Chapter 677 Revolutionary Weapon
As time went by, the haze of war over the European continent became heavier. Both camps greatly accelerated their military expansion and preparation process, and showed a stance of mutual indulgence on the issue of the Spanish Civil War in 1937. △↗In the New Year’s Eve greeting in 1937, the German emperor even clearly told his subjects that he wanted to severely punish France to unilaterally tear up the "Amsterdam Treaty", and the entire Germany immediately broke out in a large-scale anti-French wave;
Britain and the United States, who crossed the red line of peace treaty, also became the targets of attack and hatred by the German people. In every beer hall and cafe in Germany, the people's resentment could be heard, and the launch of another war to resolve the problem became their common opinion. In the last war, they made a fortune without spending much money; the German people who tasted the sweetness of the war did not mind destroying these forces that were enemies with them through another war!
Just after the end of the year, Qingying came to the William Royal Institute as usual. In addition to a routine visit to express his importance to scientific research projects, another important reason is to provide an accurate insight into the current progress of the research and development of core German technologies. Although the war was fighting for overall strength, it was difficult for one or two cutting-edge weapons to reverse the situation in the tide that was coming, but some epoch-making science and technology were able to play an irreplaceable role under the bearing of the corresponding weapons. In the 1930s, when the sonata of the Second Industrial Revolution reached its peak, various revolutionary initiatives were emerging continuously like blowouts!
After more than 20 years of development, this scientific research institution originally established in the name of William has become the largest and best-sized research organization in Germany and even Europe. Thousands of engineers work in it. A considerable number of people are immigrants who defected from the United States after the outbreak of the economic crisis. With the joint promotion of these people, Germany's current scientific and technological level has undoubtedly reached an extremely high level. During the inspection of Qing and Ying, the heads of various projects put their achievements in front of the emperor.
The first is the high-end missile rocket technology. In another plane, Germany during World War II was far ahead of the world in the field of missiles. Whether it was the low-altitude v1 or the v2 flying out of the same stratosphere, it had a reputation for shocking the enemy on the battlefield. Although Braun is currently a young researcher at 24 years old, he has shown shocking talent and creativity in the field of rockets; in the past two years since he graduated from the University of Berlin with his Ph.D. in physics and joined the Royal Institute,
Germany's rocket technology made rapid progress on the original basis and broke through many previous limit bottlenecks at an extremely fast speed. In October 1935, the ballistic missile code-named A-4 was successfully tested in East Prussia: it weighed 15 tons and was loaded with high-explosive warheads of up to one ton. Its maximum range of 425km can achieve a leap across the English Channel and directly to London. The maximum firing height of nearly 100km and the drop speed of four times the speed of sound make it almost impossible to intercept by any current weapon!
Faced with this achievement that is better than the historical V2 missile, Qingying was not prepared to order mass production as in history. The reason is that the cost of this missile is too high. At present, even if the cost dilution after mass production is included, the price of its missile will reach 110,000 marks; while a BF-109 fighter is only 70,000 marks, and an improved IV tank is only 90,000 marks. A missile flew out, which is equivalent to killing more than one main tank. Due to the limitations of current guidance technology, its final accuracy is difficult to be accurate. No matter from any perspective, it is not cost-effective to spend such a large amount of money on this short-range missile as a shell; if it were replaced by the Japanese government that ignored human lives, they would even rather let the fighter hang a bomb to carry out the Kamikaze assault than to spend such huge financial resources!
However, Qingying obviously did not change his favor for this weapon with great development potential. In terms of stability, range and warhead loading, he put forward further requirements for the R&D team, and generously made generous rewards to them after the successful development. According to Qingying's idea, this weapon was used as a strategic deterrent against the enemy country; it did not require the ability to produce large quantities like cheap consumables such as tanks and aircraft, and the improvement of performance would be its only mission. After all, in this plane, Germany was leading the way in many scientific and technological fields by 6 to 8 years compared with the same period in history. Missiles with ideal range and projection are likely to be realized in this war.
