Chapter 556: The Super Battleship Continues to Feverish

"After the tests, if the firepower of the fleet reaches a certain level, the threat of aircraft to the battleship is small. Although the future of aircraft carriers is promising, we will not see much change in battleships for at least a few years, unless there are more advanced tactics or technologies! Chester William Nimitz looked at the test results in his hand, listened to the introduction of Adjutant Lamar next to him, and did not say anything with a blank face.

The parliament approved the budget for the construction of the battleship Mendana, and at the same time, it was claimed that the main guns of Mendana were insufficient, and there were calls for the construction of more powerful battleships.

"A strong America needs to make our cry heard by the world. The United States of America already has a halo of world firsts over its head, and we also need a world number one battleship to demonstrate our strength! "At this time, the United States actually did not precipitate the weight of the world's boss like later generations, and it was still a little restless, like China in later generations, and from time to time it needed to use many world firsts to show its rise.

"They're just a bunch of idiots of politicians who know what a professional navy is?" Nimitz said in his heart, but his face did not show any expression, and he seemed to be quietly listening to the explanation of the adjutant's adviser Lamarman.

"Our five Meng Dana-class are enough to deal with the Utopian-class battleships, and the rest of the naval budget should be focused on growing new aircraft carriers, rather than developing larger battleships." As an adjutant Lamar, it was a bit out of place, but Nimitz had always been very lenient with his opponents, and it was Nimitz who asked him to talk about it, so that Lamar could speak freely.

The development and construction plans of super-warships in various countries have also stabbed the Americans.

Under the operation of many parties, the budget for the development of new warships in the US Navy has just been approved, but it is only a study of the design, not the construction.

Meng Xiang felt a little regretful that the sale of warships allowed the Americans to obtain a Yamato-class battleship in advance, and conducted a series of trials and tests, testing confessions, and their Meng Dana was completely comparable to the Yamato-class battleships. Except for some people who were still agitating for the construction of larger-scale battleships, most of the people in the U.S. Navy still connected to reason, and did not immediately enter the race for super-battleships, but chose to wait for the further growth of the situation. {Starter}

Of course, if he did it again, Meng Xiang would do the same. The Yamato-class was exchanged for countless kilometers of railroad tracks and electronics and petrochemical technology by the Americans, which consolidated China's industrial foundation. It is more cost-effective than the Yamato-class early leakage, and the Yamato-class battleships are actually not the only ones, Meng Xiang has other super-class battleships ready to stab the Americans.

Only the Soviet-class battleships of Soviet Russia and the Yamato-class battleships that had been revealed by the Americans from intelligence made the battleships of the Meng Dana appear weaker.

Although the construction of new battleships did not begin immediately, they started research on larger battleships ahead of schedule for the sake of technical savings. The 50 times the diameter of the 406 mm naval guns on the battleships of the Mengdana and Iowa class battleships is the accumulation of technology during the First World War, and after the First World War, the Americans also had the research of 18-inch naval guns. It's just a matter of making it better. Even in order to gain an advantage, the Americans further directly launched the study of a 20-inch ship gun spanning 500 mm.

Even in terms of tonnage, the Americans are also discussing the feasibility of another 100,000-ton battleship, but after some calculations, in the actual study, the focus is still on the plan for another 80,000-ton battleship. There were too many difficulties in the outcome of the 100,000-ton other battleships, and in the absence of a new target, the Americans who were careful about their calculations did not plan to do it in one step.

But apparently the Germans did not want to let them get their way, and the Germans, in the rapid expansion of the navy, already saw a future in the hands of the Atlantic. In the face of Britain and the United States, combined with some shortcomings of the Yamato-class battleships, they planned to restart the stopped class battleships. Although the new class battleships are no longer of the 60,000-ton class, the Germans already have four other Yamato-class battleships of this class, plus two additional Bismarck battleships of the 50,000-ton class, and do not want to build them again. They set their sights on building even larger warships.

"Just with a 480 mm naval gun! So that the British fantasy class will also be a toy! "The victory at Cape Roca stabbed Hitler and ignited more confidence in conquering the seas. Taking control of Europe was only the beginning, Africa and the Americas would be the foothold of the Germans' conquest, but first they needed the tools to conquer the seas.

The trend of building super-battleships in various countries also affected Lao Xi, and the 480-mm naval guns had to overwhelm the 450-mm of Soviet Russia and the 460-mm of the Yamato-class. The Germans, who had always attached great importance to defense, calculated the heavy armor battleships and found that the newly launched class battleships had been raised to a scale of 100,000 tons. Even a full load displacement of 100,000 tons is shocking.

