stonecrandall Chapter 825
Chapter 825
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: 0.301s Scan: 0.067sIt is much closer to bomb Washington from Florida than from the Third Reich!
Although Florida is located in the south of the United States, it is only 1,150 kilometers away from Washington, the capital of the United States. This distance is naturally no problem for strategic bombers!
Although the territory of the United States is very large, their core areas are mainly concentrated in the eastern region, including the original thirteen states, as well as the Great Plains and the Great Lakes region in eastern North America, all of which are within the combat radius of German bombers!
Starting from Florida, German bombers can cover at least 80% of the territory of the United States and more than 90% of the population. Except for a few places in the northwest and southwest regions that are currently out of reach because of the distance, all other areas are within the bombing range of the German army!
Therefore, once they seized control of the sea, or established military factories in Florida, and solved the problems of logistics, supplies, weapons and ammunition, the German army could rely on Florida as a bridgehead to bomb various areas of the Eagle Sauce’s homeland. Unless the Eagle Sauce sent troops south again to drive away all the German troops in Florida, they would have to passively bomb!
Although the distance from Florida is very close, it also brings a problem, that is, the German bombers have to pass through the territory of the Eagle Sauce.
If you fly directly to Washington City in a straight line, then the German army will fly over the territory of the Eagle Sauce almost the entire way!
The noise of dozens of B-29s is still very loud, so the whereabouts of the German bomber group will be easily exposed.
Once the US military realizes that the German army is going to launch an air strike against them, they will definitely evacuate immediately. In this case, the enemy may have almost run away before they fly over the target city!
Although things like buildings cannot be moved away and taken away together, they can still complete their tasks.
However, if we just bomb these buildings, it would obviously be a bit uneconomical!
Therefore, after thinking about it, Rudel made a decision. He did not choose to go in a straight line and fly to Washington, the capital of the Eagle Sauce, in the shortest time.
Instead, he flew over the Atlantic Ocean after departing from Florida, and then flew along the coastline of the Eagle Sauce, about 100 kilometers away from the shore, without alarming the residents on the shore, and flew close to the coastline of the Eagle Sauce!
In this way, they can get close to the capital of the Eagle Sauce without alarming the Eagle Sauce!
Of course, when they leave the sea and enter the inland, their whereabouts will be exposed sooner or later.
However, even if their whereabouts are exposed at that time, there is not much time left for the Eagle Sauce people to react.
Although Washington is not a seaside city, it is not far from the sea because of the existence of the Potomac River.
At the flying speed of the B29, it takes half an hour to fly over Washington and then complete the bombing!
Therefore, the time left for the Eagle Sauce is only half an hour at most. If they cannot complete the transfer within this half an hour, then they will be unlucky in the air raid!
Rudel’s plan went smoothly. After flying along the coastline for about 3 and a half hours, the German bombing group arrived at the Chesapeake Bay, which is a bay formed by the intersection of Assateague Island and the American continent, and Washington is located on the west side of the bay.
This bay has a large number of fishing boats, because there are more than a dozen rivers flowing into the sea here, making the fishery resources here very rich.
The target of the German bomber group was too obvious, so after they entered this bay, they immediately alarmed the fishermen who were fishing here!
After being attacked by air several times, the citizens of Eagle Sauce had a serious psychological shadow on the German bombers, so when they saw the German bomber group appearing in the air, everyone’s first reaction was to run away!
They were all scared, fearing that if they ran too slowly, the bombs falling from the sky would hit their heads!
Looking down at the sea from the air, the scene of thousands of fishing boats fleeing in all directions is actually quite spectacular.
However, the German pilots had no intention of appreciating such a beautiful scenery at this time, because after approaching the enemy’s coastline, they might be attacked by the enemy’s anti-aircraft artillery at any time!
In the Battle of St. Marys that broke out not long ago, the German bomber group encountered fierce resistance from the US ground anti-aircraft firepower when attacking the US troops in St. Marys.
Due to the harsh conditions for dropping thermobaric bombs, the German army had to slow down and lower the altitude, which made the ground anti-aircraft firepower a greater threat to them.
Although the German army won a great victory in this battle, three German bombers were shot down and five bombers were injured in this battle.
For the Air Force, their losses in this battle were not small!
After learning from the lessons of the Gallic Campaign and the Battle of the Sun Never Sets, the Eagle Sauce paid much more attention to anti-aircraft guns. In addition, their homeland was also attacked by air strikes, which made them pay more attention to the development and production of various advanced anti-aircraft guns! Anti
-aircraft guns are not a high-tech equipment with low production costs. As long as there are orders and design drawings, they can be produced in a short time!
The industrial strength of the Eagle Sauce is unquestionable. After the military placed a large number of orders, the military factories in the Great Lakes produced thousands of anti-aircraft guns for them, a large number of which were anti-aircraft guns between 57-75 mm, and some were anti-aircraft guns above 90 mm. These anti-aircraft guns posed a great threat to the German army. Even at the maximum bombing height of the B-29, they would still be threatened!
Fortunately, the proximity fuse of the US military has not yet been developed, which greatly reduces the power of their anti-aircraft guns.
Anti-aircraft guns without proximity fuses can only be triggered by directly hitting the target.
Although the strategic bomber is huge, it is still very difficult to hit it with a small shell at an altitude of thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters. The proximity fuse is different. This thing does not need to hit the enemy directly. As long as the shell approaches a certain range of the opponent, it can be detonated. The anti-aircraft shells contain a large number of marbles or rod-shaped fragments, which are specially used to deal with aircraft.
Therefore, for an aircraft in the air, if a shell explodes next to it, even if it does not hit it, it is very dangerous!
Therefore, after the birth of proximity fuses, especially radio proximity fuses, the lethality of anti-aircraft guns has increased exponentially.