Huang Zhigang, commander-in-chief of the Royal Air Force of the Han and Tang Empires, heard that Zhou Rui had increased the military expenditure of 20 billion silver coins to the Air Force, and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, the military expenditure of the Royal Air Force this year is actually enough, but several aircraft factories can only deliver more than 300 Falcon fighters to our Royal Air Force every month because they still need to manufacture carrier-based fighters for the Navy."

Of course, if His Majesty allocates an extra 20 billion silver coins, several aircraft factories can increase the quota of our Royal Air Force in the future, and the speed at which our Royal Air Force is equipped with fourth-generation fighters will be able to speed up a lot. ”

As soon as Huang Zhigang's words fell, Wang Kui, commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires, said: "Your Majesty, you can't fight the idea of our Royal Navy quota.

Now the fourth-generation carrier-based fighters of our Royal Navy have just completed only half of the refitting, and the third-generation carrier-based fighters of several aircraft carriers need to be replaced with fourth-generation carrier-based fighters. ”

Song Limin, the former commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires, has retired home to recuperate, and after Song Limin retired, Zhou Rui promoted Wang Kui to take over as the commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires, and Wang Kui's military rank was also promoted to marshal.

When Wang Kui was young, he was called the one-armed marshal because his left arm was blown off in the naval battle of Shark Island.

In the past ten years, Zhou Rui has only opened two aircraft carriers from the lottery system, namely the American Forrestal-class aircraft carrier and the American Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier.

However, the 66 American Forrestal-class aircraft carriers originally equipped by the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires have been decommissioned, along with the American Midway-class aircraft carriers, the American Essex-class aircraft carriers, the Dongying Guoxianghe-class aircraft carriers, and the Bird's Nest-class aircraft carriers.

Among them, in addition to 15 Essex-class aircraft carriers and 11 Dongying Guoxianghe-class aircraft carriers have been scrapped and dismantled, the remaining retired aircraft carriers have been mothballed.

Although the 66 American Forrestal-class aircraft carriers were mothballed, they have undergone a renovation and upgrade after mothballing, plus annual maintenance, and once the war breaks out, these 66 American Forrestal-class aircraft carriers can be immediately returned to service.

At present, among the active service of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires, there are a total of 108 U.S. Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers.

The American Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, with a full load displacement of 84,914 tons and a maximum speed of 32 knots, is equipped with 20 F-14 Tomcat fighters, 24 F-18 Hornet fighters, 16 attack aircraft, 4 AWACS aircraft, 4 electronic warfare aircraft, 6 anti-submarine aircraft, 6 anti-submarine helicopters and 2 rescue helicopters.

It is equipped with three eight-mounted anti-aircraft missile launchers, semi-active radar guidance, three six-barreled 20-mm rapid-fire guns, as well as air search radars, sea search radars, fire control radars, jamming rocket launchers, torpedo defense systems for surface ships, missile control systems and many other ship electrical systems.

In addition to the 108 U.S. Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers, the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires also has 60 Optimus-class, 30 Island-class, and 343 Jumbo-class aircraft carriers in service.

The 30 island-class and 343 Jumbo-class ships have undergone modern modifications, adding a large number of ship electrical systems and missile installations, and the power systems of these two aircraft carriers can reach a maximum speed of 32 knots.

The Qingtian-class aircraft carrier is another aircraft carrier built by the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires after the war, with a full load displacement of up to 488,000 tons, a maximum speed of 32 knots, equipped with a large number of ship electrical systems and missile devices, with 12 catapults, and can take off 12 carrier-based fighters at the same time.

At present, most of the carrier-based fighters equipped by the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires are imitation F-14 Tomcat fighters and imitation F-18 Hornet fighters, so these two imitation carrier-based fighters are directly called Tomcat fighters and Hornet fighters in the sequence of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires.

The Optimus-class aircraft carrier is equipped with a total of 150 Tomcat fighters, 150 Hornet fighters, 10 AWACS aircraft, 10 electronic warfare aircraft, 24 anti-submarine helicopters and 12 rescue helicopters.

The island-class aircraft carrier, after the transformation, has a full load displacement increased to 339,000 tons, equipped with 120 Tomcat fighters, 120 Hornet fighters, 8 AWACS aircraft, 8 electronic warfare aircraft, 18 anti-submarine helicopters and 8 rescue helicopters.

