Of course, the only missiles used in the Soviet Union now are the cloning of V-2's r-1 and the small-scale improved version of R-2 for r-1. There are also projects such as r-3 and r-4, r-5, r-6, r-7 and r-8.

There are many projects, but the division of labor is still clear. The r-3 will be the first radar-guided air-to-air missile in the Soviet Union, and is under intense research and development. The r-4 is still an air-to-air missile, but this is an infrared-guided. The r-5 and r-6 projects belong to the navy, among which the r-5 are ballistic missiles launched by the water surface, which is the naval version of the r-2. This is simple. The r-6 is a ballistic missile project launched by the submarine that the navy is advancing. It is currently in a low-speed pre-research state due to capital and technology reasons. As for the r-7, it is naturally needless to say, this is an intercontinental missile project jointly invested by the army and the air force. As for the r-8, it is a medium-range missile that further increases the range on the basis of the r-2. According to the plan, the range of this missile will reach 1,500 kilometers, and the maximum drop weight of the warhead will reach five tons.

To put it bluntly, the R-8 project is specially tailored for dropping atomic bombs. The range of 1,500 kilometers is enough to threaten Paris and London even if it is deployed in Poland. It is sure to make the British and French more honest. Anyway, Korolev and Grushko's top priority in recent times is to deal with the R-8, so that the Soviet nuclear power has initially had extremely high penetration capabilities.

Of course, this will take time. According to Korolev's plan, the R-8 will be tested live in 1945, and the actual service may be as fast as 1946. So a certain immortal has to step up urging Tupolev to make him speed up the Tu-4 project quickly, otherwise the Soviet Union had an atomic bomb but no carrier tools, which would be funny.

The matter of ballistic missiles and bombers is just here. Next, what I want to talk about is the cruise missile. Li Xiaofeng also attached great importance to this aspect. In fact, under his influence, the Soviet Union developed these two missiles together. For example, in 1943, the Military Commission officially ordered the development of t1 ballistic missiles and t2 cruise missiles, among which t1's results were r-1 and r-2 ballistic missiles, and the development progress of t2 was not as smooth as t1.

In fact, the T2 project has encountered big trouble from the beginning. What big trouble is it? That is, no one is willing to take over the T2 project. What's going on?

Let’s start from the beginning. First of all, we need to make it clear that the t2 cruise missile is not a cruise missile in the general sense. In a sense, the so-called cruise missile in China refers specifically to a flight missile with strategic ground strikes similar to Tomahawks. However, the international sense of cruise missiles not only refer to missiles similar to Tomahawks, such as anti-ship missiles such as Harpoons and Feiyus, can also be called cruise missiles. To put it bluntly, as long as missiles that do not fly in ballistics but are maneuvering like aircraft within the atmosphere, they can be called cruise missiles.

So, what category does the Soviet T2 project belong to? It belongs to the Tomahawk. This kind of cruise missile only undertakes strategic ground strike tasks and is a supplement to the T1 project. The indicators of the T1 project were very high in that era, and the indicators of the T2 project were also set at an extraordinary high level. According to the requirements of the General Equipment Department, T2 must also be able to carry nuclear warheads, and the maximum range cannot be less than 300 kilometers.

Think about how many tons of nuclear bombs weighed back then? If a cruise missile like T2 could carry such a large warhead, how big would it be. This one discouraged the Soviet design bureau and designers.

Anyway, no one dared to take on this project. It was cold for three months. When Li Xiaofeng asked about the progress of the T2 project, he found that the total equipment had such a big miserable. Damn how many tons of warheads weighed and could fly three hundred kilometers away, or it was a flight-style. How big is this missile?

After Li Xiaofeng discovered this, he immediately gave an instruction to delete the item that can carry a nuclear warhead from the project indicators and change it to be able to carry a 500-kilogram conventional warhead.

Li Xiaofeng felt that this time, there would be no more dismal situations? But what he didn't expect was that the Soviet designers and design bureaus still did not give face, and no one was willing to take over the T2 project. Why is this?

In fact, the reason is very simple, because this is during the war, most of the design bureaus and designers are full of tasks, and everyone is as busy as dogs, so where can they get any cruise missiles?

This situation continued until Li Xiaofeng intervened for the second time. Just when MiG Design Bureau and Lavochikin Design Bureau distinguished the advanced power fighter project, Li Xiaofeng made a decision to let Lavochikin take over the T2 project.

