Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1837 Sports Cars and Tanks

Southern Africa is now also a great power, although sometimes Southern Africa does not have this awareness.

There is no way to do this. Too fast development is not good. The thinking cannot keep up with the speed of development. It will take some time to digest the fact that southern Africa has become a great power.

So Southern Africa sometimes compromises, and sometimes is extremely tough.

But at least in terms of doing business, southern Africans are still very talented, so Sidney Milner's work is a bit busy now.

Just a few days ago, Sidney Milner was appointed by Rock as the newly established Minister of Commerce, so now Sidney Milner is very motivated.

The establishment of the Ministry of Commerce is also a last resort. Southern Africa used to have the big market of the Commonwealth. To be honest, business is not very important. As long as the products produced in Southern Africa, there is no need to worry about sales.

Now that the Commonwealth market is gone, the importance of commerce has skyrocketed, so it is necessary to set up a department dedicated to commerce.

"Why can't you just buy the carrier-based aircraft directly? Your carrier-based aircraft must be sold together with the aircraft carrier, and the price is so expensive, it's completely blackmail!" Paul Reynolds was very angry, and the conditions offered by Southern Africa were extremely harsh. Paul Reynolds is really unacceptable.

To be honest, aircraft carriers in this period really didn't have much technical content.

Regardless of the dark French, in fact, France's technology is still good. After all, it is one of the old powers. It can build 2-ton battleships and more than [-] aircraft carriers.

The power system needed by an aircraft carrier can be built by the French.

The marine steel plates needed for aircraft carriers can also be made by the French.

Deck steel needed for aircraft carrier——

Now the aircraft carrier does not need deck steel, the deck is a wooden floor.

Therefore, the only bottleneck restricting France's construction of aircraft carriers lies in the carrier-based aircraft.

It is not the same as the main gun of a battleship. In addition to the main gun, the battleship also has secondary guns, and the carrier-based aircraft is the only offensive weapon of the aircraft carrier.

If there is time, France can slowly study carrier-based aircraft, and it is not impossible to even modify the current aircraft to make use of it on an aircraft carrier.

This reflects the disgusting aspect of the arms race.

The Italians also want to buy carrier-based aircraft in southern Africa.

So whether the French are willing or not, the advanced carrier-based aircraft in southern Africa is the only choice for the French.

Unless the Italians don't buy either.

Otherwise, the French navy is waiting to be ridiculed by the Italian navy.

Ridicule is still a trivial matter, and if war breaks out, it will be more than just ridicule.

"Mr. Renault, this is the value of technology." Sidney Milner is not angry, it is completely a seller's market now, and you French people don't have to buy it if you are unhappy.

Although Paul Renault's surname is Renault, he is not the Renault of the Renault company. This guy has a rich resume. He worked as a lawyer in his early years, and served as a member of parliament for a long time.

Although Paul Reynolds has rich experience in governance, he is not so good in business.

This can't be blamed on Paul Reynolds. It's really a loss for the southern Africans. Paul Reynolds came to southern Africa earlier than the Italians. He only wanted to buy carrier-based aircraft.

Then Southern Africa sent a message to the Italians through a special channel——

And then formed the current stalemate.

"Then we will only buy related technologies for aero engines." Paul Renault wanted to save money for the French government as much as possible.

"No!" Sidney Milner refused simply.

"You can sell aero engines to the Germans, why can't you sell them to your allies?" Paul Reynolds was furious, and he didn't bully people like this.

"If you also want to buy the German engine, you can also—" Sidney Milner's words made Paul Renault both helpless and angry.

France is still an ally in southern Africa. Southern Africa must be different. Needless to say, the technology sold to the Germans is already backward in southern Africa. This technology is meaningless to France.

France is not restricted by the "Contract of Versailles", and can research any technology at will.

Of course, don't have too much hope for France's scientific research capabilities. France is like a sloth now. You push it and it moves. If you don't push it, it will never move.

Taking the latest French project of the Richelieu-class battleship as an example, the French finally took into account the needs of air defense when designing, so the Richelieu-class battleship finally has air defense weapons.

It's a pity that the French, who are good at being lazy, have committed an old problem again. The anti-aircraft weapons prepared by the designers for the Richelieu-class battleship are 152mm high-level dual-purpose guns and 37mm 48-fold double-mounted automatic guns.

It looks good, but there are actually big problems. As the secondary gun of a battleship, the 152mm gun is successful, but as an anti-aircraft weapon, it is probably only the French.

As for the 37mm dual automatic gun, this has not been successfully developed yet, and in another time and space until the Richelieu-class battleship was built, the 37mm dual automatic gun was not successfully developed, and the final installation was a 37mm 50-diameter anti-aircraft gun .

