The Sino-Japanese Guichou War had a considerable impact on the world.
First of all, the importance of air power was deeply understood by all countries.
Japan is the best example.
All countries have once again increased their investment in the air force.
In particular, the two bombers used by China in this war have aroused the interest of the major powers.
All countries are playing with airships, and of course they also know that airships are greatly affected by the weather.
Although the bomb load of bombers is far less than that of large airships, they have the advantages of being more flexible, faster, and less affected by weather.
The most important thing is that the price is much cheaper.
Especially now that all countries are building airships, which require a large amount of aluminum.
Currently, only China and the United States export a large amount of aluminum for aviation.
Germany’s aluminum-related technology is also good and no worse than that of the United States, but its production capacity is not large.
It is just enough for itself. use.
So China and the United States, which almost monopolized the world's aluminum market, took the opportunity to raise prices.
The price of aviation aluminum materials skyrocketed, from US$450 per ton in 1909 to the current price of US$1,300 per ton. times As for helium, which is exclusively monopolized by the United States, it has little impact, because Europeans are not fools and will not wait for the Americans to rip them off.
There is nothing we can do about aviation aluminum.
The related industrial chain will not be established for a while, but helium is not without substitutes.
Why should you Yankees choke you?
If you are a cowboy, you are too much, I don’t have to.
Helium is enough, but hydrogen won’t work Well, if you say the safety is poor, we are going to start a war.
How high can the safety of this helium airship be?
This is not a passenger airship.
Anyway, those politicians and generals won’t be flying the airship.
The worst that can happen is that a few big soldiers will die, so it doesn’t matter.
But just the skyrocketing price of aluminum has caused the cost of airships to skyrocket.
Nowadays, European countries need to build a medium-sized airship, at least five to six hundred thousand yuan equivalent to RMB.
Large armed airships are even more expensive, starting with a million.
If it is luxuriously equipped, it will cost even a few million.
The price is too expensive, I really can't stand it.
Even wealthy people like the United States can't stand it no matter how cheap their raw materials are.
It's not that Americans don't have money, it's mainly because the men in Congress are reluctant to spend more on equipment.
The annual military expenditure is only a small amount.
If you want it, don't get rid of it.
So the US military has to live a careful life.
But airplanes are different.
Nowadays, a fighter jet costs only two to three thousand yuan, and a heavy bomber only costs seven to eight thousand yuan, which is no more than ten thousand yuan at most.
The money to build a large airship is enough to build a hundred heavy bombers.
No matter how much bombs a large airship carries, it cannot compete with a hundred heavy bombers.
The more European politicians and generals thought about it, the more reasonable they became, and they all thought of using bombers instead of expensive airships.
Of course, airships are also indispensable.
These things are now like battleships and have become the face and symbol of strength of a great power.
No matter how expensive they are, they are indispensable.
In today's world, if any country does not have a few large airships that are just for show, you would be embarrassed to say that you are a great power when you go out.
There is always no shortage of smart people.
After seeing the actual use of the Chinese Air Force, the great powers also invariably thought of the "high-low combination" method to take into account both quantity and quality.
Now that China is recognized as the number one air force power, it has the most advanced aviation technology and has practical experience in using it, so it is naturally the best learning target.
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If the great powers want to develop bombers, they naturally cannot avoid China, because Chinese companies such as Xingke Group have already registered patents for a number of related technologies in various countries.
These patent barriers are not so easy to bypass.
However, it must be noted here that patent barriers are only effective if the powers themselves play it within themselves.
If a weak country or a guy with no background wants to use something like a patent to blackmail the great powers or capitalists, haha, that would be too naive.
Patent barriers are the rules of the game for the great powers.
If someone who is not even a great power wants to join in, it is a joke.
I really thought that the great powers and capitalists started by opening charity halls.
What kind of great powers do you call those who don’t play double standards?
For example, Hou Debang of the original time and space invented the "joint alkali production method" in the 1930s, but he was forced to disclose it to the world without even receiving half a cent of the patent fee.
There are many others who have experienced this kind of thing.
Hou Debang is not the first, nor is he the last.
Unlike the original time and space, China in this dimension is already a recognized great power, so everyone naturally has to abide by the rules.
The great powers are united.
This is the highest principle in the world.
Even Britain and Germany are almost at odds with each other, but they still abide by this rule and spend what should be spent.
Of course, if a fight actually breaks out, that's another matter.
So now everyone is looking for China, asking for the purchase of bombers and related patent rights, etc.
The first person to come to the door was the United States.
Relying on their quasi-alliance, they made a straightforward request to purchase these items.
