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    At the turn of the spring and summer of 1944, the capital of the British Empire was completely different from the optimistic situation a few months earlier. London was under strict light control due to concerns about large-scale night bombings.  <-> The British people expected that the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Eighth Air Force could defeat the German invasion as they did in 1941, but to their disappointment, after the Chinese entered France, the scale of Germany's retaliatory bombing was  getting bigger.

    After the British and American Air Forces carried out several successful large-scale bombings of Berlin, Hermann Goering finally lost the trust of the F¨¹hrer. The Nazi's second-in-command lost control of the Air Force, and his successor was subsequently replaced.  Replaced by Commander-in-Chief of the Navy D?nitz and Marshal Tanstein.

    Due to G?ring's mistakes, the Luftwaffe was in danger of losing the early stages of the war, and because the Air Marshal canceled the Luftwaffe's four-engine heavy bomber program codenamed "Ural Bomber", the entire Germany did not have a long-range bomber at all during the war.  Heavy bombers became available, which directly contributed to the failure of the Britain bombing campaign.

    In comparison, the longest distance from the Luftwaffe bases in Western Europe to the entire British Isles is much closer than the distance from Republic of China to the Japanese Islands, but the Luftwaffe has never been able to provide the British with the same level of strategic bomber force as the Republican Army.  Industrial production has caused devastating blows. The main reasons are the lack of long-range heavy bombers and the lack of excellent escort fighters.

    In fact, as early as the end of 1940, the "Spitfire" fighter jets equipped by the British Air Force had surpassed the me109 Messerschmitt fighter jets equipped by the German army in terms of combat performance, but the arbitrary Hermann refused to admit this reality.  And his subordinates were not allowed to mention any bad news in their reports.  This caused the German Air Force to slowly update its equipment and gradually lose its air superiority.

    It was precisely due to G?ring's stupidity that the Luftwaffe lost the Battle of Britain from 1940 to 1941. They did not have long-range heavy bombers and escort fighters with longer ranges, the Messerschmitt 109 fighter "Short Leg"  The weaknesses were not changed in the end.

    Facing the large-scale bombing by the Allies, Hitler finally came to his senses. At the end of 1943, G?ring was dismissed from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force.  The German Air Force underwent a major reorganization. The head of state personally served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, and General Hans Baneke was appointed Chief of Staff of the Air Force.  General Garland succeeds as Director of Aircraft Manufacturing.  Lieutenant General Kamhuber, who was exiled by G?ring, was promoted to air general and became commander-in-chief of the Western Front Air Force.

    With the increasingly serious air Weixie, the Germans finally put down their arrogance and began to learn and borrow some of the advantages of the Republican Army and Royal Italian Air Force fighters.  For example, German fighter jets like to use air-cooled engines.  However, fighter aircraft equipped with air-cooled engines have poor air performance.  It is difficult to reach speeds above 700 kilometers per hour.  The latest mass-produced ta152 fighter jet of the Germans draws on the aerodynamic shape of the Republican Army's "Swift" fighter and the Italian Reggiani 2005, plus a Mercedes 603 liquid-cooled engine with a power of more than 2,000 horsepower. Its top speed is 9,000 meters.  Reached 768 kilometers.  It is close to the limit of the piston engine, and its combat performance is even better than the "Swift" equipped by the Republican Army, the US military's P51 "Mustang" and the British "Spitfire", which are recognized as the best propeller aircraft.

    With the use of jet engines, the Germans' increasingly mature me262 jet aircraft also began mass production and began to equip some interceptor units.  Unlike the Germans, in the jet aircraft design and manufacturing competition between Germany and Britain during World War II, Britain was always lagging behind its opponents.  But some time later, the British also began to equip "Meteor" jet aircraft one after another. Similar to the German Me262, the British "Meteor" and the Germans both adopted a twin-engine solution equipped with two turbojet engines under the wings.  This is because the initial jet engines had low power and unstable performance. The dual-engine solution can reduce technical risks.

    The installation of two turbojet engines under the wings limited many of the performance of the jet aircraft. In fact, in the early air battles, the jet aircraft did not show many advantages in the competition with propeller aircraft, except for being faster.  Except for some, its combat performance is not outstanding.

