Chapter 835： Bragging strategy (1/2)
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The sudden arms race disrupted the deployment of many people, including Austria.
In fact, the Vienna government also had plans to provoke an arms race, but that was all past tense.
Since the decision to implement the Near East development plan, Franz has given up that attractive plan, for no other reason because-poor.
Austria ca n’t afford to engage in infrastructure construction while playing an arms race.
It is easy to provoke an arms race. The key question is how to get rid of it. If you just start such a meaningful activity, you will have no money in your pocket and it will be disgraceful.
This is not just a question of face. It is more about showing strength to countries around the world. The stronger the strength, the easier it is to find a younger brother in international politics.
Of course, there are occasional exceptions that may be counterproductive. How to do this depends on everyone's political skills.
I have to admit that the British grasped the timing. It is indeed the best time to overwhelm France and Austria. After this time, the strategic plan of the two countries is completed and the situation will be reversed.
Even if it is impossible to suppress the two countries at once, it is necessary to crack down on the arrogance of the two countries and tell the world who is the king of this era.
Putting down the information in his hand, Franz frowned and asked, ”Do we have to fight this?”
Foreign Minister Weisenberg: ”Yes, Your Majesty!
The British have calculated the time, and now if we back away, the outside world will think that Austria is afraid of Britain.
According to news from the embassy in Paris, the French government has decided to fight, and it may not be long before a new shipbuilding plan is announced. ”
It is not that there is no strength to follow up, but that Franz is unwilling to make such meaningless consumption.
Well, this is all self-consolation. The real situation is that Austria will not be able to compete with the British without compromising domestic economic development.
Even if the copycats have gained a lot, the three major plans of the Near East development plan, urban transformation and upgrading, and road transportation facilities have already been consumed.
In the arms race, the biggest problem is not shipbuilding, but later military expenditure. Simply building a ship, the Vienna government of a hundred battleships can easily burst out.
The problem is that the ship came out, and the maintenance cost in the later period will be fatal.
Let's put it this way, the construction cost of a new battleship this year was more than one million Aegis, and the maintenance cost of five years exceeded the cost of the warship itself.
It may be less than five years, and if the training is diligent, three years can be exceeded.
This can be calculated. A battleship needs to be equipped with six or seven hundred officers and soldiers, and there are only a lot more logistical maintenance personnel than front-line personnel. The annual expenditure of military pay is just a lot of money.
To ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, daily training is definitely indispensable. Looking at the gun barrel, you can see that the navy ’s shells are not cheap. The battleships will lose dozens of Aegis at once. If you use special bombs, you may lose hundreds of Aegis.
The seemingly insignificant coal-fired, if the unit is turned into a thousand tons, it is not a small number.
Daily maintenance, equipment maintenance, and replacement of damaged parts are also not a small expense.
The total sum of zero and zero together, there is no hundreds of thousands of Aegis funds a year, simply not enough.
If you want to be cheap, just play with the poor navy. Learning from the Russians ’previous practices, the warships were parked in the port, and the soldiers were trained in the army ’s military code. The military expenditures were only one tenth of the normal level.
Franz nodded and commanded the admiral of the Navy: ”Kastagny, talk about your shipbuilding plan!”
”Yes, Your Majesty!”
Admiral Kastagani: ”The British Navy already has 4 monarch-class battleships, and this time it will build 6 new battleships, 10 destroyers, 7 cruisers, and 31 warships of all sizes.
We want to form a deterrent to them, at least to keep 80% of their main battleships and 70% of their affiliated warships.
At present, we only have 3 new battleships. The Admiralty plans to build 5 new battleships, 8 destroyers, 6 cruisers, and 25 other auxiliary warships. ”
I don't know where to start. The Austrian navy began to popularize the ”eighth theory”, that is: having 80% of the tonnage of the Royal Navy, it formed a deterrent to the British.
It should be known that from the beginning of the great development of the navy, the original goal of the Austrian navy was only one tenth of that of the Royal Navy. This was an eightfold increase in less than thirty years.