~Date: ~November 13th~

Japan's successful military operations at Pearl Harbor drew attention to the power of a new type of aircraft and aircraft carriers, which had appeared long before the First World War, but had not been successful until the Second World War more than 20 years later.

It is precisely for this reason that the United States approved the construction plan of more than a dozen Essex-class aircraft carriers in one go, while Japan also approved the construction plan of 16 Yunryu-class aircraft carriers.

However, all of this is not more eye-catching than the appearance of the Limbo class.

Standard displacement: 62,000 tons, full load displacement: 83,000 tons, total length of 331 meters, width of 86 meters, the huge size of the Limbo class has exceeded the imagination of the world.

You must know that even the Olympic-class cruise ship, which is the famous Titanic cruise ship in later generations, has a displacement of only more than 53,000 tons, and the length and width of the ship are only 269.06 meters and 28.16 meters, but even so, the Olympic-class cruise ship was the largest ship in the world at that time.

The Olympic-class cruise ship is also considered a milestone in the history of nautical technology, with theshipbuilder magazine describing it as "unsinkable". During the voyage, one of the crew members was even more interested in the 2nd class female passenger Sylvia? Caldwell said, "Even if God himself comes, he will not sink this ship." ”

However, in the end, we all know that when they say such things, it is equivalent to setting up a death fag...

In addition to the Titanic, in 1928, the Stillman oil tanker ♀ built for Mobil Oil Company at the Vulkan shipyard in Bremen, Germany was the world's largest oil tanker at that time, with a total length of only 178 meters, and the world record of the Stillman cruise ship was held until 1949.

Of course, just as human technology is constantly improving, it is impossible for shipbuilding technology not to advance. The humans who built the Titanic long before the First World War. There's no reason why you can't build a ship bigger than the Titanic.

The Queen Elizabeth (Rsqueen Elizabeth) was the largest cruise ship in the world at the time.

The Queen Elizabeth was the world's largest and most luxurious cruise ship in the late 1930s and early 1970s, with a length of 1,031 feet and a displacement of 83,600 tons.

Completed and launched in the United Kingdom on 27 September 1938, the Queen Elizabeth was used as a troop carrier during the Second World War and has been serving mainly on both sides of the Atlantic since 1946. In 1971, Hong Kong shipbuilder Tung Ho-wan spent $3.2 million to buy the ship. It is planned to spend HK$12 million to convert it into a mobile university for educational purposes, named as a "co-university". The Queen Elizabeth arrived in Hong Kong in July 1971 and was refitted off the coast between Tsing Yi Island and Stonecutters Island, where Governor Trench Lun-toe visited the ship.

Before the launch of the aircraft carrier Limbo. The Queen Elizabeth is indeed the world's largest ship. However, its total length of 1,031 feet is only 314 meters when converted into meters, and the width of the ship is only 36 meters.

As we all know, civilian ships such as cruise ships have always been much less difficult to build than warships. So what is the equivalent of a large warship larger than the world's largest civilian ship?

Therefore, as soon as the aircraft carrier Lingbo got out of the water, it already caused a huge sensation.

And by the time the photos of the launch spread around the world, the sensation grew exponentially.

In response to this sensation, naval powers such as Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom began to make metal resistance from photographs of the time of launching. It is used to study the true performance of the Limbo, and at the same time, the above-mentioned countries are also discussing the overwhelming construction performance. At least the possibility of an aircraft carrier alongside the Limbo ...

In front of the shocking hull of the Limbo, even countries such as Germany and the Soviet Union did not attach much importance to aircraft carriers. They also began to talk about the plans for the construction of aircraft carriers ...

In this case, the Kunlun class, which was supposed to be the real main force of the national defense navy, was left in the corner and ......no one cared about it, that is, in this situation of no one caring, the five large shipyards in Lushun, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Fuzhou have begun to produce two Lingbo-class aircraft carriers, including Fubo and Tabo, and fourteen aircraft carriers, including Penglai, Abbot, Yingzhou, Luofu, Canghai, Xuanzhou and Yanzhou...

Ants bite more elephants, this is an era of heavy quality but more weight.

Don't you see that the heavy tanks as powerful as the Tiger and the Tiger King were finally drowned by the T34 Sea of the Soviet Union...

If only a few ships are built, no matter how good the performance is, the tiger will not be able to withstand the wolves.

After all, this is not the era of "I'm going to fight ten" in later generations...

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Stimulated by the launch of the Limbo, Britain, the United States, Japan, Germany and other countries have introduced new aircraft carrier plans in order to surpass the Limbo aircraft carrier, and even the Soviet Union, which was mired in war, has also issued a plan to build an aircraft carrier larger than the Kunlun class.

It's just that a plan is a plan after all, and it's hard to say which one can really make it in the end.

