The aircraft was still a "Li" transport aircraft modified from a civilian aircraft. Since the war in the Caucasus was not over yet and the Soviet frontline war was tense, officers were generally not allowed to fly to certain places unless it was an important situation.
Of course, Shulka and Akadiyevich are exceptions.
To be precise, their mission was an exception, because after Arkadyevich got on the plane, he said to Shulka: "We have a plane because of your profit! Before that, I stayed in the train for a few days.
It takes a genius to get here! You definitely won’t like that feeling..."
After several hours of long-distance flight, including one transfer, the plane finally arrived in Moscow early the next morning.
Shulka and Arkadyevich rushed to their destination without stopping as soon as they got off the plane.
This made Shulka a little puzzled, because Shulka should have been the first person to arrive in Moscow since Shulka raised this question, so he shouldn't be in such a hurry.
But Shurka soon knew that this was not the case. When the car drove directly into a building and the two of them hurried to the conference room, they saw a large number of people already fighting in the smoke-filled room.
As soon as the two opened the door, the conference room immediately fell silent, and everyone inside turned their eyes to the door.
Akadiyevich brought Shulka to an officer sitting in the main seat, stood up and saluted: "Comrade Beria, this is Comrade Shulka, the commander of the 8th Infantry Regiment, whom I reported to you!
"
Shulka looked at the officer in front of him in disbelief, wearing glasses with slightly convex peaks... He looked unremarkable, but he was actually the second-highest figure in the Soviet Union.
"Nice to meet you, Comrade Shulka!" Beria shook hands with Shulka with a smile, then raised his head to the table and said: "Maybe you don't know yet, since you made that 'guessing'
'After that, they have been arguing until now!"
Then Shulka understood why Akadiyevich was in such a hurry. These scientists had been discussing Shulka's "guessions" all night without knowing it, and this was in the presence of Beria himself.
Shulka glanced towards the conference room and found that Sisoy was also there, nodding slightly towards Shulka.
"But of course!" Beria said in a calm tone: "They couldn't argue anything. They even divided into several groups, and each had their own opinions... Can you convince them?"
"I'll try, Comrade Beria!" Shulka replied.
"Very good!" Beria nodded, and then said to the scientists: "This is the Comrade Shulka you have been waiting for for a long time. It is he who proposed this guess. If you have any questions, you can ask them now!"
The conference room suddenly became noisy, and scientists rushed to ask questions, just like the stock market, but Shulka didn't understand anything.
As soon as Beria raised his hand, everyone fell silent again.
"Comrade Sisoy!" Beria said: "Maybe you can chair the meeting!"
"Yes, Comrade Beria!" Sisoy stood up and walked to Shulka. He first introduced two people to Shulka: "This is Comrade Pavlovich Korolev, a rocket launcher expert.
It’s the ‘Katyusha’ we know well. This is Comrade Kurchatov, a physicist!”
Although Sisoy did not introduce Kurchatov's contribution, Shulka vaguely remembered that Kurchatov was responsible for and organizing Soviet nuclear science and technology.
Nuclear science has been in the Soviet Union since before the war broke out. However, after the war broke out, Stalin asked all scientists to focus their interest on weapons and equipment that could defeat the enemy, so Kurchatov could only put nuclear research on hold.
And study the degaussing problem of the Black Sea Fleet ships.
Shulka shook hands with the two of them one by one, realizing that the people gathered in front of him were all the top scientists of the Soviet Union.
"Comrade Shulka!" Korolev asked first: "As for the speculation you raised... although it is reasonable in some aspects, I think it is also unreasonable or unexplainable. For example, why do the Germans want to develop
What is the significance of such a piece of equipment?”
This is indeed a question that weapons experts can ask.
The first thing weapons experts consider is the practical value of this equipment. If it has no practical value, then it would be a waste to spend time and energy developing it.
When Shulka didn't answer, Korolev added: "What I mean is that if the Germans want to drop a bomb on our land, they don't need to do that at all, they just need to send bombers."
It can be done!”
This is indeed true, because the German army has not had air superiority for a long time. Even now, it is almost the same. As long as the German Air Force is willing to invest enough fighter aircraft to escort, it can be said that there is almost no place that they cannot bomb... Even
During the Soviet Union's Moscow Red Square military parade, the Soviet Air Force had to use all its strength and was only able to stop it when the German army was poorly prepared.
