ACT504: Armament Warfare
Because of the extremely harsh living environment, the Soviet Union has always had the ambition to march inward!
U.S. intelligence agencies have predicted that more than 20 million Soviets will freeze to death if Saturn enters a harsh long winter. If Stalin did not want his country to fall into a civil war, he would certainly have used guò to start a foreign war to divert internal contradictions. Even if it fails, it will take the opportunity to consume these surplus populations.
With the improvement of the industrial system of the Soviet Union over the years, the equipment situation of the Red Navy has also improved significantly. As early as when the Soviet Union had just completed its first five-year plan, they had planned to build a super battleship with a displacement of more than 60,000 tons and equipped with four triple 16-inch guns.
But maybe Dali can really work a miracle, and the Soviet Union really started building such a behemoth on Saturn four years ago by relying on the Maozi mess of "starting construction first, designing later".
At present, there are three ships that are under construction, and although various problems have emerged in the construction process, the overall progress is quite smooth thanks to the ship technology obtained from Italy and the Tang Kingdom successively. As soon as this new type of battleship was completed, the Soviet Union would completely reverse its disadvantageous position.
Nimitz admitted that in the long run, a strong Soviet Union would definitely become another serious threat no less than that of Nazi Germany. But if they fail to defeat Hitler now, the United States may not survive the day when the Soviet Union becomes a scourge.
Therefore, in expediency, Nimitz built that Roosevelt put aside his prejudices about the Soviet Union for a while and united forces to fight the Nazis together. And if they want to win over the Soviet Union to resist Germany, they don't need to go to Stalin in a low-level way, they just need to provide the Soviet Union with some ship technology like Tang Guo.
With Stalin's character, it was impossible for the other side to sit idly by and watch Hitler put his hand into his "crotch" and act recklessly. Once they have sufficient strength, the peaceful coexistence between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Saturn region will come to an end, and the United States will naturally be happy to see this.
However, although Roosevelt understood Nimitz's views on the Soviet issue, he was not interested in the so-called "local forces" entrenched in the Shattered Star Zone. He still had some concerns. Therefore, after Ross Fujian Yì Nimitz arrived in the Shattered Star Zone, he should not rush to contact the other party first, and observe for a while before making a decision.
In this way, Nimitz's "forward defense" strategy was supported by President Roosevelt, and Nimitz himself was ready to lead the Pacific Fleet in the Shattered Star Zone to fight the devils to the end. At the same time, on the other side, the Star Castle side was also preparing for the war against Japan.
Out of a strategic balance, Zhao decided to take the initiative to divert the attention of the Japanese army and help the US military share part of the pressure. No matter how inextricably linked the other side is to Broken Dawn, at least they are now on the side of the anti-fascist camp, and they cannot be allowed to collapse like this.
And since Pearl Harbor. Zhao Jian has gradually realized that the US government may not deal with the broken dawn. The recent series of actions of that organization have harmed the national interests of the United States, and this kind of elbow turning outward does not look like a family at all.
However, the fleet in Zhao's hands seems to be strong, but in fact there are not many shortcomings. In addition to the abundant size of the capital ships, the number of other ship types is obviously insufficient, which gives the Starfort fleet a sense of "top-heavy" incongruity.
At present, the fleet lacks three types of ships: cruisers, submarines, and specialized anti-submarine ships.
Needless to say, the cruiser has always been 3 heavy and 2 light, and Da Lian has asked Zhao Jian for an increase in personnel. The submarines were designed to support the resistance in mainland France. At present, all the staff are delivering couriers, and they are all tired like salted fish, and Zhao Jian is embarrassed to arrange combat missions for these young girls.
As for professional anti-submarine ships, it is still Xiao Meowbo who is picking up the girder alone. Like that kind of anti-submarine mission with a relatively large search range. She alone couldn't keep her busy.
Just like the last Star Fort offensive and defensive battle, Zhao Jian temporarily dispatched Meow Bo to search for the lead ship of the alien fleet. But Meow Bo took his two friends around the Star Castle, but failed to find any trace of the enemy submarine, and finally returned in vain. As soon as the little one came back, he cried with self-blame.
If you fight the Japanese army in the future, this will definitely become a huge security risk. Therefore, Zhao Jian believed that the immediate priority was to expand the second-line forces of the Star Fort fleet as much as possible.
It happened to be when they went to Pearl Harbor to get Shavier. I took some of the divine cores that the U.S. military didn't have time to take away. Among the more valuable ones are the Arizona and the Nevada. After repairing both pieces, Zhao Jian decided to pay tribute to Her Majesty the Empress Xi à of the Divine Core of the Nedava, to see if he could exchange some 10,000-ton level from China to come back, and he could use it to expand the cruiser formation.
Of course! During the period of waiting for the domestic reply, Zhao Jian himself was not idle, Thor had just completed the design of the Standard III large destroyer, and built two prototype ships for testing.
With a standard displacement of up to 3,000 tons, a length of 133 meters, a width of 15.6 meters, and a maximum speed of 37 knots, the new destroyer is not inferior to cruisers. In addition, the body size is a whole circle larger than the other two, and there is a faint feeling of "small light patrol".
In terms of firepower, the standard III naval guns and the Type I hospital are all 3 twin-mounted 135mm rapid-fire naval guns, but 16 vertically guided erosion torpedoes are arranged in the middle of the hull, and the anti-aircraft weapons have also been replaced with 8 revolutionary "phalanxes", and Zhao Jian uses automatic AI on this weapon.
It can be said that this kind of destroyer already has a very obvious missile destroyer style in terms of appearance and equipment. But out of a feeling, Zhao Jian still called the hanging ones "torpedoes".
It's like in another time and space, a company named after the direction dares to call a thing with a range of 480 kilometers and can be accurately guided a rocket with its eyes open!
After the two prototypes were built, Zhao called both Hamafeng and Isokaze, who had been idle on the Star Castle, and asked them to test the performance of this new ship. But these two bear children didn't know how to read the goods, and they disliked that this new ship was not as good-looking as their previous Yangyan-class (the hull was fat), and they didn't know whether they were dead or alive.
In the end, Zhao Jian put a cold face, put his arms around the shoulders of the two girls, and threatened viciously in their ears.
"You two have made it clear to me, I am your admiral, and if you want to spend your birthday in Star Castle, you have to honestly obey Uncle Ben's orders. I'll put my words here today, whoever dares not to get on the boat, I'll get on whoever I get on at night! (To be continued......)