Having said that, if distant China came out and asked Li Le to help kill Japan, maybe Li Le, the beating heart of China, would still consider it.

Now it is for Germany to help India defeat Britain, and almost no benefits can be reaped in India, how can Li Le be interested.

"Understood, my Führer!" Bowman heard Li Le's order and quickly nodded and said.

The Führer's political vision is often more unique than that of the military, so Bowman will not question any decision.

In Bowman's view, faraway India is indeed beyond the reach of the whip. A few months ago, the Third Reich was not even sure that the Mediterranean would be in a state of equilibrium.

After a moment of silence for the poor man Bose, Bowman turned his attention to what was more worthy of his attention.

"My Führer, tonight there is a meeting on the development of the Navy, do you want to attend?" He looked at the Führer, who had been standing by the window and looking at the woods outside, after giving the order, and asked.

"Navy?" After hearing this, Li Le muttered repeatedly, then nodded and said, "Tell them that I will participate." ”

The army has a completely new program for the construction of tanks, as well as a more streamlined program for the production of trucks, a program for the replenishment of artillery for manufacturing, and a program for the training of new recruits.

The Air Force also has a lot of plans: plans to build new aircraft, accelerated production of the JU-188 bomber, secret development plans for future jet fighters, and so on.

In comparison, the Navy's production plan looks a little shabby. With the exception of warships, which had already begun construction before the war, the navy has recently focused on repairs and refits.

In addition to submarines, the German Navy has not yet launched a single new warship, and there are no plans to build new warships in the near future.

In order to concentrate its forces on defeating the Soviet Union, the biggest enemy at this stage, Germany has put more than 90 percent of its production capacity and attention on the land and air of the Eastern Front.

In this case, it is not a very realistic idea to expect any major development in the Navy.

However, to say that the German Navy has not developed in the near future is to definitely underestimate Li Le's determination to build a strong navy.

Previously, Germany had an ambitious Z-shaped shipbuilding plan, and the most crazy thing about this shipbuilding plan was the construction of its core Hindenburg-class battleships.

This kind of battleship has a full load displacement of more than 50,000 tons, and once it is built, it can be said that it is possible to surpass the terrible existence of the battleship Yamato.

It is a pity that such battleships were never built after all, and they never appeared on a rampage on the battlefield.

During the construction of the Hindenburg-class battleships, they were codenamed H, J, K, and L, and the first ship was planned to be named the Hindenburg, so it was called the Hindenburg-class battleships.

Now, with the intervention of Li Le, the 2 and 2 H and J ships, which were built from July 1939, have been converted into aircraft carriers, and now more than half of them have been built.

Compared with the rigor of battleships, in 1941, the new weapon of aircraft carriers did not have as many technical difficulties as imagined.

Unlike today's complex and advanced aircraft carriers, aircraft carriers of those days were actually easy to build, at least more material-efficient than battleships, and easier to make.

The big deal is that because of the lack of technical reserves and design flaws, the number of carrier-based aircraft is insufficient, or there are problems such as being easy to be sunk.

But if such a mistake in detail can be tolerated, then the construction of an aircraft carrier will not be technically difficult for Germany.

During World War II, there were countless examples of the use of old freighters, cruise ships, and outdated warships converted into aircraft carriers, as were done by naval powers such as the United States, Britain, and Japan.

Germany, although unsuccessful, has a similar retrofit program. This also shows from another aspect that in World War II, if you ignore part of the performance, in fact, the technical threshold of the aircraft carrier is quite low.

Therefore, Li Le ordered the conversion of two Hindenburg-class battleships into German fleet aircraft carriers in the process of construction.

The two aircraft carriers, converted from 50,000-ton battleships, will have a full load displacement of 55,000 tons.

The huge straight deck extends out of the hull and has a length of more than 280 meters, and because it is a battleship conversion, the width of the battleship itself is also very impressive, and the width of the aviation deck is more than 40 meters.

You must know that in 1944, the most advanced aircraft carrier in the United States, the Essex-class, had a deck length of more than 260 meters and a width of less than 30 meters.

Therefore, the deck of the German modified aircraft carrier is larger than that of the Essex-class aircraft carrier, capable of accommodating 115 combat aircraft of various types.

Referring to this, it is necessary to say about the disadvantages of the conversion of German battleships into aircraft carriers. Due to the lack of design experience of the engineers, a lot of space was wasted in the retrofitting process.

The side armor of the battleship that had been laid also seriously exceeded the tonnage of the German aircraft carrier, which also affected the number of carrier-based aircraft.