In other words, the Germans could have used simpler tactics at a lower cost...the bombers would attach bombs and drop them directly on the target.
In this way, for the Soviet Union, developing a bomb that could fly on its own would be a waste of time.
"Maybe it will have unexpected uses!" Of course Shulka did not dare to point it out immediately. He replied: "There are many things that I am not sure about, Comrade Korolev, because I am also relying on guesswork. But I think
, if the Germans want to develop such a thing, there must be a reason for it!"
"So I don't think this thing developed by the Germans is what you said!" Korolev said.
"We are just guessing, Comrade Korolev!" Shulka said: "Since it is a guess, why don't we guess more?"
"What's the meaning?"
"I mean..." Shulka replied: "If we have such a device, it can fly automatically and explode after flying to the destination..."
"Isn't that just a cannonball?" Korolev interrupted Shulka.
Korolev may be a very good weapons expert, but his thinking still cannot break out of the existing framework.
But this seems normal. How many people can jump out of the world they know and have forward thinking?!
"We can roughly analyze its performance!" Shulka said to the photo on the table: "First of all, because it relies on fuel to fly, it is likely to have a very long flight distance!"
Kurchatov agreed: "From its volume, we can roughly calculate the size of its fuel tank, which should be about 500 liters (the V1 missile can hold 568 liters of fuel), so that it can fly
Hundreds of kilometers!”
"That's the problem!" Shulka said: "If it can fly hundreds of kilometers, it means that its range will exceed all our artillery shells. That is to say, the enemy does not even need to send out aircraft to attack it.
Use this equipment to bomb our tanks, artillery, and even airports hundreds of kilometers away...For example, now, if the Germans have this equipment, they can even bomb Moscow!"
The scientists in the conference room couldn't help but commotion. This was something that could take the enemy's head thousands of miles away.
"We can send planes to intercept, can't we?" Korolev said.
"Of course!" Shulka replied: "But what if the enemy launches at night?"
Korolev was speechless. The Soviet night fighters were still in their primitive stages, and it was difficult to intercept such small and fast things at night.
At the same time, there are similar advantages between offense and defense. Those with V1 missiles are on the offensive. They take the initiative, while the defender must always be prepared. There must be air defense, radar and fighter planes everywhere ready to take off to intercept.
, as soon as there is any movement, everything will be attacked... This will obviously put you in a strategic passive position.
Therefore, the value of this thing is no longer in doubt.
"My question is..." Kurchatov said: "I heard that you think it is driverless. Do you think it is possible to achieve it?"
"I don't know, Comrade Kurchatov!" Shulka replied: "Whether it is possible, you should know better than me!"
"This is what I can't believe!" Kurchatov said bluntly: "At least we can't do it, but I also understand that just because we can't do it doesn't mean that the Germans can't do it!"
"Yes!" Shulka said: "I have been thinking about this issue on the way here. Unmanned driving, that is, automatic driving, will it judge its flight attitude based on a certain inclination angle? I don't know that
What it is, it's just an analogy. For example, if the nose of the aircraft is tilted up or down due to the influence of wind during flight, some kind of horizontal device inside it senses and drives a series of mechanical reactions to adjust the wings to keep it in its original flight state...
…”
After saying this, Shulka turned his gaze to Kurchatov and asked: "Is this possible, Comrade Kurchatov?"
Kurchatov's eyes were already wide-eyed. After a while, he nodded and said: "Yes, this is indeed possible. The horizontal device you mentioned... it seems that we can use a gyroscope to do it, making it
The aircraft automatically senses the attitude and reacts accordingly. All we have to do is work with the pilot and adjust the reaction amplitude!"
There was an uproar in the conference room. Kurchatov's words almost confirmed Shulka's guess about this new type of equipment.
"So!" Beria asked: "We have reached a consensus that the enemy already has such a piece of equipment, or is it under development?"
"Yes, Comrade Beria!" Kurchatov replied: "And if we have seen it flying in the air and taken photos of it, this at least proves that the enemy has achieved preliminary success!"
"Very good!" Beria said: "The next step is our business!" (To be continued)