The United States has a 18-24-month technical level difference from Germany in the field of jets. The p-80 meteor developed by the United States itself still cannot catch up with the Gloucester meteor developed by the United Kingdom, and the latter is not as good as the me-262 level.

In other words, by December 1944, the US military was 2 years behind the jet field compared to the German army equipped with Ta-183. The two years in peacetime were irrelevant or even not worth mentioning. It was a life-threatening situation in wars, especially in world wars. It happened that the gap between the United States in the heavy tank field was also 2 years.

Of course, this gap will not develop linearly, and the United States is also catching up. After the Air Force was established, the first thing General Arnold caught was the new generation of jet fighter equipment. Before the Ta-183 crow showed up, the United States had high hopes for the next generation of new aircraft, the F-84 thunder jet, but after seeing the crow on the South African battlefield, the Air Force urgently launched the bid for the lead jet.

As a result, the bidding work was just three days after it started. When Nimitz heard the Air Force voluntarily launching the bidding for a new generation of jet fighter jets, he boasted that the manufacturers responded quickly and prepared the "feat" of the application materials in less than three days. Nimitz instinctively felt something was wrong, but he didn't say much.

Sprounz, who is currently responsible for coordinating naval logistics and equipment, thinks about it more and more wrong when he returns. Finally, he remembers: the Navy has launched four bidding projects for carrier-based jets in the early stage - the na-134 project. What is the "feat of rapid response"? This is clearly a matter of several bad manufacturers modifying the naval bid and sending it to the Air Force to cheat money! At that time, the same aircraft will make some money from the Navy and another research fee from the Air Force.

"These bastards are raised by the capitalists!" After knowing the whole story, Dewey angrily slapped the table. It wasn't that he expressed dissatisfaction with spending more money. Money is a little intention, and he still uses small tricks at critical moments. Wouldn't it be a big deal to spread it?

Arnold's face quickly became gloomy. Lu and Haihang didn't like to use the other party's planes (the tradition has been maintained until now). For example, HNA's F4U Land Airlines is not used at all, but according to Spruins's meaning, these four manufacturers are all fooling him with naval carrier-based aircraft. How could he not be furious?

Of course, these manufacturers will definitely make some adjustments. They will definitely make some air force versions and naval versions to escape the test. I just don’t know if they will deliberately set up two factory areas in the production workshop - Naval Operation Area and Air Force Operation Area.

It is obvious that the same thing is going to be different. This is the way Mitsubishi, Nakajima and other aircraft companies used to deal with Japan's Land and HNA, but they didn't expect that Americans would learn it so quickly.

Dewey obviously doesn't think so: "Everyone must unite and overcome difficulties together. Now don't distinguish between the navy and the army, all American soldiers, and they are all for the country, and they must cooperate with each other!"

It is not effective to say this a hundred times. Now that the situation is so critical, Arnold is not allowed to pick on it and immediately agree to work with HNA to determine the specifications and projects of the next generation of main jet fighters.

After the results of the early naval bidding and the experts talked overnight, the Air Force and HNA finally decided the North American company's XP-86 as a key project for the next generation of jets, requiring that prototypes must be completed by March. This time point is much faster than the improved P.1101 project of the German second-generation single-engine jet.

To show his importance, Dewey personally called the North American company boss with the respect of the president, asking him to hurry up at all costs. As for the sea, the declaration of the long-term short-term will be skipped - anyway, if he doesn't mention it, someone will say it privately.

Unfortunately, the aircraft design can be promoted quickly, but the engine problem is not easy to solve. Perhaps the United States has been unique in the traditional air cooling field for too long, and the British helped in the liquid cooling field, so they have always ignored the development of jet engines. Although they have been chasing, the gap between the engine level and Germany is still very large. This gap is of course reflected in rockets and cruise missiles.

For aircraft, especially fighter jets, engines are life. German jets basically use axial flow jet engines (technical data on centrifugal engines have been obtained from the UK recently), while American jets are now used and pre-researched centrifugal engines.

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Although the centrifugal type has the characteristics of simple structure and quick use, all mainstream jet engines in later generations are axial flow type. Because this technology has a lot of room for upgrading, it can continuously develop and improve the power-to-weight ratio. The centrifugal type can only stagnate when it reaches a certain stage. For example, walking, the axial flow type is the right path but it is not fast. The centrifugal type is a shortcut, but it is a broken-end path. When it reaches a certain level, it must go back and take the axial flow path.

