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Volume 2: Managing the Beiyang Chapter 708: European Combined Fleet

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    During Rudolf's visit to China, the test of the German SS-7 intercontinental ballistic missile project failed. As a result, Rudolf became very passive in arguing with the Chinese Empire on the issue of arms expansion at the negotiation table, and ultimately returned without any results.

    The explosion at the missile test site killed more than a dozen key German scientists. The angry Hitler immediately canceled the SS-7 intercontinental ballistic missile project.  However, the armaments expansion of the Chinese Empire gave the German Federation a huge sense of strategic pressure. Hitler canceled the SS-7 long-range intercontinental ballistic missile project and had to replace it with other projects.

    Hitler, who was so ambitious, finally lowered his demands, and the German Strategic Arms Management Committee put the SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile project on the agenda.

    As early as the middle of World War II, Germany began to use medium-range missiles to carry out strategic bombing against Britain, and achieved certain results.  Delian has many experts in this field, so the SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile project began.

    From the first half of 1947 to the second half of 1948, Delian successfully conducted tests of the SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile.  The agents of the Chinese Empire also failed to successfully carry out sabotage and could only use other means to steal relevant data about the SS-4 ballistic missile.

    According to data obtained by the Chinese Imperial Military, the Delian SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile has a total length of 21 meters, a diameter of 1.1 to 1.7 meters, a maximum range of 1980 kilometers, a maximum take-off weight of 22.5 tons, and an inertial guidance method with a warhead weight of 700  Kilogram, the explosion yield is estimated at 150,000 tons, with an error of 5 kilometers. Its fueling time is about 5 minutes, and it is launched from a ground position or silo.

    An intercontinental ballistic missile of this level cannot be compared with the Mistral series of intercontinental ballistic missiles of the Chinese Empire.  However, the Western and Northern Xinjiang of the Chinese Empire still have vast territories bordering the German-Tsarist Russia region. It cannot be ruled out that enemies will deploy SS-4 missiles to the Sino-German border areas during wartime, which will also pose a great threat to the Chinese Empire.

    At the same time, the missiles of the Chinese Empire are all long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the cost is obviously much higher than the medium-range ballistic missiles of Delian.  Once the two sides fight, the Chinese Empire will take advantage of long-range strikes.  But the short and medium distances are at a disadvantage.

    In addition, in the forward positions used by the Chinese Empire to contain the Delian and NATO countries, the United Kingdom, Armenia, Turkey and other countries are very worried about the German SS-4 ballistic missiles, and have asked the Chinese Empire to deploy the Mistral series ballistic missiles in their areas.  The country gives them a sense of security.

    But the Chinese Imperial Military believes that it is unwise to deploy long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles on the front line. To deal with the German Federation, it only needs to deploy short- and medium-range ballistic missiles in front-line countries.

    To this end, the Chinese Imperial Military developed the Guardian-1 medium-range ballistic missile based on the German SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile.

    The Chinese Empire is at least twenty years ahead of the German Federation in missile weapons technology.  Therefore, although the Chinese Empire developed medium-range ballistic missile technology later than the German Federation, it officially deployed medium-range ballistic missiles almost at the same time as the German Federation.  Therefore, we are not lagging behind at all strategically.

    The Guardian 1 medium-range ballistic missile is based on the v2 missile barrel design developed by the Chinese Empire before World War II. It only has updated rocket engines and inertial navigation equipment to make it faster and more stable in flight.  It has higher strike accuracy and has become the star of the medium-range ballistic missile family.

    The Guardian 1 is the first-generation medium-range ballistic missile of the Chinese Empire that uses a first-stage liquid fuel single warhead.  Developed by the Royal Aircraft Company, the live-fire test flight was successful in June of the 48th year of Guanghua. In September of the same year, it began to be equipped with the Imperial Chinese Strategic Missile Force. In February of the following year, it was mass-produced and equipped for the Imperial Chinese Army at the Portsmouth base in the United Kingdom.

    In response to the information that Delian plans to deploy 50 to 95 SS-3 medium-range ballistic missiles, the Chinese Empire plans to deploy the first batch of 100 Guardian 1 medium-range ballistic missiles, with a total equipment cost of 900 million dragon coins and a unit price of 750,000 dragon coins.  100 missiles are organized into 5 missile squadrons, each squadron has 20 missiles.  Each one is placed in a silo.  It was not until April of the 63rd year of Guanghua that the Guardian 1 medium-range ballistic missile was retired and replaced by the more advanced Guardian-2 medium-range ballistic missile.

    The tactical and technical performance data of the Guardian-1 medium-range ballistic missile are generally stronger than those of the Delian SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile.  It has a total length of 19.8 meters, a diameter of 1.8~2.24 meters, a maximum range of 3,200 kilometers, and a maximum take-off weight of 49.9 tons.  The nuclear warhead model it carries is Guanghua 45-year type (W-45), which will be replaced by Guanghua 49-year type five years later.  The warhead weight reaches 1,800 kilograms, the nuclear bomb yield is 500,000 tons, the fuel refueling time is 9 minutes, the accuracy is within 3 kilometers, and it adopts ground vertical launch method or underground silo.