Meng Xiang was a little crying and laughing after hearing this, he originally planned to pull Britain and the United States into the water, but he didn't expect the Germans to dive first.

However, the stubbornness of the Germans could not be persuaded, and Meng Xiang could only use this form to leak the news, but he did not expect that the actions of the Germans who involved the attention of the world immediately caused a more fanatical wave.

"Change the caliber of the guns of our Soviet-class super-class warships to 500 mm, don't say anything difficult, the power of the people is infinite, and our Sovietism has always not compromised with reality!" Moscow first responded by raising the Soviet-class main gun to a size of 500 mm, but this is becoming less and less likely. So those who said unrealistically cleaned up as representatives who did not recognize the reality, and all that remained was the slogan of guaranteeing the completion of the task.

"It's already difficult to reach a maximum of 19 inches!" The British calculated for a long time, only to find that it was very difficult to reach more than 500 mm, so they could only come up with the 19-inch plan that they had planned and developed, and use the 482 mm naval guns of the new Lion King to keep up with the footsteps of the Germans.

The Americans, who had deep pockets, started the study of naval guns of more than 500 mm from the beginning, and when they heard about the calculations of the Germans, they immediately took out the budget table of the relevant construction plan.

Equipped with larger naval guns and thicker armor, the super-class battleships were equipped with air defense and radar systems that began to be valued at this time, and their displacement quickly increased, jumping from 60,000 tons to 80,000 tons, and even to 100,000 tons.

Fortunately, the German admirals had not yet gone crazy and revoked Lao Xi's plan to put eight 800-mm super-cannons on super-class battleships, which also prevented a new round of battleship competition. It's just that the 500-millimeter class with another main gun and an 80,000-ton super-class battleship is quite realistic, and the cost is nothing more than a lot of manpower and material resources and a lot of money.

Meng Xiang thought about it for a long time, and also threw away the plan to burn again.

A lot of unrealistic ideas can't help but drag down the growth of countries, only let them embark on a realistic detour, and go farther and farther, in order to make it easier for China to catch up with them. When the super-warships of various countries are fighting on the ocean, the entire sky will belong to the more prepared Chinese people.

However, the Americans have not abandoned the scramble for the skies above the ocean. In fact, they are not like the British, Germans, and Soviet Russians, who can only scrape together limited resources and give priority to the growth of super-class battleships. After a long period of researching aircraft carriers, they have accumulated some of the hardcore of aircraft carriers, and after some activities, the Americans still did not abandon the research and manufacture of aircraft carriers, but it is obvious that the construction of battleships still squeezed out the resources that originally belonged to aircraft carriers, making the Americans' preparations on aircraft carriers weaker.

And there are also people who did not abandon the aircraft carrier.

"Aircraft carriers are the key to our fight for the sea!" Yamamoto Fifty-six saw it very thoroughly, and there was some helplessness in his words. The industry and the economy of man are even more cowardly. In this round of competition for new super-class warships, they can only helplessly watch. The economic difficulties made it impossible for them to restart the plan for a new super-battleship. The Yamato class is already the pinnacle of their industrial manufacturing, and it is difficult for them to come up with a better and more realistic plan than it.

Their goal is to turn out to be Asia, not Europe, the center of the competitive storm. Moreover, the study of aircraft carriers was also very early, and the advantages of aircraft carriers and the disadvantages of battleships were also thoroughly studied. Since the battleships did not go well, they simply chose the aircraft carrier.

Although they frequently lost in air battles with the Vanguard, they shrewdly discovered that their Zero was still the world's first-class aircraft, whether it was the United States, Britain, or Germany, their planes were inferior to the Zero. In addition to those advanced aircraft of the Vanguard, their new super-zero fighters are absolutely invincible in the world.

"The aircraft carrier formation we formed with new fighters can be said to be invincible in the Pacific Ocean, but as a result, the naval strength of the vanguard army is too weak to run into the ocean." Yamamoto Fifty-six said, "It will take at least ten years for the vanguard army to compete with us for the sea, and this is our only chance to overpower them." ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six's judgment is relatively accurate, the construction of the navy is not actually a rise even if there are ships, and the navy of the vanguard army is still a student-level in the eyes of the world. There is little threat to people, and people are always worried about the Americans.

"Our aircraft carrier is enough to suppress the Americans," Nagano Shushen also nodded, "Besides, we have a real super-giant ship that the Americans can't match." ”ro