Compared with conventional warheads, missiles equipped with nuclear warheads are undoubtedly the most ideal deterrent force. An ordinary bomb can destroy a small block at most, and the power of the nuclear bomb is enough to cause a devastating blow to the entire city! Even the first generation of fission nuclear weapons that rely on light and heat radiation, shock waves, and induce radioactive materials to kill, will turn Hiroshima and Nagasaki in another plane into hell on earth; if Germany can make up for the shortcomings in history and take the devil in Pandora's box first in the hands of the United States, then Qingying will no longer have any concerns about the upcoming war!
What made Qingying happy was that Germany's development progress on this ultimate killer also reached an expected level. In 1934, Hahn, who was in charge of the Ministry of Radioactive Chemistry, discovered the fission phenomenon of uranium nuclear under slow neutron bombardment in an experiment, and accompanied by the release of extremely high energy, which provided a solid theoretical basis for the use of nuclear energy in the military. After that, a series of supporting facilities were also secretly established in East Prussia, Germany's old nest, with the strong support of Qingying: this included a nuclear reactor that provided experiments, various enrichment devices for uranium 235 extracting from natural uranium mines, and a large number of technicians used for simulation calculations. After all, in the absence of computers, everything depends on relevant personnel for manual calculations.
After three years and a huge amount of money poured into 1 billion marks, German engineers finally mastered the core mechanism of the fission nuclear bomb through repeated experiments and calculations. Simply put, their task is to create a supercritical state with a neutron proliferation coefficient far greater than 1, so that uranium 235 can be fissioned in a very short time, and at the same time, unparalleled energy is bursting out while mass loss. What German engineers need to do now is to further improve the configuration of chain reaction and wait for the completion of raw materials to concentrate.
The content of uranium 235 that can be cracked by slow neutrons in natural uranium mines is only about 0.7%. To achieve an ideal chain reaction, the content of uranium 235 in its core raw materials needs to reach more than 90%. Even if Qingying provided absolute support for this project, it is expected that it will still take nearly two years to achieve the refinement of high-purity uranium 235. In fact, this is the core difficulty of later generations in making uranium bombs; a simple shell is actually not complicated, and it is difficult for a skilled woman to cook without rice to cook.
In order to prevent the news from being heard by Britain, the United States and other countries, the German government implemented unprecedentedly strict confidentiality measures for this plan. Around this jungle-surrounded nuclear bomb research base, 5,000 special forces were heavily guarded, and internal staff were living isolated from the outside world. Only a guard from the Emperor's direct line could enter and exit the area with the task of supplying materials. Except for Qingying himself, Prime Minister Eric, and Sperer who was directly responsible for the organization and implementation of this plan, no one in the German government knew about the existence of this project, even the Crown Prince Sprint was no exception. As this project continued to advance, Qingying, who learned that it was expected to achieve success in a year, also had strong confidence to start the war.
In addition to the fantastic strategic nuclear missiles, Germany has also developed a variety of guided tactical missiles and bombs based on its own rocket technology, combining radio technology and radar technology. The hs-293 air-ship missiles have sunk over 400,000 tons of various Allied ships in total, and the Fritz X-bomb has even brought the nearly brand new battleship Rome into the soul. Compared with traditional airdrop bombs, the hit rate of these guided missiles is obviously more than one level higher; more importantly, since this weapon can achieve long-range control, the attack aircraft no longer has to risk the enemy's small-caliber anti-aircraft guns to carry out close attacks, which greatly improves its survival rate on the battlefield.
After some technical research, a guided bomb that is better than the historical HS-293 was also developed by German engineers. Its total weight is more than 1.1 tons, equipped with 800kg of warhead explosives, with a maximum flight speed of 275m/s, and has a horizontal range of 9km when throwing at a height of 5km. This distance is far beyond the range of the 40mm-level anti-aircraft gun that can fire at high speed, while large-caliber air defense guns are extremely difficult to achieve accurate air combat results. Thanks to Germany's same leap in radar and radio technology, the missile can use radar to determine the coordinates and guide it with radio control. In order to prevent electronic interference from possible occurrences in history, the missile is also given a modification space that can be wired. As long as two wires exceeding 20km long can be installed, ideal precise control of the missile can be achieved.
With this guided weapon, the German Navy's attack on the enemy fleet will be greatly increased. As long as the naval power of the new Allies is the stage where the German team can fully play. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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