Imperial Overlord

Having said that, if someone from far away China comes out and asks Li Le to help kill Japan, maybe Li Le, the beating Chinese heart, will still consider it.

Now that Germany can help India defeat Britain, and there is almost no benefit in India, how could Li Le be interested.

"Understood, my head of state!" Bowman nodded quickly after hearing Li Le's order.

The Fuhrer's political vision is often more original than his military one, so Bowman will not question any decision.

In Bowman's view, the distant India is indeed beyond the reach of some. A few months ago, the Third Reich was still in a state of uncertainty even in the Mediterranean Sea.

Silently mourned for the poor man Bowes for a moment, and Bowman shifted his attention to something more worthy of his attention.

"My head of state, tonight, there is a meeting on the development plan of the navy, do you want to attend?" He looked at the head of state who had given the order and was already standing by the window looking at the scenery of the woods outside, and asked.

"Navy?" After hearing this, Li Le muttered repeatedly, then nodded and said, "Tell them, I will participate."

The Army has a new tank-building program, a more streamlined truck production program, a supplemental artillery-manufacturing program, and a recruit training program.

The Air Force's plans are also quite numerous: plans for the manufacture of new aircraft, accelerated production plans for the Ju-188 bomber, and secret development plans for future jet fighters.

By contrast, the Navy's production plans look shabby. Except for the warships that had already started construction before the war, the navy has mainly focused on repairs and refits recently.

Aside from submarines, the German Navy has yet to launch a new warship, and there are no plans to build any new warships in the near future.

In order to concentrate on defeating the Soviet Union, the biggest enemy at this stage, Germany has put more than 90% of its production capacity and attention on the land and air of the Eastern Front.

In this case, it is an unrealistic idea to expect the navy to have any major development.

However, to say that the German navy has not developed in the near future would definitely underestimate Li Le's determination to build a strong navy.

Germany had an ambitious Z-shaped shipbuilding plan before, and the most crazy thing about this shipbuilding plan for the German Navy was the construction of its core Hindenburg-class battleships.

This kind of battleship has a full-load displacement of more than 50,000 tons. Once built, it can be said that it may be a terrible existence that surpasses the Yamato battleship.

It is a pity that this kind of battleship was never built, and it never appeared on the battlefield to rampage.

In the process of construction, the Hindenburg-class battleships were designated as h, j, k, and l respectively. The first ship was planned to be named Hindenburg, so it was called the Hindenburg-class battleship.

Now, under the intervention of Li Le, the two ships H and J, which were built from July 1939, have been converted into aircraft carriers, and more than half of them have now been built.

Compared with the rigor of battleships, in 1941, the new weapon of aircraft carrier did not have as many technical difficulties as imagined.

Unlike today's complex and advanced aircraft carriers, the aircraft carriers of that year were actually easy to build, at least less material than battleships, and easier to make do with.

The big deal is that due to the lack of technical reserves and design flaws, the number of carrier-based aircraft is insufficient, or there are problems such as being easily sunk.

But if this kind of detail error can be tolerated, there is no technical difficulty for Germany to build an aircraft carrier.

During World War II, there were countless examples of using old freighters, cruise ships, and outdated warships to be converted into aircraft carriers. The United States, Britain, Japan, and other naval powers have done this.

Germany, although unsuccessful, has a similar modification program. This also shows from another aspect that in World War II, if part of the performance is ignored, the technical threshold of the aircraft carrier is actually quite low.

Therefore, Li Le ordered the two Hindenburg-class battleships to be converted into German fleet aircraft carriers during the construction process.

These two aircraft carriers converted from 50,000-ton battleships will have a full-load displacement of 55,000 tons.

The huge straight deck extends out of the hull and has a length of more than 280 meters. Because it is a battleship refit, the width of the battleship itself is also very amazing, and the width of the aviation deck exceeds 40 meters.

You know, in 1944, the deck length of the most advanced US aircraft carrier Essex-class was more than 260 meters, and the width was only less than 30 meters.

Therefore, the German modified aircraft carrier has a larger deck than the Essex-class aircraft carrier and can accommodate 115 combat aircraft of various types.

When it comes to this, I have to say that the drawbacks of the German battleship conversion aircraft carrier. Due to the lack of design experience of the engineers, a lot of space was wasted in the modification process.

The already laid side armor of the battleship also seriously exceeded the tonnage of the German aircraft carrier, which also affected the number of carrier-based aircraft.

