The decisive battle against the Third Reich

In fact, the Germans also had radio guidance technology at this time, but they did not use it on missiles, but on bombs.

This kind of bomb is the "Fritz X" bomb. This bomb has four radio-controlled rudder surfaces on its tail. When the bomb is thrown from the bomber's bay and falls towards the target, the radio operator can control the tail fin through the radio to bring the bomb as close to the target as possible.

Through this operation, the bomb dropped from the bomber can be corrected within a range of 500 meters before and after the impact point of the falling bomb, and 350 meters to the left and right.

This greatly improves the bomb's hit rate, which is said to reach more than 80%. Later versions of this bomb even developed television guidance... You must know that the United States' television-guided bombs were not introduced until the Vietnam War. The emergence of this can also be said to be a manifestation of Germany's innovation capabilities.

At this time, the German army can completely transplant this radio remote control system to the V1 missile.

Of course, the error in this method of correcting the trajectory is still very large, but at least it will not cause a bombing of an airport of several square kilometers to deviate by more than ten or even dozens of kilometers.

"This could add a lot of cost!" Von Braun said: "Because we need to control the fate of these missiles!"

"So we need both types of missiles!" Qin Chuan said: "The cheap one is used for indiscriminate bombing, and the more expensive one is used for precision bombing!"

"It may be jammed by the enemy!" Conrad added: "We know that it is a radio. If it is jammed, we will lose control of the missile!"

"The problem is that they don't know that we use radio control!" Von Braun said: "And we mix the two missiles, which will make them suspicious of interference!"

Von Braun is right, because radio jamming obviously has no effect on the cheap, unguided V1. If a few missiles with wireless guidance are mixed in, it will be confusing and the enemy will not know whether the jamming is successful.

Conrad nodded in agreement.

In fact, von Braun and others did not need to be so pretentious, because although the two V1 missiles deviated from the intended target, which was the Malta Airport, they missed the auxiliary vehicle and were considered to have hit the target.

The first V1 hit the radar antenna when it flew to the ground... In order to fully control the air, the British army set up many radars on the island of Malta, and these radars were often able to detect farther and more targets. It was built very high. After the missile hit the antenna, it knocked down the entire antenna frame on the spot. At the same time, the missile rolled and fell into the radar station, then triggered the fuse and exploded violently.

You must know that the V1 missile contains 830 kilograms of explosives. When it explodes, it will blow up the entire radar station into a big crater.

The other one missed its target, hit the high ground and blew a big hole in the high ground.

But its intimidating effect is no less than that of the other one...

Major General Barry stationed on Malta Island reported the situation to Montgomery as soon as possible.

"What? Bombed by a new type of weapon?" Montgomery still didn't believe it when he heard the news: "Tell me more clearly, what kind of new weapon is it?"

"General!" Major General Barry replied: "We don't know what new weapons they are. Our radar detected them. At first we thought they were two small aircraft, but they were obviously not. They flew straight to the island and exploded... They were bombs. , General!”

"You mean...their warships entered our waters?" Montgomery thought they were naval guns.

"No, General, that's not a warship!" Rear Admiral Barry replied, "We think it was launched from Sicily!"

"You're crazy!" Montgomery said: "Sicily is at least 90 kilometers away from Malta!"

"I know!" Major General Barry replied: "I don't understand what's going on, but they just did it!"

After Montgomery put down the phone, he remembered the previous rumors about the Germans developing new weapons. Thinking about it, he didn't think it was like it... because Churchill meant that it was probably a weapon related to "poison gas".

After thinking about it, Montgomery called Major General Barry and asked him to make a detailed report on the whole thing.

The report was sent to MI6, and Menzies immediately realized that this was probably the new equipment they had been investigating, so he found Churchill immediately.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister!" Menzies said: "I think there may be something wrong with our judgment. That was not an aircraft that dropped poison gas bombs!"

"Are you talking about the Germans' new weapons?" Churchill replied absently, holding a cigar in his mouth and reading the newspaper.

"Yes!" Menzies replied: "I think they used this new weapon to attack the island of Malta!"

Churchill was startled: "What? You mean the island of Malta was attacked by gas bombs?"

"No, Your Excellency Prime Minister!" Menzies handed over several photos: "That is not an aircraft. I think... that aircraft itself is a bomb!"

"Why do you think so?" Churchill asked.

"Because of its tail flame!" Menzies said and handed over another picture: "Someone happened to take a photo of its tail flame, and this tail flame is almost exactly the same as the tail flame photographed by the 'Airborne Gomand' !”

"That's impossible!" Churchill said. "If it was a bomb, what about the pilot?"

"I don't think it has a pilot!"

"No!" Churchill said, "Germand saw the pilot!"

"Maybe it's just a test!" Menzies said: "All signs indicate that the Germans have successfully developed an aircraft that can carry hundreds of kilograms of bombs and fly to us across hundreds of kilometers. The island. What’s even more terrifying is that the target was accurately hit..."

"What did they hit?" Churchill was still a little out of sorts.

"The first one destroyed a radar station!" Menzies explained: "Although the second one didn't hit, I believe their target was the arsenal on the other side of the high ground, but it was blocked by the high ground because it was dark. !”

Then Churchill realized the seriousness of the problem: "You mean... they can accurately hit the radar station hundreds of kilometers away?"

"Probably more than a hundred kilometers!" Menzies replied: "Because... the 'Airborne Gomand' detected that they had set up a tracking point two hundred kilometers away. In other words, its range is likely to be more than two hundred kilometers away. !”

Churchill couldn't help but turned pale when he heard this, because London is only two hundred kilometers from France, which means that as long as the Germans are willing, they can even hit this kind of bomb to the head of state's office.