Chapter 955: Oil tankers are converted into aircraft carriers
The train, which shook for three whole days, could not go down to move, even the occasional stop at the station, and the people who returned from the prisoner of war camps could not go down to move, and they were held in cramped carriages, waiting for an unknown fate.
At this time, everyone already had a terrible premonition, and these people, for the Soviets, were quite dishonorable, so what would the Soviets do to them?
According to calculations, it must have long passed Moscow, and it continues to the east, where are they going?
In the corner of the carriage, Timoshengo fell asleep again, these days, he has figured out a lot of things, just be at ease, in this life, there will always be some ups and downs.
At last, the train roared into the station again, and when the doors opened, the gendarmes shouted loudly: "Go, come out at once, follow, go to your dormitory." β
Timoshenko got out of the car, outside, a cold wind blew everyone to shiver, it was already night, the stars were shining, and you could see the tall mountains all around.
Sure enough, just like he thought, Timoshengo sneered and shook his head, he has no status anymore, and I am afraid that he will soon lose his rank, and what awaits him will be busy labor.
When he got into his dormitory, a small room where more than twenty people lived, he could already see someone inside.
That chunky guy.
Khrushchev took out a box of Dnieper cigarettes and said to him: "Would you like one?" β
We met again, although Khrushchev ran away early, but in the end, it was still the same ending, Timoshenko looked at Khrushchev, took the cigarette, and just lit it, a voice came from outside: "Quick, come out, tonight's night shift." Crater 13. β
With a cigarette in his mouth, Khrushchev picked up a shovel from the door: "Let's go, whoever leaves late will be 'preferential' by the foreman." β
Temoshenge was smoking a cigarette and using a shovel, but he didn't expect that he would also have a time for labor reform!
In the sky, the moonlight is still bright.
In the Far East, it's already early in the morning.
The climate of the island country is not cold, the grass in the field outside is hung with frost, and in the shipyard not far away, the workers who have worked hard all night are stopping to rest.
A Germanic face, which appeared in the shipyard, the workers of the shipyard, is already strange, and lately, such people have often come.
"We're making good progress, and it's the quickest option."
Rudel's side, Rear Admiral Omori Sentaro, said to Rudel: "We have converted five tankers, each of which can take off and land thirty Stuka bombers, so that we will have one more hundred and fifty bombers." It's just that now our bombers, the speed of reception is not fast enough. β
At the beginning, Rudel was just a sentence, and as a result, the island country began to argue, and the final result was not bad, and it was completely feasible to use oil tankers to change aircraft carriers.
In fact, it is not accurate to call them aircraft carriers, after all, this kind of temporarily modified tankers are all civilian standards, without any armor protection, and the power system is quite low, and they do not have the ability to sail quickly in formation with the main fleet, and the only advantage is that after modification, carrier-based aircraft can take off and land.
Rudel looked at the tankers in front, and on the side of these tankers, even the sign of the cross could be seen, but after it was hurriedly painted, it was not fully covered.
These oil tankers, all of which are German, were taken over by the island's navy after transporting crude oil from the Middle East and arriving at the island country.
In fact, the idea of transforming a merchant ship into an aircraft carrier was not invented by Rudel. A lot of people can think of it.
while
After the Washington Naval Treaty and the London Naval Treaty, the number and tonnage of the main warships and aircraft carriers of various countries were strictly restricted. At that time, the island countries that were expanding their armaments came up with a solution: to build a large number of large high-speed passenger ships and cargo ships as "aircraft carrier reserves."
In peacetime, it is civilian, and once a war breaks out or the treaty expires, it will be transformed into an aircraft carrier. On the other hand, a large number of ship orders can also maintain the shipbuilding industry of the island country, which is sluggish in the economic crisis, which is the so-called killing two birds with one stone.
For example, since the island nation won the right to host the 1940 Olympic Games in the mid-30s, it immediately placed an order with the shipyard to build two large high-speed luxury cruise ships of 2-30,000 tons to serve as ocean passenger missions from the island country to North America before and after the Olympic Games.
The official will bear 60 percent of the construction cost of these two cruise ships. After that, before the completion of the two passenger ships, they were ordered to be directly converted into aircraft carriers, named the aircraft carriers Flying Eagle and Hayabusa.
It's a pity that this kind of transformation is not cheap, especially when the original equipment of the passenger ship is dismantled and converted to military use, which causes a lot of waste.
The Germans, on the other hand, have long been prepared, and they are smarter than the islanders.
In fact, there are oil tankers in the island country, but the oil tankers in the island country are not easy to transform, most of them are about 10,000 tons, the displacement is not high, and their deck is not flat, and there are bridges in the front and rear, if you renovate, the amount of work is quite high.
The German tankers are much more convenient, their displacement is almost all about 30,000 tons, the same as those tankers of later generations, with wide and fat bellies, but the deck is empty, there is nothing in front, only the last position near the engine, is a small bridge.
Due to the high-speed diesel engine, the chimney is also small, and at the same time, whether intentionally or unintentionally, the bridge can easily be split from the middle and turned into a sideways bridge, so that there is enough space for the flight deck.
After the introduction of these tankers from Germany, the island nation carried out a simple modification, added a flight deck, cut off half of the bridge, and the aircraft carrier came out.
If there is a disadvantage, it is that the speed of these ships is too slow, and the maximum speed is less than ten knots, which is also a common problem of diesel engines, and the horsepower cannot be too large. Moreover, the asking price of the Germans is really not cheap! If it weren't for the hurry, the island nation would really want to start building such a thing in its own shipyard.
There is no lower hangar, all the planes have to be placed on the deck, otherwise, at least fifty carrier-based aircraft can be operated! At the same time, the underside of the tanker can also be loaded with oil for the replenishment of the fleet.
Being an aircraft carrier in wartime and an oil tanker in peacetime is much more convenient than using a cruise ship or something!
Due to the temporary addition of these programs, they can operate more carrier-based aircraft, so that the Stuka bomber, on the contrary, is insufficient.
Rudel nodded: "Yes, we must get together enough carrier-based aircraft as soon as possible, and I will report it to the country and give priority to the production of our friends." β
Rudel laughed in his heart, FΓΌhrer Ciric, many times like a businessman!
In fact, the domestic Stukka, production capacity is not a problem at all, now, the island people want to expedite the increase in orders, the German side deliberately delayed, you can use the excuse of overtime or something, and then increase the price.
"Major General, Advisor, Pheasant Fifty-Six summons two people to attend the meeting." Just then, a deputy came over and said.