"Alright, I wonder if your country can build a battleship with 410mm or 406mm cannons for us!”
Tuchachevsky said.
Hearing this, Li Ye frowned. The Burhonwiks wanted battleships at a time like this.
In this era, aircraft carriers didn't play a big role. Although various countries were building them, they were still thinking about huge ships and cannons.
However, he was also aware of the Russians 'desire for battleships. During the Tsar era, they even fought dozens of wars with the Austro-Hun Empire and Turkey for an ice-free port.
The Soviet Union obviously inherited this point. In fact, Li Ye did not want the Soviet Union to have a strong navy. However, he remembered that the navy had always been Germany's weakness. He did not want to fall too far behind in this aspect in the next war.
The German shipyards had not received orders for large warships for a long time. If they could get orders and complete the relevant technical accumulation, they would obviously have more experience.
The orders would also pull along an industrial chain and ease the pressure of the economic crisis.
Although the Versailles treaty prohibited Germany from building its own large battleships, it did not prohibit them from building battleships for others. Making business assets was to make money. Prohibiting such reasonable business practices was contrary to the mainstream values of the capitalist world.
"Marshal, although we have the ability to build such a battleship, it is more than 35,000 tons. Moreover, such a cannon barrel also needs to be developed. Of course, with Krupp's ability, I think it can be developed within a year. After all, he is a world-leading artillery company. It is just that he has not received similar orders in recent years and is not allowed to be produced. The amount of money involved is not small.”
Li Ye weighed the pros and cons in his heart and finally decided that although the size of the German navy could not compare to the Ying people, it was impossible to deny that the overall performance of his warships was the best.
Compared to the Johannes 'warships, which had a clear division of labor and powerful individual performance, the German warships were more comprehensive.
This was determined by the power invested by both sides in the navy. The Johannes had more and more specialized support ships, and the types of ships were diverse. Germany could only use limited resources to develop battleships and integrated warships.
"We need such battleships! That was why he had sought help from his friends in the country.”
Tuchachevsky said after a moment of silence. He knew that this kind of battleship was very expensive, and the orbit Russians could not afford it. Moreover, Colonel Kroff was right. It was very difficult. They could not build it themselves.
This could be seen from the fact that there were only a handful of Ying Country's Nelson, Japan's Nagato class, and America's South Kowada class in the world.
But Burhonwik had too many enemies, and they needed powerful battleships to protect the coast.
Germany, which was also being bullied by the West, was their best partner.
Li Ye thought of something when Tukhachevsky said this.
Battleships took a long time to build!
You can choose whether to hand it over or not according to the needs of the war.
For example, when the country was about to start a war, they would use various reasons to delay the delivery time. Once the war started, they would use it directly.
They could even fake the number of orders, hide the battleships, or build aircraft carriers in the name of battleships...
" How about this, the funds will still be replaced with food, minerals, and other resources, but you need to provide research and development funds and advance payment first. Otherwise, with the current economic strength of Germany, you won't be able to pay for this first. Of course, after the design is completed, you will have priority to get the blueprints and share them..."
Li Ye forcefully suppressed the excitement in his heart and pretended to be serious.
"You're really our most sincere friend!”
Tuchachevsky laughed heartily. He seemed to see his country's navy also have a place in Europe...
After returning to the room, Heydrich carefully checked the surrounding environment to make sure that no secret agents were eavesdropping before closing the door.
"Colonel, we seem to have exceeded the authority given to us by the president and the National Defense Force.
Then, she whispered to Li Ye.
He was a little worried. Although today's negotiations were very successful, there were dozens of warships, including all kinds of cruisers, battleships, and destroyer, but some high-tech technology was not allowed to be sold.
Especially in the future when Russia was likely to become the enemy of Germany.
He was worried that Li Ye would be punished, but he was also worried that Russia would have such a weapon to deal with their own country.
"My Major, these are not the transactions we planned, but they have provided us with large orders. Many of our military factories have been busy for years. Countless jobs will be added for this, and we will be able to reserve a large amount of resources during the economic crisis.“
Li Ye explained with a smile. It seemed that Heydrich was not fully mature at this time and needed to go through experience.
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