After the Commune government unveiled plans for the construction of new aircraft carriers, shipyards along the coast were also busy. It is not only the large shipyards in Tianjin, Lushun and other places that are busy, although the new aircraft carriers are indeed built in these places, but do not forget that it is very dangerous for aircraft carriers to go alone, whether it is on the sea or under the water, a certain number of escort fleets are needed.

At this time, the National Defense Navy, although it was also the top large navy at that time, it was also very difficult to provide escort ships for as many as sixteen large and medium-sized aircraft carriers, not to mention that in addition to these sixteen, it is likely that more aircraft carriers will be needed in the future...

Therefore, at the same time that the above-mentioned large shipyards won orders for aircraft carriers, those that did not have the capacity to build aircraft carriers. But ordinary shipyards with the ability to build large warships have also won orders for other ships, such as light and heavy cruisers, destroyers, frigates and submarines...

In addition, there are a large number of orders for escort aircraft carriers, which were also handed over to a number of ordinary shipyards.

Although the escort aircraft carrier is due to the speed. It is not suitable for, and cannot afford to participate in large flights in general (with exceptions, of course), in other words, the escort aircraft carrier, as its name suggests, is only suitable for escort missions, or anti-submarine missions ...

However, the escort aircraft carrier approved by the government is somewhat different, how to say it, it is better to call it an "amphibious assault ship" than an escort aircraft carrier...

Unlike Britain and the United States, which needed a large number of escort aircraft carriers to deal with German submarines. In the future, even if China and the Axis powers were hostile, there was little chance of encountering German submarines, after all, the main area of activity of German submarines was the Atlantic, although China's influence had penetrated deep into the Mediterranean. But as long as the Strait of Gibraltar remains in the hands of a European country like Britain, China will not be able to get out of the Mediterranean...

Of course, even if this is the case, Yan Guang is satisfied, after all, he knows very well that the bigger the stall, the greater the pressure in the future, and the Soviet Union and the United States will make the base all over the world. Military spending alone is a huge amount of spending pressure.

Of course, this is nothing at the beginning, but as long as there are one or two financial crises, it is estimated that it will be a lot of anxiety...

What's more, China's territory is already very large, and there are all kinds of nationalities on the land.

Since there was no need to be hostile to Germany, which had a large underwater fleet, neighboring Japan had a stronger underwater fleet than it had historically been. But in terms of combat effectiveness, it is still very scummy, plus China has a considerable number of escort ships. As a result, the need for escort aircraft carriers is not as urgent as that of the United Kingdom and the United States. ..., in this case, considering that in later generations, those escort aircraft carriers were almost useless after the war, and they were basically dismantled and sold, so Yan Guang asked the Navy to design an escort aircraft carrier that was no different from an amphibious assault ship in accordance with the admiration of amphibious assault ships in later generations.

An amphibious assault ship is a ship used to provide support for amphibious operations in the enemy's coastal areas. In the 50s, the US military gave birth to the theory of "vertical encirclement" in landing warfare, in which landing troops boarded helicopters from the deck of landing ships, flew over the enemy's defensive positions, landed behind them, and put them into combat ♀ to avoid the enemy's defense focus of anti-landing operations and speed up the landing.

The new escort aircraft carrier was designed based on this concept ...

Well, maybe it should be called a universal amphibious assault ship.

After World War II, the United States once built a first-class "Iwo Jima" class amphibious landing ship, but the "Iwo Jima" did not have a dock design, which means that it could not use landing craft and other equipment, and could only use helicopters and vertical take-off and landing fighters.

In the early 70s, after Iwo Jima, the United States built a more advanced and larger landing ship, known as a universal amphibious assault ship, which is actually a large integrated landing combat ship integrating a docked landing ship, an amphibious assault ship and a transport ship, which has both a flight deck, a dock room, and a cargo hold. In the past, transporting a reinforced marine battalion for landing operations generally required five dock-type landing ships, amphibious assault ships, and amphibious transport vessels, but a general-purpose amphibious assault ship only needed one to replace them.

This is the universal amphibious assault ship of the "Tarawa" class ...

China is not Britain and the United States, there are no frequent underwater threats, of course, at least for now, but even if the nuclear-powered submarines of later generations come out, the so-called escort aircraft carriers in this era are probably of little use.

Although China does not have underwater pressure, Japan, China's main target, has countless islands in the Pacific and South Seas, including the Japanese mainland, and it will not only require a large number of troops to capture these places, but also a large number of landing ships...

Therefore, it is a good thing to build a first-class ship that can not only escort ships but also carry out amphibious landings.

Not to mention the new amphibious assault ship, which also has an all-through deck.

Although helicopters in this era have not yet reached the practical stage, it is also a good thing to use piston aircraft for fire support, not to mention that amphibious assault ships can be both escort aircraft carriers and landing ships, and the most important thing is that such ships are estimated to be used in the 6th and 70s.

After hearing Yan Guang's proposal, although the admiral of the navy felt that this idea was a bit whimsical, in the absence of escort pressure, and it was true that a large number of amphibious ships were needed to deal with Japan's islands in Heng. I nodded in agreement.

