Chapter 134, Peacemaker Part 2 Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, United States, outside of Miami, located at the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula Accompanied by the clear ringing of electric bells and the noisy shouts of ground staff, a group of behemoths flashing silver appeared on the runway of the airport. yznn They are the largest military bomber in the world, the B36 "Peacemaker" with six propellers.
This is an ultra-long-range strategic bomber that has set many records: it is the largest piston engine aircraft put into mass production in history, it is also the military aircraft with the largest wingspan in history, and it is also the first aircraft that can be mounted without modification.
A bomber carrying every type of atomic bomb then in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and the first truly ultra-long-range strategic bomber ever capable of carrying out intercontinental bombing missions across oceans.
Among the aircraft soaring in the sky in this era, the B36 is the absolute "Big Mac in the sky."
The public relations department of Convair, which produced it, once published an article titled Believe it or Not to describe the B36 to the public.
Peacemaker" It is huge: the maximum take-off weight is as high as 186 tons, which is equivalent to three B29 bombers, the largest bomber during World War II; it can load 39 tons of bombs, which is equivalent to lifting a fully loaded B24 and a 47 at the same time; its ten The engine can produce four The power of 14,000 horsepower is equivalent to nine locomotives or 400 military trucks, or even two coal-fired boilers from the First World War.
The battleship "Dreadnought" has a total power of only 22,500 horsepower. horsepower; and in order to drive such a powerful engine, It carries enough fuel to drive a diesel locomotive around the earth ten times; its high-altitude de-icing system can provide enough heating for a hotel with 600 rooms; its wingspan reaches 70 meters, equivalent to the Wright brothers' first Twice the flight distance Compared with the size of a super behemoth like the B36 "Peacemaker", even the B29 Super Flying Fortress appears to be extremely thin.
However, despite the fact that the B36 "Peacemaker" is so huge and bloated, it is fully propelled by six piston engines with a power of up to 3,800 horsepower each and four turbojet engines with a maximum thrust of 23,000 N each.
In combat mode, it can reach a maximum speed of 685,700 kilometers per hour, which is almost the same as the fastest fighter jet during World War II.
Its ultimate flight altitude can reach 20,000 meters, reaching the stratosphere.
There are also up to sixteen self-defense artillery pieces, of which six movable remote-controlled turrets are equipped with double-barreled 20mm cannons, and two 20mm cannons are installed on the nose and tail turrets.
Of course, compared with previous American bombers, the most significant improvement of the B36 lies in its bomb load and range: during World War II, even the famous B29 "Super Flying Fortress" strategic bomber had a maximum bomb load of Only nine tons, while the b36 can carry thirty-nine tons of ammunition, including the The heaviest nuclear bomb; the B29 has a maximum range of 6,700 kilometers, while the B36 has an astonishing 12,000 to 16,000 kilometers.
The maximum range of the B36 is slightly different for each model.
The original model has a maximum range of only 10,000 kilometers.
Two thousand kilometers, in other words, there is almost no target on earth that is not within its destruction range.
But ironically, it is such an aircraft that is specially prepared for a devastating nuclear war that the US Air Force has given the nickname "Peacemaker" Eaceaker.
But think about it from another angle, this nickname seems quite appropriate.
Nuclear bombs bring peace.
An unprecedented super aerial behemoth like the b36 has obviously surpassed the technical and industrial level at the time to a certain extent, and has caused a lot of practical operational problems.
For example, the noise produced by a nearly six-meter-diameter propeller cutting through the air at high altitudes is so huge that it makes the crew feel as if they are in a noisy printing workshop.
If they work for a long time, they may even be in danger of hearing loss. .
What is even more criticized is that the propeller of the B36 "Peacemaker" is installed at the rear instead of the common front.
In other words, it uses a rare push-type propeller instead of the common pull-in type.
As a result, this kind of engine layout leads to insufficient air flow entering the engine, which is probably because it is blocked by the front wing.
Insufficient air flow will cause insufficient air cooling, which will cause the engine to easily overheat and even misfire: all models of b36 Bombers were plagued by engine overheating, which resulted in horrific mid-air fires.
As the first batch of trial products in service, the twelve B36 "Peacemakers" currently appearing at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida are full of various minor problems, and the engine overheating is simply It's heartbreaking.
