Rise of Australia

Chapter 905 Cruise Missile
Since August, the war between Australasia and the island nations has entered a more delicate phase.

The island nation's navy retreated to the port and did not dare to come out to fight the Australasian navy. This made the island nation's powerful army completely useless. They had no way to leave the island, and naturally had no way to threaten Australasian.

Australasia is also happy to do so. Every once in a while, a large number of air forces will be organized to bomb the island countries, and the targets of the bombing are only the large cities in the island countries, such as the famous Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo.

On the one hand, it is to disrupt the domestic order of the island country and at the same time to destroy the island country's more important industries and other facilities as much as possible.

On the other hand, such frequent bombing of the island nation's major cities also aims to train more air force units.

At the current rate of aircraft production in Australasia, the current number of excellent pilots is clearly insufficient.

It is necessary to quickly obtain enough excellent pilots and let them perform more combat missions.

It just so happens that bombing the large cities in the island nation can be regarded as a relatively safe mission and assigned to pilots with less experience to carry out.

Compared with the European battlefield, the Pacific battlefield is obviously much less interesting.

If Australasia did not want to end the war so early, the islanders would probably have considered the conditions for surrender by now.

Currently, Australasia has mobilized a total of 110 million troops, of which about 30 are deployed in the European battlefield, 20 are deployed in the Pacific battlefield, and the remaining 60 are located in the mainland.

As the most populous country in the Australasian Sphere of Influence, Kalimantan currently provides the most troops, with the total number of troops exceeding 150 million.

Among them, 30 troops are located in the European battlefield, 20 troops are located in the Pacific battlefield, and nearly one million troops are in training and can be put into battle at any time.

The size of the Philippine army is smaller, but it has reached 80. The Philippines has deployed 20 troops in Europe and 20 troops in the Pacific battlefield, and another 40 troops are being trained in the Philippines.

This also means that as long as Australasia is willing, it can organize an army of more than 200 million to attack the island country at any time.

And this is just the current number of troops. Whether it is Australasia, Kalimantan or the Philippines, the mobilization situation has not reached its own limits.

In extreme cases, Kalimantan and the Philippines can provide tens of millions of troops. Add to that the millions of troops in Australasia and it will be no problem for the army to crush the island countries.

Of course, without launching a large-scale general offensive, no matter how large the army is, it will be of no use and will only increase the burden of military expenditure.

For Arthur and Australasia, the most cost-effective way is to engage in air warfare with the island country.

The island countries are different from Australasia. The combined size of their armies even exceeds the sum of all the armies within Australasia's sphere of influence, which also represents a very high military budget.

If this goes on, even if the island nation's army is not defeated, their economy and logistics will not be able to withstand such a huge consumption.

To put it bluntly, no country can currently afford the military expenditure brought about by millions of troops.

Even though Britain and France are still mobilizing large numbers of troops, they rely on their national foundation, the continuous transfusion of colonies and the help of consortiums from various North American countries.

Although Germany did not have the help of colonies and foreign financial groups, its own industrial scale was still very strong. In addition, it successively annexed Poland and the Austrian Empire, as well as second- and third-rate countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, so it could barely hold on.

One of the reasons why Arthur could feel at ease in engaging in a war with the islanders was because Australasia's military technology was currently advancing rapidly.

After the outbreak of the war, Australasia's military technology research and development budget doubled, and some important military technology budgets even increased by 3 to 5 times.

Although this represents extremely high costs for military technology research, the speed of military technology advancement is also changing with each passing day.

On December 1936, 12, as the old year was coming to an end, Arthur also received the most significant good news since the outbreak of the war, the progress of missile research and development.

As we all know, the previous missile sequence of Australasia was the Dove missile, which has been under development for nearly five years.

After a lapse of five years, Australasia finally welcomed new missile technology, the Herman cruise missile.

The so-called cruise missile mainly flies in the dense atmosphere in a cruising state, and is also called a "cruise missile."

After the cruise guidance missile is accelerated by the rocket booster, the thrust of the main engine is balanced with the drag, and the lift of the wing is balanced with the gravity, so that it can achieve a state of nearly constant speed and constant altitude flight. In this state, the fuel consumption per unit distance is the lowest. Its flight trajectory usually consists of a take-off climb phase, a cruise (horizontal flight) phase, and a dive phase. It relies on the thrust of the jet engine and the aerodynamic lift of the wing to maintain flight.

