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Although the current DC-3 is now priced at $150,000 per aircraft because it has only been in production for more than three years and has been in short supply, it is still worth the price considering its excellent performance and amazing longevity. What's more, Zhongfu International only bought 20 finished products and sent them back to China for official business and training, and the other 80 were all licensed production, and by the way, they bought the corresponding jishu and equipment, and the United States was also responsible for personnel training, in general, it was still very cost-effective, after all, such a project with high requirements for the industrial base, it is better to introduce it directly if it can be introduced

The Air Force's procurement volume is also not small, with a total cost of more than 80 million US dollars, but whether it is for the Army or the Air Force, this large purchase can only be said to be the icing on the cake

Since the occupation of Qingdao, Hu Weidong has been trying to develop China's warship manufacturing industry, but compared with the army and the current history of the aircraft, the navy ships have higher requirements for the industrial base and jishu accumulation, only relying on China's own exploration, it is estimated that until the end of World War II, there will be no decent results, so the introduction of jishu, equipment and even talents is indispensable. But before World War II, it was the time when the great powers attached the most importance to sea supremacy (and then it made no sense to talk about sea supremacy alone, as air supremacy became more critical). So it's very close to the related jishu.,How easy is it to introduce it?

It is important to know that the Soviet Union failed to achieve much in the introduction of shipbuilding Jishu in such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as the Great Depression in 1929 (Note 1), not to mention that the great powers have further strengthened the export control of Jishu equipment, and it is precisely because of this that Hu Weidong had to introduce some small ships from the Soviet Union, which was obviously behind the Western powers, and this is not only because of the development idea of the Chinese Navy in the future. It was also due to the fact that at that time, apart from the Soviet Union, there was no other country willing to sell the shipbuilding Jishu to China

Originally, Hu Weidong's plan was to use this opportunity to import various ships and corresponding equipment and talents from Germany after starting comprehensive cooperation with Germany, but he did not expect that Zhongfu International would be able to use the relationship of the DuPont consortium to open up the door of major arms dealers in the United States. Hu Weidong naturally knew that during World War II, only submarines were slightly better than those of the United States, and the others were much worse than those of the United States (Note 2), so it was undoubtedly an unexpected surprise that he was able to buy warships and even a full set of shipbuilders from the United States

But Roosevelt through the proud words of Szeto Meitang. We have long been aware of the Red Party's successive military victories and outstanding achievements in economic construction over the past two years, and we have realized in advance the inevitability of China's reddening and the enormous potential for development after it, even without considering ideological differences. He also did not want to cultivate a rival or even a future enemy of the United States, and the lessons of the rise of the Soviet Union were enough for him to reflect. Therefore, the U.S. government has strict restrictions on the types of ships sold and the types of equipment transferred, especially those large ships that can fight in the ocean. Even the equipment of the light cruiser Jishu, which they agreed to transfer at the beginning, was ultimately rejected because the tonnage of the light cruisers in service in the United States generally approached or even exceeded the international standard for heavy cruisers

Fortunately, the U.S. Department of the Navy is now worried about the drastic reduction in the construction of ships in three years, but the procurement of the Chinese Red Party has made them see an opportunity. After some contacts, the U.S. Navy managed to persuade Congress to agree to sell two Omaha-class light cruisers to China for many years of service in the U.S. Navy, at a unit price of up to $15 million, more than double the cost. Not to mention that these two warships have been used for more than ten years, and if you count the depreciation, I am afraid that it is not even worth 5 million US dollars, but because China cannot find other buyers for the time being, the US side is extremely strong in the negotiations, even if Mao Zemin personally went out to bargain, he only barely cut the unit price to 12 million US dollars, but the service attitude is good, considering that even if China buys these warships, it will not be able to break through the interception of the Japanese combined fleet and return home safely, they agreed to deliver them to the door, and said that if the Chinese side needs it, They could modernize these two old light cruisers, of course, the conversion fee still had to be charged

After receiving Mao Zemin's telegram from the other side of the ocean, Hu Weidong almost called back on the spot and asked him to give up the purchase, but after thinking about it, he decided to be the culprit. As a lover of "giant ships and cannons", Hu Weidong is very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the main ship types of various countries during World War II, especially the four countries of the United States, Britain, Japan and Germany, among which the internal structure design of German warships is the most perfect, while the external layout of American warships is the most reasonable, whether it is weapons or armor. Therefore, even if he can't get the construction of large American warships, as long as he can bring the warships back for research and analysis, he can also learn this advantage, and he also has a wishful thinking, that is, to introduce the construction of large warships from Germany, and then integrate the advantages of the layout of American warships, then he can take the strengths of the warships of the two countries. Of course, Hu Weidong also knew that this would not be easy, so he deliberately put forward some requests for modifications, and then sent some Jishu backbones carefully selected by the Qingdao shipyard to the United States, called supervision, but in fact, they were secretly learning, and they were to observe and study the Americans' ideas for arranging weapons, armor, and other equipment on the ship

Note 1: However, this is also because the Soviet Union chose to modernize its army and aviation forces first in the face of limited financial resources, and it was not until the unprecedented success of Jihua in two and a half years that the Soviet Union became the second largest industrial country in Shijie, and then accelerated the pace of modernization of the Red Navy, but at this time the Western powers had begun to recover from the Great Depression and would no longer sell everything as before

Note 2: Some people may disagree with the backwardness of the design of German warships in World War II, but even the most hardcore German fans cannot deny that the performance of German surface ships in World War II was not comparable to that of American warships of the same grade, and the construction speed of German warships was not as fast as that of the United States, and the cost was actually not advantageous (you must know that the labor cost of the United States was much higher than that of Germany at that time). )