Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 285: Strategic bombing (part one)

Some experts and scholars believe that this frustrating war for the British people in a sense saved the British Empire. The rapid stability of Europe's geopolitical structure gave Britain the opportunity to re-adjust its international strategy, re-strengthen her ties and control over overseas colonies, and ensure the continuation of the sunless system.

Although the British empire can no longer behave in the world as it did a century ago, as long as the heritage of this old empire is still there, it may not be impossible to rise again.

The rate of recovery of the Royal Air Force exceeded the Cabinet’s expectations. After cutting down a large number of flashy projects, the limited funds were used more rationally. This is something that the British government and the public did not expect. Or it should be said that everyone knows the existence of the previous ills, but has not had the courage to expose it.

The British government is not much cleaner than the German Nazis. As long as there is interest entanglement, corruption cannot be avoided. The black box operations in the cabinet weapons procurement project may be more than the small-caliber artillery shells accumulated by the Royal Navy.

Because of the support of the Luftwaffe, the Lancaster project received the highest priority. Whether it is materials, machinery or developers, as long as the R&D team requests it, it can be resolved within 48 hours.

The technicians have received the best care in their lives. There is 24 hours of hot water in the dormitory. Three meals a day are the freshest food. There are desserts and fruits after the meal. There are almost Make them think they are dreaming.

Let’s not mention that the war has just ended. Most counties in the country are still implementing a wartime rationing system. Even before the war broke out, these benefits were only eligible for senior engineers.

The life of most British people is not rich these years, especially the people at the bottom should be said to have been quite hard. Many people have no permanent assets until they die. What they have is only the dignity of the citizens of the British Empire, and now they even There is a danger of devaluation.

As long as the logistical strength keeps up, it can be immediately reflected in the work efficiency. The staff's work enthusiasm is high, and it seems that every moment is full of infinite power.

The technical department of Afro has been expropriated as a whole. This project is no longer owned by the company, but is treated as a model of mutual understanding and cooperation between Britain and Germany.

Inspired by the head of state, the German High Command has initially established the concept of a strategic air force, but in terms of the equipment required, the Luftwaffe is completely blank, and Afro’s Lancaster bomber is currently It is the only mature model that can be found throughout Europe that can meet the strategic needs of the German army, so even if it has received higher attention, it will not feel excessive.

The Luftwaffe has invested considerable enthusiasm for this project, of course, it also includes a large amount of funds, materials and manpower, trying to get the long-range bomber in a short period of time, and further on the basis of the mass-produced model Technical Improvement.

The British production version of Lancaster has been officially finalized. In this regard, thanks to the advice of the German head of state, the British project team has to admit that the German head of state may have more knowledge of this bomber than any of them. deep.

Xu Jun circled all the errors and mistakes in the original design, and also drew improved sketches and marked accurate parameters. Of course the British would not know that these improvements were originally the result of their unknowable amount of sweat, blood, and even life after countless bombing flights.

The range of the Lancaster bomber has reached more than four thousand kilometers. If the bomb load is reduced and the fuel tank inside the aircraft is mounted, the range can continue to increase. However, judging from current conditions, a 4,000-kilometer range is sufficient to meet the German strategic bombing needs in the early days of the Eastern Front War.

If these bombers take off from Poland’s eastern airport, their combat radius can completely cover the entire European part of the Soviet Union, including the eastern foothills of the Ural Mountains, which historically served as the Soviet strategic production headquarters, and are also within the bombing range of this bomber.

No matter what the actual results are obtained by then, like Hitler who faced the strategic bombing by the United Kingdom and the United States in history, I believe there will not be many choices before Stalin. In the era when there were no anti-aircraft missiles, the Soviet Union's possible methods were all within the calculations of the German head of state.

Of course, the implementation of strategic bombing puts great pressure on Germany’s own logistics. Not only does it need to invest a lot of resources and productivity to build aircraft and train a large number of crew members, but it also needs to establish a complex logistics maintenance system. Maintaining that huge group of strategic bombers almost drained the Royal Air Force. However, these efforts are not worth mentioning when compared with the effects of strategic bombing, because it is always easier to destroy this kind of work than to build.

A one-hundred-kilogram aerial bomb can destroy a four-story apartment in a few seconds, and it would take months or even a year to build the same apartment. What is more serious is the psychological blow to the people in the rear. When the people find that they are no longer in a safe rear and their lives and property are under threat from the enemy, even how the government controls it, it is difficult to eradicate the people's psychological panic.

What is fearless under enemy bombing is the government's propaganda language. If you really want to understand the horror brought about by strategic bombing, you should really read the memoirs of British and German civilian wars. If the Luftwaffe bombers had Lancaster's ammunition capacity during the British air war, the outcome of the battle might be completely different.

This Lancaster bomber that landed in Berlin is a mass production type that has been put into trial production. At present, German engineers and technicians are in Aflo’s production workshop and are studying the improvement of production processes with their British counterparts. The problem, the goal is to reduce the total working hours of production to a number that can satisfy everyone.

Speaking of production hours~IndoMTL.com~ At that time, European countries were basically the same in terms of calculation methods. Every part on the plane from material preparation, processing to assembly, was all counted into working hours, and finally counted into Cost of production.

At that time, the United Kingdom produced aircraft by subcontracting parts and then concentrated in assembly plants for final assembly. It should be said that aircraft production in European countries was almost the same at that time.

Xu Jun handed over the manufacturing business of this bomber in Germany to Dornier. It seemed that Junkers or Henschel would be more suitable, but they each have a bunch of production tasks, and they can’t squeeze out more. Productivity.

The Dornier Company is currently the most idle of German aircraft manufacturers, and it happens to be used by Xu Jun for experiments. He wants to try to adopt a more efficient assembly line model in the process of manufacturing bombers.

Moreover, in Xu Jun's plan, this aircraft still has a lot of room for improvement. It can be replaced with a more powerful engine and at the same time add more powerful self-defense weapons.

PS: The first chapter is here. The author is still working hard. The next chapter may be a little late. Thank you for your understanding.

The author will go out tomorrow, the update will be suspended for one day, and the double update will continue the day after tomorrow.