The Essex-class specially designed aircraft carrier has achieved the level of carrying 103 carrier-based aircraft with a displacement of less than 35,000 tons.

While Germany's modified aircraft carrier has a displacement of more than 50,000 tons, the number of carrier-based aircraft has not substantially improved, which itself shows the gap between the two countries in the level of aircraft carrier design and construction.

Of course, it is unfair to compare a German aircraft carrier refitted in 1941 with the new special-purpose aircraft carriers built by the United States around 1944.

The two German battleships K and L were refitted aircraft carriers, because the hull construction itself did not have time to lay all the armor of the design thickness, which greatly reduced the displacement.

So the data for the two aircraft carriers k and l are more comfortable: their full-load displacement is less than 49,000 tons.

Although the protection level of the broadside has dropped somewhat, the two later-built aircraft carriers can carry a lot more aviation fuel, more like some specially designed aircraft carriers.

Unlike the American and Japanese aircraft carrier design concepts, the German and British aircraft carrier decks have armor protection. This design also affects the tonnage, and the number of carrier-based aircraft carried.

Now, after rushing construction, the hulls of the two aircraft carriers h and j have been completed. If the construction continues, it is estimated that the two aircraft carriers will be completed by the end of 1941.

With these two aircraft carriers, Germany's fleet carriers would suffice. After all, when Japan battled Midway, only four fleet aircraft carriers participated in the war.

Germany now has three aircraft carriers after accepting Britain's Dreadnought and Tejas.

Although the Dreadnought was badly damaged and was being repaired on the slipway, it was an aircraft carrier after all, wasn't it.

Now the German Navy has two aircraft carriers that can be used immediately. One is the Zeppelin aircraft carrier that was built and used very easily, and the other is the Radiance aircraft carrier handed over by the British.

Unlike Zeppelin, Tejas can only carry more than 30 carrier-based aircraft, and its speed is slightly slower.

Tejas was nearly 10 meters shorter than Zeppelin's deck, so the total number of aircraft on board was smaller than before, with only 32 aircraft.

In order to reasonably arrange the attack force, the Radiance aircraft carrier was equipped with 10 fw-190t fighters, and only 22 Stuka cs were used for the attack.

This number can only be used as a supplement to the aircraft carrier Zeppelin. If Germany has a better choice, naturally it will not want such a big toy.

But is there a better option in Germany? The answer is no! A new German aircraft carrier that is closest to completion, called the Northwest, was converted from an 18,000-ton cruise ship, a typical product of the **** aircraft carrier model of World War II.

This aircraft carrier can only carry 25 carrier-based aircraft, which is even more unbearable than the Radiance. However, this modified aircraft carrier Germany has changed two ships in one breath, and they are almost completed.

Why insist on building such two not-so-good **** carriers? Because the German Navy desperately needs such an **** aircraft carrier.

There are too few aircraft carriers for German naval aviation to train, so Germany has to seize all the resources that can be used~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Training the relatively more difficult to obtain naval aviation.

The seemingly powerful German naval aviation unit actually has only a poor 170 pilots who have experience in taking off and landing aircraft carriers and have actual combat experience.

This number may be expanded by 10 times in Japan and by more than 100 times in the United States.

The fundamental reason for Germany's victory in the Atlantic naval battle was that its own carrier-based aircraft had an overwhelming advantage. The number of lost pilots was too small, and they did not encounter the dilemma of supplementary difficulties.

Once Germany and the United States go to war, the losses of naval aviation on both sides will be in the hundreds. If Germany does not have a relatively large pilot training base by then, it will not be able to withstand such a huge consumption.

Because of this, the German Navy had to train as many pilots as possible before confronting the U.S. Navy.

And training real aircraft carrier pilots, relying only on ground training is far from enough. They have to go through a sufficient number of aircraft carrier takeoffs and landings before they can truly adapt to combat at sea.

Of course, as I mentioned before, these two refitted aircraft carriers that don't seem so advanced actually still have room to play.

The two aircraft carriers will perform anti-submarine **** missions in the Mediterranean and train qualified naval aviation pilots part-time.

The repaired Dreadnought will be added to the German naval sequence at the end of 1941. Counting the Hindenburg and Ludendorff, which can join the navy at the same time, the German navy will have 5 aircraft carriers.

By that time, the combat capabilities of the German Navy could no longer be said to be irrelevant.

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