Chapter 1540: U.S. Shipbuilding Strength

Britain, after a 25-day investigation, and even luckily caught two senior German spies from the investigation and destroyed a spy network, but for Britain, the most critical thing was still not found, who got the top secret information about the tank from Britain, and therefore formulated a response plan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Perhaps, this bazooka has been studied by the German side before, but it is produced in such a large amount, if it is not specifically for tanks, it is impossible to say, those who can contact tanks, except for the trainers, are high-ranking officials, the training troops are basically in closed training, and the protection is quite in place, and the training time of tank crews is only less than 2 months, and even large-scale diffusion training is in the later stage, which time is not far from the time when the tank is put into actual combat.

As far as the analysis of the British intelligence department is concerned, the possibility of leakage in the early stage is much higher than that in the later stage, during this time, the pressure on the British intelligence department is very great, and the thought of a considerable level of people who can master most of Britain's secrets, hidden among them, leaking intelligence for Germany from time to time, the British shudder, at a critical moment, may be an intelligence leak, for the British participating troops, it is a catastrophe.

But these people, at the level of ministers and deputy ministers, are definitely called high-ranking officials in the UK, such people can't use casual means, they can only monitor from a distance, and strive to find clues.

If Yang Yuanzhao knew, his casual approach not only caused the Entente to suffer huge equipment losses, but even made the intelligence organization of the Entente all the soldiers, and the intelligence department was tired of looking for the high-level spy who did not exist, but ignored other aspects.

The emergence of bazookas, not only caused such a consequence, the loss of equipment is also huge, the most important thing is that it is 30,000 sets of tanks that are still in intense assembly, the first war on the European continent, basically let the tanks be scrapped, the other side has a large number of bazookas, after this war, Britain only realized that the bazooka has a strong combat capability, and began to inquire, how many bazookas the Germans had.

This thing can't be hidden, before Germany, it was just the effect of the bazooka, and now after being exposed in the war, such a huge number of bazookas, can not be concealed at all, Britain only found out, it turned out that the German side actually arranged such a huge scale of bazookas, not to mention 30,000 tanks, even if it is several times more, put it on the battlefield together, the German side put all the bazookas on the front line, and they can also annihilate them. The German side has already taken out all the bazookas, who knows only a fraction, if at that time, the German bazookas really had a little more, for Britain, it would be a nightmare, and even the previous hundreds of thousands of results could not be achieved.

The loss of 20,000 tanks represents $1 billion in equipment and supplies, and no one dares to get them out of the rest.

The losses were huge, even if most of them were paid by the Americans, but the British invested a lot, even if it was 3 percent, the total number was a difficult to figure figure.

Britain is in a dilemma, I don't know what to do next, even the assembled tank production line, did not stop, but the speed of assembly is decreasing, the tank is facing the bazooka, in an absolute disadvantage, but the tank is a weapon for cracking trench warfare, in the place where there is no bazooka, he can play a very good role, in a sense, it is also a tactical weapon, and, after all, the bazooka is relatively heavy, in sports operations, it is impossible to carry a large number of them, However, in the current state, the Bordeaux front is no longer suitable for the use of tanks.

War is so cruel, sometimes, the birth of a simple weapon, can change the situation of the war, Britain is in a dilemma, the United States is much more decisive, the tank may be able to become a weapon to break the trench, about its use, it is still necessary to continue to dig deeper, but under the premise that the tank has been cracked by the bazooka, the United States has chosen another way, large-scale construction of battleships.

The United States, after two years of adjustment, the United States has thoroughly eaten the technology from the United Kingdom, and it was still tinkering on the basis of the Queen Elizabeth level, and did not go out of its own way, but the United States is far from being able to compare with the United Kingdom in terms of technology and manufacturing power, and after absorbing the rich heritage of the United Kingdom, on top of this, it has gone to a higher level and walked out of a new road.

