Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 808 808 More Steel

 The whole world is summarizing this war, and many people’s opinions seem reasonable. Especially the countries on the Eastern Continent, their navies generally performed poorly in this war and failed to complete the expected tasks.

 Because the emergence of torpedoes was not expected, the navies of these countries did not dare to approach Long Island easily, and they were unable to exert their strength advantage.

 So everyone is thinking about how to make the navy they spent a lot of money to build play a role in future wars.

Just when everyone was thinking about how to strengthen their navy, an engineer from the Eastern Continent announced that he had invented a structure that could help ships effectively resist underwater explosions.

 The entire structure is very complex, but it has been proven to be very effective through experiments. This set of designs was quickly adopted by the navies of various countries and began to be used to transform their own battleships.

During the transformation of the battleship, on the one hand, the underwater armor was reinforced, and on the other hand, similar defense structures began to be used to increase the battleship's defense against torpedoes and mines.

Subsequently, countries around the world gathered together, roped in the Tang State, and signed the "Endless Sea Convention." One of the provisions of this convention is that the contracting parties cannot use mines to block ports.

 Later, after everyone's discussion, it was directly announced that the weapon of mines was abolished. Because it really affects navigation safety, it is not convenient to eliminate it after the war is over.

The Tang State also signed this treaty, because the Tang State's navy became increasingly disdainful of using weapons such as mines in combat.

 After experiencing the passivity in the last war, the Tang Navy, which had more secret weapons, actually did not need to rely on weapons such as mines for defense or blockade.

 Submarines are a big killer that others don’t have a good way to deal with, let alone aircraft carriers that have begun to form combat effectiveness.

 As long as these weapons come into play, the Tang Dynasty's navy will be invincible. Not using mines was not a loss for the Tang Navy, but a pity for other countries.

 They will lose a means to threaten submarines and aircraft carriers, and a way to protect their ports.

 The war is over, and Tang Mo is thinking of ways to improve the various weapons and equipment in his hands so that they can play a greater role when the next war comes.

 The original improved submarine is ready to be built. This new submarine has a more reasonable appearance design and can travel faster underwater.

The streamlined design allows this submarine to truly evolve from a "diving ship" to a "potential underwater ship." The significance of this is inestimable, and the true power of submarines will be revealed to the world.

 Another naval weapon that has had more time to develop is carrier-based aircraft. Previously, Tang State did not have time to manufacture dedicated naval carrier-based aircraft, so it could only make do with the Stuka.

 Now that the war is over, the Navy has more time to polish its carrier-based aircraft. Therefore, Tang Mo canceled the plan to put the Butcher fighter on the ship and instead used the F4U Corsair fighter as the navy's carrier-based aircraft model.

There is absolutely no problem with the performance of this fighter. The only flaw is that the nose is too long, resulting in insufficient take-off and landing visibility.

But the Butcher fighter jet has similar flaws. Don’t laugh at the older brother. Tang Mo is not willing to use the F6F fighter jet with slightly inferior performance, so he can only make do with the F4U fighter jet.

As for the carrier-based attack aircraft, Tang Mo decided to stick to the Stuka, a multi-purpose attack aircraft: it can carry torpedoes and bombs, which is a relatively qualified choice.

Tang Mo has many options, such as the SBD Dauntless dive bomber and TBD Destroyer torpedo attack aircraft equipped by the U.S. Navy during World War II.

This dual-plane configuration achieved brilliant results in World War II. It was the hero of the U.S. Navy's victory over the Japanese Combined Fleet. It can be said that the record is brilliant.

But Tang Mo felt that it was really troublesome to equip two types of attack aircraft, so he made a somewhat paranoid decision to use a multi-purpose attack aircraft to complete both torpedo attack and dive bombing missions.

Of course, there were many carrier-based aircraft capable of completing such multi-purpose missions during World War II, such as the famous Japanese Type 97 carrier-based attack aircraft, and another subsequent improved model, which can be called the best multi-purpose aircraft during World War II. Carrier-based attack aircraft: Meteor Kai.

ˆHym Frankly speaking, the performance of these two aircraft is impeccable and they are definitely very good choices. But Tang Mo has always been a fan of Japanese gadgets, so he instinctively excluded these two gadgets from his choices.

There are not many good choices among the remaining carrier-based aircraft. The performance of the British carrier-based aircraft during World War II was really not very good. After counting, the Stuka in front of me was the most time-saving and labor-saving.

There is no need to open a new aircraft production line, and most of the parts are still common. Although the performance is indeed not very good, it is more mature and reliable.

