The joint exercise with the East India Fleet is one of the routine training projects of the Indian Ocean Fleet this year.
The East India Navy is not strong and lacks large surface warships. The largest warship is the light cruiser "Zheng He" with a displacement of only 5,500 tons, and the remaining warships have a maximum displacement of no more than 3,000 tons.
Compared with surface warships, the submarine force of the East India Navy is quite powerful. After ordering six "Ghost" submarines the year before last, the East India Navy ordered 12 more "Ghost" submarines from southern Africa last year, making the "Ghost" submarines more powerful.
The number of submarines has reached 18. In terms of submarine force alone, East India is second to none in Asia.
The Japanese Combined Fleet is indeed powerful, but it is only strong in surface warships and does not pay enough attention to submarines. With the anti-submarine level of the Japanese Combined Fleet, once a war breaks out, the "ghost" submarine will become a nightmare for the Combined Fleet.
This is also normal. Japan is building a combined fleet for the purpose of hegemony in East Asia. Now that Japan has basically achieved this goal, there is naturally no need to develop a submarine force.
The biggest problem with the Combined Fleet now is that it has never conducted large-scale maritime operations since the Russo-Japanese War. Japan's domestic thinking about the navy is still "giant ships and cannons". Once a war breaks out, how much combat effectiveness can the Combined Fleet exert?
Hard to say.
Even in the Russo-Japanese War, it was not so much the United Fleet that defeated the Russian Expeditionary Force as it was the whole world that united to defeat the Russian Expeditionary Force.
In addition to the East India Fleet, two destroyers from the Sultanate of Najd and an Australian coal ship participated in the military exercise.
Australia was not originally invited to participate in this exercise. After the Australian government learned of the incident, it strongly requested participation. However, Australia does not have a navy, so it could only send a coal ship to participate in the name of a supply ship, which can be regarded as a boost to its presence.
At the Indian Ocean Fleet Headquarters in Port Edward, Martin and Patton were also seeing off Commander Jackson Marshall, the Commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet.
The current Department of Defense is very different from when Roque was Secretary of Defense.
When Roque served as Defense Secretary, power was concentrated in Roque's hands, and the Prime Minister's words were not as effective as Roque's.
Last year, the Ministry of National Defense underwent adjustments and established the Department of the Navy and the Department of the Air Force on the basis of the Army Department. The power of the Secretary of Defense was greatly weakened.
If someone else had been the defense chief, he might have felt uncomfortable.
Martin accepted it calmly. Roark's adjustment was not aimed at Martin, but to make timely adjustments based on the development of the arms. With the development of the navy and air force, it was indeed time to separate the arms. In the past two years, some people have proposed
The Marine Corps also needs to be separated, Rock is considering it.
Like the navy and air force, the separate ranks of the Marine Corps are also of great significance. With the gradual improvement of strength, Southern Africa has more and more troops stationed overseas. All soldiers, including embassies and consulates stationed abroad, should be from the Marine Corps.
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There are currently four brigades of the Southern African Marine Corps with a total strength of 26,000. Nyasaland military industry is studying amphibious tanks to equip the Marine Corps.
"I still hope to mobilize part of the Marine Corps to participate in the exercise. In the future, our operations will be based on active attack. Fleet and Marine Corps exercises should become the main subject. Anti-submarine warfare is not important. In East Asia, there are no submarines for us to counterattack.
"This should be a key training project for the Combined Fleet." Jackson and Marshall had a clear goal. The biggest opponent of the Indian Ocean Fleet is the Japanese.
Under the premise that the number of warships in Halifax continues to increase, the United States has to gradually strengthen the strength of the Atlantic Fleet. Now, like southern Africa, the navy of the United States is mainly divided into two parts, one is the Atlantic Fleet, the other is the Pacific Fleet, and the mainland
The fleet has no sense of presence.
This is also determined by national conditions. Southern Africa, like the United States, does not have much defensive pressure on the mainland, and the fleet construction concept is all about external attack. In the Pacific, the main opponent of the United States is Japan; in the Atlantic, the main opponent of the United States is southern Africa and the British Empire.
Don't think that since the United States and the United Kingdom are allies, the two sides are defenseless against each other. There were fewer backstabbing incidents during the World War, and the alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom is also a strange bedfellow.
The strength of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet far exceeds that of the Pacific Fleet.
Specifically in Southeast Asia, the main opponent of the Indian Ocean Fleet in southern Africa is the Japanese Combined Fleet.
As for the American and French fleets in Southeast Asia——
Haha, these two are not worthy to be opponents of the Indian Ocean Fleet.
"No, the use of the Marine Corps must be cautious. We cannot overly stimulate other countries. The situation in this area is complex. The Japanese, Americans, French, and even the Portuguese have fleets. Our purpose is not to provoke an arms race.
, but to strengthen cooperation between the Indian Ocean Fleet and the East India Fleet." Patton had a clear plan for the purpose of the exercise. It is not the time for an arms race.