    Although the Chinese Empire has strong financial resources and the number of medium-range ballistic missiles deployed in the first batch is greater than that of the German Alliance, the Chinese Empire is on the offensive side and is strategically encircling the German Alliance and NATO.  100 Guardian 1 missiles are scattered in the United Kingdom, Armenia, Turkey and other countries, which does not put much pressure on Delaney.

    Originally, the Chinese Empire¡¯s military planned a large-scale deployment, but it was eventually stopped by the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao.  Because Wang Chenhao knows very well that it is difficult to fight a nuclear war.The purpose of weapons is simply to deter the enemy.  If you have it, you won¡¯t be able to use it; if you don¡¯t have it, you won¡¯t be able to use it.  Just maintain strategic pressure on Delian.  Just force the German Federation to engage in a corresponding arms race, because the real purpose of the Chinese Empire is to bring down the economic foundation of the German Federation.

    Although Germany faced financial difficulties in the early postwar period, Hitler still tried every means to increase military spending.

    In addition to confronting the Chinese Empire on nuclear missiles, Hitler's ambition to rebuild the German High Seas Fleet expanded again in the face of the Chinese Empire's huge naval expansion plan.

    In order to break the Chinese Empire¡¯s naval blockade of the entire German Federation, NATO countries have supported the German Federation¡¯s plan to rebuild the High Seas Fleet.

    According to the information obtained by the okw Intelligence Bureau, the Chinese Empire will have at least five nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and twenty nuclear submarines after 1950, plus the original 11 conventional aircraft carriers, 13 super battleships, 187 cruisers, and 1,045 destroyers.  As well as nearly 530 conventional submarines, the naval power of the Chinese Empire will be unprecedentedly strengthened.

    Facing the Chinese Imperial Navy alone is enough to frighten the entire NATO countries. If you include the naval forces of the Warsaw Pact organizations such as Britain, Turkey, Lanfang, and Singapore, it will be even greater.

    But Hitler still defied public opinion and forcibly passed the naval expansion bill in Congress, allocating 27 billion marks (3.5 billion dragon coins) to rebuild the High Seas Fleet.  However, it was already the era of the German Alliance throughout Europe, so the fleet was named the European United Fleet to win over the support of European countries.

    Thirty-five billion dragon coins cannot build a European combined fleet that can compete with the Imperial Chinese Navy. Hitler hopes to allocate more than one billion dragon coins every year in the future.  In the next ten years, it will be enough to catch up with the Imperial Chinese Navy, or reach 70% of the Chinese Imperial Navy's strength.

    But it is obvious that this plan is very difficult, at least with the current economic strength of the German League, it is impossible unless Europeans are hungry.

    The European Combined Fleet plan was soon released. According to Hitler's instructions, the German Union will build 2 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and 3 conventional-powered aircraft carriers, 40 cruisers, 260 destroyers and 140 submarines for the combined fleet in the next three years.  Among them, there are 40 nuclear submarines.

    Obviously, 3.5 billion dragon coins cannot build so many warships.  Even if the Delian people could complete it under the planned economy system, they would not be able to complete many battleships because they do not have enough technology.

    Take the aircraft carrier as an example.  Delian was only able to imitate the early aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire and the United Kingdom, but happened to encounter aircraft carrier-based aircraft that had abandoned the propeller fighter era and entered the jet fighter era. The network mother platform originally used for propeller aircraft could no longer serve jet carrier-based aircraft.  .  The key steam ejection technology was strictly controlled by the Chinese Empire and could not be obtained by Delian.  It takes time to study steam catapults, and it takes even more time to train jet fighters to move from land to aircraft carrier platforms.  The latter takes quite a long time, because it takes a lot of time to train naval aviation pilots.  However, Germany did not pay attention to aircraft carriers from the beginning, so it became its biggest shortcoming at this time.

    In the end, the German Navy temporarily gave up the construction of aircraft carriers and instead built cruisers, destroyers and submarines.  Focusing on offshore defense, land aircraft were used to fight against Warsaw Pact aircraft carriers on the sea.

    Although Hitler clamored for the establishment of a joint European fleet, the German Navy was very wise. Under the current situation, the German army would suffer a great loss in a water contest with the Chinese Empire. It would be more practical to develop the navy of a weak country with asymmetric combat power.  The so-called navy of a weak country actually means building submarines on a large scale.  However, conventionally powered submarines simply cannot remain submerged for a long time to avoid detection by the Chinese Imperial warships that are everywhere on the sea.  Therefore, the German Navy focuses on the development of nuclear submarines.

