Iron must first be hard.

Since Yang Hao dared to ripen the arms competition of the Western powers, he naturally had to be prepared to prevent being bitten by them. If you are careless and give the foreign devils a cold slap without paying attention, you will lose the face of the traverser.

At the same time as he was spreading industrial equipment and technology to the West, he was also rapidly increasing his military strength without stopping. As a vital aspect of the navy, it is now quite strong. If all of them are put into service to form combat effectiveness, I am afraid it will not be a problem to surpass the United Kingdom!

In terms of main battle forces, four 30,000-ton "Hebei-class" battleships dominated the time with rapid-fire main guns with 50 times the barrel. There is no other type of artillery that can penetrate the main protection within 5,000 meters, and even if it is caught in the melee of the siege of a large army, the ship is still as stable as Mount Tai and serves as the mainstay.

There are eight heavy cruises/armored patrols, and the four major King Kongs, "Tianjin", "Dingyuan", "Zhenyuan", and "Ningyuan", command the 10,000-ton killing force, with at least two triple rapid-fire main guns on each ship, which is comparable to the thick armor of modern battleships, and is enough to confront the most advanced British battleships head-on. Not to mention the advanced fire control that is 10,000 meters away, but the rate of fire of a single gun of 4-6 rounds per minute or even higher is enough to drown the opponent alive with a dense rain of bullets!

These four warships can be pulled out separately to patrol the waters that China now has. In fact, it is indeed a long route from the Korean Peninsula to Japan, the Ryukyus, Guam, the Philippines and the South China Sea.

The other four modified goods, the Zodiac Miscellaneous Armored Patrol, have become a new force to fight, and can be pulled out as a support firepower for land attacks when needed. Anyway. The amount of ammunition delivered by at least nine guns on each battleship was far more convenient than that of an army's artillery regiment.

Nowadays, the four warships also take turns to go to Japan to help bomb the coast, ensuring that there will be no Japanese slice of the sea between the entire island of Kyushu and the Seto Inland Sea. Not surrender for a day. Let's starve to death from above.

In addition, there are four "Langya-class" light cruisers that have been launched. Nominally "light", in essence, it has the defensive capability of a heavy cruiser, with as many as four 12 main guns and 8 single-mounted secondary guns. The displacement is 11,300 tons (standard) / 13,844 tons (full load), which can bully the capital ship of any country even if it is pulled out! Maximum speed of 32 knots. In contrast, it is like a Lingbo microstep, flexible and free to come and go.

As the largest warship that Chinese workers in the second plane can barely build, the "Langya-class" has four more on the slipway that are working overtime. The future Chinese Navy will have the number of 36 counties, which can be described as ambitious!

Just these main warships that are in service, launched, and under construction. There are as many as 20 in total, with a total displacement of 280,000 tons!

That's a scary number. You must know that even Britain, the strongest country today, had only 50 armored ships of more than 5,000 tons in 1897 (more than a dozen were killed by the Chinese Navy), France had nearly 30, Russia had 12 left, and Germany had only 8.

When it comes to gross tonnage, I'm afraid that even Britain will be dwarfed! When it comes to comprehensive combat effectiveness. It's not at all comparable!

Of course, the advantages of the great powers are also obvious. Their naval officers are sufficient, their sailors are all veterans, and their empirical cooperation is not comparable to that of the Chinese navy. Now there are twenty capital ships under Yang Haiwei's command. But he couldn't even exert the combat effectiveness of Shijo, so he had to call in vain.

Moreover, the Great Powers were not reactive. They have now fully launched the crazy plan of naval competition. Among them, the British, alone, started construction of eight battleships this year and approved the passage for the next five years. Up to 20 new all-main gun battleships built on budget!

The Germans have launched five battleships so far, one of which is still a bad one. Wilhelm II personally stared at the naval department and determined the plans for the construction of the second batch of five "Braunschweig-class" and the third batch of five "Deutschweig-class" battleships. Make sure before 1902. Germany will have at least fifteen new battleships, and the total number has soared to 23. The key is the total tonnage, which will soar to more than 400,000 tons as a result!

And that's not the end of it. Wilhelm II's ambitious superfleet plan will realize as many as 38 grand blueprints, and the German Navy at that time will be a terrifyingly powerful maritime force! Only in this way can we ensure that Germany's "world politics" strategy is smoothly achieved!

There is no doubt that the French, who are close at hand, will not be left behind, and the Russians, who are also very expansive, will definitely not sit back and watch themselves be left behind. On the other side of the Atlantic, the United States, which is about to emerge from isolationism, will also show its prominence in this grand event of shipbuilding competition with its world's largest industrial and financial resources.

In comparison, Yang Hao's plan to buckle the four battleships behind the cable seems a little petty. Of course, if you count the other four super-battleships, it's a different story - it's a purely crazy great plan, and it's still a long way off to come true.

All in all, the current surface warship strength of the Chinese Navy is more than self-preservation, and it is not enterprising, and this is a status quo that cannot be changed in a short period of time. With the current power, it is no problem to dominate the first island chain, but it is far from enough.

