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On 9 August, the Entente had advanced 11 kilometers deep into the German defenses. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 In the two-day battle, the Germans suffered 28,000 casualties and lost more than 900 artillery pieces.

On 10 August, the French 1st Army was fully engaged. The next day, the 1st Division of the 3rd Army was also engaged. However, due to heavy tank losses, progress was slow, and gradually turned into local xing battles.

By the end of the day on August 13, the British, French, and American troops advanced 10-18 kilometers on a 75-kilometer front, completing the set task, inflicting heavy losses on the German army.

At this point, the Entente could be regarded as avenging the defeat at the Fourth Battle of the Somme. Although the large-scale use of combat vehicles allowed the Entente to obtain a way to break through the German defense line, the quality of the German tanks was too good, and the Allied tanks had to rely on quantity to win, but the problem of mass production was still difficult to solve.

Although the United States has already begun to produce tanks in Britain and France on a large scale, it takes a lot of time to move inland from the United States and then to the coast of Europe.

What's more, the US Navy's poor anti-sabotage engagement capability is really not flattering, and in the face of the continuous attacks and harassment of the German High Seas Fleet, although the Allied ships have been decreasing, they have not fundamentally stopped the German Navy's sabotage engagement. Because the German Navy was equipped with advanced submarines from the Chinese Empire, it was difficult for the U.S. Navy's anti-submarine destroyers to destroy them, which worried the prospects for the Entente's anti-sabotage engagement.

After the main fleet of the US Navy entered the Atlantic, it was reluctant to fight a decisive battle with the main fleet of the German Navy, perhaps because it was afraid that it would be defeated by the German High Seas Fleet, and once the United States lost its main fleet, it would undoubtedly lose the war.

On the other hand, the U.S. High Command found that the Allied economy was already on the verge of collapse, and that if this situation continued, the Confederates would be defeated by a war of attrition. Therefore, the United States chose conservative and prudent tactics and fought with Germany for attrition. At the same time, it is also to make more war money, as long as it continues to be consumed like this, the Entente will have to import a large amount of materials from the United States. Of course, as far as the United States is concerned, although they are of the same origin as Britain, Britain was the world's financial center before the war, and if the United States wants to rise, it will naturally have to consider weakening Britain.

Of course, there is another hidden factor, that is, the United States does not want to fight with Germany and wants to preserve its strength, because the United States has a greater threat from the Chinese empire on the west coast of the Pacific.

The U.S. Navy never dared to go all out to fight against Germany, and the greatest concern came from the threat of the Imperial Chinese Navy. Although China and the United States signed the non-aggression Hawaii Treaty, this does not mean that the US Navy is reassured.

Since the Chinese Empire built the Ming-class battleships equipped with old inch guns in the 13th year of Guanghua, the US Navy has used the tail money of six South Dakota-class battleships to secretly start building North Carolina-class battleships equipped with 17-inch guns, a speed of 26 knots, and a displacement of 50,000 tons. Later, Woodrow persuaded the U.S. Congress to start construction of the first battleships of the USS North Carolina and USS Maine a year after the construction began, and the construction of the No. 3 ship Missouri and the No. 4 battleship Ohio was successively started, and by the 16th year of Guanghua, all four North Carolina-class battleships were completed and entered service with the U.S. Navy.

While building the North Carolina-class battleships, the U.S. Navy continued to build battlecruisers with mouth-inch guns.

Based on the North Carolina-class battleships, the U.S. Navy began construction of four Frankfurt-class battlecruisers at the same time in 1914, namely the USS Frankfurt, USS Honolulu, USS St. Paul, and USS Helena. In addition to the traditional battle cruisers named after U.S. state capitals, the U.S. Navy deliberately added the USS Honolulu this time, indicating that the U.S. considers the Hawaiian column to be U.S. territory. Although the U.S. Congress has not yet listed Hawaii as a state of the United States, and the Chinese Empire has refused to recognize its incorporation into U.S. territory on the Hawaii issue, the importance of Hawaii is not to be stated, and after Japan was defeated by the Chinese Empire, Hawaii has become the forward position of the United States to block the Chinese Empire, and its strategic location is extremely important. Therefore, the U.S. Navy named Honolulu as the second ship of the Frankfurt-class battle cruiser, in order to make Americans understand the importance of Honolulu.

