novelhk Chapter 812
Chapter 812
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061sAfter the thermobaric bomb is dropped, it will produce two explosions.
The first explosion is the detonation of the conventional explosives in the bomb.
At a certain height, the air waves generated by the explosion will fuse the air and the cloud explosive agent, thereby spreading the high-energy fuel in the bomb, that is, the cloud explosive agent!
The high-energy fuel cloud explosive agent with mixed air will quickly produce a secondary explosion.
This explosion will produce a high temperature of more than 2500 degrees.
This high temperature can melt even steel instantly, so everything in the core area of the explosion will be melted instantly.
Even if you avoid the damage of the explosion and high temperature, the cloud explosive bomb has another more terrible lethality-suffocation!
The violent explosion caused by the high-energy fuel encountering the air will instantly suck up the oxygen in the surrounding air, causing hypoxia in a large area of space, and all creatures in this area will be affected.
If the explosion is in a relatively closed place, such as a cave or a house, the oxygen burned by the explosion will be difficult to replenish in a short time, so it will cause the death of a large number of people.
There are usually two killing ranges of thermobaric bombs. One is the absolute killing area, that is, the area where high temperature can melt everything. This area is about 50 meters.
The second is the suffocation area caused by burning air. This range varies according to the equivalent of the explosion, usually around 250-500 meters.
The weight of the cloud bomb used by the German army is very heavy. The German army can only carry one 7-ton cloud bomb at a time. The killing radius of this cloud bomb is 450 meters. Once it is detonated, no one in the explosion range will be spared.
Such a huge killing range is obviously beyond the reach of other ordinary bombs, so the thermobaric bomb is called a small nuclear bomb. It is the most lethal weapon that humans can develop before the birth of nuclear weapons, except for chemical and biological weapons!
Although this weapon is extremely powerful, it also has a serious flaw!
It is too large, too heavy, and expensive, which makes it impossible to use it casually like ordinary bombs when dropping bombs, because if it fails to hit the target, it will be a huge waste of funds!
Therefore, when the German army was carrying out this mission, all the aircraft changed their previous habit of bombing at high altitudes and adopted low-altitude flight, and also reduced the speed of low-speed flight to increase the hit rate as much as possible!
This did improve the hit rate, but the German bombers responsible for dropping bombs had to bear a huge threat. At an altitude of 2,000 meters, not to mention anti-aircraft guns, the anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground could threaten them.
Compared with the cloud bomb, the cost of the German B-29 strategic bomber is actually higher, and the number is relatively limited. Therefore, being shot down is a huge loss for the German army!
Therefore, carrying out this mission is to bear tremendous pressure. If it succeeds, it will be fine. Once it fails or the effect is not good, it will be very unprofitable!
However, when the first cloud bomb exploded, the German pilots and the German soldiers on the ground began to cheer!
The first cloud bomb accurately hit the target and hit the US military position, and instantly a middle flower came!
The power of this cloud bomb is very terrible. Looking down at the earth from a height of two thousand meters, you can see that the place where the bomb was thrown is like a white flower suddenly blooming!
The American troops in the surrounding area were almost instantly engulfed by the smoke and dust produced by the explosion!
What’s more, the German pilots even saw a shock wave composed of air waves that seemed to be real, in a wave-like shape, spreading rapidly, blowing away everything along the way!
If you look at it from the perspective of the German soldiers on the ground, the cloud bomb in the air instantly burst into orange flames, and then a white, huge mushroom cloud rose.
Immediately afterwards, the earth began to normalize, and huge explosions swept in, followed by those wind-like air waves. Even at a distance of thousands of meters, many soldiers were still blown away by the air waves!
“Quick, retreat quickly, stay away from the explosion point!”
After realizing that his troops were too close and could easily be accidentally injured by bombs thrown by his own people, Model was shocked and quickly ordered the German soldiers to retreat!
“This kid Goering said he would give me the whole thing, but who could have imagined that this thing would be so big and so scary?”
Göring had already informed Model of the news that the Germans were going to launch an air strike on the U.S. Army, and had also revealed to Model in a vague way that the Germans had prepared a powerful new weapon to deal with the U.S. Army, and had told Model that it would be better for him to stay away from the bombing to avoid being affected!
Model was cautious by nature, and since Goering had said so, he naturally could not ignore it.
So when carrying out this mission, Model had already restrained his troops to keep a distance from the U.S. Army.
According to Model’s guess, no matter how powerful the new weapons prepared by the German Army were, it was impossible for a bomb to explode over a thousand meters, right?
So it should be very safe for the German Army to keep a distance of one thousand meters!
As a result, after the real fight, he realized that the situation was not like this at all. The power of the secret weapon prepared by Goering was far beyond his imagination. Several German soldiers who were closer were even blown away by the air wave. As a result, they were not injured in the fight against the enemy, but fell into the hands of their own people!
This made him realize that a distance of one thousand meters was far from enough! He ordered the Germans to After the German soldiers retreated to a safer distance, Model was relieved!
However, when he saw the American troops being bombarded on the battlefield, Model’s heart began to get excited again!
The German army at a distance of one thousand meters might be overturned by the air wave, let alone the American troops at the center of the explosion!
At this time, endless mushroom clouds and earth-shaking explosions came one after another. In just a moment, the US military’s position was completely engulfed by the flames of the explosion!
In fact, one hundred B-29s only carried 100 cloud bombs, and the cost of each cloud bomb was about 50,000 Reichsmarks. They spent at least 5 million Reichsmarks on this random bombing!
With so much money, at least thirty or forty Type 4 tanks can be purchased!
If the fuel cost of the round-trip aircraft and the expenses required for maintenance are counted, the Air Force alone spent at least 10 million marks on this military operation!