The incident with the Weissmann immediately provoked a strong reaction from the Germans, and the German governor in Tanganyika even called Roque, hoping that Roquet might explain the incident, and hoped that in the future, the Nyasaland Marine Police would restrain themselves in Lake Tanganyika and stop doing similar misdeeds.

Roque's apparent response was of course good, but he gave the Water Hound a general commendation on his backhand, and gave the captain Robert Tennison and the first mate a third-class merit each.

In the eyes of the captains of the Nyasaland Marine Police, now the Weissman is not a ship, but a golden military medal, and bullying people can also be rewarded, and everyone's enthusiasm is unprecedented.

Regardless of the excitement of the captains, Roque came to Ulysses in the North Sea in early November to inspect the progress of the development of the new destroyer.

According to the design of the Nyasaland Marine Police, the new destroyers will be built in the North Sea and East Lake, as the flagship of the North Sea Police and the East Lake Marine Police, and then the destroyers will be transferred to Port Edward for construction, and Roque plans to build a fleet of at least twenty destroyers in Port Edward within five years, after which Roque will start developing aircraft carriers.

Don't think that aircraft carriers are so tall, the World War II period reached the most critical time, the Entente Allies were a little unsustainable, and then began to transform merchant ships into aircraft carriers on a large scale, so the aircraft carriers in this period are really not so cutting-edge technology, that is, to transfer the runway from land to ships, with the shipbuilding strength of Nyasaland, it will be completely possible at that time.

Like automobiles, airplanes are just toys in the eyes of many people, and they do not show epoch-making potential at all.

Roque certainly wouldn't think so, the Wright brothers are known as the "fathers of airplanes", but in fact, their father was just a shepherd, and their mother was a music teacher, and they invented airplanes with a passion rather than a genius.

During this period, the Wright brothers had completed the first flight in human history, but this did not attract the attention of the US government and society, and many people even doubted the authenticity of this news.

Roque will definitely not doubt it, and firmly believe in the future of the aircraft, so Roque also set up a flight research department in Little Rock, although there are only a dozen researchers, but the aircraft developed by the flight research department has successfully flown into the sky, flying 1,500 meters in five minutes, which is better than the Wright brothers' first airplane.

The Wright Brothers' Flyer 1 initially only flew 260 meters in 59 seconds, and Nyasaland's aircraft has now surpassed this figure across the board, of course, the Flyer 1 achieved three years ago, and now the Wright Brothers' aircraft is definitely better, so Nyasaland still has a long way to go.

Back at the shipyard in Ulysses, there are now more than 600 workers, four 500-ton docks, and a 2,000-ton dock under construction, where the first destroyer of the future Nyasaland will be born.

Now the first destroyer in Nyasaland has been basically finalized, the new destroyer is modeled after the British first-generation destroyer "Havok", and on the basis of the "Havok", the destroyer has a displacement of 1300 tons, is equipped with 1 76 mm guns and 3 40 mm rapid-fire guns, and also has a triple 450 mm torpedo tube.

The biggest improvement over the previous destroyer was the power, the power of the Havok, which was powered by an older steam engine, and the destroyers in Nyasaland used the most advanced steam engine, as well as radios, as well as a range of the latest naval technology.

After the completion of the destroyer, the speed can reach 32 knots, this data is very advanced in the world, in the North Sea or East Lake (Belgium called Lake Mweru), Nyasaland's destroyer will be a giant existence, once completed, then Nyasaland's advantage in the North Sea and East Lake will be unshakable.

"We are now ready to build destroyers, the Favart Iron Works has purchased the best marine steel from Krupp, the Nyasaland Arsenal has licensed all the technical patents for torpedoes from Naples, Italy, our naval guns are an improved version of Miss Seventy-Five, with a lengthened barrel, more advanced steel for artillery is used, which hits farther and has a faster rate of fire than Miss Seventy-Five, and even our forty-millimeter rapid-fire guns are improving, and the shells are now more powerful than the previous ones-" The head of the Nyasaland Marine Police is called Jimmy Hodgson, a pure French Nyasaland, who came to Nyasaland three years ago and successfully became the head of the Nyasaland Marine Police by virtue of his experience in the French Navy.

Jimmy Hodgson, who had previously served in the French Navy, was so disillusioned with the French Navy that he left France to make a fresh start in southern Africa.