The four Frankfurt-class battlecruisers, on the basis of the North Carolina-class battleships, lowered the armor protection standard from 380 mm armor of the North Carolina class to 240 mm, and added 4 oil-fired boilers to bring their top speed to 30 knots.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the Frankfurt-class battlecruisers of the US Navy surpassed any of the British and German battlecruisers. In terms of main gun firepower, it surpassed the last Sui-class battlecruiser of the Chinese Empire, and the armor was the same as that of the Sui-class battlecruiser, which was 240 mm, but in terms of speed, the U.S. Navy's battlecruiser was far behind the Imperial Chinese Navy in terms of steam turbines, and still used direct-drive steam turbine drive technology, while the Sui-class battlecruiser built by the Chinese Empire in Okan 1 has begun to use gear transmission technology, so compared with the 34-sheep ultra-high speed of the Sui-class battlecruiser, The Frankfurt-class battlecruisers of the US Navy were still a full 4 knots behind.

The Imperial Chinese Navy concealed the true speed of the Sui-class battlecruisers, causing the US Naval Intelligence to believe that the Sui-class battlecruisers of the Chinese Empire were only 29 knots, so they were always complacent.

Since the Chinese Empire has built Ming-class battleships for 18-inch cannons, there has been no substantive response to the United States' start of construction of Chaoshen Bow battleships and battle cruisers equipped with 17-inch cannons, but only expressed concern, which makes the U.S. Navy not have to worry about pressure from the Chinese Empire.

However, since the last decade of the 19th century, the US Navy has been ambitious and vainly trying to become the world's number one naval power. Now the Chinese Empire sits on the throne of the world's largest naval power, which makes the US naval hawks very unwilling.

With eight superbow-type capital ships equipped with mouth-inch main guns, the U.S. Navy has become the second largest navy in the world, but in order to catch up with and surpass the Imperial Chinese Navy, the U.S. Navy continues to expand at a pace.

In the 1916 fiscal year, the members of the U.S. Congress once again remembered the pain of the old scars, the Panama region fell into the hands of the Chinese Empire, and the Panama Canal was under the control of the Chinese Empire, which was a lingering pain for the U.S. government.

During the Spanish-American War, the U.S. Navy's three-month voyage from the Pacific Ocean around Cape Horn to the Caribbean caused the U.S. government to complain about the impact on the war against Spain (the war could have started two months earlier). For this reason, the United States has stepped up its scramble for the Panama Canal, hoping to keep it in its hands so that the US and two oceanic navies can support each other at any time. But all this was ruined by the sudden intervention of the Chinese Empire, which once forgot about Panama, but with the United States entering World War I, the Chinese Empire refused to develop the Panama Canal for the American Pacific Fleet, so that the American Pacific Fleet had to go around Cape Horn again and turn back to the Atlantic. This delayed the participation of the US Navy in the naval war against Germany, and caused the Allies to be destroyed by the German Navy and suffered heavy losses.

The United States once again remembered the pain of the Panama Canal, which led the US Congress to finally approve a new round of naval expansion bills by the hawkish forces of the US Navy, which continued to vigorously develop the US Navy with the Chinese Imperial Navy as a hostile force.

At this time, the U.S. Navy still firmly believed in the doctrine of giant ships and artillery, although the Battle of Jutland showed that the threat from the air would become a great threat to the main fleet of the Navy in the future, and the results of the naval battle in the East Ocean of China and Japan also showed the importance of aircraft carrier battle groups. The U.S. Navy was once divided into two factions, the BB Party and the CV Party, just like the Imperial Chinese Navy. The BB and CV parties in the US Navy were once at loggerheads on whether to build capital battleships and battle cruisers on a large scale, or whether to build aircraft carrier battle groups.

However, the navies of the whole world are staring at the Imperial Chinese Navy, because the Imperial Chinese Navy is the world's first navy, so as long as the Imperial Chinese Navy abandons the giant ship cannon doctrine and chooses the aircraft carrier to fight flat, all countries will follow. The same is true of the U.S. Navy, which is staring at the Imperial Chinese Navy in all developments.

