Andrey's hundred pulpits have received good results, Marshall and Patton are very impressed, but Marshall has some uneasiness in his heart, with Andre's age and current position, I am afraid that it will become a huge challenge to the United States in the future, a person who is both an intelligence expert and a military genius simply reminds Marshall of countless thunderous names, Russia is really a nation of famous generals!

But in the face of these American generals, Andre can't be arrogant, because there is only one reason why the United States is still a country with terrible national strength!

So Andrei looked at Marshall and said: "General Marshall, your motherland has a terrible war mobilization and war sustaining power, and now you are the arsenal of democratic countries, and you are also a supporter of the people of the world, and we will cut off the evil countercurrent of human development together!" ”

After another polite gesture, Andre asked to visit the naval base, and Marshall happily agreed, in fact, Marshall is also a favor, after all, he is the chief of staff of the army, it is easy for Andre to go to the naval base, but if the chief of staff of the navy does not agree, then he still can't get on the warship!

Returning to the embassy, Andrei hurriedly met with Molotov and reported everything as it was, and at the same time said that the United States had arranged for him to inspect the naval base, and Molotov took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his glasses, and then said: "Andrey, I don't know what you think of the United States?" ”

Andrei was silent for a while, and then said: "Comrade Molotov, I have a detailed report here, please give it directly to Comrade Stalin after you look at it!" ”

Then Andrei took out his briefcase and took out a document: "In this war, the United States demonstrated the most powerful and perfect wartime mobilization capability in human history, turned into an arsenal of the democratic world in just a few years, built a huge army of 12 million people, and crossed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to conquer Europe and Asia to win this world war, and the efficiency was unprecedented." Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In terms of manpower mobilization: the United States has now mobilized a total of 73 million laborers, and also requisitioned a large number of women labor, in March 1940, there were 10.73 million female workers in the United States, accounting for 26% of the labor force, and by July 1944, the United States had 16.44 million female workers. In the case of the C47 Douglas plant, which had only 24 female workers in 1941 on the eve of the United States' entry into World War II, by 1943 that number had expanded to 36,000. At the same time, the size of the US military has expanded rapidly, and it is estimated that by 1945, it has grown to a huge number of 12 million people, and in particular, the army air force has grown from almost zero to a huge air force with 2,253,000 military personnel and 318,500 civilian personnel, 218 flight groups of various types, and 70,000 aircraft of various types

In wartime factory construction: Between June 1940 and December 1944 alone, the total cost of domestic and foreign facilities in the United States reached nearly $68.9 billion, or 47 percent of the federal government's investment. During World War II, the United States had already taken the western region as a key construction area, and invested a total of $40 billion in the western Pacific coast, and in just four years, the United States built 58 percent of the country's aluminum industry, 90 percent of the magnesium industry, 71 percent of the aircraft industry, and 52 percent of the shipbuilding industry in the western region

In terms of wartime production organization: After the United States entered World War II, automakers in Detroit quickly shifted their production focus to munitions production. In December 1942 alone, 5,000 workers at the Detroit Arsenal set a record for producing 907 Sherman tanks in a single month. Shipbuilding magnate Henry? Caesar's own automated industrial technology for mass production has shortened the original 300 days required to build a warship to 17 days, and even created a miracle of completing the 10,000-ton ship "Liberty" in 8 days. By 1945, the United States had produced 5,425 merchant ships and 72,000 naval vessels with a total tonnage of 50 million tons in just four years. At present, the United States has produced a total of 18,000 strategic bombers, and it is important to know that the production of a strategic bomber is not just as simple as assembling four engines, and the larger the aircraft, the higher the requirements for production quality management. More recently, in April 1943, after the U.S. military decided on a military aircraft to be adopted, in addition to the design and development of the parent manufacturer, it also outsourced to all other aircraft factories in the United States to carry out the mass production of the same type of aircraft simultaneously. In order to ensure that different aircraft manufacturers could share parts, World War II American aircraft production was standardized from drawings and production lines to the manufacture of components. Taking Boeing's B17 bomber production as an example, in the future 1944 scheduled production plan, under the coordination of the National Aircraft Wartime Council, it was finally decided that Boeing would produce 10,000 planes, Douglas 2,000 planes, and Lockheed Corporation 2,000 planes. It is precisely because of this standardized outsourcing aircraft production industrial system that the United States shortened the aircraft production time by 75% and saved the cost by 40% after 1943, becoming an important driving force for the US military to win on the battlefield. For example, Ford Motor Company's Willowwood Bomber Plant, the largest assembly plant ever built, was producing bombers at a rate of one bomber per hour by 1943. The total number of B-24 aircraft produced in Willow is 8,685 units. On the other hand, although Nazi Germany is "capable" of producing a strategic bomber, it must not be able to produce a strategic bomber "completely", because the gap between Germany and the United States in terms of the ability to manage the large-scale industrial production of aircraft is too great to be able to do it at all.