The Jumbo-class aircraft carrier, after the transformation, increased its full load displacement to 136,000 tons, equipped with 48 Tomcat fighters, 48 Hornet fighters, 4 AWACS aircraft, 4 electronic warfare aircraft, 10 anti-submarine helicopters and 4 rescue helicopters.

Zhou Rui then turned back to the Minister of Industry Kang Huai and said: "Now the Air Force and Navy need to speed up the replacement of fourth-generation fighters.

Next, let the aircraft factories that can produce fourth-generation fighters expand their production capacity as much as possible to meet the needs of the Air Force and Navy. ”

Kang Huai said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, several aircraft factories that can produce fourth-generation fighters have increased their production capacity to the maximum, and unless a new production line is added, it will not be possible to increase production capacity at all." ”

Zhou Rui waved his hand: "Then add a new production line."

Recently, several countries in the military alliance of the nine countries have made more and more small moves, and our Han and Tang Empires have to make some preparations as soon as possible.

By the way, did I find the radioactive material that I asked your Ministry of Industry to find? ”

"Your Majesty, our Ministry of Industry has searched the entire empire, but we have not found that kind of radioactive material, and even on the side of the Continent of the Gods, we have not found that kind of radioactive material."

"Oh, got it.

But we have to continue to search, if we can find that kind of radioactive material, our Han and Tang Empire can easily drive those beast countries and those elf countries back to the beast world completely. ”

In the palace of Norya City, the first capital of the Golden Lion Empire, Emperor Cosno looked at the coughing Prime Minister Salento and asked with concern: "Salento, what does the doctor say about your illness?" ”

After Prime Minister Salento stopped coughing, he said with a wry smile: "It's all old problems, nothing serious." ”

Then Prime Minister Salento's voice changed, "Your Majesty, there are some countries within our Nine Nations Military Alliance recently, but there have been a lot of incidents, such as those three elven countries.

The minister was a little worried that if they did this, they would provoke the Han and Tang Empires. ”

When Emperor Kosno heard this, a fierce glint flashed in his eyes, "Actually, recently, I also want to make some small moves on the Han and Tang Empires.

Now our Golden Lion Empire, as well as the other countries of the Nine Nations Military Alliance, are no longer comparable to the last war.

The Han and Tang Empires occupied such a vast land, shouldn't it be time to give up some? ”

When Prime Minister Salento heard this, he immediately said with a solemn face: "Your Majesty, in the face of the Han and Tang Empires, our Golden Lion Empire must be cautious, after all, the war potential of the Han and Tang Empires is too great. ”

Emperor Kosno said with a smile: "Now the fighters of the Air Force have been updated to the fourth generation, the main battle tanks of the army have been updated to the third generation, and the battleships and battlecruisers of the Navy have been completely reduced to target ships.

It is precisely because of the upgrading of weapons and equipment that the gap between our Golden Lion Empire and the Han and Tang Empires has narrowed a lot.

If the military strength of the nine countries of the alliance is combined, it can already form a certain advantage in the face of the Han and Tang Empires. ”

Prime Minister Salento hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the Han and Tang Empires have always been willing to hide their strength, and at this point, our Golden Lion Empire, and even the entire Nine Nations Military Alliance, have suffered a lot of losses.

For example, many of the battleships and battlecruisers of the Han and Tang Imperial Navy seem to have been modernized, with the addition of some ship electrical systems and missile devices, and turned into missile battleships and missile battlecruisers.

So far, the intelligence department of our Golden Lion Empire has not figured out how many missile battleships and how many missile battlecruisers have been transformed by the navy of the Han and Tang Empires. ”

After the navies of various countries were successively equipped with missiles, the large number of battleships and battle cruisers of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires suddenly fell behind.

However, Zhou Rui immediately took out a lot of money and continued to upgrade some battleships and battlecruisers.

Today, the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires is in active service, and the warships that have been transformed into missile battleships include 195 Ganyang-class super battleships, 126 German H44-type super battleships, 118 German H43-type super battleships, 136 "Zhen" class battleships, 78 Dongying Yamato-class battleships, 75 American Montana-class battleships, and 86 German Hindenburg-class battleships.

and 70 U.S. Iowa-class battleships, 68 French Richelieu-class battleships, 72 German Bismarck-class battleships, 68 U.S. Colorado-class battleships, 68 U.S. North Carolina-class battleships, 73 U.S. South Dakota-class battleships, 72 Toei Kuni-Nagato-class battleships, and 52 Italian Veneto-class battleships.

