Chapter 2532 The Legend of Freaks (Part 2)

Kotin may not understand it, but Malashenko must understand it.

The Germans used anti-aircraft missiles to attack the Red Army's heavy tanks, which was the most surprising thing.

All this originated from the serious shortage of high-performance anti-tank weapons on the German front line and the effective use of increasingly tight military resources in the later period of the war.

I don't know who first proposed this idea, but in short, this batch of failed anti-aircraft missiles that were originally to be destroyed were valued and reused.

At first, the Germans tried to transform it into something like the V1 missile to carry out bombing operations against targets at a longer distance.

But soon, the Germans found that this was a bit impractical because the missile itself had too many inherent design defects.

It is different from the large land-based fixed-position deployed anti-aircraft missiles commonly understood and defined in later generations.

Although the failed test product made by the Germans is very large, they built a launcher as big as the 88 gun mount to carry it on it and do elevation and deflection.

In essence, this thing at this stage has neither search and fire control radar linkage, nor any beyond-visual-range strike capability, and there is no automatic guidance and tracking system that can be fired and forgotten.

Although the Germans began to try to develop epoch-making weapons and equipment, they still did not fundamentally break away from the thinking inertia and design logic of existing weapons and equipment. Although it is true that it is a large air defense missile, the Germans designed it with the same thinking as designing anti-aircraft guns, just hoping that it will be more efficient, more accurate, and have a longer effective range than anti-aircraft guns.

Therefore, this is actually a weapon that needs to find the target within the visual range, control the direction and elevation of the launcher, roughly aim the missile at the incoming direction of the enemy bomber, then launch the missile and perform dynamic tracking through the optical channel of the high-magnification zoom sight, and manually control the flight trajectory of the missile to continuously lock the target until it is finally hit and shot down.

Just like what the German designer who was a bit smart originally conceived, this is to enlarge the anti-tank missile used on the ground and turn it into a ground-to-air anti-aircraft version after increasing its range. Apart from this, all other design ideas and structural concepts are basically the same, and even the operation and use methods are similar.

It is obvious that the range of weapons that can fight within the visual range is destined to be not too far.

Even with the support of a high-magnification zoom optical sight fixed on the launcher, this thing is ultimately a thing that has not jumped out of the concept of anti-aircraft gun combat.

It is the same as how ordinary anti-aircraft guns are deployed in combat.

The limited range makes it completely lack the potential to be transformed into a weapon with a longer range like the V1 missile. And in its seemingly huge body, in addition to loading limited fuel to support the flight within the visual range and the wire-controlled guidance seeker, the rest of the space is filled with a huge amount of warhead charges to enhance its power.

According to the designer's original conception, this thing does not even need to accurately hit the Allied bombers.

Just send the missile to the Allied bomber formation, and then remotely detonate it through the electrical signal connected by the wire.

The blasting impact and scattered fragments caused by the detonation of the huge warhead charge are enough to severely damage and shoot down several Allied heavy bombers under ideal circumstances. If used properly, only one missile can achieve an effect that dozens of heavy anti-aircraft guns could not achieve in the past, which can be called a bomb-killing artifact.

But what happened in the test later was like that.

Ideals are full, but reality is skinny.

Maybe there is still some room for improvement, but the trouble it caused and the extremely bad problems exposed in its first appearance, as well as the increasingly urgent and limited time left by the Germans, no longer allow this weapon with a very high probability of failure in research and development to make any experimental improvements.

If it doesn't work to modify weapons like the V1 missile, what should we do? Are there any other modification plans available? We can't just destroy these test bombs that have already been produced, so who should be responsible for the price and sunk cost? At this point, San Dezi can no longer afford to squander or waste. Even if it is a waste, it must be turned into treasure and used effectively.

After discussing and demonstrating several transformation plans, the Germans finally decided on a transformation plan that they believed could best give full play to the surplus value of this "scrap" and turn it into treasure based on the urgent objective reality that must be faced and the huge actual combat needs on the front line: transform it into an anti-tank missile.

In fact, sometimes people should jump out of the closed loop of inertial thinking and existing cognition, and try to think about certain things and certain solutions from different angles or in reverse.

The Germans did this in this matter. It was a rare brain that was enough for once.

The idea of ​​the German designer who presided over the transformation plan was: since it was designed based on an anti-tank missile, can I reverse it and turn it back into an anti-tank missile? Anyway, the two designs have the same origin, and now the anti-armored combat pressure on the front line, especially on the Eastern Front, is so great, there is no reason not to try.

There are design possibilities and battlefield needs. This reverse-thinking designer is also a man who does what he says and immediately takes his people to actually try it out.

At least for the Germans, the final result is a blessing in disguise and relatively good.

At least this result indicates that this batch of experimental waste anti-aircraft missiles will not have to be destroyed, but can be turned into treasure for other uses.

The transformation plan was carried out very quickly and successfully in both the design and actual engineering stages. It is precisely because of the same technical origin that this thing, which was originally designed according to the idea of ​​anti-tank missiles, is particularly easy to reverse back to the design starting point of anti-tank missiles. The success in the test field is even predictable.

The only problem left is how to effectively deploy this thing on the battlefield.

After all, the volume of its original anti-aircraft version of the experimental launcher is too large. The volume of a complete set of deployment, aiming, and launcher pitch mechanisms is even "taller and more powerful" than the gun mount of an ordinary 88 anti-aircraft gun.

Because it is an air defense operation rather than a front-line ground defense operation, the concealment problem was not considered at all when the launcher and deployment system were designed at the beginning.

In addition, the missile itself is huge. If it is deployed to the front line as a fixed-position anti-tank missile using the experimental launcher, the first target that the Russians will destroy on the battlefield will definitely be this "giant target" if they are not crazy.