"Sir, the German jets are coming......"

On the radar screen of the US military, the light point displayed by the jet is larger than that of the Silkworm missile, and although the speed is basically the same, the height is much higher than that of the Silkworm missile. Bradley frowned slightly when he heard this, but he quickly suppressed it - the South African allies had no jets at all, and they could only sigh at all the planes that came and went.

"Let the air defense positions open fire!" In the saturation of rockets, a lot of air defense positions still survived.

At 5:30, Bradley received alarming reports from all fronts that they could not parry the heavy air raids launched by the Germans, whether it was rockets or dexterity bombs, nothing they could watch out for! The only useful thing is probably to use anti-aircraft guns to fight silkworm missiles - firing 1,000 shells may not hit a single one.

Just as the first batch of strike cluster bombs began to explode, Marshal Kesselring, who witnessed the time had come, waved his hand: "Second echelon, attack!" ”

A large formation, including more than 180 ME-364 four-engine heavy bombers and more than 400 Ju-288 twin-engine medium bombers, swooped down to the depth under the cover of 260 TA-152 fighters......

As tactical bombers, the ju-288 is usually a combination of 3 tons of bombs + 2700 kilometers of range, they all took off from the first-line deep airfields in Mozambique, but they carried more incendiary bombs in addition to ordinary bombs, but the most eye-catching in the cluster was not them, but the more than 180 ME-364, as the strategic strike force of the Third Reich, the Air Force only had a total of more than 240 ME-364, and at the request of Hoffman, they were basically all transported to the front line in South Africa, They will teach South Africa and the U.S. military a lesson that they will never forget.

In the morning light, accompanied by the powerful roar of the BM901 engine, Lieutenant Shuke, the leader of the 3rd squad of the 2nd Squadron of the Special Bombardment Wing, flew with 4 ME-364s at an altitude of 8,000 meters at a speed of 445 km/h, and not far from him was a group of escort aircraft composed of TA-152s.

As a follow-up to the ME-264, the biggest improvement was the replacement of four engines from the 2,000 hp BM801 to the 2,400 hp DB603 engine with a two-stage turbocharging system, making the entire aircraft more powerful, while also increasing the wingspan and fuselage for a larger bomb load and range. It is reported that the Messerschmidt company is also working on equipping the Griffin engine with up to 2,800 horsepower obtained from the United Kingdom.

With a load of 4 tons, the maximum range of the ME-364 is 15,000 km;

The maximum range is 8000 km with a load of 6 tons;

The maximum range is 5000 km with a load of 8 tons;

With a maximum load of 13 tons, the maximum range is still more than 3,500 kilometers, which is enough to cope with an intercontinental civil war!

The heavy bomber groups that have appeared on the battlefield in South Africa are all assembled from all over Africa, carrying as much ammunition as possible to suit the load, but the mission of the special bombing wing is obviously different.

Shuke subconsciously glanced back at the cabin, although he couldn't see it exactly, he still felt his heart fluctuate and he couldn't help himself. His squadron, the ME-364, carried not ordinary aerial bombs or incendiary bombs, but unprecedented giant bombs—giant goblets made by the British.

In order to deal with German bridges, culverts and important construction fortifications (such as submarine caverns), the Briton Barnes-Wallis presided over the development of two giant bombs, one weighing 6 tons and the other up to 10 tons, in an attempt to rely on its huge weight and ultra-high speed to bring the super kinetic energy through the concrete protective layer or foundation on the top of the target building, explode and transfer the energy generated to the building, or form an expansion cavity under the foundation, so as to achieve the purpose of complete destruction. Its power is not inferior to that of a small earthquake, and in order to achieve a better dropping effect, he also designed a slender and streamlined shape for the bomb, and the overall shape resembles a tall wine glass, hence the name "goblet".

In order to improve penetration, the goblet is made of specially hardened high-strength steel in the same way as the German-developed ground-penetrating bomb, and a high degree of symmetry is required during the processing phase to ensure the best aerodynamics.

But before the British could use it, the war situation in Great Britain could no longer be maintained, and the more than 300 goblet bombs created eventually became trophies of the German army. When the receiving Luftwaffe officer bluntly reported the name of the giant bomb, its nickname and the next generation of the 10-ton semi-finished "Grand Slam" bomb, the RAF head of the family, Admiral Potter and the Chief of the Army Staff, Field Marshal Brooke, almost fainted – the extent to which German intelligence and spies had infiltrated Great Britain showed the extent to which German intelligence and spies had infiltrated Great Britain!

The British, who could not deny it, finally handed over all the goblets and the semi-finished Grand Slam, and Jeshunek presided over the experiment and was deeply satisfied that Germany had not yet developed such a violent bomb! Now, these captured weapons are ready to show their heroism on the South African line! Sadly, those who comprehend their power also speak English.

"Coming to the skies above the target!" The co-pilot reminded Shuck.

"Okay, tell the fighters that we're about to slow down and descend in altitude, ask them to take cover!"

The veteran driver Shuke steadily reduced the speed to less than 300 kilometers with his team, while circling the descent altitude - the best effect would be obtained when dropping the bomb at 5,500 meters, and the mechanic had turned on the bomb safety - a giant bomb 6.4 meters long and nearly 1 meter in diameter was ready.

The bomber carefully identified the markings and references on the ground, constantly comparing the pictures in his hand, and trying to adjust the Norton sight in his hand, which was once a weapon of pride for the American military, but with the large number of B-17\B-29s shot down, the undamaged sight soon fell into the hands of the Germans, and soon there were copycat imitations, with Zeiss lenses, the effect was better than the original. As for how to use it, the Gestapo does not seem to be too difficult to obtain from the mouths of thousands of American prisoners.

Now, the bombarders have found their target - Fort 3! The 4 planes of the 3rd squad began to swarm in.

Because the traditional political and economic centers of South Africa are on the Atlantic coast, he was very worried that the Germans would come here to fight an amphibious landing war, but later, according to the dispatch of the German army, he accurately judged that the direction of the German attack should be the eastern Indian Ocean coast. Therefore, a series of continuous fortifications were built using the eastern terrain, especially at the junction of the northeast and Mozambique, which became the top priority of defense!

The German presence in Mozambique and Madagascar also seemed to confirm Bradley's intelligence, which took advantage of the rolling hills in the east to form a large group of fortifications at the pass of Makhado-Tchanen, supported by five major megastructures, in an attempt to block the rapid advance of the German army.

He had no idea that in the minds of Guderian and others, they actually hoped to use the Mozambican front line to make a feint and actually land in the Cape Town area, but Hoffman vetoed this proposal. He told Guderian that the key to taking South Africa was not to control the place, but to fight a devastating and hearty Blitzkrieg 2.0, to make South Africa's 300,000 Allied troops a touchstone for the new tactics of the German army, and to weigh the success of Blitzkrieg 2.0!

Guderian slowly mobilized his forces and continued to maneuver, giving Bradley time to calmly build a defensive line, adjust his forces, and try to use this "Bradley Line" to block the German advance.

The target assigned by Schuck's team was the third defensive node on the Bradley Line, Fort 3, which was 3.5 meters thick concrete.

Now that the bomber sight has placed the target in the middle of the field of view and turned on the power switch of the bombing sight, since the angular velocity of the rotation of the servo mechanism to the telescope depends on the distance of the target and the approach speed of the aircraft, this requires the bomber to set the airspeed and altitude of the aircraft on the Norton bombing sight according to the data displayed on the aircraft instrument.

"Airspeed 275, altitude 5500!"

"Locked!"

"Cast!"

The bombardier pressed the button, and the goblet was dropped, and the moment the 6-ton bomb broke away from the fuselage, the whole plane suddenly became lighter, Shuck regained control of the plane, pulled up the speed and circled to watch the bomb fall, and the TA-152 guards around him also watched the giant bomb intently.

"Ready, play!"

After a loud bang, the bomb exploded at a speed of 1210 km/h (close to the speed of sound) at more than 5 meters in the No. 3 fortress, and suddenly blew out a deep pit of more than 30 meters, throwing a large number of earth and stone into the air to form a mushroom cloud, the defenders did not react, it felt like an earthquake shook the earth and roared, every 5 minutes, the team dropped 1 goblet, and the last goblet bomb hit the fortress itself directly, at this time the bomb power has penetrated the concrete layer 5 meters thick, in the earth-shattering explosionThe entire fortifications of the fortress, together with more than 500 American officers and soldiers, nearly 200 tons of ammunition and the entire fortifications, flew into the sky and were completely hopeless......

The bombed ground was as cratered and riddled with craters as the surface of the moon.

At the same time that the 3rd team successfully completed the mission, the 4th team also arrived above the target and dropped the latest German black technology on the No. 5 fortress - the first generation of cloud burst bombs!

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