In 1946, McLean, a physicist in the U.S. Navy, was leading a group of people to tinker with lead sulfide near-blown fuses. He found that the fuze is sensitive to infrared rays generated by heat and may be used in the future on air-to-air weapons to better hit airplanes.
Speaking of which, McCain was a scientist rather than an engineer, his job was theoretical research, and no one asked him to design weapons. He did not even allocate funds, but based on personal interest, he took the initiative to shine for the construction of capitalism. Under his hard work, in 1950, he finally came up with a more reliable sample. He designed a missile with a proximity fuze placed in front of the missile, and the fuze sensitive to heat sources can guide the missile to track the enemy aircraft, so as to accurately hit the enemy.
At that time, air warfare was still in the era of machine guns, and when McLean's invention was placed in front of the top brass of the US military, it really gave everyone a rolling pin barrel butt - opened the eyes. The U.S. military's top brass immediately allocated funds until mid-1956, when the world's first practical air-to-air missile, the AIM9, the Sidewinder missile, was born.
But what the Americans did not expect was that the first actual battle of the Sidewinder missile was not used by the Americans.
In 1958, the Battle of Kinmen began. In order to deal with the People's Liberation Army's J-5, Jiang Bandit applied for a Sidewinder missile with the United States and put it into actual combat. However, the quality of the Sidewinder missile at that time was not very stable, and among the many missiles launched by Jiang Bandit, one of them hit our military plane but did not explode, and was taken back to the ground by the plane all the way (one said to have been picked up on the ground). When our military experts picked up this missile, they immediately realized the value behind it. However, China's scientific research capabilities at that time were too poor to understand the principle of this missile, and Sino-Soviet relations at that time were acceptable, so China handed over this missile to the Soviet Union.
When Soviet experts saw the Sidewinder missile, they were also shocked. At that time, the Soviets already knew about the existence of The Sidewinder missiles through a powerful intelligence network. But to be able to get the physical object in this way is something that the Soviets did not expect. The head of the Soviet engineer, Sokorovsky, thought that the missile was simply "a university", and when he returned home, he began intensive research. Soon, the Soviet Union's K13 air-to-air missile was born, and then the Chinese Air Force was also equipped with Thunderbolt 2, through the Kaishen logistics such a toss, China and the United States and the Soviet Union have air-to-air missiles, the transport brigade leader did not change the original intention of the yes.
However, when these missiles were actually put into actual combat, everyone found that their effect could only be described in one word - tragic.
In the Vietnam War, U.S. and Soviet warplanes used air-to-air missiles in large quantities. But the technology at that time was very immature, originally after the missile was launched, it should find the hottest heat source, and as a result, many missiles were very self-motivated after launching, and directly TM went to the sun. From 1965 to 1968, only 28 of the 175 missiles launched by the United States hit, with a hit rate of only 16%, and the Soviet Union was even worse, with a hit rate of only 12%.
The technology was so primitive that the United States and the Soviet Union invariably began to develop and upgrade, of course, the KGB and the CIA were also busy, because both sides wanted to peek at the screen and see what direction the other side planned to develop.
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In 1930, Manfred. Reminger was born in Germany, his father was a bricklayer, and although he was not a wealthy family, he lived a good life.
However, he was very unlucky, he was German, but his family was in East Prussia.
East Prussia was to Germany what Nanjing was to Anhui, and was taken away by a man surnamed Su.
As we all know, in 1941, Hitler's Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had a little conflict, and with the all-out counteroffensive of the Soviet army, Stalin needed to vent his small emotions in the post-war treatment of Germany, so the Soviet Union directly expelled the German residents of East Prussia and ceded the land to the Soviet Union, making it the Kaliningrad of Russia.
In 1945, Reminger's family was thus sent out of the country by the Soviets. But the war had destroyed everything in Europe, and post-war Germany was in ruins. After wandering around and struggling for more than 1,200 kilometers, the Reminger family finally settled in a region in northern Germany called Krefeld. Because they were surprised to find that there was a municipal government that was still in operation!
The reason why the local government was reliable was that in March 1945, the US 84th Infantry Division occupied the area. However, the division's operations here were arduous, as the language barrier severely affected the movement of the troops. In a hurry, the division commander ordered the whole division to find people who could speak German and set up an administrative team in the local area to cooperate with the troops. At this time, a Jew who had fled to the United States because of german persecution stood up, and this young man, because of his proficiency in German and the status of a soldier on active duty in the Us army, quickly succeeded in recruiting a group of civil servants who had little to do with the Nazis, and it took only eight days to rebuild the administrative team so that the local people could live normally.
