Chapter 185: Blitzkrieg 2.0 (7)
Since 1942, German scientists have been trying to develop a cloudburst bomb, and are close to the edge of success, and have found the main deflagration component correctly - the use of nitric acid mixed with aluminum powder, but after several field tests, the effect has not been good, and the expected effect has not been achieved, so the Air Force believes that this ammunition has no development value in the short term and put it on hold. In fact, the shelving was also an order given by Hitler himself, who believed that the victory was in his hands, and dismantled all weapons research and development projects that had no hope of achieving a breakthrough within a year.
During the storming of the fortress of Gibraltar, Hoffman sensitively remembered the cloudburst bomb, and under his personal care, the development process of the German cloudburst bomb took a different fork in the road than history:
The outstanding problem encountered in the development was that the bomber bomb load was insufficient, the largest HE-177 bomber at that time could only carry a single weight of 3 tons of bombs, and the cloud burst bomb could only carry a maximum of 1.8 tons with the HE-177 due to its special size, of which the charge was less.
After the amount of ammunition is reduced, the bomb will appear to be mediocre, and the first generation of cloud burst bombs need to be detonated twice, which requires greater weight and volume. The first detonation is to spray the incendiary agent evenly in the air, mix it with the air to form an aerosol in a suspended state, and gather over the target to form a cover, like a dense fog. When the aerosol reaches a certain concentration and then detonates for the second time, the entire fog mass explodes, releasing a large amount of heat energy in an instant, forming a high-temperature and high-pressure fireball, the temperature is usually above 2000 °C, and rapidly expands at a speed of 2000 to 2500 meters per second to achieve the purpose of destroying the target. If the volume is not large enough, it will not form enough aerosol field coverage, and the lethality will decrease geometrically.
Hoffman lamented the brains of experts and the Air Force, the HE-177 can't carry a bigger bomb, why can't it be tried with the ME-323 heavy transport aircraft? When the experts expressed concern about the ME-323's unsuitability for front-line combat, Hoffman interrupted them without hesitation: "You guys do it first, get to the specifications that are satisfactory for lethality, and I promise that in the future there will be a bomber large enough to hold such bombs." ”
The experts will be suspicious on the road, and finally take out a 7.5-ton cargo color, thinking that to ensure the effect, at least this level is needed, if it can reach 10 tons of effect may be better.
But now Speer can confidently take out the ME-264 or even the ME-364 and use it. Because Hoffman was thinking about more than just a cloudburst bomb - the super bomb should weigh no less than 5-6 tons, and without this kind of heavy bomber that can be carried, how can the bomb be successfully dropped?
With a lot of money and a large team, the first generation of cloudburst bombs was successful in mid-1944, and the test site performed well, but eventually it needed to be tested on the battlefield, and South Africa was the best test site. For Germany, the South African theater was the Second Spanish War, which could be extensively tested.
When Shuck dropped the goblet, Lieutenant Klinsmann of Squad 4 was the first to release a giant bomb under the belly of the plane - experts called him the "devil's egg".
The huge demon egg fell rapidly, then opened the parachute, and began to release hundreds of small bombs inside, they were like round beer barrels, a long iron rod stretched out from underneath, tied to the parachute, fluttering downward, scattered, in a succession of bomb explosions much quieter than the usual bomb explosion, the earth was enveloped in a cloud of white mist-like gas......
Everyone in Klinsmann's crew watched intently at the fog and watched it gradually cover the US military fortification group with Fort 5 as the core.
The American soldiers defending in the fortifications also looked at the fog with bewilderment, they initially thought it was a chemical weapon released by the Germans, and just as someone was scrambling to find gas masks, the second detonation had been initiated.
Suddenly, I saw a flash of lightning light up, and the shock wave was like a violent hurricane blowing across the grassland, thunder, trembling, and dozens of football fields on the ground were glittering and screaming...... Under the shock wave, all open bunkers, semi-permanent fortifications, and anti-tank fortifications were reduced to rubble, and people were either scorched or suffocated, and there were heavy casualties. When the cloud explodes, it will consume the surrounding oxygen, and the explosion site will be severely hypoxic within 3 minutes, which will have a strong suffocating effect on the human body.
Although the fortifications of Fort 5 withstood the shockwave, all the soldiers felt that they were being choked by the Grim Reaper before they died, their mouths wide open, dying breathing, and some even scratched their own throats. Behind him, the Germans looked at the bodies of Zhan Can's deceased and were very complete, and there were no traces of shrapnel.
Due to the oxygen consumption and the intense heating of the air, strong convection was immediately formed, and Klinsmann quickly sensed a mushroom cloud slowly rising!?