In addition to twenty capital ships, the number of destroyers is impossible to calculate. In short, in the future, these two or three thousand tons of little guys are very likely to play the leading role, and it is inevitable that they will spread their figures all over China's coastal waters and the entire South Pacific.

Compared with 15,600 battleships and cruisers, which cost a huge amount of money in a single move, destroyers that only need 100 people to operate and operate, are more suitable for the current situation of the Chinese navy lacking manpower.

It's just that the firepower of only three twin 5-inch guns is obviously not so safe. In order to save the crew from using high-power diesel engines, it also leads to the lack of speed. Of course, the current speed of 27 knots is not slow compared to the capital ships of the great powers, but people always have a little margin, right? If you replace it with a steam turbine. That can bring out the 35 knots of a proud posture.

Yang Hao also considered this for a long time, and after several twists and turns, he set up a secret weapons research institute in Africa, and finally slowly drummed up a barely enough torpedo! It is guaranteed that from now on, all destroyers and frigates will no longer have to drag empty multi-pack torpedo tubes around.

Arrived with torpedoes. There is also a former Soviet R-class, China's imitation of the upgraded version of the Type 033 submarine, under the vast number of powerful arms dealers everywhere, I don't know from which corner to get it!

The world, Kenya in Africa, has come to the beginning of the summer of 2011.

The Chung Hwa Industrial Park, located on the coast of Kenya, has now expanded into a behemoth covering an area of more than 100 square kilometers. From the shipyards and docks of the coast. On both sides of the newly built railway that stretches inland, all kinds of factories are densely packed like chessboards, and all of them have entered the stage of completion and production.

In other words, the efficiency of small African countries is really not ordinarily slow. The factory equipment was dismantled from China and installed in just a few months. If this was in China, it would have been able to be put into production that year. But in Kenya. Previously, due to a series of turmoil, the director has barely managed to run all the factories until now. If you really calculate the amount of investment announced by Yang Haoming, his profit prospects are really pessimistic.

But he didn't care at all, anyway, the main role of these factories was to project the whole set to China in the second plane, for the hard-working Chinese workers there to operate and learn, and create a new industrial era.

Because both sides started at the same time. On the African side, there are a very small number of Chinese technicians plus local blacks who are indiscriminate, and it is inevitable that there will be problems every once in a while; The Chinese new craftsmen and apprentices of the second plane inevitably stumbled during the operation. This will inevitably lead to increased wear and tear on production equipment. If the two sides are superimposed, it will inevitably lead to frequent operation failures and low production efficiency.

The good thing is that people in this world will never imagine that the problem is actually made by people from another time and space. At best, the Chinese technicians are working harder. It's just a busy patch.

Even such a poor industrial system has pushed Kenya, which was previously blank, to one of Africa's "industrial powers". Its foreign investment and GDP have risen sharply year after year. The share of industrial output in the total has doubled. As a result of the influx of Chinese capital, domestic investment and tourism revenues have surged. It is very much a glorification to the face of the new leadership team that came to power in 09.

Despite the wisdom of the heads of these small countries, they also know who is useful to them. There is no doubt that Yang Hao, who has contributed to this qiē, has become a taboo that they must not be angered by.

This also leads to some of the things that Yang Hao has done, turning a blind eye and ignoring the fact that his growing defense company has rapidly grown into one of the most powerful armed forces in East Africa. The investigators and agents sent by various countries also did not get the cooperation of Kenya, and in turn kept an eye on them. This made it difficult for countries to try to reach out to Yang Hao's hand.

And last year, not long after the opening of the China Centennial Industrial Pavilion, Kenya's industrial park near the sea also opened an industrial pavilion of unprecedented scale. On the ground, which covers an area of one square kilometer, dozens of large and spacious steel structure exhibition halls are lined up. Inside, it is filled with samples of more than 500 categories and millions of industrial products produced in China!

This is the world's largest and most complete industrial products exhibition hall!

Although the construction of the venue is rough, the products are not neat and beautiful, the introduction materials are poor, the management personnel inside are even less pitiful, and the introduction and explanation of various products are completely confused, but this is the only place where Africans can browse the achievements of the entire Chinese industrial products at one time! Besides, there is also a query system developed by Yang's and Ali Group, which can meet the needs of English-speaking merchants to directly find the contact information of the manufacturers they are interested in.

This makes many Chinese businessmen who rely on selling junk products to Africa to cheat money! But they can't do anything with Yang Hao, because the opening of this pavilion has been praised by the national elders! And on the same day, many big figures of the African Union came to the scene and cut the ribbon with the President and Prime Minister of Kenya, making a lively and grand scene!

For the first time, the lonely Africans discovered that the Chinese who were in their impression of being too diligent were actually from a powerful place that could produce the world's most qiē goods! to their minds. For a while, they couldn't understand Yang Hao's deep intentions, but it didn't prevent them from admiring and even awe in their hearts!

Westerners, who are curious about this, suddenly discover a reality that they have been ignoring all along. China is no longer the backward and barren existence they have in their impression, and the pavilion of Tongguò is revealed. It is a super-industrial power that compares the whole world to the bottom!

