As early as last year, Germany had already put rockets into actual combat to attack the British mainland.
The Germans used V1 rockets, which flew only 2,000 meters high and flew very slowly. In actual combat, about 46% of them were shot down by British ground anti-aircraft fire, 25% crashed due to their own malfunctions, and half of the remaining ones were shot down.
The target was not hit, and the results were so impressive that even the Germans were disappointed.
Although the effect is not good, the rocket has great potential, and the Germans are currently fully studying the V2 rocket.
Compared with the V1 rocket, the V2 flies farther, higher, is more powerful, and has improved accuracy. This is one of the reasons why Winston decided to launch the "Overlord" operation. After all, it is not British to only be beaten and not to fight back.
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After the "meteorites" arrived in the UK, the British War Department showed great interest in the "meteorites" and tried every means to find out the specific properties of the "meteorites", but unfortunately they failed to do so.
Southern Africa's confidentiality work is very thorough. If it were not for the purpose of verifying the actual combat performance of the "meteorite", Rock would not have exposed the "meteorite" at all. After the "meteorite" arrived in the UK, Southern Africa was responsible for all related work, and others
There is no chance to even get close to the "meteorite".
Not only the British, but also Americans are more interested in "meteorites".
In the Far East and Southern Africa, precision-guided bombs have been used on the battlefield. The Americans knew about this, but they did not know the specific circumstances.
Compared with the precision-guided bombs at that time, the performance of today's "Meteorite" has reached a higher level. After all, precision-guided bombs still need artificial guidance, but "Meteorites" have to attack targets thousands of miles away. Americans don't even have artificial guidance yet.
Understand it, it is impossible to imagine how to ensure that the "meteorite" can successfully hit the target.
boom--
From the train gun position near Dover railway station, the "Damocles" took turns bombarding Calais with a frequency of about once every four hours.
The "Damocles" artillery shell weighs seven tons, and a crane is required to successfully send the artillery shell into the magazine. After flying more than 50 kilometers, the artillery shell carries huge kinetic energy and hits the ground. Even a dumb bomb can be thrown out.
A crater roughly the size of a football field.
"Since our landing point is Normandy, why not transfer us to Portsmouth?" Corporal Tavares from Brazil regretted that his unit did not have the opportunity to enter the combat sequence of Operation Overlord.
, can only be responsible for the defense of "Damocles".
The biggest opponent of "Damocles" comes from the air. Although the German army is no longer capable of launching large-scale air strikes on the British mainland, smaller-scale sneak attacks have continued.
The assembly of "Damocles" is very complex and takes 1,000 people half a month to assemble. If it is attacked by a German air attack, the losses will be extremely heavy, so there are more than 5,000 troops responsible for the defense work alone.
There are also two fighter groups stationed nearby, ready to take off at any time to intercept German bombers.
The Allies attached great importance to this "Operation Overlord". On the southern African side, only pure southern African troops were eligible to participate, and the British army was also composed entirely of British troops.
The Americans have nothing to say. The front-line troops are originally composed of all white Americans, and African-American soldiers can only do logistics work.
This is not a discovery of conscience, but the honor of military personnel, including the British and American troops, has not yet fallen to the level of not recruiting white men.
Therefore, the alliance troops in the Southern African Expeditionary Force can also only undertake logistics work.
"Are you stupid? This thing can only hit 50 kilometers, but the width of the strait in Normandy is more than 100 kilometers. Do you want to hit our transport ship?" Staff Sergeant Richardson is not sorry, although the Brazilian army is not either.
Weak, but compared to the real southern African army, it is still inferior.
As for not being able to participate in Operation Overlord, Richardson is not only not regretful, but also a little lucky. After all, not all soldiers value honor.
Although the Brazilian army always takes the southern African army as its learning object, in fact, even if there are southern African instructors, they only learn from one who is similar in appearance but not in spirit.
In terms of weapons and equipment, the elite Brazilian army is almost the same as the ordinary southern African army.
What's worse is the spirit.
Even an ordinary southern African army can continue to fight with more than 50% casualties.
If it were the Brazilian army, it would have to withdraw and recuperate if its casualties reached 20%, otherwise there would be mass desertion.
