As for destroyers, they have always been large-scale: during World War I, the mainstream tonnage of destroyers was only over 1,000 tons, and during the interwar period, it expanded to 1,500 tons. Now 2,500 tons has become the standard configuration of destroyers. The standard displacement of French Fukao Class, German Hedgehog Class, and American Keeling Class destroyers exceeds this number. Traditional navy can be included in the category of cruisers if it exceeds 3,000 tons. Now, where are there anyone playing light cruisers below 5,000 tons?

Hoffman's creativity is very new, but we need to experiment first. At least the summary is not unreasonable. The designers had to put away the infinite expansion ideal of "10,000 tons of air defense cruisers" and study the "multi-functional future destroyers" steadily.

The Navy was beaten with two rounds of design intentions. Marshal Denitz, the actual head of the Navy, was also anxious. However, he knew that it was useless to be impatient and had to have steady, proper and reliable construction ideas as a guarantee. The head of state has clearly stipulated that the Navy should have great development, expand its warships, and expand its base. Once it goes for a fork, it will be lost or wasted at the least, and at the worst, it will be ruined. Therefore, it is impossible to be careless.

The only thing that made Hoffman feel relieved was that the Type 23 submarine is being built and improved in an orderly manner, and the Type 30 super submarine is expected to be completed in April. He expressed his satisfaction with this that Germany is still unique in the submarine field.

Unlike the Navy Armed Forces Conference, the afternoon armored equipment conference finally made Hoffman sigh: the experts reported that the composite armor had first seen the first sight and clearly showed the shooting range test results.

As the world's largest army power, Germany has always led the trend of the times in the tank field and is also the country with the deepest sense of urgency. Even though mainstream weapons represented by Tiger 2, Tiger 3 and Leopard have significant advantages over other countries' equipment, they still do not give up on the development progress of the next generation of tanks. According to the initial plan, the e45 project will build a prototype by 1946, but Hoffman proposed that the new generation of main battle tanks will no longer distinguish between heavy and medium-sized tanks, and integrate heavy tank defense + firepower level and the maneuverability of medium-sized tanks with production costs. This requirement has never been met. It is so urgent that all the men in the military department cannot eat well and sleep well. It doesn't matter if the warships fall behind. Anyway, Germany has never established a country with a navy. If the tanks fall behind, it will be fatal, which is equivalent to being held on the neck by someone and being destroyed every now and then.

Finally, Maybach has created the 850-horsepower HL245 engine. Although the maturity problem is not small, at least with the gradual improvement, the problem will always be solved. In this way, the mobility indicators will be initially solved. The current problems are armor and artillery.

In fact, Hoffmann had already selected the cannon in his mind, which was the l7, but he couldn't say it out, because the l7 was still lying in the British laboratory just a design drawing, and there would be hope until at least the end of next year. However, the artillery problem is the least troublesome among many problems. Using the German 128mm can actually turn the e45 into an e50 again. This tonnage loss is still within the affordable range.

The most important thing is composite armor. He brainwashed the designers since his time travel, emphasizing that composite armor does not find the material with the strongest defense ability under the same thickness, but finds the material with the strongest defense ability under the same weight. Once, twice, everyone was confused. After talking too much, the designers finally realized it. It was a pity that they only wandered around in traditional fields such as new alloys and rare alloys, and always thought about using rare formulas to strengthen the current surface. When strengthening the nickel-chromium alloy armor, where can they think of other evil ways?

It was not until after testing ceramics and glass fibers that Germany's exploration of composite armor was correct. It was found that glass fibers were better. The elastic resistance of fiberglass fiberboards of the same thickness was not as that of armored steel of the same thickness. However, the elastic resistance of fiberglass fiberboards of the same weight exceeded that of armored steel of the same weight. The key to limiting the tank's maneuverability is the weight-power ratio rather than the thickness-weight ratio.

As this layer of window paper is broken, the follow-up will be easier.

The drawings taken out by the designers this time are closer to the e50. They use 128mm tank guns, and their defense capabilities are comparable to those of the Tiger 3. The volume is slightly larger. After using composite armor, the weight is reduced from 58 tons of the Tiger 3 to more than 52 tons.

Due to the upgrade of the power system, the designers made bold innovations this time, abandoning the heirloom of German tank staggered overlapping load-bearing wheels, and changing the walking device to a layout of 7 load-bearing wheels on each side, 7 torsion bar springs, 5 hydraulic shock absorbers, 4 pulleys, 1 front-mounted induction wheel with track regulator, 1 rear-mounted driving wheel and 1 track.

Seeing Hoffmann studying the shape, Sperer specifically pointed out: "This is a consensus formed by Rhine Steel, Rhine Metal, Henschel, Porsche, Maybach and the Army Weapon Design Administration after many discussions. Everyone believes that if you want to compress the weight while maintaining your defense capabilities, you can no longer use the staggered load-bearing wheels to apply the updated chassis and walking system."

