Chapter 1262: Whitehall and the Ministry of Defense

“Oh, we also expect the US to succeed.” Alan Wilson replied with a smile on the surface, and in his heart, he only hoped that the United States would do what it said it would do, this was a big deal after all.

He then informed the government in Washington of Prime Minister Aidan’s position that Iranian affairs were a big deal, and that his next job was to attend the National Defense Conference, as well as to see if the newly appointed Permanent Undersecretary of Defense, Makins, who was also there to press the case, was widely recognized by the Department of Defense.

With the post-war belt-tightening days far away, the Ministry of Defense routine meetings, no longer like the original filled with gunpowder, the military services to military spending towards the red face, the economic foundation determines the superstructure, the long-lost gentleman style reappeared in the Ministry of Defense.

Makins just took office, in order to stand firm to take out a weapons development outline, of course, this is also Makins Ya Ran very much, but the bedside knife catcher, this is the product of the hero.

Weapons revolution is always one step ahead of the military revolution, when the arrival of revolutionary weapons, the arrival of the military revolution is a matter of time. The history of war provides constant proof of this: bronze or iron spears created infantry squares, bows and arrows and stirrups provided new tactics for cavalry, and a whole pattern of modern warfare sprang up in the use of black powder guns. …… From the time that conical bullets and rifles took to the field of battle as the pointy end of the technological age, weapons simply put their own name on the chest of war. chest of war with their own names.

First of all, the steel-armored giant ship as the dominant sea, the opening of the “battleship era”, and then its brother, “tanks” name of the land war, and then the aircraft to dominate the sky, until the atomic bomb came out, signaling the “nuclear era The advent of the “nuclear age” was signaled by the atomic bomb.

Today, a large number of high-tech weapons continue to emerge, so that weapons have become the chief representative of war. When people talk about the future of war, has been very accustomed to a certain weapon, or a certain technology to call it.

In the tradition of Whitehall, this is inevitably a long and turgid piece of writing, but at its heart is the idea of electronic warfare, which is good for Britain’s current industries, such as semiconductors. Princess Margaret’s husband, Mr. Turing, is taking the direction of semiconductor development, and you dare say it’s not important?

Makins a speech in the office of the confession, caused a piece of applause, not empty talk but the words of the appearance, as if really have real talent to the Ministry of Defense to take office.

“Secretary General, thank you so much.” After the meeting ended, Makins, who was already the number two person in the Department of Defense, came out and expressed his gratitude to Alan Wilson, “You’ve helped me so much.”

“Everyone helps each other, my greatest hobby as a person is to help others.” Alan Wilson puffed out his chest like the poorest worker in the East End of London, “This is both a development trend and a trend. The military field is special and can be used to spur the development of many industries. One thing we must all recognize is that humans tend to apply the most advanced technology to killing each other first.”

Having said that, Allen Wilson actually has reservations about a lot of new technology – what is high technology? What is it aimed at? Logically, high and low are just relative concepts. And to carve out a name for war in the midst of dry change, using a highly variable concept, is inherently problematic.

“I understand that there’s actually like a similar exploration going on in Washington.” Makins had just taken office, but had also done some catching up, mentioning the movements on Washington’s side, at least according to public information, the two countries should be thinking pretty much the same thing.

“Don’t always look at Washington.” Pretty much on paper to be exact, it’s hard to say exactly what the difference is with this generalized direction of development. The Aegis system won’t be in place for another five years.

“Alan, you’re always like that.” Makins smiled and spoke, “Actually, we can try to communicate with the United States so that we have more clarity about the future.”

“But it certainly won’t help, and besides, don’t overestimate the military development of the United States.” Alan Wilson shook his head, “America’s development is only suitable for themselves, Britain can’t copy it.”

For the reactor technology for the Dreadnought nuclear submarine, Britain shelled out fifty million dollars in technology transfer fees. That’s not to complain about anything, after all, it’s a life preserver, and it’s appropriate to shell out as much as you can.

But it should also be clear from this that the US has really taken kryptonite to the extreme, and it’s amazing that it was already this bad in the fifties, considering the Pentagon’s stellar resume of not having a single case of corruption in fifty years. At the same time eight hundred billion dollars of military spending, even against a certain big country’s two hundred billion can not do to hedge, the United Kingdom’s thin bottom or do not learn from the United States.

A big country’s 055-class cost $900 million, the U.S. Navy’s a four-thousand-ton Constellation-class frigate $ 1.1 billion, the same level of the Burke III to $ 3 billion a.

If and a big country to open the arms race, this result is certainly pathetic, the United Kingdom and the United States if the United States to stand together, is only one more body.

More exchanges in exchanges out how to waste military spending, that or don’t exchange, might as well learn from France to take the route of self-reliance.

