The decisive battle against the Third Reich - #935 - Chapter 932 Self-exploding plane (please vote for me)

Relevant intelligence quickly reached Montgomery’s headquarters.

Because Moncomali had experienced it in North Africa, he knew very well that this was what the Allies called a “self-destructive aircraft”… The Allies called it a “self-destructive aircraft” because the ME163 did look like An aircraft.

In fact, it is an aircraft, but it was later transformed into an unmanned aircraft and the weapons and equipment were replaced by explosives… At the same time, its liquid fuel is also explosives, which means that although the ME163 is equipped with the same amount of explosives, in fact it The lethality after hitting the target is not the same:

If the liquid fuel is almost consumed after flying in the air for too long, the explosion will be less lethal. On the contrary, it will be more lethal.

This is one of the reasons why some B17 bombers were injured and fell, while others were directly blown up and disintegrated in the air.

“Where is our escort formation?” Montgomery asked: “Suppress the enemy’s ‘self-destructing aircraft’!”

Montgomery’s identity and aura allowed him to know much more intelligence than others, even Eisenhower, so he was very aware of the weaknesses of this “self-destructing aircraft”… It takes time to reload fuel, and there is not enough time. Short, and this fuel is also highly explosive.

These characteristics also make the “self-exploding aircraft” suppressible, especially when air superiority is in the hands of the Allies.

In other words, the escort formation only needs to find the German “self-exploding aircraft” launch site and shoot at it. Whether it is a fighter or a bomber, it can easily destroy them.

But after a long time, Montgomery still failed to get the good news from the front, and the bombers were in danger again and again.

“What’s going on?” Montgomery asked Colonel Aubrey, the commander of the escort formation: “Colonel, do you want to wait until all our bombers are destroyed before taking action?”

“But, sir!” Colonel Aubrey replied, “We can’t find their launch vehicle!”

“This is impossible!” Montgomery replied: “Don’t these ‘self-destructing aircraft’ have a long trail? Do you need me to teach you that the starting point of the trail is the location of the launch vehicle?”

“I know that, sir!” Colonel Aubrey responded: “But we just can’t find their launch vehicles. They just disappeared out of thin air, or… they don’t exist at all!”

What Colonel Aubrey said was true. Every time when fighters and bombers followed their trails and flew over the relevant areas, they saw only an open space and nothing else.

They also tried bombing the area, but it obviously had no effect, because the “self-exploding aircraft” still flew into the sky one after another.

“Go to hell!” Montgomery couldn’t help but cursed: “Then I want to know where these ‘self-destructing planes’ were launched from…”

“I saw it, sir!” Before Montgomery could finish speaking, Aubrey replied: “They were launched from a cave. To be more precise, it should be said to be an underground well!”

Aubrey was piloting a fighter plane near a launch site. He flew inverted at a low altitude at the risk of crashing, and then saw the mouth of an underground well below that was slowly closing in the smoke.

“I’m sure, sir!” Aubrey continued to report after straightening the fuselage: “There is indeed no launch vehicle. They hid the ‘self-destructing aircraft’ deep underground and launched the ‘self-destructing aircraft’ through something similar to a pipe. Launched from the ground. Then, it only takes ten seconds for the pipe mouth to close, and we can’t suppress it at all, sir!”

After hearing this, Montgomery’s face turned red and white.

This is obviously a good way to hide the “self-explosion aircraft” underground, which almost avoids all its weaknesses.

The result of this is that even if the Allies have complete control of the air, they still cannot prevent the “self-destructing aircraft” from launching… unless the pilot can kill the “self-destructing aircraft” at the moment it is launched. Destroyed, which is almost impossible.

Montgomery soon realized something.

He walked to the map, lay down and looked at it for a while, and said to himself: “If they have such a deployment in the direction of the Netherlands, does it mean that the entire ‘Maginot’ line of defense…”

Thinking of this, Montgomery immediately called Eisenhower.

“How many more bombers do we have in Paris!” Montgomery asked.

“Monty!” Eisenhower replied: “Give up. We have lost this battle. The Germans are well prepared…”

“No, Ike!” Montgomery interrupted Eisenhower: “That’s not what I’m talking about. You should have received relevant information. Our bombers were intercepted by their new equipment when passing through the Netherlands!”

“Yes, I know!” Eisenhower replied: “That’s what I said!”

“It’s not just a failure in this battle, Ike!” Montgomery said: “If their ‘self-explosion aircraft’ are not just deployed in the Netherlands, but the entire ‘Maginot Line’, or even northern Germany, you know What will happen?”

Eisenhower was stunned upon hearing this.

Montgomery is right. The Germans have perfectly solved the weakness of “self-destructing aircraft”, allowing them to perfectly intercept American high-altitude bombers and even low-altitude bombers. This means that the Allies cannot bomb the German mainland.

Before that, the Allies had always believed that…as long as France was occupied, Germany’s defeat was inevitable, because the Allies could use France as a base to take off bombers in large numbers to bomb Germany.

Without air superiority, Germany’s defeat was only a matter of time.

But now, Eisenhower suddenly realized that this was just wishful thinking.

“I understand what you mean!” Eisenhower said: “I immediately ordered the bombers to take off from Paris and cross the Maginot Line from several different directions!”

“Okay!” Montgomery said, “I’m waiting for your news!”

Unfortunately, Eisenhower and Montgomery got their word right.

Eisenhower dispatched thirty bombers, some of which did not even carry many bombs… France was still relatively short of supplies.

But it doesn’t matter, they are not bombing but testing.

Then, as Montgomery said, “self-destructing aircraft” took off to intercept from every direction.

Eisenhower quickly ordered the planes back, but half of the bombers were shot down during the operation.

“God!” Eisenhower said: “Their real line of defense is not the Atlantic Wall, but the Maginot!”