The newly designed battleship, in the overall structure, has little connection with the Queen Elizabeth class, but is a bit like a camera, compared to the Queen Elizabeth class, after further improving the power of the premise, the power system of the new warship exceeds 30%, not only can support larger warships, the overall effect is quite powerful, from the fantasy class to absorb design ideas, the fantasy class is the United States hate, he caused a disaster, so that the whole United States is shocked.

The most important thing is that the assembly line technology has been applied to shipbuilding by the United States, and it cannot reach China's segmented shipbuilding method, because the United States does not have electronic computers, nor computer-aided design, but under the premise of combining assembly line and overall planning, the production time has also been greatly reduced, and the most important thing is that the United States has also mastered electric welding.

Electric welding is the biggest discovery of the battleship, from the original Liuhe to the current electric welding, the weight has been reduced a lot, this kind of pioneering from China, and has become a secret killer technology, under time, slowly spread, the improvement of technology, not to be able to keep secret, just like the dreadnought, if the British side at that time to keep it secret, the world's first dreadnought honor, may be born in the United States, this is the technology to a certain extent, the result of the same end.

Electric welding technology, the United States in the process of mastering, has not yet developed into China, a variety of different welding methods combined, from argon arc welding, vacuum welding, and even seamless welding, this metal combination method, did not reduce the stability of the overall structure, but reduced a lot of dead weight, which for the battleship of every inch of land, the weight reduction is quite meditative, and thus brought a huge improvement in performance.

Electric welding is the most outstanding part of the new generation of battleships, which not only speeds up the speed of construction, but also reduces the cost, and all the scientific and technological strength of the United States is also concentrated in the self-weight of such a battleship, in terms of power, seaworthiness, and even anti-all aspects, have reached a relatively balanced premise, and the emergence of some things is inevitable.

The leading technology, but also began to promote the development of all aspects, the United States has also accelerated the construction of several battleships, the method of assembly line applied to the battleship, produced a good effect, although because there is no auxiliary design, this effect is greatly reduced, but 8 battleships, or launched in advance before August, and then, the United States began to transform the dockyard to adapt to the construction of a new generation of battleships, it is expected that as long as everything is normal under the premise, the battleship launching speed will be increased by one-third than now.

Coupled with the expansion of the dockyard of the United States, starting in August 1916, to April 1917, at least 22 battleships were launched, of which more than 9 percent were American, in this way, no matter how many warships China and Germany produced, they would have enough advantages, aside from the sunk slipway, for three consecutive years, 50 capital ships were invested, the United States let people see the terrifying industrial production capacity, under the strong support of the United States, almost burst out unimaginable strength.

It's just that after 12 battleships and many escort warships were sunk, the United States lost a large number of well-trained soldiers, but the United States' huge sea transportation, as well as a large number of traditions, finally allowed them to prepare enough private troops, and began to expand in 1916, but the combat effectiveness is significantly reduced, which is the key to large-scale military expansion, but the United States believes that with the advantage of a battleship, he will have a considerable advantage.

Now, in the eyes of the Americans, the reason why they are in the current situation is that there are not enough warships, they cannot suppress Germany, there are not enough warships, and they are unable to compete with China in the Pacific Ocean, and even counterattack Alaska.

In 1917, a sea battle that shocked the world, the number of capital ships dispatched by both sides, up to 80, at least 500 ships of various sizes, in the huge battlefield in the Pacific Ocean, next to Hawaii, launched an unimaginable war, the final result of the war, but China on the weak side won, China sent 15 battleships, 16 aircraft carriers, a total of 31 capital ships, against 59 capital shipsAfter 7 days and 7 nights of fighting, the powerful navy, including roadbed aircraft, completely sent one of the largest capital ships of the United States to the bottom of the sea in one fell swoop, announcing the end of the battleship era, the emergence of the aircraft carrier era, and immediately became the darling of the battlefield, firmly controlling the status of the first battleship. (To be continued.) )