Chapter 2174 New Partner One
"Teacher, urgent telegram forwarded in China." Earl Lucknar walked up to Earl Spey with a telegram in his hand, and then delivered it to his old boss and teacher.
"The Americans also want to get involved." Earl Spey said meaningfully. "Look at it too, we will have a new partner in the future." After speaking, Earl Spee sent the telegram to Earl Lucknar.
"The Americans want to participate? If they really want to consolidate the traditional friendship with the empire as stated in the telegram, they should have joined the war long ago. If the Americans were on our side, the war would have ended a year ago." Count Lucknall scoffed at the Americans in the telegram.
"The reason is not important. This is a matter for politicians and kings, and has no direct relationship with us. What is important is that we consider what the Americans can bring to us." Earl Spey said.
"On the surface, they will bring us an aircraft carrier named Independence and 12 1,000-ton destroyers, plus a supply fleet of 4 to 5 supply ships and a large amount of supplies on it." Lukner Earl said. "But to be honest, their help does make up for the lack of our destroyers and the lack of air defense detection capabilities."
Although the Americans did not send a battleship this time, whether it is an aircraft carrier or a destroyer, they are also above-average in the U.S. Navy. What? You said why the U.S. Navy did not send light cruisers? The reason is simple. Just like in history, Americans are working hard to produce battleships, destroyers, and cruiser-class warships in the early stage. Almost all of them are pre-war armored cruisers. A new generation of light cruisers is still on the berth!
Take the USS Independence as an example. This is an aircraft carrier with a displacement of 17,000 tons. It has a single-story open large hangar that can accommodate 72 various aircraft. At the same time, there is 4 inches of sloped armor protection at the waterline. There are 2 inches to 3 inches of horizontal armor on the ammunition magazine and power compartment. The maximum speed is 26 knots, with full fuel power. Unlike the New Mexico-class battleships newly served by the Americans, which use electric propulsion, the Independence is more conservative and still uses the same propulsion method as the German battleships.
Generally speaking, it is slightly smaller than the aircraft carrier of the Wittelsbach class, and its performance is also worse. But it is definitely a lot higher than the British aircraft carrier according to the current intelligence. After all, where is the number of carrier-based aircraft? The number of carrier-based aircraft on British aircraft carriers is limited by the number of aircraft, hulls, and usage habits, so the number of aircraft on board is estimated to be only about 40.
"With this aircraft carrier, our seaplane carrier and carrier-based seaplanes can be fully devoted to reconnaissance, corrective action, and anti-submarine missions. When necessary, this aircraft carrier can even provide us with certain output." said Earl Spey.
"I hope these American pilots have better skills than American gunnery." Earl Lucknall said jokingly. The discourse is obviously full of distrust of the combat effectiveness of the US Navy. In fact, it’s really no wonder that the earl made sarcastic remarks, because since entering the pre-dreadnought era, the performance of the U.S. Navy in previous battles and conflicts has not been good. If the performance of individual tactics is not bad, (for example, in the Philippine naval battle Zhong Majifen led the remnants of the US fleet to escape the pursuit of Japanese armored cruisers.) Then the technical and tactical level is very poor, and the British Navy in history has ridiculed the US Navy's artillery. And in this plane, the German gunners who performed better in actual combat naturally disdain the Americans' shotgun artillery skills. It's not that the Americans' fire control is poor, but that they just shoot badly!
"Can we replace some of the American pilots with Germans? You know, our Navy has ample reserve pilots.
said Earl Lucknar.
"I'm afraid this is not very good? But I can talk to His Royal Highness about it." After hesitating for a moment, Earl Spey still felt that the strength of his air defense network was more important than the so-called diplomatic face.
The importance of aircraft carriers to the Spey fleet is beyond doubt, and destroyers are equally important. To the surprise of the Germans, this kind of American destroyer, nicknamed the flat destroyer by the German Navy, has a superiority far exceeding that of British and German destroyers of the same level. firepower. Coupled with the production quantity of hundreds of ships, it gives people a simple and rude feeling!
Take the U.S. Navy’s most numerous Wykes-type destroyer as an example. This destroyer has a displacement of only about 1,100 tons, a maximum output of 24,000 horsepower, and a maximum speed of 35 knots. This performance is quite satisfactory, but such a small destroyer has 4 doors. 4-inch guns, 1 3-inch guns, 2 1-pound rapid-fire guns, and up to 12 533MM torpedo tubes! And this ship also has a good range, with a range of 2500 nautical miles at a speed of 20 knots.
What is the concept? Taking the British destroyers of the same tonnage at the same time as an example, the British S-type destroyers only had 3 4-inch guns, 1 2-pound gun and 4 533MM torpedo tubes. The German Navy's H166 destroyer is also inferior to the American flat-panel destroyer. The latter has only 3 105MM artillery and 6 500MM torpedo tubes. The only thing that can save some face is that it can also carry 24 rounds of mines. However, in terms of power and speed, it is not as good as American flat boats. The Germans can reach a high speed of 34 knots with an output of 26,000 horsepower, and when sailing at a speed of 20 knots, the range is only 1650 nautical miles.
The relatively outstanding performance is one aspect, and what the two German naval commanders valued more is the number of destroyers that can almost be described as massive! From the information they have, it can be seen that the production cycle and cost of this destroyer are terribly low! In the words of Earl Spey, the Americans almost use the method of producing sausages to produce destroyers!
"To some extent, the naval system established by Crown Prince Ruprecht is more suitable for the kind of war that took more than ten years or even decades to prepare before the war, while the American production system is more suitable for wartime. There is no There is no disrespect to His Highness the Crown Prince or doubts about His Highness's ability, I am just stating a fact." Earl Spey said to his students.
"The Americans' ideas are still very good. They don't design a large number of destroyers with different tonnages and different models like us and the British. They use a unified standard to make trade-offs in performance, and then take into account the maximum degree. In terms of performance, strike a balance, and then produce a few types of warships, which is very good in terms of cost and industry." Earl Lucknar nodded and said.
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