69novels Chapter 699
Chapter 699
See more
: 0.036s Scan: 0.027sThird
Reich, capital Berlin.
Minister of Industry Speer has just counted the last batch of materials sent to China. Since they used the trade with the bear to exchange for the right to pass through the bear, the amount of materials sent to China this time is very large. The materials sent this time include not only various weapons and equipment, but also a large number of mechanical equipment.
With this batch of equipment, as long as the Chinese side can use them where they should be used, then China can set up its own arsenal, and then they will not need to rely entirely on foreign weapons supply!
After missing this opportunity, Hans may only be able to borrow from the chicken side and provide assistance to China from the air with transport planes.
The cost of transporting materials in the air is too high and it is not cost-effective.
In addition, Hans has a small number of transport planes.
The limited transport planes must be used in military missions, including air transport of materials to the front line and providing vehicles for paratroopers.
It is impossible for them to specially dispatch an air transport unit to undertake the task of transporting materials to China.
Historically, after the Burma Road was cut off, the Eagle Sauce used transport planes to transport a large amount of supplies to the Celestial Empire through the Hump Route. However, the Eagle Sauce took off from India in South Asia, which is very close to the Celestial Empire. Even so, the transport planes and crew members performing the transport mission still suffered heavy losses.
In the transport mission that lasted for several years, the Eagle Sauce lost a total of nearly 600 transport planes and more than 1,600 crew members.
This loss is very heavy. Both these transport planes and the crew members on the transport planes are very valuable assets of the Air Force. Losing them in non-combat missions is very uneconomical.
Of course, if there was no life extension of the Hump Route, the situation in the Celestial Empire would probably be even worse. If the Foot Basin defeated the Celestial Empire and obtained the Celestial Empire’s huge human resources, land resources and natural resources, then the Foot Basin would only bring more trouble to the Eagle Sauce in the battle with the Eagle Sauce. Therefore, even with such heavy losses, the Eagle Sauce has never stopped supporting the Celestial Empire!
Hans is not an Eagle Sauce, and does not have the same deep foundation as the Eagle Sauce. Moreover, Hans’ transit station is too far from the Celestial Empire. The distance between the border area of Turkey and the Celestial Empire is 3,000 kilometers, which is obviously much farther than the distance between the Eagle Sauce and the Celestial Empire in South Asia.
Therefore, even if the transport plane that takes off from the eastern part of Turkey lands in the westernmost border area of the Celestial Empire, the distance is far enough.
The only aircraft that can meet such a long flight distance is the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
Moreover, the combat radius of this aircraft is only 1,500 kilometers, and the maximum range is only 4,000 kilometers.
If it is fully loaded with various materials, it can barely run these 3,000 kilometers.
If there is a slight problem on the road, it may cause a tragedy of aircraft crash and death.
Therefore, for Mainz, although it is necessary to support the Celestial Empire, if it requires such a large price, and it may even affect Hans’ own strategy in Europe, then it is a bit of a loss!
Therefore, taking advantage of the passage obtained from the trade with the bears, he decided to transport most of the transport materials at once. In the future, the chickens will only undertake the task of personnel exchanges and will not undertake the task of air transport of materials. In that case, the strategic impact on Hans himself will be reduced to a minimum, and it will be too much of a burden on their air force!
However, Mainz’s approach made Industry Minister Speer dissatisfied.
“Head of State, aren’t we too generous in our support for the Celestial Empire? The first batch has delivered more than 1,000 machines, and this batch has nearly 100 machines. This amount of equipment is enough to assemble a Skoda Arsenal!” The
Skoda Arsenal in Jake was incorporated into the hands of the Republic of Bohemia after the Battle of Jake. Bohemia was actually a puppet supported by Hans and was established to appease the emotions of the Jake people.
Mainz originally established the Republic of Bohemia to give face to the British Empire and Gaul, so as to prevent them from having any excuse to act against Hans, but who would have thought that these two countries were so cowardly that they dared not find fault with Hans at all. In the end, it was Hans who provoked the war himself.
At this moment, Gaul has surrendered, and the British Empire is also in danger. The meaning of Bohemia’s existence is… There are not many left, so Mainz plans to formally annex Bohemia in the second half of this year. However, in order to make the eating look a little more attractive, he did not do it directly, but let the Bohemians join Hans in the form of a referendum.
Of course, this referendum was controlled by the SS, and the result of the vote was already determined!
Although Hans has not officially annexed Bohemia, the assets left by the original Czechoslovakia in Bohemia have been taken over by Hans.
As an important arms production base of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Skoda Arsenal is very important to Hans. This is of great significance. This is one of Hans’s largest arsenals in Central Europe.
It mainly produces light machine guns, general-purpose machine guns, tanks, artillery and other equipment.
It can produce nearly 40000 guns of various types, 200 guns, more than 2 million rounds of ammunition and 1 million rounds of artillery shells every month.
As for weapons such as tanks, because there was no special tank production line in Jieke before, this weapon was directly transferred to Rheinmetall’s production line and reorganized for production.
Therefore, the current production capacity is not high, and only about
100-150 tanks can be produced every month.
For example, the Skoda Arsenal can produce nearly 500,000 firearms, more than 2,000 artillery pieces, 1,000-2,000 tanks, more than 200 million rounds of bullets and more than 10 million rounds of shells for Hans every year!
Except for the various equipment of the Air Force and the Navy that cannot be produced, the weapons and equipment produced by the Skoda Arsenal every year are enough for Hans to equip one and a half armies!
If there is another arsenal like this, it will be of great significance to Hans!
However, what Speer couldn’t understand was that Mainz supported so many mechanical equipment to the Celestial Empire, which made him feel quite painful.
“Arsenals are no longer of great significance to us. Our domestic military factories are already sufficient. If they are not enough, we can also use those in Gaul, the Benelux countries, and even those in Northern Europe and the British Empire. With these arsenals added together, our military production capacity is completely sufficient and even seriously exceeds the standard, so it is of limited significance to establish one or two more military factories!”
Mainz did not quite agree with Speer’s words. Ordinary weapons and equipment have already had a very limited impact on Hans’ military strength.
At present, the only things that can bring great improvements to Hans are tanks, self-propelled artillery, tank destroyers and air force combat aircraft.
And these are not on the list of aid to the Celestial Empire this time!
“Moreover, the things we support the Celestial Empire are all looted from the defeated countries in Europe. These things have been piled up in the warehouse for more than half a year, and I haven’t seen you ask to use them before? Why are you reluctant to take them out for recycling and give them away now?”