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Chapter 1679: Clapper Ice Carrier 16)

Hearing Roosevelt’s question, Jeffrey smiled: “Mr. President, we have considered this issue long ago.”

After saying that, Jeffrey took out the new design drawings, which is the design plan of a small boat.

"This is a model we intend to conduct trial production, about twenty meters long, for our technical verification. We are sticking wooden boards outside, asphalt painted on the inner bulkhead, and pipe-like ventilation holes are chiseled on the hull, so that the ship can spend the summer safely."

Jeffrey said it so hard: "Then we have more drawings, for example, after this experiment is completed, we can start building a warship, which is our 2 million tons aircraft carrier design sketch."

2 million tons? When Roosevelt heard this data, he was shocked.

Now, how heavy is the largest warship? There is absolutely no more than 100,000 tons! The 200 tons class is already a terrifying and terrifying existence. This is no longer a warship, it is simply a floating military base!

"In our preliminary plan, this aircraft carrier is 900 meters long, 100 meters wide, and has a total height of about 60 meters. It uses 26 propeller thrusters. At the same time, it also has refrigerator equipment inside. When our ship is damaged, as long as the refrigerator is activated, the damaged area can be repaired. At the same time, this aircraft carrier can not only take off and land ordinary fighter jets, but also take off bombers."

When the length of the aircraft carrier reaches 900 meters, of course you can do something you want to do. Back then, the b-25 could take off from the narrow aircraft carrier deck. Now, if it is expanded to this length, of course it can take off and land easily. Even the b-29 is not a dream.

If this kind of aircraft carrier is deployed, the United States will be more flexible in attacking Germany. Thinking of this, Roosevelt felt his heart beating.

As a president, Roosevelt should be mature and steady, but now it is different. For this period of time, a pessimistic atmosphere has been spreading. After Germany conquered Moscow, it seems that the ocean cannot stop the pace of German invasion.

Now, the emergence of ice aircraft carriers once again gives them hope for victory.

"Switch from Congress to appropriation, immediately look for suitable lakes in Canada, build this test piece, and if there is no problem with the verification project, start making this ice carrier, and this project has the highest priority."

Roosevelt was very excited. He seemed to have seen hundreds of such ice aircraft carriers riding the wind and waves on the Atlantic Ocean and moving towards the European continent. He no longer needed to find a suitable land as a springboard. This floating ice aircraft carrier was the springboard.

Even if the movement speed is slower, it is a pretty good weapon platform.

Just when Roosevelt was excited about the ice aircraft carrier, Arnold had returned to his headquarters. Now, the big thing before them was this large-scale bombing operation.

The bombing of Midway Island is not difficult. Although the first bombing failed, the routes and other things are already familiar. Just change the daytime bombing to nighttime and send a bomber brigade again.

The point is how to bomb Europe.

When making plans with Roosevelt, it was very simple. Using civil aviation routes to pretend to be passenger planes, but now, they need to subdivide this plan, which route to choose, how many planes to launch, and where the target is.

Moreover, they have a serious problem.

They don't have many planes to use.

When Germany bombed Scapa Bay, a successful battle example, although they began to use the Junker-290 as a civil aviation passenger plane, they were just the first wave. After that, a large number of aircraft flew in one wave after another, some took off from the aircraft carrier, medium-range bombers, etc., which completely exploded.

However, they can not use many bombers.

If you want to simulate a passenger plane, it is a single-line flight. The current range of the B-29 is definitely not enough to travel directly from the United States to Europe, and it is only enough to travel a single-line flight.

Therefore, if they want to complete this bombing mission, they must carefully plan their routes. For example, take off from Newfoundland, the easternmost part of Canada, fly first at high latitudes, wait until they approach Europe, then fly to international routes, then pretend to be civil aviation passenger planes, bomb at ports in Britain, France, and Spain, focusing on attacking their shipyards, and then head north and return to Greenland.

Even so, only the b-29 bombers have this capability, and so far, the total number of all bombers they mobilized will not exceed one hundred.

If you use that special bomb, it should have a good bombing effect, but Roosevelt has his own strategic considerations and will not use that bomb. However, ordinary bombs will have poor results and can play a role in harassment, but may not be completely destroyed.

Moreover, there is only one chance, and the next time, the Germans will definitely have higher attention.

"If we take off from Greenland, medium-range bombers will be able to meet Britain and France. However, the Germans have occupied Iceland and must have deployed long-range radars in Iceland. As long as we take off from Greenland, they will definitely be monitored by the Germans."

The staff officers were making various considerations, and Arnold knew that there was not much time and he had to make a decision.

"There are two waves, among which the bombers taking off from Greenland flew very low altitude, avoided Iceland's radar and then climbed up." Arnold said: "Use another 100 b-25s, so that two hundred bombers can paralyze their shipyard for several months."

A group of flying high altitudes, pretending to be civil aviation passenger planes. Anyway, the radar of this era is backward. As long as it is a dense formation, it will only be a point.

At the same time, another group of flying at ultra-low altitudes and sneak attacks nearby Britain and France, which is still possible.

Germany's local air defense is too tight, but they will never be able to keep all the places tightly, right?

This is almost a replica of the sneak attack in Scapa Bay. With Arnold's decision, the bomber troops of the US Army Air Force began to prepare in full swing.

Germany is the enemy of the United States. Germany has launched many attacks on the United States. Now, finally, the American bomber troops are going to bomb the German-controlled area!

At the same time, the 58th Bomber Wing stationed on the west coast of the United States has also begun to prepare for new missions. They are going to take revenge on the islanders. This time, they must blow up Midway Island to pieces!
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