"What, you China can actually produce such an advanced submarine?" When the German Navy submarine experts checked the numbers of the two submarines, they were very surprised. Compared with Chinese submarines, the Germans' decades of efforts were in vain.
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"China, President Wu Aihua, is willing to sell these submarines to Germany?" Hitler was also very surprised.
"Yes, Your Majesty the Head of State. As friends of Germany, we don't want to see your navy struggling so hard." Major General Jiang Jiahui said seriously.
Compared with the German U-type submarines of the same era, the main advantages of the "Kailong 1" and "Yulong 1" are fast speed, low underwater navigation noise, deep diving, advanced torpedoes, advanced communication systems, and concealment.
Strong, endurance and endurance potential, etc.
"In addition, our president has said that if the German fleet has difficulty surviving in the Pacific or Indian Ocean, it can stop at Chinese ports for short periods of time and supply supplies." Jiang Jiahui released another bomb.
If we say that selling submarines is doing business, allowing the fleet to stay is clearly a good thing.
"Will this bring trouble to China?" Hitler was very sober at this time.
"No. Because our president has said that if a certain country has objections, we will also allow a certain country's fleet to stop and replenish at Chinese ports." Jiang Jiahui said.
"Your president will not sell these submarines to Britain and France," Hitler asked again.
"Our submarines are not big cabbage, how can we sell so many of them to one company and then another?" Jiang Jiahui said.
Whether Hitler thought clearly about what he wanted, judging from his subsequent performance, he did not think clearly. However, when China handed over 20 "Strange Dragon 1" and 50 "Ghost Dragon 1" ships to the German Navy,
While inside, General Dönitz had more bargaining chips.
The losses of British ships on the sea also began to rise from tens of thousands of tons per month to more than 100,000 tons per month. Britain has become more difficult than World War II in history.
Throughout 1940, the war only occurred in Europe. China, Japan in Asia, and the United States in the Americas were all busy with their own affairs. The United States was making a fortune, Japan was frantically expanding its arms and preparing for war; and China was making a small fortune.
At the same time, it is stepping up its efforts to consolidate its economic foundation.
When New Year's Eve arrived in 1940, the first official Spring Festival Gala in Chinese history began to be officially broadcast on China National Television. Although it was a "recorded broadcast" rather than a live broadcast, the novel program format still attracted the attention of the whole country.
40 million people were in for a feast.
As early as the Fujian and Guangdong provinces, Wu Aihua began to invest in the development and production of televisions. In fact, as early as 1924, the British electronic engineer John Baird invented the first television
, by 1928, the American RCA TV station took the lead in broadcasting the first TV series "Felix The Cat". In 1928, the British Baird Company produced the Baird C-type TV, which was also the world's first mass-produced TV set.
After understanding the basic technology, China's TV industry directly aimed at the TV production level in the 1960s. In Wu Aihua's view, the TV technology produced by the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries in this era was relatively mature, and the appearance
It's also a pretty good TV.
As for Japanese televisions, when China's television industry just started in the 1950s, the two countries were at about the same level. Japan just caught up from behind and developed much faster than China.
In 1937, Fujian Province successfully trial-produced TVs. In 1938, about 10,000 TVs were produced. However, these TVs were not household TVs but industrial TVs. In the second half of 1938, industrial TVs began to be converted into household TVs.
Of course, the main change is the appearance, making it more beautiful and more suitable for home use.
After Wu Aihua took charge of the Central Committee, he began to set up China's national television station, and the "Panda Brand" TV sets produced in China also began to enter the market. Because the quantity was too small and demand exceeded supply, Wu Aihua launched a "ticket-based" sales. Because
"Panda" TVs have been on the market for only two months, and only about 1,000 units were sold throughout the year.
In 1939, the TV set factory could offer 1,000 units per month for free purchase; in July 1939, 2,000 units per month were on the market. At this time, Wu Aihua canceled the ticket supply. However, the price was not affordable by ordinary families.
.11-inch (slightly larger than 14-inch) black and white TVs sell for up to 1,200 Chinese yuan each.
In 1940, manufacturers could supply 10,000 11-inch black-and-white TV sets per month. At the same time, they also introduced 16-inch (equivalent to 21-inch) large-screen TVs. Once on the market, the monthly supply reached 1,000 sets. However, their prices were even higher.
It is as high as 2200 Chinese yuan.
This price is based on the price of TV sets in the British and American markets. It is about 30% higher than the price of the same grade in the British and American markets, but its performance is much more advanced and it has many more functions. These TV sets are not just for sale to Chinese people.
money, but also the money of Europeans and Americans.