The warships that have been converted into missile battlecruisers include 83 British Hood-class battlecruisers, 86 American Alaska-class battlecruisers, 130 Cangzi-class battlecruisers, 65 German Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers, and 120 German O-class battlecruisers.

These missile battleships and missile battlecruisers have undergone large-scale modernization and modification, while retaining all the main guns, they have been equipped with advanced missile installations and some ship electrical systems, but they still retain the traditional appearance of battleships and battlecruisers.

It is precisely because these missile battleships and missile battlecruisers have retained their traditional appearance that it is difficult for the outside world to assess the combat effectiveness of these missile battleships and missile battlecruisers.

The transformation of these missile battleships and missile battlecruisers by the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires was strictly kept secret, and the intelligence system of the Golden Lion Empire did not even figure out what type of missiles these missile battleships and missile battlecruisers were equipped with.

As for how many missile battleships and missile battlecruisers were transformed by the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires, the intelligence system of the Golden Lion Empire is even more unclear.

In addition to these missile battleships and missile battlecruisers, there were many battleships and battlecruisers in the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires, which were not modernized because of their structure or age, and some were directly scrapped and dismantled, and some were mothballed.

Hearing Prime Minister Salento mention the missile battleships and missile cruisers rebuilt by the Han and Tang Empire Navy, Emperor Kosno sighed and said: "Speaking of which, I have to envy the wealth of the Han and Tang Empires.

You must know that the cost of renovating those battleships and battlecruisers is simply astronomical.

It took our Golden Lion Empire billions of silver coins to transform 30 Mad Lion-class super battleships into missile battleships.

As a result, in the final calculation, the comprehensive combat effectiveness of a Mad Lion-class super battleship may only be slightly stronger than a Blue Whale-class missile cruiser of our Golden Lion Empire's Royal Navy, which is really worth the loss. ”

After a pause, Emperor Kosno continued: "Through the transformation of the Mad Lion-class super battleship, it can be seen that the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the modified missile battleships and missile battlecruisers is actually not high, after all, the large-caliber naval guns equipped with these missile battleships and missile battlecruisers are likely to play no role in naval warfare.

Therefore, even if the Han and Tang Empires transformed all the battleships and battlecruisers into missile battleships and missile battlecruisers, it would only make the navy of the Han and Tang Empires stronger on paper.

I believe that as long as the navies of the nine countries of our alliance are gathered together, they will definitely be able to steadily suppress the navies of the Han and Tang Empires. ”

Prime Minister Salento saw Emperor Cosno's confident appearance, so he didn't say anything bad, but in Prime Minister Salento's heart, he was still full of deep fear of the Han and Tang Empires.

Then Prime Minister Salento changed his words, "Your Majesty, in addition to the Han and Tang Empires, the ministers feel that our Golden Lion Empire should also be more vigilant against the three elven countries. ”

"What does the Prime Minister mean?"

Prime Minister Salento then took out a few pieces of paper and handed them to Emperor Kosno, "Your Majesty, this is some data obtained by the intelligence department of the Golden Lion Empire.

At present, the army of the Nature Elf Empire has a total strength of 11 million, equipped with more than 4,000 third-generation main battle tanks and more than 10,000 second-generation main battle tanks, and is also equipped with thousands of helicopter gunships.

The Air Force of the Nature Elf Empire is currently equipped with more than 1,500 fourth-generation fighters and more than 5,000 third-generation fighters.

The navy of the Nature Elf Empire is equipped with more than 120 aircraft carriers, more than 150 missile battleships, more than 200 missile cruisers, more than 300 missile destroyers, more than 300 missile frigates and more than 200 attack submarines.

To be honest, the military power of just one Nature Elf Empire is already on par with our Golden Lion Empire.

And the military strength of the Light Elf Empire and the Dark Elf Empire is no worse than that of the Nature Elf Empire. ”

Emperor Kosno frowned and said, "Those three elven nations have also joined the Nine Nations Military Alliance. ”

"Your Majesty, as the saying goes, the heart of guarding against others is indispensable.

Those three elf countries, after all, were driven out of the Spirit Continent by our six beast nations back then.

Over the years, because of the three elven countries, they have obtained a large amount of iron ore resources, and the speed of military development has made Chen really a little worried. ”