The sunshine of the local Mediterranean sea shone lazily into the room, and a new day is about to begin.
Fang Minghao has been in Italy for half a month. After carefully examining and analyzing the situation in Italy, the conclusion he came to is very bad.
Italy is a very strange country. The most famous part of the overall performance of the people is freedom and scattering, which is exactly the opposite of the rigorous Germans. However, Italians who advocate literature and art and are romantic by nature sometimes have many amazing things in their minds.
Wonderful ideas, such as Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraph, Du Hei, the pioneer of air supremacy theory, the idea of modern battleships laying main turrets along the central axis was also first proposed by the Italians, etc.
Italy's scientific and technological level is no less than that of Germany, but they cannot convert these inventions into industrial capabilities. Italy's machining level is definitely the world's first-class. They can make Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati and other worlds.
The best racing cars and sports cars, but their tank manufacturing level is even worse than that of the Soviet Union.
Due to the limitations of national strength, the equipment of the Italian army, especially the army, was very backward, and its equipment level was even worse than that of the British colonial armies in India and Southeast Asia. It is no wonder that the Italian army was attacked by the entire Europe when it invaded Abyssinia in 1935.
Mocking, they finally had to rely on planes and gas bombs to defeat the "indigenous army" under Emperor Haier Selasi. In fact, they received weapons assistance from Britain, France and Germany and trained and commanded by British officials.
The Abyssinian army under them is no worse than the Italian army, at least they have better weapons than the Italians.
The Italians proposed the theory of air combat and made many inventions in aircraft manufacturing technology. However, the aircraft equipped by the Italian Air Force is not satisfactory. The BR-20 all-metal bomber they equipped can actually cause hail to be smashed.
Such military strength is not in line with the ambition of their leader Mussolini. In 1934, during the first German-Austrian merger, Comrade Mussolini threatened to send ten divisions to destroy the German team, but in fact, he forced him to force him to
His fascist theory admirer Hitler had to surrender and delayed the merger of Austria.
This made the "great leader" feel more and more good. Now the self-righteous Comrade Lao Mo took it for granted that he had become one of the "European leaders" on par with Britain, France and other countries.
The biggest problem in Italy is that although Mussolini is known as the largest dictator, he cannot fully grasp the state's power. The army is loyal to the king and does not completely obey Mussolini's command. The fascist party is dominant.
The situation has united the banned socialists and the Communist Party, causing the people in the country to be revitalized.
Mussolini is not a scheming person. This guy who overestimates himself likes to cause trouble everywhere. After the Germans annexed the Czech Republic and Slovakia, this unwilling "national leader" ordered the Italian army to invade Albania.
This time it went very smoothly. The Italians took only three days to drive away King Sogu. The Italian King Emanuele III successfully served as the King of Albania under the "support" of the Albanian people.
This completely turned the Greeks, who were already wary of Italians, into the UK.
Fang Haoming is now visiting the naval shipyard in Trieste, where the first battleship of the latest Italian Vitto-class battleship, the Vittorio Veneto, is about to be completed. There are two more
The Cafur-class battleships built before World War I are undergoing modernization modifications. In this regard, the Republican Navy's experience in the transformation of the captured French Brittany-class battleships is still worth learning from by the Italians.
The battleship Venetto started construction on October 28, 1934. This giant battleship with a standard displacement of more than 41,000 tons has a good design, and uses a box-shaped armored compartment with an extended structure and a Praise anti-torpedo.
The system and design concept are relatively advanced. The Italian artillery manufacturing technology is quite advanced. The Venetto's 381mm main gun has a maximum range of more than 44 kilometers, which is more than the 380mm gun equipped by the Republican Navy (maximum range of 42 kilometers).
) is better, and it is quite outstanding in the armor ability of the artillery.
However, the Italians' unqualified metallurgical technology and the low production efficiency of shipyards greatly dragged down the construction period of this class of warships. Compared with the construction period of less than three years of Republican Navy battleships, the Italians actually delayed it for nearly four and a half years.
The time has not been completed yet.
The Italians' armored steel technology was introduced from China's Hanyang Iron and Steel Group. The steel industries of the two countries have some similarities. The iron ore contains too high sulfur, so how to remove these impurities has become a problem.
The battleship was obviously not the target of Fang Minghao's concern. He arrived in Trieste this time to assist in solving the construction of the USS Skyhawk aircraft carrier built at the Adriatic Joint Shipyard.
Due to the outstanding performance of the Republican Navy aircraft carriers in naval warfare, countries have realized the importance of aircraft carriers. Under the strong demand of the Italian Navy, Mussolini finally agreed to the navy's aircraft carrier construction plan and ordered two large Roman-class ships to be first replaced.
The cruise ship was converted into an aircraft carrier. Although the prime minister had little knowledge of military knowledge, he still had a strong curiosity. How could the toy "Great Romans" owned by other countries have not been able to avoid it? Although he basically didn't know what the purpose of the aircraft carrier was.
Although the USS Rome cruise ship is not a specially designed aircraft carrier, this high-speed mail ship with a standard displacement of 23,500 tons has a distance similar to the warship.
The cabin design and has good sink resistance.
The Italians' transformation plan is quite good. In addition to strengthening the compartment below the waterline and installing armor, their power system was also replaced with steam turbines equipped with two light cruisers, making their maximum output power close to 140,000 horsepower, so Italy
The two Skyhawk-class aircraft carriers converted by man have high speeds of more than 30 knots, which is definitely different from those generally transformed by cruise ships.
The transformation plan for the USS Skyhawk aircraft carrier was formulated and implemented by Colonel Sigmund of the Italian Naval Shipbuilding Bureau. The Italians obtained the design drawings of the "Guangdong-class" aviation ship from the Chinese side, which was carried out using Fiat's engine technology.
The exchange came from the Italians had their own unique features in engine technology.
"The biggest problem the navy is now obstruction by the air force. Our situation is similar to that of the Germans. The air force is unwilling to allocate enough aircraft to the navy's aircraft carriers. They believe that the navy should no longer have ** except seaplanes.
"Naval Chief of Staff General Kavniari is trying his best to negotiate with the Air Force, but the Prime Minister is on the Air Force's standpoint."
"This is a problem, but there is still a solution." Fang Minghao said: "You can tell General Kavniali that the aircraft carrier needs a specially designed naval aircraft to ask him to find your leader alone