Chapter 955： Tanker to aircraft carrier

The train swayed for three whole days. Even if it occasionally stopped at the station, the people returning from the prisoner-of-war camp could not go down and move. They were imprisoned in a small carriage, waiting for an unknown fate.

At this time, everyone already had a terrible hunch. These people were quite disgraceful to the Soviets. Then, what would the Soviets do to them?

According to calculations, they must have passed Moscow long ago, and they are still going east. Where are they going?

In the corner of the carriage, Brother Timuxin fell asleep again. In the past few days, he wanted to understand a lot of things. Let's take it easy. In this life, there will always be some big ups and downs.

Finally, the train roared into the station again, and when the door opened, the military police shouted loudly: "Go, come out immediately, follow along, and go to your dormitory."

Brother Timuxin got off the car. Outside, a gust of cold wind blew everyone straight into the cold war. It was already night and the stars were a bit starry, and you could see tall mountains all around.

Sure enough, as he thought, Brother Timuxin sneered and shook his head. He has no status anymore, and I am afraid that he will soon lose his rank. What awaits him will be busy labor.

When he got into his dormitory, a small room where more than 20 people lived, he had already seen someone in it.

That chunky guy.

Khrushchev took out a box of Dnieper cigarettes and said to him: "Would you like to have one?"

We met again. Although Khrushchev ran away early, but in the end, it still had the same ending. Brother Timosin looked at Khrushchev, took the cigarette, and just lighted it, it came from outside. Voice: "Quickly, come out, night shift tonight. Pothole #13."

With a cigarette in his mouth, Khrushchev took his shovel from the door: "Let's go, whoever leaves late will be treated by the foreman."

Brother Timuxin was smoking a cigarette and fiddled with a shovel. He didn't expect that he would have a time for labor reform!

In the sky, the moonlight is still bright.

In the Far East, it's already early morning.

The climate in the island country is not cold. The grass on the field outside is covered with frost. In the shipyard not far away, the workers who have worked hard all night are stopping to rest.

A Germanic face appeared in the shipyard, and the workers at the shipyard were no surprise. Recently, such people often come over.

"Our project is progressing well, as expected, this is the fastest solution."

Next to Rudel, Rear Admiral Sentaro Omori said to Rudel: "We have modified five tankers, and on each tanker, 30 Stuka bombers can take off and land. In this way, we will have another 100 more. Fifty bombers are coming. It's just that our bombers are not fast enough to receive them."

At first, Rudel was just a sentence. As a result, the island nation began to demonstrate, and the final result was not bad. It is completely feasible to use oil tankers to change aircraft carriers.

In fact, it is not accurate to call them an aircraft carrier. After all, this kind of temporarily modified tanker is of civilian standard, without any armor protection, and the power system is quite low. It does not have the ability to quickly sail in formation with the main fleet. The only advantage , That is, after modification, it can take off and land carrier-based aircraft.

Rudel looked at the oil tankers in front. On the sideboards of these tankers, you could even see the cross sign, but after being brushed in a hurry, it did not cover the whole area.

These tankers are all German. After transporting crude oil from the Middle East to the island country, they were taken over by the island navy for transformation.

In fact, the idea of ​​transforming merchant ships into aircraft carriers was not invented by Rudel. Many people can think of it.

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After the Washington Naval Treaty and the London Naval Treaty, the number and tonnage of major battleships and aircraft carriers of various countries have been strictly limited. At that time, the island countries that were expanding their armaments and preparing for war came up with a way: to build a large number of large-scale high-speed passenger ships and cargo ships as "aircraft carrier reserve ships."

For civilian use in peacetime, once war starts or the treaty expires, it is immediately transformed into an aircraft carrier. On the other hand, a large number of ship orders can also be maintained in the shipbuilding industry of the island country that is sluggish during the economic crisis, which is the so-called killing two birds with one stone.

For example, since the island nation won the right to host the 1940 Olympic Games in the mid-1930s, it immediately placed an order for the shipyard to manufacture two large high-speed luxury cruise ships of 20,000 to 30,000 tons, serving as ocean-going ships from island nations to North America before and after the Olympics Passenger task.

For these two cruise ships, the authorities bear 60% of the construction costs. After that, the two passenger ships were ordered to be directly transformed into aircraft carriers before they were completed, named the Flying Eagle and Falcon Eagle aircraft carriers.

Unfortunately, this transformation is not cheap, especially the dismantling of the original equipment of the passenger ship and changing it to military use, which caused a lot of waste.

However, the Germans have long been prepared. Compared with the islanders, Germany is smarter.

In fact, the island countries also have oil tankers, but the oil tankers in the island countries are not easy to rebuild. Most of them are about 10,000 tons and have a low displacement. At the same time, their decks are not flat and there are bridges on the front and back. If they are rebuilt, the engineering volume is quite High.

The German tankers are much more convenient. Their displacement is almost 30,000 tons, which is the same as those of later generations, with a broad and fat belly The deck is empty, what's in front Nothing, only the last place near the turbine is a small bridge.

As the high-speed diesel engine is used, the chimney is also very small. At the same time, whether it is intentional or unintentional, the bridge is easily split from the middle and becomes a side bridge. In this way, there is enough space to accommodate the flight deck. .

After importing these oil tankers from Germany, the island country carried out a simple transformation, added a flight deck, cut off half of the bridge, and the aircraft carrier came out.

If the disadvantage is that the speed of these ships is too slow, the maximum speed is less than ten knots, which is also a common problem of diesel engines, and the horsepower cannot be too large. Moreover, the asking price of the Germans is really not cheap! If it is not in a hurry, the island country really wants to start building this kind of thing in its own shipyard.

There is no lower hangar, all the aircraft must be placed on the deck, otherwise, at least fifty carrier-based aircraft can be operated! At the same time, oil can be loaded under the tanker to supply the fleet.

Being an aircraft carrier in wartime and a tanker in peacetime. This kind of creativity is much more convenient than using cruise ships or other transformations!

Due to the temporary increase of these programs, they can operate more carrier-based aircraft. In this way, the Stuka bomber is insufficient.

Rudel nodded: "Yes, we must make up the carrier-based aircraft as soon as possible. I will report to the country and give priority to our friends."

Rudel smiled secretly in his heart, Head Cyric, often like a businessman!

In fact, the domestic production capacity of Stuka is not a problem at all. Now, the islanders want to increase their orders expeditiously, and the German side deliberately delays, they can use overtime as an excuse to increase prices.

"Major General, Advisor, Pheasant Fifty-Six summoned two to participate in the meeting." At this moment, a deputy came over and said. ()

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