Reinhardt, who had made a big promise, didn't care about Raeder's doubts, and continued to ask Raeder on his own: "By the way, how is the preparation of the construction plant for the USS Zeppelin progressing?" ”

Although Raeder is a champion of cannon ships, he never dares to slack off on the aircraft carrier factory that Reinhardt cares about. Immediately leaned his legs together, stood up and saluted: "All the best!" According to your instructions from the Führer, the improved drawings of the aircraft carrier Zeppelin have been basically completed and will be ready for sea trials at the end of this month. ”

Hearing Reald's answer, Reinhardt had a little confidence in the German Navy.

You must know that the Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers in this life have been greatly improved under his general guidance. With a full load displacement of 45,700 tons, a maximum speed of 31 knots, and a maximum aircraft capacity of 110 aircraft in the Atlantic.

The improvement in data has brought about a straight rise in theoretical combat effectiveness. For such a large aircraft carrier, even Raeder, a supporter of warships, has strong hopes for it.

Taking out a data report on the USS Zeppelin, Raeder, like a secretary, reported to the Führer in a serious manner: "The soon-to-be-completed Zeppelin aircraft carrier has a closed bow, suitable for the stormy Atlantic Combat Ship Island, and is located in the middle of the starboard side backwards, with three side lifts. The deck is 282 meters long, the beveled deck is 211 meters long, the maximum deck width is 65 meters, the waterline is 262 meters long, and the width is 32 meters........"

In Raeder's presentation, Reinhardt was most proud of his proposed beveled deck technology. In the research and development direction of aircraft carriers in later generations, the biggest advantage of the beveled deck is that the carrier-based aircraft can take off and land at the same time during combat, increase the number of single-wave sorties, improve the recovery speed of carrier-based aircraft, improve combat power and combat efficiency, increase the number of aircraft carried and the go-around after the failure of landing, and also increase the safety factor.

And the most important thing is that it is not difficult to improve this, it only takes an idea. Reinhardt, on the other hand, "came up" with the idea.

Today, the USS Zeppelin not only has twice as many carrier-based aircraft as the historical design, but also has more than half of its combat radius. More importantly, with Reinhardt's use of Führer's powers, the Zeppelin became a professional aircraft carrier, not a dual-purpose firepower ship.

Today, the Zeppelin aircraft carrier has abandoned the original laborious occupation of artillery in history, abandoned any anti-ship or ground-to-ground artillery, and changed all to the high-level dual-purpose 127 guns for air defense, as well as 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, and a large number of 20-mm machine guns. As for the anti-aircraft artillery, in the future Reinhardt is also preparing to install all radio proximity fuses.

In fact, in addition to the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, Germany also has 2 escort aircraft carriers. The two escort carriers were converted from the "Exocet Cruises" that Reinhardt ordered to build ten years ago.

Since this is a creative reform of the Navy proposed by Reinhardt, it will increase its naval combat power by directly transforming cruise ships into aircraft carriers. And the admirals of the Navy, including many senior officials who were close to Reinhardt, were worried. So Reinhardt, who is not a professional himself, made a concession and only renovated 2 Exocet-class escort aircraft carriers in the first batch.

The renovation project of the Exocet escort aircraft carrier will also be completed immediately after the completion of the Zeppelin. This small aircraft carrier, with only 24 carrier-based aircraft, will also be part of the first aircraft carrier fleet of the Third Reich.

The three German aircraft carriers, which are about to be completed, will have a total of 158 carrier-based aircraft. And this is the most important first batch of aircraft carrier-based aircraft, or Reinhardt's large amount of funds to develop the ME109 successor in advance, as the secret weapon of the Luftwaffe and the secret F190 fighter.

Due to Reinhardt's technical requirements three years ahead of schedule, the prototype of the F190 had to be fitted with a small powder pack to throw out the canopy. Finally, after about 50 improvements, the F 190 was allowed to be deployed to the Luftwaffe by the German Ministry of Aviation.

Despite many difficulties, Reinhardt's persistence made the F190 the first carrier-based aircraft of the Third Reich. After all, the F190 is already the most suitable carrier-based aircraft among Reinhardt's known German fighters.

The all-metal cantilever upper and lower wing structure, the 14-cylinder star-shaped air-cooled piston engine makes the nose of the F190 appear a little thick, the tail is relatively slender, and the arched part of the back of the fuselage is a transparent sliding open cockpit cover, and the back of the fuselage is tilted downward, which makes this fighter have a good downward view and is more suitable for landing on the sea.

Therefore, Reinhardt also put a lot of effort into the aircraft carrier dream of the Third Reich, so he had quite expectations.

"With the Exocet-class aircraft carrier, our aircraft carrier fleet should have the strength to fight." Reinhardt looked at Raeder with a smile on his face.

"If the Führer is able to incorporate the two new cruisers, two Z-class destroyers and some mine-striking ships that have just been promised into our aircraft carrier fleet. I think this should be able to greatly guarantee the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier fleet. Raeder said in language that did not disobey Reinhardt and did not contradict his own ideas: "But I still think that the Empire cannot pin all its hopes on aircraft carriers. Giant battleships, we still have to build. ”

"Didn't you promise to give you 3 new battleships?" Reinhardt waved his hand impatiently and said, "You don't believe me." The manly husband is a man, will I lie to you? Besides, although it is a bad habit to talk about credit, I am not even unable to handle such a trivial matter. ”

Bagatelle?! Hearing Reinhardt say this as a trivial matter, Raeder had no choice but to ask with a puzzled face, "My Führer." I am the commander of the Navy, but as far as I know, in addition to the construction of aircraft carriers, the Navy's recent giant ship projects are only two new cruiser projects. The other ships you promised ......."

"Heaven must not be divulged." Reinhardt replied to Raeder in a very sloppy tone. In his opinion, his current image in Raeder's eyes should be quite profound, unfathomable, full of wisdom, and strategizing.

In fact, Raeder just wants to beat up this guy who is a traitor and pretends to be sophisticated. It's a pity that because the other party is the head of state, he just couldn't help but not make a move.

Although he knew that the German Navy was already lagging behind Britain and France, Raeder did not think that this was a problem that could be solved by simply using a large number of aircraft carriers.

The German Navy has been lonely for too long.......

Since Operation Rainbow, the once glorious German Navy has only 6 old battleships with a displacement of less than 10,000 tons, 6 backward cruisers, 12 old destroyers and 12 torpedo boats.

Although it was originally designed in accordance with the requirements of the Treaty of Versailles, a new type of ship, an armored ship, a light armored warship with battleship-level firepower and fast sailing speed was added. However, it is undeniable that the German navy could not win by this force when it encountered the navies of either Britain or France.

Now, seeing that the German battleship replacement plan, which was already on the right track, has been postponed indefinitely because of the aircraft carrier project, how can Raeder feel at ease. He is not opposed to the development of a new weapon such as an aircraft carrier, but it would be too risky to bet on a new weapon at the expense of the development of a large number of conventional forces!