Among them, they ordered 200 H-1 "Tern" light bombers and H-2 "Egret" heavy bombers each, and 500 more. engine, as well as related patents, drawings and production licenses.
For orders from the United States, the prices offered by China are quite conscientious.
Now there are many things for cooperation between the two parties, so there is no need to charge too hard.
The unit price of "Tern" is US$5,000, the unit price of "Egret" is US$10,000, and the unit price of the engine is US$2,500.
Of course, the exported aircraft are all "monkey versions", and their performance has shrunk compared to the domestic versions.
The most important thing for a bomber is the bombing sight, which cannot be given to them so easily.
The bomb sight of the export bomber is a simplified version, and its performance is far inferior to the original version.
In addition, the engine is also a shrunken version, and its power and lifespan are lower than the original version.
There are also on-board electronic equipment, all of which have been replaced by stupid and thick tube models.
The transistor models are only for personal use.
For this package purchase contract, China received a total of 13 million Chinese yuan, approximately 6.5 million U.S. dollars.
Next, Germany asked for 200 "Terns" and "Egrets" each, 500 engines, as well as relevant patents, drawings and production licenses.
In order to enhance Germany's strength, Wen Desi's extraordinarily large "self-made five marks" offered Er Dezi a super preferential price, about 22 million marks for 10 million Chinese dollars.
When the Allies came to find out, the price would not be so cheap.
Niu Niu spent 22 million Chinese yuan and about 2.2 million pounds to buy 200 "Terns" and "Egrets" each, 500 engines, as well as related patents, drawings and production licenses.
France is not short of money either.
They bought the same project as the UK, spending 22 million Chinese dollars and about 58 million francs.
Russia, Austria-Hungary and Italy each bought 100 "Terns" and "Egrets", 200 engines, as well as related patents, drawings and production licenses.
It cost 11 million yuan.
In addition, the Ottomans, Brazil, Argentina, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Chile, Canada, Australia, Belgium and other countries also come to purchase.
These are relatively few.
They buy more than a dozen or dozens of aircraft.
Some of them have limited industrial strength.
We didn't even buy a production license, but just purchased finished products and training services.
A total of 25.5 million yuan was obtained from these transactions.
China received a total of 114.5 million yuan from this aircraft transaction, of which the profit was at least 70 million yuan.
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Arms is indeed a hugely profitable industry.
Even Japan, although they were too embarrassed to buy them directly, bought a few from Niu Niu and took them back for fun.
China also pretended not to know about this.
Since it is going to be sold to the great powers, there is no need to be afraid of leaking it.
However, Niu Niu is not a fool.
They are only willing to send a few planes at most, but not technology.
It's fine if you need skills, but you just need to pay for it.
Otherwise, you can buy it from the Chinese yourself.
I'm not a shantang owner.
Then there are new weapons such as tanks, which have also attracted the attention of various countries.
The Japanese Army, which is not too weak, was actually beaten without the ability to fight back.
In addition to the powerful Chinese Air Force, this kind of bunker weapon is also very important. factor.
After all, whether the aircraft can be used depends on whether God will give it face, but the tank is different and is much less affected by the climate.
Moreover, the traffic conditions in Europe and the United States are much better than those in places like North Korea and Taiwan.
This is really suitable for us.
In fact, the tank or its real name "armored fighting vehicle" was not a strange thing at the time.
It was not just the British who thought of it.
Almost all the powers had plans to develop it.
However, the military of various countries still had doubts about its role, and the performance of the product at that time was indeed not ideal, so it was not officially equipped with troops.
The most important thing is that tanks at that time had not yet formed a standard system, and there were countless weird and imaginative works.
For example, the British diamond-shaped tank did not have such a mature design as China.
The most important thing is that China's two main tanks have been tested in actual combat and have fully proved their value.
As a result, tanks were added to the purchase lists of the great powers.
However, the price of tanks is not cheap.
The selling price in China is much more expensive than that of aircraft.
The unit price of the zzc1 type 1911 "Otter" amphibious combat vehicle is 45,000 yuan, and the unit price of the zzc2 type 1912 type "Wolverine" tank is 50,000 yuan.
Thousands of dollars.
This was certainly true in the early days, when planes made heavy use of canvas and wood and were cheaper than tanks.
And the minimum starting price is 50 vehicles.
If there are less, we won’t sell them.
If you want to buy relevant patents and authorizations, you need at least 100 vehicles.
It’s too expensive.
If you like it, buy it.
If you don’t buy it, go away.
Anyway, I’m not in a hurry.
Of course, the United States and Germany, which have a "close relationship", have received preferential prices.
China has given them a 30% discount.
