Production improvement generation, development generation, pre-research generation, exploration generation...

At present, China is implementing such a plan in military technology.

Ahem, a little off topic...

According to the Navy's plan, while converting the existing eight [Xingri Ma]-class battleships and two [Kui Muwolf]-class battlecruisers into high-speed battleships, the Navy will also develop two types of fleet aircraft carriers, that is, the [Lingbo]-class fleet aircraft carriers and the [Canglong]-class fleet aircraft carriers, which Yan Guang had just seen not long ago.

The standard displacement of the Lingbo class: more than 62,000 tons, and the full load displacement: more than 83,000 tons.

If you have to say it, it's probably about the same as the Kitty Hawk class in history...

As for the Canglong class, the Canglong class is about the same as the slightly larger Essex-class aircraft carrier, with a standard displacement: more than 31,000 tons, and a full load displacement: more than 43,000 tons...

These two types of aircraft carriers, together with the modified Xingri Horse class and Kui Timber Wolf class, will become the backbone of the ocean fleet.

In addition, the first ship of the Limbo class, the "Limbo", has entered the state of construction, and at the same time, the construction applications of the second ship "Fubo" and the third ship "Tampo" have also been submitted to the parliament, and the construction can be carried out only after the approval of the parliament—————— in fact, everyone knows that this is just a face-saving procedure, because except for irrelevant issues, the parliament has always only had the right to sign when Yan Guang has nodded and agreed.

"Now there is no war, what are you doing with so many aircraft carriers?"

After learning of the new aircraft carrier construction plan, many high-ranking naval officials were naturally very happy, but they were also somewhat strange in their hearts.

Although there is a consensus within the Defence Navy that future naval battles will be dominated by aircraft carriers, and the large ships and huge guns have indeed reached the point where they need to withdraw from the stage of history, there is no danger of war now, and such a large-scale shipbuilding plan is approved...

Of course, as Admiral Yan Guang approved such a large-scale shipbuilding plan, they were only happy in their hearts, but in the absence of the threat of war, they would still be somewhat puzzled by Yan Guang's approach.

It is true that there is a lot of instability on the European side right now. But since Britain and France have regressed, at least the war will not break out in the short term, not to mention that even if it breaks out, it will be confined to Europe like the last time. It is almost impossible to threaten the Chinese mainland...

"But then again, that new Limbo-class aircraft carrier is really big enough..."

"Yes, I heard that the full load displacement is more than 80,000 tons, and there are more planes on it than a wing..."

"More than one team? That's a lot. And the displacement of more than 80,000 tons is larger than that of the two Kui Wood Wolves..."

"It's more than a thousand tons bigger, what a behemoth..."

While the two vice admirals were still talking in a corner of the presidential palace, a person who looked like an insider of the presidential palace came over, and when he saw this person coming, the two vice admirals quickly closed their mouths.

Although the plans for the Limbo-class aircraft carrier. There are not many people in the upper echelons of the Navy who know about it, but at least so far the Lingbo-class aircraft carrier is still an extremely confidential matter within the national government, and the only thing known to the outside world is the construction plan of the [Canglong]-class aircraft carrier, so unless these two guys with some big mouths want to withdraw their military uniforms, they can only obediently shut up.

But since it's a big mouth, that mouth must be idle.

So when the guy had just walked away, the two big-mouthed vice admirals started talking again, only this time the object of conversation was no longer about the Limbo class. Rather, it is the Canglong level that exists as the backbone.

“……… Although the number of carrier aircraft of the Canglong class is not small. But compared with the Lingbo class, the Canglong class is obviously much worse in terms of performance, not to mention that there is not much threat of war now, do you want to propose to the president to temporarily suspend the construction plan of the Canglong class and concentrate all resources on the Lingbo class? ”…,

"That's what I thought too..."

Although the two big mouths have tried to lower the volume. Still, in the quiet marble corridor, whispers could still be heard far away.

And in the corners of the corridor. The guy who seemed to have gone away just now was quietly eavesdropping, waiting until the two big-mouthed guys stopped discussing.

"Limbo..."

The guy hiding in the corner frowned.

"What the hell is this..."

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In the Hereafter. The research and development time of a new weapon is usually about ten to twenty years, and some Star Destroyer-class weapons such as the LCA can be studied for about thirty or fifty years.