After that, the boy was transferred away with the troops, and the Reminger family is unlikely to know the story of this Jewish creep when they come here, but we are very familiar with this Jew, his name is Henry. Kissinger.
Although the place was changed, the Reminger family's heirloom craftsmanship was not lost, and relying on his father's bricklayer craftsmanship, Reminger quickly gained a foothold in the local area. He was admitted to the Krefeld School of Engineering, and a few years after graduation, Reminger became the owner of a construction company, and then his opportunity came.
In post-war Germany, it was more difficult to find a building than a bag of potato chips without air, and post-war Germany was engaged in large infrastructure everywhere. And Reminger caught up with this outlet, got big orders in a row, and earned hemp for several years.
With the money earned from doing business, Reminger, who was originally a small bricklayer, actually turned over and lived a simple and boring rich life. To pass his boring time, he developed two hobbies.
One is drag racing, Reminger has a rich collection of cars, nicknamed West German Xiaoxunzong. From Ferrari to Fiat, he is also a professional racing driver, having won two championships and one runner-up.
But the second hobby is more special, Reminger, like Cao Cao, loves to hook up with people's wives, because he is famous and rich, so he is quite famous in West Germany. This kind of behavior is simply the absence of Germanism in Europe- a lack of moral things, and throughout the fifties and sixties, Reminger was the male enemy of West Germany.
However, after a long time, neither hobby could satisfy Reminger.
By 1965, Reminger had had enough of spending his days drinking. Car collection is not willing to touch, hooking up with a wife is not interesting. The empty Reminger could not find a new stimulus in life, and the whole person was completely depressed. If I continue like this, I am afraid that I will most likely have to suck white noodles.
By this time, Reminger's friend and driver Joseph. Linowski couldn't sit still. Although Reminger's hobbies are very unreliable, he is good to his friends and subordinates in life, so everyone is willing to help him. Joseph watched his friends become increasingly depressed, felt worried, friends have the right to help, I can't watch you slide into the abyss of drug addiction like this, you are the most irresponsible in your own life! No, you have to cheer up, you can spy with me on the Soviet Union!
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Joseph was three years older than Reminger, born in 1927 as a Polish Jew, born in this capacity at this time, and everyone understood that his fate should not be good.
Fortunately, however, Joseph's wave of Jews was repeatedly transferred between different concentration camps and rescued by the Americans before the Nazis were poisoned. He returned to Poland to find his relatives, but the family was separated. Although relatives were not found, the Polish Security Service gave him an offer in 1951.
I don't know what means the Polish Ministry of Security used, but Joseph became a Polish spy and was sent to West Germany to learn about customs and customs, such as where there are military bases, the stationing of AMERICAN troops in West Germany, and so on. After the establishment of the Nine-Nation Intelligence Service in 1947, Poland's intelligence service was roughly equivalent to the KGB's office in Warsaw. Because Joseph's work was still hard, he was recruited by the KGB as his own person, and directly gave Joseph an order to develop the downline in Germany and form an intelligence network with him as the core.
But this order obviously did not understand Joseph's social status, although he was a spy sounded cool, but he was just a small driver in West Germany, and he had no money and no power to develop the downline. He wanted to develop the west German hierarchy, but the only way to talk to people with his position was the drifting bottle.
So, despite the KGB mandate, Joseph wandered around West Germany for a decade and did not develop anyone. By the mid-sixties, the KGB couldn't sit still, and you were given the authority to have achievements, and you couldn't always make some scraps to fool us? What about your downline? What about your intelligence network?
Joseph, who was crushed by the red KPI, felt that he had reached the crossroads of life, and he did not have Garcia's imagination to make up an intelligence network. The KGB not only asked him to develop the downline, but also gave him one perverted task after another, such as stealing an American F4 fighter jet, or getting the navigation system of a NATO aircraft.
Joseph seriously considered whether there was any misunderstanding of his abilities in the organization, but he remembered a sentence that Plato's descendant, Labrador, once said--not fierce enough, how to match the country, so he decided to start with the people around him. It just so happens that Reminger is not alive in the sun at this time, so Joseph is ready to develop the downline from Reminger.
