Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2181 Southern Africa 1940
1940 was a difficult year for the British.

This year, Britain lost its most stable ally.

London was bombed for three months.

Britain's economy is on the verge of collapse. The wartime rationing system has been in place since June. Delicious but expensive food is gradually disappearing from the British table and replaced by less delicious, cheap but filling food. .

Winston racked his brains to maintain the situation, but on an old ship that was going through a storm and had a big hole in the bottom, what Winston could do was extremely limited.

1940 was a good year for Southern Africa.

It may be disrespectful to Europe to say that, but it is what it is.

Huge orders from Europe have flown to Southern African companies.

In order to complete these orders, almost all factories in southern Africa, such as arsenals, shipyards, food processing factories, clothing factories, steel factories, textile factories, etc., have been fully powered.

Business owners are suffering and being happy, their wealth is growing rapidly, and the biggest factor affecting the increase in wealth is the shortage of labor force.

By the end of 1940, the population of southern Africa had reached 1.5 million, and the age structure was still in a very healthy pyramid shape. Nearly [-] million babies were born every year. Southern Africa still had to absorb labor to solve the problem of labor shortage.

Rock is actually not too concerned about the progress of the European War, and his main energy is still on the transformation of southern Africa.

It is not a transformation either, it should be described as industrial upgrading more appropriately.

In the 20 years between the two world wars, southern Africa has undergone several industrial upgrades. The most recent one was during the Great Depression. Southern Africa took the opportunity to relocate backward industries to alliance countries or remote areas. Only high-tech, Only companies with high profits and little impact on the environment are eligible to stay in Southern Africa.

At the beginning of the founding of southern Africa, private enterprises played a huge role in promoting the development of southern Africa. A large number of enterprises took the opportunity to grow into giants with absolute influence in their respective industries, such as Nyasaland Company, Rhodesia Company, And Fawalt Steel Group is one of the representatives.

Roark began to make adjustments to some important industries long ago.

For example, in the transportation industry dominated by railways, highways, shipping, and aviation, Rock has been working hard to increase the federal government's shareholding in these industries. By 1940, the southern African federal government had completed the holding of some key companies. The influence of the federal government on the transportation industry is growing.

For some key industries with huge profits, the federal government is also increasing its control, such as the military industry.

The military enterprises in southern Africa were completely monopolized by Nyasaland Military Industry and Nyasaland Heavy Industry before this, which is a huge hidden danger.

After the outbreak of the European War, Roque established the Southern African Military Industry Group to integrate Nyasaland Military Industry and Nyasaland Heavy Industry. At the same time, the federal government owns 40.00% of the shares. The combined Nyasaland Military Industry and Nyasaland Heavy Industry 60.00%.

Britain's military procurement in southern Africa is mainly done through the southern African military-industrial complex.

Since the outbreak of the European War, the total amount of military materials purchased by the United Kingdom from southern Africa has reached nearly 25 billion rand.

The gross national product of Southern Africa in 1939 was only 1010 billion.

It is expected to reach 1940 billion in 1350.

"The number of our fighters has reached 1500 per month, an increase of 2000% compared with a year ago, but this is not enough. The UK alone needs [-] fighters per month, and we also need new fighters to supplement. , Nyasaland Airlines has put into use all the factories that were closed after the last world war. Now the main problem is the lack of skilled workers. We have even started to recruit female workers. All factories are short of people—” Anton asked Rock The purpose of complaining is to hope that the federal government can open the border and allow the import of labor from the countries of the Southern African Union.

During the Great Depression, Southern Africa repatriated a large number of migrant workers in order to ensure jobs for its own people, which once caused dissatisfaction among the alliance countries.

Of course, it's just dissatisfaction. Southern Africa is too powerful, and Roque's prestige is too high. No matter how dissatisfied the alliance countries are, they dare not show it.

Now that the number of orders in southern Africa has increased significantly, workers are too busy working in three shifts, and the factory is brightly lit day and night. Nyasaland is the most industrially developed state in southern Africa. Anton hopes that Rock can make a decision as soon as possible.

"It's enough to maintain the production of aircraft at the current level to meet London's demand as much as possible. We don't actually need too many aircraft." Rock is very cautious about production capacity. The key is that the opponent is too weak, and southern Africa does not need to go all out.

Compared with Europe, Rock pays more attention to East Asia.

Southern Africa's main rival in East Asia is Japan.

What I want to emphasize here is that Southern Africa did not deploy the most advanced fighter jets to the Changi Naval Base. The fighter jets used by the Changi Squadron for cruising were even an improved version of the "Strong Wind" used during the Brazilian Civil War. confuse the Japanese.

At the moment in 1940, the Japanese Zero fighter has been successfully developed and has begun to be deployed in batches.

