Since there is no advantage to be taken advantage of, Liu Fu no longer pays attention to the Spanish Civil War. Now he is not idle. There are still many things in the federation that require him to coordinate and coordinate. For example, on the construction of the navy and air force.
, which made Liu Fu very embarrassed. On a large scale
Expansion, restricted by the "Washington Treaty", many ships cannot be built. Even if a batch of components are built in advance through segmented construction, the outfitting and sea trials of large warships after they are launched will also take time, which involves
It’s time to start assembling it.
It is now the end of 1936, and there are still 2 to 3 years until the war that Liu Fu predicts will occur in about 40 years. According to the plan formulated by the Federal Ministry of Defense, the Federal Navy will have 8 to 10 heavy aircraft carriers and about 8 medium aircraft carriers by then.
There are about 10 escort aircraft carriers, 8 heavy cruisers, 150 destroyers, about 150 submarines, and 50 large supply ships and transport ships.
The Federation currently has only 4 escort aircraft carriers and 2 medium aircraft carriers, 8 heavy cruisers (including 2 new models), 60 destroyers (only 15 large destroyers), 150 submarines (half of which need to be retired and replaced with new models), 20
supply ships and transport ships, which is still far from the number needed in wartime.
Currently, the five naval shipyards of the Federation are working hard to produce large destroyers and improved Orca-class submarines, and it is expected that the expected number will be reached in two years. However, when it comes to the construction of heavy aircraft carriers and new continent-class heavy cruisers, the Navy Department has
There was no good way to do it. It would be built too early. It would alert other countries. After it was built, it would not be able to keep up with the Ministry of National Defense's plan. This issue was finally thrown to Liu Fu for him to make the final decision.
Liu Fu also carefully asked the Navy and the Ministry of Defense, and finally concluded that according to the current production capacity of the Federal Navy Shipyard, if the construction speed of large destroyers and submarines is not affected, two heavy aircraft carriers or three can be assembled every year
The medium-sized aircraft carrier has been equipped and outfitted, and the construction of heavy cruisers must be delayed.
Calculated in this way, from the beginning of construction in 1937 until 1940, the Federal Navy could only have 6 heavy aircraft carriers, 2 medium aircraft carriers, 4 escort aircraft carriers, 2 continental class heavy cruisers and 4 oceanic class heavy cruisers.
150 destroyers, 150 submarines and 20 logistics ships are still far behind the requirements for leaving the war. If it is built at this speed, it will definitely not be possible.
The quantity must be sufficient but the production and construction cannot be carried out in advance. This problem not only troubled Liu Fu. Experts from the Navy Department and the Naval Shipyard also had gray hair. For two months, Liu Fu listened to the problem.
Reports from many experts and generals at the Naval Shipyard and the Ministry of the Navy also led the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defense to inspect more than 10 relatively large private shipyards, and finally decided that the Naval Shipyard and private shipyards would jointly build this batch of ships.
vessel.
The specific arrangement is that the Ministry of National Defense will invite 10 private shipyards to bid, select 6 of them as construction contractors for the Federal Navy, and let the private shipyards help the Federal Navy build all large destroyers, logistics supply ships, heavy cruisers, and heavy aircraft carriers.
Hull components.
The five spare naval shipyards will be put into the task of assembling and outfitting heavy aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers. Within three years, eight heavy aircraft carriers, two continental-class heavy cruisers, and two ocean-class heavy cruisers will be assembled and outfitted.
Delivered to the Navy for sea trials 40 years ago.
The first heavy-duty aircraft carrier must be outfitted and delivered to the Navy for sea trials before June 2038, so that the Navy has sufficient time to adjust this brand-new aircraft carrier. In addition, the Korean Navy Air Force also needs a new aircraft carrier to allow pilots to
They undergo adaptive training.
Although this plan finally solved the problems of construction period and construction quantity, it still had loopholes in some confidentiality and technology leakage issues. However, Liu Fu could no longer care about these. Even if the technology was leaked, countries could not
It will be known in the short term, and in order to enhance confidentiality, all private shipyards participating in the naval project this time must implement military control and dispatch agents from the Ministry of the Interior for supervision to minimize the possibility of leaks.
