Chapter 888 Missile Race

Originally, the failure of the test launch of the Blue Light Missile, Allen Wilson did not have much feeling, but the successful test launch of the Soviet ICBM, in contrast, heartache appeared in his heart for no reason, he was not psychologically prepared for this news, and simply did not expect the Soviet Union’s intercontinental missiles to make progress so quickly.

The reason lies in the fact that von Braun and his team should have been received by the United States, but now intercepted by the Soviet Union to serve the Soviet Union.

The German rocket program was Von Braun’s personal responsibility, which included, but was not limited to: building the missile assembly plant, parts manufacturing plants, launch bases, the general system design department, measurement of the guided combat section fuel engine body structure of the various sub-systems design department, and so on and so forth ……

Experienced hundreds of launch failure fumble, a human unprecedented practice of ballistic missile engineering, the full spread and gradually perfected, this is where the value of von Braun.

Von Braun in the face of the United States Army in the west and the Soviet Army approaching in the east, decided to take the team to surrender to the United States Army, if not Allen Wilson warned the Soviet Union, Von Braun certainly would have succeeded, will not be like this for the Soviet Union.

More scientists, engineers, and mechanics who played a role in missile development were discovered and reused by the Soviets. The German rocket industry was also moved to the Soviet Union in its entirety. The Soviet Union, as a chaser that had been badly beaten in the war, had high hopes of bending the curve in rocketry, and had always valued Von Braun and his team.

Finally this year, the introduction of the R-16 ICBM proved the Soviet Union’s advancement in the field of rocketry.

Allen Wilson immediately ordered a number of newspapers to see what the current public opinion thought about this, but ultimately did not find any major changes, after all, for the general public, do not quite understand what this means.

“Von Braun and Kolyorov playing for the same country, this is going to kill us.” Allen Wilson lamented, who was in charge of the Blue Light Missile program in Britain, de Havilland.

Allen Wilson is not looking down on de Havilland, he does not deny de Havilland’s talent, but this person in charge is, after all, halfway through the field of aircraft, to say how proficient in rocket technology, who believes it.

The range of the Blue Light Missile is far less than the standard of intercontinental missiles, with a design range of only three thousand five hundred kilometers. The weight is close to seventy tons, visible British in this regard talk about what technical reserves, relying on the Rollo company’s rocket engine, go as long as the power of the big slate flying into the sky route.

“Civilian did not move normal, do not know what the Pentagon is thinking.” Alan Wilson has been vaguely able to feel that the era of the space race is approaching, but unfortunately he has no enlightenment to understand.

Although the Five Eyes Alliance had been pulled together, the so-called intelligence sharing was not so high as to have no boundaries.

This was because Britain was not currently weakened to the point of bending over. The U.S. is still wary of the UK, and the UK is no lightweight, pulling in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand is in itself a way of playing these countries in the Commonwealth and increasing its own leverage against the U.S.

What is really important cannot be known through intelligence sharing, and the US will not tell the UK what it really thinks.

He himself was on good terms with McCarthy, but this kind of secret, McCarthy would not tell him. The only way to find out was to wait for McCarthy to get drunk.

Alan Wilson guessed correctly, the successful test launch of the ICBM, and by the Soviet Union vigorously publicized. It had directly shaken the Free World, which occupied a dominant strategic air power position.

Both the United States and the United Kingdom are currently using the strategic bomber as the centerpiece of their threat to the Soviet Union not to do anything rash.

The fact that bombers dropped nuclear bombs to make Japan surrender made both the US and Britain believe that air superiority was the magic bullet to suppress the Soviet Union.

At the end of the war, the U.S. Air Force was created, and the U.S. Strategic Air Command was established, with the immediate possession of unrivaled and unstoppable energy to deter the entire surface of the planet: intercontinental long-range bombers and air-dropped nuclear bombs.

For not getting the German Von Braun rocket team, the United States, although some regret, but ultimately did not take it seriously. After all, the strategic air force that swept the world was in the hands of the U.S., and rocket technology wasn’t valued so highly.

But all this, in the R-16 intercontinental ballistic missile appeared at the moment, was completely ended.R-16 intercontinental ballistic missile range has been more than 10,000 kilometers, the strategic bomber can do things, it can do, and even can do better.

And the combination of rockets and nuclear warheads is par for the course. It’s not just a simple matter of toppling the strategic bomber advantage. Soviet ICBMs, once matured, would put the United States in a backward position.

U.S. White House, Secretary of State Dulles with a heavy face reported to Eisenhower, “To learn the exact situation, it is necessary to send high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft into the Soviet Union, the U2 reconnaissance aircraft has only just been commissioned, the performance of the U2 reconnaissance aircraft is not easy to be detected, and the Soviet Union is also unfamiliar with this newly commissioned reconnaissance aircraft.”

“It took us to express a response to Khrushchev’s policy of détente.” Eisenhower frowned and looked at Dulles, “Once detected, this would put the United States in a passive position.”

“The successful test of the ICBM puts us in a passive position.” Dulles corrected flatly, “If it was just a blue light missile like the UK’s that turned into a big fireball, it wouldn’t be a cause for concern, but the Soviet Union’s test launch was extremely successful. We should know right away where the Soviet rocket bases are and have all the information, otherwise we would be irresponsible to the United States, Mr. President, don’t you think so.”

“Even Britain is ahead of us. We must also speed up the progress of ICBMs.” Eisenhower couldn’t help but be a little disgruntled when he heard about this, and the United States certainly had an ICBM program moving forward.

Various reports and assessments are coming out, but until the beginning of the year in just established the program. This reason is not complicated at all, the United States Strategic Air Command, is the biggest opponent. No flow on the surface, but the secret action a little quite a lot. The development of strategic missiles is considered a waste of resources.

The United States used to take containment against the Soviet Union based on air superiority, and now the results are already appearing. At the time when the United States ICBM is only just beginning, the Soviet Union have already taken out the finished product, which has put the United States in a backward position.

In the end, Eisenhower agreed to Dulles’s proposal to have U2 reconnaissance aircraft stationed in Pakistan to conduct reconnaissance of Soviet space centers, although it also went against his previous attitude of détente expressed to Khrushchev, but at this time can not be cared about so much.

Immediately thereafter, the U.S. Congress passed a special budget to increase research and development in the intercontinental missile program. And a meeting at the Pentagon emphasized the importance of the ICBM program, and that all branches of the military should cooperate and not put obstacles in the way.

The result of this discussion was for the U.S. Air Force not to continue to be an opponent of the ICBM program, which would not benefit anyone.

The successful test-firing of the R-16 ICBM made the atmosphere of the whole world steeply condensed, and the United States, which had always considered itself to be absolutely dominant, had a hint of panic in its heart.

The impact on Britain is also there, the Blue Light Missile, although the test launch failed, but got the encouragement of the Cabinet and the Ministry of Defense, told de Havilland to increase support for the Blue Light Missile project.