Therefore, after more than ten years, the equipment of today's national defense forces has also reached the point where it needs to be updated.

Like a semi-automatic rifle in the hands of ordinary soldiers, several models have been improved so far. In addition, the Type 19 squad machine gun used for fire support has also been replaced by another new squad machine gun, but there is not much difference between the two machine guns in terms of structure.

The original Type 19 squad machine gun has a rate of fire of up to 1200 rounds per minute, while the new Type 37 squad machine gun has a rate of fire of 1500 rounds per minute, of course, a higher rate of fire also represents higher ammunition consumption, and long-term shooting is also easy to cause the barrel to overheat and other phenomena, but the barrel replacement speed of the new machine gun only takes 3 seconds, and Yan Guang is also ready to build the logistics of the troops to be similar to the US army, so this point is particularly concerning.

In addition to the change in the rate of fire, the Type 37 squad machine gun also changed even more in other respects.

The performance of the Type 19 squad machine gun is very strong, especially in many conflicts with the Soviet Red Army, the Type 19 squad machine gun has played a suppressive role many times, making the military very satisfied with the Type 19 machine gun. However, Yu did not hide his flaws, and the Type 19 showed sensitivity to flying sand and rocks, as well as the high cost price (both in terms of man-hours and materials), which also made the military hope that the Type 19 machine gun could be improved.

It was in this context that the Type 37 squad machine gun appeared.

The successful development of the Type 37 machine gun was indeed an important breakthrough in firearms production technology. The designers who carried out the improvement were not experts in firearms, but in metal stamping technology. The knowledge of weapons did not come from a professional background, but with his extensive knowledge of steel, the expert, with the assistance of other technicians, was able to carry out two new results in the whole project: "a new machine gun and a new low cost." ”

At that time, due to the great demand for machine guns in the front-line units of the Wehrmacht, he believed that it was difficult to meet such needs according to the traditional firearms manufacturing process (it uses mechanical processing, a solid metal is processed by lathes, milling machines, etc., and the unnecessary parts are cut off, and the metal utilization rate is only about 25%, which is a waste of materials). and it takes a lot of man-hours). He believes that it is an inevitable trend for machine guns to be manufactured by metal stamping process, and the Type 19 produced by its practical metal stamping process not only saves materials and man-hours, but is also more compact.

The production time of a Type 37 machine gun is actually less than half that of a Type 19 machine gun. About 75 man-hours (if it is produced in three shifts, it only takes three days and three hours to have a brand new Type 37 machine gun leave the factory). The Type 19 machine gun requires 150 man-hours, and the material cost can also be saved through stamping, so the original cost of producing the Type 19 machine gun is 150 Huayuan, and the production of the Type 37 machine gun is reduced to only 120 Huayuan Reichsmarks.

The other Type 37 machine gun did not have a heavy-barreled design. As a result, the barrel heats up quickly when firing continuously, but the engineers have also worked on the procedure for replacing the barrel, so that an experienced shooter can pull out the hot barrel and replace it with a new one in 3 seconds.

For the new Type 37 machine gun, due to its high reliability and low cost, the generals of the Wehrmacht gave it a high rating. In previous border conflicts with the Soviet Russian Red Army, the newly debuted Type 37 machine gun has made many achievements. …,——————————

In addition to ordinary infantry weapons, the Wehrmacht has undergone a number of updates in other areas.

In addition, due to the progress of automobile manufacturing technology, the National Defense Force has also customized a fast, light, all-terrain off-road vehicle (14 tons of load) to major domestic automobile companies for general purposes (including reconnaissance, a small amount of cargo, etc.), and can support a 12.7mm caliber heavy machine gun.

In a way, it's about the same as an American jeep...

This off-road vehicle made it possible to greatly improve the mobility of the soldiers. Plus, you don't need to walk on your feet anymore. So it was generally welcomed by the soldiers.

In addition to off-road vehicles, new armored personnel carriers, tanks, free artillery, etc. began to be equipped in small batches.

In addition, new fighters, bombers and dive bombers were also put into service.

Compared with the Army and Air Force, the changes in the Navy are relatively small.

