If the A1920 (Arnold's initials) was the starting point for the practical use of Army weapons, then the Navy's report to Eric was the essence of Germania.

A team of more than 100 people is now gathering in the conference room of the Naval Reform Commission, all staring at the projection on the curtain, which is a flat top-down view of a Navy ship.

"Before that, please allow me to introduce the standard for the division of the displacement of this type of ship, less than 30,000 tons is light, 3-60,000 tons is medium-sized, Z-1 is a new type of ship with an estimated displacement of 27,000 tons, which is classified as light, and we officially name this series aircraft carriers, which means ship platforms that carry aircraft to fight. Unlike the one we're refitting, the new carrier will have an all-through deck, giving the aircraft the ability to take off and land at the same time. The length is 265.79 meters, and the widest point is 44.99 meters. This protrusion you see is designed to avoid collisions between the landing plane and the aircraft that is parked at the bow of the ship before takeoff. Mr. President named him the diagonal flight deck, which means that it can also be used for take-off. The power system is four steam turbines, with four axles and four propellers expected to reach speeds of 33 knots. The endurance is 20,000 nautical miles at an economic speed of 15 knots, and it is equipped with 140 Do17 aircraft... Siriakos motioned for the operator to play the next picture, which was the front image.

"In order to make as much space as possible and to facilitate the command to the greatest extent, we moved the conning tower to the back of one side, and designed three take-off and landing platforms in front of the conning tower..." This design by Siriacos is actually a masterpiece of Eric's full name.

For the sake of one-step and technical considerations, he directly referred to the Essex-class aircraft carrier designed and built by the United States during World War II in the original history, and copied the data without hindering other researchers in the design of the interior and details. The choice of this aircraft carrier as Germany's first official aircraft carrier also has various considerations, the tonnage is not large, the major shipyards can undertake it, the tonnage is not large, Britain does not have to worry too much about this, and the current aircraft carrier combat effectiveness is not reliable, and the pressure that Germany needs to face is also very small. Moreover, there will be a naval limitation treaty that Germany will not be able to avoid, and Germany, which has not paid a large amount of reparations, has maintained an army of 2 million, which has already made all European countries like a sword hanging over their heads, and if it still advances by leaps and bounds in the navy, it will not be necessary for Britain to come to find trouble, and the United States on the other side of the ocean may not be able to let Germany continue to develop. Eric didn't want to make too many enemies, and he didn't want to build an aircraft carrier that didn't even have combat effectiveness, so he chose this 27,000-ton Essex class, which was also a compromise in advance.

Whether it's a ship, an airplane, a tank or even a car, it's often the powertrain that is the most important core and most expensive, and it's often the powertrain that restricts it. Without enough power support, the ship can't run fast, the plane can't fly fast, the tank can't run. But Eric is confident in the power system, and the research and development of the Eric Group has always been at the forefront, which is because he knows the importance of the power system very well, and the industry that will never be eliminated is the engine design industry.

The power system of the LZT-1 is powered by four steam turbines to provide thrust, the design speed is 33 knots, and the actual speed will not be lower than 30 knots, the problem of range is not big, and now Germany only wants to compete with Britain in the North Sea, what Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, they did not consider at all, the sworn enemy is Britain.

As for France and the USSR, why bother the navy when the army can do it.

The main combat power of the aircraft carrier is the carrier-based aircraft, for this, Eric can only roll up his sleeves and do it himself, a series of design sketches sent to the Eric Arsenal to complete a series of verification and refinement and then begin testing.

The dive torpedo aircraft took into account the limitations of bomb-carrying and carrier-based aircraft, referring to the Swordfish torpedo bomber that entered service in the UK in 1936, and also copied the data, this kind of aircraft is not difficult to build, and it is cheap.

Eric since he became the master, no matter what is cheap, this is also helpless, a national army to feed, it is impossible to expect a large number of equipment and some expensive objects, the purchase price, replacement, maintenance is a lot of money, A1920 is simple enough, people like Eric can be flexibly disassembled and assembled as soon as they get it.

