Chapter 161: Complex Environment

At the end of '35, it was planned to start construction of two more "Soviet" class battleships around the middle of '38, but the difficulties reflected in the actual construction of battleships and the huge consumption of financial resources led to the decision of the Central ****** and the Supreme Soviet to temporarily postpone the construction of subsequent battleships and make every effort to ensure the completion of the "Soviet Union" and "Red Ukraine" on schedule. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Orlov could only obey the decision of the Central Committee, and although Comrade Commander regretted this result, Stalin, the first supporter of the Doctrine of Artillery and Giant Ships, felt that it was necessary to put the main forces on the construction of the army for the time being, and what could he say? Besides, the two most powerful battleships in the world were enough to give the commander of the Red Navy a lot of confidence.

"Comrade Orlov, I think we can increase the investment in the construction of the submarine force in an appropriate amount, the consumption is not large, but the results may be worth the money." Lin Jun reminded Orlov again: "If a snorkel is added to the submarine, the combat effectiveness of the naval unit may be greatly improved." ”

"Snorkel?"

The conversation at the dinner table would be the starting point of another "revolution in naval technology", and Lin Jun asked the waiter comrade to get a blank piece of paper and pen to introduce the submarine snorkel technology to the commander, which is not yet at all.

Lin Jun has never been into a submarine, and his understanding of its structure is completely from the drawings of the equipment department at hand and the military magazines and film and television dramas of his previous life. But it was this "submarine blindness" theory that put forward the "snorkel" theory, which was enough for Orlov to think for a while: "Andrey, if this theory is feasible, the probability of being detected by submarines during combat will be greatly reduced, especially the probability of being discovered by surface and air anti-submarine forces. ”

"It should be feasible, but it needs to be tested by the Navy's designer comrades to know."

He has no shortage of principles and new ideas, but Lin Jun has no constructive suggestions on how to do it.

"Tomorrow I will find an expert in submarine design, I am not very good at this aspect, when the time comes, you will guide, and I will let the comrades below do the demonstration."

"I may not have time tomorrow, and I am anxious to pay attention to the progress of the development of the other two new fighters, or the day after tomorrow?"

"Hehe, I just asked them to send someone over today, and it will be tomorrow afternoon to Moscow, don't worry, I'll contact you then."

The largest base of the submarine forces of the Red Navy was in Leningrad, and the designers were not on call, and Lin Jun forgot about this.

Historically, the performance of the Soviet submarine forces in World War II was average, which was related to the fact that the protagonist of the war was the land war and the congenital geographical reasons of the Soviet Union.

Historically, in World War II, the land-based aviation of the Red Navy has achieved tremendous results, because the opponent's fleet has also fallen into this embarrassment, and everyone is half a pound and eight taels, and no one takes advantage. Lin Jun did not expect a single technological innovation to change the current status quo of the Red Navy, but only hoped to achieve a partial technological lead and take the lead in future naval battles. The year before last, after the completion of the "Belarusian" training aircraft carrier, it transferred its home port from Leningrad to Arkhangelsk in the White Sea in the north, because it could not be used at all in the small pond of the Gulf of Finland, and when it changed its home port, a large number of warships and planes from other countries "escorted and observed." If it stayed in the Baltic Fleet, it was estimated that it would not need to send its own escort ships for every training, and the "sightseeing fleet" of the Finns alone would be enough.

Originally, according to Orlov's opinion, the "Belarusian" should be released into the Black Sea, but Stalin resolutely opposed it -- the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles, and the Strait of Gibraltar were placed there, and in the event of a war with the west, the aircraft carrier would become a small goldfish in a small pond. Based in Arkhangelsk, although it will be affected by the northern ice floe in winter, at least it is not necessary to look at other people's faces.

In the future, when a major war breaks out, according to Lin Jun's plan, the new aircraft carriers and battleships will basically be put in the White Sea, and the battleships will support the army on the northern front when necessary, and the aircraft carriers will only serve as "floating airfields" on the first line of the White Sea - this is very wasteful, but there is no better choice. Placed in other sea areas in the west will inevitably become a thorn in the side of the enemy's land-based aviation, the Germans dive bomber units are not vegetarians, and there is no opportunity for aircraft carriers to show their strength in those ponds. If you want to do it, at least in the "big pond" of the Mediterranean, then you need the British port there as a base, but will the British agree and cooperate? Lin Jun didn't bother to think about this possibility.

