USSR 1941

  Chapter 787 Beria

   Shulka and others boarded the plane in Elista.

  The aircraft is still a "Li-2" transport aircraft modified from a civil aviation aircraft. Since the war in the Caucasus direction has not yet ended and the Soviet army's frontline war is tense, officers are generally not allowed to take a plane to a certain place unless it is an important situation.

   Of course, Shulka and Akadievich are exceptions.

To be precise, their mission was an exception, because Akadyevich said to Shulka after getting on the plane: "We can have a plane because of your credit! Before that, I stayed in the train for a few minutes. A genius has arrived here! You definitely won't like that feeling..."

  After several hours of long-distance flight, including a connecting flight, the plane finally arrived in Moscow in the early morning of the next day.

   Shulka and Akadyevich rushed to their destination without stopping after getting off the plane.

   This made Shulka a little puzzled, because since Shulka raised this question, Shulka should be the first person to arrive in Moscow, so there shouldn't be such a hurry.

   But soon Shulka knew that this was not the case. When the car drove directly into a building and the two hurried to the conference room, they saw a large group of people already vying in a smoky room.

  As soon as the two opened the door, the conference room fell silent, and the people inside all turned their eyes to the door.

Akadyevich brought Shulka to an officer sitting in the main seat, stood up and saluted: "Comrade Beria, this is Comrade Shulka, the commander of the 82nd Infantry Regiment that I reported to you! "

  Shuerka stared in disbelief at the officer in front of him wearing glasses with a slightly protruding top... He looked inconspicuous, and he turned out to be the No. 2 figure in the Soviet Union.

"Nice to meet you, Comrade Shulka!" Beria shook hands with Shulka with a smile on his face, then shook his head at the table, and said, "Maybe you don't know yet, since you put forward that 'guess ’ After that, they argued until now!”

   Then Shulka understood why Akadievich was in such a hurry. These scientists were discussing Shulka's "guess" all night without knowing it, and it was in the presence of Beria himself.

  Shuerka glanced at the conference room and found that Hisoy was also in line, and was nodding slightly to Shurka at this time.

   "But of course!" Beria said in an unhurried tone: "They haven't been able to argue. They even divided into several factions, and each has its own point of view... Can you convince them?"

   "I'll try, Comrade Beria!" Shulka replied.

   "Very good!" Beria nodded, and then said to the scientists: "This is Comrade Shulka, whom you have been waiting for for a long time, and this is his guess. You can ask any questions you have now!"

  The conference room erupted in an instant, and the scientists rushed to ask questions, just like shouting in the stock market, but Shulka didn't understand anything.

  As soon as Beria raised his hand, everyone fell silent again.

   "Comrade Sisoy!" Beria said, "Perhaps you can preside over the meeting!"

"Yes, Comrade Beria!" Sisoy got up and walked to Shulka. He first introduced the two people to Shulka: "This is Comrade Pavlovich Korolev, a rocket launcher expert, also This is what we know as 'Katyusha'. This is Comrade Kurchatov, a physicist!"

  Although Sisoi did not introduce Kurchatov's credit, Shulka vaguely remembered that Kurchatov was in charge of and organized Soviet nuclear science and technology.

Nuclear science started in the Soviet Union before the war broke out, but after the war, Stalin asked all scientists to focus on weapons and equipment that could defeat the enemy, so Kurchatov could only shelve nuclear research and turn to it. And study the ship degaussing problem of the Black Sea Fleet.

   Shulka shook hands with the two of them one by one, realizing that all the top scientists of the Soviet Union gathered in front of them.

"Comrade Shulka!" Korolev asked first: "About your conjecture... Although it is reasonable in some respects, I think it is also unreasonable or unexplainable. For example, why did the Germans develop such a What is the significance of a piece of equipment?"

   This is indeed a question that a weapons expert can ask.

  The first thing weapon experts consider is the practical value of this equipment. If it has no practical value, it would be a waste to spend time and energy researching and developing it.

Seeing that Shulka didn't answer, Korolev added: "I mean, if the Germans want to drop a bomb on our land, they don't need to do it at all, they just need to send bombers to do it." Can do it!"

This is indeed reasonable, because the German army has not had the problem of air supremacy for quite a long time, even now it is almost the same. As long as the Luftwaffe is willing to invest enough fighter jets to **** it, it can be said that there is almost no place they cannot bomb...even the Soviet Union The Soviet Air Force had to do its best to stop the military parade on Red Square in Moscow, and it was only when the German army was not prepared enough.

   In other words, the Germans can use less cost and simpler tactics...bombers hang bombs and drop directly on the target.

   In this way, developing a bomb that can fly by itself is superfluous for the Soviet Union.

"Maybe it will have unexpected uses!" Of course Shulka didn't dare to point it out, he replied: "There are many things I am not sure about, Comrade Korolev, because I am also guessing. But I think , if the Germans want to develop such a thing, there must be a reason for it!"

   "So I don't think the thing developed by the Germans is what you said!" Korolev said.

   "We are just guessing, Comrade Korolev!" Shulka said: "Since it is a guess, why don't we guess more?"

"What's the meaning?"

   "I mean..." Shulka replied: "If we have such a device, it can fly automatically and explode after flying to the destination..."

   "Isn't that just a shell?" Korolev interrupted Shulka.

   Korolev may be an excellent weapons expert, but his thinking still cannot escape the existing framework.

   But this seems normal. How many people can jump out of the world he knows and think ahead? !

   "We can roughly analyze its performance!" Shulka said to the photo on the table: "First of all, because it flies on fuel, it is likely to have a super long flight distance!"

Kurchatov agreed with this: "From its volume, we can roughly calculate the size of its fuel tank, which should be about 500 liters (the V1 missile can hold 568 liters of fuel), so that it may fly Hundreds of kilometers!"

"This is the problem!" Shulka said: "If it can fly hundreds of kilometers, it means that its range will exceed all our artillery shells, which means that the enemy does not even need to send planes to fly on the ground." Use this equipment to bomb our tanks, artillery, and even airports from a hundred kilometers away... For example, if the Germans have this equipment, they can even bomb Moscow!"

  The scientists in the meeting room couldn't help but burst into commotion. This is the thing that takes the enemy's head thousands of miles away.

   "We can send planes to intercept, can't we?" Korolev said.

   "Of course!" Shulka replied: "But what if the enemy launches at night?"

   Korolev is speechless, the Soviet night fighter is still in its primitive stage, and it is difficult to intercept such small and fast things at night.

At the same time, there are similar advantages between offense and defense. Those who have V1 missiles take the offensive. They take the initiative, but the defense side must always be prepared. Everywhere must have air defense, radar, and fighters ready to take off and intercept. , If there is any movement, everything will be destroyed... This will obviously be strategically passive.

  So, the value of this thing is no longer in doubt.

   "My question is..." Kurchatov said: "I heard you think it's driverless, do you think it's possible?"

   "I don't know, Comrade Kurchatov!" Shulka replied: "Whether it is possible, you should know better than me!"

   "This is what I can't believe!" Kurchatov said bluntly: "At least we can't do it, but I also understand that our inability to do it doesn't mean that the Germans can't do it!"

"Yes!" Shulka said: "I have been thinking about this issue on the way here. Unmanned driving, that is, automatic driving, will it judge its flight attitude based on a certain inclination angle. I don't know that. What it is, is just an analogy. For example, when the nose is tilted up or down due to the wind force during flight, some kind of horizontal device inside it senses and drives a series of mechanical responses to adjust the wings to keep it in its original flying state... "

  Shulka turned his eyes to Kurchatov and asked: "Is this possible, Comrade Kurchatov?"

Kurchatov's eyes were already wide open, and he nodded after a while and said: "Yes, it is indeed possible. The leveling device you mentioned... It seems that we can use a gyroscope to make it in the airframe. automatically perceive the attitude and respond accordingly. All we have to do is to cooperate with the pilot and adjust the size of the response!"

   There was an uproar in the conference room, and Kurchatov's words almost confirmed Shulka's guess about this new type of equipment.

   "So!" Beria asked: "We have reached a consensus, that is, the enemy already has such a piece of equipment, or is it under development?"

   "Yes, Comrade Beria!" Kurchatov replied: "And, if we have seen it flying in the air and taken pictures of it, this at least proves that the enemy has achieved preliminary success!"

   "Very good!" Beria said, "The next thing is our business!"