Shortly after Lynn and Andriy's conversation, inside information came from the Swedish political axe, the British side had no intention of putting obstacles in the way on the issue of the wreck of the "Tirpitz", and after learning about the Erlikon-Pifil company's purchase plan for the abandoned warship, the two British generals expressed their understanding and support in principle, but asked the Norwegian side to have a second communication with the British political axe before the agreement was formally reached, at which time the British political axe would put forward additional requirements and sign a memorandum agreement between the three parties according to the specific situation.

Hearing the news, Lynn, Andri, and Courtland breathed a sigh of relief, but they couldn't be happy in their hearts. The Norwegians themselves did not have much trouble with the Tirpitz, which once shocked Europe and is now basically like a dead whale, but the British, who had been tortured by the German Navy for almost six years, should be haunted by the nearly 3,000 ships of various types sunk during the war. In fact, soon after the surrender of the German forces in Norway, the British sent naval personnel, including naval engineering experts, to conduct field surveys. Objectively and fairly, Germany's main battleship technology is not comprehensive, and there are great hidden dangers in the important aspects of design, radar equipment, and air defense weapons, but the Bismarck-class firepower, speed, and superior ability to resist attacks make them the most formidable naval opponents in this war. In contrast, the British Royal Navy's newest first-class battleship, the "Avant-garde", which is already in outfitting, has improved the structure of the watertight compartment of the hull based on actual combat experience, and has improved the defensive capability on the basis of the George V class, redesigned the bow spontane, raised the bow freeboard, added wave plates, improved the navigation ability in bad sea conditions, optimized the design of the ship type, the length and width ratio of the hull is moderate, the stern adopts a square stern, which improves the propulsion efficiency, and is also equipped with a relatively complete radar fire control system. In addition to anti-air and sea-to-sea search radars, not only the main and secondary guns are equipped with fire control radars, but also anti-aircraft artillery of various calibers are equipped with gun-aiming radars. On paper, the expensive "Avant-garde" has surpassed the German Bismarck class in all respects except firepower, but it is really difficult to say who will kill the "Avant-garde" in an ideal state when it meets the "Bismarck" or "Tirpitz". However, after all, Germany has been defeated, and there is no longer a single warship that can compete with the Royal Navy, which is also a crucial factor that really makes the British let go of their fears and retain their self-esteem!

The obstacles were gradually cleared in Norway, and the group carrying out the "Spring Thunder Plan" set off directly from Oslo, Norway to Stockholm, Sweden, and before that, a few weeks after their departure to Switzerland, the Empire sent personnel from the "Vault" base in Norway to contact spies, search for information, and open joints, and also sent economic and industrial specialists to Sweden and Finland to do preliminary work. The two Nordic countries are inextricably linked in terms of historical origins and ethnic traditions, with about 1,500 Swedish volunteers serving in Finland between 1941 and 1944, but the two countries have gradually taken very different paths in the past hundred years. Although the Finns and the Third Reich were clearly closer to each other than the Swedes in their early partnerships, Sweden was more important in Lynn's plan than Finland, which was still fulfilling the secret treaty.

As an armed neutral country with a similar attitude to Switzerland, Sweden played the role of a neutral country during World War II, maintaining more or less ties with Germany and its allies. Sweden's last major war dates back to the Napoleonic period. In the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939, more than 10,000 Swedish volunteers fought alongside the Finnish army. This figure is particularly significant, as Sweden had a large population of about 6.5 million at the time.

Before the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, there were already a small number of Swedes scattered in the German army, for example, in the 5th Viking Division. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, about 200 Swedish volunteers who wanted to join the German army were grouped together through the Minister in Stockholm and the informal wing of the German SS in Sweden and arrived in Germany via Norway. During the war, more than half of the total number of wounded and killed was carried out, and some of the best were sent to the SS officer school for training, and Swedish volunteers also participated in the Battle of Berlin, who were part of the Nordic division. Before the end of the war, although the "Aryan Ark Project" was secretly conceived and implemented by the Reich's top brass, only a handful of Swedish volunteers were specially trained to return to Sweden as intelligence officers because the route of re-emergence was not fully considered. However, between 1940 and 1945, the German [***] spy bureau and the SS each developed spies and intelligence providers in this militar-industrial Nordic country, and thanks to the efforts of the Reich Strategic Staff, the two intelligence networks were merged, and the number of people who continued to work for the Reich after the war was about 50.

After the previous actions, Lynn felt more and more that he lacked enough knowledge of the human history of European countries, and in order to play his role in determining the surname on more occasions, he seized all the time to supplement his knowledge. Before arriving in Sweden, he made it clear that Sweden's policy during the interwar period was simple and reliable, that is, absolutely no participation in the war.