However, the BB Party within the Chinese Imperial Navy defeated the CV Party, and the Chinese Empire continued to take the giant ship cannon doctrine as the direction of naval development, which greatly misled the navies of all countries in the world, and the US Navy was no exception.

For these reasons, the U.S. Congress finally approved the Eighth Navy Expansion Act of 1916, which was also the largest appropriation budget submitted by the U.S. Navy, totaling four dollars and repaying the war debt. A total of eight superbow-type capital ships equipped with old inch guns were allocated, including four Iowa-class battleships, namely the first ship Iowa [BB-59], the second ship Hawaii [BB-60], the third ship Alaska [BB-61] and the fourth ship Utah [BB-62], as well as four Olympia-class battlecruisers (Olympia, Boston, Columbia, and Austin) improved from the Iowa-class battleships. In addition, there are five enterprise-class aircraft carriers (USS Enterprise CV-6, USS Wasp CV-7, USS Hornet CV-8, USS Essex CV-

9 and USS Yorktown CV-10), as well as 40 light cruisers, 200 destroyers and 200 submarines.

In order to keep it secret, the U.S. Congress entrusted this huge amount of money as a military aid program to Europe, and publicized the construction of warships for the Allied navies to deal with the threat of the German navy.

In order to counter the Ming-class super battleships of the Chinese Empire, although the US Navy only officially began construction of four Iowa-class battleships in the summer of 1916, it was three and a half years later than the Ming-class battleships of the Chinese Empire. The whole world thought that the US Navy would no longer engage in a large-scale naval arms race with the Imperial Chinese Navy, but they did not know that the US Navy Commission had not given up, but three years ago the US Navy wanted to build an Iowa-class battleship and could not build it, because the 18-inch main gun and various technical problems could not be solved, and it was impossible to import technology from Britain, because the British Navy gave up the development of immature 17-inch and 18-inch large-caliber naval guns for the sake of war. However, the Chinese Empire strictly controlled the export of equipment and technology to the United States, which made it impossible for the US Navy to build super battleships at that time, and had to take the initiative to show weakness to the Chinese Empire.

However, as the war in Europe continued, the British and German navies continued to compete fiercely, and the war broke out for more than two years, and neither country had a decisive battle with capital ships, which made the British and German navies want to upset the balance at sea, believing that only the development of capital ships with 17-inch and 18-inch guns could break the balance.

The German Navy was the first to receive it from the Chinese Empire. As a result, in the summer of 1914 the German Navy began construction of five Kaiser Wilhelm class battleships (Wilhelm II, Frederick III, Wilhelm the Great, Karl the Great, Barbarossa). 95% of the technology and equipment of the Kaiser William-class battleships came from the Chinese Empire, which was basically a copy of the Yuan-class battleships of the Chinese Empire. Emperor Wang Chenhao of the Chinese Empire did not want the German Navy to be defeated in the Battle of Jutland from the beginning, so he hoped that the German Navy would defeat the British Navy. With Wang Chenhao's acquiescence, the German Navy for the first time obtained all the technical parameters of the Yuan-class battleships of the Chinese Empire, and began construction in domestic shipyards. At this time, Germany's resources were all consumed in the war, and it had to import materials and equipment from the Chinese Empire for the construction of Wilhelm the Great-class battleships.

The German Navy had planned ... The completion of the domestic assembly of the battleships of the Kaiser Wilhelm class was completed as soon as possible, in anticipation of the blockade of the British Navy. However, the cost of five Wilhelm the Great-class battleships is too high, and the import of related equipment from the Chinese Empire alone has reached 55 million dragon coins (the Chinese Imperial Yuan-class battleships are only 49 million dragon coins built by themselves), and the final price of a Wilhelm class battleship is close to 60 million dragon coins in addition to the assembly costs of Germany's own domestically, and the German finances have been on the verge of collapse after two years of war, and the depreciation of the mark has accelerated, and the workers were conscripted into the army, and the Wilhelm the Great-class battleships were originally planned to be completed in 16 months. By the summer of 1916, it had just been launched, and it was still far from service. At the same time, the German Navy won the Battle of Jutland, and the British Navy's main fleet lost half of it (and another third in the subsequent bombing of the port) The German Navy won the Battle of Jutland, but the German government, which spent up to 2 billion marks on ammunition, personnel and hull maintenance, decided to slow down the construction of the Wilhelm the Great-class battleships.