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Hoffman reads from this drawing some of the design atmosphere of the Leopard 1 tank that was completed in the 1960s in history, but now it is still a little different from Leopard 1, which is more like a transitional body that combines Tiger 3 and Leopard 1, which is quite different from the historical e50 design.

"I think it's OK. As long as you can maintain a reasonable walking device, you don't have to use the staggered load wheel design. I have heard the frontline generals complain that in order to serve this staggered load wheel, the maintenance team is busy until late at night every day. If our army hadn't always firmly grasped the initiative on the battlefield, the situation would not be optimistic." Hoffmann fully affirmed the innovation first, and at the same time proposed, "You should still be bolder in your steps, such as two-way stability, infrared systems, micro radar warning devices, etc., you can boldly put them in. Don't worry about the increase in costs. In the future, the annual output of tanks will not be more than 10,000 yuan, and the unit price is more expensive."

“What is the price you can accept about?”

"I think 70.8 million Empire Mark/vehicle is acceptable." After mass production, the cost of the Tiger tank is less than 270,000 Empire Mark, and the latest Tiger 3 tank is only 500,000 Empire Mark. Many people breathed a sigh of relief when Hoffman agreed to raise the price to 70.8 million mark.

"I hope I will see the prototype before Christmas in 1946. This is my biggest requirement for progress."

While preparing to discuss other subsequent armament situations, Chief Adjutant Darges hurriedly walked in: "Head of the People's Republic of China, there is an emergency and it needs to be reported that Japan had a major earthquake in the East China Sea yesterday. The scene was tragic and the losses were huge. Kerr sent a message with an urgent telegram today that he asked for help from us."

Hoffman knew that there was indeed a major earthquake in Japan in 1944, but he couldn't remember when it was. Now he understood it as soon as he heard it and asked, "What are the specific requirements?"

"The Navy's large number of factory losses, including the Nagoya aircraft manufacturer, hopes to support a batch of machine tools and industrial equipment, and at the same time ensure priority supply of Japanese aircraft in the next three months. In particular, the Joint Fleet is now in the direction of Hawaii, and the demand for aviation forces is urgent. Japan also proposed that they currently donate to us on Galapagos Island, which they occupied in Central America, and they will borrow for the time being."

"We can agree. We have a package of British aircraft, including Spitfire, etc. If Japan doesn't mind, they can provide them first. As for the carrier-based aircraft and engines that Marshal Hori urgently needs, it will also be guaranteed to supply." Hoffman thought for a while, "Our army still has some strength in transportation after the war in South Africa, and can deliver supplies to designated locations that Japan hopes to arrive, provided that the Japanese Navy must send warships to escort."

After Hoffmann's approval, Spel asked: "Head of the People's Republic of China, of course it's okay to sell things to Japan. How can I calculate the money? Japan now owes us almost 30 billion marks. When will this account be collected?"

"Don't worry, Japan gave us half of New Guinea to the east? I guess half of the west is soon, and then Timor Island is probably the only two days. As for the French's bent on the southern part of Indochina, I think there is a lot of hope." Hoffman smiled, "Besides, did Marshal Hori give up Galapagos Island to us?"

"Will Japan fight the US military to the end?"

"Maybe, maybe not, we always have to do our best to help some people in Japan pay and fight Americans for us, why not?"

"Has the German side agreed to our emergency rescue request?" On the Yamato, Hori Teiki, who was worried, asked Chiaki Matsuda that the Tokai earthquake had a great impact on him.

"I promised it, carrier-based aircraft guaranteed supply. Land Airlines can provide a batch of British Spitfire to us first and promise to help us deliver it to the designated location. The first batch includes 300 aircraft, 20,000 tons of aircraft fuel and 500 engine accessories." Kusaku Ryunosuke smiled, "Sir, the Germans seem to be very interesting."

"It's good enough, but we're good enough, Galapagos Island was released." Horitochi sighed leisurely, "The Germans hope that we will continue to fight with the Americans."

"But they don't want us to fight?"

Hori Teiki smiled bitterly: "This is the problem. Whether the Germans support it or not, we have to grit our teeth. Now with support and supplies, there is no excuse to shirk it."

Everyone at the scene knew that the Army had sent out reinforcements three days ago, and it would not be possible to not fight. Now the joint fleet has taken the Aleutian Islands, and the three flight divisions have fought against the US troops on Oahu every day. It is said that they have exhausted the opponent's temper. The next step to attack other territories of the Hawaiian Islands is that they have to fire the arrows on the string.

"I'm passing the order to launch a landing battle against Lanai on December 15th to cut off the connection between the enemy Oahu and Hawaii Island." Hori Teiji smiled slightly, "I know that Oahu's defense is very complete, but other islands may not be the case?"

"Sir, is it possible for the ship gun to suppress and attack the surrounding islands of Maui and Klokai?" Shima Kiyoi was the first to rub his hands, "I can't wait to use the 460mm naval gun to teach American ghosts a lesson!"

"Agree with the request, and conduct deterrent shelling after the cover landing is successful, but the shells should be saved and you will open them when the supply comes up."

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