Battlefield logistics: The U.S. military's transportation and logistics network has accomplished a tremendous feat, with millions of tons of food, weaponry, and millions of troops being transported to all corners of the globe. Taking the Pacific Theater as an example, during the Battle of Kuah Island, the material supplies of the US troops participating in the war, from airplanes and artillery to explosives and gasoline, and even toilet paper and Coca-Cola, were transported from the US mainland through the Pacific Ocean, and the workload was very amazing. To this end, the US military dispatched 1,500 ships of various kinds, and the US military logistics department transported 2 million tons of supplies to the front line, unloading an average of about 22,200 tons per day. (Actually, this is the information of the Okinawa campaign, but Andrei hopes to make the Soviet top brass aware of this gap) This level of warfare requires a country's logistics planning, coordination, and dispatch capabilities to be high, which can be imagined. ”

After listening to the report, Molotov was directly silent, and the mobilization of the Soviet Union was already very terrifying, but the mobilization of the United States for war was even more terrifying! However, such worries cannot be spoken, and Molotov understands that although there is a gap in national strength, the Soviet Union is still more thorough than the United States!

This is not bad, there are so many pills in later generations, and the Black Soviet Party does not have the one who really dares to say that socialism cannot fight, let alone the Soviet Union and China, even the Korean Goryeo stick and the Vietnamese monkey that have good combat effectiveness, and the surrounding area is indeed weak, but if it is compared with the local tyrants in the Middle East, I am afraid it will be a minute hanging!

So, after a while, Molotov said to Andrei seriously: "Andrey, you have to remember that this report must be kept secret and not leaked to anyone except the Politburo!" ”

Andrei immediately nodded knowingly and said: "Comrade Molotov, rest assured, our Ministry of Internal Affairs is the most reliable guard of the Soviets, and we will definitely keep secrets!" ”

After the end of the report, Andrei immediately came to his room to rest and prepare for the next day's visit, so why did Andrei suddenly become interested in the Navy, because this is a place where the Soviet Union suffered a big loss in the future, the Soviet Red Navy has always been the inferior Although it is said that the tonnage and submarines are the second in the world in terms of strength in this series, however, compared with the United States, the gap is still obvious, there is a saying that the US Navy is fighting with aliens, and the Soviet Army is fighting with aliens, Both sides have their own advantages, and the Soviet Union still took a detour in the development of the navy!

Maximizing the capabilities of carrier-based aircraft is another credo of the US Navy in the development of aircraft carriers. During World War II, whether it was an escort aircraft carrier that competed with German submarines in the Atlantic, or an "Essex" class aircraft carrier that fought the Japanese Navy in the Pacific Ocean, all of them adopted a straight-through deck design to carry more carrier-based aircraft. After the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy applied an all-pass/angled deck design, steam catapult, and nuclear reactor to aircraft carriers, further improving the number of carrier-based aircraft and sortie capabilities. The new "Ford"-class aircraft carrier of the US military, which will be commissioned in 2015, will take the concept of carrier-based aircraft as the core to the extreme-equipped with electromagnetic catapults and advanced interceptor cables that can be used by F-35 stealth carrier-based aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, and adopt a large flight deck that can increase the sortie rate of carrier-based aircraft by 25%. Under the guidance of the idea of "carrier-based aircraft as the core," US aircraft carriers have become bigger and stronger, and have become the most important war machine of the United States.