The London Conference has ended. Because of the huge differences between Britain and the United States, the London Conference did not achieve any results, and differences about cruisers still exist.
This will definitely lead to an intensification of the arms race. Seven years have passed since the signing of the "Washington Naval Treaty". During the naval holiday period, no country has added large surface combatants. The once powerful G7 has gradually become obsolete. All navies are in urgent need of new models.
Battleships added.
The main reason why the Navy is burning money is this. In G7, the two Nelson-class battleships of the United Kingdom have just entered service, but the Royal Navy has already begun planning to build the next class of battleships.
Even if it cannot be built due to the "Washington Naval Treaty", it does not hinder the plan. Let's draw the drawings of the next level of battleship first.
The Royal Navy has no choice. Not to mention France and Italy, the United States and Japan also have similar plans. The next level of US battleship is the North Carolina class battleship, with a standard displacement of 35,000 tons, a full load displacement of 44 tons, and three triple main guns.
Equipped with a 45 times caliber 406mm main gun.
Japan is more radical. After the expiration of the Washington Naval Treaty, Japan is ready to start building Yamato.
The North Carolina's full-load displacement is only 44 tons, and the Yamato's full-load displacement reaches an unprecedented 72,810 tons.
In terms of building warships, Japan has never dared to lag behind others. Someone in the Japanese Navy once proposed to build a super battleship with a tonnage of 500,000 tons. This type of battleship is equipped with a total of 50 twin-mounted 406 mm main guns, 100-Yamato
In front of it are all super small brothers.
"Once the war breaks out between us and Japan, I don't think the East India Fleet will be of much use." Jackson Marshall has obvious southern African supremacy and does not think highly of the East India Navy.
"Haha, don't think so. The fleet is only an auxiliary. Once the war breaks out, the decisive factor will still be on land. Then it will be time for the Marine Corps to play its role." Although Patton is a navy, he is never biased.
Not everyone is qualified to play "leapfrog tactic". On a small island in the Pacific, you can play "leapfrog tactic". But in a country with thousands of islands like East India, you can kill yourself by playing "leapfrog".
Only by cooperating with the fleet and ground forces and advancing bit by bit can the supply line be ensured.
This also means that if southern Africa goes to war with Japan, Japan will not be able to pose a threat to Changi Naval Base before occupying the entire East India.
"Okay, I will set off tomorrow. To borrow the words of the Combined Fleet, I wish Southern Africa a prosperous military fortune!" Jackson Marshall indeed knows the Combined Fleet very well.
"Good luck to the military!" Patton drank it all in one gulp. Tomorrow Patton will return to Pretoria, and then go to Whale Bay to send the Atlantic Fleet and the Royal Navy for a joint exercise.
Regardless of the political intrigues, military relations are still good, especially with the Royal Navy.
While the army was busy with exercises, the regime change in London had been completed. Stanley Baldwin led the British cabinet to resign en masse, and Ramsay Macdonald came to power.
After Ramsay Macdonald became Prime Minister, the UK held a general election. The public's disappointment with the Conservative Party was fully reflected in this election. The Labor Party won 288 points and regained the majority status in the House of Commons. The Conservative Party was left with only 260 points.
seats, Lloyd; the Liberal Party led by George received 59 seats.
The Liberal Party is really miserable, but compared with the last election, there is still progress.
In the last general election, the Liberal Party only had 40 seats in the House of Commons, which was disastrous.
Although the Labor Party gained majority status, it did not gain an absolute advantage.
This time, Ramsay Macdonald absorbed the lessons learned during his last term as prime minister and enlisted the Liberal Party to form a coalition government. Ramsay Macdonald also no longer served as foreign minister, and the position of foreign minister was held by Arthur Hind.
Thomas served as Lord Privy Seal, while Bondfield served as Minister of Labour.
It is worth mentioning that Margaret Bondfield is a woman, which is the first time in British history that a woman has entered the cabinet.
Moving into No. 10 Downing Street again, Ramsay and Macdonald were very ambitious, hoping to rescue Britain from the economic crisis and lead the British Empire back to its peak.
This sounds unreliable, let alone Ramsey; Macdonald, even if God possessed him, the British Empire would not be able to return to the Victorian era. Even the United States, Japan, and southern Africa would not agree.
On June 15, Ramsay and Macdonald submitted a package of reform plans to the House of Commons, covering finance, industry, industry, military, social welfare, etc., covering all aspects of the UK.
What Ramsay and Macdonald did not expect was that the plan was directly rejected by the House of Commons.
The House of Commons reasoned simply that Ramsey Macdonald's plan was, on the whole, a direct copy of the Federal Government's plan for Southern Africa.
How could this be possible? The British Empire was the sovereign state in southern Africa. When the economic crisis broke out, the sovereign state could not provide guidance to the Dominions. Instead, it copied the work of the Dominions. This was really unacceptable to the members of the House of Commons.
p: I heard that there are double monthly votes - it’s the end of the month again, brothers, you will get moldy if you don’t vote for monthly votes -
