Chapter 1679： Clapper ice carrier (1/2)

Hearing Roosevelt’s question, Jeffrey smiled: ”Mr. President, we have already considered this question.”

After speaking, Jeffrey took out a new design drawing, which is a design plan for a small boat.

”This is the model we intend to trial-produce. It is about 20 meters long. For our technical verification, we stuck wooden boards on the outside, bitumen on the inner bulkhead, and pipe-shaped vents on the hull. In this way, This ship spent the summer in peace.”

Jeffrey was able to say something vigorously: ”Then, we have more drawings. For example, after this experiment is completed, we can start building the warship. This is our 2 million ton aircraft carrier design. sketch.”

2 million tons? When he heard this data, Roosevelt was shocked.

Now, how heavy is the largest warship? There is absolutely no more than 100,000 tons! The 200-ton class is already a terrible existence against the sky. It is no longer a warship at all, it is simply a floating military base!

”In our preliminary plan, this aircraft carrier is 900 meters long, 100 meters wide, and about 60 meters high. It uses 26 propellers. At the same time, it also has refrigerators inside. When our ship is damaged, As long as the refrigerator is activated, the damaged area can be repaired. At the same time, this aircraft carrier can not only take off and land ordinary fighters, but also take off bombers.”

When the length of the aircraft carrier reaches 900 meters, of course, you can do something you want to do. Back then, the B-25 could take off from the small aircraft carrier deck. Now, it can be easily taken off and landed by expanding to this length. Even B-29 is not a dream.

If this kind of aircraft carrier were deployed, the United States would be able to attack Germany more flexibly. Thinking of this, Roosevelt felt that his heart was beating.

As a president, Roosevelt should be mature and stable, but it is different now. Over this period of time, pessimism has been spreading. After Germany conquered Moscow, it seemed that the ocean could not stop the German aggression.

Now, the appearance of the ice aircraft carrier once again gave them hope of victory.

”From Congress to funding, we will immediately find a suitable lake in Canada to build this experimental product. If there is no problem with the verification project, we will start manufacturing this ice aircraft carrier. This project has the highest priority.”

Roosevelt was very excited. He seemed to have seen hundreds of these ice aircraft carriers, riding the wind and waves on the Atlantic Ocean and heading towards the European continent. There was no need to find a suitable land as a springboard. The floating ice aircraft carrier was a springboard.

Even if it moves slowly, it is a pretty good weapon platform.

Just when Roosevelt was excited about the ice carrier, Arnold had returned to his headquarters. Now, the big thing before them was this large-scale bombing operation.

The bombing of Midway Island was not difficult. Although the first bombing failed, the route and so on were already familiar. It was enough to change the daytime bombing to nighttime and send another bomber battalion.

The focus is how to bomb Europe.

When they made a plan with Roosevelt, it was very simple. They used civil aviation routes to pretend to be passenger planes. But now, they need to subdivide the plan, which route to choose, how many planes to dispatch, and where to target.

Moreover, they still have a very serious problem.