With a displacement of less than 35,000 tons, the Essex-class specially designed aircraft carrier can carry 103 carrier-based aircraft.

However, Germany's modified aircraft carriers have a displacement of more than 50,000 tons, but the number of carrier-based aircraft has not been substantially improved, which in itself shows the gap between the two countries in the level of aircraft carrier design and construction.

Of course, it is also unfair to compare a modified German aircraft carrier in 1941 with a new type of specialized aircraft carrier built by the United States around 1944.

The German battleships K and L converted aircraft carriers, because the hull itself was built without time to lay all the armor of the design thickness, as a result, the displacement was greatly reduced.

So the data of the two aircraft carriers, K and L, are more comfortable: their full load displacement is less than 49,000 tons.

Although the level of protection on the side has been somewhat reduced, these two aircraft carriers built later can carry a lot of aviation fuel, more like some specially designed aircraft carriers.

Unlike the American and Japanese aircraft carrier design concepts, the German and British aircraft carrier decks had armor protection. This design also affected the tonnage, and the number of carrier-based aircraft.

Now, after rushing construction, the hulls of the two aircraft carriers H and J have been completed, and if the rush construction continues, it is estimated that the construction of these two aircraft carriers will be completed by the end of 41 years.

With these two aircraft carriers, the fleet aircraft carriers of Germany were enough. After all, when Japan fought Midway, only 4 fleet aircraft carriers participated in the battle.

Having accepted the British aircraft carriers HMS Dreadnought and HMS Tejour, Germany now has three aircraft carriers.

Although the Dreadnought was badly damaged and was being repaired on the slipway, it was an aircraft carrier, wasn't it?

Now the German Navy has two aircraft carriers that can be used immediately, one is the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, which it built itself and used very easily, and the other is the aircraft carrier Brilliant handed over by the British.

Unlike the Zeppelin, the Radiance aircraft carrier can only carry more than thirty carrier-based aircraft, and its speed is slightly slower.

The Kornas carrier was nearly 10 meters shorter than the Zeppelin's deck, so the total number of aircraft on board was smaller than the original, only 32 aircraft.

In order to rationally arrange the attack force, the aircraft carrier Tejas carried 10 F-190T fighters, and only 22 Stuka Cs were used for attack.

This amount can only be used as a supplement to the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, and if Germany had a better choice, it would naturally not want such a big toy.

But is there a better option for Germany? The answer is no! The closest to completion of a new German aircraft carrier, called the Northwest River, was converted from a 18,000-ton cruise ship, a typical World War II escort aircraft carrier model.

This aircraft carrier can only carry 25 carrier-based aircraft, which is even more unbearable than the Brilliant. However, Germany has changed two aircraft carriers of this modification in one go, and both of them are almost completed.

Why insist on the construction of such two not very good escort aircraft carriers? Because the German Navy urgently needed such an escort aircraft carrier.

There were so few aircraft carriers that could train German naval aviation, so Germany had to seize all the resources at its disposal to train naval aviation, which was relatively more difficult to obtain.

The seemingly powerful German naval aviation unit, in fact, has only a pitiful number of pilots with experience in aircraft carrier take-off and landing, as well as actual combat experience.

This number may increase by 10 times in Japan and more than 100 times in the United States.

The fundamental reason why Germany won the Battle of the Atlantic was that it had an overwhelming superiority in its carrier-based aircraft, lost too few pilots, and did not encounter the dilemma of replenishment difficulties.

Once Germany and the United States go to war, the naval aviation of both sides will suffer losses in the hundreds, and Germany will not be able to withstand such huge consumption if it does not have a relatively large pilot training base.

Because of this, the German Navy had to train as many pilots as possible to lose enough before it could go head-to-head with the U.S. Navy.

And to train real aircraft carrier pilots, it is not enough to rely on ground training alone. They have to go through a sufficient number of aircraft carrier take-off and landing flights before they can really adapt to combat at sea.

Of course, as mentioned before, these two refitted aircraft carriers, which do not seem so advanced, actually have room to play.

The two aircraft carriers will perform anti-submarine escort missions in the Mediterranean, training qualified naval aviation pilots on a part-time basis.

The repaired Dreadnought will be added to the German Navy at the end of 1941, counting the Hindenburg and Ludendorff, which can join the Navy at the same time, the German Navy will have 5 aircraft carriers.

By that time, the combat capability of the German Navy could no longer be said to be irrelevant.

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