There is no way, although the Japanese mainland is close to China, even a fighter with a slightly longer range can fly from Shandong to Tokyo for a round trip, and if you take the Korean Peninsula, it will be no problem to go around in a circle.

However, considering Japan's national characteristics and the bonus of the island nation itself―――――― Japan itself is not suitable for heavy tanks, even if it is a 50-ton tank. It is also difficult to implement in Japan.

Like the Japanese Type 90 tank of later generations, the total weight is no more than 50 tons, but it can only be deployed in Hokkaido, and cannot be used in other regions at all. However, Japan is inseparable from the Type 90, because he needs the Type 90 in Hokkaido to defend against the Soviet Union.

After the end of the Cold War, Japan's newly designed Type 10 tank weighed only 44 tons, and its total weight was only 48 tons. Just think about the weight of the 1a2 and the leopard 2a6 in the later generations, you can understand how scummy the defense of the 10 is. ..., the Japanese Ministry of Defense claims that the current material technology and hull configuration can allow Type 10 equipment and Type 90 composite armor with the same protective power, and the material only needs 70% of the weight of the year.

The protection of Type 90 is enough for scum, and the protection of Type 10 is about the same level as Type 90. The main place where the Japanese put their efforts on the 10 type is fire control ...

This is also something that cannot be helped, because the Type 90 is too heavy. It can only be used in the Hokkaido region, but if you want to use it in other parts of mainland Japan. A lighter tank is needed.

Later, Japan's domestic road transportation network was extremely dense, and the Type 61 was originally developed to rely on rail transportation, but since the development of the Type 74, the Ground Self-Defense Force has abandoned the concept of rail transportation and switched to roads. The Type 90 was transported using a dedicated oversized vehicle, but the weight of bridges and roads in Japan was limited and could not be carried for a long time, so this was not a problem for small 40-ton vehicles.

That's why the Japanese developed the Type 10, not because they didn't want to get a heavier one, but because they couldn't get it...

Yan Guang had to face the same situation as the Japanese, or more troublesome than the Japanese.

At present, the Wehrmacht is armed with mainly 30-ton 15 modifications, in addition to 45-ton T40 and 60-ton T41 tanks.

Putting aside the latter two for the time being, you must know that this is not the Japan of later generations, and the foundation of Japanese bridges and roads at this time is relatively poor, so don't talk about the latter two, even the 30-ton one in front is difficult to deploy...

Coupled with the geographical form of Japan, when launching an offensive against the Japanese mainland, I am afraid that it will be difficult for tank units to come in handy. Therefore, when launching an offensive against Japan, it was impossible to force Japan's colonies in Heng to surrender by occupying the Japanese mainland...

And without the support of tanks, even if the Japanese army can be defeated by air force and artillery firepower alone, even if it can win in the end, I am afraid that there will be many casualties...

Therefore, according to the plan formulated by the Ministry of National Defense, after turning the other cheek with Japan, while carrying out an offensive against the Japanese mainland, it will also wipe out Japan's colonies in Heng, as long as the colonies in Heng are wiped out, only Japan on the mainland will naturally have no room for resistance.

Of course, in fact, in addition to this method, there is also a final weapon that can be used.

It's just that although the weapon has been put into development early, and it consumes a lot of money every year, to be honest, even Yan Guang himself has no idea when this weapon will come out...

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Although at this time, the weapon that can be finalized is still being developed in Lop Nur. But Yan Guang is still very, after all, no one knows when this weapon will come out, and if it doesn't come out until the war is over, it will be in vain.

Compared with Yan Guang, Cai Ye and others doubted whether this weapon really had as much power as Yan Guang described.

There is no way, although Yan Guang was already very subtle when he described it, it was still too mysterious in the eyes of Cai Yi and others.

Thus, in parallel with the approval of a large number of programs for the construction of warships, the program for the construction of new amphibious assault ships was approved.

The new amphibious assault ship, standard displacement: 20,000 tons, full load displacement: 30,000 tons, deck length 230 meters, width 40 meters, has a dock in the tail can be loaded with landing craft and other vehicles, in addition to landing missions, the new amphibious assault ship can also carry out transport tasks―――――― which is also one of the tasks of escorting aircraft carriers at the same time.

At this time, the navy still had high hopes for the new amphibious assault ship, after all, they had no other landing ships on hand at the moment. Add to this the fact that the new amphibious assault ship has good performance and can even be used as an aircraft carrier if necessary, so even if it is just beginning, the Navy has placed an order for 10 ships ...

This amount, if it is used as an aircraft carrier, is enough to sweep away the general United States.

By the way, the attack ship was named the "Storm and Buran" class ...

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I've already tried to fix it in that chapter, and I tried it at two o'clock in the morning that day...

It's just that even now, the revision of this chapter has not passed, and I don't know why, is there really anything in my chapter that needs to be reviewed? No way? Quite a few words...

I'm wronged! (To be continued......