After solving the problem of the navy, there are still problems of the air force and the army waiting for Liu Fu. Although these problems are no longer as difficult and troublesome as the naval construction problem, they are still problems after all. Even if they are not reported to Liu Fu, Liu Fu will not
You may not ask, but after so many years of hard work, this is the last step. Even if you are exhausted, you can't be lazy at this time.
The main problem of the Air Force is not in production capacity and construction cycle, but in the selection of aircraft models and production quantities. The Air Force is gradually divided into two factions, one is the high-altitude bombing faction, and the other is the close-in attack faction.
The two factions started out as a struggle between pilots, but as a result the war expanded, involving aircraft designers and senior Air Force generals, and even ground crews expressed their views.
This debate not only exists in the Air Force, but has also spread to the Naval Air Force. They are not arguing about high-altitude bombing and dive bombing, but whether to use torpedoes or dive bombers to attack local fleets. Most of those who support torpedo attacks
They are veteran pilots. Many of them grew up listening to the battle stories told by pilots of the previous generation, and were deeply influenced by the pilots of the older generation.
Most of those who support dive bombing are the new generation of pilots. These young people are naturally rebellious. The more you say one is good, the less they will do it. You have to say that another is better. In addition, their academic qualifications are higher than those of the older generation of pilots.
, so they are quick to accept new technologies and things. These new pilots are more fond of the dive bombers newly equipped by the Federal Navy.
However, from the perspective of federal aircraft designers, there is no contradiction in whether torpedo aircraft or dive bombers are better, because they have designed these two aircraft together, which means that the current attack aircraft equipped by the federal navy are only
One, it adopts a new design, with a stronger fuselage to cope with high-speed dives, and an air speed brake is installed on the tail to allow the aircraft to quickly decelerate from high-speed dives and complete the actions of bombing and pulling up.
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This aircraft is equipped with a new, more powerful 1,300-horsepower liquid-cooled in-line gasoline engine, enabling a flight speed of up to 465 kilometers, a fully loaded range of 2,000 kilometers, and a combat radius of 600 kilometers. The nose is equipped with two 19mm cannons and ammunition.
300 rounds. In addition, it can carry an 890kg 533mm aviation torpedo or three 300kg aerial bombs and four 250kg aerial bombs in the belly magazine.
This aircraft is named SBT-4 according to the weapon number of the Federal Navy. It adopts a variety of new technologies. In addition to the retractable landing gear, the fully enclosed magazine on the belly of the aircraft can also reduce the resistance of the aircraft and save money.
In addition, this attack aircraft is also equipped with a radio intercom and an airborne radar. This small scanning radar can not only detect air targets 10 kilometers away and sea targets 60 kilometers away, but also
Can be used as a radio-assisted navigation system.
Unlike the situation in the Federal Navy, the debate in the Federal Air Force focused on dive bombers and level bombers. Federal aircraft designers cannot be careless and design these two aircraft together this time, because the two aircraft are really very different.
It's far away. Three dive bombers put together are not as big as a high-altitude horizontal bomber. How can this happen?
Let's put it together. The problems that aircraft designers couldn't solve were finally pushed to Liu Fu, because there is a legend circulating in the field of federal aircraft design and the air force, that is, the highest authority in federal aircraft design and air combat.
Not the designer, nor the Air Force Commander or the staff members of the Air Force Staff, but Federal President Liu Fu.
Since he was deeply loved by the Air Force, Liu Fu reluctantly served as a referee for the Federal Air Force. Liu Fu's final opinion was that both types of aircraft have their own uses, but as far as the Federation itself is concerned, horizontal bombers are still the mainstay.
Because most of the enemies the Federation faces come from the sea, in land wars, the main task of the Federation Air Force is to conduct large-scale strategic bombing. As for landing operations, the Federation Navy’s attack aircraft can complete the task of covering the landing troops. (To be continued.
