Chapter 1022 Arms Plan

"It is a wise decision." Alan Wilson was well prepared and immediately agreed with his immediate boss's view. "In fact, the United States' looming hostility towards the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth has been going on for many years. This is an open secret, just because of the British colonial rule. India, Myanmar, and Sudan became independent one after another, so it was not too obvious. Now the United States may not be able to wait. Specifically on the Iranian issue, we cannot forget that there is also the Soviet Union. If the Americans want to be tough, it is not that easy. Evacuating Iran without saying a word is not possible."

"In fact, it is better for the United States to choose Iran as a place to put pressure on the United Kingdom than to have an accident in the Suez Canal or the Strait of Malacca."

Alan Wilson nonetheless expressed confidence and optimism about this round of diplomatic friction.

The discussion this time is to delay it as long as possible, and at the same time, at the diplomatic level, work with France and, if necessary, even the Soviet Union to resist this round of attacks by the United States.

"Although we do not want to fall out with the United States, we must give an explanation to the citizens." Prime Minister Eden finally nodded. "Only through struggle can we preserve the interests that Britain deserves. Otherwise, we will get nothing."

"I'm just afraid that the military pressure will increase." Alan Wilson probed without trace whether the current government had any thoughts on disarmament. When he came back, he also took a look at the recruitment of troops in the Pacific Territory.

Taking advantage of the current opportunity, I reported directly to the Prime Minister that after the merger, the British Pacific Territory had a population of more than 400,000, and an army of 30 to 40,000 was organized to replace the overseas garrisons in non-important colonies. Relieve the pressure caused by today's huge military strength in Britain.

"We can even reduce the army by 50,000 and use these South Island soldiers to supplement it. In terms of physical condition, I have seen local islanders who are even stronger than our soldiers. And the main ethnic groups of South Island The Malays are so different." Alan Wilson described it with admiration, "They are obviously the same ethnic group, but they have evolved into islands."

Islandization? After all, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary are old people and do not know much about new knowledge points.

Alan Wilson had to explain what the characteristics of islanding are. When a species migrates away from the mainland and lives in an isolated island environment, it will evolve to become larger or smaller.

The evolutionary trend in rodents has been toward enlargement, while carnivores, lagomorphs, and artiodactyls have dwarfed. Among mammals that migrate to islands, large animals tend to become smaller, while small animals tend to become larger.

Some elephants have even shrunk by 70 percent compared to their counterparts on the mainland after geological changes. The island size law is inversely proportional to the island area. If the migrant animals exceed a certain proportional size, they will develop towards miniaturization; if they are smaller than this proportional size, they will develop towards large size.

The main population of the entire Austronesian language group is the Malays from Southeast Asia. The average height of the Indonesian Malays is less than 1.6 meters. Even when Alan Wilson recruited soldiers, he relaxed the conditions for recruitment.

However, the Austronesian people in the Pacific Islands have experienced a huge evolution. Their average height and weight are much higher than that of their Southeast Asian counterparts. Prime Minister Eden and Foreign Secretary Macmillan listened with interest. This time, the private indoctrination was successful. success.

Since his physical fitness is absolutely excellent, being stationed as a garrison in the East African colonies or in the Middle East can share the housing pressure of the local British troops, and even disarmament can be carried out in a certain sense.

Field Marshal Mountbatten, his father-in-law, was not opposed to the issue of disarmament. What he was opposed to was cutting off weapons and equipment through disarmament. If it was just about cutting personnel, Mountbatten was very much in favor of it. After all, with Britain's population base, maintaining a force of 800,000 all year round is simply a joke.

Changing another country, it is known that a certain large country currently has a population of 670 million, which is thirteen times the population of the United Kingdom, and has maintained a standing army of 10.4 million?

When this government came to power, Eden once said that the size of the military would be appropriately reduced. Mountbatten had previously told Alan Wilson that the new government intended to reduce the army to 700,000.

This time Alan Wilson used the narrative compiled by the Austronesians to lead the situation to the issue of disarmament.

Sure enough, the Prime Minister was very interested. "We also talked to Field Marshal Mountbatten, and the Marshal seemed to have a misunderstanding about this."

"I think the marshal's misunderstanding should be to cut technical equipment, not personnel." Alan Wilson explained to his father-in-law, "Military development is changing with each passing day. Once a certain project cannot keep up, it may lead to a tragedy. The consequences of sex, from the British perspective, although the arms race is not what the UK wants, it has no choice."

These words made Aiden very satisfied and left the impression that Alan Wilson was very knowledgeable. He worked for the country and did not shirk his responsibilities. He was indeed a pillar of talent cultivated by Whitehall.