    As for the Republican Army, the first type of jet aircraft, the J-5 "Thunderbolt", has only just begun to be equipped with troops, not earlier than Germany and the United Kingdom, which equipped jet aircraft.  But the Republican Army paid much more attention to this aspect than Britain and Germany. As early as 1937, a special fund of 5 million yuan every year was dedicated to the development of jet aircraft. In terms of jet engine technology, the Republic actually  has always been ahead of Britain and Germany.

    The reason why the Republican Army has not equipped jet aircraft on a large scale is mainly limited by engine performance. Starting from the earliest 450 kilogram jet engine, it was only recently that it finally reached a thrust of 2,750 kilograms, and met the military requirements.  300 hours service life and reliability requirements.

    Unlike Britain and Germany, the RepublicThe J-5 jet fighter uses a single turbojet engine configuration with a front air inlet. This is similar to the German TA183 jet aircraft, but its appearance is surprisingly similar to the J-6 of later generations. After all, most Chinese people have their eyes closed.  You can draw the appearance of the J-6 with your own eyes.

    After the major reorganization of the German Air Force, driven by General Udet, the German Air Force obtained 1,000 H-7 four-engine heavy bombers from the Republican Army on a "lend-lease basis" that the Republican Army's strategic bomber force began to gradually replace.  After being replaced with a 2,400-horsepower Junkers 24-cylinder radial liquid-cooled engine, this heavy bomber that served in the early days of the war has taken on new vitality, with a 9-ton bomb load, a range of 4,200 kilometers, and a range of 610 kilometers.  The top speed, especially the sturdy airframe, dwarfed any existing German bomber.

    General Kamhuber, the commander-in-chief of the Western Front Air Force, designed a deception tactic for Germany's retaliatory bombing. The Fokker 190 fighter jets used the Junkers 188 twin-engine fighter jets to first conduct harassing bombings on British coastal cities.  Nearly a thousand H-7 heavy bombers taking off from three large airports, escorted by nearly 450 TA152 fighter jets, headed for southern England.  Admiral Kamhuber chose two bombing sites, one was the shipbuilding center of Portsmouth, and the other was the industrial area of ??Southampton. The first operation avoided the London area, which was heavily defended by air.

    German mechanical products have always been ahead of the world in manufacturing technology and craftsmanship, but in terms of electronic technology, whether it is radar, sonar, or radio communication and interference technology, they lag behind the United States and the United Kingdom.  Early German airborne radars were easily interfered by British night fighters and were unable to effectively perform night bombing missions. Only after Germany obtained this batch of H7 heavy bombing weapons from Republican China did Germany's radar technology surpass that of the United Kingdom and the United States.

    Although the Republic's airborne radar using some transistor components is small in size, its operating power and reliability are greatly increased. Even single-engine fighter jets like the TA152 can easily install radar equipment and antennas. After being equipped with the new radar,  Germany's latest fighter jets can also easily perform combat escort missions at night.

    After the Republican Army entered the Ukrainian front line, the German army was able to stabilize the situation on the Eastern Front and strengthened its strength within a year. In the autumn of 1943, the Sino-German Allied Forces, with the support of the navy, attacked Sukhumi, Poti and Batum.  Landing, after the winter campaign, the Chinese and German coalition forces captured the Transcaucasus region. After being annexed by Soviet Russia for 12 years, the Transcaucasian federal government in exile in Central Asia was finally able to return to Tbilisi.

    Afterwards, Soviet Russia was finally forced to reach a ceasefire agreement with Germany, China, and Italy. The Soviet Union agreed that after the war, Ukraine, Belarus, and the three Transcaucasian and Baltic countries would hold referendums on a voluntary basis to determine their future status.  The Soviet Union only retained its rights in the European and Russian regions. In fact, Zhuyashvili was able to continue his rule because of the overall interests of the Republic of China. Red Russia under the rule of the "Iron Curtain" will surely  Being cut off from the outside world will make it increasingly alienated from Siberia, Central Asia, Transcaucasus and Eastern Europe. Eventually, the huge differences caused by language and culture will completely separate it from Russia.

    Hundreds of years of assimilation efforts by the Romanov family will be completely in vain due to the division of this "Iron Curtain".

    While armistice negotiations were ongoing on the Eastern Front, Hitler had already turned all his energy to Britain. Large-scale aerial bombings by the US and British air forces caused damage to more than a dozen cities in Germany and hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes. Now it was time for him to turn to the British  Time for revenge!
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