Chapter 1758 The Importance of Air Dominance

Germany is not stingy to show its force, and up to now, it is the best way to show force, and it will be defeated without fighting. In later generations, the United States will put the aircraft carrier over to show whoever is not pleasing to the eye. Now, Germany is showing it. More intuitive, bloody scenes, Germany's huge fleet, is invincible, today is Greenland, tomorrow is Canada, the day after tomorrow is the United States!

Who can stop Germany's cross-sea landing? This battle is so powerful that everyone will be in awe when they see it. Germany is invincible!

The radio waves spread all over the world, and also to the United States.

(The TV signal is medium wave, and it seems that it must be transmitted through relay, but after searching for a long time, I can't find any information. In the era of no satellite, how the TV signal between Europe and the United States is transmitted, everyone should be able to spread it. .)

White House.

This ending was expected by everyone. After the failure of the interception at sea, the fall of Greenland was only a matter of time. Now, when seeing the large-scale landing of Germany, it still makes many people look ugly.

Those landing ships are overwhelming, like locusts. When there is no end, those helicopters hit the beach in advance, and those naval guns make everyone tremble in their hearts. The United States can block this fierce offensive. ?

Germany is not afraid to expose their secrets. This time it is almost a complete display. Germany's cross-sea landing is roughly this style.

This is showing off their force and demonstrating to the United States. They landed in the United States across the sea, and it is quite easy!

Now, in the video, as the landing ship directly grabs the beach and the tank starts to move, it is conceivable that the next step is to easily capture the prisoners.

"The Germans are putting pressure on us, wanting to use this method to undermine our confidence, and even force us to surrender." Roosevelt said: "The Germans are wishful thinking, we will never give in, and now the Germans are using the method It's all been shown, and we're going to be tit-for-tat and use special tactics to hit them."

Roosevelt never lost his confidence. Each of the three giants of the Allied Powers in World War II had perseverance and perseverance.

Now, Roosevelt will never be afraid because the Germans show great strength. He believes that all this can be cracked.

"Yes, Mr. President." Arnold said: "The Germans exposed their tactics in advance, which created an opportunity for our counterattack. The reason why they can land so blatantly now has a big premise. They have complete air dominance."

Without air dominance, there is no sea dominance, and the facts have gradually demonstrated this.

If we continue to dispatch a large number of fighters, then the opponent's battleships will not be able to get so close to the coastline, and our own dive bombers will break through their defenses and bring death to them. At the same time, those landing ships are even more impossible to land on the beach. , a large number of fighters will go to sink them.

It is impossible for those helicopters to run around and attack the ground. In short, as long as they have air dominance, they are not afraid of anything!

When Germany really comes to land in the United States across the sea, the United States will not hide any strength, and thousands of fighters will let the German fleet know what the Great Wall in the air is!

After Arnold finished speaking, the people present nodded, and even the navy agreed that if there were enough fighter planes, the navy's landing operation would never be so easy.

"So, now we have to continue to speed up, build more fighters, and train more pilots." Arnold continued: "At the same time, we must also pay attention to the manufacture of new aircraft. There are indications that the Germans have begun to develop the first aircraft. generation of jet fighters."

Secrets can't be hidden. The Germans tried to keep their jets secret, but, several times in combat, the American intelligence system has noticed that this kind of jet does not require propellers and is still very fast. airplane.

Jets? Roosevelt was in charge of all kinds of machines, and it was impossible to be familiar with every weapon. When he heard Arnold talking about jets, Roosevelt was also a layman.

"Now, the speed of the fighter has reached a critical point. If you continue to increase the speed, then the tip of the propeller will exceed the speed of sound. At this time, the speed of sound is like a wall, which will break the propeller. If you want to continue to increase the speed of the aircraft, You have to change the power system, jet backwards, and the plane flies forward," Arnold said.

In fact, the theory of jets has been around for more than ten years. As early as the 1930s, the British began to develop them. However, the progress has been very slow, and it has not been paid much attention. Stimulated by the German jet, the British began to accelerate the development.

At the same time, the jet engine in the United States started even later, especially because the United States does not have any technical pre-research, and the main jet engines are almost all from the United Kingdom.

Now, with the United Kingdom already a government in exile, and most of the talents in the United Kingdom have also been accepted by Germany, the United States wants to start the development of jets, easier said than done!

Hearing Arnold's words, Roosevelt immediately realized the crux of the technical problem: "Do we have the talent for this? Do we have the technical foundation?"

Now, the United States is not afraid of investment, but is afraid of not having any technology. Now, what they need is time.

Hearing Roosevelt's words, Arnold also threw his hands, how did he know so much!

So, all eyes turned to Hoover, who was responsible for the placement of exiles from the United Kingdom, and hoped that he would understand.

Sure enough, Hoover rolled his eyes and said, "Sir Frank Whittle was the leader if we were talking about jets, but after the fall of England we lost word of him, but come to us American, and there are other people like Hein Constant, who also has a lot of research on jet engines, and we can get in touch with him."

This is the foundation of the old capitalist country, with a rich talent pool. Dr. A-A-Griffith of the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom once published a paper called "Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design", using gas turbines as aircraft. The idea of ​​a power plant was clearly proposed for the first time, and at the same time, he also conceived an axial-flow gas turboprop propulsion plant with a complete compressor and turbine structure.

After that, his research inspired his colleague Hein Constant, who took many of Griffith's theoretical results to discuss with the well-known gas turbine manufacturer Metropolis-Vickers to design this new type of gas turbine. aircraft motor.

Unfortunately, the plan has just begun, and the war has begun. With the help of the American embassy, ​​Hein Constant got rid of the surveillance of the German Gestapo and came to the United States. He seems to have no livelihood now.

Just get him to lead the research on jet engines, and at the same time, the development of the whole machine should be launched immediately!

Can't get behind Germany in the jet project!

"Mr. President, we are about to go bankrupt." When Hoover accepted the assignment and made another application for funding for scientific research, U.S. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau said to Roosevelt with a sad face.