Germany has spent the most difficult time in the engine field, and the future world is basically laid; Britain has initially touched the ceiling and is thinking about the difficult transformation; the United States has not even touched the ceiling and is still complacent about its progress; as for Japan, it is Germany who is taking him to play, only knowing the reason; the Soviet Union and France do not even have the qualifications to enter, but they have touched the handle of the door...

The positioning of f-86 is basically similar to that of crows, and the p.1101 project that Hoffman personally inquired has focused on all-weather, supersonic, out-of-sight, data link, and precise strike operations. This is simply the product of two eras. The indicators determined by f-86 are still weaker than crows, let alone deal with p.1101.

McArthur's statement about air supremacy resonated with others: Now there is no good way to defend against missiles. The only feasible thing is to launch a preemptive attack to destroy the German missile launch base on the ground. However, if the jets do not have the advantage, they cannot seize air supremacy, and then they cannot avoid missile killing.

So the war fell into a vicious circle - because there was no air supremacy, it was unable to defend against rockets, and the risk of losing air supremacy increased. To put it bluntly, the US military did not have air supremacy to win the land war without air supremacy, and even without air supremacy, it did not dare to say that it could win the ground war - this was a life-threatening one.

Even if Dewey doesn't understand military affairs, he still has at least a staff member who understands military affairs to give him advice so that he can understand what the problem is.

"The only feasible way now is to use the Atlantic Fleet to seize sea control. As long as you can do this, there will still be expectations in the future..."

A bunch of people yelled to send the Atlantic Fleet out for a day or two, especially with the subsequent three Essex-class joining, Mitchell's strength finally recovered to five aircraft carriers. No matter how he shirked and explained in every way, everyone stared at him.

Of course, he also had a lot of troubles and had nowhere to express himself. Turner understood him, but it was understandable and useless. The situation on the battlefield deteriorated sharply, so the Joint Conference had to rely on the Atlantic Fleet.

Finally, Mitchell, who was forced to find General Kim, who is now the title of "Director of the Office of the Adviser for the Navy of Retired Generals". When General Kim came back, his first sentence shocked the person: "I agree to let the Atlantic Fleet go out to fight, but I also agree with another point: If you lose, surrender immediately, is it okay?"

"this……"

The army and his men looked at each other: The navy lost the battle and demanded that the army also surrender. What is this theory? But if they don’t surrender and there is no navy, are they waiting for the Germans to come and beat the East Coast every day?

The final conclusion is to continue to drag on, as long as the situation does not deteriorate fundamentally, it will continue to drag on. Once it is dragged down, the fleet will be more in line with all aspects. After it is dragged down, more new warships will be put into service. 5 aircraft carriers cannot defeat them, and 6 or even 7 can always compete, right?

Because the reinforcement that Turner moved works, Dewey is now beginning to miss the authority of General Kim and Marshall. After Lee Hae retired, he still lacks a presidential chief of staff (the chairman of the Joint Conference). General Kim is really not good at health. He is wondering if he can let Marshall push it. Although he is safe and considerate with his own people, without authority is equal to farting. Marshall can at least form constraints and complementary with McArthur.

However, this is a big topic, and he still has to think carefully. It is easy to invite Marshall out again, but it is not so easy to return it.

Just as the US was worried about the subsequent war, Stalin, who had retreated to the east of the Ula Mountains, was discussing the current situation with his marshals and generals - observing the war from an outsider's standpoint.

"There's another big battle in South Africa?"

"Yes, according to what we learned, the Americans were completely defeated... In less than 10 days, 300,000 Allies collapsed and South Africa was completely lost."

"Have the Germans made new progress in their war craftsmanship?"

"They tinkered with a bunch of new weapons and used new tactics, claiming to be Blitz 2.0, but I have to admit that it is very powerful." Vasilevsky admitted frankly, "We have a very big gap in this field."

"You, Comrade Constantine and the entire General Staff must study this matter carefully. A Politburo meeting will be held in three days. You must be responsible for making detailed assessments and analysis of the process, results and future impacts of this battle, and especially point out whether the Germans will use this new tactic to deal with us."

"clear!"
Chapter completed!