Chapter 177: The Hindenburg Enters Service (Supplement 2)
On the whole, the trip to the Soviet Union went smoothly, and a package of cooperation agreements was signed between the two countries, which will soon appear throughout Europe and the whole world.
To play up the good relations between Germany and the Soviet Union, although there are some dirty relations between each other, Germany still hopes to maintain peace with the Soviet Union, so that Roosevelt, on the other side of the ocean, does not know how to feel after hearing such news!
Roosevelt must still be dreaming of uniting with the Soviet Union against Germany, but unfortunately, the Soviet Union would prefer that Germany would lose both sides in the war with the United States, so that Germany would easily attack the past.
And now, Germany is indeed preparing for hegemony at sea.
The day after Ciric returned to Germany, he came to the German shipyard with great interest, and this day was a special day for the German Navy!
After half a year of sea trials, the most advanced battleship of the German Navy, the Hindenburg class, will finally be incorporated into active service and join the Atlantic Fleet of the German Navy!
In history, the only thing that Germany completed was the Bismarck class, and as a result, it was scrapped by the British Navy soon after it went to sea, which made Hitler extremely disappointed with the surface forces from then on, and turned to support the submarine forces, and the Hindenburg class, which started construction in 39, was also put into the cold palace, and then the war with the Soviet Union, more of a struggle for hegemony on land, Germany slowed down the pace of equipment at sea.
But now it's different.
Germany has occupied the whole of Western Europe, if Germany cannot obtain the control of the sea in the Atlantic, then Germany will never be able to truly win, if you want to control the sea, you can't rely on those submarines, you must have the main fleet!
Although Ciric knows that the future sea supremacy belongs to the aircraft carrier, but not yet, because the Atlantic climate conditions are harsh, the marine weather is complicated, and there are often carrier-based aircraft that cannot take off, and at such times, the battleship is valuable at sea.
The Hindenburg class was started under this line of thinking, and after several years of construction, finally, the Hindenburg class was about to enter service.
This is a huge battleship with a full load displacement of 70,000 tons, and only by standing in front of it will you feel the power of such a battleship.
The length of this warship is close to 300 meters, the draft is more than 11 meters, and the tall bridge is like a building.
The most exciting thing is the thick and powerful naval guns.
460 mm, the largest caliber naval gun of this era! The maximum firing range is more than forty kilometers, and at twenty kilometers, with just one shot, any battleship will be sunk, an absolute one-shot!
When Ciric's car appeared on the dock, the whole scene was a sea of jubilation.
People raised their right arms and shouted that slogan loudly, the swastika flag fluttered in the wind on the bridge of the Hindenburg-class battleship, and sailors in festive dresses circled the ships and stood in neat lines.
Commander of the Navy, Raeder, personally helped Ciric open the car door, watched Ciric walk down from it, and when Ciric came out, he and Raeder's hands were shaken.
Raeder and Shirek have known each other for ten years, and in the past ten years, Raeder has seen the continuous growth of the German Navy, from the initial Treaty of Versailles as stipulated in the Offshore Maritime Patrol to the current Ocean Navy, Germany's strength is inseparable from Shirek!
And the Hindenburg class was single-handedly taken down by Ciric.
To build a battleship, the resources required to consume are astronomical, for example, a naval gun on a battleship now weighs nearly 3,000 tons, which is equivalent to a destroyer.
If you build tanks, you can build nearly a thousand! The navy is definitely the most money-burning service, but Ciric decided without hesitation to come out, with a displacement of 70,000 tons and a 460 mm naval gun!
The Navy's Z plan is being carried out in an orderly manner, and six of these Hindenburg-class battleships will be built, which will become the absolute main force of the Atlantic Fleet!
And what is even more exciting is that this kind of battleship only needs to be produced by Germany, and the mountain of iron ore imported from the Soviet Union is enough to build two more battleships of the same type!
Dressed in military uniform, he looked extremely energetic, he took a step and stepped onto the battleship, and on the front deck, under the ship's guns, on the makeshift platform, Ciric began to speak.
"Today, we are pleased to see that our Hindenburg-class battleships have completed sea trials and officially joined the sequence of our Navy." "It was a great moment," said Ciric, "just twenty years ago, when our navy was trembling under the Treaty of Versailles, and we had no country to defend ourselves, and now we can proudly declare to the whole world that there is no force that can stop the expansion of the Third Reich!" ”
At this time, there is no need to twist and turn, just a few days ago, Shirek went to Moscow to see the military parade, and the Soviets were not showing their great strength?
In Ciric's eyes, it was just a clown, the Soviets even needed Germany to build an aircraft carrier, what else could they be complacent?
"We, the Third Reich, want to use our own sword to acquire land for the plough of the Third Reich and daily bread for the people of the Reich, and anyone who vainly tries to be an enemy of the Reich will inevitably be enslaved under the force of the Reich, and only by obeying the Reich can we survive!"
At this time, Ciric did not say who the opponent was, and now it was said on the entry into service of the battleship, of course, it was a target at sea, and as a result, it was not until a few months later, when the German Barbarossa operation began, that the Soviets remembered that Ciric's words were actually said to the Soviets.
Ciric's words pushed the surrounding emotions to a climax, the empire at this time is absolutely capable of dealing with any enemy! The strength of the empire is fiery in everyone's heart.
Now, on the other side of the ocean, is aggressively trying to make enemies of the Empire, although come on, the Empire will not be afraid of anyone!
"Now, I declare that the Hindenburg has officially joined the Atlantic Fleet, using Plymouth as a port to cruise the Atlantic at any time!" By the time Ciric finished speaking, Raeder simply said, "Long live the German Navy!" ”
Banzai! The voices around were uniform, and it was the shouts of the 2,400 officers and men of the whole ship!
Amid the shouts, Captain Lukins stood on the bridge and loudly announced, "Pull anchor and set sail!" ”
Lugins, the most distinguished captain of the German Navy, had almost several firsts, the captain of the first German-class pocket battleship, the first captain of the Bismarck, and now he was reappointed as the first captain of the Hindenburg-class.
His assistant, Lindemann, was promoted to become the new captain of the Bismarck.
With Lukins' order, the battleship's 20 heavy oil boilers began to burn at full power, black smoke came out of the chimney, 6 high-pressure turbine steam engines, emitting a powerful 280,000 horsepower surging power, the propeller rotated in the tail, and the battleship began a new round of voyage, went to its own station, and began to patrol the Pacific Ocean!
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