The Soviet Navy, which had gone too far, suffered bitter consequences. At that time, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev believed that expensive aircraft carriers were vulnerable in a nuclear war, and submarines carrying nuclear missiles and torpedoes were the most powerful weapons of naval warfare. Khrushchev even compared aircraft carriers to "living targets" and "floating coffins". However, during the "Cuban Missile Crisis" in the 60s of the last century, the submarines escorting Soviet cargo ships were disgraced by the US Navy's blockade fleet with aircraft carriers as the core. After that, although the Soviet Navy clearly recognized the important value of aircraft carriers, it could only develop nondescript aircraft carriers such as aircraft-carrying cruisers of the "Kiev" class due to the limitations of its guiding ideology and objective conditions. Although the foredeck of the "Kiev" class is filled with a variety of weapons such as long-range anti-ship missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, and twin 100-millimeter guns, the Yak-38 vertical/short take-off and landing carrier-based aircraft on the ship have almost no air combat capabilities, and can only deal with bulky anti-submarine aircraft or helicopters, and the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier is also greatly reduced. It was not until the late 80s of the last century that the Soviet Union built a "Kuznetsov" class aircraft carrier with a straight-through deck design and heavy fighters, but missed the strategic opportunity to develop large aircraft carriers and nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

Andrei was also full of emotion when he saw this period of history, the Soviet Union's aircraft carrier development was late, if it was the right route at the beginning, even if it was used to escort nuclear submarines, it was better than loading a lot of missiles, this navy is a huge amount of money! The 100-year-old navy is no joke,

In fact, it is the correct route, and it is difficult for the Red Navy to catch up with the United States, after all, the Navy burns money, the United States builds a Burke IIA as much as more than 2 billion US dollars, and the latest Burke III is said to break 3.8 billion US dollars, and the US Navy's new generation of main surface ships DDG1000 (Zumwalt-class destroyers), not to mention, continue to increase in price, directly reaching nearly 4.3 billion US dollars.

At the same time, China's 052D destroyer only costs about 3.5 billion yuan, and the 055 drive only needs nearly 6 billion yuan, which is much cheaper than the US warship. But this is not cheap, the big ships of the navy are measured in hundreds of millions at every turn, this is simply a gold-swallowing monster!

However, the production of warships still has its technology and accumulation, for example, the construction time of a warship is usually several years, maybe longer. The requirements for the soldiers of the navy are even higher, not only need strong physical fitness, but also need a strong level of education. The Navy is the military branch with the highest average education!

The navy also needs to continue to explore and move forward, and according to the accumulated experience, the design of reasonable hulls, cabins, bomb magazines, rest areas, and other aspects of the technical content is particularly high, and it is impossible to do it without technology. In short, the navy is a branch of the armed forces that requires people, money, and technology. For example, the aircraft carrier, the aircraft carrier is the naval ship with the highest level of science and technology, the blocking cable used to be a difficult point that plagued many countries, and the steel plate on the deck of the aircraft carrier is also the vast majority of countries in the world can not get it now, and the strength requirements of this deck are quite high. When a carrier-based aircraft weighing more than ten tons landed, it smashed on the deck and forcibly pulled it with a blocking rope to let the carrier-based aircraft stop on the aircraft carrier, which is what has stuck countless countries, and it can be said that every warship is the crystallization of a country's science and technology!

Andrei not only wants to satisfy his curiosity this time, but also hopes to see things at the US naval base, after all, the US Navy was already a force to be reckoned with in World War II!