"The Germans did not intend to use mechanized warfare against Poland," asked Colonel Charles de Gaulle, who had read the full outline of the Black Plan, groaned.
The general outline of the Black Plan did not look like a fake, but the strategies and tactics mentioned in it made de Gaulle suspicious.
As far as he knew, Germany had a huge mechanization advantage.
Germany's automotive industry is twice as powerful as France's, and it is fully capable of equipping 200,000 mechanized professional troops.
And such a fully mechanized army is simply impossible to resist by a traditional army like the Polish Army "Colonel, the Germans don't have that ability" The very handsome "traitor" Stern and de Gaulle sat across from each other, both of them and Colonel Meyer in a small office in the French General Staff.
This is where de Gaulle works, and he now has a new position: Director of the Strategic Research Office.
This was not an errand, but an errand dedicated to studying how to help Poland against the German invasion.
"There is no such ability," de Gaulle looked at the rebel general of the Red Army in front of him.
"Their tanks are weak and are no match for the T26 on the Spanish battlefield."
De Gaulle shook his head, "But it looks like the Spanish war is going to end with General Franco's victory." ” The Spanish Civil War had been fought for more than a year, and Franco's army would have to fight for about another year to win, but the defeat of the republicans was revealed.
In the Northern Campaign from June to October last year, the Republican Army suffered a crushing defeat and the Basque Country, an important industrial region in Spain, and Asturias fell.
"That's because the Republicans are killing each other," Stern gritted his teeth, "Franco's men are single-mindedly fighting, while our Republicans are busy killing their own people in an endless rebellion, and we don't know how many soldiers have been killed."
During the defense of Madrid, the enemy was fighting outside, but our men were fighting each other inside the city.
If we could have united like the rebels, the Spanish War would have ended long ago. ” He seemed to be very angry and exhaled heavily: "All this is called the Great Purge, and in the Soviet Union since 1934, millions of people have been arrested, at least hundreds of thousands have been killed, and now it has spread to the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, even Marshal Tukhachevsky and General Yakir have been killed.
This is simply destroying the Red Army, the Red Army is going to be destroyed by Stalin, and the Soviet Union will be finished if it goes on like this" The Soviet Red Army would be purged and destroyed, but the mass execution of officers would certainly be a disruptive to the army's combat effectiveness.
"Does Stalin know?"
De Gaulle asked again.
"How can you not know that he is not a fool."
"Then he still dares to fight Poland," Colonel Meyer interjected.
"Isn't there still Germany," said Stenn, frowning and a little distressed, "Germany is also strong, and their planes are very powerful, fighters, bombers, and enemy attack planes are very powerful, and our planes cannot beat them."
They will bombard our cities, roads and transport hubs indiscriminately, our cities will be terrified, and it will be difficult for troops to move during the day."
"The bombardment made it difficult for the troops to move," de Gaulle abruptly interrupted Stern.
Although the French also had military observers in Spain, their knowledge of the war situation could not be compared with that of Stern.
"Yes, their BF109 and Fokker D21 and Fokker D31 are all very powerful aircraft, more powerful than our Yi-15 and Yi-16."
Stern glanced at Charles de Gaulle, who was frowning, "Your D510 is not as good as D560."
Wilhelmstrasse 73, the former presidential building during the Weimar Republic, now belongs to the Reich Ministry of Defence and Armaments.
This ministry was reorganized from the former Ministry of Defense, and in addition to having all the functions of the former Ministry of Defense, an armaments planning bureau was added, which had the power to intervene in the overall development of German armaments, not in design and procurement, but in production.
In wartime, the Armaments Planning Bureau would also become an Armaments Production Bureau, which would oversee Germany's wartime armaments production.
At present, the former Minister of Defense Schleicher is still the former Minister of Defense Schleicher, and the head of the Armaments Planning Bureau is Alfred Krupp, the successor of the Krupp Company.
On the morning of January 20, 1938, a row of luxurious black cars was parked in front of 73 William Street, which was not uncommon.
Since the restoration of Kaiser Wilhelm, it was no longer the official residence of the top leaders of Germany, but only a ministry of the imperial government, and it was rare for many big figures to gather here at the same time.
The Mercedes-Benz W07 sedan of the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Senior General Hersman, also stopped on the side of the road, and Lieutenant Colonel Spayel, Hersman's adjutant, got out of the passenger seat and opened the door for the General.
Hersmann got out of the carriage, and then the very obese Baron Anthony Fork, Kaiser Wilhelm.
