Chapter 1306 – The United States of America in the Aftermath of the War

“You don’t seem to care about the war at all.” Makins finished the information about the battle fought in the Delong River Valley and sighed when he saw no reaction from the supreme authority.

“I could have just returned home, Mr. Sir. It’s not like I don’t care about the war, but I really don’t care about the Vietnam War.” Alan Wilson replied without a hitch, what was there to care about the Vietnam War? A superpower that traveled across the Pacific to Southeast Asia just to fight a defensive counterattack?

Like the Iraq War, it is also considered the United States a bit aggressive, but the problem is that the Vietnam War was a complete failure, before the U.S. troops did not arrive in South Vietnam is still there, after going to South Vietnam is gone.

After a decade of work, as long as the North Vietnamese troops don’t go south, the US troops definitely don’t go north, so what’s the concern?

Even the biggest hotspot has a time to pass, Allen Wilson is now numb to the Vietnam War, and can’t wait to fast-forward directly to the Saigon Iron Fist, “The Vietnam War has nothing to do with us, we just need to applaud the United States when we should. It’s obvious now that it’s the European side that’s more important.”

“Well, it seems I was focusing on the wrong priorities.” Makins made the wrong statement and quickly put the Southeast Asian intel behind him, replacing it with a question of interest to Allen Wilson.

The missile battleship program was funded, at least nominally, by contributions from British settlers in Western Australia, and the highly experimental nature of this post-war start of work on a missile battleship based on the drawings of Vanguard had been agreed upon by the Cabinet, Whitehall, and the Department of Defense.

Alan Wilson understands this consensus, piling on the latest technological equipment, and it’s not as if there aren’t warships with similar roles in later times, such as the Jumbo Walter class destroyers, which were equipped with a fair amount of the Zenith technology of the time, it’s just that the reliability was lacking, and of course the Jumbo Walter class was a pothole, and the biggest thing that it could do for the U.S. Navy was to be sci-fi in appearance, and that’s all there was to it.

Considering that the US side was experimenting with an all-nuclear fleet, it seemed as if missile battleships were an evil path in comparison. However, Alan Wilson knows very well that the all-nuclear fleet is also a pit, the United States of America’s nuclear-powered cruisers have all retired early, giving way to conventional power.

But where the U.S. Navy can really satisfy, Virginia-class nuclear-powered cruisers will not be retired early, early retirement means that this thing is not up to standard.

In previous discussions, this level of experimental type of guided missile battleships abandoned the idea of nuclear power, although the Avant-garde class tonnage is sufficient above nuclear power.

Since it is experimental, a lot of novel design concepts can go up to try, the big deal is that the final result and the Jumwalt-class destroyer a fate. What anti-ship, air defense, connecting Galileo system should be taken into account, what phased-array radar and is not much new technology, as for the layout of the Aegis radar, Allen Wilson have seen the Indian Calcutta-class oddball layout, for him this will copy the shell of the person is not a problem, as for how to overcome the difficulties inside, that is the scientists.

“The electronics on the two Eagle-classes will also have to be replaced, and the steam catapults will have to be modified, which will be a considerable expense.” Makins flipped through the paperwork and found another place to spend money, “But this is an arrangement that Marshal Mountbatten made before he left office, so it shouldn’t be interfered with.”

“Our country would be truly hopeless if the heavy carrier modifications were interfered with. It must be preserved, and there may be a good place for it.” Alan Wilson didn’t know what came to mind, expressing revolutionary optimism all at once; if he remembered correctly, a certain big country had been interested in aircraft carriers for a long time.

Also bought the aircraft carrier Melbourne whose steam catapults had not been removed, of course this is not all, after the defeat in the Vietnam War, the United States had very sincerely wanted to express its sincerity and favor a certain big country’s, and was even prepared to sell a carrier in service in World War II to a certain big country, but of course in the end, because of the price, there was no final deal.

The United States in the eyes of Hui and the Soviet Union’s Hui is not a thing, the United States in the eyes of Hui, the normal sale of weapons to you even if it is Hui, such as $ 50 million in labor for the Intrepid nuclear submarine to provide nuclear power technical support.

If the time comes, the United States has this idea, Allen Wilson can be sold to the United States to sell World War II aircraft carriers at the same price, the Eagle class sold to a major country, but also with an additional set of steam catapults, not more than the United States to do business with a conscience?

There is no problem with heavy equipment turnover in the Royal Navy these days, such as aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, and the shelf of the world’s navies is stable, but things are not looking good on the destroyer and frigate side.

Once the construction of the guided missile battleship Mountbatten is completed, the test weapons on it, will also be applied to the escort force, after all, aircraft carriers can not go to sea by themselves. A new generation of destroyers should also be planned, otherwise it would not be appropriate to have a post-war upstart carrier with a bunch of daddy-class destroyers and frigates.

“Talk to the representatives of the shipbuilding industry, I’m going to take a break for a few days, you go on my behalf.” Alan Wilson had only just returned, and all he wanted now was the comfort of the richest woman in the world.

