"In the area of radio communications and reconnaissance, we don't seem to be doing enough. I don't think the Navy has yet established a complete radio communication system for sea and land-based cooperation, right? After speaking, His Royal Highness the Prince looked at Lieutenant General Liao Le.

"We are working on the establishment of a system that will equip all warships with the corresponding radio equipment by the end of next year, but this equipment is very unstable and has a very close effective distance." Liao Le now has a completely lying gun feeling.

"Establishing a radio communication link is not just about getting a set of equipment, just training some personnel, this is a system, and I must remind everyone that this is a system! In order to ensure the top secrecy of naval communications, I would like to ask, what plans has the navy made for the design of radio secrets? How often is the Navy Codebook updated? If a battleship is sunk or captured, how do you prevent the codebook from falling into the hands of the enemy? Have you thought about it? ”

Speaking of which, His Royal Highness the Prince wants to be speechless about radio communication and secrecy in German history, if the Russians accidentally discovered the German Navy codebook on the sunken ship was an accident, then the German Navy has not changed the codebook itself is an act of death, from the beginning of the war was obtained codebook, and then the British relied on this codebook to know the actions of the German Navy well, which is almost equivalent to playing Warcraft to open a map!

The Germans suffered a loss in the Battle of Sandbank, and the Battle of Jutland ran into the British Grand Fleet, such an obvious thing could not attract the attention of the German naval leadership, His Royal Highness the Prince was speechless! The intelligence services of the British simply knew more about the movements of the German Navy than the German Admiralty.

Of course, it must be admitted that the intelligence talent of the Germans in World War 1 was indeed too poor, and according to the prince's memory, it seems that in World War 1, the radio code of the Germans would have been deciphered by the Entente after a week of use. Obviously, the codebook can't be changed once a week. 2 Although the German Enig cipher machine was in the limelight for a while during the war, with the help of mathematicians and "bomb" deciphering machines, the Allied deciphering of German general telegrams in the later stage of the war could be compressed to a few hours. In the face of this situation, His Royal Highness the Prince can only say that it is not Germany that is not strong, but that the other party is too strong!

Now that the traverser has come and come to this point, the intelligence tragedy in the history of the German Navy must not be repeated. "As a member of the Imperial Army, I have to say that there are too many problems with the intelligence secrecy of the Imperial Army, just take the cipher as an example, it is nothing more than the repeated superposition of various simple codes, after the other party intercepts the telegram, and then according to our actions, it is easy to judge the correspondence of the ciphertext in the intelligence. And our password updates are too slow, and you always think that your intelligence system is foolproof, but I would say that this idea is completely wrong. "Ruprecht continues to be this wicked man.

"When radio telegraphs are more easily intercepted, and secrecy is not sufficient, this is a great danger for the Imperial Navy and the Army. At least I personally have some distrust of the Reich's secrecy system, and in the Bavarian Army, we have begun to explore the use of a new cryptographic communication device, which I told the Chief of the Army Staff, Count Schlieffen, at least he and his men have no way to use this system, and I think my colleagues in the Navy can learn from it. ”

For intelligence and passwords, His Royal Highness the prince has no good way, after all, he doesn't do this, he only knows a little about the Enig cipher machine, but this thing is enough for the First World War, anyway, there is no "bomb" deciphering machine in the First World War, and there will be no so-called commercial version of this thing, and if you see less, it will be even more difficult to be deciphered, after all, the historical Enig cipher machine was cracked because the Allies got a number of physical objects before they were deciphered.

"It makes sense that the Admiralty needs to communicate more with Prince Ruprecht about ciphers and intelligence." Crown Prince Wilhelm also knew some things, after all, without the acquiescence of the royal family, Ruprecht would not have been able to get into contact with the Imperial General Staff. In terms of radio communication and intelligence, the two of them have already passed the gas, and they are about to find a suitable opportunity to speak out, and His Royal Highness the Prince thinks that this opportunity is very good today.

"The second is the most critical issue I want to talk about today, that is, the construction of the capital ships of the German Navy in the future, until my design bureau started with cruisers, and many people in the Admiralty say that I am a cruiser faction, but now, I need to reiterate, I just choose the best, and I will not be limited to a certain type of ship."

"Actually, to some extent, it is not an exaggeration to call the Asama-class cruisers built in Japan second-class battleships. A new class of ships has begun to break the inherent naval classification, and the line between battleships and cruisers will be further blurred with the development of technology, and a type of ship with battleship-class guns, cruiser speed, and some armor protection will gradually become one of the main ships of the navy. Of course, our 4 new battleships already have this characteristic, and they are not slow, so much so that I would say that it is not enough! ”

"The cruiser gave up heavy armor and large-caliber artillery to gain a maximum speed of 23 knots. And in the case of a certain tonnage limit, the enhancement of one aspect will inevitably weaken the other. The kind of ship you envisioned would have the upper hand against the cruiser, but still not against the battleship. Unless your ship's tonnage is larger than the opponent's. Tirpitz said.

As an admirer of fundamentalist battleships, Tirpitz had a deep affection for battleships, although the firepower of most battleships in the Second German Reich was somewhat unworthy of tonnage.

"New technology, new technology! As a high-ranking member of the Navy, don't you have even the slightest sensitivity to technology? I am very worried about a group of civilian officials and bureaucrats planning the future equipment of the German Navy! The British had begun to use a new main engine to power their warships, and the Brom-Forss shipyard had begun to use a boiler mixed with coal and heavy oil. His Royal Highness the Prince looked distressed.

"If I were Wilhelm II, I would think that I should set up a naval armament department, independent of the other three departments of the navy." Ruprecht said in his heart.

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