During Rudolph's visit to China, the German army's SS-7 intercontinental ballistic missile project failed, which led to Rudolph's dispute with the Chinese Empire at the negotiating table and becoming very passive in the issue of military expansion, and eventually returned without success.

The explosion of the missile test site killed more than a dozen key scientists of the German League. The angry Hitler immediately canceled the SS-7 intercontinental ballistic missile project. However, the expansion of the Chinese Empire's military equipment gave the German League a huge sense of strategic oppression. Hitler canceled the SS-7 long-range intercontinental ballistic missile project, which must be replaced by other projects.

The ambitious Hitler finally lowered his requirements, and the German Strategic Weapons Management Committee put the SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile project on the agenda.

As early as the middle of World War II, Germany began to use medium-range missiles to carry out strategic bombing of Britain and achieved certain results. German League had many experts in this regard, so the SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile project began.

From the first half of 1947 to the second half of 1948, the German Union successfully conducted tests of the SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile. The agents of the Chinese Empire were unable to successfully destroy them and could only steal relevant data about the SS-4 ballistic missile through other means.

According to data mastered by the Chinese Empire military, the German Union SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile has a total length of 21 meters, a diameter of 1.1~1.7 meters, a maximum range of 1,980 kilometers, and a maximum take-off weight of 22.5 tons. It adopts inertial guidance, with a warhead weighing 700 kilograms, an estimated explosion equivalent of 150,000 tons, with an error of 5 kilometers. Its fuel filling time is about 5 minutes, and it is launched by ground positions or launching silos.

This level of intercontinental ballistic missile cannot be compared with the Northwest Wind series of intercontinental ballistic missiles of the Chinese Empire. However, the Chinese Empire still has a vast territory in the western and northern borders of the German Union and Tsarist Russia. It is not ruled out that the enemy deployed the SS-4 missiles to the Sino-German border area during wartime, which also poses great threat to the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, the missiles of the Chinese Empire were all long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the cost was obviously much higher than the medium-range ballistic missiles of the German Union. Once the two sides fought, although the Chinese Empire took advantage of long-range strikes, the medium- and short-range ranges were at a disadvantage.

In addition, the Chinese Empire used the frontier positions used by the German Union and NATO countries, Britain, Armenia, Turkey and other countries were very worried about the German Union's SS-4 ballistic missiles, and they asked the Chinese Empire to deploy the Northwest Wind series of ballistic missiles in their countries to give them a sense of security.

However, the Chinese military believes that it is unwise to deploy long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles on the front line. To deal with the German League, it only needs to deploy medium- and short-range ballistic missiles in front-line countries.

To this end, the Chinese Empire military developed the Guard-1 medium-range ballistic missile against the German Union's SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile.

The Chinese Empire's technology in missile weapons was at least twenty years ahead of the German League. Therefore, although the Chinese Empire developed medium-range ballistic missile technology later than the German League, it almost officially deployed medium-range ballistic missiles with the German League. Therefore, it did not lag behind in strategy at all.

The Defender 1 medium-range ballistic missile is based on the v2 missile barrel design developed by the Chinese Empire before World War II. It has only updated the rocket engine and inertial navigation equipment to make it faster and fly more stable. It has higher strike accuracy and has become a star in the medium-range ballistic missile family.

Guardian 1 is the first generation of medium-range ballistic missiles in the Chinese Empire that use first-class liquid fuel single warheads. It was developed by Royal Aircraft Corporation and successfully tested live ammunition in June 1948. It began to equip the Chinese Empire strategic missile force in September of the same year. In February of the following year, mass production equipment was provided to the Imperial Chinese Army at the Portsmouth base in the UK.

In response to the information that the German Union planned to deploy 50 to 95 SS-3 medium-range ballistic missiles, the first batch of Guardian 1 medium-range ballistic missiles in the Chinese Empire planned to deploy 100, with a total equipment cost of 900 million dragon coins and a unit price of 750,000 dragon coins. 100 were organized into 5 missiles, with 20 missiles per squadron. Each was placed in a silo. It was not until April of the 63rd year of Guanghua that Guardian 1 medium-range ballistic missiles were retired and replaced by the more advanced Guardian-2 medium-range ballistic missiles.

The tactical and technical performance data of the Defender-1 medium-range ballistic missile are generally stronger than the German League's SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile. Its total length is 19.8 meters, a diameter of 1.8~2.24 meters, a maximum range of 3,200 kilometers, and a maximum take-off weight of 49.9 tons. The nuclear warhead model it loads is Guanghua Forty-Five Year Type (w-45), which will be replaced in five years. The warhead weight reaches 1,800 kilograms, the nuclear bomb equivalent is 500,000 tons, the fuel filling time is 9 minutes, and the accuracy is within 3 kilometers. It adopts a ground vertical launch method or an underground launch silo.

Although the Chinese Empire had strong financial resources and the number of medium-range ballistic missiles deployed by the first batch was more than that of the German Union, the Chinese Empire was on the attacking side and strategically surrounded the German Union and NATO. The 100 Guardian 1 missiles were scattered in Britain, Armenia, Türkiye and other countries, and the pressure on the German Union was not very high.

Originally, the Chinese Empire military planned to deploy on a large scale, but was eventually stopped by the Chinese Empire Emperor Wang Chenhao. Because Wang Chenhao knew very well that nuclear war was difficult to fight, and the role of nuclear weapons was only to deter the enemy. There was one but not to use it, and there was nothing but not to do it. As long as the strategic pressure on the German League was maintained and the German League was forced to engage in a corresponding arms race, because the real purpose of the Chinese Empire was to drag down the economic foundation of the German League.

The German Union suffered financial difficulties in the early post-war period, but Hitler tried every means to increase military expenditure.

In addition to confronting the Chinese Empire on nuclear missiles, Hitler's ambition to rebuild the German high seas fleet once again expanded in the face of the Chinese Empire's huge naval expansion plan.

In order to break the Chinese Empire's maritime blockade on the entire German Union, NATO countries supported German Union's plan to rebuild the high seas fleet.

According to the intelligence mastered by the okw Intelligence Agency, the Chinese Empire will have at least five nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and twenty nuclear submarines after 1950. Together with the original 11 conventional aircraft carriers, 13 super battleships, 187 cruisers, 1,045 destroyers, and nearly 530 conventional submarines, the Chinese Empire's naval power will be unprecedentedly strengthened.

Facing the Chinese Empire's navy alone is enough to scare the entire NATO countries. If the naval power of the Warsaw Pact organizations such as Britain, Türkiye, Lan Fang, and Singapore is even more powerful.

But Hitler still sidelined the opposition and forcibly passed the Navy expansion bill in Congress, allocating 27 billion marks (3.5 billion dragon coins) to rebuild the high seas fleet. However, this was the entire era of the German-United Nations, so the fleet was named the European Union Fleet to win over the support of European countries.

The 3.5 billion dragon coins cannot build a European joint fleet that can compete with the Chinese Navy. Hitler hopes to allocate more than one billion dragon coins every year in the future. In the next ten years, it can catch up with the Chinese Navy, or reach 70% of the Chinese Navy's strength.

But it is obvious that this plan is very difficult. At least with the current economic strength of the German Union, it is impossible, unless Europeans are hungry.

The European Joint Fleet Plan was soon introduced. According to Hitler's instructions, the German Union will build 2 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and 3 conventional-powered aircraft carriers, 40 cruisers, 260 destroyers and 140 submarines for the Joint Fleet in the next three years. Among them, 40 nuclear submarines.

Obviously, 3.5 billion dragon coins cannot make so many warships. Even if the Germans can complete them under the planned economic system, they cannot complete many warships because their technology is not enough.

Take aircraft carriers for example. German Union can only imitate the early aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire and Britain, but it happened that aircraft carrier-based aircraft had abandoned the propeller fighter era and entered the jet fighter era. The original propeller aircraft network platform could no longer serve jet carrier-based aircraft. The key steam catapult technology was strictly controlled by the Chinese Empire and was unable to obtain it. It took time to study steam catapults, and the training of jet fighters from land to aircraft carrier platforms took even more time. The latter took quite a long time because it took a lot of time to train naval aviation pilots. Germany did not pay attention to aircraft carriers at the beginning, so it became the biggest shortcoming at this time.

In the end, the German Navy temporarily gave up the construction of aircraft carriers and instead built cruisers, destroyers and submarines. It mainly used offshore defense and used land aircraft to fight against the Warsaw Pact aircraft carriers on the sea.

Although Hitler clamored to establish the European Combined Fleet, the German Navy was very wise. With the current situation, the German army would suffer a lot. It would be more practical than to develop a weak navy with asymmetric combat power. The so-called weak navy is actually a large-scale construction of submarines. Conventional powered submarines could not submarine for a long time and avoid the reconnaissance of the Chinese Empire warships everywhere on the sea. Therefore, the German Navy focused on the development of nuclear submarines.

