Chapter 1581 (2/2)

Li Zitao asked excitedly, ”how many ships will be built in the first phase?”

In his opinion, this contract is more like a consolation award given by the ”Brotherhood” as compensation for his failure to achieve his wish.

In fact, in the eyes of many people, his purpose from the beginning was to strive for more welfare for himself.

The immediate immediate immediate benefit is the Navy's second generation aircraft carrier procurement contract.

”Four ships, it's a miracle for the Navy, for you and me!” Lawrence said with some emotion.

As any military fan knows, the situation of the navy has been getting worse and worse since 1948.

It can be said that since the end of the war, its fate has not been smooth, until it has deteriorated completely.

First, defense secretary and Navy Secretary James forester, who supported the construction of the super carrier, resigned after a serious illness.

Even so, Louis Johnson, the successor to defense secretary, is not satisfied because he is a ”traitor” from the air force's standpoint, at least for the Navy.

It happened that they met with the end of World War II, and the Congress cut down military expenditure and military institutions on a large scale, and the competition and exclusion among the various armies were particularly serious.

Therefore, the army and air force united front and strongly opposed the super carrier plan.

The following year, the ”America” placed keels at the national Royal shipyard and Newport News shipyard. Without communicating with the then Navy Secretary and Congress, Louis Johnson unilaterally ordered the building to be cancelled.

Several senior Navy generals, including Navy Secretary John Sullivan, resigned in protest.

James forester, the former Secretary of defense and navy who resigned because of illness, committed suicide the following month.The loss of a large number of high-ranking generals with the right to speak and the most influential veteran generals, and cutting off the ”America” became the fuse for other services to attack the Navy budget violently.

From 49 to 51, the Navy's budgets were slashed.

Eight Essex class aircraft carriers in service were reduced to half, and 10 class escort carriers were greatly reduced to only two.

The fleet of carrier based aircraft, marine aviation Squadron, antisubmarine aircraft squadron and patrol aircraft squadron were substantially reduced.

For the Navy, it was like a disaster, with less than a third of its strength in wartime.

If it wasn't for the carrier formation still in service, the entire U.S. Navy would look like a complete collapse.

As for the construction plan of super carrier, it has been put on the shelf and no one is interested in it.

The turning point of the incident came from the peninsula, which changed the embarrassing situation of the Navy being isolated and targeted.

Plans to build new carriers are back on the agenda, but the Navy's focus is still on Retrofitting 18 Essex class ships that have been put back on the battlefield.

The construction plan of the new large aircraft carrier ranked 23rd in the priority of the new annual budget draft. Then, in the revised annual budget, that is, this year's annual budget, its priority was raised to eighth.

Today, four years later, the launch plan of the new large aircraft carrier has finally been restarted, and the navy has ushered in a long-term expected victory.

Although it is a victory for self entertainment and the era of great ships and cannons is gone, it is still a day to celebrate.

The cost of each of the four ”national” new large aircraft carriers is over US $100 million. The first ship will take about 26 months.

The next three aircraft carriers will be put into operation every other year, and the time consumption will be reduced accordingly, unless the navy is generous again and puts forward new requirements and technologies.

However, these four ”super” aircraft carriers are enough for l.c.a. to be busy next. It is not a relatively pure technology that has been put into production, but an innovation of aircraft carrier.

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