The two companies directly placed orders for 200 vehicles, plus spare parts, as well as related patents and production authorizations.
Seeing these two companies buying, Britain, France, Russia and other countries couldn't sit still and gritted their teeth and bought 200 units each.
Seeing this market situation, other second-tier powers also felt that they could not lag behind the times, and they also placed orders for 50 to 100 vehicles.
China sold 1,700 tanks at once, earning a total of more than 130 million yuan, of which the profit was at least 80 million yuan.
Of course, these export versions of tanks are also monkey versions, with worse armor steel, worse engines, and on-board radios have been cancelled.
Finally, there is the naval weapon.
The super-dreadnoughts that various countries have been building crazily have finally proven their worth in actual combat.
Fighting the former dreadnoughts is just like playing.
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The great victory of the Chinese Navy has completely eliminated the pre-dreadnought ships from the stage of history.
In the future, the ocean will be dominated by super-dreadnought ships.
As a result, the major powers became even more enthusiastic about the construction of super-dreadnought ships.
The most depressing thing here is the United Kingdom, because they have built too many pre-dreadnoughts in the past, a total of seventy or eighty, and now they are all in their hands.
Before the East China Sea War, these used goods could have been sold to another buyer, but who would be stupid enough to buy them now?
Depressing, it seems I can only use it to dismantle scrap metal.
But another weapon that shines in naval battles, the submarine, has not received much attention.
After carefully studying the details of the Sino-Japanese naval battle, the British believed that the role of submarines was still only in sneak attacks.
If China's main fleet had not overwhelmed the Japanese fleet at that time, China's submarines would have had no room to play.
In other words, this thing is just the icing on the cake and can be developed, but it is not worth spending too much energy on.
Naval experts from many other countries have similar conclusions, but Germany is different.
Because of China's reminder, they know very well that the role of submarines is not reflected in regular naval battles, but in breaking diplomatic relations and blockading.
Because of the outstanding performance of Chinese submarines and torpedoes, they became more confident in their choices, so they ordered 50 more submarines from China.
Of course, it is a foreign trade version of the magically modified U-boat, and "Sea Dog" will not be sold now.
As for the aircraft carrier that Wen Desi attached great importance to, it did not perform well during the decisive battle due to weather conditions.
Only when the war was about to end, a few small results were achieved.
Therefore, it has not attracted the attention of the great powers at all.
They believe that this kind of warship is good for replacing cruisers for reconnaissance work.
It also has advantages in dealing with light ships.
However, compared with its cost, its use is still too narrow. .
The Atlantic Ocean is not the Pacific Ocean.
The sea conditions there are even worse.
If there are storms in the Pacific a few times a year, then there are dozens or hundreds of storms in the Atlantic Ocean every year.
After careful study, British and German naval experts believed that the design of China's aircraft carrier was completely unsuitable for the Atlantic environment, so they opened their minds and unanimously proposed an "aviation cruiser" plan.
That is to say, a cruiser and an aircraft carrier are combined together, which can both fight and launch aircraft.
It is multi-purpose and multi-functional.
One ship has multiple functions.
How great is this?
As for the problem that this design will cause the reduction of carrier-based aircraft, in their opinion, it is not a problem at all. question.
There's nothing you can do about the battleships anyway, a few more planes are of no use, it's enough to act as eyes and ears for the battleships.
Maozi and the others looked down on this kind of thing at all.
What they liked were battleships.
France, Italy, and Austria-Hungary have a different feeling, because they are all in the big bathtub of the Mediterranean Sea.
The sea conditions here are much better than those in the Pacific Ocean, and they are completely usable.
As a result, these three countries have carried out the research and development of aircraft carriers.
The Ottomans had similar ideas to the three Mediterranean countries, but they had tasted the benefits of airplanes and felt that if they had aircraft carriers, it would be equivalent to having more mobile airports.
It has to be said that after the accidental collision, the Ottomans were the first country after China to realize the role of aircraft carriers.
Because of the previous cooperation, Osman felt that China, a new great power, was more conscientious, provided high-quality and low-price products, and was not overbearing.
It was much easier to deal with than those white-skinned ones.
In addition, they had already ordered a Fuxi-class aircraft in China, so they simply found China and ordered another aircraft carrier.
However, what they focus on is the performance and quantity of carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier, and they do not pay too much attention to the performance of the aircraft carrier itself.
Therefore, they require their aircraft carriers to have more carrier-based aircraft, and it doesn't matter if the speed is slower.
When the time comes, we will form a partnership with the Fuxi-class ship, so that we can take care of both distance and distance.
As for the United States, they have two opposing views.
However, they are wealthy and ready to build two ships first to see the effect
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