For example, the ten capital ships of the Ocean Fleet, because the role of battleships will be reduced in the future, these ten battleships have only been converted into high-speed battleships that can follow the aircraft carrier formation, and there is no plan to start construction of new battleships.

In addition to the capital ships. New light and heavy cruisers, destroyers and frigates have been updated a lot.

But the most important thing. Or the underwater fleet.

Thanks to technological advances, the submarine forces are armed with a large number of large submarines of 3000 tons and medium submarines of 2000 tons.

In addition, a new escort aircraft carrier is being designed. It's just that construction has not yet started, after all, it has not yet entered a state of war, and there is no need for these "things" that cannot accompany the aircraft carrier formation in combat ...

At the same time, a new type of camouflage uniform has also been developed, although it is impossible to compare with the digital camouflage of later generations, but it is still many times stronger than the monochrome training uniform of this period.

It's just that this kind of camouflage uniform is relatively easy to imitate, so the existence of wood fortune is still in a state of secrecy, and only when the war officially begins, will some subordinate garment factories officially produce it.

Of course, all of the above has changed, and there are many that have not changed.

After all, there are many things that are classics, and the so-called classics are not easy to fade and not easy to be eliminated...

For example, the Wehrmacht is still equipped with the Browning **** in the front-line troops. That is, the Browning M1911****, although it has been in service in the army for many years, the Wehrmacht still has no idea of replacement.

In the early years, some people thought about replacing Browning with a 9mm caliber ****, after all, the recoil of the 11.43mm caliber is too big, not to mention the ****.

However, there has been a strong reaction from the military, whether it is the army, the air force or the navy. Although the lethality of the 9mm **** bullet is also good, the military still has to be more obsessed with the 11.43mm caliber, to paraphrase the military's statement.

"I'd rather kill an enemy with one shot than fight back against you after five or six shots..."

Well, although the M1911 has the characteristics of large recoil and low bullet capacity, it can cause serious damage to unprotected targets, which is incomparable to 9mm**** bullets, and 11.43mm**** bullets are also suitable for weapons with silencers—————— not to mention that there are no body armor and other things in this period...

That is, in this case. Although the classic Mauser G98 rifle has been withdrawn from active service, the Browning M1911 from across the ocean is still fighting on the front line of the Wehrmacht.

However, although the M1911 is estimated to be in use for decades, it doesn't matter, but the military has made some kind of improvement to this ****. This makes its structure more reasonable.

Since the army has quite a lot of experience in its use, the military, based on the experience accumulated in the First World War and the conflict with the Soviet Union, asked the munitions industrial enterprises to make some external improvements to the M1911, which began in mid-1920. These include moving the trigger back slightly, enlarging the trigger guard, widening the front sight, adding grooves to the grip near the trigger guard, lengthening the protrusion above the grip safety to prevent the shooter from being hammered by the hammer, thickening the tail of the grip (which was simplified in later versions), lengthening the hammer for easier handling, and simplifying the lines on the grip. ..., since no internal modifications were made. As a result, the internal parts are still interchangeable with the M1911.

As a result of these improvements, the M1911's man-machine effectiveness has been greatly improved, and the Army and Air Force have praised these improvements...

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"Limbo..."

Hearing this word in the residence of the Prime Minister of Japan, Mitsumasa Yonechi, as Minister of the Navy, said a little strangely.

"What is this..."

"I don't know."

Naval Vice-Admiral Jiro Ichinomiya shook his head and said.

"This is news from our internal line, saying that the Chinese are building a large aircraft carrier called the [Lingbo] class..."

"Limbo class...", after thinking about it carefully. Mitsumasa Yonechi asked. "How does it compare to the [Canglong] class that the Chinese are preparing to build?"

The matter of the start of construction of the [Soryu]-class aircraft carrier by the Kokusha government is not a secret, and the Kokusha government has even held a press conference for this reason, so it is normal for Mitsumasa Yonechi and others to know.

And after hearing Hirosei Mine's words, Jiro Ichinomiya shook his head and said.

"It's not clear yet, in fact, about the [Lingbo] level, we also heard about it by chance in the internal personnel of the National Society, but we don't know much about it, but judging from the few words we heard. The performance of the [Limbo] class should be much higher than that of the [Canglong] class..."

"So..."

