Chapter 707 Delian's ICBM Test
Faced with the aggressive and aggressive arms expansion of the Chinese Empire, the entire Europe where NATO is located faces a strategic siege between the Chinese Empire and the Warsaw Pact, and for this reason, the German League had to deal with it.
Compared with the huge military budget of the Chinese Empire, the German League could not afford so much money in a short period of time. In the years after the war, although the German League followed the Soviet Union's planned economic system, it greatly restored the German League's vitality. However, the German League was the hardest hit area of World War II, and under the economic invasion of the Chinese Empire, fiscal expenditure was very difficult.
Despite financial difficulties, Hitler's appeal was still very strong. Under his call, the German Union united together, tightened his belt and lived a life, and the funds saved were used to develop military strength.
Compared with the military expenditure of tens of billions of dragon coins in the Chinese Empire every year, the German League's annual military expenditure in the early post-war period was less than 2 billions of dragon coins. The German Command had to spend all the money on the knife.
Expanding the nuclear arsenal was an inevitable choice for the German army. The German nuclear arsenal has always been at the highest level of confidentiality, and even the Chinese Empire could not accurately know the number of nuclear weapons of the German army. Because of the strict confidentiality of the German army, Germany avoided the miserable situation of defeat.
As early as during World War II negotiations, Hitler ordered the German army to reserve nuclear raw materials at all costs and manufacture nuclear weapons, in order to strengthen the German nuclear power before the Chinese Empire understands the German nuclear weapons assets and maintain the lowest nuclear power used to fight against the Chinese Empire.
Hitler did this. In the years after the war, the German army had been expanding the number of nuclear weapons. By the time the Chinese Empire set off an arms race, the German army had already owned 33 nuclear warheads.
However, the German nuclear warheads are the most primitive nuclear weapons. Most of them are carried by strategic bombers. Only a small number of nuclear warheads are installed on the V6 rocket, but the range is only 1,500 kilometers, which is much worse than the range of the Northwest Wind Intercontinental Ballistic Missile of the Chinese Empire, which is as long as 8,000 kilometers.
The German v6 rockets actually could not pose a real strategic threat to the Chinese Empire. Since the German Junker ef-132z strategic bomber broke through the Chinese Empire's air defense and sprinkled flyers over Bauhinia City, the Chinese Empire's military regarded it as a great shame. Since then, the Chinese Empire's military has vigorously strengthened the construction of the air defense early warning network and deployed a large number of air alert search radar systems in local states and provinces.
According to the provisions of the National Defense White Paper of the General Staff of the Empire of China, by January 50, the Chinese Empire must complete the construction of the air defense early warning radar system, and the Chinese Empire will be able to monitor any invading aircraft 24 hours a day.
The German army was very nervous about this. Because once the Chinese Empire completed the construction of the national air defense radar network, it would be very difficult for the German strategic bombers to be unable to enter or even approach the mainland of the Chinese Empire. Especially when the German army learned that the reason why the German bombers successfully flew over the Forbidden City was entirely because the night fighters of the Chinese Air Force were sent to the European and American battlefields, which gave the German army a chance. Now the Chinese Empire has begun to upgrade fighters on duty day and night, and it is also impossible for the German army to take advantage of the night opportunity to enter the Chinese Empire's airspace.
All of this forces the German army to upgrade its equipment. Otherwise, once the Chinese Empire has the ability to intercept German nuclear warheads 100%, the Chinese Empire will definitely make a comeback and destroy the German League and NATO in one fell swoop.
The Chinese Empire has already led the German League in electronics, and for this reason the German army can only make a fuss about their traditional strengths.
Like the Chinese Empire, the German Union was the first country to start researching rockets. The difference is that the Chinese Empire has strong funds, conducted a large number of experiments and mastered a large number of rocket technologies. Germany lacked experimental funds and was dragged down by the war. During World War II, it only launched missile attacks on the close-range Britain, and was far behind the Chinese Empire in terms of long-range rockets.
However, German scientists were very outstanding. They quickly picked up the German long-range rocket test based on the information and intelligence collected from all aspects of the Chinese Empire. What made Hitler even more happy was that the Russians under the former Soviet Union had produced a lot of talents. When the Soviet Union fell, they hated the Chinese Empire very much, so they unswervingly threw themselves into Germany's arms. After joining the German Union, these Russians quickly injected fresh blood into the German Union's military forces. Among them, many rocket experts were produced, and their contributions to the German rocket were indelible.
As of the end of 1947, the intelligence mastered by the German Union's okw Intelligence Agency showed that the Chinese Empire had hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles, of which the Chinese Empire's strategic troops had 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles on duty for 24 hours. In order to compete with the Chinese, the German Union must build and deploy intercontinental missiles that can launch and destroy Chinese Empire's strategic targets within the shortest time limit. The P-16 missile was thus given the task of acting as the nuclear shield of the German Union's reliable missile.
In 1947, the Prussian 586 Special Design Bureau led by Hegrey and Kuzmici was responsible for the development of the P-16 missile. Previously, the Design Bureau based on two single-stage medium-range ballistic missiles p-12 and p-14 developed by the former Soviet missile project team, which used high-boiling fuel components. The Special Design Bureau designed the first P-16 intercontinental ballistic missile in an incredible time. Its NATO code is 8 k-64, and the Eastern Warsaw Pact called it SS-7. In November of that year, the chief designer completed the design details of the missile.
The principles outlined with drawings need to be transformed into practical structures. The difficult stage of manufacturing missiles has begun, and many new design solutions have been applied to missile components and accessories.