To his surprise, Reminger did not hesitate for half a minute in the face of this invitation, the matter was too exciting, and he gladly accepted the recruitment. Not only that, but he also took over all of Joseph's tasks and directly docked with the KGB. The KGBs in Lubyanka were stunned by him, and everyone said that they had never seen such a highly motivated spy.
But subjective initiative could not change the objective reality, and the brothers still could not steal a plane to the Soviet Union. After discussing it with Joseph a few times, Reminger decided that at least we had to find someone who could fly a plane, right? But where to look?
Just as the two were worried, one day, Reminger and Joseph were playing poker in a tavern. The people who played cards with them began to whistle at the card table, saying that they were elite pilots, that they were better than the black devils in aerial combat, that short soldiers were not vain, and that there was no plane in the world that they could not handle.
After listening to his blowing, the two looked at each other, this is really a shell Lang met the dung car - what do you want to do! The two quickly gave generously to the eldest brother and folded their hands. After some inquiry, they learned that the old man's name was Wolff. Knopp, who has been flying fighter jets since 1956, has a lot of advanced equipment from the U.S. military at the Neuburner base where he served.
For such a person, it is simply intolerable not to pull into the gang. The brothers invited Knoop to eat and drink every day, and a few days later, Reminger and Joseph had a showdown with Knopp - I heard that there are a lot of good things in your airport, and some people want to collect them at a high price, can you come out a little bit and we will sell it for money? When the time comes, you take the big head, and we brothers can drink soup.
Knopp, who was doing his job like revenge, was stunned when he heard this, and then cheerfully agreed to their request, saying that no one knows the airport better than me, No one knows the airport than me, you say, what do you want to bring out?
Reminger was ecstatic after hearing this, and then tentatively asked - are those F4 "Ghost" fighters in your hangar OKAY?
He said that the eldest brother may have misunderstood me, and I don't mind making some contributions to the Soviets, but I thought it through, not enough. The noise of that fighter plane when it took off could be six or seven miles away, let alone drive him to the Soviet Union, and I would be in a box before I could reach East Germany. Can you please not whole such a big thing, you pick a good belt!
Reminger felt that what he said made sense, so he pulled out the thick mission notebook, on which several people picked and chose, and finally found a target pointed to - that, the latest American Sidewinder missile, can you figure it out?
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For this goal, Knopp wrapped up a lot, saying that this thing is easy to get, and when the day I ask you to come and we can drive away.
Reminger, they think you use military bases as rookie stations? Say take something and take something? We have to plan well.
As a rigorous German, Knopp was very dismissive of their craftsmanship. What are you planning on a big fart? Find one night, you drive over, I take you out the missiles and drive away, what is the good plan for such a fart? Rest assured, there will be no passing!
Reminger and Joseph tried to convince Knopp, but he couldn't get any more. Without his cooperation, the two men who had not entered the base could not make plans, and finally could only believe him, prepared the car in the city, and waited for Knoop's call.
On October 21, 1967, Reminger received a phone call, and Knopp told him that the weather forecast was foggy tomorrow, and it was advisable to steal missiles.
So Reminger picked out a low-key Mercedes and took Joseph all the way to the Neuburg base to kill.
After arriving at their destination, the two men waited outside the base for the night of the 22nd, and sure enough, there was a heavy fog. So Reminger was on standby in the car, and Joseph was ready to go to the Knoop.
And then, you think he'll flip through the barbed wire to hide from the infrared rays?
No, after Knopp contacted Joseph, he came out of the base and picked him up, and the two men entered the base through the main entrance. Because Knop had a pass, he and the airport guards were both cannibal tribes of BBQ—old acquaintances. So, no one in the base interrogated him or Joseph, and the two men swung all the way into the airfield arsenal.
Once in the arsenal, Joseph turned on the flashlight, pulled out a picture of the Sidewinder missile and began looking for something. It turned out that before I could find it, I was kicked aside by Knopp - am I looking for a fart in you? Isn't that thing on the shelf on your left hand side? Pick it up, let's run!
Joseph was furious when he came to the Sidewinder missile, why didn't you say its size? This thing is three meters long, and it costs one hundred and seventy or eighty pounds? We both carried him to the corner of the base, without being caught by others, tired and tired!
