Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1795 IT
The performance of the "Durban" class light cruisers can be called "balanced" in a sense.

However, the "equilibrium" here does not mean mediocrity, but that the capabilities in all aspects have reached a considerable height, and it is a master of the advanced technology of the navy.

Good air defense and ground-to-sea attack capability, excellent high-speed maneuverability, unrivaled air-to-sea search capability, a certain degree of anti-submarine capability, 8000-kilometer endurance, and "Durban" A class light cruiser only needs one supply at most, and can easily reach any overseas naval base in southern Africa.

In Rock's plan, Southern Africa will need to build at least 100 "Durban"-class light cruisers in the future to meet the needs of Southern Africa.

In such a comparison, the capital ship that Stoudemire has been thinking about is insignificant.

"3000 tons, it's a bit small—" Stoudemire is also a fan of the "giant ship cannon doctrine". Compared with capital ships that can easily cost [-] to [-] tons, a [-]-ton light cruiser is just a toy——

And you can't let go of it.

The "London Naval Treaty" also made provisions for cruisers. Southern Africa only had a quota of [-] tons, and the full number of ships was [-].

The "Durban" class light cruiser has a full-load displacement of 3100 tons, a standard displacement of 2500 tons, and 3000 tons is also reasonable. No one cares about these details.

The caliber of the main gun of "Nagato" is four millimeters larger than advertised, and no one has actually seen it with a ruler to measure it.

"3000 tons is not small. Don't think of it as a cruiser, but as a destroyer, you will find that it is not small at all." Like the capital ship, Rock is actually not optimistic about the prospects of the cruiser.

A cruiser is a large surface ship with strong firepower and multiple uses, mainly operating in the ocean.

This requires cruisers to be equipped with strong offensive and defensive weapons, have high speed and seaworthiness, and be able to conduct long-term ocean operations under harsh weather conditions.

A destroyer is a multi-purpose warship, which can not only serve as an offensive assault mission in the naval fleet formation, but also undertake the air defense and anti-submarine escort missions of the combat formation, and can also serve as a support force in landing and anti-landing operations, as patrol, Security, reconnaissance, maritime blockade and maritime rescue tasks.

After World War II, cruisers and capital ships gradually declined together, and destroyers became the most common type of ships in the fleets of various countries.

The "Durban" light cruiser is essentially an enlarged version of the destroyer, only 3000 tons, and the future destroyer will already be tens of thousands of tons.

"If you have a lot of money and really have no place to spend it, donate it to build a supply ship. If you are willing to pay, I will replenish the 'Table Mountain' class supply ship for the Mediterranean Squadron—" Rock compromised and said Joke: Supply Ships in Southern Africa—

This joke is a bit cold. If you don't understand the cold humor of the British, you can't appreciate the essence of this joke.

At the London Naval Conference, everyone knew that the 25000-ton comprehensive supply ship in Southern Africa could be turned into an aircraft carrier with a little modification.

So a strange thing happened. None of them, including Ramsey McDonald, held fast to the comprehensive supply ship in southern Africa to talk about it, and they didn't even restrict the auxiliary ships.

After the London Naval Conference, all countries began to pay more attention to the comprehensive supply ship. It was at this time that the countries found helplessly that the comprehensive supply ship was also valuable to southern Africa.

There is no way around this. All kinds of stupid capital ships are too expensive for Rock, as are Britain, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy. The daily maintenance cost of a battleship for one year is almost enough to rebuild a new one. .

If there is no capital ship in southern Africa, more funds can be spent on other types of ships.

Britain, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy all have at least nine capital ships. They really can't afford more money to build new warships. At the "Washington Naval Conference", Britain, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy all got certain quotas The tonnage of the aircraft carrier, so far, the United States has only built three aircraft carriers, the United Kingdom two, Japan two, France and Italy have not built a single, so there is no need to curve to save the country, if there is demand and ability, directly build aircraft carriers That’s it, why build an integrated supply ship——

So the navies of various countries can only watch the comprehensive supply ships in southern Africa drooling.

Sour will definitely be sour, but it is not enough to be afraid.

Take a look at the comprehensive supply ship in southern Africa, and then take a look at your own stupid big black——

To be honest, it's still more fragrant to be stupid and thick.

"Three ships?" Stoudemire didn't care about the ridicule in Rock's words at this time, what does it mean to spend too much money, your old Locke's family is richer than me.

"One!" Rock resolutely refused. The total number of warships in the Mediterranean Squadron is only a dozen. Do we need three 25000-ton comprehensive supply ships?
That was too much.

"Heh——" Xiao Si sneered, who is the one who is knocked down.

Since the goal could not be achieved, Stoudemire changed the angle.

The donation of aircraft carrier is not displayed, but what about the donation of aircraft?
this is okay!

