Fang Minghao learned about the news of Germany's invasion of Poland on the radio. After the two countries declared war on Germany, they were trying to win over Italy. Mussolini decided to wait and see the direction of the war before deciding to turn.
Which side? He made a false speech after the war broke out and mentioned that he was willing to act as a mediator for European peace. Unfortunately, he was not worth enough, and no one of the parties who declared war did to take his speech back.
It was true that Hitler hoped that the Americans could act as mediators for peace talks, but Roosevelt refused without hesitation. The US President told the German ambassador that the United States would not have peace with Europe unless the German army retreated to its state before September 1, 1939.
Hold any hope.
Hitler was extremely angry. In addition to ordering the German army to speed up its advance, he also ordered the General Staff to begin formulating a "yellow plan" to attack France. Until this time, the Germans began to prepare for a full-scale war.
Fang Minghao was put on his leg and could not move around at will. He stayed at Mr. Lombardy's house to recuperate. The navy actually sent two guards, which made him feel very embarrassed when facing the old doctor.
Mr. Di didn't mind very much. He often chatted with Fang Minghao and the two guards when he was free.
Colonel Sigmund has also been here twice in person. He is now mainly responsible for the affairs of naval carrier-based aircraft. With the efforts of the commander-in-chief of the Navy, Marshal Kamponi and Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Kavniali, Musso
Rini finally agreed to equip the navy with 150 combat aircraft. The navy was always loyal to the king and had an advantage in defense budget. Emmanuele II put pressure on Mussolini through the Minister of Internal Affairs and Economics, and finally the Prime Minister
He was also forced to agree to form a marine brigade from the navy in the imitation of the Republican Army.
Another important point is air defense and radar.
Up to now, the Italian Navy has not been equipped with any radar equipment. The entire Italy has only been equipped with seven air-to-air detection radars. These radars have been under the command of the Air Force, and the Navy has no early warning facilities.
In fact, the Italians did not start late in developing radar and ultrasonic detectors. As early as 1935, Professor Tiberto from the Institute of Radio and Communications began to lead a technical team to conduct radar research, and in 1938 it had been developed.
The meter-wave and decimeter-wave radars that meet technical requirements, but the Italian military did not recognize the role of the radar and has not been equipped with this new type of radio detection equipment.
Shanghai Zhenzhong Radio Company from China cooperated with Italian Ducati Radio Equipment Manufacturing Company to set up a joint venture in Italy. Zhenzhong Radio Company is engaged in the manufacturing of oscilloscopes, but their products were not selected by the military, so they turned their attention to it.
Overseas. Since domestic bans radio equipment companies from transferring technology in the UK and the United States, in order to open up the market, the company has turned its attention to Italy.
Ducati is a company specializing in the manufacturing of radio equipment. Its main product is radio communication equipment and has a good cooperative relationship with the Italian military. After a joint venture with Zhenzhong Company, Ducati and Professor Tiberto
We have cooperated and started to develop new types of radar and sonar equipment.
After Fang Minghao arrived in Italy, he was encountering Ducati's company selling their newly developed "ECR-3" radar and "ECS-2" ultrasonic detector to the military, which aroused his interest. He
Colonel Sigmund carefully introduced the uses of radar and sonar. Colonel Sigmund is an expert in naval engineering and has long understood the role of radar and sonar, but the senior management rarely solicited his opinions when making decisions, so
He had no idea that Italy already had such a thing.
The Navy Shipbuilding Bureau still has a great influence on the Navy's top management. Although it does not control the Army and the Air Force, it is still easier to convince Marshal Kamponi and General Kavniali. Under Sigmund's activities, the Navy
The parties finally agreed to equip a radar and a sonar on the latest Lancer destroyer for testing.
Although this radar found many technical defects in the test, the radar and sonar still showed a certain effect. ECR-radar can detect ships more than ten kilometers away and aircraft tens of kilometers away. This is a human
The ECS-2 sonar system is more stable. The Lancer equipped with sonar discovered submarines six times in ten tests, which is already an amazing one.
Achievement.
After watching the test in person, Marshal Kamponi immediately made a decision and immediately ordered 50 radars and 60 sonar equipment from Ducati. These equipment must first be equipped on two Venetto-class battleships.
"The Prime Minister has agreed to the Navy's plan to order 150 combat aircraft, but we hope you can provide some parameters for the performance of naval combat aircraft." Colonel Sigmund said that although Mussolini claimed that the Air Force has 6,000 aircraft
In fact, there are no more than 1,000 aircraft that can be used for combat. It is difficult for the Navy to dig something from the Air Force, so it can only start a new job.
"The speed is over 600 kilometers per hour, equipped with one or two air cannons and two 12.7mm machine guns, and all-metal fuselage combat aircraft. This is the request of the Republican Navy when issuing a mission letter to the airline, and you can do this too."
It was indeed difficult to achieve combat aircraft with a speed of 600 kilometers per hour in 1939. After the Italian Navy issued a tender, only Fiat Aircraft Manufacturing Company was willing to undertake this task.
In general, the performance of the aircraft manufactured by Fiat is quite good, but the Italian Air Force selected a new generation of combat aircraft developed by Markie when bidding. Now Fiat Aircraft can only regard the Navy orders as a re-emergence.
Chance.
Gabrielli, chief designer of Fiat Aircraft, began to design the fighter that made him famous all over the world. He made bold improvements based on his earlier design of the G50 fighter and finally designed a first-class combat aircraft.
In order to increase kinetic energy, Gabrielle creatively chose a four-blade propeller. In order to improve the disadvantage of poor vision of the G50 fully enclosed cockpit, it used a curved windshield. It also borrowed from the fuselage flow lines of some Republican aircraft
The design of the aircraft uses a Fiat 1270 horsepower high-power liquid-cooled engine, and the final G60 arrow aircraft's maximum speed reached 623 kilometers per hour, far exceeding expectations.
Mussolini's neutral policy allowed the Italian army to gain some time to reorganize its armaments, and at least in early 1940, the whole of Italy would be in peace.