Although the 37mm 50-caliber anti-aircraft gun has good performance, its ammunition supply is semi-automatic and requires manual reloading, and there is no unified fire control. The cyclic rate of fire is only 30 to 42 rounds per minute. This rate of fire is also very impressive.

By the way, considering the improvement of the performance of the aircraft, the Southern African Navy is upgrading the air defense system of the warship. In addition to changing the caliber of the anti-aircraft machine gun from 12.7mm to 20mm, the medium-range anti-aircraft weapon has also been replaced. Quadruple 40mm naval version of the bang bang gun.

Sidney Milner actually wanted to sell the 40mm naval version of the bang bang to the French.

But the proud French feel that the performance of the aircraft is not as good as that of southern Africa and needs to be imported. How much technical content can a weapon like a 50-year-old gun have?
So the French didn't buy it.

So the problem in France is very complicated, just like Duan Yu's Six Meridians Excalibur, which is sometimes ineffective.

The key is not to listen to persuasion, which should be worrying.

Sidney Milner is very worried. In fact, Southern Africa did not intend to disgust the French. This is the national interest. If you don’t make money, you will be punished by God. Now France has something to ask for in Southern Africa. If you switch to southern Africa and ask for France, the French may be more excessive than the southern Africans.

No, not maybe, but definitely.

Thinking of this, Sidney Milner immediately felt at ease.

"Even if the French Navy doesn't buy carrier-based aircraft from southern Africa, it still has the ability to protect the safety of France." Paul Renault has repeated these words for countless times. In fact, they are all routines, bargaining.

Sidney Milner kept smiling. If the French Navy was really capable, Paul Renault would not have appeared in Sidney Milner's office.

Sidney Milner is also very busy with work. He just finished meeting Paul Reynolds in the morning and will meet Itano Balbo in the afternoon.

Itano Balbo is also a legend. He participated in the First World War and was appointed Minister of Aviation of Italy by the fat bald head last year.

Itano Balbo knew nothing about flying when he got this appointment. However, Itano Balbo showed a special talent for flying. He quickly learned to fly and built the Italian Air Force into a Quite a fighting force.

But this guy likes to show off a bit. This time he flew the plane to southern Africa himself, and brought a squadron with him.

In another time and space in 1940, when Itano Balbo returned from a tour, over the northeastern port of Tobruk, Itano Balbo’s plane was shot down by an anti-aircraft gun from an Italian warship, and Itano Balbo was on the spot killed.

Compared with Paul Renault, Itano Balbo is obviously more proficient in aircraft. In terms of aviation, Italy's strength is still good. After all, as early as during the Italian-Turkish War, Italy had purchased fighter jets from southern Africa, so Italy It can be regarded as an old customer in southern Africa.

Italy itself has the ability to manufacture aircraft, and the performance of the aircraft is not bad, of course, there is still a gap compared with southern Africa.

"Your Excellency, I think we can sign the contract today. Two aircraft carriers, one to be built in southern Africa and the other to be built in Italy. At the same time, southern Africa will transfer the relevant technology of the second-generation Mercury aeroengine to Italy, and Authorize Italy to produce locally.” Itano Balbo’s confidence lies in the fact that Italy has dissolved the parliament, so the budget does not need congressional approval, as long as the fat and bald head approves it.

There is one thing to say, as long as the budget is sufficient, arms purchase contracts are actually easy to negotiate.

After all, everyone knows that there are rebates in military purchase contracts, and the rebate ratio is still very high. The higher the price, the more rebates. Who has anything to do with money?

So now I understand why the price of the Rafale purchased by India has reached 2.5 million US dollars. The F35 is only 1.5 million, and the price of less than 2.5 million can be reduced to [-] million. The French are really awesome.

Look, this is what France looks like when it sells weapons, so the French must not be cheap.

"Okay, but I have a question. How did your savior, the Forward, achieve the world's fastest record?" Sidney Milner was curious. If Alitalia was really so good, it wouldn't run to the south. Africa has come to purchase aero engines.

And it is the second-generation engine that has been eliminated in southern Africa.

This second-generation Mercury aeroengine is roughly equivalent to the technology of southern Africa during World War I.

The fourth-generation Mercury aeroengine now used by the Southern African Air Force.

"If you remove all the extra things on the plane, then the southern African plane can fly faster." Itano Balbo did not hide it. The Savior-Forward is indeed good, but it has no pride in front of southern Africa. Qualifications.

Sidney Milner suddenly realized.

Probably the difference between a sports car and a tank.

(End of this chapter)