"I just regret that since we came to England, we have been patrolling, patrolling, patrolling--" Tavares has not completely fallen.
"Haha, there is no combat mission, so you can just have fun." Richardson chuckled. The First Army arrived in the UK to assist in the defense since the outbreak of the World War. For several years, it had nothing to do, and everyone wanted to
Moldy.
At this time, a sound similar to an aircraft engine suddenly sounded in the air.
"The air force is still dispatched in this weather?" Richardson was surprised. At this time, the rain did not decrease at all.
Both Richardson and Tavares looked up and saw that the sky was covered with dark clouds, and raindrops the size of soybeans hit their faces painfully. The ground was filled with a thick layer of mist, and nothing could be seen.
Just above the clouds, two "meteorites" were flying rapidly towards Berlin.
Later there were two more. They flew higher and higher until they were about 20 kilometers above the ground before they began to fly levelly. At that distance, no sound could be heard from the ground at all.
It has to fly over Berlin before the rocket turns around and falls almost vertically.
At this time, even if the ground air defense forces discovered the "meteorite", they would have no time to react and could only resign themselves to fate.
"Unfortunately, we can only confirm that these four 'meteorites' will definitely arrive in Berlin. The specific damage effect they can cause requires the cooperation of relevant departments." Lu Sen's current position has been upgraded to supervisor, responsible for collecting "meteorites"
"Relevant information.
Lusen knew that Brad's office was still active in Germany, but the specific situation was unclear. His level was not qualified yet, so he could only ask Gavin for help.
Gavin actually doesn't understand the specific situation. It's not that he's not qualified, but that he's not interested. Now Alvin is specifically in charge of Brad's office.
Alvin is currently in Port Elizabeth.
"Very good, your work is very effective. How is Nikolai's health?" Gavin took the initiative to greet Nikolai, a national treasure in southern Africa.
The artificial guidance technology that Americans have not been able to master until now was mastered by Tesla Laboratory ten years ago.
For "Meteorite", Tesla Laboratory also made outstanding contributions. Most of the electronic-related technologies used in "Meteorite" were provided by Tesla Laboratory.
Carrying an ace laboratory, Robert Goddard's laboratory also contributed a lot.
"Nikolai's health is very good, but he goes to the electronics laboratory less and less, and spends more time in Milna." Lu Sen resented that the Goddard Laboratory was in Milna.
Vogt, the head of Godard's laboratory, laughed and said nothing. He is a student of Robert Godard and a rocket expert.
"Is Robert's health okay?" Gavin was impartial. He himself was a scientific researcher and had a very good relationship with scientists in southern Africa.
"It's good. The teacher is probably in Pretoria now. As you know, research funds are always not enough." Vogt took every opportunity to ask for money.
Gavin just laughed it off.
Robert Godard's confidence doubled after sending the first rocket into space, and his latest goal is to land on the moon.
It's not manned, it's just a spacecraft sent to the moon.
This is already very difficult. In another time and space, it was not until 15 years later that the first human aircraft completed a flight around the moon.
Russian aircraft.
The first pilot in space was also Russian.
Although the Americans claim to have completed a manned lunar landing, there have been rumors that the Americans are falsifying it. In fact, no human has ever been to the moon.
It was not easy for Robert Goddard either. It took him 25 years from the time he started building rockets to sending the first rocket into space.
Gavin knew that Robert Goddard was great, but he also knew that the federal government could not meet all of Robert Goddard's demands.
There are now more than 1,000 federal-level research institutes in southern Africa, and almost every one of them is a gold-swallowing behemoth.
After sending Lu Sen and Vogt away, Gavin took the initiative to find Yang Smozi.
"My lord should not have sent the 'meteorite' at this time. This would arouse the vigilance of the British and Americans -" Yang Smozi was used to living a hard life, and if he had any good things, he would like to hide them.
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"It doesn't matter. Even in another fifty years, the British and Americans will not be able to catch up with our research progress in rockets." Gavin is confident that the scientific research model in southern Africa has a huge advantage over the British and American.
Can catch up.