Similarly, British intelligence learned that the German Navy had received technical and equipment support from the Yuan-class Hongxiao ships from the Chinese Empire, and in order to continue to blockade the German Navy and prevent the German Navy from leaving the North Sea and entering the Atlantic, Britain also launched the Nelson-class super battleships equipped with 17-inch guns immediately after the completion of the nine Revenge-class battleships.

The design target of the British Nelson-class super battleships was the Wilhelm the Great-class battleships under construction by the German Navy, considering that the Wilhelm-class battleships were closely related to the Yuan-class battleships of the Chinese Empire, so the British Navy directly designed and built the Yuan-class battleships as opponents.

Beginning in August 1914, the British Navy completed the design of the Nelson-class battleships and immediately began construction. The Nelson-class battleships were opponents of the Yuan-class battleships of the Chinese Empire, with a displacement of 5150

0 tun, the main gun is four twin eight 45 times diameter 432 mm MK37 guns, one less than the three triple nine 45 times caliber 432 mm M12 guns of the Yuan class battleships of the Chinese Empire. The design idea of the British capital ship that has remained unchanged for 10,000 years has made the armor protection of the Nelson-class battleships only a millimeter, which is less than that of the Yuan-class battleships of the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, compared with the comprehensive welding method of the Yuan-class battleships of the Chinese Empire, the British Navy could only use the * connection method due to financial constraints, and its ability to resist strikes was weaker. Using the old high-pressure boiler and 3 imitation Parsons steam turbine systems, it is not as good as the gear impulse anti-impulse steam turbine unit of the Yuan-class battleship, and the maximum speed is only 29 knots, which is one section less than that of the Yuan-class, and in the long-term combat speed, Nelson can only maintain a high speed of 29 knots for 8 hours, which is a full 10 hours less than the Yuan-class.

In terms of electronics, the radio system, central fire control system,

Although the observation system has reached the standard of Yuan-class battleships, there is no underwater sonar array, and the anti-submarine capability is very weak.

Since Britain was already a wartime mechanism at this time, the Nelson-class battleships were built at a rapid pace, and it was planned ... The old month was built. However, Britain was in a worse position than Germany at this time. Germany's submarine warfare severely disrupted British maritime trade over the course of two years, causing a heavy blow to the British economy. After the Battle of Jutland, only a third of the main fleet of the British Navy remained, and the main forces of the German Navy entered the Atlantic, inflicting even greater losses on the British. In the six months leading up to the arrival of the U.S. Navy, the British economy was on the verge of shutting down. Under these circumstances, the British Navy's shortage of shipbuilding materials and soaring prices led to the Nelson-class battleships, like the German Wilhelm the Great-class battleships, which were not launched until the fall of 1916, and the installation and final service time of the main guns became far away.

However, Britain has successfully developed a 17-inch gun, and when American aid arrived in Britain and Europe, the U.S. Navy successfully developed the British Armstrong Company through a material exchange.17

The technology and equipment of the MK37 naval gun with an inch of 45 times the diameter were introduced to the United States and installed on the North Carolina-class combat ships. At the same time, in order to get out of the predicament, Armstrong had to cooperate with the US Navy to jointly develop an 18-inch 45 times the diameter of the MK39 giant gun, which was used to install it on the Iowa-class battleships of the US Navy.

In this way, the U.S. Navy obtained the results of the development of the old inch cannon from Holmes, an artillery expert of the Armstrong Company, and began trial production in August 1916, and planned to complete the test work in March 1917, and produce eight main guns in August 1917, without delaying the installation of the main guns of the Iowa-class battleships planned to be launched at the end of July 1917.

The Iowa-class battleships are designed and installed with four twin-mounted 8 45 times diameter MK47 naval guns (American naval gun model), which is consistent with the number, caliber and diameter of the main guns of the Ming-class battleships of the Chinese Empire, but in terms of barrel life, although the British and American steel technology at this time has begun to imitate the Chinese special steel of the Chinese Empire, the effect is not significantly improved.