Immediately Pamela Mountbatten is going back to Perth again, he now has to play the obligation of a good husband, this time to spend more time with his wife.

“Actually, your support of the shipbuilding industry is somewhat inconsistent with the original intent of free trade.” Pamela Mountbatten wondered at her husband’s endeavors and why he was obsessed with the Great Navy. Did he share his father’s naval dreams?

“I will support any industry that makes money, and we’ll see if it succeeds or not. Most countries in this world think that free trade is good, but what, not including the United States. The United States is against free trade, just with the Soviet Union and different means. If you don’t believe me, look at how many years Boeing banned the Comet airliner from entering the U.S. until Boeing came up with a serviceable model.” Allen Wilson was so full of contempt that he wouldn’t mention the fact that Boeing dropped several airliners in a row in the latter days.

Any other airline, this is the inevitable end of the collapse, such as the history of the Comet airliner is so lost.

But the U.S. milked Boeing back to life with sixty billion dollars. What does it mean to be too big to fail? This is!

Many high-end American companies do not crush their rivals by virtue of their technological content, but rather the national treasures of other countries are gone when they make one mistake. U.S. companies, however, in the government support has been alive, the more later these living enterprises, the stronger the technical barriers, European companies are not a rival.

It’s precisely because the US did this that the US hates the Soviet system, which was played more skillfully by the socialists.

Don’t even mention the Soviet system countries, the United Kingdom under the Labor Party, even the United Kingdom on the industry of capital injection and consolidation are very skillful, but the Soviet Union this system in the industrial upgrading is not good. Consolidation of already existing advantages works well.

At the same time as the United States was engaged in ground fighting in Southeast Asia for the first time, Donald, the long-lost U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, came to the door again, this time for a purpose that even Alan Wilson hadn’t anticipated. He had come to talk about arms sales, which almost startled the Supreme Authority, who hurriedly asked what he wanted to buy.

“Tiger helicopter gunships.” Donald specified what he wanted as soon as he opened his mouth, the Vietnam battlefield was in full swing, and the United States quickly discovered that helicopter gunships were suitable for local combat. This discovery overlapped with France’s original discovery, but then the U.S. military realized that the helicopter gunships they were using now were inferior to the Tiger helicopter gunships that were already popping up all over the European countries.

This is of course, the Tiger helicopter gunship is Apache, of course the Americans think it is good to use. Learning the purpose of the other side, Alan Wilson said with a difficult face, “My friend, this is one of the few fine weapons of the United Kingdom in recent years, the export is very good, exported to European countries and the Middle East countries.”

Vietnam War because of the local environment, known as the helicopter war, the United States did not pay much attention to helicopters before the Vietnam War, because the United States has a strong air superiority, once there is any problem, call the Air Force to solve the problem on the line, although the U.S. Army is equipped with a large number of helicopters, but more used to transport troops, helicopters in person, although they are also retrofitted with weapons, but is not specifically used for combat.

This time the battle has just begun, there are constantly helicopters were shot down by the Soviet-style MANPADS, it must be said that when it comes to casualties, the U.S. Army has never reacted very quickly, the environment in Vietnam and helicopters transporting troops in the process of being attacked by the battle damages, so that the U.S. Army quickly recognized that the United States in the field of helicopters are not enough.

In retrospect, it seems as if the helicopter gunships that were previously used by the UK to deal with the Soviet ground forces in Europe due to the limited size and superiority of their air force were not a second best solution to a lack of capability, but rather very useful, quite useful, especially with the weapons that the US Army now needs.

Now the U.S. military still use H-21 helicopters, is 1945 search and rescue helicopters, CH-47 transport helicopters are retrofitted with weapons but not very useful. uh-1 helicopters are the current U.S. military’s most widely used helicopters, but also is not exclusively helicopter gunships, the Americans only then found out that armed helicopters in the field of the forefront of the United Kingdom.

“So?” Alan Wilson said in his mind that the Apache is certainly good, simply comparable to **52 the evergreen tree, the United States from the service has been used to the twenty-first century, to see its reliability.

“Sir Wilson, everyone in Washington knows that you are the foreign friend with the best relationship with the United States and even the U.S. military.” Donald emphasized, “The strength of the special Anglo-American relationship cannot be questioned.”

“But I can’t let my wife’s products, be a burden on this special relationship, the Tiger helicopter gunships are selling well, equipping more than twenty countries and selling over a thousand of them.” Alan Wilson looked straight at Donald, “This stellar product? Mr. Ambassador, you know, with your American scientific research power as long as you want, competitors will immediately appear.”

Supreme authority is not to refuse, this kind of weapon banning exports is useless, the United States is fully capable of getting out almost the same product, just didn’t recognize it before, he said so just bluntly told the other party, this is the fist product of the military industry of the Mountbatten Group, the significance of it is extraordinary, have to add money.