Of course, these are not the most important to Arthur. With the current missile technology in Australasia, it can be said to be leading the world.

What attracted Arthur most about cruise missiles was that their warheads could be replaced freely, and they could be loaded with nuclear warheads in combination with small nuclear bombs. They could also be launched freely from aircraft or submarines, and were also an important component of what was later called the nuclear triad.

What does this mean? Australasia only needs to complete the production of nuclear warheads to have long-range nuclear strike capability, which is an unparalleled improvement in Australasia's military strength.

So the question is, how did Australasia achieve this technology, which only gradually flourished after the end of World War II?
First of all, it is thanks to the jet engine developed by Diesel. The power engine used by cruise missiles is still the most advanced jet engine currently.

Cruise missiles also make extensive use of aerodynamics. In fact, they borrow a lot from the principles of aircraft in terms of the flight principles of missiles.

In other words, a cruise missile is more like a strangely shaped aircraft, but it is unmanned and its main goal is to die together with the enemy.

Because of the similar principle to that of airplanes, cruise missiles also have a pair of wings. This pair of wings can increase the lift of cruise missiles and achieve the purpose of rapid take-off with the help of the powerful power of jet engines.

The new generation of cruise missiles are different from pigeon-type missiles. Cruise missiles use more advanced radars and horizontal gyroscopes, completely getting rid of the tricky method of using pigeons to improve the hit rate.

Of course, current technology also means that the hit rate of the new generation of cruise missiles is not very high, which is a problem that current technology cannot solve at all.

Even in history, the improvement of cruise missile hit rate had to wait until the 60s, more than 20 years later.

Needless to say, the technological progress in the past 20 years has been tremendous, which also means that it is currently impossible to achieve highly precise strikes by relying on cruise missiles.

But this problem is not a problem for Australasia.

Because Arthur's greatest expectation for current cruise missiles is not to carry conventional warheads to achieve precision strikes, but to carry nuclear warheads to achieve large-scale destructive strikes.

Needless to say, the damage that a nuclear warhead can cause is enormous. The explosive power and destructive range can effectively make up for the lack of accuracy of cruise missiles.

Anyway, the use of nuclear warheads does not require overly precise targets. As long as the difference is within a few kilometers, it can basically cause huge casualties.

Of course, current cruise missiles do not have such an exaggerated error. The error of the first generation of missiles is indeed more than one kilometer, and even under the influence of weather, the error may reach several kilometers.

But when it came to the second-generation Dove missile, the maximum error of the missile had been reduced to within one kilometer, and it could even hit the target at the most accurate time.

The current third-generation cruise missiles are an improvement over the second-generation Dove missiles, with a maximum error of only a few hundred meters, even when the target is too far away.

In this case, if cruise missiles are equipped with nuclear warheads, they can completely replace bombers and achieve long-range strikes on any target in Australasia.

For example, in the island region where Arthur always wants to achieve nuclear peace, cruise missiles can be launched with submarines, and the personnel launching the missiles will not be in any danger.

Yes, Arthur’s only concern about using nuclear weapons to attack island countries is that nuclear weapons may pose certain safety risks to the people on the plane.

As for the life and death of the islanders, that was not at all in Arthur's plan.

At least for now, most people on the island, from the government to the people, support the war. Dropping nuclear weapons on these extremists who support the war is just a sanction from justice.

If using nuclear weapons to destroy a country was not too cruel, Arthur even planned to directly destroy the country with nuclear weapons.

Of course, dropping nuclear weapons is inevitable. At least for those individual large cities, it is better to nuke them.

In order to see the first cruise missile in Australasia with his own eyes, Arthur decided to go to the missile laboratory in person and watch the first cruise missile test in human history.

Just like before, the cruise missile test could not be hidden from the military leaders. Not only was Arthur curious about the famous cruise missile, but even the military leaders were very curious about the new missile.

Finally, a large team set out from Fort Saint-Arthur, including Arthur and senior military officials, with only one goal, which was to go to the missile laboratory in person and witness the test of the cruise missile with their own eyes.

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