Although many of these high-end products, regardless of quality and technical height, have been left far behind by the West, which can be called a representative of low quality and low price. But they can all clearly realize that today's China, in terms of industrial production capacity alone. In fact, there is no fear of the joint blockade of various countries.

What if you can't build a state-of-the-art CPU? It's not that you can't produce if it's slower. Machine tools may not have German precision, but it does not mean that they cannot be used.

In short, it caused a huge repercussion, and it is no surprise that it has become a great achievement of the current government of Kenya.

Well, Yang Hao really wants to publicize China's industrial achievements and make it easier for African people to buy bargains. Helping them to connect with Chinese factories and a series of other Wei Guangzheng's purposes, did they spend money on such a face-saving project?

By no means!

Since the establishment of this pavilion, there have been many products with very low production and basically not used by the private sector, quietly mixed in with millions of goods. And pull out a separate list and provide it only to a special group of people to check and check.

These people are mixed in the joint research department of the industrial park, but they are actually members of the secret team that is developing weapons and equipment for Yang Hao!

Nikolai. Nikolaevich. Khamanov. It was the head of one of the groups.

In his fifties, he was originally a young backbone of the "St. Petersburg Engine Complex," one of the five major torpedo design and production complexes of the former Soviet Union. Just as he was climbing into the management position, the mighty polar bear collapsed! The old experts in the company were then swept away, and the people who remained did not last long. With the rapid decline of Russia later, the unemployment of the unemployed, the exodus of the exodus.

At that time, Khamanov was in his thirties, and it was okay to say that he was young and strong, but it was the stage when he was not embarrassed or embarrassed. The best of those old guys went to Europe and the United States to live in villas with high welfare, and many of the second-class secrets went to China. They have nowhere to go. can only rely on the skills practiced in the production line to do odd jobs and live hard.

He didn't expect that. Twenty years later, someone will suddenly find him who runs a repair shop. Spend a lot of money to do a research project in Africa. For the sake of money, Khamanov left behind the dilapidated factory, took a lot of settling-in money, and resolutely ran to Kenya.

Then he realized that he was actually hired to lead a group of college students from all over the world to design and manufacture torpedoes!

Khamanov is not a big player in the industry, and the torpedo has not made much technological breakthroughs in recent years. Knowing that the other party was asking for a reproduction of a series of old gadgets that were half a century behind, he felt like he had been deceived!

However, Lao Maozi, who was forced to be anxious by the embarrassing life, did not throw up his sleeves and left. Because it's still challenging. According to Yang Hao's repeated requirements, the Khamanov design team should not only use the current technical means to directly use computer virtual design and simulation to manufacture all kinds of torpedoes, but also complete all kinds of simulated test work.

The most troublesome point is to use a lot of old materials, old electronic components, and old technology that could only be used 50 years ago to complete the design. The raw materials and parts that can be used for manufacturing can be found in the huge Chinese industrial exhibition hall outside!

Using civilian products from the beginning of the 21st century, to make torpedoes that are not bad in the fifties of the last century, this thing is so new!

From then on, Khamanov began to wander around the exhibition hall every now and then, with the help of a large number of original data and drawings collected by arms dealers, picking up the system engineering integration skills he had cultivated in the specific environment of the Soviet Union 20 years ago, and taking a group of inexperienced college students to devote himself to research.

The first torpedo he chose was based on the Soviet Union's "53-39" thermodynamic torpedo.

The shell propeller engine pressure vessel and the like are all easy to do, but the key propellant selection cannot use the "Otto 2", which is now widely chosen by all countries, nor can it use the dangerous hydrogen peroxide to drum up the terrible thing like the "powerful ninety-acid torpedo" of Japan in World War II.

The safety should be high, the performance of the finished product should be good, it must also withstand deep pressure, the range should be long, and the power should be .......

All kinds of awkwardness are mentioned, but in short, it is not easy to come up with a reasonable plan. On the basis of a design similar to the Chinese-made "Yu-1 direct-sailing anti-ship torpedo", the 400-kilogram warhead was reduced to 350-kilogram, and the formula and structure were improved to ensure that its destructive power was not reduced. The space capacity saved allows the 7.8-meter-long torpedo to ensure a maximum speed of 50 knots / 12 kilometers under the power of steam gas.

If the speed is reduced to 45 knots, a range of 14 kilometers can be achieved.

This torpedo, codenamed "A-1", is suitable for surface ships and submarine releases. The initial model was a direct voyage, but after only verifying that its performance was superior and reliable, it was immediately upgraded to a "A-1A" self-guided anti-ship torpedo.

Just getting to this point is too confusing. Khamanov didn't have the face to prevaricate with this thing, and he consciously led people to continue to upgrade, so he came up with the "A-2A" electric acoustic guide torpedo, which was powered by a silver-zinc battery and replaced the original mechanical device with a small electric depth control device. This torpedo has a maximum speed of 40 knots and a range of 12,500 meters.

With these two big killers, Yang Hao's n-hand-free submarine finally doesn't have to see people in a slippery way. He quietly transferred the first batch of parts along with the submarine to the B plane, and then secretly assembled them to begin the first sea trials. (To be continued) R655