If the aircraft carrier "Kirov" in Odessa cannot belong to the Northern Fleet, and this possibility is very high, Batumi or Sukhumi in Georgia can also be used as its follow-up base by the time of the war -- this is better than placing it in Odessa and Sevastopol, which are close to Romania, and the aircraft carrier will be able to place its home port within the combat radius of the enemy's land-based aviation in wartime, which is tantamount to asking for its own death.

The White Sea must remain secure, and that is on the premise that Finland be taught a lesson, otherwise the threat from the north will render the large warships in the north useless and a luxurious ornament to nest in.

Large warships can only be oversized for the time being, but according to the current form, Lin Jun will not let them live in a nest for a lifetime, it is only a matter of time, so it is a temporary arrangement Lin Jun also insisted on building a few ships on a small scale a few years ago.

History is changing, the form is also changing, how to suggest to Stalin to use the power at hand, we have to wait for the situation to become clearer, there is still time, at least the dwarf in the west is still thinking about how to solve the Czechoslovak problem, and now it is not Lin Jun's turn to think about how to arrange the Soviet naval forces.

In the past few years, there is no need to think too much about small Japan in the east, the Japanese pig has already regarded the United States as the first imaginary enemy, and it is estimated that the Pacific War will also be fought in a few years, although the time is not easy to say. When the Soviet Union eased up, if it wanted to meddle in Pacific affairs, no aircraft carriers and battleships would be equivalent to having no right to speak, and it would be as unhappy as in history, seeing the United States use Japan as its puppet after the war (of course, the United States stationed Japan alone is the result of various reasons and compromises, but I personally think that if the Soviet Union still has a relatively strong naval force after the end of the European war, the Red Army can do more than just occupy a few small islands in the Pacific Ocean, and let Japan serve as a new bridgehead against communism. )。

A strong navy, this is one of the necessary conditions for a modern power!

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The air force of a powerful country must not only have first-class fighters, but also aircraft for other purposes, which Lin Jun, who is familiar with history, knows very well. Although the Soviets were now short of dive bombers, when he was first deputy political commissar of the General Armament Department, he dragged Vladimir Mikhainovich Petryakov, who had escaped prison, out of his post as deputy director of the workshop of the aircraft factory and asked him to develop a twin-engine dive bomb with a group of his former subordinates.

Historically, Petriakov and the "Prison Design Bureau" headed by him (a by-product of the "purge", a group of designers received orders from prison to design airplanes. Once designed to receive an excellent high-altitude fast fighter, but in the end he made an excellent multi-purpose Pe-2 series according to the order, but now Mikoyan is working on his MiG-1, and without duplication of resources, he directly goes to the dive bomber.

Bertriakov and his design group are also good at long-range bombers, and their abilities are not under Tupolev, and this specialty has already allowed Lin Jun to play: the change of history allowed the designer to escape prison, but it also wasted two years of precious time, which is really ironic for Lin Jun! Petriakov had to work overtime at full speed to regain his lost precious time - two years of his ability had been wasted on the assembly line in the workshop, not in front of the blueprints on the table in prison. Tupolev had better luck than him, historically they were close comrades-in-arms in a prison, except that one had been designing airplanes on the front line, and the other had been "devolved" for a while.

It is not a bad thing at the moment to have two or three choices in the design scheme, there is competition and then there is motivation, and this is how a lot of high-performance equipment came about, let Tupolev and Petryakov compete, and the best result is the main equipment of the Soviets.

A design group designs two or more models at the same time, which is unimaginable in other countries, and the work has to be chaotic, but the Soviet designers basically have this ability, and they have always done it often, and they do it very well, so Lin Jun is not worried about self-defeating. As long as you grasp the final selection level, there will naturally be excellent combat aircraft.

"Orlov, I went to Severodvinsk and Arkhangelsk in the summer, and I was the first overseer of the Belarusian, which I have not visited since it was completed. ”

"As I said just now, you are welcome to go whenever you go. Andrey, as our best fighter pilot, we have always had a place for you in the team of carrier-based pilots of the Red Navy. ”

Taking off and landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier is a wish that Lin Jun has had in both his lives, and now it seems that as long as he has time, he can realize it at any time. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )