Chapter 993 Come Out, Aircraft Carrier

Dahua officials had actually known about Wu Changqing's stubbornness for a long time.

Therefore, even if most of them were opposed to Wu Changqing's personal expedition, after Wu Changqing made the entire decision, they had no choice.

Although they are still 'petitioning', hoping that Wu Changqing will give up this idea. Some even mobilized connections and asked the concubines in the harem to persuade Wu Changqing.

But on the other hand, they did not delay their business and were arranging Wu Changqing's personal expedition.

From this point alone, it can be seen that Dahua officials did not have high hopes of dissuading Wu Changqing.

In this battle, with Wu Changqing joining, the situation is completely different from without Wu Changqing.

Without Wu Changqing's participation, it would be much simpler. All you need to do is defeat the enemy, and the appropriate battle losses will be within the acceptable range.

And with Wu Changqing's personal expedition, safety comes first. It must be guaranteed, and more warships must be dispatched to ensure Wu Changqing's absolute safety.

At the same time, the battle must not only win, but also be fought beautifully, with the majesty of Dahua, and Wu Changqing must not lose face in Europe.

Originally, the military was not prepared to dispatch aircraft, a new weapon. After all, they did not know how to get the aircraft to Europe.

Dahua's current aircraft only have a range of more than 100 kilometers, and 200 kilometers is the limit.

However, when Wu Changqing was on his own expedition, Dahua's most advanced weapons naturally needed to be brought to show off, otherwise they would not be impressive enough.

Therefore, in the war against Europe, aircraft must appear.

Currently, the military has two plans. One is to build an airport on land.

Xuzhou, Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Hami, Yili, Bahrain, Suez, Ceuta, and other important cities along this line will all build an airport, so that Dahua's aircraft can be deployed to Ceuta through continuous flights.

However, this project is huge.

Although the current military airport can be very simple, it only needs a runway and an aviation fuel supply station.

However, because the current range of Dahua aircraft is short, there are a lot of airports that need to be built along the way from Dahua to Europe. In addition, it is also a troublesome thing to reserve fuel.

Unless it is absolutely necessary, the military does not want to waste people and money like this.

Another plan is the aircraft carrier plan currently being developed by the Navy, which puts aircraft on the ship and transports them through the ship.

This path was personally instructed by Wu Changqing, otherwise with the navy's imagination, they would not have been able to think of this so quickly.

By deploying aircraft on ships, they can wander around the world and quickly conduct strategic bombings against any country, forming a huge strategic deterrent.

Why Europe still has the guts to compete with Dahua? Isn't it because of the distance between the two places?

Once a war breaks out, Dahua's supplies will become very difficult and costly.

With aircraft carriers, this distance can no longer bring a sense of security to Europe.

Because Dahua doesn't need to engage in contact warfare with them, bombing their capital a few times every once in a while is enough to make them collapse, crying and begging to be let go.

After careful planning, Dahua's aircraft carrier has been under construction for more than five months, and the current progress is slow.

The hull has been built, but the various equipment on the ship have not yet been installed.

In fact, this speed can actually be increased a lot, depending on the above requirements.

Because the aircraft carrier is a piece of equipment with a very high upper limit and a very low technical content.

Those equipped with electromagnetic catapult, nuclear power, and electronic command systems are called aircraft carriers.

Dahua will not be able to build this kind of aircraft carrier in another ten years.

A ship with a large enough cabin and a long enough deck can also be called an aircraft carrier.

Dahua has been able to produce this kind of aircraft carrier for a long time.

As for the risks involved in taking off and landing on such a simple aircraft carrier, this can only be overcome by the pilot's skills and leaving it to fate.

On early aircraft carriers, accidents would occur every time they took off and landed. This was purely normal. It would be abnormal if there were no accidents.

The continuous improvement of aircraft carriers in the later period was actually just solving various small problems, allowing aircraft to take off and land better, increasing stability, and reducing accident rates.

The core functionality has hardly changed.

In the original time and space, the first aircraft carrier appeared in 1910.

Dahua's current overall industrial technology may only be at the level of 1850. However, the technological level of the military industry, which is at the forefront and is not short of money, has actually exceeded the level of 1910.

Just like when the gardeners couldn't even build a decent car, the atomic and hydrogen bombs had already exploded successfully.

When a pen still needed to be imported, satellites were already flying into the sky.

All the so-called problems in this project, which has gathered the strength of the entire country, are actually not problems at all.

The current military industry in Dahua is in a state where there is no shortage of resources, no shortage of funds, or even no shortage of technology, but a slight lack of talent.

Just building a simple aircraft carrier is not difficult for them.

After confirming that Wu Changqing wanted to lead the expedition in person, the Navy ordered the shipyards that built the aircraft carrier to immediately speed up construction.

Previously, Dahua was not in a hurry to put the aircraft carrier into service, so during the manufacturing process, safety was the first priority, and it was built as well as possible to reduce safety risks.

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But now, because Wu Changqing wants to personally lead the expedition and needs the aircraft carrier to be quickly formed and ready for battle, the goal has become to focus on being able to fight, and the safety aspect can be ignored to a certain extent.

As long as it can take off successfully, complete a bombing of Europe, and complete this face-saving project, it is enough.

The military did not expect the aircraft carrier to play a big role in the first battle. The battleships, cruisers, and army units still determined the outcome of the battle.

Therefore, some equipment that was originally planned to be installed can be abandoned at this time.

As a result, Dahua's first aircraft carrier will soon be launched.

In addition to preparing aircraft carriers, the Navy is also preparing to dispatch torpedo submarines, a big killer.

The technical difficulty of torpedo submarines is lower than that of aircraft carriers. Dahua had already manufactured them two years ago.

However, because there are no enemies, Dahua does not manufacture them on a large scale. There are only five ships currently in service.

This time, the military is ready to show off to the Europeans and let them know how stupid it is to go against Dahua.

Aircraft carriers, battleship formations, cruisers, submarines, fighters, bombers...

Looking at these troops who would follow him to Europe, Wu Changqing felt a little embarrassed for a while.

That's too much to deceive.