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The German Navy has cut more than 800,000 naval tons, mainly concentrated on old battleships, battle cruisers, and armored cruisers, which are basically old ships that have been in service for more than 10 years, and the main force of the German High Seas Fleet has not been affected. However, the German super battleships under construction were forced to stop work, first, the German Navy had no money to build, and secondly, the total tonnage of the Navy was limited, and if it had to be built, it would have to dismantle five large warships in service that had not been in service for several years, which was obviously very uneconomical.www.biquge.info Therefore, the German Navy had to reluctantly dismantle the super battleships under construction in the four dockyards.

The French and Italian navies have no such concerns, with their total naval tonnage quotas of only 450,000 tons and 350,000 tons. France and Italy did not have the money to participate in a large-scale naval arms race before the war, and even less money to build superships after the war, and most of the warships of the two navies had reached retirement age, so there was no difficulty in reducing them.

Among them, the Italian Navy has been reduced to 250,000 tons, and the quota of 100,000 tons has been retained for the construction of new warships in the future. However, France cut down extremely ruthlessly, cutting 700,000 tons at once, and only retaining a few capital ships that were barely classified into the ranks of the super god bow, and the total tonnage of the entire French navy was less than 150,000 tons, leaving 300,000 tons of room for future development.

After the countries reached an agreement on the total tonnage of the navy, the number, tonnage and caliber of the main guns of the capital ships were also stipulated.

Since the Imperial Chinese Navy has the largest number of capital ships, the largest tonnage and the caliber of its main guns, and the Imperial Chinese Empire's position on this issue is very tough, the standard can only be based on the capital ships in service in the Imperial Chinese Empire.

After a series of games, the five permanent members of the Security Council reached an agreement stipulating that the maximum tonnage of each country's capital ship shall not exceed 60,000 tons, and the caliber of the main gun shall not exceed 18 inches. The capital ships currently in service with various countries are allowed to be retained in excess of this standard, but the service period shall not exceed ten years. After that, it should be decommissioned and dissolved. If the number of ships under construction exceeds this standard, it will be allowed to be completed if more than two-thirds of the construction progress is completed. Otherwise, it will be dismantled in situ.

As stipulated in the agreement. Ten years later, the Imperial Chinese Navy must have no more than 16 capital ships, the British Royal Navy no more than 8 capital ships, the German High Seas Fleet no more than 6 capital ships, and the French Navy no more than 5 capital ships. The capital ships of the Italian Navy must not exceed 4.

According to the content of the treaty, the Imperial Chinese Navy retained thirty-six capital ships. There will be no excess displacement for the construction of new capital ships for ten years. The British Navy can build four capital ships, the German Navy will also not be able to build new capital ships in ten years, and the French Navy can build two more 40,000-ton capital ships. The Italian Navy can build two more 30,000-ton capital ships.

On the part of aircraft carriers. Because the capital ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy were equipped with a powerful air defense phalanx system, and the Chinese Aegis air defense cruisers equipped by the naval fleet, the air defense capability of the fleet proved to be very effective in the Sino-American war.

Arguably. The emergence of the Aegis air defense cruiser and the Vulcan phalanx system of the Imperial Chinese Navy perpetuated the view of the cannon theory of the world's naval giants. As a result, the navies of Europe and the United States will continue to attach importance to the theory of victory of giant ships and cannons for a long time to come, and ignore the huge role of aircraft carriers, so that they will regret it when the next war comes.

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council signed the Treaty on the Limitation of Naval Armaments, which, although quite restrictive, is valid for as long as 15 years, and together with the Arms Limitation Treaty of the Army and Air Force, is collectively known as the Five-Power Pact. The Five-Power Pact entered into force on 1 January 1919 and was valid until 1 January 1933. As an agreement between the five great powers after the First World War, the treaty did not resolve the fundamental contradictions between the countries, but it ensured that a large-scale war would not break out in the whole world within 15 years, and made a great contribution to world peace.

After the formal signing of the five-nation pact, the governments of various countries successively issued announcements on reducing military spending, and all parties successively launched the disarmament plan schedule in accordance with the provisions of the convention and under the supervision of the inspectors of the League of Nations.

Of course, all countries will not completely reduce military spending and disarm in accordance with the contents of the five-nation pact.

For the Chinese Empire, the signing of the Five-Power Pact was only to send a signal of love for peace, so that the people of the whole world would recognize the rise of the Chinese Empire and be able to accept the core international leadership of the Chinese Empire in future international affairs.

It can be said that the ratification of the Five-Power Pact by the Chinese Empire was a political strategy to seize the moral high ground of the "ambassador of world peace". For the Chinese imperial side, the great disarmament of the navy, land and air force was very painful. Although disarmament did not affect the status of the Chinese Empire as the world's number one military power, the fifteen-year-long world military holiday affected a group of mid-level and high-ranking officers who wanted to be belligerent, and the lack of war made them quite irritable.

