One Hundred and Fifty-Nine Military Expansion and Preparation for War

The Navy recently sent good news to Akado. The aircraft carrier was successfully launched, and it has carried out anti-wind and wave tests in the North Sea. The German elite naval pilots completed the task ahead of schedule. Completed take-off and landing tests at sea. (Starting) It seems that they have been suppressed for long enough. Since the last heroic self-sinking in the UK, the German navy has been waiting for too long to rise.

The Washington Naval Treaty finally became a dead letter because of the actions of the Soviets. In order to deal with the threat of Soviet battleships, Japan began to build Yamato-class super battleships; the British did not want to be outdone and directly purchased two Bismarck-class battleships from Germany. The second sister ship of the German-class battlecruisers.

The U.S. Navy has also started its own battleship replenishment plan, and Italy is desperately building a new Victor-class battleship-of course Germany has also launched its own super naval main battle weapon: an aircraft carrier.

Germany's Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers, a total of two, were launched almost at the same time. The first ship, number 001, was named Zeppelin; the second ship, number 002, was named Bismarck. The ship is 275 meters long and 44 meters wide.

Both aircraft carriers have a full-load displacement of 28,000 tons, which in 1935 could be considered a large aircraft carrier. Moreover, both aircraft carriers use closed decks and closed hangars, which can ensure that fighter jets are well stored in the harsh weather conditions of the North Atlantic.

With a huge straight flight deck, an island-style bridge, and a single chimney integrated with the bridge, every design of the German aircraft carrier is infinitely close to the shape of the aircraft carrier of later generations, except that the two elevators are located in the center of the aircraft carrier's flight deck. In addition, it can be said to be a standard future aircraft carrier.

The ship is not equipped with any large-caliber artillery, only 12 Bofors anti-aircraft guns are equipped on both sides as anti-aircraft weapons, and the rest of the space is reserved for fuel and aircraft ammunition depots, but due to lack of armor protection , A large number of watertight cabins were used on the ship to stop losses, so the tonnage was increased.

Both aircraft carriers are equipped with 35 naval FW-190D fighters with foldable wings, 28 Stuka dive bombers with foldable wings, 4 reconnaissance FW-190 aircraft, and one spare aircraft each. The number of aircraft is 70.

Compared with the British aircraft carrier of the same period, the German aircraft carrier does not have any advantages to boast about in terms of statistics. The HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier under construction in the UK has a full load displacement of only 20,000 tons, but it can be equipped with 60 aircraft.

This is the evil result of the mass production of German aircraft carriers. In order to pursue the speed of shipbuilding, the German Navy standardized many hull structures and parts, so many warships had to use civilian standard equipment and parts, which wasted a lot of space and weight. A compromise between quality.

The disadvantage of compromise is that the aircraft carrier's protection capability is reduced,

The combat capability is average, but the benefits are also obvious at the same time: it only took a little over a year for the two aircraft carriers to be built, launched, and finally ready to go to sea for combat. Still lying in the dock.

As soon as the two aircraft carriers entered the water, the new high seas fleet of the German Navy was immediately formed. Admiral Raeder personally commanded this fleet, with 2 aircraft carriers, 4 cruisers and 8 large ocean-going destroyers. The fleet was sailing in the North Sea, and Raeder seemed to have rediscovered the years when the German High Seas Fleet covered the sky and the sun in the North Sea.

The hulls of the other two aircraft carriers manufactured in sections were immediately sent to the dock. The engineers at the shipyard proudly told the naval technicians that the German Navy would have two more identical aircraft carriers in less than 10 months. Will become a formidable military force in the North Sea.

Akado personally praised the shipbuilders and workers in the Port of Kiel, and encouraged them to make persistent efforts to continue to produce various warships of the German Navy. In the naval port, Raeder replaced Raeder who went to sea, and the head of state was accompanied by the deputy commander of the navy, Rear Admiral Dönitz. The plan for Akado made a systematic plan for the German navy.

In the next three years, the German Navy will become a huge navy with 6 aircraft carriers, 18 cruisers, 33 ocean-going destroyers, 60 other defensive escort destroyers, and 170 submarines of various types. Once these warships are equipped, the navy will use submarine wolf pack tactics to tear up the British maritime supply line, and then the fleet will use aircraft carrier-based aircraft to completely destroy the British Royal Navy in one fell swoop.

This ambitious future naval development plan makes Akado dumbfounded. If the navy is equipped with such a large fleet, then the German army can only use carts to conquer the world. The air force is even more pitiful, because carts can’t fly. .

In fact, in Akado's plan, when the war started, Germany had 4 aircraft carriers and a sufficient number of escort ships, which could be regarded as full of gods and Buddhas to bless Germany. If it is not done well, the war will break out in the next year, and the navy may only have the two aircraft carriers in hand at that time.

To be honest, whether the navy's surface power can win is really confusing, and it may depend on German submarines to stabilize the long coastline. Because the combat capability of naval aviation has yet to be tested. This is a systematic project, and it is not just a matter of moving land planes to aircraft carriers.

Germany has developed a special anti-ship aerial bomb for the Navy's Stuka, equipped with a time-delay fuze, but the actual effect has not yet been tested. The Stuka can be considered a good design as a land dive bomber, but diving to attack a warship at sea is a dangerous and crazy move, so Akado did not expect the Stuka to have much combat power; the torpedo is made of the multifunctional fw-190 Therefore, naval fighter pilots must be regularly trained on how to launch torpedoes to attack warships. In this way, the naval aviation's ability to attack sea targets can only be estimated in general terms, and it is difficult to plan in advance the size of the results.

After the navy finished speaking, it was time to visit the air force. After explaining the task of submarine force training to Dönitz, Akado rushed to Ludwig, which is an important production base of Farben.

Because of the rejection of Krupp's train gun project, Akado urgently needs to find a weapon for his army that can keep up with the rhythm to deal with the fortress defense systems of France and the Soviet Union. If he does not have a suitable weapon to use, Then these fortresses may become super defense lines that the German army cannot cross.

When designing the deception of Dora Cannon King, Akado thought of the strong fortress on the Crimea Peninsula of the Soviet Union. The Germans used train artillery to barely take it down. Undoubtedly, it became the graveyard of the German army.

Akado was not a complete military "fan" in his previous life. If you told him about the t34 tank or the battleship Bismarck, he would definitely be able to chat with you for a day...and if you told him about kwk30l/55ausf. a-f He would never guess that it was the code name of a certain German 20mm caliber shell.

His understanding of the weapons for attacking enemy fortresses still rests on the train guns during World War II and the ground-penetrating weapons after the Gulf War: It seems impossible for the German Air Force to develop ground-penetrating weapons, and the railway guns that cost people and money Cardo has also denied it. So he had no choice but to think hard in the office, racking his brains to provide ideas for the offensive and defensive battle of the fortress.

In the end, he and his technical advisers thought of two alternatives: one was to use heavy bombs to destroy these fortresses, so he ordered German designers to develop super aerial bombs weighing 3 tons for future air force heavy bombers; The second is to use flames to deal with the enemies in the fortress. He intends to use the napalm bombs of later generations to clear the personnel in the fortress.

After discussions among Air Force professionals, it was finally decided that it would be safer to give priority to the development of napalm bombs. Because after all, Germany's four-engine heavy strategic bomber is still in the stage of secret test flights, and it is obviously not worth the candle to rush to develop a more immature special weapon for an immature weapon.

Recently, Farben, the leading German chemical company, finally developed a new type of incendiary bomb based on a little clue provided by the head of state. This new weapon has been named napalm by the head of state. This weapon is produced using polystyrene and other raw materials plus gasoline, and its power can be called huge.

After the napalm bomb exploded, the napalm splashed on people was like lard paste, thick and burnable. If people use their hands to slap, the more they slap the fire, the bigger the fire will be. If they roll on the ground to put out the fire, the whole body will be covered with fire. And once there are more fires on people, the people on the side should try to stay away from the people on fire, because the struggling of the people on fire can easily throw the burning oil lumps to other people to form a secondary killing effect.

A doctor of chemistry in the laboratory suggested to Acado: "If it is out of humanitarian considerations, it is better to use a gun to end the life of the person who is on fire. Because of the victims of napalm bombs, it can be said that death is the greatest relief. .”

The napalm bomb developed in Germany also added white phosphorus to it. After the human epidermis is burned, a large amount of highly toxic chemical substances will remain, and enter the blood through the open wound of the burn wound, causing blood poisoning of the wounded. The burnt surface is generally sauce purple, or blue-black.

Another useful but dangerous effect of an incendiary napalm is that it "rapidly consumes the oxygen in the nearby air" and produces a large amount of carbon monoxide that suffocates organisms, usually when used in bombs.

In fact, Germany has obtained a powerful weapon. This weapon can be said to be a nightmare for fixed targets when paired with a Stuka dive bomber. Breaking through the enemy's fortress defenses is full of confidence-now Germany has sharpened its sharp knife and is ready to stab its neighbors at any time.

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