Fokker only returned from Japan a week ago, because with Fokker as the backing, the development progress of the "Fokker Zero" is satisfactory, in fact, it is not a very complex aircraft, it is characterized by "light" and "fast".
The former needed to be as light as possible and a lightweight, stiff aluminium alloy material, while the latter needed a small, powerful, air-cooled engine.
"The skin is ready-made, and we are ready to use heat-treated aluminum-zinc-magnesium alloys."
Picking up his leather bag, Fokker walked quickly to the direction of the building, saying as he went, "The main truss girder is a problem, in order to reduce weight, you can't choose steel, you can only use super-duralumin alloy, the Japanese say they have successfully synthesized this super aluminum alloy, and want to use it in exchange for engine technology." ” The Japanese synthesized the legendary Igarashi metal, which is also estimated to be a heat-treated aluminum-zinc-magnesium alloy.
According to the Alcoa classification standard, it is the so-called 7000 series, either 7178 series or 7075 series.
It is based on aluminum-zinc-magnesium alloy with a small amount of copper and trace amounts of iron, silicon, manganese, chromium and nickel.
Although some valuable non-ferrous metals have to be used, under Hersmann's long-term operation, Germany's non-ferrous metal reserves are now very sufficient.
"It's exchangeable."
Hersmann immediately made a decision, "who will solve the problem of the engine, whether to use the existing engine or the need to develop a new product" "Tenders could be submitted to BW and Siemens for a small engine with a double row of 14 cylinders, a diameter of no more than 1,150 mm, a dead weight of less than 600 kg, and a maximum output of more than 1,200 hp when equipped with a one-stage two-speed supercharger."
"It's not a problem, we can make better," Hersman said.
Company W has been working on a smaller radial engine for a long time.
If the horsepower is strong enough, it doesn't matter if it weighs more than a few tens of kilograms."
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The historical BW801 series is a directly smaller and longer double-row star-type air-cooled engine, but the BW801 series of "large double-row" engines have "small double-row" engines in history, such as Pratt & Whitney's "Little Double Hornet" and Nakajima's "Rong 12", which pursues large displacement and high power, which is not suitable for small aircraft such as Zero War.
However, this engine is not as difficult as today's BW300 series.
The size of the W800 series requires a change, and it can basically meet Fokker's requirements.
The maximum output of more than 1,200 hp also gives the Fokker Zero more weight to distribute, and the performance can be compared to the historical Zero Type 22, which only appeared in late 1942.
This allows the "Fokker Zero" to use a self-closing fuel tank, which greatly improves the possibility of the pilot's survival after the aircraft is hit, and at the same time, there is no need to make holes in the main truss or polish rivets, which can save a lot of man-hours.
"And when will the development of such an aircraft be completed," Hersman asked as he walked into the Defense Department building.
"Our first aircraft carrier will be ready for sea trials in a few months, and it will be delivered to the Navy by June next year.
Will there be more than 50 Fokker 0s, which is the code name given by Fokker to this new aircraft?"
At this time and space, Germany's first aircraft carrier was not the 30,000-ton "Count Zeppelin", but the 150,000-ton "Seydlitz".
This aircraft carrier was built by German engineers using the same hull as the "Admiral Hipper" class heavy cruisers after summing up the construction experience of the "Karl Marx" class and taking into account the sea conditions of the North Sea and the North Atlantic.
Its speed and displacement are similar to those of the "Admiral Hipper" class, with 3 steam turbines and 12 heavy oil boilers, and can reach a top speed of about 32 knots.
However, the fly in the ointment is that because this class of aircraft carriers has to fight in the Atlantic Ocean with high sea conditions, it adopts a closed hangar, which makes the number of carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier small, and it can only carry 36 carrier-based aircraft.
Moreover, only two aircraft carriers of this class have been started, and the other will join active service in 1940, so it is impossible to constitute a carrier-based aircraft strike capability, and can only be used as an escort aircraft carrier to accompany the battleship in attack.
Therefore, in the Navy's planning, the two "Seydlitz" class aircraft carriers will be equipped with 30 carrier-based fighters and 6 carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, and will not be equipped with any carrier-based bombers and torpedo aircraft.
"In June next year," Fokker thought for a moment and said, "It should be in time, the Fokker 0 is scheduled to make its first flight in March next year, and it will be carried out in Japan and Germany at the same time."
If all goes well, the BFFK plant in Baltic can arrange production by the end of May, and even if it doesn't work in June, it will be able to come up with a certain amount in July and August.
However, to form combat effectiveness, it was not until after 1940. ” t1706231537: