The end of the military era

These admirals have always expressed opposition to the construction of island-class aircraft carriers.

After all, an aircraft carrier uses carrier-based aircraft as its means of attack, and the number of carrier-based aircraft also indicates the strength of the aircraft carrier's combat effectiveness.

The cost of building a Jumbo-class aircraft carrier, coupled with 146 jet carrier-based aircraft, is enough to build 3 aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of 59500 tons and complete carrier-based aircraft.

The aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of 59500 tons was designed by Ganyang Shipyard. Later, Zhou Rui focused on building a giant-class aircraft carrier, so this aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of 59500 tons was designed by the six major shipyards of the Han and Tang Empire. and did not build.

And this aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of 59500 tons, referring to the US Midway-class aircraft carrier, can carry at least 70 jet carrier-based aircraft.

In this way, 3 ships can carry 210 jet carrier-based aircraft, which is dozens more than the jet carrier-based aircraft carried by a jumbo-class aircraft carrier.

The cost of an island-class aircraft carrier, coupled with 408 jet carrier-based aircraft, can even build 4 jumbo-class aircraft carriers, complete with carrier-based aircraft.

You must know that the 4 Jumbo-class aircraft carriers can carry a total of 584 jet carrier-based aircraft, which completely explodes an island-class aircraft carrier.

Prince Zhou Jun swallowed again when he heard that the cost of each island-class aircraft carrier was as high as 48 billion silver coins, it was too expensive!

"Song Shuai, will you continue to build island-class aircraft carriers?"

Song Limin nodded, "His Majesty has allocated funds to use the six giant floating docks at the Crescent Island Naval Base to build six more island-class aircraft carriers.

Although the cost of an island-class aircraft carrier is high, each island-class aircraft carrier is like a large mobile field airport. Its powerful aircraft capacity makes the air strike force formed by each island-class aircraft carrier comparable to a Aircraft carrier formation.

If the imperial finances allow, I hope that our Royal Navy can have more island-class aircraft carriers in the future. "

Prince Zhou Jun didn't dare to promise Song Limin anything in this regard, so he changed the subject, "Song Shuai, how many warships does our Royal Navy have in total?"

Song Limin didn't hope to get any promise from Prince Zhou Jun, but Prince Zhou Jun was the heir to the throne of the Han and Tang Empires, so Song Limin still had to say what he had to say.

Hearing Prince Zhou Jun asking how many warships the Imperial Navy of the Han and Tang Dynasties had, Song Limin immediately said: "His Royal Highness, at present our Royal Navy has 12 main fleets and 36 garrison fleets, with a total of 446 aircraft carriers, including 6 Island-class ships, 80 Jumbo-class ships”

Following Song Limin's introduction, Prince Zhou Jun's expression became more and more excited. Before that, Prince Zhou Jun only knew that the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires was very powerful, but he had no idea how powerful it was.

目前汉唐帝国皇家海军总计拥有446艘航空母舰，包括6艘岛屿级、80艘巨无霸级、160艘美国中途岛级、100艘鸟巢级、60艘美国埃塞克斯级和40艘东瀛国翔鹤级。

There are a total of 1700 battleships in active service in the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Including 60 US Nevada-class battleships, 60 US New Mexico-class battleships, 60 US Tennessee-class battleships, and 60 Italian Veneto-class battleships.

100 British Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, 100 British Revenge-class battleships, 100 German Bavarian-class battleships, and 100 British Nelson-class battleships.

80 US Colorado-class battleships, 80 US North Carolina-class battleships, 80 US South Dakota-class battleships, and 80 Japan Nagato-class battleships.

80 American Iowa-class battleships, 80 French Richelieu-class battleships, and 80 German Bismarck-class battleships.

60 Japan Yamato-class battleships, 60 American Montana-class battleships, and 60 German Hindenburg-class battleships.

180 "Zhen"-class battleships, 80 Ganyang-class super battleships, and 60 German H43-class super battleships.

In addition, the Imperial Navy of the Han and Tang Dynasties still had nearly 500 sealed battleships, and in Zhou Rui's lottery system, there were also more than 200 battleships accumulated in the past few years, which were not extracted by Zhou Rui.

It is true that there are too many battleships in the Imperial Navy of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Zhou Rui no longer needs to extract all the battleships from the lottery system, not to mention that even many battleships with very good performance have been temporarily sealed.

Like the German h43 super battleship, there are still 24 in the lottery system, but after Zhou Rui only extracted 43 German h60 super battleships, he did not extract the new German h43 super battleship to the real world .

The German H43 super battleship is a battleship planned by Germany in 1943 during World War II but not built. It has a full load displacement of 132000 tons and a maximum speed of 32 knots.

装备了4座三联装48倍口径530毫米主炮，8座双联装六十倍口径150毫米副炮，8座双联装105毫米高平两用炮，10座三联装37毫米高射炮，16座三联装20毫米高射炮，安装有对空搜索雷达和对海搜索雷达。

The thickest side armor belt is 530 mm, the main deck armor is 203 mm, the main turret armor is 625 mm, and the full crew is 2500 people.

