The design indicators and related requirements of the new class of aircraft carriers were quickly sorted out and sent to the relevant departments, and the project codenamed CV03 began to begin, and the name of this project means that this is the third fleet aircraft carrier designed by Huaxia. With an estimated displacement of more than 40,000 tons, the aircraft carrier will have the highest level of aviation capability and design in the world, and will also be equipped with a more powerful hydraulic catapult, new radar and communications equipment, and a centralized battlefield information processing system. Its construction budget equivalent to 150 million US dollars also made Huaxia feel a little overwhelmed, and its huge requirements for shipyard slipways also made the number of slipways in Huaxia Republic a little tight. In a word, the CV03 plan ship is good, but the cost is a bit high! Not only the economic cost, but also the cost of time is terrifying, Huaxia estimates that it may take about 3 years to complete a warship, such a speed is very slow in the war, 3 years, a total of only a few years in the First World War? And even the CV03 aircraft carrier is not impossible to sink, and losses are inevitable. And the losses of World War I will take three years to make up, and this price is indeed a bit large.

So when the navy got the new toy, Yang Yonglin was not satisfied, and after the meeting, he also found Xu Jie to discuss the future fleet to supplement the rotation plan. "The final construction plan of our Heilongjiang-class battleships (that is, Huaxia's 30,000-ton first-class aircraft carrier) is 8, and 5 have been completed so far, 1 outfitting and 2 are being built on the slipway. If it goes according to plan, our large fleet aircraft carriers for the next 4-5 years will be based on the CV03 program. Isn't that too risky? We plan to start construction in 3 batches of a total of 6 ships, and if all of them are completed, it is estimated that it will be 5 years later. Will it be able to keep up with the progress of the war? Yang Yonglin said with some concern.

It is true that the strength of Huaxia's current aircraft carrier battle group is the largest in the world, and there is a big gap between the United States and Germany and Huaxia in terms of combat effectiveness. But the problem is that China is currently only one of its own, and if it has to be counted as allies, the Italian fleet living in the South Seas is also counted as one. But compared to the overall fleet size of the Central and Entente powers, China was still much worse, after all, the Americans had the strong presence of Britain, and the Germans also stood Italy, Austria-Hungary and Turkey next to them. After adding these little brothers, the size of the fleets of both sides has reached a terrifying level, for example, the Germans can save up a huge lineup of 12 aircraft carriers if they are in a hurry, and the three Allied countries can also accumulate a strong force no less than the former, while the current fleet of China is only 5 armored aircraft carriers and 2 medium aircraft carriers. Even if there is a qualitative advantage, the disadvantage in the number of troops is a bit big!

In the future, the Allies and the Entente will definitely continue to expand their aircraft carrier fleets, according to Huaxia's intelligence, Germany alone will start construction of 5 to 7 aircraft carriers in the next 3 years, these aircraft carriers may not be armored aircraft carriers like the Moltke class, but they can still increase the aircraft carrier strength of the Germans by more than 5%, and as an important ally of the Germans, Austria-Hungary will also start construction of 2 to 3 aircraft carriers in the next 3 years. In this case, the Allied Powers may be able to reach the scale of 20 aircraft carriers of various types. The Entente represented by the United States was also not to be outdone.

The U.S. government has approved the first phase of the Navy's development plan for the next three years, and Roosevelt said that the U.S. Navy will start construction of at least six more Essex-class aircraft carriers, which are even slightly larger than the Germans. Although the British are already in the dark, Yu Wei is still there, gritting his teeth and saying that he will start construction of 2 or 3 aircraft carriers. In this way, the two major military blocs of the Entente and the Central Powers can have nearly 20 aircraft carriers of various kinds at the time of the war, and if the war breaks out within three years, then the new aircraft carriers that can be put into service in China will not have any new large aircraft carriers in service except for the three CV02 30,000-ton armored aircraft carriers! This is unbearable in Yang Yonglin's opinion.

