It took just over two months for Germany to reorganize its entire army, which once again made the world realize the rigor and efficiency of the Germans.

Fast forward to the beginning of June 1925, when the Henschel Aircraft Manufacturing Company delivered the good news to Lyon, as they had made significant progress in the HE-37 aircraft secretly tested in the Soviet Union, reaching an unprecedented speed of 312 kilometers per hour.

Lyon was pleasantly surprised when he received the news, the HE37 aircraft was supposed to be secretly developed in 1928, a full 3 years ahead of schedule! You must know that the British Bulldog fighter in service in 1929 only had a maximum level flight speed of 287km/h.

However, Leon quickly calmed down, he understood that Germany could not equip even if it had such a fast aircraft, because the "Portsmouth Peace Treaty" still did not allow Germany to form an air force, so Leon only sent a congratulatory telegram back to the Henschel company, encouraging them to continue to develop better aircraft, instead of purchasing HE37.

At the end of June, the ship design team also came with the good news that all the ships needed by the navy had been designed and accepted by Lyon.

Leon immediately set off and took Raeder straight to the ship design team office in Kiel.

When they arrived at Kiel, Leon and Raeder couldn't wait to look through the general information of the warship, Leon was looking at the aircraft carrier he had high hopes for, and Raeder was looking at his favorite battleship.

First of all, the aircraft carrier, its standard displacement is 23,000 tons, and the full load displacement is 30,000 tons, which is relatively close to the aircraft carrier Count Zeppelin in the previous Germany.

In terms of power, although it uses two steam turbines of the latest generation that has just been developed by Germany, the output power is only 65,000 horsepower, so the maximum speed of this aircraft carrier when fully loaded is only 28 knots, but for the current aircraft, the speed of 28 knots is very sufficient.

In terms of shipboard weapons, the design team originally planned to equip it with 16 150mm naval guns, 12 105mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 22 37mm anti-aircraft guns, and 28 20mm anti-aircraft guns, so that the aircraft carrier would have strong sea firepower and be able to single-handedly take on a 10,000-ton heavy cruiser. However, when Leon learned of the news, he immediately vetoed the plan.

Perhaps this weapon plan seems reasonable to the current group of people who have not really seen the future mode of naval warfare, and the aircraft carrier can not only fly planes, but also directly participate in artillery battles, isn't it the best of both worlds? However, Leon, as a later generation, understood that aircraft carriers rarely had the opportunity to face each other in a face-to-face artillery battle with the opposing battleship. The aircraft carriers that sank in later generations were basically blown up and sunk by the opposite plane, or they were sunk by a sneak attack by a submarine, and the few aircraft ships that were sunk by naval guns were basically so defeated that they lost their combat effectiveness and could not escape.

Therefore, as an aircraft carrier, it is better to install more anti-aircraft guns to install large-caliber naval guns to increase your chances of survival.

The design team listened to Lyon's suggestion and changed the 150mm naval gun to an anti-aircraft gun, and at Lyon's suggestion, the poor 105mm caliber anti-aircraft gun and 37mm anti-aircraft gun were replaced with new 128mm anti-aircraft guns and 40mm anti-aircraft guns, and the new 128mm and 40mm anti-aircraft guns were to be designed by Krupp and Rheinmetall at the same time, and finally the excellent performance will be ordered. So the ship's armament will be a combination of 14 128mm twin high-level dual-purpose guns + 22 twin 40mm anti-aircraft guns + 28 quadruple 20mm anti-aircraft guns.

Not only on ships, but also in the future army anti-aircraft artillery units will abandon 105mm anti-aircraft guns in favor of new anti-aircraft guns.

In terms of armor, the deck armor of this aircraft carrier is 25mm thick, and the main armor belt on the left side is 180mm thick, which is used to balance the weight imbalance caused by the island on the right.

In terms of the most important carrier-based aircraft, it plans to equip it with 20 fighters, 20 dive bombers and 15 torpedo attack aircraft in the future.

Once this aircraft carrier is completed, it will become the most powerful aircraft carrier in the world, and there is no one! Lyon was very happy with this.

Let's talk about the battleship that makes Raeder think about it day and night.

THIS NEWLY DESIGNED BATTLESHIP USES FOUR TWIN 380MM/L55 MAIN GUNS, WITH A RANGE OF 22KM AND AN ARMOR-PIERCING SHELL WEIGHING 880KG. Because the barrel is 55 times the caliber, and the gun was designed to have a strong charge, the initial velocity of the armor-piercing projectile reached a terrifying 870m/s, which is a typical high-speed heavy projectile. To sum up, its main gun is enough for it to penetrate all the main armor of battleships today and even in the next 10 years at 20,000 meters. The only disadvantage of this gun is that due to the strong charge, the barrel life is very short, the chamber life is only 120 rounds, and the body barrel life is only 250 rounds.

In terms of armor, due to Lyon's suggestion, it did not adopt the concept of comprehensive protection + dome armor that has always been in Germany, but adopted the scheme of key protection + inward tilted main equipment.

Its main armor belt was 380mm thick and tilted inwards up to 20 °, which was enough to withstand armor-piercing shells from British 406mm naval guns at 17,000 meters. The horizontal armor is only 120mm, but it is still relatively strong.

In terms of power, it is equipped with two steam turbines like the aircraft carrier, but due to its heavy weight, its speed is only 24 knots, which is lower than the aircraft carrier's 28 knots.

True, his displacement is large, with a standard displacement of 38,000 tons, which is a large cut over the 35,560 tons specified in the contract. However, the design team did not intend to follow the treaty in a single tonnage from the beginning, and only needed a small false report at that time, hehe.

Raeder looked trembling and excited, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, he knew what it would mean if this battleship was launched, it would be one of the most powerful battleships in the world. However, he did not know that Britain, the United States and Japan were building 406mm caliber battleships. However, even against the 406mm and 410mm "Big Seven", this battleship will not fall behind alone.

In general, both Leon and Raeder were satisfied with the design, and after submitting it to Congress, it was also approved.

The battleship was named the Admiral Scheer-class battleship in honor of the sacrifice of Admiral Scheer during Operation Rainbow. The construction of the lead ship, the Admiral Scheer, immediately began at the Königsberg shipyard.

The second ship was named Friedrich Albert by Lyon in honor of President Albert's great contribution to the German economy (although Albert had been Lyon's sworn enemy) and construction began at the Hamburg Falken shipyard.

The aircraft carrier was named Count Zeppelin by Lyon, and construction began at the Deutsche Shipyard.

The completed light cruiser was designated the Königsberg class and, like the Admiral Scheer, was built at the Königsberg shipyard. The heavy cruiser was named Admiral Hipper and was built by Deutsche Shipyard. The destroyer did not have a meaningful name, so it was directly named the Z-class, which was the responsibility of some small shipyard. The submarine was designated the UIA class and was in the hands of the famous German submarine factory Germania Shipyard.