Chapter 920： Arms purchase (1/2)
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”Russians want to buy planes?”
Just after waking up from his sleep, Franz received the news. It's no surprise to think about it. In recent years, the Czarist government has been buying and buying.
Perhaps it was the taste of sweetness in the purchase, or perhaps it was just that the bureaucrats simply wanted to make a fortune, but the Russians will soon follow the equipment of the large-scale weapons equipped by the Austrian army.
Looking at the aircraft on the battlefield, the Tsarist government will naturally follow up. In particular, the Anglo-Russian-Afghan war continues, and the Russian army desperately needs a weapon that can suppress the British airship force.
”Yes, Your Majesty!”
”The Tsarist government has just decided to launch a Christmas offensive, planning to capture the Afghan region before the Russian calendar Christmas.”
The Foreign Minister Weisenberg explained with a smile. There is no doubt that the Russian Christmas offensive, behind the Austrian promoter.
Until the European War, the British have not participated much. It is not that the London government has suddenly changed its nature. It was mainly dragged down by the Afghan war and did not have so much energy.
Judging from the current situation, unless the strength of the two countries is completely out of balance, otherwise the British will definitely give priority to the battlefield in Afghanistan.
With this answer, Franz was lost in thought. Whether to sell the aircraft to the Russians is also a tangled question.
In theory, when the Russians get the plane, they get the air supremacy in the Afghan war, and the chance of winning the war is even higher.
This is what Austria wants to see. Occupying the Afghan region does not mean the end of the Anglo-Russian war, but will instead be the beginning of a comprehensive war between the two countries.
Regarding India's strategic security, the British government can only die to the end, whether it is willing or not.
With the strength of the British Empire, this war has to be fought. The more intense the British and Russian fights in Central Asia, the less force they can interfere with Europe.
There are advantages and disadvantages to nature. Russia and Austria are not allies. However, this relationship is also established because of interests. If the core interests of the two countries conflict, the alliance will collapse every minute.
The plane fell into the hands of the Russians, and it was difficult to keep it secret. As long as the French are willing to pay, it is not difficult to get samples from the Tsarist government.
”If the French or the British got our plane, how long would it take to decipher the technology?”
Franz asked with concern.
The crux of the matter is here. Austria has lit up the aircraft technology tree in order to maintain its advantage in the war.
Both Britain and France are industrial powers. Once samples are obtained, it is only a matter of time to reverse deduce the manufacturing technology.
Prime Minister Carl: ”According to engineers' estimates, if an intact aircraft falls into the hands of Britain and France, it will only take 1 to 3 months before they can develop aircraft manufacturing technology.
However, the deduction of manufacturing technology does not mean that it can be imitated. Because of the different industrial systems, we and the British and French have their own standards.
If Britain and France want to copy directly, they must adjust the standard of industrial mother machine. It takes a lot of time. Without two or three years of hard work, industrial mass production cannot be achieved.
The time on the battlefield does not wait for others, and the possibility of directly copying the cottage is unlikely. It is more likely that we will use our aircraft as a model and adjust some of the designs for imitation.
In this way, the time required can not be estimated, mainly depends on the highest industrial level of Britain and France. If their engine technology passes, it may only take a few months to imitate. ”
Similar to Franz's judgment, the technique of reverse deduction is not difficult, as long as there are aircraft samples in hand, disassembly and research can always be rewarding.
The difficulty is industrialized production, which involves multiple fields. Everyone's industrial standard system is different, and it is difficult to achieve a unified standard.
However, the aircraft is in the field of high precision, and the size of a screw is different, which may affect industrial production.
For details, you can refer to some of the cottage companies in the later generations. The low-end and low-end industrial products are easy to imitate.
The samples are in front of the eyes, and the technology is also deduced in reverse, that is, it cannot be produced. Know the technical barriers, but the gap is more difficult to break than the patent barriers.
After entering the end of the 19th century, the technological gap between European countries has not only existed in the concept, but also reflected in the industrial field.
The technology trees developed by Britain and France are different. Everyone has their own advantages in certain fields. Aircraft manufacturing happens to be a partial field of Britain and France.
After weighing the pros and cons, Franz made a decision.
”Sell it! But restrict it and let the Russians ensure that the aircraft will not flow out. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent people to stare to delay the spread of aircraft technology as much as possible.”
As long as there are exports, the proliferation of aircraft manufacturing technology is inevitable. Even if the British and French did not copy, the Russians would dismantle the research themselves.
The weapons and equipment exported from Austria to Russia have not escaped the fate of being studied. Not only was it to be studied, the tsarist government even carried out counterfeiting.
Although the Russian and Austrian basic industrial systems are the same, the industrial standards of both sides have long been out of the same category.
Most of the time, the production of weapons and equipment faked by the Russians will be much more expensive than imports.
In this context, even the tsarist government had always wanted to get rid of military dependence on Austria, and ultimately lost in the wallet.
This is true of ordinary weapons and equipment, not to mention the high-tech aircraft. Franz dared to assert that even if the technical drawings were given to the Russians, they would not be able to eat them in three or five years.
As long as the finished product does not fall into the hands of the French, even if France and Russia are secretly colluding, at most a few military experts will be sent to study, and no more will be kept secret.
Compared with the concentration of experts in related fields to participate in research, only a few people participate in research, the efficiency is undoubtedly much lower.