"It worked!"

"Long live the Führer!"

In the afternoon, when more than a dozen TA152s protected 8 huge ME464s appeared on the periphery of the Belém Air Base in northern Brazil and successively lowered their altitudes to prepare for landing, all the German ground crews couldn't help but let out a strong cheer!

This is the first strategic airlift attempt of the German army, 4 ME464 took off from the Cape Verde air base, all the way to the long distance of nearly 3,500 kilometers to Belém, from the analysis of the fuel situation in the aircraft, at least another 800 kilometers or so.

Flying more than 3,000 kilometers is not a skill, but considering the cruising speed of up to 415 km / h and the maximum speed of 596 km / h and the more than 8 tons of cargo carried in the cabin, people still feel that this is a complete miracle, and now even the fastest speed of bombers exceeds the speed of mainstream fighters before the war.

The unparalleled strength of the ME464 is of course due to the excellent engine, Germany has used the latest finalized, up to 2600 hp DB603N on the aircraft, and at the same time partially optimized the aerodynamic shape and structure, so that the aircraft has stronger performance, thanks to the current promotion of the Anglo-German Reconciliation 464 and a B modification using the 2400 hp Griffin engine from the UK, the effect is also good, and the use of DB603N A facelift can be said to have its own merits; Messerschmitt technicians also tested the 3,000 horsepower, 24-cylinder liquid-cooled British knife engine, and found that this engine completely beat DB603N and Griffin in low and medium altitudes, but the high-altitude performance most needed for large transport aircraft and bombers was average, so it was recommended for other models.

The success of the ME464 long-range test flight marks the last short board of Germany in the field of aircraft The large aircraft began to make up, Hoffman is not unaware of the benefits and uses of large aircraft, but because of Germany's limited national strength, it is not possible to invest too much in this field during the war, although the American bomber has already been approved and the two bids have been successfully developed, but the output has been very low, the annual output of the four heavy aircraft in the two bids is only equivalent to the number of B29 produced in the United States in 6 weeks, and it is also much less than the British Lancaster series.

After the end of the European War, Germany cut the original monthly production of up to 5,500 aircraft to only 3,000, if it were not for the fact that Japan's demand has been not small, Speer originally wanted to cut it to 2,500, and the spare 2,500 aircraft production capacity was gradually converted into large aircraft orders.

With the influx of new high-horsepower engines, especially British engines, various airlines are making magic changes to their respective models, Heinkel changed HE277 to HE377 and 477, Yumo launched JU490/590/690 in one go, and even Focke Wolff, who is based on fighter jets, is not to be outdone, upgrading the original FW200C to FW2000/3000, but many manufacturers know that these models are at most short-term needs within 5 years, More intense competition in the long-term demand for 4-engine jumbo bombers.

The performance of the current German jet engine is the same every month, there are many types of models, and the overall trend is blowout, and it can even be said that the jet engine under development in Germany exceeds the sum of other worlds, if you consider that Germany is taking the most correct axial flow type and other countries are still struggling in the centrifugal mud pit, the competition is unprecedentedly fierce.

During his visit to the UK, Hoffman and the Attlee government reached an agreement: if the 4-engine heavy jet bomber being developed by the UK can pass the German pre-examination and surpass the German product, Germany agrees to adopt it as an EU standard product in the future, and in turn, if the German product is stronger than the British product, the British side will realize the integration of arms procurement, which makes the manufacturers see both hope and feel the heavy challenge, and do a good job in the future, there will be food in all Europe; If you don't do it well, you may lose the market in Germany.

Now the most direct feel of the pressure is the Mercedes-Benz company, originally let them hurry up to change production, the development of a new DB603 is not very active, can be delayed, can be boiled, wait for Britain and Germany to reconcile, piles of Merlin, Griffin, saber engines began to drift across the ocean to "find food", seeing that Italy, France and even Romania, Hungary and other countries are trying to introduce, and the Ministry of Armaments has no intention of interfering, so anxious that the boss of the Mercedes-Benz company jumped to his feet, DB603 research and development took more than 3 years, But it only took 14 months to improve from Type A to Type N, and Hoffman's words were verified, and there was no motivation without pressure.