The secondary guns are MK12 38 times caliber 10 twin 127 mm caliber high-level dual-purpose guns, and the turrets are arranged on the two sides of the middle of the hull. At the same time, a large number of small-caliber rapid-fire guns were also installed, most of which were twin and triple parallel machine guns.

The idea of the U.S. Navy is to use secondary artillery systems to defend the air, but this level of anti-aircraft artillery defense against the early Cat Demon fighters of the Chinese Empire is difficult, not to mention the Thunderbolt fighters and Hellfire fighters that the Chinese Empire already has, and they are fast enough to break through the anti-aircraft fire network of the Iowa-class battleships.

In terms of armor protection, the overall protection design of the Iowa class is much better than that of the North Carolina-class battleships, and the main armor belt on the side is spliced together with the main mine protection armor, with a thickness of 380 mm (19

degrees), the total thickness of horizontal armor was 222 mm (three layers). Combined with multiple watertight compartments and 3 layers of bottom, it forms an underwater anti-torpedo system. During construction, the horizontal armor defense capabilities were especially enhanced. The main turret is 460 mm front, 184 mm on the top and 241 mm on the back, and the conning tower is 460 mm frontal and 184 mm on the top.

The armor protection of the capital ships of the US Navy is always lower than that of the capital ships of the same class in other countries, and it seems that the British Navy has been infected by the British Navy's emphasis on speed and contempt for armor, and it is deeply infected.

The thickness of the armor of 380 mm was very difficult to resist in the face of the bombardment of the old inch cannon, but the US Navy believed that the Battle of Jutland showed that the probability of being hit by a huge cannon shell at a distance of 20 kilometers was very small. But they forgot the most important one, which was that the Iowa-class battleships built by the US Navy were used against the Ming-class battleships of the Chinese Empire. The Imperial Chinese Navy far surpassed the U.S. Navy in terms of sighting equipment, central fire control, radar, etc. The main guns of the Ming-class battleships can achieve an 8% hit rate at a distance of 25 kilometers, while the current experience of the US Navy is still stuck at 10% of the 6,000 meters during the Spanish-American War, and there is no actual combat experience in long-range shelling, and the North Carolina-class battleships in training have a hit rate of 20

With only 1.5% on the kilometer, the gap is very noticeable.

Moreover, the U.S. Navy's concept of protection for battleships has been confused, according to the armor of the Iowa-class battleships must be able to block the penetrating hits of battleships of the same caliber at a distance of the old kilometers, it is obvious that the armor of the Iowa-class battleships cannot block the penetrating hits of the old inch shells at a distance of 1 kilometer, and it is difficult to defend against the attack of the low muzzle velocity heavy warhead delayed armor-piercing blasting projectiles of the Chinese Empire at a distance of 20 kilometers.

In turn, the armor thickness of the Ming-class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy reached 450 mm, which effectively blocked the penetrating hits of 15-inch shells from 18 kilometers away. In comparison with the two, once the Iowa-class battleship meets the Ming-class battleship of the Chinese Empire, although the number of guns on both sides is the same, it will definitely be the Iowa-class battleship that will suffer in the fight.

Also in terms of speed, the design speed of the Iowa-class Hongxiao ship is only compared with the voyage of the Ming-class battleships of the Chinese Empire, and the gap is very large.

Of course, the main reason for this disparity is that American shipyards do not have slipways for 80,000-ton giant ships, and can only build 60,000-ton warships at most. Although the U.S. shipyard responsible for building the Iowa-class battleships quickly upgraded the tonnage of the slipway, it was only possible to build a 65,000-ton megaship in the end. In this way, there must be a difference of 20,000 tons with the 88,000-ton displacement of the Ming-class battleships of the Chinese Empire, which is naturally limited, and it is inevitable that it will lag behind a lot in all aspects.

On the electronic warfare top, the Ahua-class battleship is even worse, because she does not have the lightning array and sonar array of the Ming-class battleship, and relies on a catapult installed on each side of the board to carry three water observation aircraft. Obviously, if the Iowa-class and Ming-class battleships chased each other, they might be able to have a tie during the day and on sunny days, but when it came to rainy days and nights, the Iowa-class would become blind and only be beaten.

