Chapter 905 Cruise Missile

Since August, the war between Australasia and the island nation has fallen into a more delicate stage.

The island nation's navy retreated to the port and did not dare to come out to fight the Australasia navy. This made the island nation's powerful army completely useless. They had no way to leave the island, and naturally had no way to threaten Australasia.

Australasia was also happy to do so. Every once in a while, a large number of air forces would be organized to bomb the island nation, and the targets of the bombing were only the large-scale cities of the island nation, such as the famous Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo, etc.

On the one hand, it was to disrupt the domestic order of the island nation and destroy the more important industries and other facilities of the island nation as much as possible.

On the other hand, such frequent bombing of the island nation's big cities also had the purpose of training more air force units.

According to Australasia's current aircraft production speed, the current number of excellent pilots is obviously insufficient.

It is necessary to quickly obtain enough excellent pilots and let them perform more combat missions.

It just so happens that bombing the big cities in the island nation can be used as a relatively safe task and handed over to those pilots with less experience to perform.

Compared with the European battlefield, the Pacific battlefield is obviously much less interesting.

If it weren't for the fact that Australasia didn't want to end the war so early, I'm afraid the islanders would have considered what conditions to surrender.

At present, Australasia has mobilized a total of 1.1 million troops, of which about 300,000 troops are deployed in the European battlefield, 200,000 troops are deployed in the Pacific battlefield, and the remaining 600,000 troops are all located on the mainland.

As the most populous country in Australasia's sphere of influence, Kalimantan currently provides the most troops, with a total number of troops exceeding 1.5 million.

Among them, 300,000 troops are located in the European battlefield, 200,000 troops are located in the Pacific battlefield, and nearly one million troops are in training and can be deployed at any time.

The size of the Philippine army is a little worse, but it has reached 800,000. The Philippines has invested 200,000 troops in Europe, 200,000 troops in the Pacific battlefield, and 400,000 troops are training in the Philippines.

This also means that as long as Australasia is willing, it can organize more than 2 million troops to attack the island country at any time.

And this is just the current number of troops. Whether it is Australasia, Kalimantan or the Philippines, the mobilization situation has not reached its own limit.

In the extreme case, Kalimantan and the Philippines can provide tens of millions of troops. With the millions of troops of Australasia, it is no problem for the number of troops to crush the island country.

Of course, without launching a large-scale general offensive, no matter how many troops there are, it will be useless. Instead, it will increase the burden of military expenditure.

For Arthur and Australasia, playing air battles with the island country is the most cost-effective method.

The island country is different from Australasia. Their various armies have even exceeded the sum of all the armies in the Australasia sphere of influence, which also represents a very high military budget.

If it drags on like this, even if the island country’s army is not defeated, their economy and logistics cannot withstand such a huge consumption.

To put it bluntly, no country can currently withstand the military expenditure brought by millions of troops.

Although Britain and France are still mobilizing a large number of troops, they rely on the foundation of the country, the continuous blood transfusion of colonies and the help of North American national consortiums.

Although Germany does not have the help of colonies and foreign consortiums, Germany's own industrial scale is still very strong. In addition, it has successively annexed Poland and the Austrian Empire, as well as second- and third-rate countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, so it can barely hold on.

One of the reasons why Arthur can rest assured to consume with the islanders is that the military technology of Australasia is currently progressing rapidly.

After the outbreak of the war, the budget for military technology research and development in Australasia doubled directly, and the budget for some more important military technology even increased by 3 to 5 times.

Although this represents extremely high military technology research costs, the speed of military technology progress is also changing with each passing day.

On December 27, 1936, at the end of the old year, Arthur also ushered in the most important good news since the outbreak of the war, the progress of missile research and development.

As we all know, the previous missile sequence of Australasia was the Dove missile, which has been under development for nearly five years.

After five years, Australasia finally ushered in a new missile technology, the Herman cruise missile.

The so-called cruise missile, which mainly flies in the dense atmosphere in a cruise state, is also called a "cruise missile".

The cruise state refers to the state in which the missile is accelerated by the rocket booster, the thrust of the main engine is balanced with the resistance, and the lift of the wing is balanced with the gravity, achieving a nearly constant speed and constant altitude flight.