Then donate the plane.

Stoudemire still has more trust in the strength of the air force in southern Africa, especially the latest "Hall" fighter.

Stoudemire still understands the significance of air supremacy to modern warfare, so Stoudemire decided to donate two wings of "Hall" fighters, one wing of torpedo planes, and one wing of bombers.

Airplanes are cheap compared to aircraft carriers.

There are not many planes in a wing, only a few dozen, and the logistics support is less than 200 million, and the four wings add up to less than 1000 million, which is not even a small goal.

Seeing Stoudemire throwing a lot of money, Rock was rather depressed.

Stoudemire's willingness to donate money to buy a plane is a good thing, but it also involves a balance issue.

Stoudemire's donation is a targeted donation, designated for Cyprus.

Here comes the problem. The air force of Cyprus is already strong. With the addition of four wings, the air force of Cyprus is second to none in the entire Mediterranean.

Regarding this situation, let’s not talk about the reactions of France and Italy, and deploy more air forces to Cyprus. Does Port Elizabeth need to add something?

What about Changi Naval Base?
What about Halifax?

Not to mention Zheng He Island, which is located in the center of the Indian Ocean and has increasingly important strategic value——

Oh oh oh, the Royal Navy still calls Zheng He Island Diego Garcia.

Sure enough, imperialism never dies.

So this is a test of Rock's ability to handle water.

Just when Rock was having a headache on how to allocate troops, Jia Quan, the logistics supervisor at the Nikola Tesla Research Institute at the end of Silver Beach Road in Los Angeles, was heartbroken.

Just now, another experiment by Nikola Tesla failed.

It is hopeless to say that Robert Goddard's experiment failed, at most he lost a pile of iron shells, plus a little fuel, and a month or two of a hundred or ten staff members.

Every failure of Nikola Tesla's experiment means the loss of a large long-range four-engine bomber, and every failure will drop one, and no one will be spared.

It doesn’t matter if the plane crashes. Nyasaran Airlines and Rhodesia Airlines have money and can afford it, but there are still pilots on the plane. Since the project of the remote intelligent unmanned bomber that can take off and land vertically on the aircraft carrier has been approved , Nearly ten bombers have fallen back and forth, one bomber pilot was seriously injured, six bomber pilots were slightly injured, and Nikola Tesla is now being roasted on the fire.

If this project fails in the end, let alone how much it costs, how can it be worthy of these pilots who were injured in the experiment?
"We have verified a brand new electric drive system this time. It is hard to say whether this technology can be applied to IT, at least it can be applied to ghost submarines. Elizabeth Shipyard should be interested in this technology." Shen Simiao has now been promoted to Jia Quan's assistant, he estimated that he had given up hope for this research project for a long time, and instead focused on the various derivative technologies produced by the project.

"IT" is the abbreviation of the project "Long-range intelligent unmanned bomber that can take off and land vertically on an aircraft carrier". From this translation, we can see Nikola Tesla's own attitude towards this project.

If described in this way, many people may think that this is Nikola Tesla's disrespect for the people involved in the project, especially for those injured pilots.

But let's not talk about Nikola Tesla's technology. When he was in the United States, Nikola Tesla dared to use investors' money for his own research interests, which is the so-called fool investment. People, think that even investors dare to fool, what else does Nikola Tesla dare not?

As for the Elizabeth Shipyard, that is where the factory where the ghost submarine is built is located.

In southern Africa, Elizabeth City is not well-known, and few people even realize that before the rise of Port Edward and Walvis Bay, Port Elizabeth used to be the third largest port in Southern Africa, second only to Cape Town and Durban.

now-

Even Lorenzo Marquez's sense of presence is stronger than Elizabeth's. In other words, Lorenzo Marquez hasn't appeared in many chapters——

"What I want to hear is not this, the three Qings are above, when will this kind of life be the end--" Jia Quan lamented, crashing a bomber in two months, this is Nikola Tesla, try another person Try, Rock is afraid not to give him the skin.

Shen Simiao covered her mouth and coughed, pretending not to hear.

"The resonant transformer we installed to protect the pilot can now prove to be able to fully protect the pilot—there is also a caged pilot cockpit, these technologies can be applied to other aircraft—" Shen Simiao also had mixed feelings, Although the cost of IT projects is high, there are indeed many derivative technologies.

The resonant transformer is a high-voltage high-frequency coil. In view of the increasing number of electronic devices on the aircraft, it is necessary to consider the electromagnetic damage caused by these electronic devices to the pilot.

Speaking of electromagnetism, this is the domain of Nikola Tesla's gods, so there are high-frequency coils.

As for the cage cockpit, the purpose is also for the protection of the pilot.

(End of this chapter)