The German H43 super battleship can be said to be comparable to the existence of the Ganyang-class super battleship.

There are a total of 600 battlecruisers in active service in the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

分别包括了120艘英国声望级战列巡洋舰、120艘英国胡德级战列巡洋舰、100美国阿拉斯加级战列巡洋舰、180艘“苍”字级战列巡洋舰和80艘德国沙恩霍斯特级战列巡洋舰。

There are also more than 300 battlecruisers in storage, and there are more than 100 battlecruisers that have not been extracted from the lottery system.

The German Scharnhorst-class battlecruiser is a battlecruiser built by Germany before World War II, with a full load displacement of 37303 tons and a maximum speed of 32 knots.

装备了3座三联装280毫米主炮，12门150毫米副炮，7座双联装105毫米高射炮，8座双联装37毫米高射炮，安装有对空搜索雷达和对海搜索雷达。

The thickest side armor belt is 360mm, the thickest main deck armor is 110mm, the main turret armor is 390mm, and the full crew is 1629.

除了上述的446艘航空母舰、1700艘战列舰和600艘战列巡洋舰之外，在未来的3个月内，汉唐帝国皇家海军还有120艘巨无霸级航空母舰和120艘甘阳级超级战列舰，将会进入汉唐帝国皇家海军的序列。

If necessary, the lottery system reserves more than 200 battleships and more than 100 battlecruisers, as well as nearly 500 battleships and more than 300 battlecruisers in storage, all of which can be handed over to the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empire.

在主力舰之外，皇家海军的12支主力舰队和36支守备舰队，还拥有1500余艘重巡洋舰、1800余艘大型装甲巡洋舰、4300余艘轻巡洋舰、5800余艘驱逐舰、1300余艘潜艇、2000余艘近海炮艇、3000余艘鱼雷艇以及其他数万艘辅助船只。

After Song Limin introduced the family background of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empire, Song Limin pointed to a large container ship in the port and said, "Your Highness, this is an Dongfang-class container ship designed and built by the six major shipyards of the Han and Tang Empire. It can reach more than 10 tons, and the maximum speed can reach 30 knots.

At the beginning of the design of the Dongfang-class container ship, the problem of transforming into an escort aircraft carrier was taken into consideration.

If our Han and Tang Empire declares war with the Nine Events Alliance, the 9 Dongfang-class container ships currently belonging to Royal Shipping can be transformed into escort aircraft carriers soon.

Each Dongfang-class container ship should be able to carry more than 80 jet carrier-based aircraft. 232 Dongfang-class container ships are equivalent to giving our Royal Navy an extra hole card.

Of course, the escort aircraft carrier converted from the Dongfang-class container ship has relatively poor damage resistance. If it is not necessary, I do not want to let the Dongfang-class container ship go to the battlefield. "

Prince Zhou Jun agreed with Song Limin's point of view, "What Song Shuai said is very true. The sinking of a Dongfang-class container ship is equivalent to the loss of dozens of jet carrier-based aircraft and a large number of naval officers and soldiers. Such a loss is too great. big.

Moreover, the Oriental-class container ship is almost unprotected, and it is easy to be sunk in a naval battle, unless the Royal Navy completely controls the sea and air control. "

While Prince Zhou Jun was talking with Song Limin, Xiang Tao, Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Army of the Han and Tang Dynasties, came over with a telegram.

This time Prince Zhou Jun came to Crescent Island Naval Base, and he was accompanied by Xiang Tao.

Xiang Tao said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness, Song Shuai, His Majesty has just announced the expansion plan of the Royal Army and the Royal Air Force. It seems that war is inevitable."

Since the Han and Tang Empires annexed the Qi'an Empire, the Western Qin Empire, and the Eastern Qin Empire one after another, Zhou Rui restored the designations of some troops that had been abolished by the Royal Army.

Before the massacre of human civilians in the territory of Silver Wolf and Flying Leopard, the Royal Army of the Han and Tang Empire had a total of 200 group armies and 1200 garrison brigades, with a total strength of about 5200 million.

Before the Imperial Air Force of the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were 130 air divisions in total. Each air division had 4 air regiments, and each air regiment had 4 flying groups. Each flying group consisted of 4 flying squadrons. The squadron has 16 combat aircraft, and each air division has 1024 fighters.

The fighter planes of the 130 air divisions have all been replaced with jet fighters, except for some American b25 medium-range bombers and American b17 long-range bombers.

Prince Zhou Jun and Song Limin finished reading the telegram Xiang Tao brought over, and their expressions became a little dignified.

According to Zhou Rui's order, the Royal Han and Tang Empire Army will restore the designation of 100 group armies, increasing the number of group armies of the Royal Han and Tang Empire Army to 300.

In addition, the current 1200 garrison brigades of the Imperial Army of the Han and Tang Dynasties were all expanded into garrison divisions, and the organization of the garrison divisions was based on the infantry divisions of the group army.

In this way, the total strength of the Royal Army of the Han and Tang Empires will increase to 1 million.

Zhou Rui is also planning to form 70 new air divisions to expand the number of fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Han and Tang Empire to more than 20.