The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Colonel Conrad led Qin Chuan into a warehouse. He first turned on a few lights around the warehouse, then pulled off the cloth with a "swish", raised his hands and shouted: "Look at this, Major!"

Qin Chuan couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this thing in front of him. Something similar to an "Osprey" helicopter appeared in front of him, which was the dual-rotor helicopter that Qin Chuan mentioned before.

No wonder Conrad wanted Qin Chuan to meet here. This new weapon was not suitable to be exposed to the Soviets casually.

Qin Chuan was stunned for a while before asking Conrad: "Colonel, I remember you said that redesigning such a helicopter cannot be done in a short time!"

"Yes!" Conrad replied.

"But now it seems less than two months have passed since then!"

"You're right!" Conrad said with a proud smile on his face: "To be exact, it's one month and twenty-one days!"

"How did you do it?" Qin Chuan asked, "Did you do it in such a short period of time?"

"Because we haven't redesigned it!" Conrad replied: "It is actually a Junkers transport aircraft..."

Qin Chuan couldn't help but say "Oh". No wonder he felt familiar when he saw it for the first time.

Then Conrad danced about his "work": "You know, the Junkers transport aircraft has a very strong fuselage. We removed its pair of fixed wings and then welded one on each side at the original wing root position. A metal tripod was installed, and a three-blade rotor was installed. The other parts were basically unchanged, except that the horizontal tail was moved to the top of the vertical tail... This is to meet the needs of its flight! "

"How is its performance?" Qin Chuan asked: "I mean flight speed, reliability, and load capacity..."

"I flew here from Berlin in it!" Conrad replied.

"This is impossible!" Qin Chuan was surprised and happy.

Conrad laughed loudly: "I knew you would say that, and we didn't believe it. But... we obviously chose the right fuselage. It inherited the reliability of the Junkers transport aircraft. You know, Junkers The nickname is 'Steel Annie'. Of course, because its cabin is a 'Junker', the passenger capacity is almost the same, and it can also carry 18 or 20 people. If it does not carry people, it can be lifted. A 105MM caliber howitzer is more than enough!”

(Note: The total weight of the Le.FH18 105MM caliber howitzer used by the German army is 1525 kg)

This data stunned Qin Chuan, so much so that Qin Chuan asked in disbelief: "Have you tried it? I mean lifting a howitzer!"

"Of course!" Conrad nodded: "It's just that the lifting speed will drop from 200 kilometers per hour to 100 kilometers per hour, and the fuel will be exhausted after flying about 32 kilometers!"

After a pause, Conrad continued: "But this is not a problem, is it? As you said before, you use it to support the logistics of the Caucasus Mountains. I think it can meet your requirements!"

"Of course, Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "Of course it can meet my requirements. In fact, it is really great!"

Qin Chuan walked around this helicopter in amazement, looking here and there, and kept asking: "What's its name, Colonel?"

"We'll give it a model number and call it Fa-223!" Conrad replied: "We haven't had time to give it a name yet!"

"How about we call it 'dragon' pose?"

"Uh-huh!" Conrad nodded: "It has two wings like a dragon. It's a good name!"

The dragon in the minds of Europeans and the dragon in Qin Chuan's mind are completely different, but they do look a bit like the dragons of Europeans, which can be considered a coincidence.

Then Qin Chuan got into the belly of the plane and said to Conrad with famous gestures: "I hope I can open an opening here, I'm so grateful it's so big!"

"Why?" Conrad looked confused: "Are you planning to drop bombs from inside?"

"No!" Qin Chuan replied: "I plan to throw people down!"

"Surrender?" Conrad couldn't help but look at Qin Chuan in surprise with his eyes wide open.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan nodded.

"But..." Conrad said: "It's flying!"

"I know!" Qin Chuan spread his hands and said, "Please, Colonel! You don't think I just let the soldiers jump down like that!"

Conrad may be an expert in equipment design, but some aspects of common sense are a bit ridiculous.

But this doesn't seem to be his fault. There has never been a tactic like what Qin Chuan had in mind in this era.

"Otherwise...what are you going to do?" Conrad asked hesitantly.

"It can hover, right?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Of course!" Conrad replied.

"So..." Qin Chuan continued to watch the helicopter and asked, "Why can't we put down a rope and let the soldiers slide from the rope to the ground?"

Conrad couldn't help but open his mouth for a long time after hearing this. After a while, he shouted: "You are really a genius, Major. Yes, why can't we do this? In this way, we don't need to land. Just drop the soldiers off! This will save a lot of time and gas, and you don’t even need a tarmac!”

What Qin Chuan has to do is not just this, but as a person of this era, it is quite difficult for Conrad to think of these two advantages in such a short period of time.

"How many helicopters like this do we have?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Ten!" Conrad replied, "Another five are being modified! We think they will be used for at least a while, and then..."

"I need them now, Colonel!" Qin Chuan said, "We should transfer them all here!"

"Major!" Conrad was a little confused when he heard it: "Aren't you going to use it in the Caucasus Mountains?"

"No, I plan to use it in Stalingrad!" Qin Chuan replied, "You solved a problem for us, Colonel! It came just in time!"

"But, Major!" Conrad replied puzzledly, "I thought it could only be used for mountain transportation, just like you said before!"

"Not so! It can also be used for combat!"

"No, Major!" Conrad insisted on his point of view: "I don't think you understand... It was modified from a transport plane, and we didn't even add weapons to it to reduce weight!"

"Then install it!" Qin Chuan said.

"Junkers 52" originally also had self-defense weapons, with a 7G machine gun on the rear back, front back, and both sides of the fuselage.

Of course, these machine guns are basically useless on transport planes because they are too slow and will only get hit if they encounter enemy planes, so many transport planes simply don't install them.

But it's different on helicopters.