Chapter 592: The Storm Comes
The explosion of the first atomic bomb in Xinhua was more than two years earlier than in the original history, but the impact on the world was much smaller than the original history. With the efficiency of these centrifuges, I am afraid that enough weapons-grade uranium has already been separated, and the rest is only the technology to make atomic bombs, which is no longer considered very high-end.
However, this is still a major event that shakes the world, and after the wise law of the United States and the Soviet Union, the sixth member of the nuclear weapons club appeared, and it is also in the gongchanist camp, so it is inevitable that the world of capital will add more worries.
Of course, it's just worrying, anyway, what can you do without worrying about it, and besides, just having a nuclear bomb and no means of delivering it is at most a deterrent, and there is more than enough self-preservation and insufficient attack, so it is not worth really being afraid for the time being.
But the second news that followed them was deeply terrified.
The new generation of nuclear submarines of the USSR entered service.
The first two Yankee-class strategic nuclear submarines were delivered to the Northern Fleet in a high-profile manner, and their home port is in Murmansk, which means that they can enter the Atlantic Ocean at any time, attack the United States with a total of 32 P21s, or SS-N-5 submarine-launched intermediate-range ballistic missiles called by NATO, and erase New York, Washington, these iconic cities from the map one by one with those 5 million tons of nuclear warheads.
And the Soviet government also announced that in the future they would build at least forty such nuclear submarines.
The news came out that the entire Western world was in a panic, 40 nuclear submarines, 640 submarine-launched nuclear missiles, this is the rhythm of destroying the world, anyway, if these missiles all hit the target, the whole United States and Western Europe will cease to exist.
And the only countermeasure is to maintain the same nuclear deterrent capability.
The United States immediately announced the start of construction of a new generation of Lafitte-class strategic nuclear submarines, after they had already built five George Washington-class and two Ethan. Allen-class, the latter has three more ships under construction, and the latest generation of Lafitte-class will be built entirely on the Ming Army's Xia-class, so the size is even larger.
In particular, it will be equipped with the latest generation of Polaris A3 missiles, and now the US military mainly uses A1 and A2, both of which have a range of less than 3,000 kilometers, and are even inferior to those of Britain and France, but A3 is a long-range missile with a range of more than 4,000 kilometers. In addition, the United States also launched the development of the Polaris B3 missile, the range of this missile has not increased, but because the diameter has increased, the carrying capacity has increased significantly, so on this missile, the United States will begin to use multi-warhead penetration technology, including the Polaris A3 missile, similar technology will also be used.
In fact, later this missile was renamed and changed to Poseidon C3.
As for Britain and France, because of lack of funds, they did not continue to purchase new strategic nuclear submarines, their existing plans are almost enough, after all, they are different from the United States, which wants to maintain mutual destruction, they only need to ensure deterrence. However, the Ming Empire announced the start of construction of a new generation of Zhou-class strategic nuclear submarines, and what is jaw-dropping is that the displacement of this submarine will far exceed that of any nuclear submarine that countries are building or preparing to build.
"The new strategic nuclear submarine will have an underwater displacement of nearly 20,000 tons, and will have 24 submarine-launched missile launch tubes, and will also use the latest generation of Julang-2 submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles, which will have the ability to hit the Arctic Circle directly from the Bay of Bengal!"
Standing on the deck of the Mukden nuclear-powered supercarrier that had just been launched at the Fengtian Shipyard, Yang shouted excitedly at the reporter's camera.
His nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which started earlier than the Enterprise, was finally launched after almost two years of service in the former, but it will have to be commissioned at least until the end of next year, after all, there are still many things that have not yet been installed. In their opinion, this is completely the result of the old men in Congress in terms of appropriations, but fortunately, the advantages of this aircraft carrier over the enterprise level are also obvious, the power that the latter can only provide with eight nuclear reactors, and this aircraft carrier only needs two nuclear reactors to solve the problem.
However, the 8,000-ton regional air defense ship equipped with this aircraft carrier is still under construction, and in particular, the supporting earthquake-2 ship-to-air missile is progressing slowly, and it is estimated that it will take four or five years to be completed and put into service.
"This is really a super battleship!"
Qiu Fatty, who was almost ninety, stood on the deck of the Fengtian with a cane, looked at its steel body, and said with infinite emotion, he came to Daming to treat his illness, because the medical technology here is more advanced, and many national dignitaries like to go to Daming to survive.
"I believe that it will not be long before the same aircraft carrier will appear in the combat sequence of the Royal Navy."
Yang Feng said with a smile.
