But in reality, did the Entente really have such a big advantage in the naval field as expected? As a traverser, especially a traverser from the navy, Xu Jie believes that the problems of the Entente in the sea are even bigger than the problems in the air! Although the navy and air force of World War II relied on aircraft to fight the world, there was a "curse" in World War II in history. The naval aviation of a country with a strong air force must not be strong! If you don't believe it, flip through the book, the Luftwaffe used to be a top master, and it was also a top master all the way, but what about the Navy? The number of planes that Raeder can call on is always no more than 200! Not even 5% of the number of some aircraft of the German army!

Some people may say that Germany is an exception, and the Soviet Union cannot consider it, so good, let's look at the British! The RAF is strong, right? It's not too much to say that it is second in the world, right? But what about the flying units of the Royal Navy? Look at the number of carrier-based aircraft that began to be called weak on the Swordfish and aircraft carriers that were in service until mid-to-late war. Royal Naval Aviation isn't that powerful, is it? Of course, there are reasons why the Germans are not strong, but at the same time, there are also reasons why the British Royal Air Force has the advantage in the competition for resources. The Royal Navy's aviation is actually limited by the Air Force. Although this plane is better, the aircraft performance is good, and the number is enough to fill several aircraft carriers, but the number of reserve aircraft is insufficient, and the number of shore-based aviation is very small.

The direct relationship between the German naval aviation and the air force in this plane is somewhat similar to that of the United States and Japan in history, although the scale is smaller than the air force, but at least the number is sufficient, after all, the navy is more to carry out sea attacks, and there is no need to carry out strategic bombing missions, according to intelligence, Xu Jie learned that in the future, the scale of the German naval aviation will be further expanded, and eventually reach the scale of about 6000 aircraft, which is almost about 30% of the total number of German aircraft in terms of quantity! And the number of aircraft of the naval aviation of the British was 1500 units? Well, in fact, even the request of the British Navy to the Ministry of Defense not so long ago was only on the scale of 1300 aircraft! As for the French? It's not as good as the British! The Americans are very strong, but they are too far away!

Let's move our eyes to the sea, although naval aviation is divided into two major parts, sea-based and land-based, in fact, many times carrier-based aircraft on aircraft carriers have a greater impact on the situation than land-based aircraft! No matter how strong the land-based aviation of the Americans is, they can generally only use the planes on a few aircraft carriers! As for naval aviation, although the United States, Britain, and France have an advantage in terms of total volume, after all, these are the navies of the three countries, and if nothing else, at least the standards of equipment and training are different. The British used the Spitfire, the Americans used the F4F, and they will change to the F6F in the future. The French plan to use the D520 in the future! There are only 4 types of fighters in a fleet, and the range, speed, and flight performance are not the same. Add to that a mess of all sorts of attack aircraft, and this can definitely be described as a hodgepodge! The F4F takes care of the range of the Spitfire, and the Spitfire, in turn, takes care of the cruise speed of the F4F. And then the fighter also had to take care of the flight speed of various attack aircraft. By the way, I have to say that the swordfish known as the miracle of the net pocket is still in use, but I don't know if this plane can reproduce the miracle of reinvading the prime minister and Veneto! Xu Jie is very unoptimistic! Although the Allies are also multinational coalition forces, the fighters are all BF109 or FW190. The attack aircraft are also all German, which is at least much more convenient in terms of logistics and tactical organization.

And if you talk about the performance of the aircraft, the comparison between the Spitfire and the FW190 is not to mention, as for the F6F, which the Americans have high hopes for, it will definitely not be able to do the FW190 of the same period. The former has a powerful R2800 engine, but in terms of robustness, it is even more excessive than the P47! And this has led to the Hellcat having the title of a fat cat, and the speed is even slower, with a speed of more than 600 kilometers per hour, which is worthy of the highest achievement of an air-cooled engine, the R2800? Historically, the Hellcat met Japan on the Pacific battlefield, otherwise if it were to the European battlefield, I am afraid that it would be beaten with a blue nose and swollen face. If the Hellcat is worse, but it can be improvised, then the US Air Force, whether it is SBD or TBD, in the face of the German FW190F attack aircraft and twin-engine fast bombers, it is even more incomparable, FW190 is a fighter body, speed and agility are certainly much stronger than bombers, and the latter surpasses the former in terms of bomb load and cruise speed. The power of the fast fleet of the Germans was quite large!

