At the same time as the global currency war began, a new round of naval arms race after the war also began.

The Royal Navy of the Tang Empire almost completely annihilated the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the Pacific Ocean, and aircraft carriers and carrier-based aviation became the focus of attention of the navies of all countries, all of which without exception recognized the huge war potential of aircraft carriers and the great threat of carrier-based aviation to conventional giant ships and artillery surface ships.

Since the Tang Empire defeated Japan, the third naval power, it was naturally included in the ranks of first-class naval powers.

In this regard, the Tang Empire also disclosed the ships of the Datang Royal Navy aircraft carrier battle group to the military visiting delegations of various European and American powers, and allowed them to board the ships to visit.

This is to show the international community the military liliang of the Tang Empire, to show that the Tang Empire will not hide, and the military is transparent to the international community, so as to offset the threat theory of the Tang Empire that is quietly emerging in Europe and the United States, and show that the Tang Empire is unwilling to be enemies of other countries except Japan, so that countries can rest assured.

At the same time, this is also to show off the powerful muscles of the Tang Empire to the European and American naval powers, and deter some countries that want to bully or are ready to bully the Tang Empire, so that they have some scruples.

After visiting the aircraft carriers of the Tang Navy, the visiting delegations of foreign officers did not show much interest in the aircraft carriers themselves, but were more interested in the carrier-based aircraft of the Tang Navy.

There is no doubt that the Tang Army's Raptor heavy carrier-based fighters and Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers, even if they are only quietly arranged on the deck of the aircraft carrier, their mighty appearance and black metallic luster reveal an incomparably domineering appearance. will make visitors awe-inspired.

The military attaches of Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, and other European and American powers were all interested in these two domineering heavy fighters, asked about their performance data, and asked the Tang Army pilots to put on a show.

The Tang Army sent ace pilots such as Gao Zhihang and Zhao Wenyi to personally fly the Raptor and Hellfire fighters to perform for the military attaches of various countries. Their outstanding flying stunts won the applause of the ace pilots of the European and American powers, and the outstanding performance of the Raptor and Hellfire fighters amazed and impressed everyone.

Britain, the United States, Italy and other countries immediately showed interest in purchasing and introducing these two aircraft, and they negotiated with officials of the Ministry of Defense of the Tang Empire, hoping to obtain these two powerful fighters.

According to Zhang Meng's instructions, the Datang Ministry of Defense allowed the export of Raptor and Hellfire, but the export model was one grade lower than the active model of the Tang Army.

The achievements of the Tang Empire in turboprop engines were kept secret from the outside world, so the fighter engines exported abroad were changed back to the original piston engines. Due to the reduction in power, the armor protection of the export fighter has been greatly reduced, and the range and combat radius have also been reduced by a lot. In particular, the Hellfire was reduced to a 500-kilogram aerial bomb.

Even though the export models of these two fighters have shrunk significantly, the overall structure of these two fighters is very advanced, you must know that these two fighters have passed the super wind tunnel test, and they are ahead of Shijie in flight stability and structural strength in various environments. Still a pretty good carrier-based aircraft. The United Kingdom, which has aircraft carriers, ordered 40 Raptors and 20 Hellfires, the United States ordered 35 Raptors and 15 Hellfires, France ordered 24 Raptors and 8 Hellfires, and Italy ordered 5 Raptors.

In fact, the main political significance of the two carrier-based aircraft ordered by various countries from Datang, the Raptor and the Hellfire, is greater than the military significance. All countries want to make friends with the Tang Empire, especially the United States, Britain and France, which have a large number of colonies in the Central and South Pacific, all of which are within the combat radius of the Tang Naval Aviation. Therefore, it is necessary to properly handle the relationship with Datang.

Of course, various countries also want to take this opportunity to understand the advanced degree of the carrier-based aircraft of the Tang Army. Although it is known that the Tang Army will make manipulations in the export model to greatly reduce its performance, it is not difficult to guess the true performance and combat effectiveness of the Hellfire and Raptor in service of the Tang Army with the Liliang of various countries.

In any case, the Datang Empire has undoubtedly benefited a lot, which has improved its international popularity and prestige, and contributed to the first export of aircraft by Datang Airlines, which has made a lot of profits, which can be regarded as a good start for Datang Aviation Industry to go abroad and move towards Shijie.

With the visit of various military attache delegations to the Tang Empire, the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group, and the Liliang of the Tang Army's carrier-based aviation, the admiralties of various countries have introduced the strengthening of the anti-aircraft fire equipment of their respective naval warships in service, as well as the construction of aircraft carriers.

The navies of all Shijie countries have set off the first wave of modernizing and refitting their warships in service, and they have changed a batch of sea-attack guns of their warships in service to high-level dual-purpose guns, and have added a large number of anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns to improve their air defense capabilities, and the warships under construction have strengthened their horizontal armor protection capabilities so that they can resist aerial bomb bombardment by carrier-based aircraft.

Because the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire could belittle the Japanese Navy's warships with too thin armor and lack of sufficient anti-aircraft artillery to suffer a crushing defeat, and at the same time, the Tang Empire also stated that it would build battleships as the main ships of the fleet, which misled the naval commanders of various countries, making them still believe that aircraft carriers could not replace battleships as the main force of the fleet, but they had to pay attention to the role of aircraft carriers.

Fortunately, the London Naval Treaty did not impose restrictions on aircraft carriers, and countries took advantage of this opportunity to introduce new aircraft carriers.

Britain was the first to start the construction of the Royal Ark-class large aircraft carrier, which was originally built eight ships, because the Tang Empire has four large aircraft carriers, and the Royal Navy of the British Empire must be at least twice as large as the Tang Navy to show its strength, but in the end, due to financial problems, only four large aircraft carriers with a standard displacement of 23,000 tons, a speed of 31 knots, and 70 aircraft carriers were approved.

France, too, because of financial problems, finally approved the conversion of only one Normandy-class battleship into an aircraft carrier, which has already been refitted before, plus the two large aircraft carriers that will be renovated, known as an unsinkable aircraft carrier because of its strong armor of battleships.

However, some people still pointed out that the Japanese also used a battleship to modify an aircraft carrier, and it was not sunk by Tang military planes in the same way, so the unsinkable aircraft carrier does not exist, but the French are immersed in the sense of honor of the unsinkable aircraft carrier, and no one is allowed to say anything unpleasant.

The U.S. Navy has started to build four Yorktown-class aircraft carriers, which are also 20,000-ton large aircraft carriers, with a speed of 30 knots and 70 aircraft. (To be continued......)