Chapter 1681 Clapper Ice Carrier (Plus 16)

Hearing Roosevelt's question, Jeffrey smiled: "Mr. President, we have considered this issue for a long time."

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

"This is the model we intend to trial-produce, about 20 meters long, for our technical verification. We stick wooden boards on the outside, the inner bulkhead is coated with asphalt, and the hull is chiseled with pipe-like ventilation holes. In this way, we can make The ship survived the summer."

Jeffrey said vigorously: "Then, we have more drawings, for example, after this experiment is completed, we can start the construction of the warship, which is our 2 million-ton aircraft carrier design. sketch."

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

Now, how much does the largest warship weigh? Absolutely no more than 100,000 tons! The 200-ton class is already a terrifying existence that defies the sky. This is no longer a warship at all, it is simply a floating military base!

"In our preliminary plan, the aircraft carrier is 900 meters long, 100 meters wide, and has a total height of about 60 meters. It uses 26 propellers. At the same time, it also has refrigeration 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 fighters, but also take off bombers.”

When the length of the aircraft carrier reaches 900 meters, of course, you can do some things you want to do. Back then, the B-25 could take off from the narrow deck of the aircraft carrier. Now, with this length, you can of course take off and land easily. Not even the B-29 is a dream.

If this kind of aircraft carrier is deployed, the United States can strike the German mainland more flexibly. Thinking of this, Roosevelt felt his heart skip a beat.

As a president, Roosevelt should be mature and stable, but now it is different. Since this time, the atmosphere of pessimism has been spreading. After Germany conquered Moscow, it seems that the ocean can not stop the pace of German aggression.

Now, the appearance of the ice carrier once again gave them hope of victory.

"The Congress will turn to funding, immediately find a suitable lake in Canada, build this test product, and if there is no problem with the verification project, start manufacturing this ice aircraft carrier. This project is given the highest priority."

Roosevelt was very excited. He seemed to have seen hundreds of these ice aircraft carriers, riding the wind and waves in the Atlantic Ocean, heading towards the European continent. There was no need to find a suitable land as a springboard. This floating ice aircraft carrier was a springboard.

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

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

The bombing of Midway was not difficult. Although the first bombing failed, the air route and other things were already familiar. It was enough to change the daytime bombing to nighttime and send a bomber brigade again.

The point is how to bomb Europe.

When making a plan with Roosevelt, it was very simple to use the civil aviation route and pretend to be a passenger plane, but now, they need to subdivide the plan, which route to choose, how many planes to dispatch, and where the target is.

Moreover, they have a very serious problem.

There aren't many planes they can use.

The German bombing of Scapa Flow was a successful battle. Although Junkers-290s were used to pretend to be civil airliners, they were only the first wave. After that, there were a large number of planes, one after another. Flying, some took off from aircraft carriers, some medium-range bombers, etc., and they were completely blown up.

However, they had few bombers at their disposal.

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, only a single-line flight.

Therefore, if they want to complete this bombing mission, they must carefully plan their routes. For example, they will take off from Newfoundland, the easternmost island of Canada, and fly in high latitudes first, and then fly to international routes when they are close to Europe. , and then pretended to be a civil airliner to bomb ports in Britain, France, and Spain, focusing on their shipyards, and then head north again to return to Greenland.

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

If you use that kind of special bomb, it should be able to play a good bombing effect, but Roosevelt has his own strategic considerations and will not use that kind of bomb, while ordinary bombs are less effective and can play a harassment role. But not necessarily completely destroyed.

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

"If we took off from Greenland, the medium-range bombers would be within reach of Britain and France. But the Germans have taken Iceland, and they must have deployed long-range radars in Iceland, and as long as they take off from Greenland, they will definitely be taken by the Germans. monitored."

The staff were considering all kinds of things, and Arnold knew that time was running out and a decision had to be made.

"It is divided into two waves. Among them, the bomber taking off from Greenland flew at an ultra-low altitude, and then climbed after evading the radar of Iceland." Arnold said: "Another 100 B-25s will be used. In this way, 200 aircraft will be used. of bombers that could take their shipyards out of action for months."

A group of high-altitude flying, posing as civil airliners, anyway, the radar of this era is backward, as long as it is a dense formation, what you see is just a point.

At the same time, another batch of ultra-low-altitude flights to attack nearby Britain and France is still possible.

The German homeland air defense is too tight, but it is absolutely impossible for them to guard all the places tightly, right?

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

Germany is the enemy of the United States. Germany has launched many attacks on the mainland of the United States, and now, finally, the American bomber force is 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 a new mission. They are going to take revenge on the islanders. This time, they must blow up Midway Island!

The 444th Bomb Group, the first B-29 bomber unit to complete night training, is now about to take off.