Huaxia even conducted related experiments, once using fighter jets in an exercise to simulate the attack speed of a fast group of German naval aviation. (After all, before the R2800 came out, the speed of Huaxia's attack aircraft couldn't go up-!) The results were amazing! If we do not take into account the loss of follow-up or intelligence errors, then the cruising speed of the German Navy fleet can reach more than 430 kilometers per hour! If it was a simple FW190 formation, in a combat radius of less than 350KM, the Germans could even fly out of a cruising speed of about 470KM! (There is no doubt about this, in fact, the FW190A aircraft can fly at such a speed at a suitable altitude when it is equipped with a 500KG bomb.) Moreover, the FW190A's internal oil range is about 1000KM even in the case of high-speed flight. Then the Chinese Navy turned out the manual for the Spitfire, and came to a very shocking conclusion: if the combat radius of the Spitfire is considered to be the combat distance, even if the time for the Germans to release the plane and complete the formation is counted, the Germans can completely slap the bomb in the face of the British within 1 hour!

THE ALLIES NOT ONLY HAVE AN ADVANTAGE IN CARRIER-BASED AIRCRAFT, BUT ALSO IN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, MOST OF THE FIRST-LINE MAIN BATTLE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OF GERMANY AND AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE ARE ARMORED AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, AND THE THICKNESS OF THE ARMORED DECK IS LARGE, AT ABOUT 100MM, WHICH CAN BASICALLY RESIST THE ATTACK OF 500KG ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS. The two Fury-class aircraft carriers of the British were armored aircraft carriers, and so were the French, but the Americans, who were the most powerful navy of the Entente, were a little weak, and Essex finally got an armored deck, but the thickness was only 50MM. For the Germans, 500KG semi-armor-piercing shells were not enough. The Germans' bombs in this plane are much more powerful than those of Japan, and it will never happen again that the American aircraft carrier will be hit by a 250KG bomb and go back to repair it for two days!

Xu Jie estimated that the two sides would definitely suffer a big loss when they met the Entente for the first time, even if the strength was superior, if the two sides found each other at the same time, their planes would still be flying halfway, and then the other side would have beaten their own aircraft carrier fleet in a wave of the past, and this battle would not collapse! Considering that it is impossible for an aircraft carrier to produce more than N in a month on the assembly line like an airplane, Xu Jie signaled the military liaison department to remind the Entente countries on various occasions, but the effect was not obvious. The replacement of German carrier-based aircraft and the improvement of tactics are about to be completed, and all that remains is to increase production and proficiency, while the Entente is still immersed in the old war system, Xu Jie is a little speechless. "Don't blame me for not reminding you in the future. You brought it on yourself! Xu Jie muttered to himself after seeing the inaction of the Entente.

When it came to the army, the Entente's analysis of the situation was still more reliable than that of the navy and air force, and after being beaten by the Germans several times, the top leaders of the United States, Britain and France readily admitted the gap between their own side and the Allied army! Both in terms of size, number and equipment, the Entente had to admit their inferiority. However, the United States and Britain are trying to change, and the United States and Britain are preparing to design a medium tank based on the Sherman tank and the Huaxia 29 tank. Its performance requirements are on par with the Type 29, overpowering the No. 4 tank, and at the same time building a tank destroyer based on it. The No. 4 tank destroyer was required to overwhelm the Germans, and the French designed a B1 tank. Its outstanding features are heavy armor, slow speed and heavy firepower. THE TANK WEIGHS 40 TONS, IS ARMED WITH A 90MML42 MAIN GUN, AND THE FRONTAL TURRET PROTECTION IS 110MM. THE UPPER ARMOR OF THE NOSE OF THE HULL IS 100MM AND INCLINED 45 DEGREES. THE FIRST AND LOWER ANGLES ARE THE SAME, BUT THE THICKNESS HAS BEEN REDUCED TO 80MM. The engine power was a bit lower, only 400 horsepower. In terms of performance, it is a very good tank for black guns. And there is potential for continued improvement. The Allies believed that the new Sherman and B1 tanks were sufficient to gain an advantage in armor technology, and although they were still not superior in terms of total strength, they did not seem to be much of a problem if they began to hold France if they cooperated with the French defensive line that they had worked so hard to build.