Knopp said what's so hard about that? You wait for me for a while!
Then he went to the base next to him to find a wheelbarrow, and the brothers loaded the missiles on the wheelbarrow and pushed them away. The two men pushed the missile all the way to the wall of the airport, and Reminger waited outside the wall in his car. The two of them took the missile one by two or three and walked you away, and directly took the missile to the outside of the wall.
Seeing that they were almost alive, Knopp said you wait for me for a while, I went to return the wheelbarrow, and after a few minutes, he put the wheelbarrow back in the warehouse, and then he took Joseph out of the main entrance of the base with a big swing.
Throughout the process, this Luftwaffe base with sentry guards, military dog vigils, jeep patrols, no one intercepted them, worthy of the Cold War bridgehead.
To Knoop and Joseph, you say they stole, and he went in with honor. You say that they did not use any violence, so the behavior of these two people can only be called -- take.
Reminger, who was waiting for them outside, did not expect that the two of them had completed the task in just over twenty minutes, and sincerely sighed a man who was so fast! But they faced another problem - when they came, they did not consider the size of the missile, and the rear seat of the car was too narrow to fit the missile more than three meters long.
The brothers and sisters threw the missiles into the car, but they did not put them in until it was almost dawn. Finally, Joseph finally turned to the guts, kicked the back seat glass of the car, and put the missile down the window, but this made most of the missiles in the car, and the small half of the missiles outside the car. Reminger then found a carpet, wrapped the part of the car window, and went! Let's go home!
Neuburg Air Force Base is about four hundred kilometers from Reminger's hometown, and it takes more than four hours to walk on the highway. The brothers drove the half-leaked missile car all the way back to Reminger's home in broad daylight, without any police interrogation.
After hiding the missile in the basement, several people began to study what to do? Things came out, but how did they get into the hands of the Soviets?
Taking the land route, the border between the two Germanys is heavily guarded, which feels a little difficult. Take the water, cross the Baltic Sea, they have no equipment, what to do?
At this time, Reminger's words awakened the dreamer - what do you want to do with so many twists and turns? Isn't it sent to Moscow? Isn't it okay to send a courier?
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In the Cold War, although the confrontation between the East and the West was serious, the Soviet Union and Western Europe were not physically separated, and the logistics and civil aviation communication between the two sides were always maintained. So Reminger's method was to disassemble the missile into parts and mail it directly to Moscow by air courier.
After listening to Reminger's plan, Joseph said you were crazy? Didn't the Germans lose their missiles? Don't you send it by courier?
Reminger blocked their mouths with a word — so we had to hurry up, before the Germans found out!
Several people moved overnight, quickly disassembled the missile into parts, loaded them into two large boxes, and then went to the post office to send an air courier. When filling out the declaration form, the content of the written item is "inferior metal".
Neither the shipping company nor the German customs had any objection to the two packages of small couriers, and the two packages of couriers successfully entered the postal system, with a postage of 75.25 US dollars.
After sending the courier away, Reminger himself flew to Moscow, where he waited every day for the post office to deliver his things. But he can't wait for the left to wait for the right and can't come, is the matter exposed? So he made a phone call to inquire.
It turned out that there were not many people who delivered air couriers at that time, and in line with the principle of not running empty trips, the airlines carpooled the express delivery, and the plane that gave the Remingera missile flew to Paris first and then to Copenhagen and back to Germany, and gathered the cargo of the full plane before preparing to leave. Eventually, ten days later than expected, the Germans delivered the courier loaded with missiles to Moscow.
When the courier was taken apart and the missiles were seen, KGB officials were collectively stunned. Originally, everyone did not believe Reminger's experience, the two men entered the military base from the main entrance to take out the missiles, which carbon-based bioenergy do you believe?
However, when the missile parts were actually in front of them, the worldview of the Soviet agents was greatly impacted. Everyone said to Reminger, we have to admit that as Communists, we once believed in science, but your behavior let us know what is called the road to Jane, big brother, we obeyed.
Soon after, on the basis of American missiles, the Soviet Union launched a new type of K13M air-to-air missile, which improved its performance tremendously and gave NATO a huge impact. As the most important contributor, the KGB did not treat the Reminger three, they gave Reminger 92,000 German marks plus $8,500, which is equivalent to the current 500,000 euros. Reminger was not bad for this money, but this thing made him feel very excited and cool.