It is easy to make such a decision, but it is not so easy to maintain such a position. After the outbreak of World War II, both Germany and Britain pledged not to interfere in Sweden's trade with other countries, but in the first seven months of the war, Sweden lost more than 40 merchant ships. After the German occupation of Denmark and Norway, it completely blocked the trade routes between Sweden and the Allies with torpedoes and submarines, and the Allies also took the opportunity to forcibly lease Swedish ships that were blocked from the blockade. At the same time, Britain, which was in dire need of balls and bearings produced in Sweden, did not hesitate to risk sending transport planes to fly over the German-occupied zone to Sweden to airlift these important military supplies. From the other side of the war, the Allies were also fully aware of the importance of Swedish iron ore to the German war economy during this period, and repeatedly planned to cut off or cut this supply. With the end of the war in Norway in June 1940 and the tension of the war on the Western Front, the Allies were unable to intervene in the affairs of Northern Europe, and Sweden had fallen under the control of Germany. Even the ever-strong Churchill said in a meeting with Bochmann, who later became Sweden's ambassador to Britain, that Britain did not want another German victim, and that all Britain wanted was that Sweden would be able to defend itself in the event of an attack, that it would not make any unnecessary concessions, and that it would be able to reverse those concessions that had been made as soon as possible.

However, geographical location and political stance are not enough to guarantee the security of a country, Sweden is able to maintain its own surname and relative neutrality, having the strongest navy in the whole of Scandinavia is also an important factor, and its military industry is very developed, many famous weapons are produced in Sweden. As early as when Germany was preparing to invade Norway, some admirals proposed that instead of risking a roundabout landing in Norway from the sea, it would be better to attack Sweden first and then advance north by land, but the German Führer, who had always been adventurous, did not want to provoke the number one military power in Northern Europe. So Germany gave instructions to Sweden: "Only a neutral inclination towards Germany is the only way to guarantee inviolation." "Germany agreed to conditionally respect Sweden's neutral status, one of the conditions being that Sweden would not cut its iron ore exports to Germany.

After the end of the Western Front, Sweden compromised with Germany, agreeing that Germany would send military supplies to Norway through Swedish territory, and agreed to allow the German [***] troops to pass through the territory, but during this period, Sweden's army was doubled to 500,000 men, and the armament was three times that of the previous one, and the motorized troops were strengthened. Sweden built its own submarine and torpedo boat force, doubled the total number of aircraft, and most of the fighters in service were newly built high-ranking fighters. After Germany's defeat in the decisive tank battle at Kursk, Sweden finally decided not to transport supplies and soldiers for Germany, having previously transported a total of 2.14 million German soldiers and 100,000 wagons to the front.

When the war situation took a turn for the worse, the Allies also increased their pressure on Sweden, and the greatest threat to Sweden was now the Allies rather than Germany. In order to adapt to the situation, Sweden gradually withdrew its concessions to Germany and began to move closer to the allies. In this regard, the German Führer was annoyed, but he was helpless, because at this time he was too busy to take care of himself, and he no longer had the strength to interfere in the affairs of the neutral countries. When, in the summer of 1943, Sweden informed Germany that transit traffic had to be stopped, he calmly accepted this development, because by this time he had many other more important problems, such as the Allied invasion of Italy, the fall of Mussolini, and the mounting pressure on France—all of which combined to force Germany to withdraw its troops from Norway to France rather than to open a new front in northern Europe.

In this way, by adopting a flexible policy of compromise at different stages of the war, Sweden won the recognition and maintenance of neutrality by the superior of the two belligerents, while the disadvantaged, either out of understanding or out of helplessness, watched Sweden serve the enemy but was powerless to intervene.

In general, Sweden's neutrality is beyond reproach, except for economic activity. It facilitated the activities of Allied intelligence agents and resistance groups in Denmark and Norway, and received the vast majority of Danish Jews as refuge. The Swedish Red Cross provided a large amount of humanitarian aid to European refugees during the war. Sweden, on the other hand, is one of Germany's most important trading partners, and its high-quality iron ore, which can produce high-grade alloy steel, is particularly important for Germany's defense production. Finally, the Swedish nation advocates equality, cooperation, and the perfection of human names and human rights. On the issue of women's political participation, Swedish women were granted the right to vote in 1921. Political axes and political parties have long been silent on the issue of women's participation in politics...... In addition to investing in the cooperative mineral and metallurgical industries, Lynn and his party also had greater ambitions, that is, to restore and enhance the military power of the empire with the help of Sweden's technological strength. The attitude of the Swedish political axes during the war was so clear that after the war it was even less likely that they would secretly cooperate with the remnants of the Third Reich like the Finns, and everything could only be done by unconventional means.

After collecting and analyzing various aspects of information, Lynn and his senior staff colleagues in the base camp reached a consensus on the key parts, and the main line of action in Sweden will be carried out around three key enterprises/institutions: Nobel Institute for Physics, Bofors, and Swedish Aircraft Joint Stock Company (Saab).

