The decisive battle against the Third Reich - #938 - Chapter 935 Cockpit

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While Qin Chuan, Rommel and others were celebrating in the fortified area while listening to music and enjoying the top French wine, the Allies held an emergency meeting in Paris.

Several major Allied officials attended the meeting.

Among them were Charles de Gaulle and General Giraud… The reason was that Charles de Gaulle had been “fighting” for the importance of France in the Allies.

This did not start now. Before, the main meeting of the “Operation Overlord” in the Normandy Landing did not allow Charles de Gaulle to attend, which led to his protests again and again… This is actually very normal. The “Fighting France” led by Charles de Gaulle is just an army under the command of the British army, and the United States does not recognize the “Fighting France”. Whether from the perspective of politics or military confidentiality, Charles de Gaulle has no reason and no need to attend high-level meetings.

Simply put, the French army only needs to complete the orders issued by Montgomery, and it can’t play any big role in strategic command.

But Charles de Gaulle is very smart. This is not a question of whether it will play any role in strategy, but whether it can find a sense of existence among the great powers.

In fact, Eisenhower still did not want de Gaulle to attend the meeting, because he thought that de Gaulle would only cause trouble after attending such a meeting.

But Montgomery said: “General, this is France after all. We are fighting the enemy on French soil. If the French generals are not allowed to attend, then the voices in southern France claiming to fight for real freedom for France will become louder and louder.

Eisenhower thought about it and felt that it was true. On the other hand, he was tired of de Gaulle’s constant protests like a fly in his ear, so he could only nod and agree to let de Gaulle attend the meeting.

Since de Gaulle attended this meeting, General Giraud, who was supported by the United States, would naturally be indispensable, otherwise it would mean that the United States recognized de Gaulle’s dominance.

“Gentlemen!” Eisenhower looked at the documents and habitually tapped the table with a fountain pen, and said solemnly: “We are in big trouble, look at this…”

As he said that, Eisenhower raised his head to his assistant, and the assistant understood and distributed the documents that had been prepared long ago to everyone in the meeting.

“This is what our reconnaissance plane took!” Eisenhower said: “What did you see? “

After a moment of silence, Patton said, “I didn’t see anything except a little smoke!”

“Yes, nothing except a little smoke!” Eisenhower said, “But that’s exactly the problem, because a few minutes ago, a ‘suicide plane’ was launched here. Sorry, some of us may not know what a ‘suicide plane’ is!”

Eisenhower stood up, pulled out the telescopic indicator stick and stood sideways a little so that the projector could fully hit the screen behind him.

A photo appeared in front of the officers, showing a flying ME163, because it had a long tail behind it.

“This is a photo taken by our reconnaissance plane!” Eisenhower said, “It is a ‘suicide plane’. A few seconds later, it hit a B17 at a speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour, and then exploded, blowing the B17 into pieces!”

“What altitude is the B17?” Bradley asked.

“10029 meters! “Eisenhower replied.

The officers in the conference room were in an uproar. Before this, they had always thought that the Allied bombers were “infallible” at this altitude.

“Is that a plane?” Patton asked, “Or is it a missile like the V1?”

“We don’t know!” Eisenhower replied, “We know nothing about it. We don’t know if it is manned or how it works. We only know that it will automatically change direction to track our bombers!”

“Automatically track bombers?” Although Patton was in the army, he still knew what this meant.

“Yes!” Eisenhower nodded and replied, “We don’t know how they did it, but this thing… I mean the ‘self-destructing plane’. If it fails to hit the target the first time, it will turn in the air, and then fly towards the target for the second and third time, until it hits the target or runs out of fuel!”

The generals in the conference room were in an uproar. Only Generals de Gaulle and Giraud remained calm… These issues had nothing to do with them. What they needed to care more about was how to improve their reputation and fully seize the rule of France.

“General! “A staff officer speculated: “We know that the Germans have a rocket that can automatically track tanks. Could this be related to this equipment?” “Maybe it is related to some extent!” Eisenhower said: “But the ‘controllable rocket’ is controlled by a wire connection, while this ‘self-destructing plane’ is not!” “That is to use radio remote control like V1!” General Bradley said. At this time, the Allies had discovered that the Germans used radio to control V1, so when the V1 missile was fired at Britain, every household in the UK turned on the electric shaver. It is said that this was discovered by chance… A British pilot was chasing a V1 missile and strangely found that the V1 missile, which was originally flying steadily, staggered away from its own track like a drunkard. He reported the matter, and British scientists believed that there must be some electrical appliances that interfered with the flight of the V1 missile.

After many investigations, it was found that it was a razor… When the razor rotates, it will produce weak electromagnetic waves. The wavelength of these electromagnetic waves happens to be similar to the wavelength of the radio waves used to guide the V1 missile, thus affecting its remote control commands.

Eisenhower shook his head and said: “We have tried, but we can’t interfere with it by interfering with electromagnetic waves. Because of this, we are not sure whether there is anyone driving it…”

Eisenhower said: “Look at this photo, it has an arched cockpit on its head, and it is made of transparent glass. If it is unmanned, why does it still have this cockpit?”

This analysis is reasonable, and with the fanaticism of the German SS, it is entirely possible to adopt such a suicidal attack.

If Qin Chuan heard this, I’m afraid he wouldn’t know what to think… ME163 was originally designed and manufactured for manned driving, but it was later changed to unmanned driving.

The reason why there is still a cockpit and transparent glass is entirely because there is no time to make further improvements.

But because of this, the Allies misunderstood that ME163 was manned… If it was manned, it meant that interference could not be carried out.

This can be regarded as an unexpected surprise.