Some comrades may say that you are doing something nonsense. Lavochikin designed an airplane. Why did you let him get a missile? Isn’t this let him become a monk halfway? Isn’t this a waste of talent?

That's not the case. It is true that Lavochikin relies on famous for designing fighter jets, but after losing to the MiG-15 in history, this person basically gave up the aircraft project and switched to missiles in full. The first missile model he designed was the v-300, that is, the S-25 Golden Eagle missile system.

Maybe everyone is a little unfamiliar with the names of S-25 and Golden Eagle. In fact, this is the Sam-1 air defense missile called the West. The more famous Sam-2 is also the S-75 missile system. His design bureau later was particularly good at making missiles and was a good player in ramjet engines.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng did not put all the eggs in one basket. He chose two design bureaus for the T2 project, and the second design bureau was Miashev.

Miyashev was actually similar to Ravochikin, both of whom jumped to work on missiles halfway. In 1951, when his father and father Iron and Steel asked Tupolev to develop a jet strategic bomber but was flatly rejected by the old designer, Iron and Steel was furious and kicked Tupolev aside and appointed Miyashev, who was just 48 years old at the time, to carry out this project.

At that time, Miashev basically had no achievements. He only worked under Tupolev as a prisoner during World War II. However, Stalin had a good view of people. Although Miashev was average in strategic bombers, he still made great achievements in missiles.

However, in 1944, when Li Xiaofeng ordered Lavochikin and Miyashev to build cruise missiles, the two did not feel happy. Lavochikin wanted to win a game on the plane, while Miyashev wanted to design a bomber. However, the Soviet designers could only follow the baton of ******* and did not listen to the orders of the central leader. Are you trying to kill yourself!

So in June 1944, Lavochikin and Miyashev reluctantly started the cruise missile project. It is interesting to say that the cruise missile plans of Lavochikin and Miyashev are similar, both are two-stage missile plans. The first stage uses a liquid rocket engine (booster) and the second stage uses a ramjet engine (cruising engine).

Among them, Lavochikin's design plan is 350, or V-350. The entire missile uses a cluster-bound booster, which is parallel to the bullet body, and the lengths of the two are similar. The cruise class of the v-350 is similar to the plane-shaped aerodynamic layout of the aircraft, and consists of a cylindrical bullet body, the main bullet wing and the tail wing. The engine used in the cruise class bullet body is the rd-12u liquid ram engine developed by the Bondar Yuko Design Bureau (okb-670). This is actually improved on the rd-40 engine. The ram engine uses a head shock cone multi-wave system intake channel, and the shock cone is a straight-through ram combustion chamber.

Compared with jet engines, compressors are eliminated before the combustion chamber of the ram engine. Around the circular tube intake pipe and combustion chamber are an annular fuel tank, which is filled with aviation kerosene. Its weight accounts for 70% of the total weight of the missile, the body weight is only 22%, and the warhead weighs 8%.

When the ram air enters the intake passage through the missile head, it reduces the speed of the intake passage and then reaches the combustion chamber after multiple shock waves. At this time, the flow rate has dropped to ensure normal mixing and combustion with the fuel, and can form a stable high-temperature gas, and finally sprays out at high speed through the nozzle to generate thrust.

The V-350 needs a booster when taking off, and an s2.1100 rocket engine is hung under each of its two wings. This is the engine developed by the Isayev Design Bureau for the later famous Scud, the R-11 missile. The engine has four parallel nozzles, using kerosene/nitric acid two-component propellant.

The warhead of the v-350 is in the shock cone, and the weight is temporarily kept confidential (with surprises), but its power is quite amazing.

The t2 missile project code of the Miyashev Design Bureau is S-40, which is also a cluster binding structure for the booster to surround the bullet body. The slightly different is that the S-40 has four boosters, which also uses nitric acid-kerosene dual-component propellant. The engine is designed by the Grushko mentioned above, which is actually the rd-211 engine of the R-12 missile. However, the rd-211 engine at that time was many problems, and it was not completely solved until 1950. By 1952, Miyashev could not stand it anymore and replaced it with another rd-213 engine designed by Grushko.

As for the ram engine of the S-40 missile, it is also a product of the Bondar Yuko Design Bureau, namely the rd-018a ram engine.

Speaking of this, some comrades may have questions. It is 1944 now. After eight years of T2 project, no results have been achieved? You can say that Li Xiaofeng is also quite worried about this, because according to his idea, he wanted to obtain a tactical missile with a range of 300 kilometers. But for some reason, no matter whether it was Lavochikin or Miyashev, he did not understand his kindness and made the T2 project a strategic strike weapon.