The successful development of the large aircraft is not only a complete supplement to Germany's aviation forces, but also a portrayal of Hoffman's "six-in-one" super bomb launch carrier strategic deterrence doctrine: even if Germany's future focus is on rockets, it does not mean that the aircraft is not important.464 perfectly meets Hoffman's requirements for a single 5-ton payload and a maximum endurance range of 5,000 kilometers, which can not only carry the expected super bomb, but also carry the cloudburst bomb. Although he knows that the ME464 cannot catch up with the B36 of the United States, in his design, the work of the B36 cross-continent strike does not need to be done by aircraft, and it is the king to use V8 rockets to complete it.

As a large aircraft 464 not only can be used as a bomber, but also can be flexibly changed to transport aircraft, long-range patrol aircraft, large civil airliners and refueling aircraft according to demand, now based on the ME464 platform to transform the head of state plane work has been carried out, can do aviation without the stupid head of state plane to do a good job, in the future in the civil aviation market to get a piece of the pie.

As for air refueling, it is also the direction of development that Hoffman emphasized, and in the future, aircraft will become more and more fuel-intensive, which the military deeply believes, of course, air tankers do not necessarily have to be ME464, and the cheaper and more flexible HE377 can also be tried.

In addition to the above advantages, the 464 has also completed the latest subject, carrying 2 V3 cruise missiles for air-launching, the altitude and speed of the aircraft give the air-launched V3 at least 50 kilometers of range extension, coupled with the improved range extension, now V3 and V2 can achieve a maximum strike distance of about 650 kilometers, which has special significance and value for operations, and is also the intention of the Air Force to send to South America.

With the use of strategic airlift capabilities, the Azores, Cape Verde, Belém and Guyana are perfectly connected, and the strategic airlift capabilities that made Guderian and other generals marvel at the beginning are no longer the exclusive domain of the United States.

The Mexican bandits in Skolkinny could actually carry the ME464 to go at that time, but for the sake of safety and confidentiality, Hoffman still insisted that they go by submarine, and the aircraft could be allocated to them as part of the operational support force, and after the success of the first flight, the 464s will be stationed in at least 24 planes in the next 1 month, on the surface, it seems that it is to provide long-range supplies for the German army in South America, but in fact, only a few people know that this is just a normalized situation to cover people's ears and ears, in order to paralyze the opponent, The real intention is known to no more than six people in Germany.

In addition to the pressure felt by manufacturers in the field of aviation, the pressure in the field of tanks is not small, the exposure of the Centurion tank prototype sounded the alarm to the German industry The Americans are still as clumsy as ever in the tank field, but the British are not idle, and the main tanks of the European Rapid Reaction Force in the future are also to be bid, in case the Centurion presses the Leopard 2 down, where will the face of the German Army, which claims to be the world's first and won the world war, go? I'm afraid the designers are going to report to the concentration camps, right? In this case, not only the Leopard 2 is speeding up, but even the development process of the E45, which has been stalled, has made breakthroughs due to the use of composite armor and the HL245 engine.

Of course, there are also very proud manufacturers: the wolf infantry fighting vehicle and the 234/46 heavy wheeled combat vehicle have been unanimously recognized and respected by the major powers, especially the British use in the suppression of the British longbowmen, the effect is surprisingly good, the gray dog that has been used in Britain for many years does not know how many streets to throw off, and clearly expressed the request to introduce production.

Now the wolf and the cougar have taken the lead in becoming the standard configuration of the rapid reaction force, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Russia five major orders more than 6,000, considering the post-war environment of arms compression, 6,000 is a very high number, so happy that manufacturers have to wake up with a smile in their dreams.

In addition to heavy equipment, light equipment is also on the road to unification, other major countries are very envious of the STG43 assault rifle used by Germany, the United States, Russia use the captured sample guns for copycats, and the major European countries are formally introduced after the unified rearmament, and the clumsy old single-shot rifles are accelerating the elimination.

The next improvement of STG43 is STG45, which is an improvement based on war experience, although the rest of the rifles and firearms are in order to take care of the face of various countries, and there is no mandatory unification, but because Germany, Italy, and Russia have used Germany's G43, France finally made a sideways decision and gave up its old-fashioned rifles, only Britain still holds Enfield and refuses to put it In fact, they want to use Garand, but this is nothing to blame, because G43 is not particularly good compared to Enfield or Garland, The bullets are not uniform, and for Great Britain, which can save a little bit, of course, it can not be replaced.

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