The artillery frigate Electrification class has not escaped the fate of being decommissioned, which is still widely praised in the Datang Navy for its excellent design and outstanding performance. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBut the era is over, the tonnage is small and there is less room for modification, so it is better to retire directly. The Datang Navy also has a large number of patrol ships in the 15-year shipbuilding plan, and these patrol ships of less than 2,000 tons are actually called corvettes in China on the other side, and they are mainly engaged in coastal defense. These new ships are low maintenance, low to use, and better updated. Therefore, the artillery frigate has completely lost the value of its own existence.

Submarines with a service life of 20 years or close to 20 years have also been decommissioned, and submarines such as the Snapper class have all been groped by Datang when it was first built, which is not very mature, and the tonnage is also small, so it cannot adapt to today's combat form. Jiao Qiang envisioned that in the future, the Navy's underwater fleet will need more nuclear submarines to follow the aircraft carrier formation, while conventional submarines will mainly set up ambushes in marginal seas and some sea arteries, and their defensive role will be greater.

Most of the hundreds of Datang ships that were decommissioned were sealed as war reserves, and Datang also established its own ghost fleet in case of emergency. Of course, a certain number of ships are also used for sale to other countries, certainly excluding European countries, after all, the two sides are hostile. So these ships were mainly sold to South American countries, but the demand itself from South American countries is not very large, and the financial resources are limited. La Plata, on the other hand, bought four San Francisco-class heavy cruisers, while Brazil could only afford frigates.

Germany originally planned to borrow the hands of Brazil to carry out a few Datang heavy cruises, on the one hand, to understand the level of Datang's naval equipment, and on the other hand, to enrich its own navy, but this trick was quickly seen through by Datang and did not succeed.

As soon as Jiao Qiang took office, he did not expand the navy, but cut a lot of ships, which made Hu Fakui anxious. President Hu talked to Jiao Qiang many times, and Jiao Qiang's response was also very reasonable. These cuts will not only not cause the Datang Navy to lose its combat strength, but will make the Datang Navy more capable and powerful. Unnecessary maintenance costs have been reduced, and the combat effectiveness of the navy has been refined, although the scale has been reduced, but the strength of the Datang Navy is still beyond doubt.

Hu Fakui also knew that Jiao Qiang's choice was not wrong. With step-by-step development and the construction of more missile destroyers and frigates, the Datang Navy will indeed be stronger, but he pursues war, and war requires a larger fleet, and reducing the fleet does not meet his expectations. Therefore, Hu Fakui proposed to build more ships in Jiaoqiang.

The huge state left by Bai Nan had strong financial resources and integrated the economic strength of various overseas territories, and the total economic volume of Datang had exceeded 1.2 trillion Tang Yuan in 1811, and the economic miracle was still continuing. Although the size of the 2 million troops makes the personnel expenditure also huge, thanks to the expansion of the total economy, Datang still has enough funds to develop equipment and reequipment. The fifteen-year shipbuilding plan was a normal peacetime military development that did not take into account the start of war, and the total tonnage of ships built in 1811 was even half of that of 1808. Hu Fakui could not tolerate wasting the huge production capacity of the Tang military industry and delaying his plans for the war.

Therefore, the National Security Council, the Ministry of National Defense, and other parties came forward to demand that the navy have a stronger and larger fleet, focusing on building missile destroyers, missile frigates, nuclear submarines, and amphibious ships, and the aircraft carrier demanded that a scientific research project of a 100,000-ton supercarrier be launched and the level of naval aviation should be enhanced.

In the eyes of a sane navyman like Jiao Qiang, such a plan cannot be called a plan at all, because it has no practical meaning at all. The Tang Navy he streamlined is also capable of defeating the EU Navy. He threw the battleships even together, in fact, to throw away the burden. The existing Datang aircraft carrier formation is full of combat power and is not afraid of any challenge, and the significance of further strengthening is very low.

But the above meaning is like this, Jiao Qiang, as a soldier who must obey orders, is obviously impossible to disobey. However, Jiao Qiang hopes to adjust the development plan in the most robust way possible on the grounds that adjusting the overall plan will cause greater waste, and that the technology of the new generation of ships will be developed and mature quickly.

In such cases, the pace of development and construction of some projects has been accelerated, such as the Kunming-class after the Bainan-class guided missile destroyer. The Datang Navy has prepared phased array radars, Aegis systems, vertical launch devices, and other things, which can bring this kind of large destroyer, which has a standard row of more than 8,000 and a full row of more than 10,000, into the threshold of Aegis ships in one step. The cost of the Kunming-class destroyer is almost as high as two and a half Bainan-class, and of course, the combat strength has also been doubled.

And more construction plans have been expanded, such as the current average of 6 Bainan-class destroyers launched every year, which is considered a relatively fast construction speed in any way. Now the number of ships to be built per year is directly increased from 6 to 12, which is equivalent to building one ship per month. The actual number of Bainan-class missile destroyers and Baishou-class missile frigates has not changed, which is still 82 and 116, but the construction will be completed several years ahead of schedule.

The total number of amphibious assault ships and dock landing ships that have been greatly increased is greatly increased, because Hu Fakui expects that Datang is likely to continue to increase its forces to Europe after the war, and the role of amphibious ships is even no less than that of main combat ships, and the number of 8-16 in the original plan is likely to not meet the demand, so it is required to increase the production of amphibious assault ships to 12 and dock landing ships to 26. The construction of amphibious assault ships is slightly more difficult, but the dock landing ship is relatively simple to build, and the speed can be very fast.

The same story is true for nuclear submarines, with four attack submarines per year to eight per year, and newer nuclear submarines may be developed and built quickly.

Although this kind of thing is clearly under the blind command of the higher-level leaders, the beneficiary is also the navy, which spends billions of dollars every year, and more ships also enter the fleet. Jiao Qiang felt that it was not necessary, but he would still carry it out.

The shipyards of the Datang Navy also welcomed this, after all, there was money to be made, in fact, the number of these increased ships, that is, about half of their full load production, really started to build at full capacity, and that number would be particularly terrifying. Therefore, the main reason why no one can challenge Datang is that there are too many Tang people and Datang's industrial manufacturing capacity is too strong. (To be continued.) )