() The V1 missile that Ron shot down during this test flight was the first German cruise missile shot down by the Allies. But on this day, more V1 cruise missiles were not intercepted. On this day, the Germans

The Allies do not know exactly how many missiles were launched.

Road. But it is certain that London was attacked. On this night, a total of 32 explosions occurred in London. The situation in the suburbs and other areas has not yet been statistics, but many areas were hit by unidentified flying bombs.

The attack is certain.

32 bombs fell into the city in one night. This was nothing compared to the amount of bombs dropped by the Germans during the Battle of Britain in 1940. However, the damage caused by these 32 bombs was quite considerable——

In addition to causing varying degrees of damage to more than 60 buildings, 82 people were killed and 110 people were injured in varying degrees.

Just 32 missiles can cause such heavy casualties. There are many reasons for this. First of all, the absolute air superiority over the past three years has caused the Allies to lose their vigilance to a certain extent. In addition, the new missiles

Some technical characteristics of weapons cannot be ignored.

First of all, the V1 missile flies at low altitude, which greatly reduces the probability of radar detecting it. The flying height of 600 meters is not undetectable for radar, but the detection distance will be greatly reduced. Furthermore, in order to save costs, many components of the V1 missile

They all use wooden structures. This also reduces the reflection of radar waves. Moreover, the V1 missile is at an altitude of 600 meters, 64

The high speed of 0 kilometers also greatly reduced the warning time of the interceptor. Therefore, when the missile fell, the citizens of London did not get warning, and the air raid warning did not sound. People stayed in their houses.

There was no preparation. In 1940, before the bombs fell, most of the citizens had already taken shelter in air-raid shelters.

…

Grodwolfshance Forest.

A monorail stretches deep into the dense forest. If you walked along this railway - of course, this is impossible, because the SS stationed here will kill any intruders - you will

I discovered that deep in the forest, there is a very inconspicuous small single-platform station called "Gerlitz"

When you get off the bus from there, you will see two special iron towers erected in the forest, which are communication towers. In the middle of the two iron towers, in a small open space, you can see a huge entrance made of boulders and concrete. From

Entering there is the famous Wolf's Den. Compared to the Chancellery, this is the real base camp of Germany.

After the bombing of Berlin, Hitler left the Chancellery and returned to the command center called Wolf's Lair. Now, he is here to listen to the Air Force general's report on the situation of the V1 missile.

"My head of state, yesterday, we launched 400 new cruise missiles towards London. All of them hit the target accurately. London suffered heavy losses!"

"Are you sure! Did the British suffer heavy losses?" Hitler asked.

"Yes, my Führer." the air force officer replied loudly, "I'm sure!"

Hitler turned to look at another man in SS uniform.

"Fuhrer, our intelligence officers confirmed that there were multiple explosions in London last night." The man explained to Hitler.

"It's true." Hitler suddenly became happy. "I have said long ago that attack, attack, only attack is the way to win. But there are always some fools who want to drag us into strategic defense.

.If you ask me, spending money on defensive fighter jets is far worse than spending money on offensive missiles!"

Hitler made fists with both hands and smashed them down hard.

"How many missiles does the Air Force have now? Why did it only launch so few this time?"

"Führer, the Air Force now has 2,000 missiles, but we don't have enough firing positions."

"Then go and build more missiles and firing sites!" Hitler turned around and said to a man in casual clothes with a high forehead: "Spere, I hope you can personally supervise the development of this cruise missile.

Production and equipment. I hope it won’t be long before we can fire thousands of missiles towards London!”

"Okay Head of State, your will is your command!"

"By the way, does this weapon have a name now?" Hitler asked.

"not yet."

"Then what name should we give him?" Hitler put his hands behind his back and began to pace. Then he stopped and said to an aide: "You call Minister Goebbels right away and ask him to publicize it.

, and by the way, give this weapon a good name."

…

As the first pilot to shoot down an enemy's special weapon, Ron was being questioned by a group of American and British experts.

"General Ron, can you describe the process of shooting down this new German weapon?"

"I'd love to," Ron replied, "Here's the thing..."

"General, can you describe the flight characteristics of this thing?"