With the strong encouragement of Hitler, German Union scientists worked day and night. Designers and producers of many units were devoted to this work, and it was impossible to calculate how much manpower, material and financial resources were consumed for this. The obstacles were eliminated one by one. The manufacturing work was quickly launched, the production of supporting equipment was guaranteed, and the first batch of products were assembled...
In September 1948, a train carrying the first secondary intercontinental ballistic missile drove out of the gate of the Prussian Machinery Manufacturing Plant. On September 26, the train arrived at the No. 42 launch square of the test site where the Second Test Bureau and the technical position were located.
Rudolph, the head of the missile force and former deputy head of the Third German Empire, was appointed as the chairman of the National Testing Committee. The technical leadership of the test was Yageli, deputy chief designer of the missile system. In the integrated installation test facility, missile tests began from the end of September and lasted until October 20.
The P-16 missile, which has been given a special mission, shoulders the hopes of Hitler, the German Union and even the entire NATO. If successful, the German Union will maintain a minimum strategic deterrence against China in a short period of time. Because the speed of intercontinental ballistic missiles is much faster than that of strategic bombers, it can avoid the Chinese Empire radar air defense network that monitors low-speed strategic bombers (relative speed). In this way, the Chinese Empire will not dare to take the risk of launching strategic nuclear strikes on the German Union and NATO in a short period of time.
By midnight on October 20, all tests before the first launch of the P-16 missile were completed. Hitler, the German Union's supreme leader, closely watched the entire process of the test. The government's communications department was on high alert and did not dare to slack off at all. Because Hitler might have a phone call from the test site at any time, or even come directly to watch it.
In order to maintain the nuclear balance of missiles, the German League needs intercontinental ballistic missiles too much! Moreover, the festival to celebrate the establishment of NATO is coming soon. In that era, traditional festivals must always be linked to important achievements. The launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles will undoubtedly become a major political event on the international stage.
Hitler wanted to use the results of intercontinental ballistic missile research to enhance the prestige of the German Union government and his own political status. When he gave Rudolph the mission, he said: "When I go to the Chinese Empire to negotiate and my feet step on the land of the Chinese Empire, you must put a missile for me to scare the Chinese people."
In fact, Hitler never dared to set foot on the territory of the Chinese Empire in his life. He was afraid of the emperor of the Chinese Empire, Wang Chenhao, who seemed to be able to see through his mind. Of course, Hitler was actually afraid of being assassinated, so he sent Deputy Head of State Rudolph to visit China.
Obviously, the purpose of Rudolph's visit to China was to stop the new round of arms race in the Chinese Empire. Because the German League has no money now, the large-scale arms race can only drag down the German League. But the German League cannot show weakness. Therefore, if the German League can successfully test the intercontinental ballistic missile during Rudolph's visit to China, it will undoubtedly be very beneficial to Rudolph's negotiations.
In the early morning of October 21, the missile that had completed engine docking was transported out of the comprehensive installation and testing facility, and was then transported to the launching position several kilometers away from the facility - the No. 41 launch square.
From the moment the missile was installed on the launch pad, the pre-launch preparation time entered the countdown. The detection and pre-launch operations specified by the technology were completed from October 21 to 23, and the missile was infused with fuel components and compressed gas on October 23. The key phase of launch preparation has begun, and the launch time was set at 19:00 local time on the 23rd. The whole day was safe and sound. In the evening, the missile was ready to enter the decisive moment.
Since the Chinese Empire has been closely following the so-called space test plan of the German League (the mask of intercontinental ballistic missile test), the Chinese Empire's Central Intelligence Agency learned that the German League was preparing to launch the P-16 intercontinental ballistic missile, and quickly sent agents to infiltrate and tried to stop it.
At 18:30, an agent from the Chinese Empire used an abandoned sewer during World War II to successfully enter a small hill 1.9 kilometers away from the launch site. Due to the huge reaction force of the rocket launch, there was no one within 2 kilometers of the rocket before launch, preventing burns from being sprayed by the high-temperature air waves emitted by the rocket.
The agent is named William Chen. He is a European-born Chinese. He carries an m200 Death Sniper rifle. This sniper rifle uses point 50 caliber special sniper ammunition and is the only rifle weapon of the Chinese Empire military that can strike targets within two kilometers. Of course, although this sniper rifle uses 22x sniper lenses, the error is still very large. It can only snork its head within 900 meters and hit the human torso within 1500 meters. But the German rocket is very huge. In addition, it has not yet been officially put into service, and many rocket engine parts are exposed, which provides William with an excellent shooting opportunity.
At 18:35, the P-16 Rockets began to count down.
When the countdown came to zero, the moment the German pressed the launch button, William Chen opened fire.
The huge whistle sound of the rocket was instantly launched, covering up the sound of the m200 sniper rifle firing. The point 50 sniper bullet shot from the m200 sniper rifle hit the high-temperature diaphragm in the first-stage engine oxidant and fuel pipelines of the rocket.
With a loud bang, the rocket exploded before leaving the launch frame. In an instant, the entire launch site was like the end of the world, with mountains shaking and thundering. In a moment, fire flew and thick smoke rolled, and more than ten kilometers were shrouded in smoke and dust.
This was the time when Rudolph and his party arrived at the Chinese Empire. The shocking voice of Rudolph's expectation in the world did not appear. The German League's intercontinental ballistic missile test failed. Rudolph lost the most important bargaining chip for negotiations with the Chinese Empire, thus unable to prevent the Chinese Empire from expanding large-scale arms. In order to cope with the military pressure of the Chinese Empire, the German League had to accelerate the development of military power, which was dragged by the Chinese Empire into a protracted arms race.
Chapter completed!