A weapon needs to be born to have a reference, just like there is a tank before there is a special anti-tank weapon such as the Iron Fist, although it can also attack the pillbox, but it is ancillary.

If Eric wants to keep Germany at the forefront of weapons development, he has to make this group understand what it means to be forward-looking and look at things by leaps and bounds. But leapfrog development also has a very obvious shortcoming, which costs money. How expensive is it? For example, if a targeted weapon is to be developed, its positioning is very accurate, and it needs to hit tanks, that is, armor-piercing and explosives. But if it is imagined out of thin air, its design ideas are very difficult to say, it may be that the caliber is too large to carry, there may be too small caliber and no room for improvement, it may be just moderate but the price is too expensive and other problems, and these R & D expenses are all need to pay money, you can only go together with multiple lines when you have no reference, these money is equal to someone else used a copy, you use N copies.

The reason why Eric wants to fight with Italy is to let the army find what is lacking and then make up for it, before that, Germany also had mountain troops, but lacked the corresponding weapon development, after the Italian war, the German army began to slowly supplement its own needs, such as the G16, which copied from the G43 rifle weapons began to be further improved, the design requirements of the mountain troops were shorter, so there was an improved version of the G16K. Other units fighting on the plains have different views on the large recoil of the G16, and the shoulders of the soldiers will be particularly strained after a ten-round G16 rifle is fired at one time, and now with tanks involved in the operation, the long distances required for the previous positional warfare are no longer used, and have entered the medium and close range engagement.

As a result, a medium-caliber turmoil began to spread to all units of the army out of nowhere, and the generals were also happy to see it, mainly because it was cheap enough and could be equipped in large quantities, so that they could quickly get rid of the embarrassment of not having equipment.

Just when Eric was busy with military affairs and did not meddle in government affairs, a commercial whirlwind was setting off a wave of mergers in the land of the Federal Republic of Germany, and a number of enterprises began to integrate vigorously, as if to meet the orders of the Wehrmacht, these merchants were also racking their brains to find ways to enhance their own strength so as to get more opportunities in the future.

The Eric Group was not spared from the merger, but Eric had handed over the entire group to Dinah to take care of, and he didn't know exactly how it was going on.

On the evening of September 28th, Eric was returning to his residence after a busy day, and Dinah followed suit, looking at his wife's sad face, Eric tiptoed behind her to massage her, and asked softly, "What's wrong?" Don't seem happy? ”

Dinah sighed before speaking. "Yes, today I originally wanted to buy Benz Company, but Daimler took the lead, you said I am not angry, you spent so much effort and energy on Benz Company, I am not worth it for you."

"What?" Eric really didn't know that something like this happened during the day, because he had been drilling into the Naval Reform Committee for half a month.

"yes, you're surprised, aren't you, aren't you?" Dinah turned around and wanted to comfort Eric, after all, Benz was able to have today's situation with Eric's great credit, and Benz let Benz merge with Daimler without saying a word, which was a mercenary act that completely disregarded human feelings.

"That's really..." Eric didn't know what to say, and after a moment of emotion, he asked again. "Any other news? I'm not in the office at this time. ”

"Okay, what news do you want to know, let's exchange?" Dinah said playfully.

"Swap? In exchange for what? The news on my side is public, you have to fight for what project you like, don't expect me to help you. Eric quickly waved his hand to show that he was not lying.

"Oh? Is it? So the news from the navy seems to be groundless? I don't want to say that I pulled it down, but I have a big news, even more exciting than Benz's merger with Daimler, it's an internal source, I took it from Director Oliver. Dinah's proud look left Eric speechless. Can an FBI director be tricked by a little woman to get information? Obviously, someone else is selling face to you and telling you a trade secret that is not a big deal.

"Are there multiple companies that are going to merge? And I guess there must be Nicholas Otto in there, right? ”

Eric is not stupid, the trade secrets that can make the FBI care about must be an important thing enough to change the structure of German business, considering that Otto, who has basically been in a downturn recently, is definitely not willing to accept the status quo, and must play a wave of mergers and fight again.