Under normal circumstances, there are two fates for warships after they are decommissioned, either they are sunk as target ships or they are dismantled. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Relatively speaking, "mothballing" is the best outcome.

Strictly speaking, "mothballing" is not decommissioning, and when needed, "mothballed" warships can still get the opportunity to be reactivated, but generally they will not go to the first line, and are mostly used to escort merchant ships, or to be used as training ships.

Compared with the "Surabaya class," the "Taishan" is indeed old, but this is only relative to the "Surabaya class," and the "Taishan" is not backward compared with the current aircraft carriers of Britain and the United States, and even because the performance of the carrier-based aircraft is relatively good, the overall combat effectiveness of the "Taishan" is much stronger than that of the British and American aircraft carriers.

In this way, it would be a pity if the "Tarzan" was dismantled or sunk.

The Lanfang military did promise to dismantle two aircraft carriers at the Coconut City Naval Conference, but what was to be demolished were the other two aircraft carriers converted from merchant ships, and the "Taishan" and "Huangshan" still had a certain vitality, but this "vitality" was also extremely limited, after all, the "Taishan" and "Huangshan" were not real aircraft carriers, but also aircraft carriers converted from merchant ships, and such aircraft carriers would be eliminated sooner or later.

Although he knows the fate of the "Taishan", but in the face of Xie Rundong, Qin Zhiyuan still has to be vigorous, otherwise one day, Xie Rundong will dislike the "Surabaya" as much as he dislikes the "Taishan" now, that is a bottomless pit that can never be satisfied.

Qin Zhiyuan has a long-term plan for the Lanfang Navy, how much does Foch know about this plan, but Hindenburg doesn't know anything, and when he heard Qin Zhiyuan say that the "Taishan" is going to be decommissioned, Hindenburg's expression was a little shocked: "Retire?" Why? It seems that Tarzan has been in service for less than five years, so he is retired, which is really a waste. ”

Before the World War, the competition between the German Army and the German Navy was still fierce, and Hindenburg was more accustomed to careful planning than Lan Fang, and now it is not surprising to hear that the "Tarzan", which has just been in service for less than five years, will be decommissioned.

The "Tarzan" was an aircraft carrier converted from merchant ships during the World War, and in Hindenburg's view, the "Tarzan" was far from being decommissioned, and it was no problem to serve for at least another five years.

Although Hindenburg lives in Lanfang, the social circle is still a bit narrow, and because of the hostility in the world war and the attack on Qin Zhiyuan in Germany, the Lanfang military has done a good job of keeping Hindenburg secret, and many things Lanfang military can hide from Foch without concealing it, but there is always a layer of estrangement to Hindenburg.

There's no way, who let Hindenburg have no daughter to marry Qin Zhiyuan-

"Lanfang's new generation of aircraft carriers is about to enter the list, and the current aircraft carriers will be decommissioned in the next two years." Qin Zhiyuan thought about it, and for the sake of William III, he was still ready to be honest with Hindenburg.

"A new generation of aircraft carriers - what is that?" Hindenburg was confused.

If Foch is a representative of the old style of officers, then Hindenburg's thinking is even more old-fashioned than Foch's, and it is simply stuck in the Middle Ages, and it is not easy for Hindenburg to accept new things, which is also an inherent disease of German military officers.

"Aircraft carriers -- they are upgraded versions of the current aircraft carriers, with more displacement, faster speed, and more aircraft-" Qin Zhiyuan didn't want to explain in too much detail, so he just had to stop at it.

"Haha—in other words, a bigger, thin-skinned stuffing—" Hindenburg has been in Lanfang for so long, and his Chinese has improved.

"Thin-skinned stuffing" -- this is really not a compliment here, after all, warships are not meat buns.

"So what? If you want to swallow it, you have to have enough appetite! You may not know what the concept of 'more planes' is, let me give you a hint, that's more than ninety, and there are a third of torpedo machines, if it were you, how many battleships would you prepare to satisfy the appetite of so many torpedo machines? Qin Zhiyuan did not allow others to slander Lan Fang's "Surabaya level", even if it was Hindenburg.

Respecting the old and loving the young is also principled, some "little guys" are too naughty, and some "old guys" are even more hateful!

"Ninety crosses? Do you mean three? "Hindenburg did not quite understand the performance of" Surabaya class ", and ninety carrier-based aircraft were already seriously beyond the scope of Hindenburg's understanding.

"One!" Qin Zhiyuan simply.

"-God!" It took a long time for Hindenburg to remember to sigh.

"Qin, aren't you going to share the 'Surabaya-level' technology with France?" Foch also has its own requirements.

From the first day of its establishment, Lanfang has maintained close cooperation with the technical department of the French army, and the "Legion-class" battleship is a classic work of the Lanfang military industry department and the French military industry, Foch knows the existence of the "Surabaya class", although Foch has been quite disappointed in France, but seeing good things, Foch still can't help but help France speak.