"It worked!" He didn't have time to be happy, and immediately gave another order, "The second one!" ”
In order to ensure the effect of the test, the experts frantically adopted the 4-shot area overlapping method, that is, in a small area, 4 pieces were dropped in a row, each of which was centered on the No. 5 fortification and focused on covering the four aspects of the southeast, northwest and northwest, even if the power of a single one was insufficient, the power of the superimposed will be fully compensated.
In more than 40 minutes, this generation of Allied troops has experienced 4 "Doomsday Judgments", and those who die can no longer die.
After being tested by various weapons such as goblets, cloud burst bombs, and grand slams, by less than 8 o'clock, Bradley's five fortress systems had been over......
But he doesn't know it at all, or rather, he doesn't have a chance to know at all, starting from 7 o'clock, the German army's electronic jamming troops began to start and suppress all fronts, and the power gradually increased.
The radio soldiers were desperate to find that their ears were rustling and buzzing, and not only did they make their heads dizzy, but they could not hear the normal ticking of telegrams at all. They were forced to activate one new band after another, as planned before the war, but each time it lasted only a few minutes before they were interfered with by Ronus. Angry, the communications staff slapped the table but could not do anything.
Bradley and Smozi watched as they became deaf and blind, but they did not know anything about the situation on the front line, and finally the communications staff officers were even forced to use the communication frequency bands commonly used by the German army to send messages.
Generally speaking, it is quite dangerous to share a frequency band with enemy forces, and it is not only easy to string codes, but also easy to be intercepted by opponents, but now the US military command that is forced to rush can no longer take this into account. As long as he can get in touch, he will try.
But it is clear that Germany does not even want to leave this channel for the other side, and does not make a mistake in blocking the frequency bands that belong to the other side.
At about 9 o'clock, Guderian received news that his side's electronic countermeasures would be fully upgraded and that full-band jamming would soon be used. It is said that it is a full frequency band, and it is impossible to really interfere with all frequency bands, but it means that when a new frequency band is discovered, it will interfere with one in a targeted manner, and because it is impossible to distinguish whether the users of the frequency band are friends or foes, they can only block them all.
Guderian nodded: "Let's do it!" I have faith in the conductor, I really can't, I'll let you be relieved of it for another time. ”
Now his command will also be affected by interference, but he feels that it is not a big problem, because the German army has a firm grasp of air supremacy, and at the worst it can use aircraft reconnaissance to judge the situation on the front.
"Third Attack Echelon, Sortie!"
At half past seven o'clock, under the unified command of Kesselring, a large number of German fighters were dispatched to cover more than 70 Raider Eagle attack planes and more than 300 F-190F ground attack planes to carry out a comprehensive suppressive strike on the US front line and its depth within 200 kilometers.
The ground attack planes are most equipped with rockets, some of which are incendiary bombs and 100-kilogram bombs, and all kinds of US fortifications and air defense positions have been scattered in the first two waves of strikes, and they are simply unable to organize effective resistance, and the gradually increasing electronic jamming methods have greatly damaged the communication and coordination capabilities of each node -- isolated nodes without communication are simply delivering food to the German attack group that is coming in majestically.
Countless rockets, incendiary bombs, and bombs were dropped on their intended targets – the deceptive positions on which the Americans had high hopes were of no avail, but the armed forces they tried to conceal in every possible way were mercilessly attacked.
A bunch of generals in the headquarters sighed that if there was such a powerful attack force back then, there might not be any need to worry about the Maginot Line at all.
The sky was in full swing, the ground was not idle, and the storm assault sappers who had entered the hidden positions in front of the breakthrough were ready to press on all fronts, and then listened to the roar of fire from the rear: heavy rocket artillery and howitzers poured out their fire as if they were pouring out their firepower without money. But before they charged, they had to solve a little trouble first.
"Goliaths, rush!"
Hundreds of "toy" tanks carrying explosives swooped forward with joy. As one of the most interesting mechanized equipment, the Goliaths are just over a meter long, and they can be pushed forward by the soldiers with a wire control, which is one of the few things that soldiers usually have fun.
Bradley was concerned about the strength of the German armored forces, and planted more than 90,000 mines in the forward defense line, trying to form a tight mine belt to prevent the rapid advance of the German army. Some of them had just been detonated by ground attack rockets and bombs, and some of them had been destroyed by heavy artillery fire, but there were still many fish that had slipped through the net, and the Goliaths wanted to exchange their broken bones for a passage.
After Goliath, the Germans dispatched dozens of minesweepers converted from Sherman tanks - they had multiple rolling mills that could detonate all mines in their path.
The era of meticulous demining has passed, and now the German army uses brute force cracking methods - can't I let you blow it up?
At about 9 o'clock, all the offensive channels were opened, and the German steel torrent was about to rush in.
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