Chapter 928 Cockpit
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While Qin Chuan, Rommel and others were listening to music while enjoying the celebration of French top wines in the fortification area, the Allied forces held an emergency meeting in Paris.
Several major Allied officials attended the meeting.
These also include Charles de Gaulle and General Giro... The reason is that Charles de Gaulle has been "struggling" for the importance of France in the Allies.
This did not start now. The main meeting of "Operation Overlord" in Normandy landed before, which attracted him to protest again and again without letting De Gaulle participate... This is actually very normal. The "Fighting France" led by De Gaulle is just an army under the command of the British army, and the United States does not recognize "Fighting France". Whether in terms of political or military confidentiality, De Gaulle has no reason and no need to attend high-level meetings.
Simply put, the French army only needs to complete the order issued by Montgomery, and it will not play a big role in strategic command.
But Charles de Gaulle is very smart. This is not a question of whether it will play a strategic role, but a question of whether it can find a sense of existence among major powers.
In fact, Eisenhower still doesn't want Charles de Gaulle to attend this meeting because he believes that Charles de Gaulle will only cause trouble after attending such a meeting.
But Montgomery said: "General, this is France after all. We fight against the enemy on French land. If the French generals are not allowed to participate, then the calls for France to fight for true freedom in the south of France will increase.
Eisenhower thought about it and felt that it was the same. On the other hand, he was tired of De Gaulle's constant protest in his ears like a fly, so he could only nod and agree to let De Gaulle attend the meeting.
Since Charles de Gaulle attended this meeting, General Giro, supported by the United States, is naturally indispensable, otherwise it means that the United States recognizes Charles de Gaulle's dominance.
"Gentlemen!" Eisenhower habitually tapped the desktop with a pen while looking at the documents, and said with a serious expression: "We are in big trouble, look at this..."
As he said that, Eisenhower raised his head to the assistant. The assistant understood and distributed the documents he had prepared long ago to everyone attending the meeting.
"This is what our reconnaissance planes captured!" Eisenhower said: "What did you see?"
After a moment of silence, Patton said, "I saw nothing except a little smoke!"
"Yes, there's nothing but a little smoke!" Eisenhower said: "But that's the problem, because here a few minutes ago, it was confirmed that it was here and a 'self-destruction plane' was launched. Sorry, some of us may not know what the 'self-destruction plane' is!"
Eisenhower stood up, pulled the telescopic indicator rod and stood sideways a little so that the projector could hit the curtain behind him completely.
A photo appeared in front of the officers. It was a flying ME163 because there was a long trail behind it.
"This is a photo taken by our reconnaissance plane!" Eisenhower said: "It is a 'self-destructing plane'. After a few seconds, it hit a B17 at a speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour, and then exploded, blowing the B17 into pieces!"
"What height is B17?" Bradley asked.
"10029 meters!" Eisenhower replied.
The officers in the conference room couldn't help but feel an uproar. Before that, they had always thought that the Allied bombers were "unprecedented" at this altitude.
"Is that an airplane?" Patton then asked, "or is it a missile like the V1?"
"We don't know!" Eisenhower replied: "We know nothing about it, don't know if it's a man, don't know how it works, we just know it will automatically change direction and track our bomber!"
"Automatic tracking bombers?" Although Patton was an 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 'self-detonation plane'. If it fails to hit the target for the first time, it will turn a corner in the air, and then fly toward 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 General Charles de Gaulle and Giroud remained calm... These issues had nothing to do with them, and what they needed to care more about was how to increase their reputation and seize the rule of France in an all-round way.
"General!" a staff officer speculated: "We know that the Germans have a rocket that can automatically track tanks. Will this be related to this equipment?"
"Maybe related to some extent!" Eisenhower said: "But the 'controllable rocket' is controlled by a wire connection, but this 'self-destructive aircraft' does not!"
"That's to use radio remote control like V1!" said General Bradley.
At this time, the Allies had discovered the way the German army used radio to control V1, so when the V1 missile was launched into the UK, every British household opened the electric shaver.
It is said that this was discovered by chance... When a British pilot was chasing a V1 missile, he strangely discovered that the V1 missile that was originally flying smoothly was staggering and deviating from his orbit like a drunkard.
He reported this matter, and British scientists believed that some electrical appliances must have interfered with the flight of the V1 missile.
After many investigations, it was found that it was a razor... When the razor rotated, weak electromagnetic waves would be generated. The wavelengths of these electromagnetic waves happened to be similar to the radio waves of the guided V1 missile, which affected its remote control commands.
Eisenhower shook his head and said, "We have tried, and cannot interfere with electromagnetic waves. It is precisely because of this that we are not sure if someone is driving it..."
"Looking at the photo, it has an arched cockpit on its head, and it's made of transparent glass. If it's driverless, why would it still have this cockpit?"
This analysis is reasonable, and with the zeal of the German SS, it is entirely possible to adopt this suicide attack.
If Qin Chuan heard this, I'm afraid I don't know what to think... ME163 was originally designed and manufactured by manned driving, but later it was changed to unmanned driving.
The reason for the cockpit and transparent glass is entirely because there is no time to make further improvements.
However, the Allies misunderstood that ME163 was driven by a man... If it was driven by a man, it would mean that it would be impossible to interfere.
Chapter completed!