    The mission statement issued by the German Navy Ministers' Council for research and development requires that the Deutsche Bundesliga first-class nuclear submarine be designed as quickly as possible.  But in addition to the problem of the nuclear power plant, what is even more serious is that a T-15 torpedo with a length of 24 meters, a caliber of 1550 mm, and a range of 40-50 kilometers is placed on a nuclear submarine. At the same time, 533 must be installed for self-defense.  2 mm torpedo tubes.  This kind of torpedo is designed to install a nuclear warhead to achieve the purpose of "killing two birds with one stone" with "super strong attack power and super power".  Subsequently, experts responsible for developing submarines began to develop this plan and submitted a preliminary technical design in July 1949. Only then did the Navy department learn about the plan and its design.  At that time, this eye-popping plan was submitted to the Navy Department.  The naval department immediately stated that it believed that the T-15 torpedo, the main weapon of the submarine in this plan, could not achieve the intended attack capability.  Because at that time, submarines had to rely on physical targets on the shore to carry out attacks. To do this, submarines had to pass through the extremely tight anti-submarine belt set up by the Warsaw Pact without being detected by the enemy. Moreover, after launching nuclear bombs and torpedoes, they had to unknowingly  Leave happily.  This is almost impossible.  The design speed is 30 knots, which means the submarine may soon?If you leave the launched torpedo at full speed, you will still be endangered by the nuclear bomb explosion.  Therefore, the Navy concluded that the weapons equipment demonstration was insufficient.  At the same time, although the initial development of submarines went relatively smoothly, the development of nuclear bombs and torpedoes encountered many obstacles. In the end, the "nuclear torpedo submarine" plan was abandoned and replaced by the development of ordinary nuclear-powered attack submarines equipped with eight 533mm torpedoes.  The launch tube is used to attack enemy warships and transport ships in the ocean. It can launch torpedoes under 100 meters of water, but cannot attack enemy submarines.

    Although the nuclear torpedo submarine plan has been cancelled, the rough design of the submarine has been completed, but in fact the research on nuclear power devices is much more difficult than the design of submarines.  The revised new design tasks stipulate that the performance range of the nuclear submarine is as follows: a displacement of less than 3,000 tons, equipped with eight 533mm torpedoes, an underwater speed of at least 20 knots, and an endurance of 50 to 60 days.  The exterior streamlined design of the submarine was carried out by the Central Academy of Sciences in Berlin and the Central Institute of Aerodynamics in France, while the research on hull materials and welding technology was handed over to the Central Academy of Sciences in Germany.  The most arduous research on nuclear power devices is by the Institute of Physics and Energy of the French Academy of Sciences. They built a prototype of a nuclear power device for submarines in Toulon, France.  At the same time, a physical model of the submarine's reactor and turbine compartment was also manufactured. The generator, turbine and control system were placed in the model. Hydraulic brakes were used to collect the output power of the power unit and a series of tests were conducted.  The development of the entire submarine was not completed until March 1952, after which the crew began to conduct nuclear power plant control training.

    ??In the end, Delian completed the construction of the first nuclear submarine in 1954.  This Deutsche Alliance's first nuclear submarine was also named uf-1.  It has a surface displacement of 3,065 tons and an underwater displacement of 4,750 tons. It adopts a double-shell structure, 30% reserve buoyancy, eight 533 mm torpedo tubes, and a speed of 23.3 knots.

    Overall, the uf-1 submarine can basically provide an effective deterrent for the German Navy.  This is mainly because the Imperial Chinese Navy is not familiar with this type of nuclear submarine. If the Imperial Chinese Navy knows that Delian's nuclear submarine can only use 60% of the power output when sailing, it can guess that Delian's nuclear reactor technology is far from adequate.  .

    Of course, this matter was not made public until many years later when the German Federation was disbanded.  When Delian had just completed the launch of its nuclear submarine, the Chinese Empire was still very nervous and concerned.

    When the Deutsche Bundeslien completed its nuclear submarine trials, the Chinese Empire showed great concern, which made the Deutsche Bundeslien very proud. So Hitler did not hold the German Navy responsible for abandoning aircraft carriers to build nuclear submarines. Instead, he increased the allocation to increase the number of nuclear submarines.

    In order to scare the Chinese Empire and the Warsaw Pact countries, the German Federation claimed that the uf-1 nuclear submarine was capable of launching nuclear torpedoes and intercontinental ballistic missiles.  And suddenly it test-fired an SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile into the North Sea. It was revealed that it was launched from a nuclear submarine.  Since the radar station of the Chinese Empire in the North Sea only detected the situation of the terminal missile, it was not known when and where it was launched, and it was also unknown whether it was launched from a nuclear submarine. This made the Chinese Empire's high command very nervous for a time, and they quickly transferred the missiles that did not carry intercontinental missiles.  Ming-class strategic nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles were dispatched to the North Sea in advance to frighten the German alliance.

    Both China and Germany lied and deceived each other, so the two countries' first nuclear attack submarines never encountered each other, and both sides avoided letting the other side know the details.
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