Of course, the parameters of the Ming-class battleships of the Chinese Empire were strictly kept secret, and the US Navy could only rely on the official reports of the Chinese Empire to judge, so the design standards of the Iowa-class battleships exceeded the standards of the Ming-class battleships officially announced by the Chinese Empire.

Similarly, the U.S. Navy, under the influence of the Giant Ship Cannon Doctrine, began construction of the Iowa-class super battleships at the same time as the construction of improved battlecruisers based on the Iowa-class battleships also began.

The four Olympia-class battlecruisers were equipped with 18-inch guns, twin turrets, four front and two rear, and a symmetrical layout. In addition to the reduction in armor thickness to 280 mm, the biggest difference was that there were two more chimneys than the Iowa-class battleships (3 chimneys for the Iowa class). At the same time, the Song-class, Yuan-class and Ming-class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy had been converted into a compact oval chimney.

The Olympia-class battle cruisers, in order to reduce the armor by 100 mm, added 6 boilers, which allowed them to maintain a high speed of 33 knots for 12 hours. This speed undoubtedly surpassed the British Duowang-class battlecruisers, but it was still a quarter slower than the Sui-class battlecruisers of the Chinese Empire, and the duration was not as good as that of the other party.

Although the Iowa-class battlecruisers and Olympia-class battlecruisers of the U.S. Navy are lagging behind the Ming-class battlecruisers of the Chinese Empire in terms of comprehensive combat capabilities, especially the Olympia-class battlecruisers are even more chicken in front of the Ming-class battleships, and once the armor of less than 300 mm is hit by the gunfire of the Ming-class battleships, it will be a disaster.

Although the U.S. Navy attaches great importance to the doctrine of giant ships and artillery, it vigorously builds a fleet composed of super warships. However, because the US Navy has always been on a par with the Chinese Imperial Navy, although it is not clear the real intention and strategic purpose of the Chinese Empire to build and refit a large number of aircraft carriers, it has also actively followed suit, and at the same time that the US Congress approved the construction of super battleships, the enterprise-class aircraft carriers representing the first class of self-built aircraft carriers of the United States surfaced.

The enterprise-class aircraft carrier is the first self-built aircraft carrier designed by the United States Haishu to imitate the Danxiashan-class aircraft carrier of the Chinese Empire.

Enterprise-class aircraft carriers, which the US Navy actually still calls aircraft-carrying cruisers, can be seen that the US Navy has still not discovered the true meaning of aircraft carriers.

As the first self-built aircraft carrier of the United States, the enterprise class fully absorbs the experience of the previous five U.S. Navy converted aircraft carriers, which imitate the straight-through deck design of the Danxiashan-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Chinese Navy, using an open hangar, with 3 elevators, and a catapult at the front end of the flight deck, which can be directly ejected from the hangar by the catapult set up in the hangar in an emergency (but this impractical function was later canceled), highlighting the sortie capability of the carrier-based aircraft. Two sets of arresting cables are installed at the front and rear of the flight deck, allowing aircraft to land at either end of the flight deck.

The wooden flight deck had no armor protection, and the island-like superstructure with integrated bridge, mast and chimney was located on the starboard side. Compared to the previously built Raider, the Enterprise class has an increased hull and speed, as well as enhanced horizontal and underwater protection.

However, the armor of this class is weak, and the hull below the waterline has a considerable degree of defects in the protection of torpedoes. However, for the US Navy, although they did not realize the real role of aircraft carriers, they also developed aircraft carriers by mistake, so as not to lag behind the Chinese Empire too much in terms of aircraft carriers in the coming period.

The standard displacement of the enterprise-class aircraft carrier is only 19,900 tons, and the full load displacement does not exceed 25,600 tons, but the ship is very long, reaching a GC meter longer than the Danxiashan aircraft carrier of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and 40 meters longer than the most advanced Emeishan-class aircraft carrier of the Chinese Empire. The main reason for this is that the US Navy has a vague concept of aircraft carriers, and it can be seen from their continued call for aircraft-carrying cruisers that in addition to combat requirements, enterprise-class aircraft carriers are mainly used to transport aircraft, which is also inseparable from the United States' participation in the nose war, because the US Navy's aircraft carriers are more for Europe, Britain, France and Italy to transport aircraft.