Mitsumasa Minai nodded. I began to think in my head about what the [Limbo] class would look like.

But at this time, the guard who was sitting on the main seat suddenly spoke.

"Alright, let's leave this matter to the intelligence department, let's discuss the alliance with the Germans..."

As he said this, Fumiro Konoe, who was the prime minister, looked at Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita.

"What exactly do Germans mean?"

"The Germans wanted us to contain the British and French forces in Asia, and at the same time to support the British and French in the event that the United States was likely. Contain the Americans in the Pacific...", after glancing at Fumiro Konoe, Hachiro Arita continued. "So the Germans wanted us to be able to do it after the outbreak of war. First attacked the British and French colonies on Indochina, and then attacked India and the South Sea Islands. In this way, the war potential of England and France would be greatly reduced by the loss of resources from Asia, and the Germans would not mind if we had a surplus of troops..."

"That......... What about the Americans? ”

Australia and New Zealand...

It's heartwarming to think about, but it's just heartwarming, after all, the attitude of the Americans to make such a big move in the Far East has to be considered.

"What the Germans mean is not to alarm the Americans for the time being, and when the victory has been laid, if the United States does not make any moves, then the matter will be put down for the time being, and if the United States is ready to intervene in the European theater, they hope that we can create a battlefield in the Pacific to contain the American forces..."

Hearing this, Mitsumasa Mineuchi, who was originally thinking about the "Lingbo"-class aircraft carrier, suddenly spoke.

"Pin down the Americans? I'm afraid it's going to be hard..."

Although there is a China next to it, Japan is more powerful than Japan in history. But the same United States did not stand still, you must know that China is much more threatening than Japan in history, in this case, after the "Second London Jump" broke up, the United States has relied on its strong industrial strength to create an extremely large fleet in the Pacific region...

For this fleet, although Japan's combined fleet is much stronger than in history, Mitsumasa Yonechi does not have much confidence that it will be able to defeat the United States, especially the United States has such a strong industrial base ......," the Germans also meant. Hearing Mitsumasa Yonechi say this, Hachiro Arita hurriedly said. What the Germans mean is that if the Americans really want to go to war, then they want us to be able to mobilize China into the Axis to deal with the Americans through friendly relations with China..."

"Through the Chinese..."

Konoe Fumiro frowned, in history Konoe Fumiro is also very famous, the historical War of Resistance against Japan took place during his tenure, and the three famous "Konoe Statements" in history were also issued by him, but also Konoe Fumiro is also an Asian...

"Arita-kun, how are your contacts with the Chinese?"

"There has been progress," Hachiro Arita said calmly. Although the Chinese are still very disgusted with the pan-Germanism of the Germans, they are willing to help us in terms of materials and other things, and even send troops to support us if necessary..."

"Oh?" Hearing this, Mitsumasa Yonechi and Fumiro Konoe and others were all happy, after all, China was definitely a strong reinforcement at this time, but the next words of Hachiro Arita made their faces change.

"But the Chinese also have one condition, that is, when the war is over, we must hand over Korea, Taiwan, Indochina and India to China..."

"What?" Hearing this, Mitsumasa Michichi and the others all looked angry, after all, they wanted to exchange these for verbal support alone, and in their opinion, the Chinese were indeed too much.

However, until now, Fumiro Konoe still said calmly.

"What else?"

Glancing appreciatively, Fumiro Konoe continued.

"As a condition, the Chinese agreed that we should occupy the entire Nanyang Islands and Australia, and at the same time they proposed that Korea and other places could be handed over to China while we already occupied Australia..."

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PS: Cover? That's not a nail, it's a military stab...

Another: If you don't expand, you'd rather die!

In addition: if you bring Germany, you have to think about how to deal with Germany, Japan and Italy after the war, after all, these three countries are not pacifists, and given the logistics, it is very difficult...

Three another: so the aircraft carrier has an oblique deck, which can improve a certain efficiency, and the extra ones are used as spare planes...

Fourth, Taiwan was recovered after the end of World War II

Five others: In the First World War in the book, only tens of thousands of people were sent at the beginning, and the warships were all bought by Germany, and there were shipyards in Sichuan, all of which are in these books.

Sixth: Tangnu Ulianghai has already taken it back, because he was separated after the First World War... (To be continued......)