In this state, the fuel consumption per unit distance is the least. Its flight trajectory usually consists of a take-off climb phase, a cruise (horizontal flight) phase, and a dive phase. It relies on the thrust of the jet engine and the aerodynamic lift of the wing to maintain flight.

Of course, these are no longer the most important to Arthur. With the current technology of Australasia in missiles, it can be said to be leading the world.

What attracted Arthur the most about cruise missiles was that they could freely replace warheads, and could be loaded with nuclear warheads that matched small nuclear bombs, and could be freely launched by aircraft or submarines, which was also an important part of the so-called nuclear triad in later generations.

What does this mean? Australasia only needs to complete the production of nuclear warheads to have long-range nuclear strike capabilities, which is unparalleled for the improvement of Australasia's military strength.

So the question is, how did Australasia achieve this technology that was gradually developed after the end of World War II?

First of all, it has to be attributed to the jet engine developed by Diesel. The power engine used by cruise missiles is still the most advanced jet engine at present.

Cruise missiles also make extensive use of aerodynamics. In terms of the flight principle of missiles, they actually borrow a lot from the principles of aircraft.

In other words, cruise missiles are more like a strange-shaped aircraft, but they are unmanned, and their main goal is to perish together with the enemy.

Because of the principle similar to that of aircraft, cruise missiles also have a pair of wings. This pair of wings can increase the lift of cruise missiles, and with the help of the powerful power of jet engines, it can achieve the purpose of rapid takeoff.

The new generation of cruise missiles is different from pigeon missiles. Cruise missiles use more advanced radars and horizontal gyroscopes, completely getting rid of the trick of using pigeons to improve the hit rate.

Of course, the current technology also determines that the hit rate of the new generation of cruise missiles is not too high, which is a problem that the current technology cannot solve at all.

Even in history, the improvement of the hit rate of cruise missiles had to wait until the 1960s, that is, more than 20 years later.

Needless to say, the progress of technology in the past 20 years naturally means that it is impossible to rely on cruise missiles to achieve highly accurate strikes so far.

But this problem is not a problem for Australasia.

Because Arthur's greatest expectation for the current cruise missiles is not to carry conventional warheads to achieve precise strikes, but to carry nuclear warheads to achieve large-scale destructive strikes.

Needless to say, the damage that a nuclear warhead can cause is naturally beyond description. The explosion power and destructive range can effectively make up for the defects of the accuracy of cruise missiles.

Anyway, the use of nuclear warheads does not require too precise targets. As long as the difference is within a few kilometers, it can basically cause huge damage.

Of course, the current cruise missiles do not have such exaggerated errors. The error of the first-generation missiles did reach more than one kilometer, and even under the influence of weather, the error may reach several kilometers.

But when the second-generation Dove missile was used, the maximum error of the missile was reduced to less than one kilometer, and even at the most accurate time, it could hit the target.

At present, the third-generation cruise missile has been improved compared to the second-generation Dove missile, and the maximum error is only a few hundred meters, and that is when the target is too far away.

In this case, if the cruise missile is equipped with a nuclear warhead, it can completely replace the bomber and achieve long-range strikes on any target in Australasia that it wants to strike.

For example, in the island countries that Arthur always wants to achieve nuclear peace, only submarines can launch cruise missiles, and there is no danger to the personnel launching the missiles.

Yes, Arthur's only concern about using nuclear weapons to attack island countries may be that nuclear weapons will cause certain safety hazards to the personnel on the plane.

As for the life and death of the islanders, that was not in Arthur's plan at all.

At least now, most of the islanders, from the government to the people, support the war. The use of nuclear weapons against these extremists who support the war is just a sanction from justice.

If it were not too cruel to use nuclear weapons to destroy a country, Arthur would even plan to directly nuke the country.

Of course, throwing nuclear weapons is inevitable. At least for those individual big cities, it is better to nuke them.

In order to see the first cruise missile in Australasia with his own eyes, Arthur decided to go to the missile laboratory in person and watch the first cruise missile test in human history.

As before, the test of the cruise missile could not be hidden from the military leaders. Not only was Arthur curious about the famous cruise missile, but even these senior military generals were very curious about the new missile.

In the end, a large team set out from Fort Saint-Arthur. Including Arthur and the military leaders, they had only one purpose, which was to go to the missile laboratory in person and witness the test of the cruise missile with their own eyes.

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