Of course, the enterprise-class aircraft carrier uses a straight-through deck, the hangar capacity is small, and the aircraft wings cannot be folded, so in order to ensure that it can carry 90 fighters, the deck can only be greatly extended. This also makes the enterprise-class aircraft carrier the longest warship in the world, with a tonnage of only 20,000 tons, and the slender hull can increase speed but is too poor for seaworthiness. The U.S. Navy did not consider the problem of bad sea conditions because aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft could not fight in rainy weather.

And in actual combat, how can it be sunny? Yin will also fight on rainy days, and the US Navy has no experience to talk about, so it does not take into account that enterprise-class aircraft carriers will one day participate in a big war.

In terms of power system, the enterprise-class aircraft carrier uses 9 boilers and 4 10,000 kW steam turbines, 2

The 200 kW diesel turbine is propelled with 4 axles, with a maximum speed of 30 knots and a cruising range of 12,000 knots per 15 knots.

In terms of weapons and equipment, due to the US Navy's lack of attention to aircraft carriers, it did not provide aircraft carrier battle groups such as air defense cruisers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and hunting destroyers to aircraft carriers provided by the Imperial Chinese Navy for aircraft carriers, so the US Navy's aircraft carriers had to rely on their own strength to defend the country, and were equipped with 8 single-mounted 38-fold diameter 127-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 4 4-mounted 25-mm 75-diameter anti-aircraft guns, and 24-point 50 MK4 Zeringen heavy machine guns. This heavy machine gun is the American version of the Browning heavy machine gun of the Chinese Empire M2, because the Zeringen family is the imperial relative of the Chinese Empire, so weapons and equipment that no other American arms company can obtain can be obtained in the Zeringen family's arsenal.

For American aircraft carriers, it is only at the level of aircraft-carrying cruisers.

Because all aircraft carriers of the US Navy do not have carrier-based combat aircraft, all of them are land-based combat aircraft.

In addition, the aircraft carried by the aircraft carriers of the US Navy are basically the combat aircraft models of Britain, France and Italy, of which the British camel fighters, the French and Nieuont 17 aircraft are the mainstay, and the United States has introduced a series of main combat aircraft models and production lines of the Allied countries into the United States for production in order to support the Allied air force, and with the strong industrial capacity of the United States, it has produced a large number of combat aircraft to support the air war of the Allied countries. However, due to the small number of aircraft carriers and the poor capacity of transport aircraft, the Entente could only provide 1100 combat aircraft of various types every three months

frame, just enough for the Allied air war consumed.

However, the U.S. Air Force was not willing to lag behind the Chinese Imperial Air Force, and after learning that the planes they imported from the Entente countries were basically foreign trade aircraft of the Chinese Empire that reduced their capabilities, or were copycats. The US Air Force discovered through the study of the planes supplied to Europe by the Chinese Empire that the strength of the Chinese Empire in the field of aviation was beyond doubt, and in order to compete with the Chinese Imperial Air Force, the US Air Force began to vigorously develop American aircraft on the basis of the aircraft of the Entente countries, and strive to catch up with the Chinese Empire in the field of aviation.

The U.S. Air Force Commission has encouraged civilian aircraft manufacturing companies to vigorously imitate Chinese Imperial aircraft and develop indigenous aircraft. Among them, Xing is represented by Bell Company's Kou 3 and Curtis's N

5. Brewster's F2A, Grumman's F and other combat aircraft.

Among them, the P-3 fighter of Bell Company can be called a perfect copycat product, and its copycat Xing can basically reach the cat demon fighter of the Chinese Empire, and the Entente side quickly placed a large number of orders to purchase a large number of P-3 fighters to deal with the Chinese Imperial Cat Demon fighter in service with the Luftwaffe.

In addition, in the United States, the independent intellectual property rights are the F2A fighter of Brewster.

Brewster, which was an automobile company before the war, aimed at the fighter market after the outbreak of World War I, so he developed the first F1 fighter. F1 is a biplane, just after the test flight of Lou Gong, the Chinese Empire's cat demon monoplane appeared on the European battlefield, biplanes and triplanes are not opponents, so Brewster began to study monoplanes.

