Chapter 1022 – Armament Program

“Not a bad decision.” Alan Wilson was prepared for this and immediately expressed his approval of his top boss’s opinion, “In fact, America’s hidden hostility towards Britain as well as the British Commonwealth has been going on for many years. This is an open secret, only because of the successive independence of British India, Burma and Sudan, it has not been shown too obviously. Now the US may be a bit impatient to wait, specifically on the Iranian issue, we can’t forget that there is still the Soviet Union, and if the Americans want to come on hard, it’s not so easy to pull out of Iran without saying a word, that doesn’t exist.”

“In fact, the United States chose Iran as the location of pressure on Britain, better than the Suez Canal or the Malacca Strait accident.”

Alan Wilson still expressed confidence and optimism about this round of diplomatic friction.

This time the discussion was about delaying as long as we could while putting up a good resistance to this round of US attacks on a diplomatic level with France, and if necessary, even the Soviet Union.

“While we don’t want to fall out with the United States, there’s always the citizens to answer to.” Prime Minister Aiden finally nodded, “Only a struggle will preserve what Britain deserves. Otherwise nothing will be gained.”

“It’s just that I’m afraid it will increase in military pressure.” Alan Wilson tried, without a trace, whether the present government had any idea of disarmament, and he came back with a passing glance at the conscription of troops in the Pacific territories.

Taking the current opportunity to report directly to the Prime Minister, after the merger of the British Pacific territories, with a population of more than 400,000 people, the integration of an army of 30,000 to 40,000 people, used to replace the overseas garrisons of the non-important colonies, can alleviate the pressure brought about by the huge military strength of the present-day Britain.

“It might even be possible to disarm fifty thousand and supplement them with these South Island soldiers. In terms of physical condition, I’ve seen local islanders who are stronger and fitter than our soldiers have ever been. A world away from the Malays, the main ethnic group of the South Island community.” Alan Wilson’s description was full of admiration, “Obviously it’s all one ethnic group, it’s amazing that there’s an islandization evolution.”

Islandization? The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary were, after all, old men, not quite up to speed on new points of knowledge.

Alan Wilson had to explain what the islanding trait was; a species that migrates away from the mainland and survives in the midst of an isolated island environment will evolve to either giganticize or shrink.

The evolutionary trend in rodents is to become larger, while carnivores, rabbits, and even-toed ungulates show dwarfing. Among mammals that migrated to islands, there is a tendency for larger animals to become smaller and for smaller animals to become larger.

Some elephants have even shrunk by seventy percent from their mainland counterparts after geological changes. The law of island size is inversely proportional to the size of the island, so that if the migratory animals exceed a certain proportional size, they move toward miniaturization; less than that, they move toward large size.

The main population of the entire South Island language group is the Malay people of Southeast Asia, and the average height of the Indonesian Malay people is less than one meter six, and even before Alan Wilson’s conscription, the conscription conditions have been relaxed.

But the South Islanders of the Pacific Islands have seen a huge evolution, the average height and weight is higher than their counterparts in Southeast Asia, Prime Minister Aidan and Foreign Secretary Macmillan listened with interest, and this time the private goods instillation has been a complete success.

Since the physical quality is absolutely excellent, put in the East African colonies as a garrison, or put in the Middle East can share the pressure of the local British army’s housing, and even a certain sense of disarmament.

Disarmament of this issue father-in-law Field Marshal Mountbatten is also not opposed to the opposition is to take advantage of the disarmament of weapons and equipment cut, just cut the personnel, then, Mountbatten is also very much in favor. After all, with Britain’s population base, maintaining a year-round strength of eight hundred thousand troops, is simply joking.

In another country, is it known that a certain large country now with a population of 670 million, thirteen times the population of Britain, has maintained a standing army of 10,040,000 men all the time?

When the present government came to power, Aidan had spoken of reducing the size of the army appropriately. And Mountbatten had told Allen Wilson before that the new government intended to reduce the army to seven hundred thousand. This time Allen Wilson drew on the narrative of the South Islanders’ integration to bring the situation to the issue of disarmament.

Sure enough, the Prime Minister was interested, “We have also spoken to Marshal Mountbatten, and the Marshal seems to have misunderstood this.”

“I think the marshal’s misunderstanding would be the laying off of technical equipment, not the downsizing in personnel.” Alan Wilson explained to his father-in-law, “Military development is rapidly changing, once a certain item cannot keep up and causes a break in the generation there could be tragic consequences, in Britain’s point of view, although an arms race is not what Britain wants, there is no choice.”

These words made Aidan very satisfied, leaving an impression that Alan Wilson was very sensible, the reason for running for the country, and does not avoid responsibility, it is really a pillar of talent cultivated by Whitehall.

On the formulation of foreign policy matters, naturally by Alan Wilson, the foreign secretary Macmillan say count. It is also possible that Prime Minister Aidan himself will provide guidance.