"Ah, this thing flies very fast. It can fly at a speed of 630-640 meters at about 600 meters. However, the flight method is very monotonous. It basically flies in a straight line at a constant speed. For a fighter jet, as long as it finds it and can keep up with it,

Come on, it’s not difficult to shoot this thing down.”

…

After wondering for a while, the experts finally left. Ron received a notice from General Doolittle, asking him to come to his place to discuss the next step.

When Ron arrived at Doolittle's office, he found that in addition to Doolittle, Li Mei, and a British general with the rank of general were also present.

"Ron, this is General Arthur Tedder, Chief of Staff of the Royal Air Force."

"General Arthur Ted, hello." Ron raised his hand and saluted him.

"Everyone is here, let's get started." General Doolittle said, "Let's take a look at this information first."

Ron took the information handed over by the staff. It was the translation of Goebbels's speech that was broadcast on German radio not long ago. In his speech, Goebbels declared: The end of the British people has come, because Germany has developed a super

Weapons - Vengeance missiles. Yesterday, these missiles were

A successful attack on London. This was in response to the despicable bombing of Berlin by the British and Americans. This weapon would win the war for Germany. If the British did not surrender, they would be immediately attacked by tens of thousands, even

Attack of millions of missiles. Britain will be completely razed to the ground!

"Goebbels, this idiot, is bragging." Ron threw the document aside with disdain.

"We all know that Goebbels was bragging. This is his profession. But in any case, this weapon is also a threat." General Arthur Tedder said, "This morning, our reconnaissance plane captured such a

Some photos.”

So a few photos were placed in front of everyone. From these photos, you can see a long slide rail.

"These rails are all pointing to London. And the French Resistance also confirmed that residents in this area heard strange roaring sounds yesterday afternoon."

"We can blow up these things. However, this thing shouldn't be worth much, and it should be easy to make fake targets that look exactly like this." Li Mei looked at it and said.

"This thing has some sort of explosive head. With the precision of this thing, if it were aimed at London, it would probably miss by dozens of kilometers."

The main reason Ron said this was that he didn't want to see the target of strategic bombing being moved. In his opinion, the Germans were throwing this thing out at this time in the hope of diverting the attention of the Allies. Okay.

Let the Air Force, which was almost defeated, recover.

.And Ron said that the v1 missile can deviate dozens of kilometers, which is not an exaggeration. In order to reduce costs, the guidance system of v1 is extremely simple, and the navigation gyros used are also low-end products. Therefore, it can deviate dozens of kilometers, or even

Traveling hundreds of kilometers is common.

But General Arthur Tedder didn't think so. In his opinion, Americans like LeMay and Ron had no personal experience with whether bombs could be dropped on British cities. Of course they could face V1 missiles and put on a show

They acted like they didn't care. If they were facing so many guys in New York, these two guys would definitely not behave like this.

"The hit accuracy of this thing is indeed not good, but because it is difficult to predict, personnel cannot be evacuated in advance. Once it hits, the casualties will be huge. As the guardians of the British people, we must eliminate such threats. To this end,

We cannot wait to reduce the bombing of German cities." General Arthur Tedder said.

"This is really regrettable, but we understand it. We are also willing to provide some help within our ability." General Doolittle knew that the British would definitely transfer all their main bombers to deal with V1 missiles. This was not in line with his wishes.

But he still said, "Ron, among us, you are the only one who has the experience of shooting down this thing. Do you have any ideas on how to defend it?"

"First, we can deploy more manned observation posts while maintaining a group of fighter jets patrolling at an altitude of 1,000-1,500 meters. Once alerted, we can direct the fighter jets patrolling in the air to intercept the enemy's missiles. Of course, this will take up a lot of space.

A large number of fighter resources. I think it is better to leave this kind of thing to the Spitfire and Meteor of the Royal Air Force."

Ron had no choice but to use his long-legged aircraft that could escort bomber groups to do this kind of thing. John Bull's fighter jets had short legs and couldn't escort bomber groups, so it would be a good idea to stay here and do this.

"Secondly, we need to deploy more anti-aircraft guns. Since the target cannot evade maneuvers, as long as we can get timely warnings, even large and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns should be able to obtain the target when using VT fuze shells.

Very good kill rate.”
Chapter completed!