"Even if we only have 10 aircraft carriers when the war starts again, there will be no problem, for the simple reason that Huaxia will not start a war with the Germans with the Entente at the first time. The relationship between us and the Entente is not as close as it was at the beginning, there is a certain gap between some of the demands of the Entente and our needs, and a war without sufficient interests should not break out. Xu Jie said to Yang Yonglin again.

"I understand what you mean, you intend to enter the battlefield again when the Entente and the Allies are fighting for a lose-lose situation? Or are you waiting for the Entente to offer a higher price? Your choice is very similar to the choice of the United States during the 1 war, I can understand your idea of preparing to pick peaches, but if we follow in the footsteps of the Americans, then it is not good, the Americans finally entered the war, but they entered the war too late, and by the time the American GIs set foot on European soil, the Germans had already established a solid advantage. We have to prevent this from happening to us. Yang Yonglin said solemnly.

"To tell the truth, the Germans probably thought the same way, hoping that by the time they entered the war in China, they had already established a solid advantage, and then forced us to admit the result. But alas, the situation has changed, although the Allies are stronger than before the 1st World War, but they will never get such an opportunity, for the simple reason that first, this time we are on the side of the Entente, and second, the United States entered the war from the beginning. Even if the Germans were able to gain some advantage, even if they could take out France, they would still not be able to win the war. On the naval side, the Germans may have gained some advantage with a fast fleet, but they themselves will certainly have to suffer some losses. And once we enter the war, the Germans will have to fight on both sides, and they will be in an even more difficult position than the British Royal Navy in the 1 war, because the distance between the North Atlantic and the Indian Ocean is too far for the High Seas Fleet to take care of both ends. Xu Jie said disapprerovingly.

"And from a tactical point of view, I think that it is more beneficial for future wars to concentrate our efforts on building CV03 fleet aircraft carriers now. When discussing this issue, we need to confirm two points, the first is that we will enter the war at least 4-5 years later! We have more time to prepare. The second point is that if we can accumulate a sufficiently elite fleet before going to war, then the qualitative advantage will make our loss rate significantly lower than that of our opponents. We can even continue to build CV03 or CV02 aircraft carriers during the war to steadily increase our strength. For aircraft carriers, a precious strategic weapon, the accumulation in the early stage is sometimes more important than mass production in wartime. ”

"Perhaps in times of war we still need to replenish a large number of easy-to-produce aircraft carriers, but the core will still be the high-quality aircraft carriers that we have accumulated before the war and the armored aircraft carriers that have been replenished during the war. I tried to create a benign system of growth of fleet power. And the price of setting up such a system is what you call a window period, but I think it is tolerable compared to the benefits that are about to be obtained. Xu Jie patiently explained to Yang Yonglin.

This plane China and the Entente are against the Allies who are close to their own strength, Germany's industrial production capacity is also huge, and it is no exaggeration to say that the Germans can also blow up aircraft carriers like the United States, if everyone is homogeneous to produce similar weapons, then the result can only be a tragic war of attrition, and if you want to have better weapons than the other side, then you must pay the price of time. The long construction period of aircraft carriers makes it necessary for builders to be cautious. Because it's not something that can be produced on an assembly line. Everyone realized that such an expensive battleship as a capital ship had to be carefully crafted, and such an act could only be done before the war. Once the war starts, countries will inevitably produce some warships with short cycles but easy to lose, and it is entirely possible that these warships will lose a lot in a naval battle, thus creating an unfavorable situation where the supply is less than the loss. Xu Jie's approach is to avoid this situation as much as possible, fully produce high-quality aircraft carriers before the war to maintain a relatively stable fleet base, and then produce high-quality aircraft carriers and mass-produced aircraft carriers at the same time in the battle to steadily improve the strength of the fleet. This is the only way to avoid the battle going into a vicious war of attrition!