After the ratification of the Five-Power Pact by the Imperial Diet of China, the Cabinet of Finance and the Ministry of Finance immediately cut the spending on the armed forces, from the previous spending of hundreds of millions of dragon dollars to less than 100 million, which was cut by two-thirds. However, at the suggestion of Emperor Wang Chenhao, the Ministry of Finance set aside a huge amount of up to 500 million dragon coins to improve the welfare of the army. The General Staff Headquarters spends a part of its funds on the research and development and testing of new weapons and equipment, and all weapons and equipment of the army, navy, and air force are involved.

At the same time, in response to the spirit of Emperor Wang Chenhao's instructions, the General Staff set up a strategic force, named the Second Artillery Corps. The Second Artillery Corps is a first-class branch of the armed forces, with a status equivalent to that of the navy, army, and air force, and is directly subordinate to the Ministry of National Defense.

The first weapon equipped by the Second Artillery Corps was the Raytheon 3 long-range cannon developed by Rosenberg, and the first two models of the cannon were pure artillery structures that fired large-caliber long-range artillery shells. Later, under the guidance of Wang Chenhao, Rosenberg imitated the rockets mounted on the Hellfire fighters of the Imperial Air Force and the individual rocket weapons equipped by the army for development, and finally developed the Thor 3 weapon system that launched large-caliber rockets.

The Chinese Imperial Party was internally named Long-Range Rocket Artillery, and considering the secrecy issue, it was declared to be a long-range cannon.

In fact, the Thor 3 rocket launcher developed by Rosenberg is an upgraded version of the individual rocket artillery. The man-portable rocket artillery has a short range and low power, but Rosenberg installed the rocket generation system on the truck, through an I-shaped launcher, which can carry four 250 mm rockets at a time, with a range of 50 kilometers, and the destructive power is amazing.

The development of rocket artillery was proposed by Wang Chenhao, and according to Wang Chenhao's "strategic guidance," Rosenberg finally got out of the misunderstanding that long-range artillery had no practical value and transferred it to rocket development.

If you want to achieve a caliber of more than 200mm for ordinary artillery, the weight of the barrel and other mechanisms will be very large, basically exceeding the ability of the general towing vehicle, and it must go through a long time of preparation to shoot, which is very inconvenient, and it takes one minute to prepare for each shot to fire the second round, which has little practical value, and if it is prepared by mechanical loading, the volume and weight will be greater.

Therefore, rocket artillery was developed, the barrel does not withstand the explosive force of gunpowder, it is only a directional mechanism, which can be made very light, and there is no device for absorbing recoil, because the shells fly out on their own, there is no recoil, in this way, a lot of shells can be fired in an instant, and the weight is light, it can be directly loaded on the truck, and it can be done very large and fly very far.

However, rocket artillery also has drawbacks. One of the disadvantages is that the accuracy is not high, the rocket flight time is longer than the shell, and it is greatly affected by the wind, and the other is that the ammunition is very expensive, after all, a bullet is a rocket, and the price is expensive, so it must be used in conjunction with ordinary artillery.

However, compared with the advantages of rocket artillery, the problem of high cost is not a problem, because rockets can be fired multiple at a time, and have the advantages of fast launch speed, high striking surface and amazing lethality. Similarly, it is more expensive to produce a gun that can fire 250 mm shells, so rocket artillery weapons are relatively worth the money.

After studying the Xingxing energy and practical value of the Raytheon-3 rocket launcher, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire immediately approved the General Armament Department to purchase it. The General Armament Department purchased 1,000 sets of Raytheon-3 rocket artillery systems at a time, using special trucks produced by the China Automobile Company as the territory, which greatly enhanced the mobility of the Raytheon rocket launchers, which could follow the armored units in combat and provide them with powerful fire support.

After the establishment of the Second Artillery Corps, since there was no missile weapon that Wang Chenhao hoped for, Wang Chenhao took the Thor rocket launcher as the first main battle weapon of the Second Artillery Corps.

As a strategic force, the Second Artillery Corps was originally to be stationed at the main military bases of the major military regions of the Chinese Empire to serve as defensive tasks, but in consideration of military secrets, the Second Artillery Corps was eventually confined to the Beiyuan base and assumed the task of guarding the security of Gyeonggi.

In Wang Chenhao's view, since rocket artillery weapons have been successfully developed, missile weapons are not far away. For this reason, Wang Chenhao repeatedly summoned Rosenberg and weapons experts from the Beiyang Ordnance Laboratory to discuss, and specially allocated funds to set up a missile research laboratory, with Rosenberg as the commander-in-chief, leading 150 scientists and weapons experts from relevant fields to study missile weapons together.

Of course, Wang Chenhao also told them that the difference between rockets and missiles is mainly in the guidance problem. Tesla and Marconi had an absolute say in this regard, and the remote control system and radio system they worked on were key to guidance, so they were also involved in the program