Before the United States entered the war, the Chinese Empire grabbed the European market, especially the share of aircraft in the aviation field, and the United States aircraft-carrying cruisers were unwilling to go to Europe to take risks, so that the aircraft could not be shipped to Europe. Under these circumstances, Brewster finally completed the final development and test flight of the F2A fighter only in the summer of 1916.

The F2A is a mid-wing design, with a rounded fuselage, a hardwood shell structure, and a control surface made of cloth leather. Fixed landing gear is used. It is powered by a Wright R-620-2 Cyclone air-cooled engine with an output of 130 hp and a speed of 125 km/h. Armed with a heavy machine gun of millimeter caliber, in addition it was possible to carry two 100-pound bombs under the belly.

In terms of comprehensive Xing capabilities, the F2A fighter is very close to the J4 Cat Demon fighter of the Chinese Empire, and the difference is only in the aerodynamic layout and control of Xing. The piloting device of the aircraft is a car steering wheel type, which is far inferior to the cat demon fighter of the Chinese Empire in terms of flight stability, the steering wheel needs to be held vigorously, and a little relaxation will make the aircraft whirl in the air, so the pilot pilots the D2A fighter fighter continue to fly for 2 hours and is very tired, and it is impossible to carry out continuous high-intensity air. In this regard, although the Cat Demon fighter of the Chinese Empire did not solve the problem of flight stability, it was still no problem to fly the plane for 6 hours a day.

For the war situation in Europe, despite the flaws of the F2A, the Entente countries imported this fighter on a large scale. In response to the development of homegrown aviation, the U.S. Air Force also purchased 1,500 aircraft to equip Army Air Corps (500 aircraft) and Naval Air Corps (1,000 aircraft). Among them, naval aviation fighters are mainly deployed to ten aircraft carriers.

The development of submarines in the US Navy is very slow, although more than 300 submarines of various types of 19 types of 23 are in service, but the original intention is only to guard against the sneak attack of the Imperial Chinese Navy, 90% of the submarines are coastal defense, and only a dozen or so submarines that can go to the ocean have also sunk 8 in the Atlantic Ocean because of various malfunctions, and the remaining ocean-going submarines have also been recalled and obediently stayed in the US coastal waters.

However, the U.S. Navy's destroyers are developing rapidly, and the U.S. had 200 destroyers of various types before the war. After entering the war, the U.S. Navy acquired the technology of British destroyers, and at the same time, Britain also transferred the anti-submarine repellent weapon system imported from the Chinese Empire to the U.S. Navy. In order to protect the fleet, the U.S. Navy developed the Elwin and Tucker-class destroyers, which were comparable to the Osprey-class hunting ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and began to be built on a large scale.

The U.S. Navy underwent its eighth large-scale expansion in the past year, and although it was intended to support Europe, the U.S. media still carried out a lot of coverage, and some media openly hooked up with the Imperial Chinese Navy out of gimmicks and in order to attract attention.

As a result, it was not long before the major media in the Chinese Empire, citing the reports of American newspapers, began to hype it up. Among them, the Shanghai Daily published a commentary: "The United States' naval expansion plan in 1916 was called supporting Europe, but it was actually a move to prevent the Chinese Imperial Navy's open plank road and dark appearance.

If it is true that the U.S. Navy has begun construction of Iowa-class battleships and Olympia-class battlecruisers equipped with 18-inch guns, then it is no longer as simple as dealing with the German Navy, and the Imperial Chinese Navy should have taken precautions as soon as possible. ”

This news immediately caused a blatant **o in the Chinese Empire, and at this time, the Chinese Empire had just ...

After the rectification campaign was completed, the top of the empire needed an excuse to divert the attention of the people and put an end to the effects of the rectification movement.

As a result, the US Navy Expansion Act was eventually hyped up by the Imperial Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accusing the US Navy of undermining the balance of power between China and the United States and once again provoking a large-scale arms race.

In this way, after more than a year of peace between the Chinese Empire and the United States, they became hostile to each other again. A huge storm between China and the United States is rapidly forming in the Pacific Ocean