The expansion of the army is not only in terms of personnel, but also in terms of equipment. The addition of www.biquge.info Armoured Brigade will inevitably require the addition of more infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled guns, as well as a variety of matching weapons and vehicles. In addition, the Army Air Force also needs to purchase more military aircraft, in addition to transport aircraft, there are also improvised bombers converted from transport aircraft, and then there is the reconnaissance plane, which is written as a reconnaissance aircraft but read as a fighter. The Army Air Corps plans to create a fleet of more than two hundred aircraft.

At the same time, the Navy's equipment renewal plan can also be said to be "shocking". In the war, the performance of the Datang Navy was very eye-catching, from escorting ground troops to launch landing operations to crossing the ocean to attack the Spanish coast, which was remarkable. But as the stall of Datang became bigger and bigger, the original fleet size was far from enough to maintain.

After the war, the navy also made its own development plan, and like the army made relatively large changes in its establishment, the navy also re-established new base groups and fleets. Originally, on the Chittagong and Burmese sides, a new Indian Ocean Fleet was set up, with its headquarters in Chittagong. The Indian Ocean Fleet will have 4 cruisers and 6 frigates, as well as a number of gunboats.

The size of the Western Pacific Fleet has also been expanded accordingly, and in the future the fleet will have one battleship, as many as eight cruisers, and 14 frigates, which will be stationed from Singapore to Natuna Island, from Hong Kong to Penghu Zuoying, and from Zhoushan to Tanggu, maintaining the size of about six ships per detachment.

Due to the increase in the scope of the defense area and the increase in the coordinated defense of the Pacific coast of South America, the size of the home fleet has also increased to a certain extent. They are mainly stationed on Vancouver Island, Weihai County, Hawaii, Vallarta, and Port Jimenez. The total size was 1 battleship. 8 cruisers, as well as 14 frigates, about the same size as the Western Pacific Fleet.

Originally, the Atlantic Fleet was only responsible for the defense of the northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas, and the feat of transoceanic operations was also achieved during the war. After the war, the Atlantic Fleet was a strengthened fleet. In terms of defense area, the entire Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea are the main spheres of activity of the Atlantic Fleet. The Atlantic Fleet will own the Zhenbei Naval Base in the Bahamas, the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, and the Xinhang Naval Base in Florida. The fleet will include 6 cruisers and 10 frigates. On the one hand, this enhancement also takes into account more transoceanic operations in the future. The situation against the Europeans. And this expansion should continue.

In terms of ship construction, due to the expansion of the new fleet, the previous refitting plan has been broken, so the navy also needs to reorganize its own plan. The new generation of ships of the Dingyuan class and the storm class, which had just been put into construction for two years, did not wait for five years to start the next generation like the previous generation of ships, but now directly started the construction of the next class of ships at the same time as the Dingyuan class and the storm class.

This approach is actually a more normal and common way, for example, the PLA Navy in the other plane started to build the Type 052D destroyer when the 052C was not completed, and the second ship of the 052D was commissioned at about the same time as the last one of the 052C. The main ships of various countries during World War II. That's about the same number.

The design of the 4500-ton light cruiser, which was previously proposed within the Navy, has also been completed. Called the Dare Cruiser, the Navy has placed an order for a total of 20 cruisers, which are scheduled to be completed within six years, and the construction plan is greater than the deployment plan, so new ships will continue to fill the fleet after that.

With a full load displacement of 4,500 tons and a maximum speed of 23 knots, the Daring Class cruiser has two twin 155-mm naval guns, four twin 57-mm rapid-fire guns, and two twin 533-mm torpedo tubes. It is designed to adapt to ocean-going operations and complete a variety of tasks including ocean-going escort, auxiliary operations, and search and rescue reconnaissance. Its cost is only less than half of the Dingyuan class, so the navy can place an order for 20 ships in one go.

In addition, although the Tempest-class frigates were generally reported to be better than the original free wind, which had many flaws, after entering active service, the number of construction was relatively small, only ten, and all of them could be completed in 1789. The navy found that ships of one or two thousand tons still had many limitations in ocean-going operations, so they launched the Dare Battle-class light cruisers. At the same time, the Navy has also created a new class of destroyers, the Thunderbolt class.

The displacement of the Thunder-class frigate has been increased to 3,000 tons, the speed is 24 knots, the armament is exactly the same as the 2,600-ton Rainstorm class, and the main armament is 5 single-barreled 130 mm naval guns, but due to the enlargement of tonnage, the seaworthiness and self-sustaining power of the ship have been improved to a certain extent.

The cost increase of the thunder level is not obvious compared to the rainstorm level, and it should be able to control it at 2.8 million Tang Yuan during the construction period, which can be regarded as very cheap. The cheap cost also naturally led to the Datang Navy directly ordering 26 ships. Like the Dare Class, it exceeds the deployment plan and will continue to add to the fleet in the future.

This is also viewed from the perspective of development, because in another five or six years, Datang's national strength and power will definitely expand further, and more strength is needed to protect itself. On the other hand, the PLA Navy has more than 300 ships, and its scope of responsibility is the waters of the Asia-Pacific Sea and the Indian Ocean, and the scope of activities of the Datang Navy is extremely wide, and even if Datang completes the above ship construction plan, it will only have more than 100 ships, and a considerable number of them are small ships such as Qiulong-class gunboats.

The navy has hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment procurement funds in its hands, and it will have military expenditures of this scale in the next few years, so it will certainly work hard to purchase a large amount of advanced equipment. A problem that makes the navy more headache is that in the earlier Pinghai class and the Free Wind class, the speed of the navy's second-generation ships is only about 18 knots, while the third-generation warships are all above 22 knots, which makes the ability to carry out coordinated operations relatively low. The Navy intends to retire all second-generation ships in the coming period. Although the Pinghai class and the Liberty Wind class can still continue to serve for more than ten years, the navy still sets a service life of 18-22 years for the second-generation ships, depending on the specific state of the ship, which means that these ships will almost all be retired around 1798, and the main force of the Datang fleet will be replaced by new ships.

And Datang does not plan to build new battleships within three years, although on the battlefield, the Zhuolu-class battleships have shown very strong combat effectiveness, but according to the enemy's level, it does feel like a cannon hitting mosquitoes. Therefore, the Datang Navy will use the Dingyuan-class heavy cruisers with 203-mm heavy guns as the main force, and cooperate with the Dare Battle-class light cruisers and other frigates to form their own battle sequence. (To be continued.) )