In order to help Robert Goddard launch the first rocket, Rock mobilized all scientific research institutions in southern Africa to give unreserved support to Goddard's laboratory.
The United Kingdom and the United States cannot do this. Just like airplanes. Although airplanes were invented by Americans, the United States' progress lags far behind Southern Africa. With the research capabilities of a single airline, it is simply unable to compete with Southern Africa's scale advantage.
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The "meteorite" was just the beginning. On the night of the 4th, the first batch of jets from southern Africa finally arrived in the UK. All of these jets were land-based fighter jets. Carrier-based models that could board aircraft carriers had to wait.
Rock's scientific research has always been to implement one generation of equipment, one generation of development, and one generation of pre-research. When the first batch of jet aircraft arrives in the UK, it means that southern Africa already has more advanced models and more advanced aircraft.
More advanced ones are still in the laboratory.
This batch of aircraft, a total of 150, was carried by transport ships to Portsmouth, and then secretly stationed at a field airport built on the outskirts of Portsmouth.
This field airport was specially built for jet aircraft. In the era of propeller aircraft, fighter jets could land anywhere on the grass. Jet aircraft cannot be so casual. The requirements for runways are very high. They must be at an airport with a runway to take off and land smoothly.
This is a good thing, and it also brings more restrictions to the combat of jet aircraft. If it is a propeller aircraft, it can be used by just finding a piece of grass and leveling it. If the runway of a jet aircraft is attacked, it will take a long time to repair.
use.
This batch of jet fighters was specially prepared for "D" Day.
"The United Kingdom may not be able to do that, but Americans are still very capable of imitating." Yang Smuts was extremely wary of the Americans. The war potential displayed by the United States was no less than that of southern Africa.
The key is industrial capability.
With the UK's current industrial capabilities, even if it has all the relevant technologies for jet fighters, it is impossible to replace all propeller-driven fighters with jet aircraft in a short period of time.
Can't afford it.
Americans have the ability and the determination.
"Haha, don't worry about the Americans -" Gavin didn't explain much.
Yang Smuts was still naive and did not know how deeply Southern African capital had penetrated the U.S. economy.
Let's put it this way, if Roosevelt wants to raise tariffs now, he needs not only the support of American capitalists, but also the consent of southern African capitalists.
Otherwise, Roosevelt's presidential decree would not be able to get out of the White House.
Therefore, even if the U.S. Department of War wants to develop jet fighters, it still needs the cooperation of U.S. aviation companies.
At least 30 cents of every dollar earned by U.S. airlines belongs to Southern African shareholders.
Of course, these shareholders do not appear in the form of southern African capital. They may be a company registered in the Philippines, or even in the United States.
"I am praying with all my heart that the weather will clear up tomorrow." Yang Smozi is still worried about the weather.
Gavin didn't pray, and he did everything he could. The Allies had done everything they could. If God was not on his side, then God was not on the side of southern Africa.
I almost forgot, Germans believe in God.
So God will definitely be on the side of southern Africa.
When Gavin was still in Jan Smuts' office, in an apartment near the Brandenburg Gate, two middle-aged men were waiting for something behind the window sill.
Both of these middle-aged men have varying degrees of physical disabilities. One has a broken arm and the other is in a wheelchair. Fortunately, they have been able to avoid being drafted again and again.
"It's pouring heavily in the UK today. In this kind of weather, we shouldn't organize large-scale air raids, right?" The middle-aged man sitting in the wheelchair held a silver flask in his hand and took a sip from time to time.
Materials in Germany are very tight now, and a rationing system has been implemented for a long time. These two still have wine to drink, so there must be special channels.
"Who knows, those air force pilots are all crazy." The middle-aged man with a broken arm kept looking out the window with a telescope.
It's also cloudy in Berlin today, but it's not raining. There's no one on the street. All the street lights are out, and few houses still have their lights on.
No, candles are still burning, and the power supply has already been under control. Ordinary households can only use candles for lighting.
At this time, a fire suddenly flashed in the distance, and then a huge mushroom cloud rose. After a while, there was a huge impact that shattered all the glass on the window.
"It's so powerful!" The middle-aged man with a broken arm shouted even though he was knocked to the ground by the shock wave.
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