For example, in history, after the completion of six armored aircraft carriers in the early 20,000-ton period, the British began to build the Eagle 2-class aircraft carrier, and the Malta-class aircraft carrier, which was not realized later, while the Americans produced Essex as the main force of the fleet, and slowly built the Midway-class aircraft carrier while making up for the number of fleets with Independence-class light aircraft carriers. Whenever they have the capacity to spare, the great powers will make some preparations for the end of the war. And the original intention of the newly built 40,000-ton aircraft carrier of the Germans in this plane is actually the same as Xu Jie, the only difference is that Huaxia's preparation time is longer, the technology is more advanced, and the power is stronger!

"But we can't just produce fleet aircraft carriers, transport fleet escort, anti-submarine and ground support need more carrier-based aircraft, sometimes it is not economical to use fleet aircraft carriers to perform these tasks, we can't always have a fleet aircraft carrier for every transport fleet, right? And we also need a large number of fighter aircraft carriers, and light aircraft carriers produced by the Americans are a good practice. They converted the aircraft carrier with the hull of a light cruiser, and then let them provide an umbrella for the fleet. Yang Yonglin said.

"Ah, I actually want to say, since the Americans have already provided these cheap escort aircraft carriers and light aircraft carriers, then why do we still build them? Either the Chinese fleet will not participate in the war, and once it does, we will have to be the dominant maritime power in the entire Indian Ocean theater, and these light aircraft carriers will be built by the Americans and the British. Of course, just in case, it's okay for us to have some, but definitely not now. As for medium-sized mass production aircraft carriers, we can also prepare now, and I think the mass production aircraft carrier plan we originally discussed should be mature. But don't produce it yet. All forces will do a good job of the future CV03 plan first. Xu Jie rarely rejected Yang Yonglin's suggestion. Now he just wants to hurry up and finish the construction of the 40,000-ton aircraft carrier. At least six, and if there's still time, then eight! If Huaxia can have 8 30,000-ton aircraft carriers and 6 aircraft carriers of more than 40,000 tons when it enters the war, then Huaxia will be enough to deal with any situation, and don't forget that the strength of this aircraft carrier force is stronger than the American aircraft carrier formation in the historical Battle of Leyte Gulf!

In fact, there are some things that Xu Jie has not said yet, that is, Xu Jie wishes that the Entente and the Allied countries would fight more miserably, and the worse the Allied navy fights, the more it can reflect the importance of China. Huaxia can use the United States and Britain to get more benefits. After all, now everyone is an ally, and it is difficult to say whether it is an ally after the end of the war, and historically, not long after the end of World War II, the West led by the United States and the Eastern European countries led by the Soviet Union started a cold war. From this perspective, at the time of World War I, China and Germany were still quasi-allies, and after World War I, China gradually moved closer to the Entente. After the end of the Second World War, it is difficult to say whether China will come together with Germany again, if China hopes that the colonial system of the British Empire will completely collapse, then China still hopes that Germany can have some strength, after all, a powerful Germany surrounded by Britain, France and Russia at the same time will not pose a threat to China, but can help China contain other forces in Europe.

Studying strategy is like playing chess, taking one step to see one step is a mediocre hand, taking one step to see three steps is a master, and the one who sees the end directly from the beginning is the real master. Before the end of World War II, Huaxia had already thought about what the future situation in the world should be. This cannot be blamed for Huaxia's premature intrigue with the Americans, because during this time, the United States has begun to dig into the corners of Huaxia, and the first shovel is aimed at Russia! Russia, which had just fought with the Germans in the Middle East with Huaxia!

The performance of the Russian ** regiment in this war can be described as wonderful, it is precisely because of their existence that they blocked the attack of 5 divisions of the Austro-Hungarian Legion and won time for the counterattack of China, the United States and Britain and other countries have to admit that if the Russians can get the same equipment and supplies as the United States and Britain, then, their performance is even stronger than that of the American and British troops, "Russian soldiers are the best grassroots soldiers in the world, they regard death as home, and their courage is beyond fault, and they have a spirit of sacrifice that British and American soldiers do not have." General Patton once said of the Russian soldiers. And officially because of this, the Russians have the value of being co-opted! Shortly after the end of the war, the Americans began to make contact with the Russian government! And now it has reached the stage of high-level contact!

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