The German Navy Ministers' Council of R&D requires the design of the German League's first-class nuclear submarine at the fastest speed. But in addition to the problem of nuclear power equipment, it is even more serious to place a T-15 torpedo with a length of 24 meters, a diameter of 1550 mm and a range of 40-50 kilometers on a nuclear submarine. At the same time, two 533 mm torpedo tubes must be installed for self-defense. This type of torpedo is designed to install a nuclear warhead to achieve the purpose of "super attack power, super power" and "drilling two kills". Then the experts in charge of the research and development of submarines began to develop this plan and submitted a preliminary technical design case in July 1949. At this time, the naval department only knew about the plan and its design. After the eye-catching plan was submitted to the naval department, the naval department immediately expressed its opinion that the main weapon of the submarine in this plan - the t-15 torpedo, is not

The method has achieved the predetermined attack capability. Because at that time, the submarine had to rely on the physical targets on the shore to perform attacks. The submarine had to do this by passing through the extremely strict anti-submarine belt set up by the Warsaw Pact, and not being discovered by the enemy, and then leaving without realizing it after launching the nuclear bomb torpedo. This is almost impossible. The designed speed is 30 knots, which may cause the submarine torpedo to be threatened by the nuclear bomb explosion even if it leaves the launching torpedo at full speed.

Therefore, the Navy concluded that the weapon equipment was insufficient. At the same time, although the initial development of the submarine was relatively smooth, the development of nuclear bomb torpedoes was hindered. In the end, the "nuclear bomb torpedo submarine" plan was abandoned and instead changed to developing ordinary nuclear-powered attack submarines, equipped with 8 533 mm torpedo launch tubes, used to attack enemy warships and transport ships on the ocean. They can launch torpedoes under 100 meters of water, but cannot attack enemy submarines.

Although the nuclear torpedo submarine plan has been cancelled, the submarine's rough design has been completed, but in fact, the research difficulty in nuclear power devices is much more difficult than the design of submarines. In the revised new design mission, the performance range of nuclear submarines is: displacement is less than 3,000 tons, 8 533 mm torpedoes are equipped with 8 underwater speeds of at least 20 knots, and the endurance is between 50 and 60 days. The external streamlined design of the submarine is Berlin's Central Academy of Sciences and the French Central Aerodynamic Research Institute, and the research on hull material and welding technology is handed over to Germany.

The Central Academy of Sciences. The most difficult research on nuclear power plant is the Institute of Physics and Energy of the French Academy of Sciences. They built a prototype of a submarine nuclear power plant in Toulon, France. At the same time, they also built a solid model of the submarine reactor and steam turbine cabin, and installed generators, turbines and control systems in the model. Hydraulic brakes were used to collect the power output power and conducted a series of tests. The entire submarine development work was not completed until March 1952, and then the crew began to operate the nuclear power plant.

Finally, the German Union completed the construction of its first nuclear submarine in 1954. The German Union's first nuclear submarine was also named UF-1. Its surface displacement is 3065 tons and underwater displacement is 4750 tons. It adopts a double-shell structure, 30% reserve buoyancy, 8 533 mm torpedo tubes, and a speed of 23.3 knots.

Overall, the UF-1 submarine can basically provide an effective deterrent to the German Union Navy. This is mainly because the Imperial Chinese Navy is not familiar with this type of nuclear submarine. If the Imperial Chinese Navy knew that the German Union's nuclear submarine could only use 60% of its power output during navigation, it would be possible to guess that the German Union's nuclear reactor technology is far from standard.

Of course, this matter was only made public when the German League disintegrated many years later. When the German League had just completed the launch of the nuclear submarine, the Chinese Empire was still very nervous and concerned.

When the German Union completed the trial voyage of nuclear submarines, the Chinese Empire showed great concern, which made the German Union very proud. So Hitler did not hold the German Navy responsible for giving up the responsibility of aircraft carriers to build nuclear submarines, but instead added funds to increase the number of nuclear submarines.

In order to scare the Chinese Empire and Warsaw Pact countries, the German Union claimed that the UF-1 nuclear submarine could launch nuclear torpedoes and intercontinental ballistic missiles. It suddenly tested an SS-4 medium-range ballistic missile into the North Sea, which was publicly launched from nuclear submarines. Since the Chinese Empire's radar station in the North Sea only monitored the situation of the terminal missiles, it was unknown when and where it was launched, and it was not known whether it was launched on nuclear submarines. This made the command of the Chinese Empire very nervous for a time and hurriedly sent the Ming-class strategic nuclear submarine that did not carry intercontinental ballistic missiles to the North Sea in advance to deter the German Union.

Both China and Germany are lying and deceiving each other, so the first attack nuclear submarine of both countries has never encountered each other, and both sides avoid being known by the other side.
Chapter completed!