The crew members who had been in the sky complained that the B36 ultra-long-range bomber they were operating had "two engines burning as soon as it took off, and two more engines were overheated, ready to turn into a big fireball at any time."
But despite this, the military order Despite the strict orders from the Pentagon, these pilots gritted their teeth and wrote their wills, then loaded up their atomic bombs, incendiary bombs, high-explosive bombs and propaganda bombs with great anxiety, and embarked on a journey to South America.
Fortunately, after several hours of long-distance flight, four B36 "Peacemaker" broke down midway and had to make a temporary landing, and the Pentagon was also forced to reduce the target of nuclear explosions and move them to the other side of the Andes Mountains.
Chile marked out the target range for the first round of nuclear explosions.
But the remaining eight B36 bombers, including four B36 bombers carrying atomic bombs, successfully reached Brazil's southern border.
Then, the death nightmare that had been staged many times in Eurasia finally befell the naive and romantic people of South America.
Faced with the B36 "Peacemaker" ultra-long-range strategic bomber attacking at full speed from an altitude of 14,000 meters, in this era before surface-to-air missiles, even if the air defense early warning radar responded in advance, the anti-aircraft guns on the ground would not be able to fire.
At such a height, even if fighter jets have time to take off and attack, they often cannot fly so high, especially when the armaments of South American countries are generally backward and there are basically no advanced aircraft.
What's more, the B36 "Peacemaker" is thicker, tougher and more durable than the B29, and the self-defense firepower on the bomber is not vegetarian.
It would be quite difficult to knock it out of the sky with a thin single-engine fighter.
So I want a group of cats to hunt wild boars Therefore, the eight B36 "Peacemaker" ultra-long-range bombers advancing at full speed easily broke through the weak resistance of South American countries and spread the Pandora's box of death and destruction across the most fertile and rich La Plata plain in South America. above.
The first target of the nuclear explosion was Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, on the banks of the Rio de la Plata.
A 40,000-ton atomic bomb accurately hit the city.
Two people, including President Peron and his wife, One hundred thousand citizens died on the spot, and the entire Argentine central government was wiped out.
Then, Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, on the other side of the Rio de la Plata, and two cities in northern Argentina, La Plata and Rosario, were also hit by a nuclear bomb.
In addition, there were several others.
Argentinian cities also suffered conventional bombing by B36s, and warning leaflets were dropped.
On the other hand, Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, escaped for the time being because it was raining and the sky was covered with clouds, making it impossible for the bombers to see the ground clearly from a high altitude.
Due to this sudden change in the rear, the anti-American coalition forces of the three countries that had originally advanced deep into Brazil were forced to temporarily stagnate.
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However, for South America, which has been away from the war for too long, this is only the first wave of "Bald Eagle Punishment".
Three days later, the B36 "Peacemaker" fleet loaded with atomic bombs roared in again, bringing more The atomic bombs were dropped on other cities in the Rio de la Plata basin.
Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, was not spared this time and was razed to the ground by an atomic bomb.
The temporary anchorage of the Soviet Atlantic Fleet, the important town of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, which had been occupied by the anti-American coalition forces, also suffered a nuclear explosion this time.
The entire fleet suffered heavy losses and was on the verge of collapse.
On the other side, facing the rampant nuclear offensive of the U.S. imperialist strategic air force, the strategic nuclear strike force of the Soviet socialist camp was not to be outdone.
It immediately decided to use eye for eye, tooth for tooth, nuclear bomb for nuclear bomb, and dispatched the latest trans-Pacific relay transfer force.
The overcoming long-range bomber group took off from the front-line air force base that had just been completed in the port of Antofagasta in northern Chile.
It targeted Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, as well as cities such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
The construction was also seen from satellite reconnaissance.
Mainframe On the battlefield, a total of twenty atomic bombs were dropped in batches, completely ravaging the essence of Brazil, bombing the largest country in South America into anarchy, and by the way, five B36 "Peacemaker" were destroyed. on the ground due to which The three B36 "Peacemaker" also carried American atomic bombs.
As a result, after being destroyed, they caused an extremely serious and large-scale nuclear leakage, which brought huge trouble to the cleanup and reconstruction work: if anyone will clean up in the future If this pile of radioactive ruins In addition, the Soviet Air Force also nuclear bombed Sucre, the capital of Bolivia.
