Chapter 824: The Indomitable Aircraft Carrier

Wickers-Armstrong Shipyard, UK.

Britain, an old capitalist country with a strong industrial base, created a miracle during the First World War, launching 51 warships within a year, showing their strong shipbuilding capabilities.

In addition to the two Royal Navy shipyards, there are more than a dozen private shipyards, large and small, in the UK, and the current Vickers-Armstrong shipyard is the largest private shipyard in the UK!

Among the major private shipbuilding companies, Biedmore, Carmel Ryder, John Brown, and Vickers were all steelworks producing armor steel for naval shipyards until the end of the 19th century, and Armstrong mainly produced a variety of shipboard armament systems for naval shipyards. After a series of mergers and expansions, these companies gained abundant capital and technical strength to build battleships, and after subsequent large-scale investment and expansion, these shipyards gradually formed modern factories with a complete ship development and construction system.

Later, after continuous mergers and alliances, the British shipbuilding industry formed a situation of two heroes competing for hegemony, one of which was the merger of Vickers and another arms giant Maxim, and the other was the joint efforts of Armstrong and Whitworth, whose strength was enough to cover the entire military industry, far beyond the simple shipbuilding industry.

However, the prosperity of the naval arms industry ended with the end of World War I, the empire had come to an end, the shipbuilding orders were greatly reduced, and the two giants of Vickers and Armstrong had to survive through a merger in 1928, which is now the Weeks-Armstrong Company, and the shipyard is still their main business.

"The head of the shipyard, the head of the shipyard, responded to our call very much, and immediately after his accession to the throne, he pledged allegiance to the king, and all the equipment of the shipyard, as well as the warships under construction, were well preserved." At Ciric's side, Edward VIII said with gusto.

Edward VIII has a long face, in fact, one of the important ones is the cooperation of German agents, after Edward VIII took office, he immediately began to lobby, and at the same time, the German troops also advanced very quickly and quickly took control of this place.

Now the entire shipyard is in good condition.

"In the midst of danger, the war criminals who deceived the people and plunged Europe into war will not understand the needs of the public, and peace is the most precious thing." Ciric stood on the dock and said to Edward VIII.

At this time, his eyes were already attracted by a huge battleship under construction.

"This battleship is the aircraft carrier Indomitable." At this time, the head of the shipyard, Sir Dirks, who followed, said.

When the war is coming, Britain no longer spares its own funds, especially when the warships are sunk one by one, Britain urgently needs to build new warships, in this case, the British shipbuilding industry once again ushered in a boom.

The Indomitable, which belonged to the British fleet carrier, was an improved version of the Tejas class. An additional hangar has been added to carry 43 fighters, improving the few shortcomings of the Tejas class carriers.

This aircraft carrier, with a displacement of 30,000 tons, has now completed the construction of its hull and is installing the ship island, and when the ship island is completed, it will be ready to be launched.

It can be said that this is a half-finished aircraft carrier.

Ciric nodded: "It seems that this aircraft carrier can enter service within a year." ”

Now, through the efforts of Germany, the industrial integration of France has been carried out more or less, and after the occupation of England, the integration of England will also proceed rapidly!

Britain is an island country, Britain has always attached importance to the navy, and now, all British shipyards will build warships in large quantities for the German fleet!

It can be said that in two years, the German navy will truly become a navy that can fight in the ocean, and will have several aircraft carrier formations and several large battleships at the same time!

This is also the reason why Ciric began to build aircraft carriers for the Soviet Union without hesitation, if you want to confuse the Soviet Union, you must give benefits to the Soviet Union, and the aircraft carrier must continue to be built, and even launched, sea trials are possible.

Anyway, during the sea trial, there will definitely be a lot of problems exposed, in case one of the boilers explodes because of the use of substandard refractory bricks, it is possible, and then it will have to be reworked.

As for the naval guns, Ciric was not stingy, first gave the Soviets a turret and three guns, so that the Soviets were happy.

When the turret is transported to the Soviet Union, the Soviets will find out that the hull of their battleship USS Sovietus has not yet been built, and there is no place to store the turret!

Put it on the dock of the shipbuilding, leave the turret bare, and in less than half a year, it will rust.

In this way, they will definitely stop and build the hull first! With the progress of the Soviets, the construction of the hull will probably take another year or two.

Admiral Raeder, the commander of the Navy in the same company, is also very excited, the construction time of a battleship is quite long, and the time of an aircraft carrier takes two to three years, and now, there are ready-made aircraft carriers, which is simply great!

However, when the group stood on the deck and looked at the empty flat deck, Raeder frowned: "No, the construction of this aircraft carrier will be stopped immediately, and we need to redesign and refit it to meet our needs." ”

This aircraft carrier uses a central elevator with a large hole in the middle of the deck, so that when the operation of lifting the carrier-based aircraft is carried out, it is impossible to take off and land.

This is a serious defect, which restricts the take-off and landing efficiency of the aircraft carrier, and must be changed to a German-designed broadside elevator!

Such a change, the amount of work is huge, after all, it was not designed by German designers, and it will have an impact on the overall force of the hull.

Hearing Raeder's words, Sir Dirks was stunned, stop now, then his factory will be shut down, how to solve the problem of so many workers' eating and drinking?

However, he absolutely did not dare to raise any objections.

"It looks like some slipways are empty here!" "By the way, don't we still have a batch of container ships to produce them? Just leave it here to produce. ”

Hearing Ciric's words, Sir Dirks was overjoyed, it seems that the Führer Ciric is very generous to himself!

Now, Germany is expanding to the whole country, there is a large number of warship construction needs, as long as you keep up with Germany, then you can get a steady stream of orders, with orders, your own company, can continue to develop, just like the First World War, into a new glory!

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