Perhaps this sentence has been buried in Foch's heart for a long time, and now he has finally found an opportunity to say it.

"Your Excellency Marshal, even if we share these technologies with France, will France invest in it? You know the answer. Qin Zhiyuan did not call Foch "Dad", a businesslike tone.

Qin Zhiyuan is right, the current France, really does not have Lan Fang's ambition in building ships, after France and Lan Fang cooperated to develop the "Legion-class" battleship, Lan Fang built four in one go, but France did not even build one, nominally France did increase the technical reserves, but this kind of technical reserves need people to realize, if you don't build a physical object, the technical reserves are even if they have an egg in the "Zenith" stage!

Foch also knew that what Qin Zhiyuan said was the truth, so after Qin Zhiyuan finished speaking, Foch could only shake his head and sigh.

As long as it comes to the French problem, Foch's sigh has been increasing lately.

"So, can you share it with us?" Hindenburg was also so happy to see that he had forgotten his situation at all.

Facing Hindenburg, Qin Zhiyuan was even more polite: "Why do you want these technologies?" You can't have a large tonnage warship at all, and the research on carrier-based aircraft is even more blank, can you build a 'Surabaya-class' and use it as a cargo ship? ”

Compared with France, Germany's current international environment is even worse, and the "Treaty of Versailles" has put a chew on Germany in all aspects, although it is now loosened because it wants to contain France, but in the military aspect, Britain will certainly not repeat the mistakes of the past, and if Germany wants to develop armaments, the British will not agree to it in the first place.

"It's not bad to use it as a cargo ship, at least it's fast enough." On this issue, Hindenburg was even more depressed, literally trying to break the jar.

Generally speaking, it is not a problem for civilian ships to be used for the last twenty or thirty years, while warships, at most, ten years, the progress of science and technology has forced the military to be replaced.

As for using aircraft carriers as cargo ships, it was just Hindenburg's senseless venting, and the old man's words were not accurate, as was the case since Ludendorff was in power in the middle of the world war.

In fact, even if the French and Germans can build the "Surabaya-class" aircraft carrier, Qin Zhiyuan will not take out the information to share, the "Surabaya-class" aircraft carrier is the pinnacle of Lanfang's industry, bringing together all kinds of the most advanced technology of Lanfang, from marine steel plates to boiler engines, basically all of which are currently the most advanced in the world, of course, there is also the credit of the French, but the core technology is in the hands of Lanfang people, unless it is Lanfang's next-generation aircraft carrier to start construction, otherwise Qin Zhiyuan will definitely put the "Surabaya-class" Everything about aircraft carriers is considered top secret.

From Surabaya to the Marshall Islands, where the exercise took place, the fleet traveled 7,000 kilometers, and it took a week for the fleet to reach the Marshall Islands at an economic speed of 20 knots.

There are 34 major islands and reefs in the Marshall Islands, including 29 coral atolls and five islands, and if you count all those reefs, the Marshall Islands have 1,225 islands, and four of the five largest islands are currently inhabited.

These people are not the aborigines of the Marshall Islands, but the pure Lanfang people who migrated from Lanfang after the war between Lanfang and Japan, and those aborigines have been moved to the Solomon Islands, which is Qin Zhiyuan's strategy to ensure that the Marshall Islands stay in Lanfang forever.

For now, everyone in the world thinks the Marshall Islands belongs to Lanfang, but not necessarily in the future. If Qin Zhiyuan doesn't do anything, maybe one day, the Marshall Islands will also launch a national movement, and then it will be difficult to return, and Lan Fang will pay a greater price to stabilize the situation.

Now, with just a piece of paper, all the population of the Marshall Islands will be replaced by pure Chinese, which ensures the centripetal force of the Marshall Islands.

Not only the Marshall Islands, but also the Ogasawara Islands, the Micronesian Islands, and even the Solomon Islands, Qin Zhiyuan arranged it this way, moving the aborigines away, and then moving the Chinese over, completing the population replacement and bringing long-term peace and stability.

Majuro is the most suitable atoll for human habitation in the Marshall Islands, and it is also the center of Lanfang's domination in the Marshall Islands.

The Cam Ranh Bay Fleet and the Task Force are docked at the Majuro Military Port, and the natural conditions of the Majuro Military Port are good, and battleships and aircraft carriers can be docked, of course, the space of the entire military port is limited, and all warships cannot be docked, but fortunately, the Marshall Islands have atolls, and these atolls are almost all natural military ports.

The day after arriving in the Marshall Islands, the exercise officially began, and at the same time, Qin Zhiyuan did not stay in the command headquarters, but changed to a "Brave-class" destroyer and continued east to the vicinity of Midway.

Nikola Tesla is finally here.

(To be continued.) )