Christian's executive search firm approached Jimmy Hodgson in the hope that Jimmy Hodgson would serve Nyasaland.

Jimmy Hodgson was initially reluctant to visit Nyasaland, but Christian warmly invited him to visit Little Rock, and Little Rock impressed Jimmy Hodgson, who later settled in Little Rock and later became the head of the Nyasaland Marine Police.

In Nyasaland, there is no such thing as complacency, and after the successful imitation of the Ruger pistol, some people think that the Ruger pistol is the most perfect pistol in human history, and there is no need for continuous improvement.

Roque certainly doesn't think so, a long time ago Roque warned all scientific researchers that there is no end to the road of scientific research, there is never a perfect product, only continuous improvement, so the engineers of the Nyasaland Arsenal have now fully accepted the lesson and are very enthusiastic about their work.

To the embarrassment of the engineers of the Nyasaland Arsenal was the Belgian Browning M1903 nine-millimeter pistol, which was introduced by the Belgian company FN and later improved by the American Colt, which is the famous "Continental Hammer".

In another time and space, the reputation of the Continental pistol is not as good as the Luger pistol, but the Continental Pistol is better than the Luger pistol in terms of design and production cost, and the Luger pistol would not have such a big reputation if it were not for the mustache, in contrast, the Continental Pistol is the most suitable pistol for large-scale equipment.

Considering that the Nyasaland Arsenal already had all the patents for the Ruger pistol, the Northern Rhodesia Division and the newly formed 1st Cavalry Division, as well as the police in Nyasaland and the Transvaal, still chose the Ruger pistol as the standard pistol.

But this incident is a serious warning to the engineering of the Nyasaland Arsenal, there is no perfect product in this world, and the reason why the product is perfect is because a better product has not yet appeared, so the engineers of the Nyasaland Arsenal are now quite modest, and no one dares to make a big statement in this aspect of technology.

"Then finalize and produce as soon as possible, but it's still the old rule, only two destroyers of this class will be produced, and then handed over to the North Sea Police, as well as the East Lake Marine Police for use, and then the next level of destruction will be designed and produced, and the destroyers used in the ocean and the inner lake are not the same-" Luo Ke suddenly realized this problem, the experience gained in the inner lake is not necessarily applicable in the open ocean.

"It's really different, so we need to produce at least four destroyers of our class, one for the North Sea, one for East Lake, and at least two for Port Edward, and then we can get enough information to make the next step of improvement on the destroyer." Jimmy Hodgson, of course, knew the difference between the inner lake and the ocean, but he didn't know that Roque's determination was so great.

Or rather, Jimmy Hodgson didn't know that Roque's ambitions were so big.

With the experience of the French Navy and the British Navy, the investment in the development of the Navy is almost endless, and now the naval police ships in Nyasaland have the advantage in the North Sea and the East Lake, there is no need to study higher-class destroyers at all, and Roque's current performance is obviously not satisfied with the current advantages of Nyasaland, and it is necessary to march from the inner lake to the sea, which are two completely different concepts.

"Then build it, don't worry about the cost, even if the destroyer of this class lags behind in the future, it can still be used for training and cruise, anyway, it will not be wasted." Roque casually said that the intention was to ease Jimmy Hodgson's psychological burden, but it was a serious underestimation of Nyasaland's engineers.

The destroyers of Nyasaland, even if you look at the whole world, are at the advanced level.

Purely in terms of shipbuilding technology, there is still a big gap between Nyasaland and Britain, Germany and other European countries, but the reason why Britain and Germany are strong is that they are powerful in the unprecedented "dreadnought", and in the destroyer class, Nyasaland is already at the world's advanced level, there is no doubt about this.

After the start of the arms race, the attention of Britain and Germany was on dreadnoughts, and no one noticed the role of destroyers at all.

Therefore, destroyers are only a dispensable supplement to the maritime powers of Britain and Germany, so Nyasaland, which is concentrating on the study of destroyers, has an increasing advantage in this regard, and purely in terms of performance, Nyasaland's destroyers have surpassed the destroyers equipped by Britain and Germany.

By the way, in Germany, destroyers are still called large torpedo boats, and there is no such thing as a destroyer at all.

"What about submarines, how is the research progress of submarines?" Roque was concerned not only about destroyers, but also about submarines that had just appeared, which was also a void for European countries, and now is a good opportunity to get involved.