Let me put it this way, the Lavochikin's V-350 missile has a total length of 19 meters and a total weight of 96 tons. It can carry a 2.9-ton warhead to fly 8,500 kilometers at a speed of 3 Mach. And Miyashev's S-40 is even more exaggerated. The total length is 24 meters and the total weight is 125 tons. It can also carry a 3-ton warhead to fly 10,000 kilometers at a speed of 3 Mach.

Now everyone knows what the surprise is? Anyway, Li Xiaofeng was shocked. After a long time, Ravochikin and Miyashev were preparing to challenge Korolev. Didn’t you build an R-7 missile with a range of more than 8,000 kilometers? Then we also want to build a cruise missile project that is not inferior to you. Let’s compare who has the better missile!

When Li Xiaofeng discovered the way Lavochkin and Miyashev had been doing it, it was already 1945, and at this time he could no longer stop these two big and unscrupulous projects. Because Sverdlov was very interested in the T2 project and was strongly supported. Li Xiaofeng could not rush up and directly slap Xiaosi's face.

However, Li Xiaofeng also knew that the T2 project might be torn apart this time, because even if V-350 and S-40 can be achieved, its performance does not have much significance compared to the R-7. This kind of stamped cruise missile has a slower flight speed than ballistic missiles, and its flight altitude is just within the strike range of the first generation of air defense missiles after the war (such as the S-25). Moreover, the technology is complex and expensive, so it is better to build the R-7 than to build them.

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng had already made up his mind that once Xiao Si retired, he would immediately cut off these two projects. Using his technical capabilities at that time, it was a bit too advanced to develop such hypersonic strategic cruise missiles. Moreover, for the Soviet Red Army at that time, there was no need and no need to use such weapons.

Therefore, because the T2 project could not be stopped, Li Xiaofeng wanted to obtain a tactical cruise missile, so he had to issue a supplementary project to Lavochikin and Miyashev in 1945. Later, this project was called the T2-1, or the subsonic tactical cruise missile project.

This time, Li Xiaofeng set a dead target for Lavochikin and Miyashev, with a maximum range of 500 kilometers, a warhead weighing 500 kilograms, a maximum speed of no more than Mach 0.8, and a total weight of no more than two tons, and it must be able to hit the target within 100 meters of the circumference.

For Lavochkin and Miashev, the first few indicators are all drizzling, and the most deadly thing is the last one. The requirement for hit accuracy is too high. You should know that the hit accuracy of the s-40 and v-350 they designed is 10 kilometers, which is a death-taking.

Anyway, the last indicator stumped the two designers. It was not until 1947 when the Soviet Union made a breakthrough in laser devices and created a laser gyroscope with higher accuracy that this accuracy index was realized. Before that, Lavochkin's V-360 and Miyashev's S-41 were only 300 meters in accuracy. To be honest, it was really not good-looking.

Of course, this missile actually entered actual combat in June 1945. Four test models that had just appeared were sent to Germany, and live ammunition attacked a key bridge on the way forward of the British and American Allies. As for the results, according to the Soviet official statement, the missile flew 300 kilometers successfully, and the high-explosive warhead weighing one ton (reducing fuel can be replaced with a larger warhead) was accurately deployed to the target, achieving a successful success.

Of course, in fact, all four warheads deviated from the target, and the closest one was 90 meters away. Basically, the bridge was only slightly injured. The last thing that destroyed the bridge was the Air Force's KH-3 TV guided missile. Five KH-3s accurately hit the bridge deck and broke the bridge in the waist.

As for v-350 and s-41, it was not until 1950 that the official numbers of kh-4a and kh-4b were obtained. They were generally equipped at the Army Front level. They existed as long-range strike methods for the Army, and they were also considered to have snatched jobs from Scud.

However, the more important reason why V-350 and S-41 are mentioned here is that in June 1945, they shouldered a special mission. At that time, according to the requirements of the Military Commission, Ravochekin and Miyashev respectively built special test models, bold and lengthened missile bodies, and tied up two boosters. The maximum load capacity of the special test models was increased to two tons in one fell swoop.

Don't underestimate the two-ton data, because in May 1945, Miashev's special test model carried a Soviet first-generation combat atomic bomb to attack the target of Nobita and achieved a complete success. A month later, the test model of Lavochikin also carried the same atomic bomb for a historic experiment.