However, although there are some problems with household purchases, Wu Aihua encourages schools, companies, etc. to purchase TVs. If schools buy TVs, they can use financial allocations to pay for them;
As for more advanced color TVs, Wu Aihua has not launched them yet. Throughout World War II, the consumption power of various countries was relatively limited. The time to launch color TVs will be after World War II is over.
For a country like China, television can only be said to be a niche product.
In 1940, in addition to television, there were several other achievements that the Chinese people should be proud of, but ordinary Chinese people did not know about them.
The first achievement is missiles. In the early days, Merit System exported the "Flying Dragon 1" missile with a range of 100 kilometers. Although its range cannot be compared with the V-2 missile (range 300 kilometers) that Germany will successfully develop in the near future, it has a range of 300 kilometers.
Its accuracy far exceeds that of the V-2 missile. In fact, the German V-2 cannot even target targets such as a building, but the missiles produced in the early stages of the system can hit moving targets such as destroyers.
After the system was upgraded to level 9, the technical barrier was suddenly lifted, allowing Wu Aihua to very calmly select some important equipment for actual research, development and production. It was against this background that domestically produced missiles came into being.
The missiles that have truly entered the maturity stage and can be put into combat are the precision-guided missiles that appeared in the 1960s and 1970s. However, the simplest 1950s missiles issued by the Meritorious System also had ballistic characteristics and precision guidance capabilities.
"Okay, let's develop this simplest one first." Wu Aihua is also familiar with the system. Some things may be based on historical context, and some things are too jumpy.
At this time, the "defying nature" of the merit system was once again revealed. When other countries develop missiles, they have to repeatedly design and test them. They have to experience many failures and use a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and what they produce may not be perfect.
Easy to use; but China is completely different. Those experts involved in missile design, after going through the initial basic theory, found that the experts (intelligent robots) who guided them considered every step so scientifically, accurately and inexorably.
Provoke vigilance.
The "China Engineering Physics Research Center", which was launched earlier than "Project Zero", finally successfully trial-produced Feilong 2a, Feilong 2b, and Feilong in the autumn of 1940 after completing the research and production tasks of the real-life version of "Flying Dragon 1".
2c and other three types of missiles.
2 means "second generation", a, b, and c respectively represent the difference of the launch platform, where a means ground launch, b means air launch, and c means sea launch. As for the 2d type launched by underwater submarine, it is under study.
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Regardless of whether it is ground-launched, air-launched, or surface-launched, the "Flying Dragon 2" series can still only attack ground targets or large surface ships. For destroyers or ground mobile tanks, its accuracy is far from that. If
If we really want to fight, spending more than a dozen missiles to hit a tank is not very cost-effective. Of course, firing at close range is another matter; but, do we still need missiles to deal with destroyers or tanks at close range?
The overall performance and technical indicators of the "Flying Dragon 2" are significantly higher than the German V-2 missile. For example, the maximum range of the V-2 is 300 kilometers, while the maximum range of the Feilong 2 is 500 kilometers; for example, the maximum firing height
, V-2 is 100 kilometers, and Feilong 2 is 150 kilometers; for example, the weight of V-2 is 12,800 kilograms, while "Flying Dragon" is only 9,500 kilograms; the length of the former is 14 meters, and the latter is 11 meters; the maximum flight speed is Mach 4.8 for the former, and Mach 4 for the latter.
The former is Mach 5.9; the thrust when leaving land is 27,000 kilograms for the former and 35,000 kilograms for the latter.
The difference in these numbers shows that China's rocket and missile technology is more advanced and far exceeds Germany's level in terms of material selection, rocket structure design, propellant selection and equipment.
Of course Wu Aihua understands that this is not his credit, or even the credit of the Chinese people. However, one of the biggest benefits of this kind of research and production activities is that it has trained a large number of engineering and technology research experts, who may have learned from rockets.
Starting from the structure, we will study the structural issues of other related equipment. At the same time, once this design technology matures, it can enter relevant professional theories so that more people can master these design principles and methods.
As for the issue of national innovation, this kind of innovation will not be stifled just because the system is produced. On the contrary, it will cause people to pay attention to more technologies because the system continues to produce new technologies.
The third achievement worth writing about is the development and production of hydraulic generator sets and steam turbine generator sets. The development of this aspect of technology in later generations of China is very good. Although its technical level is not necessarily more advanced than that of developed countries such as Europe and the United States, it is
Its reasonable cost performance also allows domestic generator sets to occupy a certain position in the world market.