The British Parliament has just passed the Elizabeth II class aircraft carrier construction plan, which is different from the original historical conventionally powered CVA01 plan, which is expected to build two aircraft carriers that will use nuclear power, and the initial plan is to directly introduce nuclear reactors from the Ming Dynasty, which are named Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, which are also 90,000 tons of full load displacement, in fact, the British version is built with the power system of the Mukden.
"I hope so!"
Qiu Fat Man said gloomily.
Obviously, he is not optimistic about the fate of these two aircraft carriers that have not yet begun construction, in fact, the British Parliament has done the most work in recent years, which is to cut one defense budget after another necessary to maintain the glory of the British Empire, and the Elizabeth II-class aircraft carrier and the supporting Type 82 destroyer may still have an uncertain future.
"Your parliament won't even cut them down, will it? I really can't imagine what Britain would be like without such aircraft carriers at a time when even the Soviets were starting to build nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. ”
Yang Feng said.
He Bald finally decided to start building the Soviet Union's nuclear-powered supercarrier, his previous plan was indeed deceitful, but now because of the arrival of the Aomori military base, the Soviet Pacific Fleet can face the United States, but a conventionally powered Georgia is obviously not enough to carry the Soviet Union's ambitions in the Pacific Ocean, so at the unanimous request of the military generals, he finally chose to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Of course, in fact, the real reason was to appease the mood of the army, because of the Berlin incident, the Soviet army was extremely dissatisfied with his cowardly performance, and in order to prevent the generals who held real power from turning to others, he readily approved a bunch of military budgets during this time.
There are not only nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Yankee-class strategic nuclear submarines, and even large cruisers, but Hebald is still relatively conservative on this point, and although his generals want nuclear power, he still keeps his cool and only approves the construction plan of a gas turbine version of the cruiser. Moreover, two similar classes are being developed at the same time, except that one is responsible for regional air defense to provide escort for aircraft carriers, and the other focuses on anti-submarine, which is technically simpler.
The names of these two cruisers are Type 1144 and Type 1134B, if according to the original historical development, their more common names will be the Kirov class and the Kara class, but this Kirov has been replaced by a reduced version of the conventional power of the original nuclear-powered Kirov, that is, the Glorious-class, and the first nuclear-powered cruiser of the Soviet Union in this time and space is likely to become the Glorious-class, because the new 1164-class nuclear-powered cruiser was also approved by Hebald.
The army has a T64A main battle tank that uses a 125 mm smoothbore gun and composite armor, this tank is completely forced out of the Leopard tank, and even the 115 mm smoothbore gun used by the best T62 tank on the battlefield of the Japanese Republic cannot penetrate the front of the Leopard tank used by the Ming army. The new generation of T64 tanks also use this caliber artillery, and it is obviously impossible to penetrate the front of the Leopard, especially the Leopard used in European countries have also begun to use modular armor upgrades, in this case, the T64A using a one-two-five-mm smoothbore gun and ceramic composite armor was forced to be launched in advance.
The MiG-23 project of the Soviet Air Force was also officially launched, and the MiG-25 project of the same Mach 3 level was also carried out at full speed under the stimulation of the candle dragon, in addition to the supersonic bomber forced out by Yinglong, of course, not Tu-22, at this time the Tu-22 was about to enter service, but the gap between its performance and Yinglong was too big, and the new generation supersonic bomber project approved by Hebald was actually an intercontinental bomber.
That is, Figure 160.
But this level of arms race can be played by the Chinese people, the Soviets can afford it, with strong economic strength, and Yang Feng's terrifying earning power, the Ming Empire can also afford it, but can the Britons also afford it?
Fat Qiu couldn't help but show a wry smile.
While the two were talking, Hu Hao hurriedly walked over and bowed slightly to Qiu Fatzi, and then said to Yang Feng: "Führer, Raul. Castro and Cut. Guevara is on to Moscow. ”
"What are they going to Moscow for?"
Yang Feng, who has good acting skills, said blankly.
"Hmph, the stupidity of the people of the United States has pushed another country into the arms of the Soviets, for the sake of the interests of the United Fruit Company, they have made a lowest-level mistake, and now the Soviets can laugh, the only continent in the world that has not been dyed red by them has finally opened its arms to them, and it is actually their enemies themselves who have opened the door for them, it is simply a joke."
Fat Qiu said with a sneer
Obviously, he has lived to be almost 90 years old, and he doesn't need to be as open as Yang Feng to guess what it means for Cuba's No. 2 person and South America's most famous idol school to set foot in the center of the red world together.
"Whatever, anyway, South America is far away from us, besides, John probably won't tolerate the appearance of a Soviet ally more than a hundred kilometers away from Florida, I'm afraid the Cubans are looking for their own death."
Yang Feng said casually.
But in his heart he shouted:
Let the storm come harder! (To be continued.) )