So this rather magical combination of carrier-based aircraft was finalized: Navy carrier-based fighter F4U Corsair, carrier-based attack aircraft JU-87 Stuka.

At almost the same time that the Tang Dynasty finalized two types of carrier-based aircraft, countries around the world also began to renovate their own battleships. In order to deal with more maritime threats, the navies of various countries began to show their magical powers across the sea, improved their own battleships, and invested more manpower and material resources in building new battleships.

I don’t know who took the first step and installed some long support rods on both sides of the battleship, and then hung iron nets on the ends of the support rods as an anti-torpedo device.

To be honest, this device can indeed effectively resist torpedo attacks. The only disadvantage is that it will affect the speed.

However, the navies of various countries who were in urgent need of treatment no longer cared about the speed, and immediately began to install such devices on the sides of various battleships.

The new structure was also first used on the damaged battleships. The underwater parts of these modified battleships began to become bloated and thicker armor was added.

Brand new battleships from various countries have been equipped with thicker underwater armor from the beginning, more waterproof gates have been installed in the hull, and more waterproof cabins have been designed.

 More anti-aircraft guns are equipped on both sides of the battleship. These guns can not only provide better air defense protection for the battleship, but can also theoretically be used to attack incoming torpedoes from both sides.

Brand new battleships generally use main guns with a caliber of 380 mm or above. The design drawings of these main guns are sold by the Tang Dynasty. Some countries purchase 406 mm caliber, while others purchase 410 mm caliber.

Of course, some countries are privately preparing to equip their super battleships with larger-caliber main guns in preparation for the next war.

 Regardless of the purpose of these countries. They all invested more steel in an attempt to build a more modern and powerful navy.

Two battleships were sunk. It can be said that the Lions Empire, which suffered the most losses, started building 4 Bunas-class battleships at one go, and at the same time added two new battleships to supplement its navy.

These countries are not just investing more steel in building their navies, they are also building more tanks and artillery.

The impact of the Panther tank has affected almost the whole world. After seeing the long-barreled artillery, the armies of various countries are deeply worried.

Existing tanks cannot defeat such a powerful enemy. In order to fight against it, the armor of domestic tanks can only be thickened. Therefore, all tanks from various countries were redesigned during this period, and the thickness of the armor on the front of the tank was greatly increased.

 Prior to this, the front armor of tanks in various countries was generally between 20 mm and 30 mm, which could only withstand machine gun and rifle bullets.

 But soon, the thickness of the main armor of tanks from various countries increased to 50 mm to 80 mm, seemingly hoping to resist the long-distance attacks of the Tang Army's tank guns as much as possible.

 The reason why the armor thickness has not been further increased is because the engine technology of various countries is not enough to support thicker armor designs. It is not easy to push a tank weighing dozens of tons forward.

Weapons and equipment such as steel helmets and engineer shovels have begun to become standard equipment for soldiers in various countries, and the number of cannons and automobiles is also increasing crazily.

In less than three months after the end of the war, the demand for steel in various countries surged, and the price of international steel increased even more than that of oil.

 Because not only the military field is consuming a lot of steel, the civilian field has also begun to use steel to increase the speed of construction.

 In the past, buildings did not require much steel, but the Tang Dynasty invented the construction method of reinforced concrete, which improved the stability and construction speed of the building.

 The mixed concrete is matched with steel bars as a skeleton support, which has unprecedented strength and is faster to build than the traditional construction method of stone blocks.

 So the civil construction market in Tang Dynasty consumes a lot of steel. Because there are too many cities that need to be built, this consumption has reached an alarming level.

 Steel production capacity around the world is being tested, and all iron mines are very busy. Every mine is frantically increasing production capacity, and the prices of Datang Group's mining machinery are also rising.

 For a time, the prices of so many things increased. Tang Guo made a lot of money and spent a lot of money. It was hard for everyone to tell who was the final winner.

 The economy, which had been delayed by the war, began to develop rapidly, and high-rise buildings rose from the ground. For a time, everyone seemed to have found a way to make money, and no one cared about anything else.

 As long as you find a ship to transport Tang's goods to Bunas, you can make double the profit. If this money is exchanged for iron ore and transported back to Linshui, the profit can be doubled again!

It is a pity that after everyone discovered such a way to make a fortune, it is not so easy to buy a shipload of iron ore from the Eastern Continent.

 After all, more steel is also the need of these empires in the Eastern Continent.

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 I'm really out of my mind today. I'll just write one chapter and post another one tomorrow. I'll look for ideas.

 (End of this chapter)