Alan Wilson are skeptical, the so-called Soviet Union militaristic high military spending is true or false, is not after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Americans fictionalized out of the hedge against the United States itself waste of military spending fabricated.

Are the same set of national system, a certain big country one percent out of the military expenditure, can be compared to the United States of America’s body, there is no reason to rumor that the Soviet Union will have to take out more than fifteen percent of the expenditure, in order to go on with the United States confrontation.

In Indonesia more than two months after the color change, rushed to the Far East of the three carrier battle group, finally joined the Royal Pacific Fleet in the sequence, this round of the Royal Navy layout changes are also considered complete.

Britain’s layout is still the same, indeed, as the snake of the mountains, from Gibraltar has been extended to the incense, with the completion of the replenishment of troops, the Royal Pacific Fleet finally in the South China Sea for Indonesia’s military exercises, showing the Royal Navy’s formidable power, but also in the British military exercises stall, the United States of America on the Tokyo Bay waters cruise officially began.

At one time in the South China Sea, gathered nearly ten aircraft carrier battle groups, respectively belonging to the U.S. and British Navy, this sea is unprecedentedly crowded. The two navies, although in the same area, were targeting different goals, one targeting North Vietnam and its masterminds, the other targeting Indonesia and its masterminds.

This made it seem extremely difficult for Australia, but considering Indonesia’s proximity, Australia decided that Indonesia was a little more important, and following the UK’s right to guarantee free navigation was even more important.

The British forces in Australia and their Vulcan strategic bombers also joined in the exercise, and it can be said that Britain has not conducted such a large-scale exercise for a long time.

Along with aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, Centaur helicopter carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and even battleships, which spend eighty percent of their docking time in a year, were pulled out to conduct live-fire exercises in the waters between East and West Malaysia.

Suddenly, the lookouts on the helicopter carrier spotted the helicopters and saw missiles with fire-breathing tails speeding towards them． “There are missiles attacking our ship． ” the spotter called out in panic．

The captain immediately ordered an emergency dive． The submarine had just entered the water, the missile touched the surface and exploded. But by then it had already flown over the submarine, and he fired cluster rockets into the swirling sea, the rockets hit the submarine, and one explosion caused the sea to turn up the waves． At the same time, he also called the Centaur carrier anti-submarine helicopters to follow the bombing.

A few minutes later, two anti-submarine helicopters arrived. The anti-submarine helicopters have radar mounted under the belly of the aircraft, which can detect the target by scanning underwater. The helicopters have rediscovered the target. The helicopters immediately dropped depth charges, and instantly there was a dull explosion underwater. After a while, the submarine, whose hull was dented and waterlogged, surfaced and ran aground in shallow water near the island. The white flag of surrender stretched out from the window of the boat.

Missile boats and submarines, is the British and American understanding of the Soviet counterattack routine, this exercise is to assume that such a threat appears.

“The execution of this maneuver is quite surprising.” Field Marshal Mountbatten, although not on the front line, but from the available information still came out of the optimistic judgment.

“That’s for sure, the British Army is far less faulty than the American Army, at least the Navy is.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth and said, “Especially when it comes to the defense of Australia.”

Securing the aristocracy’s control over the military wasn’t really a bad thing, but there was something to be said about how to get aristocratic officers to want to serve the military. First there needs to be a place of interest for the sons and daughters of the aristocracy in the military to be willing to pay for, which brings us to Lady Pamela Mountbatten, the daughter of Field Marshal Mountbatten, who was the first to go to sea.

Then there is Field Marshal Mountbatten in the process of promotion to the entry team, giving priority to the sons of the family who have dug the first bucket of gold in Australia, no worries to be promoted.

In this case, the noble officers who have industries in Australia, if they run into a country that is a threat to Australia, can they not single-mindedly contribute?

Even for the security of their own industries, they can’t be as sweaty as if they were clocking in to work, it’s still necessary to sweat it out.

The Royal Navy should also be practicing exercises, which Marshal Mountbatten also agreed, after the war weapons update speed is extremely fast, if you can find a good fit, that is, to find the most appropriate and suitable method of warfare, the old and new generation of weapons with the use of different generations, not only can dissolve the vulnerability of the weapon singularity, but also may become the effectiveness of the weapons of the “multiplier! The use of new and old weapons of different generations can not only dissolve the fragility of weapon singularity, but also become a “multiplier” of weapon effectiveness. What weapons to fight what war is not passive inaction.

“The marshal is right.” Alan Wilson expressed his approval, on the contrary what war to fight what weapons to manufacture a big problem, the U.S. military security war connoisseur’s fault, the tragedy of the Littoral Combat Ship, the lesson can be profound.