Regarding the formulation of foreign policy, it is naturally up to Alan Wilson and Macmillan, the Foreign Secretary. It may also be Prime Minister Eden who personally provides guidance.

Taking this opportunity, Alan Wilson met with Field Marshal Mountbatten to tell him his views on disarmament and the progress of various equipment.

Marshal Mountbatten was very pleased with his son-in-law's visit and asked about his daughter's life in Australia. "Pamela was worried that the child would be too young to adapt to the London climate. This is really gratifying. She is now a mother too."

"Encountering it is the greatest luck in my life. Sometimes I wonder if I saved the world in my previous life." Even more fortunate is that his words and deeds are so successful, but Alan Wilson did not say this sentence.

Marshal Mountbatten laughed out loud and asked, "Your visit this time seems not to be a success. Macmillan won't have any opinions."

"What does he think? He is just a minister. Well, I mean, the Prime Minister has always paid special attention to diplomatic work. Even if he has an opinion, the Prime Minister's opinion is more important."

Alan Wilson made a slip of the tongue, and quickly rounded it out, changing the perspective from the perspective of Whitehall and the Cabinet to that of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, and concealing Whitehall's views. But how could this be hidden from Mountbatten, who grew up in the upper class, "You people in Whitehall are happy to create conflicts between the Prime Minister and the Ministers."

"Even if we don't create it, they still have conflicts." Alan Wilson shrugged, "All politicians are like this."

At present, the British military has numerous fielding plans, including the Army's Chieftain main battle tank to replace the Centurion tank, the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier and nuclear submarine construction plans, and the Air Force also has TSR.2 attack aircraft and the Belfast strategic transport aircraft plan. . and the Predator attack aircraft program serving on aircraft carriers.

"Duncan believes that missiles are omnipotent, and there are signs that the United States and the Soviet Union are also developing strategic missiles." Marshal Mountbatten went through the deployment plans of each service, and then said, "Many people believe that with the early development of missiles, Some weapons are outdated and not worthy of further development.”

"The theory of missile omnipotence is a very nonsense conclusion. I am responsible for the aerospace project." Alan Wilson snorted. "It is well known that ministers are laymen when it comes to weapons. Churchill is like this. Churchill's son-in-law is also Not as good as him."

Alan Wilson has no impression of the TSR.2 attack aircraft and the Belfast strategic transport aircraft. It seems that these two items should have been cut off during the British retreat. He wants some specific performance data. Mountbatten accepted.

"If it is terminated due to cost issues, we can consider joint research with European countries." Alan Wilson took the Air Force's equipment plan and joked with his father-in-law Mountbatten with a smile.

If the plan in his hand is given to the Soviets, I believe the Soviets will get it no matter how much it costs.

Alan Wilson will also be more interested in the Belfast strategic transport aircraft plan because it is so large that prototypes have been produced in order to be able to transport the Army's heavy equipment such as large-caliber artillery, missile systems and armed personnel, etc., making it It carried about two hundred heavily armed men.

The S5 "Belfast" adopts a T-shaped vertical tail, with a maximum take-off weight of 190 tons and a maximum load of 54 tons. It is powered by Rolls-Royce's "Tein" rty12 The engine uses a Hawker Siddeley four-blade aluminum alloy propeller.

As for its shortcomings, one thing that may be criticized is that this is a propeller strategic transport aircraft. Like the Soviet Union's Tu95 strategic bomber, it has four propellers arranged on both sides of the wing. I don't know if this is the reason why it was not favored by the British military in the end, but these are all technical adjustments and can be improved. .

If Alan Wilson wants to forcefully promote this strategic transport aircraft, his method is very fake. Marshal Mountbatten is the highest military commander of the British armed forces. The way to impress his father-in-law is to, when the Belfast strategic transport aircraft encounters difficulties, Let his wife make the purchase and lower the price, and his father-in-law will judge whether the British military should equip this strategic transport aircraft.

So the way to preserve the TSR.2 attack aircraft and the Belfast strategic transport aircraft is for the former to seek joint research between Britain and France, while the latter needs a powerful and financially sound group to take over the business for the country.

The most important thing is that this group had better have a good relationship with the head of the military. Alan Wilson believed that the relationship between Pamela Mountbatten and Field Marshal Mountbatten was still good.

"When will the Federal Republic of Germany's flying coffins be delivered?" Alan Wilson was very distressed. If Germany had not suffered such a big loss on the flying coffins, there would be no model of European cooperation in the later Typhoon.

Now that the relationship with Germany is not good, the British Liu can only choose to keep warm with the French newspaper group. De Gaulle happens to be leading France. A few days after returning to China, Alan Wilson began to frequently travel between the two sides of the English Channel to warm up for De Gaulle's visit to the UK. .