During the entire World War II in the original time and space, the United States produced more than 80,000 tanks (29,680 light tanks, 50,632 medium tanks, and 2,202 heavy tanks), of which nearly 50,000 were M4 Sherman tanks produced by the Chrysler factory in Detroit, which is 30 tanks a day.
But now the northeastern industrial zone of the United States has been hit hard, and the production of the Detroit industrial zone is difficult to produce 30 vehicles a day, not to mention 30 vehicles a day.
"Can such a production be used against the German armored forces?"
MacArthur couldn't help but sigh. "The threat faced by our armored forces is not only the German tanks and armor, but also their air attack aircraft. Their attack aircraft not only have strong attack power, but also have good defensive performance. They are simply flying tanks."
This is related to the issue of air supremacy. If we can't ensure air supremacy, it will be difficult for ground forces to defend against these terrible attack aircraft to attack the ground. If we are unlucky, we won't even see the enemy's armored forces, and we will be destroyed by the attack aircraft.
"Oh my God!" Truman rubbed his temples with a headache. "That means we can't deal with not only the German planes, but also their tanks." Not to mention the navy's warships, then the poor infantry is left.
But the German army swept across most of Europe, and even the Soviet Union was defeated. It can be said that it is a battle-hardened tiger and wolf division; can our infantry beat it? Moreover, individual weapons and equipment are no match for them. "That is to say, we have nothing that can surpass or even match the Germans. How can we fight this war!"
The conference room fell into silence again, and everyone smoked silently.
"Now we can only hope that the defense line we built can stop the Germans. If we can stop two or three waves of German attacks, at least we can strive for a decent peace."
"..."Stop two or three waves of German attacks? Can we stop the first wave? But now there seems to be no other way except praying to stop the Germans.
Just when everyone in Washington sighed, people in the "German Alliance" in California were also sighing.
Obviously, the Germans had no intention of giving California to them.
"These Germans are too greedy. They actually want to swallow up the whole of California."
"They want to swallow up the whole United States."
"What should we do now?" Their biggest reliance is the Germans, but the Germans have no intention of cooperating with them, and even clearly stated that California does not belong to them, which is very embarrassing.
What's even more terrifying is that the Germans also said that if they want to talk about cooperation, let them take California first; isn't this nonsense? If they have the ability to take over an entire state, do they need to seek help from you Germans? They only have a part of the National Guard, and using them to deal with regular troops is simply a fantasy.
"What can we do, Mr. Davis?" Everyone looked at the old man.
The old man sighed slightly. "It seems that we can only wait and see."
European countries across the Atlantic are preparing to fight against the United States in full swing.
Because the American fleet has almost been annihilated, there is no need to build more warships to deal with it. What is needed now is a lot of transport ships and landing ships; the docks of various countries are working at full capacity to produce transport ships and landing ships.
At the military meeting that day, Reinhard explained to everyone the American defense deployment. "According to intelligence, the Americans have deployed a lot of mines on their coastline."
Mine can be said to be the lowest-cost anti-ship weapon. Its production principle is very simple, the cost is very low, and it is very convenient to deploy.
And it is not easy to be discovered, and even if it is discovered, it is difficult to remove it intact. After the war, how to find the mines and remove them safely became a big problem. The workload and money spent on removing all the mines far exceeded the cost of laying mines at that time.
The sea area where the mines are not cleared may be a trap, and no one knows when they will fall into it. The United States in later generations once suffered a bombing from its own mines, which almost caused a serious shipwreck. In 1988, when the USS Roberts frigate passed through the Persian Gulf, a hole was blown in the hull by a mine and the ship almost sank. Later, after investigation, it was found that the mine was an M-08 antique mine, which cost $1,500, but its explosion caused a loss of $100 million.
Today, the Americans who are at the end of their rope will naturally not ignore such a "magic weapon". In addition to the defense line on land, they have also deployed a large number of mines in an attempt to resist the landing of the European coalition forces.
Yannick said disapprovingly. "These mines are not a big problem."
They have completely mastered the air superiority. At that time, they can carpet bomb the sea area in the landing area, using aerial bombs, depth charges, rockets, and plow the entire sea area once. If one time is not enough, two or three times will be enough to clear the mines.
If it really doesn't work, he still has one last trick, which is to detonate the atomic egg on the seabed.
On land, an atomic egg can destroy a city. What will happen if it is detonated in the sea?
In the original time and space, after World War II, the United States continued nuclear testing on Bikini Island for more than 20 years. In 1946, the first underwater nuclear explosion test was conducted, the purpose of which was to test the consequences of nuclear bombs detonating in water. The wealthy Americans placed 95 target ships at the center of the explosion, mainly including two aircraft carriers, five battleships and four cruisers. The Americans wanted to see what damage the shock wave of the atomic egg would cause to these warships that dominated the world during World War II.
The atomic egg was detonated 27 meters below the sea. According to the experts, seawater can block most of the shock waves, but the facts tell them that they seriously underestimated the power of the atomic egg.
After the atomic egg was detonated, it released huge energy, blasting a huge pit in the seabed. At the same time, the huge energy atomized the seawater. 2 million tons of seawater and sea sand were directly pushed into the air by the huge energy, forming a huge water wall with a diameter of 600 meters and a height of 1,800 meters.
Then, due to the effect of gravity, these seawater and sea sand fell back to the sea surface, smashing a huge waterfall with a height of 270 meters, stirring up huge waves. After these terrible waves spread to a position 300 meters away, they were still 29 meters high; they directly broke the keel of the Saratoga aircraft carrier.
When these huge waves reached the coast 5,600 meters away, the height remained nearly five meters.
If we launch such a missile at the landing area, not only the mines, but also the fortifications on the shore will be destroyed; if the American soldiers hide in the underground fortifications, they will be drowned.
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