So, what is the Reaction of the German side to this?
The answer is no response, because they're just —.
Didn't find out!
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For more than a year after Reminger stole the missile, the German military did not react at all. The reason is that they didn't find out they were missing a missile at all.
More than a year later, when the Germans were counting the warehouses, they found that there was a rattlesnake missing from the warehouses. But they still did not suspect that they had been stolen, but wondered whether the pilot had fallen into the sea without paying attention.
After confirming that the pilots had not lost it, the Germans could not explain the disappearance of the missile. Germany and the United States set up a joint investigation team, and they were quite sure that there must be Soviet undercover agents at the top of the base, and the two sides should have taken the missiles away!
As a result, the German and American sides began a difficult screening operation, and everyone inside the base passed, and the result was naturally nothing. As the Americans deepened their investigation, they gradually found that stealing from this base was not much more difficult than sweeping a shared bicycle, and there was no need to respond internally. If the other vulnerable base is a house leak, this Neuburg base is simply a scaffolding!
But even so, they could not confirm who stole the missile. Because more than a year has passed since this incident, and there was no monitoring in that year, the investigation team could not investigate at all.
At the critical moment, one person helped them.
After receiving the bounty in the Soviet Union, Reminger returned directly to Germany, and although he had committed such a big crime, he was not afraid at all, but felt that he was born to be a spy and was ready for a new mission.
He divided the money among his buddies Joseph and pilot Knopp. When Joseph got the money, he kept his low profile as always. But after Knopp got the money, he began to throw coins everywhere, spending every day drinking.
However, it is said that this situation is not a big problem, anyway, Knopp is usually a picture of brain atrophy. The problem is that he still hasn't changed the problem of braggadocio, and bragging is not counted, and one day in October 1968, Knopp was drunk in a tavern and yawned — a stinky mouth, and told the story of his stealing missiles to the people in the bar, unfortunately, his audience included a member of the German Constitutional Defense Bureau.
After blowing the bull, Knopp was arrested on the spot, and was carried into the joint investigation team for the first time, and after waking up, the brothers were so frightened that their blood was cold, and even the big memory recovery surgery was completely wiped out. Unprepared, Joseph and Reminger did not offer any questions and were arrested and imprisoned.
When the process of this matter was fully understood, the US military involved in the investigation was also surprised by the friendly countries. The incident disgraced the West German government, and the Federal Prosecutor's Office tried to keep a low profile when launching the prosecution, for fear of attracting media attention, and did not even bother to mention the crime of espionage, and only prosecuted three people for theft and treason. The court sentenced him to very low sentences, and in October 1970, Reminger and Joseph were sentenced to four years in prison and Knop to three years in prison.
Being a spy in West Germany was so lightly judged, and it is no wonder that everyone does not take being a Soviet spy seriously.
However, with such a light sentence, the brothers did not squat. When the KGB heard that they were imprisoned, it was quite angry and immediately contacted West Germany, saying that it was willing to exchange the six NATO spies in its hands for them, and that it did not need to send them to the Soviet Union and let them go free. The West Germans felt that it was appropriate to exchange these three living treasures for six spies, so in August 1971, the missile trio was successfully released.
Freed, Reminger returned to his hometown of Krefeld and continued to contact the KGB, expressing his willingness to continue to fight for the cause of the Soviets. The KGB bosses were tired of him, saying that you should rest, we don't have so many hostage reserves to catch you.
Losing his goal in life, Reminger could only continue to live his life of a rich man, and in 1997, at the age of 57, Reminger was assassinated by two assassins in Antwerp, Belgium, for reasons said to be related to drugs, and died in the underground parking lot.
Joseph, a Jew, returned to Poland after his release from prison, after which he was not heard from, perhaps continuing his career as an agent, perhaps living quietly somewhere.
As for the most central figure, the pilot Knopp, after his release from prison, he was naturally expelled from the German army, but he still could not control his majestic desire to express. After thirty years of difficulty, in 2003, his desire to express himself finally moved like Wang Ba's house - the turtle could not stop. He published a memoir called "The Story of I, the Starfighter Pilot and the Sidewinder Missile," which unfortunately sold miserably.
However, Knod managed to survive to the end, and at this moment, the great master should still live somewhere in Potsdam, Germany, and become the only witness to this history.