Chapter 1708 Bomb Balloon

Disappointment was written on everyone's faces. Roosevelt looked at the decelerating ice carrier, and watched it turn with difficulty, and then returned, the speed was getting lower and lower, Roosevelt knew how many such whims were in it. technical risk.

Think about it too, the construction of ships, from the original canoes, to the later sailing ships, to the ships, developed step by step over many years, and only appeared with the advancement of technology.

And now?

Without any technical reserves, if we want to fiddle with this ice-made aircraft carrier in a short period of time, it will inevitably be accompanied by a series of risks, not to mention the huge displacement.

War is terrifying. Countless cities have been turned into ruins, and countless populations have disappeared. It is a catastrophe on the human world. But at the same time, war is also a catalyst for technological progress. The technological progress in the entire World War II surpassed the development of a hundred years in peacetime.

In order to win, countries will have all kinds of new weapons with wide-ranging brains. There is only one goal, to defeat the enemy at all costs and strive for victory.

island country.

Pheasant Fifty-six was killed in the attack on Midway Island, and the island country lost a capable general.

The island countries can no longer control the western Pacific Ocean. If the United States needs it, it can go west at any time and continue to attack the sphere of influence of the island countries.

Thanks to Germany's strength, Germany was preparing to land across the sea, which put a lot of pressure on the United States. Therefore, after the Battle of Midway, the United States did not rush to continue to provoke wars in the Western Pacific, but focused on Atlantic defense.

The island country, of course, will not watch the bombardment by the Americans without any countermeasures. The island country has always been thinking of ways to counterattack.

"We still lack intercontinental bombers. Although we have imported some advanced technologies from Germany, it will be two or three years before we develop an advanced intercontinental bomber. We can't wait so much." In the capital of the island country, High-level consultations are taking place.

"The revenge of the pheasant must be avenged, and the revenge of the Midway base must also be avenged. Unfortunately, our naval strength has been greatly reduced, and we cannot continue to compete for hegemony with the United States in the Pacific Ocean." The successor of the pheasant fifty-six, Yokosuka Gugafeng, the chief of the Guard House, said.

Stationed in Yokosuka, he is just a civilian on the shore. Koga Feng himself has no actual combat experience, no special merits, and has not served in the main force of the combined fleet for a long time. Chicken Fifty-six's responsibilities can only be blamed on the promotion principles of the island nation's navy:

In most cases, the three important positions of the Minister of the Navy, the Chief of the Military Command, and the Commander of the Combined Fleet were promoted from the commander of the Yokosuka Castle, the Commander of the Wu Township, the Deputy Navy Officer, the Deputy Chief of the Military Command, and the Commander of the Second Fleet.

Only juniors can be promoted, but seniors cannot be promoted, except in extreme cases, such as juniors who do not meet the conditions, and then promoted according to the order of the hammock number, that is, the graduation ranking, and the order cannot be reversed.

The fate of a person is like this, and Gu Hefeng also knows that he has no ability to lead the entire fleet, but he has no choice.

Now, after taking office, what he needs to face is to avenge the pheasant and avenge Midway.

The Americans, it's so abominable, actually used a terrible bomb to destroy the whole of Midway.

"Yes, relying on the existing technology, we cannot bomb to the continental United States, but our meteorological experts have found a favorable condition. Oishi and Saburo, please introduce to everyone."

Hearing the words of Tojo, who presided over the meeting, Oishi and Saburo stood up, and he said to the high-ranking officials in front: "After careful research, we found a high-speed westerly wind belt over our mainland, and the balloons that entered this wind belt. move fast."

After in-depth study of the atmosphere, we can clearly know the convection in the atmosphere. This is actually the middle latitudes of the northern and southern hemispheres, between the subtropical high pressure belt and the subpolar low pressure belt, is the hot air over the equator heated up and rising. The area where the cold air above the poles meets. In this era, the exploration of climate is still very primitive, and it is even more unclear at altitudes above 10,000 meters.

Since the wind will carry the balloon to the east, why don't you just put a bomb under the balloon and throw the bomb into the United States?

This is a good idea, compared to the consumption of bombers, balloons are simply the least resource-intensive, the lowest cost, the effect...

"With balloons, we can't control the flight of the bomb, and we can't control the impact point." A naval admiral responded and said to Oishi and Saburo.

"Yes, but we have already calculated it accurately. As long as you fly in the sky for 69 hours, you will be able to float to the mainland of the United States. As for the problem of accuracy, we can achieve it by increasing the number. If we release 100,000 to the mainland of the United States A balloon, even if only 10,000 arrive, it is 10,000 bombs, and even if only one-tenth of it reaches a residential area, it is a thousand bombs.”

"Yes, this plan is very good, I suggest implementing it immediately." Gu Hefeng said.

The cost is low. The cost of making 100,000 balloons is not comparable to that of a strategic bomber, but it can have the effect of thousands of bombs. It is an absolutely good idea!

The people present agreed for a while, and just like that, the bomb balloon plan was passed.

If the ice carrier is a big brain, then the bomb balloon is almost the same. After all, what kind of brain does it take to fly half the earth with a balloon?

After coming out of the base camp, Oishi and Saburo immediately found their colleague, Hidetoshi Arakawa.

"We can't use ordinary air exploration balloons." Arakawa Hidetoshi said: "The balloon will fly higher and higher, and eventually burst, and it won't fly that far at all."

Air sounding balloons are used in the field of meteorology. Because buoyancy is greater than gravity, they will continue to rise. When the high air pressure is low, the balloon will expand and become larger and larger until the balloon bursts.

To fly that far, the balloon must be able to control its height.

"Yeah, this is also the biggest problem I have encountered, we must solve it quickly." Dashi and Saburo said.

"It seems that we have to design an automatic device." Arakawa Hidetoshi quickly captured his thoughts: "We put 30 sandbags weighing 2 to 7 kilograms in the hanging basket under the balloon, and when the balloon flies When the altitude is lower than 9000 meters, due to the action of air pressure, the bolts that fix the sandbags will be automatically released, the sandbags will be dropped in turn, and the balloon will rise due to weight reduction. When the flight is higher than 10,500 meters, a valve of the airbag will automatically open and discharge Hydrogen, the balloon lowers in altitude."

As Arakawa Hidetoshi said, he quickly drew drawings: "Let's start the experiment as soon as possible!"