Chapter 883 Aircraft Missiles
Originally, Zhang Chi hoped that this "aircraft missile" would arrive in Italy soon and be put into testing, but soon found that this was not easy to do.
The reason is that this "aircraft missile" is a big guy who is more than eight meters long and six meters wide... It really deserves its name and is a small plane.
Zhang Chi had known before that Germany's "aircraft missiles" were only more than seven meters long and more than five meters wide. Zhang Chi was not surprised by this, because the "aircraft missiles" of the Germans were uncontrollable and the device would be relatively simple. Once it was required to be controlled and wireless data transmission was possible, electronic equipment was needed to install electronic equipment on the "aircraft missiles". The electronic equipment of this era was not small... Even the US wireless walkie-talkie could kill people like the "big brother", so the entire volume quickly increased.
In this way, Liu Zhenguo and others had to choose sea transportation.
Because if you choose air transport, you must rely on the United States, and Zhang Chi does not want the United States to know this plan.
As a result, it took more than a month to wait for this thing to be transported to Italy.
Fortunately, the battle between the Allies and the Germans has reached a stalemate... To be precise, the Allies still have the upper hand on the battlefield, mainly because the Allies have many soldiers and the generals are wide, and the two armies can take turns to fight, which gives soldiers a rest time and can ensure morale.
The German soldiers were not so lucky. They had only six divisions on the front line, but the defense line was longer and longer, and they finally extended to more than 100 kilometers and almost spanned the entire Italy. In this way, the German troops of these six divisions were even slightly insufficient, let alone replaced.
So it was natural that after the battle lasted for a long time, the German army could not hold on anymore. Those who collapsed and committed suicide, and those who rushed to the battlefield were increasing... In fact, it was not easy for the German army to hold on for so long under the high pressure of the battlefield and had been persisting. If it were replaced by the British army, the US army would probably have collapsed and surrendered long ago.
Hitler also noticed this issue, so he made some adjustments to the German troops stationed in Italy.
Simply put, this adjustment is to hand over all Rommel's B Army to Kesseling's command, and Kesseling merged his A Army and B Army into a group army.
But this is just a change of soup and no medicine. Kesseling still has no soldiers to use, because the troops under Kesseling's command seem to have 8 more divisions on the surface, which is the B Army originally commanded by Rommel. However, these troops were stationed in the Alps, so you can't lose the Alps defense line... If you do this, what should you do if the Allies either airborne or land directly to the Alps? By then, all the Germans will die without a burial place!
The result is that the Allies have an advantage in the defense line, but the speed of advancement is very slow, and every inch of advance is at a price. In Eisenhower's words, "We are like snails climbing up the boots, not only slowly, but also leaving traces along the way!"
(Note: Italy's terrain is similar to a long boot, so it is also called the boot country)
In fact, a considerable part of the reason why the Allies can continue to advance is due to the Zoafu Corps... The Zoafu Corps is not afraid of night battles, and has powerful firepower to suppress the enemy during the day. Therefore, compared with the high ground where other troops are stationed, the Zoafu Corps has an advantage in black and white notifications.
This allows the Zoafu Corps to always break into the enemy's defense line and then rely on stronger firepower and sufficient logistics to expand the results of the two wings.
Of course, these are not what Zhang Chi cares about.
The offense and defense of the defense line and the situation of the battle seem to have little to do with Zhang Chi.
What Zhang Chi cares about is the "airplane missile" in front of him.
When Zhang Chi saw it, he truly understood why he chose to take longer-term sea freight instead of air freight... It was not just a bullet, but also a launcher, a signal transmitter, a receiver like an iron pot, a tooth-old black and white TV and operating instrument. It was all made of a "airplane missile" and could not even transport a large truck.
Later, Zhang Chi realized that black and white television was not an "old" thing in this era.
Basil and several French scientists also came... They did not come with the "aircraft missiles". The time for scientists is very precious, and it makes no sense to transport them with the "aircraft missiles", so they only took a plane to Italy after receiving the notice.
Just like all other scientists who are addicted to science, Basil directly missed the step of saying hello to Zhang Chi and directly led Liu Zhenguo and others to start debugging the instrument.
While debugging, Basil said to himself: "Fortunately, they didn't have any problems during transportation!"
"Of course!" Liu Zhenguo replied: "We took turns watching it almost twenty-four hours, and we were lucky to have no storm along the way!"
"The luckier one should be that I didn't encounter a German submarine!" said Basil.
Then everyone laughed heartily.
"Oh, General!" After a while, Basil remembered Zhang Chi: "I think we are ready, let me introduce it... let's call it 'Caesar'!"
“‘Caesar’?”
"Yes!" Basil replied: "It consists mainly of three parts. Of course, this is developed according to your ideas...distributes the launch control device, the missile, and the receiving feedback device!"
While talking about Basil, he pointed at the instruments beside him: "This is a launch control device. We issued instructions to the missile through it. For this reason, we also specially hired two pilots. They operated the missile like flying a fighter and adjusted its posture according to experience. Needless to say, the missile was used to compare with the German missile, and the images we installed on its head, and the images captured would be transmitted to this TV..."
"Why do you need two pilots?" Zhang Chi interrupted Basil's words.
"Uh..." Basil replied: "General, you know, this 'aircraft missile' can attack long-range targets. Its range is more than 200 kilometers and its speed is about 550 kilometers per hour. That is to say, the pilot needs to operate for about twenty minutes, and we need people to replace it..."
"What do you mean..." Zhang Chi asked: "The entire course of this missile is controlled by humans?"
"Yes!" Basil nodded.
Zhang Chi couldn't help but feel speechless when he heard this. These scientists sometimes get stuck in the slightest consideration of technical issues, not considering their practicality or some cleverness.
Chapter completed!