The decisive battle against the Third Reich

A few hours later, Conrad appeared in front of Qin Chuan. At this time, Rommel went to the back room to rest because of his illness and lack of physical strength.

"Nice to meet you, Captain!" Conrad held Qin Chuan's hand excitedly: "Sorry, I didn't know it was you who wanted to see me! Where is General Rommel?"

"The general is infected with malaria and is resting in the house!"

"Oh, let him rest a little longer!" Conrad said with a smile: "I'm not here to find him anyway!"

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said, "We asked you to come this time because we need a piece of equipment!"

"Of course, I know!" Conrad said, "Tell me and I will produce it!"

"In fact!" Qin Chuan said: "General Rommel told me that you are responsible for this equipment!"

Conrad was stunned when he heard this.

At this time Rommel heard the movement outside and got up.

"Colonel!" Rommel walked out with floating steps like a drunken man while buttoning his military uniform. Qin Chuan hurriedly went up to give him a hand.

"Thank you, Captain!" Rommel sat down in front of the chair.

"General, it looks like you have severe malaria!" Conrad said.

"Yes!" Rommel laughed at himself: "I can defeat the Allied planes and warships, but I can't deal with the mosquitoes here!"

"That's why I don't want to come to Sicily!" replied Conrad.

Several people couldn't help laughing.

"So..." After laughing for a while, Conrad said, "We are talking about 'target drone'?"

For the sake of confidentiality, the V1 missile is called a "new anti-aircraft gun" and is named after "air defense target drone equipment" in the document.

Therefore, people who know this plan usually call it a "target drone".

"Yes!" Rommel said: "Maybe you can't believe it, Colonel. Even though I didn't tell the Captain anything about the 'target drone', the idea proposed by the Captain coincided with it!"

"Of course I believe it!" Conrad said with a smile: "The captain told me to understand that there is nothing I can't believe!"

"We need to use it to bomb the island of Malta!" Rommel said: "You know, we have lost air and sea control, which allows the Allies to safely store fuel and deploy aircraft on the island of Malta, and then use it These planes are blocking and bombing, but there is nothing we can do about them!”

Conrad nodded and said: "It's a good idea, but...unfortunately, we don't think this is realistic!"

Then he turned to Qin Chuan and said, "Sorry, Captain, I have to say this!"

"Why?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Because we can't let this equipment fly such a long distance!" Conrad said: "It will encounter too many uncertain factors during flight, such as changes in wind speed, changes in airflow, etc., any change will Let the 'target drone' fail to react and crash!"

"Have other problems been solved?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Yes!" Conrad said: "For example, regarding the engine, we use a cheap disposable engine, which allows this equipment to be mass-produced. The fuel it uses is even very cheap gasoline. It's not high-octane aviation fuel. Another example is the altitude issue. We installed a barometric altimeter for it, and we also used a gyroscope to control the automatic driving, but the problem lies in this... mechanical automatic driving and intelligent driving. Human driving is different. People can deal with problems according to various situations, but mechanical driving always makes mistakes for one reason or another, which makes it always crash after flying for about one kilometer, and it still crashes. When the weather is clear and the airflow fluctuates less!”

Qin Chuan understood this when he heard this.

This problem can be easily solved in modern times. Modern computers can simulate various situations and airflow fluctuation data, and then record these data so that the navigation device can make corresponding actions to keep the "target drone" stable. flight.

But there are no computers at all in this era, and the "target drone" is an unmanned aerial vehicle. The navigation device's response to any situation encountered depends entirely on the imagination and guessing of scientists on the ground. Even the size of the control range is the rudder and The amount of adjustment of the elevator needs to be set. If there is any discrepancy with the situation encountered, the plane may crash.

Therefore, in theory, there is no problem with this kind of equipment. It can be produced completely, and it is quite easy. It is almost the same as making a large model aircraft (note: after American scientists obtained the V1 missile, it only took three weeks to successfully imitate it. , that is, **2).

The difficulty is that it requires constant debugging and obtaining correct response data...but because it is a drone, it is not even possible to know what went wrong when it failed.

How did the Germans in history do this?

"We need a pilot!" Qin Chuan said.

"We have already contacted the pilot!" Conrad said: "Our navigation device is adjusted according to the plan the pilot told us, but the pilot is not sure how large the response should be. After all, these are difficult to quantify. of!"

"That's not what I mean!" Qin Chuan said: "What I mean is that we should produce a prototype. This prototype has two sets of control equipment, one is the automatic navigation device, and the other is the pilot's manual driving device!"

"But what's the use of this?" Rommel said with some confusion: "What we need is a drone. Should we let a manned aircraft crash into the enemy with bombs?"

"No, no..." Conrad heard the truth behind this. He couldn't help but widened his eyes and said, "This is very useful! Yes... very useful! Why haven't we thought of this plan before? God!"

As he spoke, Conrad slowly stood up and said thoughtfully: "Yes, Captain! The pilots are flying together in the 'target drone'. If nothing goes wrong, he will not operate. He will only operate the automatic navigation equipment." He will make adjustments when misoperation occurs. As long as the pilot's adjustment data is recorded, we can know under what circumstances the response of the navigation equipment is deviated. In this way... After adjustments again and again, our 'target drone' , yes, our 'target drone' will be successful soon!"

"That's great, Captain!" Conrad screamed with excitement. He hugged Qin Chuan and said excitedly: "Captain, do you know? You have solved a problem that we have not solved for several years. It's amazing. That's great! Captain, General... I'm leaving!"

"What happened to him?" Rommel asked, looking at Conrad who ran out of the room like a gust of wind.

"Everyone has a career they love!" Qin Chuan said: "Colonel Conrad obviously loves his 'target drone'!"