Iron Cross Fire

Since the rocket issue was made public, although Germany was ostensibly in opposition to Kuster, it was actually secretly changing the materials and replacing the steel with the best.

Kuster was able to free up his hands to manage other things. Now the most worthy of his concern is the aircraft.

The world is three-dimensional, and war is naturally three-dimensional. We cannot just focus on basic combat units with less potential such as the army and navy. People with foresight will see the value of aircraft.

The current aircraft are all biplanes, with extremely poor performance and protection, and can be destroyed by rifle bullets alone.

As for what aircraft to develop, there is no doubt that the most important one is the bomber.

The reason is simple. No matter where there is no air defense facility, the bomber that is often at an altitude of 10,000 meters naturally becomes the best means to fight the enemy.

Of course, in order to ensure that a three-dimensional attack can be carried out, it is necessary to ensure that the aircraft can transport elite troops to the enemy's rear, and transport aircraft that undertake such tasks are also indispensable.

The biplanes commonly used today have huge defects. The wooden wings will be shattered if hit, and the poor structure can hardly support the aircraft to reach the landing point before crashing. As for the design of the two wings, it is even worse, making the aircraft a live target floating in the air.

The main reason why the aircraft uses a biplane design is insufficient power, which in turn makes the aircraft lack lift.

Biplanes can effectively increase the contact area between the wings and the air and increase the lift of the aircraft.

However, the defects are also concentrated here. After increasing the contact area with the air, the lift is increased, but the resistance is also increased.

This leads to the biplane being able to fly, but the speed has not been pulled up, which is in a very embarrassing dilemma.

However, Kuster is not an ordinary person. He will not have technological limitations. He has black technology! The engine he brought is fully capable of using the original huge thrust to make the aircraft fly into the sky.

So there is no need to worry too much. In terms of bombers, Kuster decided to develop a type of aircraft suitable for the situation of the Allies-dive bombers.

Although Russia has surrendered and the blockade on land has been lifted, they do not need to worry about resource issues.

But there was nothing advanced in this era, and there was no ability for pilots to know where the bombs they dropped horizontally would fall.

Forget about long-distance flights, unless the pilots had the same or better combat power as the army, like the Red Navy, otherwise they had better be honest and ensure that the range was within the range that the pilots could return.

In response to this type of demand and the limitations of the times, the aircraft remained at the tactical bombing stage at most, and the dive bombers were undoubtedly the most capable of tactical bombing.

Short and powerful, dangerous and accurate. This is undoubtedly the best word to describe this type of aircraft.

The dive bomber that Kuster planned to develop was the famous JU-87, or more accurately, the Stuka.

Its capabilities had been confirmed in the war, and it was extremely excellent in every aspect, and it should be the best choice.

Compared with dive bombers, transport aircraft were developed much earlier. After all, the earliest gliders can also be included in the ranks of transport aircraft.

The JU-87's cousin, the JU-88, can meet the needs of transportation. With a stable fuselage and a solid structure, as well as a powerful four-engine drive, it can support the aircraft to fly safely at high altitudes.

To be precise, the aircraft used for transportation is the JU-90, which is a modified aircraft model from the JU-88. But this does not prevent Kuster from mixing them up.

Compared with developing everything, developing only the JU-88 has a significant advantage, which is that it can greatly reduce the logistical pressure, so that the ground staff only needs to care about the needs of one model.

Moreover, this panacea is fully capable of all tasks. After completing the bombing mission, it can be unloaded and used as a civil aviation.

The required aircraft models are ready: JU87 and JU88, and Kuster is ready to copy them directly.

But he does not need to hand over the aircraft drawings directly to the manufacturers, after all, it is just an empty shell.

In order to drive these air coffins, pilots are indispensable. However, there were only a handful of pilots at this time, and even if there were, they would need some training to fly new aircraft.

It takes at least several months to train a pilot, and it is simply a fantasy to think of it in less than three months.

Instead of producing the aircraft directly and exposing the blueprints to the big brother Germany, it is better to wait for a few days until the right pilots are trained.

So Kuster sent another letter to Franz, asking them to send hundreds of short Salzburg local aspiring young people who want to fly. At the same time, he also got a few native Austrian engineers and a few retired or disabled pilots.

The purpose of doing this is to secretly produce aircraft and use ready-made aircraft to train pilots.

However, it is not easy to do this under the nose of Germany. The police and the gendarmerie are monitoring this old psychopath, and he knows it in his heart, so he prepared hundreds and thousands of reasons for asking for leave.

Of course, if you want to do this, the premise is that Germany agrees to give Austria-Hungary military access. After all, hundreds of people are almost catching up with a battalion, which is impossible to ignore.

As the big brother of the camp, Germany can be excused for sending troops to the Balkans and the Dardanelles, but you, a sick man in the Balkans, send troops to me, and send only these few people, which are not even chicken feathers, which is a bit unreasonable.

But there is no need to worry. If Austria-Hungary is willing, it can come to Berlin without any hindrance in the name of protecting Kuster and serve as Kuster's backup team.

Although he might not have a good life afterwards, he was fully capable of leading his fellow countrymen to fight against the old Junkers in Berlin - that would be explosive news, and the emperor and the citizens might like to see these two fight to the death.

About three days later, Kuster received two good news.

Germany was about to establish a new army group - the "Emperor" Army Group, with a total of two armies, all under his control, and only needed to obey the will of the German emperor to fight.

On the Austro-Hungarian side, Franz stated his request to the Imperial Cabinet and presented several of Kuster's aircraft drawings as tribute.

Austrian Emperor Franz made a prompt decision to promote Kuster to marshal and awarded him an honorary title second only to ancient Austrian generals such as Archduke Karl and Prince Eugen, and promoted him from a civilian to a duke. Called "Duke of Carlierwede". Franz was also promoted to general and was awarded the title of baron.

At the same time, they also gave him the highest honor of a soldier - his infantry regiment. Named "Kust Infantry Regiment". Its members are the ones Kuster requested, and they are composed of engineers, retired pilots, and simple young farmers.

The outside world is talking about this sudden promotion, which has become a rare entertainment moment in the cruel war. People are discussing whether Germany will waver in its views on Austria-Hungary because of this.

But in general, the biggest beneficiaries are undoubtedly Kuster himself and his long-time good brother Franz.

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