Looking at the new Maginot Line that the French stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Sea, Xu Jie had to admit that the French had filled up the technology tree of fortifications, this line of defense was stronger than the original, and there was no hole in the vacuum in the north of the original defense line. Relying on the defensive line, the German army could not break through quickly, then half of the significance of the armored assault would be lost, and if the British and American air forces fully supported, then the Luftwaffe could not open the situation, and the battlefield was likely to return to the confrontation mode of World War 1.

If we extrapolate from this basis, then we can conclude that the French bridgehead will not be breached, and if the Germans cannot break through on land, then even if the Entente miscalculates the situation in terms of navy and air force, it will not cause too serious consequences. After all, the strategic significance of France's bridgehead is very significant. With the presence of France, then the Germans could not use the military ports and bases on the west coast of France, and neither U-boats nor capital ships were cowering in the Mediterranean or in the North Sea. The range of motion will be greatly reduced. Although the main fleet could enter and exit the Atlantic, its location was southerly, and its route and cover were at a disadvantage, and the range of submarines was greatly wasted. The Entente, on the other hand, could use the airfields and ports on the Atlantic coast of France to strengthen their control over the North Atlantic! As long as France is there, then it is impossible for Germany to effectively attack Britain, and the British can explode production capacity with peace of mind! And the Americans have also been given a platform on which their power can be fully utilized.

But is it really that perfect? The answer is definitely no, let's go back and look at this premise, premise one, the United States and British air forces at the beginning of the war fully supported France. This is theoretically true, but in practice it is not realistic! The reason is simple, the French did not agree to allow the Anglo-American Air Force to be stationed in large numbers in peacetime on the French mainland! And once the Germans launch a surprise attack, then in the hurry, it is unknown how many planes the United States and Britain can send at the first time, the British will only come across a strait, and the Americans will go across the Atlantic! And in peacetime, the British likewise did not let the US Air Force into Britain! In the current plane of the European theater, is a few hundred planes a big deal?

If the Germans did not give the Entente time to prepare, and if they said that the war would start, then I am afraid that the French Air Force would have been severely damaged before the US and British Air Force intervened. Xu Jie would rather trust the American Army than the French Air Force! And in fact, the plane is not just flown over and used, you need to equip the American and British aircraft that arrive in France with special ground crews and accessories. If the former can barely be done with training, then what about the latter? The Earth God engine used by the French and the Morin of the American Wasp and the British, are not the same thing at all! If we consider the logistics system, it will not be possible to accomplish it overnight, so under the current circumstances, it will be difficult for the United States and Britain to provide effective support to France at the beginning. So what will happen to the French Air Force after the war, you can figure it out with your knees!

What is even more terrifying is that once the French air force is defeated, it is impossible for the United States and Britain to recover the decline on the battlefield, unlike the Italian war and the Iranian war, where the air forces of the two sides can kill each other and have contacts in the dark. Although Italy lacked strategic depth in the Italian War, both sides were restrained, and Italy had France as a stable rear base. In addition to the two bases in Central Asia and India, the two sides engaged in a very large range of wars, but the number of aircraft was relatively small. And what about the European theater? It is conservatively estimated that the Allied air force can also mobilize about 15,000 aircraft of various kinds when attacking France! The Iranian battlefield is where the Allies concentrate 4,000 aircraft and fight in an area of 2 million square kilometers, while the European theater is where the Allies have 4 times more aircraft! The combat area has been reduced to a quarter! The density of troops has increased by 16 times! Although the actual density of troops cannot be so simple and cumulative, France lacks depth, while Germany has a large air superiority and a strong strategic bombing capability, in this case, once the Entente begins to fall into passivity, it will be difficult to reverse! Because the whole territory of France is within the range of the Luftwaffe, France is not given a chance and a place to regroup at all!

Therefore, Xu Jie thinks that once the war starts, the Entente will definitely suffer a big loss, and wants to get rid of Huaxia and kill the Allies alone? Hehe. That's completely impossible! Xu Jie is waiting for the day when the United States and Britain compromise!

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