"Marshal Milch, has the target for this attack been selected?" Field Marshal Kesselring asked.
"Minister, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod have been preliminarily selected. Both locations have Buru aircraft factories. According to our intelligence, the aircraft factory in Kazan is preparing to mass-produce an advanced fighter, codenamed the Yak-1 fighter. Although its performance still lags some way behind our BF-109 fighters, it is already capable of posing a certain threat to them," Milch said.
"Oh?" Field Marshal Kesselring could not help frowning.
At the start of the war, the German Air Force had nearly crushed the Bolshevik Air Force, to the point that the skies over the theater were now completely ruled by German Air Force fighter planes. Bolshevik Air Force aircraft simply did not dare enter the theater. Once they did, nine times out of ten, they would be shot down. It was precisely because of this that the German Air Force could attack Russian ground targets without restraint, covering the army's operations.
If the Bolshevik Air Force acquired relatively advanced fighters, it was easy to imagine that they would certainly launch frenzied challenges against the German Air Force. After all, losing air superiority had shackled them far too tightly. Even if they could not seize air superiority back from the Germans, they could at least threaten the German Air Force and make things easier for their ground troops.
"Then we must take notice of this. Marshal Milch, I have a suggestion," Field Marshal Kesselring said.
"Please speak, Minister."
"Let Kazan be the bombing target this time. Destroy every factory in Buru there related to aircraft manufacturing! That would at least deal a severe blow to Buru's aircraft production capacity. At the same time, we could completely destroy Kazan. Only then can we show everyone our strength. In addition, we