The Type Zero fighter is Japan's industrial miracle. As a country that was copying British fighter jets not long ago, the Japanese's industrial capabilities are actually quite scary if they can develop the Type Zero fighter.

Purely from a performance point of view, the performance of the Zero fighter and the "Cerberus" equipped by the US Pacific Fleet are actually not much more advanced. The American pilots did not understand the performance of the Zero, so they achieved the Zero in the early days of the Pacific War. myth.

Southern African pilots are not afraid of Type Zero. As long as the tactics are appropriate, even if they use "strong wind" to fight Zero Type, the pilots of the Southern African Navy are completely worthwhile.

Type Zero is characterized by its small turning radius, fast speed, and long range——

Wait, cross out the point of fast speed, the fastest speed of the zero type is not even as good as "strong wind".

It is true that the voyage is long. If the Zero Type is equipped with an auxiliary fuel tank, the voyage can reach 3300 kilometers.

In order to obtain such a voyage, the zero-type designer made a lot of sacrifices in structure, and almost removed everything that should or should not be removed. In order to reduce the weight of the zero-type, the designer did not even install a self-sealing fuel tank and Any automatic fire extinguishing device, the pilot does not have armor protection, and a bullet on the surface of the fuselage may cause the aircraft to catch fire.

This is the origin of "Turkey Fighting in the Air".

At the same time, the zero-type weapon system also has big problems.

As I said many times before, Japan's military industry capabilities are actually just like that, and it can be used to bully countries with almost no military industry at all. It is incomparable with countries like southern Africa that have almost all kinds of industrial systems.

The Type Zero's weapon system includes two 20mm cannons and two 7.7mm machine guns.

It looks fine.

The problem is that the 20mm machine gun has only 60 rounds of ammunition, and the 7.7mm machine gun has 300 rounds of ammunition. However, the power of the 7.7mm machine gun is completely tickling compared to the fighters and bombers with solid armor in southern Africa. Can't even penetrate armor.

The power of the 20mm machine gun is not enough, not even the 12.7mm machine guns equipped with fighter jets in southern Africa in the early days. The initial velocity of the muzzle is not high, and the ballistic trajectory is curved.

In addition, there are serious flaws in the wing structure of the Zero Type, and the dive speed is limited. If the speed is too fast, the aircraft will easily disintegrate, so if it is bitten by the Zero Type, the "strong wind" can completely get rid of it through a high-speed dive. The Zero Type pilot estimates They dare not follow.

When facing Type Zero, the "strong wind" will not lose the wind, so naturally there is no need for a more advanced "Goshawk".

"My lord, London has already won the British air battle, and the demand for fighter planes will gradually decrease. In the future, London may not need too many fighter planes." Anton vaguely reminded that he must make money while he can still make money. If you miss this village, you will lose money. This store is gone.

This is also thanks to the Southern African Air Force and the Naval Aviation for their outstanding performance.

Now the United Kingdom and Germany are almost in the bombardment mode.

Germany still sends bombers to bomb London every night, and the British Air Force and the Southern African Air Force will also send bombers to bomb military targets across the English Channel indiscriminately, depending on who can't hold on first.

The good news is that Germany has completely lost the possibility of launching "Operation Sea Lion" due to the great loss of ports and ships, and the safety of the British mainland is temporarily guaranteed.

And only temporarily.

Germany has expanded too fast this year, annexing too many countries, and it takes time to digest.

Mustache is integrating the power possessed by Germany. Once this process is completed, Mustache will launch a new offensive.

Either Britain or Russia.

As mentioned earlier, Russia's territorial claims to Romania have threatened Germany's oil supply, and Germany must solve this problem.

The key point is that Russia's performance in attacking Finland was so poor that Mustache discovered the possibility of defeating Russia. With Mustache's ambition, he would definitely not miss this opportunity to conquer Russia.

As long as Russia is conquered, the mustache will accomplish what Napoleon failed to accomplish.

"Anton, making money is very important, but it's not everything. We can't focus on making money now." Rock's mind was no longer on making money. He hoped that after the end of the world war, southern Africa could become the only superhero in the world. big country.

To become a superpower, it is not enough just to have money, but also to win the hearts of the people in the old continent.

For example, the United Kingdom.

The Americans proposed to the United Kingdom that part of the British gold should be shipped to the United States as a guarantee. Even if the British did not say this request, they would definitely hold a grudge.

Now, in order to survive the current predicament, the British will look for opportunities to retaliate in the future even if they accept the demands of the Americans.

If Southern Africa can do better, then the relationship between Southern Africa and the United Kingdom will be reversed.

This is what Roque values ​​most.

(End of this chapter)