Taking this opportunity, Alan Wilson went to meet with Field Marshal Mountbatten to inform him of his views on disarmament and the progress of the various pieces of equipment he wanted to know about.

Field Marshal Mountbatten was pleased to have his son-in-law at his door and enquired about his daughter’s life in Australia, “Pamela was worried about the child being too young for the London climate, which is so reassuring, she’s a mother now too.”

“Stumbling upon it was the biggest blessing of my life, sometimes I wonder if I saved the world in a previous life.” Even more fortunate was the fact that the Word had been so successful, but that was something Alan Wilson didn’t say.

Marshal Mountbatten burst out laughing, and turned to inquire, “You don’t seem to have been very successful in this outing; Macmillan won’t have any opinion of it.”

“What does he have to say about it, he’s just a minister. Uh, I mean, diplomacy has always been of special concern to the Prime Minister now, and even if there is an opinion, the Prime Minister’s opinion is more important.”

Alan Wilson momentarily lost his tongue and hurriedly rounded off his words, shifting from the perspective of Whitehall and the Cabinet to that of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, concealing Whitehall’s view. But how could this be hidden from Mountbatten, who had grown up in high society, “You people in Whitehall are happy to create conflict between the Prime Minister and ministers.”

“Even if we don’t create it, they still have conflicts.” Alan Wilson shrugged, “That’s how it is in politics.”

Currently the British military has a plethora of plans for the rollout, the army has the Chieftain Main Battle Tank, which is used to replace the Centurion Tank, the Royal Navy has plans for the construction of aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, and the air force has the TSR.2 Attack Aircraft, the Belfast Strategic Transport Aircraft program. and the Marauder attack aircraft program for service on aircraft carriers.

“Duncan believes in missile omnipotence and there are indications that the United States and the Soviet Union are also developing strategic missiles.” Field Marshal Mountbatten went over the plans for each service’s rollout, then said, “Many believe that with the development of early missiles, some weapons are outdated and not worth pursuing.”

“Missile omnipotence is a pretty bullshit conclusion, and I’m in charge of the space program.” Alan Wilson grunted, “What is well known is that ministers are amateurs when it comes to looking at weapons, Churchill was, and Churchill’s son-in-law was worse.”

Alan Wilson had no recollection of the TSR.2 attack aircraft, the Belfast strategic transport, it seemed that both should have been cut in the British creeping retreat, he wanted some performance data on specific requirements, Mountbatten obliged.

“If there is going to be a termination because of cost, a joint research program with a European country could be considered.” Alan Wilson took the air force equipment plan, smiling and father-in-law Mountbatten joked.

If the plan in his hands was given to the Soviets, he believed that the Soviets would want to get it no matter how much it cost.

Alan Wilson will also be more interested in the Belfast strategic transport plan, because it is too big, the prototype has been produced, in order to be able to transport the Army’s heavy equipment such as large-caliber artillery, missile systems and armed personnel, etc., so that it carries about two hundred heavily armed personnel.

The SC-5 Belfast had a T-shaped vertical tail, a maximum takeoff weight of one hundred and ninety tons, a maximum load of fifty-four tons, and was powered by a Rolls-Royce Tundra RTy-12 engine with a Hawker Siddeley four-bladed aluminum propeller. The power is provided by a Rolls-Royce Tundra RTy-12 engine and a Hawkshead four-bladed aluminum propeller.

What’s not to like, and what might be criticized, is that this is a propeller-based strategic transport. Like the Soviet Tu95 strategic bomber, there are four propellers configured on either side of the wing, and I wonder if that’s what caused it to end up not being favored by the British military, but it’s all technical tweaks that are perfectly capable of improvement.

Alan Wilson if you want to force this strategic transport aircraft, the approach is also very false single, Field Marshal Mountbatten is the highest military commander of the British three armed forces, the way to impress the father-in-law is, in the Belfast strategic transport aircraft encountered a problem, so that his wife to make acquisitions, to suppress the price of the father-in-law to judge the British military in the end to equip this one strategic transport aircraft.

Then the way to save the TSR.2 attack aircraft, Belfast strategic transport aircraft, is that the former seeks the British and French joint research, the latter in the need for a strong for the country to take over the strong, financially strong group.

Most importantly, this group had better be on good terms with the head of the military, and Alan Wilson believed that Pamela Mountbatten was still on good terms with Field Marshal Mountbatten.

“When will the Federal Republic of Germany’s flying coffins be delivered.” Alan Wilson was very bitter, if Germany had not suffered such a big loss on the flying coffins, where was the later example of European cooperation in the Gale Typhoon.

Now and Germany’s relationship is not good, Britain Liu can only choose and France to report to warm up, just as de Gaulle led France, after returning to the country a few days, Allen Wilson began to frequently come and go on both sides of the Channel, for de Gaulle’s visit to the United Kingdom to warm up.