Although Sweden has not yet carried out nuclear weapons research and will not have the determination and ability to develop an atomic bomb in the future, it has benefited from the precious material and spiritual wealth left by the Swede Nobel, the greatest chemist, engineer, inventor, manufacturer of military equipment and inventor of explosives in recent history, and the relatively relaxed and stable political atmosphere of this Nordic country during the war. The Nobel Institute for Physics in Stockholm has a group of top particle physicists and sophisticated experimental equipment in Europe and even in the world. Dr. Meitner, a 67-year-old great female scientist known as the "mother of the atomic bomb", is almost as good as Otto's contributions and achievements in nuclear physics. Hahn. What outshines the average physicist is that she is both a physicist and a chemist, and she uses both physics and chemistry; She and Max, whom she loved and revered as a father? Planck has a long and fruitful correspondence. She also often traveled to Copenhagen to visit Bohr's house; She established the concept of fission, but had to face the fact that fission was used to produce weapons of mass destruction. Therefore, she has always refused to participate in research work on nuclear weapons, and during the war categorically refused invitations from the United States.

As for the old signboard "Bofors", which dates back to the 17th century, it also has a deep relationship with the explosives king Nobel, who had an amazing wealth at that time. In 1894, in order to strengthen the defense industry of his native Sweden, Nobel in his later years bought Bofors in Bofors, in the province of Värmland, for 1.3 million kroner. The company mainly produced steel and explosives, and under the painstaking management of Nobel, the company gradually grew, and later changed its name to Bofors. By the time of World War I, Sweden's neutrality allowed Bofors to easily sell weapons to both sides of the war, and as a result, it became one of the world's leading arms manufacturers. After the end of World War I, Germany, as a defeated country, was bound by the Versailles Agreement to prohibit the development of any new high-power weapons of destruction. In the 20s of the 20th century, the German company Krupp acquired part of the shares of Bofors and transferred some production technology, and cooperated with Bofors to design and develop various new guns in Sweden. This is undoubtedly a rare opportunity for the Bofors company, the Swedish designers have gained new design ideas and valuable design experience from the German designers - although the design concepts of the two companies are quite different, the Swedish designers have been focusing on the development of light artillery, while the German designers are biased towards the development of heavy artillery, and the cooperation between the two arms companies has also ended after the German rearmament, but this cooperation experience has still allowed the Bofors company to grow in technology, It was even able to provide the Polish military's 305 mm heavy mortar gun with more difficult parts such as a barrel and a garrison mechanism, which was built in the spring of 1939 and shipped to Warsaw for testing, but due to the lack of effective high-power artillery tractors on the Polish side, it was not put into production in time, and the Poles failed to realize the original intention of making this artillery: to fight against the powerful German [***] team.

In terms of aviation technology, objectively speaking, Germany at the end of the war was far ahead of the Allies in many areas. In Lynn's eyes, the saucer-shaped aircraft parked in the Nordic cold cave is already an incredible work of this era, even if it is put aside because of the immaturity of technology, in terms of conventional weapons, single-engine and twin-engine jet fighters, single-rotor and dual-rotor helicopters, and the practical technology of airborne radar still have relative advantages, but it is obvious that Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, these old opponents, are using their national strength to quickly climb the technology tree, if the empire's aviation technology has always stayed in the cave stage, Taking the lead in reaching the top and gaining absolute superiority is basically equivalent to a fool's dream, and in the long run, you will be left behind by your opponents. Although the Swedish Air Force is not comparable in size to the main belligerents, they have a relatively complete aviation industry, and Saab is a rising star and a current leader. Its predecessor was the Swedish Visby Vehicle Manufacturing Plant, which was established in 1891, and in 1937, looking at the domestic aviation demand in Sweden, Visby invested in the establishment of the Swedish Aircraft Joint Stock Company, which is Saab. During World War II, its most unique product was the Swedish J-21 fighter, an avant-garde rear-mounted propeller piston fighter. This fighter is not related to the German "Arrow", it jumped on the design drawings as early as 1939, the prototype flew in 1943, and went into mass production in 1945. A total of 298 rear-propeller fighters were produced in the German Daimler. Mercedes-Benz's DB-605B 12-cylinder liquid-cooled piston engine adopts a rear-mounted, pusher propeller and twin tail boom layout. The main consideration was that such a layout would provide the pilot with good forward visibility, and at the same time there would be room in the nose for powerful forward fire: a 20 mm gun and two 13.2 mm machine guns, and one 13.2 mm machine gun on each side of the tail boom. In addition, because pilots are prone to getting caught in the rear-mounted propellers when parachuting, this forward-looking fighter is also equipped with a flight ejection seat developed by Saab...... Even before the end of World War II, Saab realized that the jet engine would be the main driving force for future fighters and the basis for the development of modern fighters. However, at that time, both the Axis and the Allies regarded jet engine technology as a "top secret" and did not reveal anything to the outside world, so Saber knew almost nothing about jet engine technology. In the autumn of 1945, after the end of World War II, after unremitting efforts, Sweden finally won the British German policy. Havilland's "Leprechaun" centrifugal engine and received a license for the production of this engine. In 1945, Sweden wanted to gain experience in the development and use of jet fighters, so it decided to replace part of the J21A-1 with jet engines and "Fairy" 2 centrifugal jet engines, so the J21 developed during World War II became Sweden's first jet, and the new model was named J21R.

(To be continued)