"What do the British and Americans think of the Paris uprising?"

After finishing the technical issues, Li Xiaofeng finally had time to pay attention to political issues. It has been a while since the Paris Uprising was successful, and it is time for the British and Americans to react.

Yakov replied: "Churchill was very angry and accused Charles de Gaulle of not taking the overall situation into consideration. The relationship between the British government and the French National Liberation Commission was once very tense... Gillard also took the opportunity to attack Charles de Gaulle, and the two were almost incompatible."

Li Xiaofeng was very satisfied with this result because this was the result he wanted to see. Churchill finally broke his face with De Gaulle clearly. I guess De Gaulle had seen through Fatty Qiu's true face at this time, and this fat man could no longer pretend to be smiling. As for Gillard, history has proved that he is indeed not as good as De Gaulle. If he came to power, France would probably become the little brother of Britain and the United States in the future and would be fooled.

Yakov asked: "Whether to give Charles De Gaulle some support through public opinion channels? His pressure has been extremely high recently!"

Li Xiaofeng immediately rejected the suggestion: "We can't do anything now, especially through public opinion to support Charles De Gaulle, this will only be a bad thing!"

The reason is simple. De Gaulle's pressure comes from Britain and the United States. If the Soviet Union helps him speak good things, it will only make Britain and the United States think that De Gaulle has completely turned to the Soviet Union. With the black-heartedness of Britain and the United States, it is 100% intolerable. They may really get rid of De Gaulle and give him a way of playing to Madagascar as Roosevelt said.

Therefore, the Soviet Union could not do anything, and it would be best to pretend that it was nothing to do. Of course, you could still give De Gaulle some comfort in private, but that could only be done but not said.

"Have the British and Americans mentioned how to solve the Paris problem?" Li Xiaofeng continued to ask.

Yakov laughed: "They want to learn from our approach in Warsaw, but they really can't stand it. Now they are in a stalemate. It seems they are preparing to take one step at a time."

Li Xiaofeng didn't think that Britain and the United States had other choices. According to Yakov's report, the entire Paris was completely under the control of the rebels. Even if the Allies wanted to take a turn in Paris, the rebels in Paris would take the initiative to come to the door. Could Britain and the United States pretend that they didn't see it at that time?

In Li Xiaofeng's opinion, Britain and the United States were just stubborn at this time. These guys probably wanted to pretend to be deaf and dumb until they really couldn't help but accept the reality of Paris. However, this doesn't matter to Li Xiaofeng. Anyway, this advantage has been taken, so there is no need to sprinkle salt on the wounds of Britain and the United States to disgust people.

But what Li Xiaofeng didn't expect was that there was no shortage of such teammates in the Soviet Union. Li Xiaofeng's cold treatment of the tone set by the Paris uprising was that he ignored it openly and actually laughed secretly. However, some people did not understand this truth. On the third day of the victory of the Paris uprising, the diplomatic people's commissar Galahan suddenly issued a statement: "Warm welcome to the people of Paris to win the uprising and pay tribute to the heroic and great people of Paris!"

Although this statement is similar to shouting slogans, its impact is indeed extremely bad. Although Britain and the United States did not say anything, they actually held a grudge. Galahan's behavior of being favored but not being able to do so made Li Xiaofeng furious.

At the enlarged meeting of *******, Li Xiaofeng fiercely criticized Galahan's behavior: "Comrade Lev Mikhailovich, who authorized you to issue such a statement. The Paris issue is related to the unity within the Allied forces and the complex political struggles in France. Your approach puts our country on the forefront and will cause great difficulties for our future division and disintegration of the imperialist alliance!"

Galahan, the person involved, dared not retaliate because when he made this statement, he did not consult the opinions of ******* and the People's Committee, which was a private firecracker. This was a huge violation, so Li Xiaofeng criticized him and he could only bear it silently.

However, Galahan was not very worried, because the reason he wanted to fire this cannon was not because of his big mouth, nor because of a hot mind for a moment, but because of deep political reasons. The one who instructed him to make this statement was actually Sverdlov, otherwise he would not dare to talk nonsense with his courage.

So now the question is, why did Sverdlov suddenly instruct Galahan to issue this statement at this moment? Could it be that Xiao Si can't see the complex relationship?

Sverdlov is not so politically unintelligent. His opposite side is naturally clear. It is precisely because he knows the relationship inside that he resolutely ordered Galahan to fire, because he has his considerations... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!