Because after the United States nuclear bombed Argentina and other countries, the Bolivian government, which had just ceased war and surrendered, felt that a turning point was coming.
It immediately tore up the armistice agreement and once again joined the Allied camp led by the United States in an attempt to Taking the opportunity to face Zhou The neighboring countries pretended to be powerful, but they forgot that the Soviet strategic bomber group was still beside them.
Therefore, the Bolivian government's self-satisfaction turned into seeking death in the blink of an eye.
The capital Sucre and most of the central government staff were all in the Soviet Union. reduced to ashes in the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb Next, this kind of mutually stabbing nuclear strikes will continue.
Since all the large airports in Brazil have been destroyed, for the sake of safety, the B36 "Peacemaker" fleet that has lost the Brazilian relay station has to shrink the combat radius and no longer try.
After the expedition to Chile and Argentina, the target of punitive nuclear bombings was shifted to the northern part of South America, Ecuador and Peru, which are closer to the United States.
They successively bombed Quito, the capital of Ecuador, and Lima, the capital of Peru.
The Soviet Union retaliated in kind, first launching a nuclear strike on Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, and then nuclear bombing the colonial capitals of the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom in Guyana, South America, forcing the governments of these three countries to move to the Caribbean again, such as Churchill. just the british empire The government-in-exile moved to the Cayman Islands, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands moved her court and cabinet-in-exile to the Antilles, and de Gaulle's Free French organization moved to Martinique.
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Due to the technological limitations of this era, the strategic air forces of the United States and the Soviet Union could relatively easily penetrate defenses at high altitudes and drop atomic bombs on enemy cities, but it was difficult for them to establish a solid homeland air defense system to intercept enemy bombers carrying nuclear bombs outside the country.
As a result, accompanied by one flower after another As mushroom clouds soared over the land of Latin America, all the once romantic and optimistic people of South America had to seriously face a desperate multiple-choice question: Do you choose the American atomic bomb or the Soviet atomic bomb?
No matter which one you choose, You can also die without any bones left.
By the end of 1947, apart from Chile, which was the most remote in geographical location, there was also Colombia, which was deeply mired in the red-white civil war and inextricably fought.
It was a blessing in disguise that it had escaped disaster and had not yet been hit by a nuclear bomb.
All other South American countries, whether pro-American or anti-American, have withstood the bombing of more than one atomic bomb.
Major cities were reduced to radioactive ruins in mushroom clouds, and tens of millions of people died.
Moreover, after enduring the saturation bombardment of nuclear bombs, the vast majority of South American countries fell into a dark age in which government functions collapsed and social order collapsed.
As for the ground war between the pro-American and anti-American camps, it basically came to a halt.
Because the rear of the country was destroyed by nuclear explosions, all armies fell into an unprecedented dilemma of paralyzed command and cut off logistics, and their morale was even lowered to the point of collapse. , there is no point in continuing to fight.
It can be seen that the B36 ultra-long-range bomber equipped with an atomic bomb really lives up to its name as a "peacemaker".
After all, war still needs people to start it.
As long as everyone is almost dead, the war is bound to end.
If we can't fight anymore, the world will naturally become peaceful.
As nuclear retaliation and counter-retaliation continue to escalate, hundreds of mushroom clouds have risen one after another across South America.
Seeing the U.S. military deploying such a scorched-earth strategy, the Russians couldn't help but think of their own country's past of using General Winter and burning Moscow to drag Emperor Napoleon to death.
So after repeatedly weighing their commands, the Kremlin had to give up completely.
The plan was to "move forward in one go and use South America as a springboard to attack the United States", but instead recalled the fleet and aviation sent to South America, leaving a mess full of radioactive ruins to the Americans again.
The Pentagon, which was also exhausted, had no intention of taking over this hot potato.
After confirming that the joint fleet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Navy had withdrawn, it stopped bombing South American countries and withdrew ground troops trapped in Brazil and other places.
After coming out, they only left some miscellaneous troops symbolically in a few coastal strongholds.
Then they retreated to the mainland to lick their wounds and recuperate, leaving the South American countries that "restored peace" to fend for themselves.
In this way, this round of life-and-death contest between the United States and the Soviet Union in South America came to an end with the countries in South America suffering devastating blows.
Then, humans on the entire earth faced the coldest winter of this century amidst unprecedented catastrophes of hunger, war, and turmoil oshow7: