Chapter 1368 – New Typhoon

This will be a key decision for the German economy as it faces the future, and finding a way to return to Eastern Europe is just as important as Germany’s monetary policy, which, before the war, sent fifteen percent of Germany’s exports to Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Before the war, 15 percent of Germany’s exports went to Eastern and Southeastern Europe. After the war, that percentage dropped to one percent.

Since the division of Europe into two opposing camps, Germany’s foreign trade has suffered the most of any European country. The lack of national and political sovereignty hindered the development of German trade with Eastern Europe.

The embargoes imposed by the West on high-technology investments in Eastern countries also had a serious negative impact on the traditional exports of German industry. As a result, despite being the largest trading partner of Eastern Europe, the Federal Republic of Germany is still unable to export more than five percent of its goods to the countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

The situation is obvious, confined to the western part of Europe, the Federal Republic of Germany’s economic development more and more feel the bottleneck, after two post-war mark appreciation, Germany’s monetary policy and the original United States let the weak currency decoupling, want to continue to develop the Federal Republic of Germany must think of a way.

Of course and the GDR, the Federal Republic of Germany still have economic and trade exchanges, although so far the diplomatic relations between the two Germany is still at the freezing point, but business is business. The GDR and Eastern Europe to do business, the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR to do business, but diplomacy is still not the two sides.

This kind of relationship Allen Wilson is actually very familiar with, political cold and economic hot, the latter days of the relationship between a major power and a small life of the Japanese, is a variant of this kind of relationship.

“As a matter of fact Brandt, for one, is interested in breaking the ice with the East, and some of his handlers have already prepared a filing for expanding economic and trade relations with the East, probably in so many ways.” Bogina took a document to her sister, which is nothing more than the scope of economic and trade development with the GDR, such as efforts to develop cooperation with the GDR in the fields of economy, science and technology, transportation, postal and telecommunications, and other areas, adopted a more active economic policy.

Agreements were reached on the import and export of iron and steel products and non-ferrous metals, and on the import and export of machinery manufacturing products.

Strengthening the leverage of interest-free overdraft loans in intra-German trade, both economically and politically; promoting the exchange of personnel between the two Germanys by non-commercial financial payments, etc.

“Got the man right again.” Anna began to sigh as soon as she scanned the contents, “He just said that if we want to continue to grow, we have to look east. What about the status of the GDR though? Recognizing the fact that Germany has split into two countries?”

Neither the Bundesrepublik Deutschland nor the GDR were now members of the United Nations, and previously signed documents were avoiding the use of the country’s name, instead replacing the two countries with the terminology of the Western Markt Region and the Eastern Markt Region.

“Brandt is a different government than the one that preceded it, and I can’t pry much into the specifics. But the current government does sound like this, let’s get on with our business first and not concern ourselves with political matters for now.” Bogina made an immediate decision, “Wait until we discuss a result in a few days, and then we’ll discuss how to look eastward.”

The discussion of monetary policy began at the Heilmann Estate, the longstanding problem that plagued Germany after the war, the imported inflation brought about by the balance of payments and foreign exchange surpluses had been a major sticking point for economic policy. Inflationary pressure derived from the foreign trade economy, which led to the mark repeatedly into the appreciation pressure in the middle.

After the French squeeze gold, the United States while coping with the gold was squeezed, but in Germany to express goodwill, not at all less money printing, which makes the German economic community even think Germany is not doing wrong, had I known that the Americans do not have the slightest qualms about it, should be squeezed together with the French gold.

In the face of the Bogina’s call, all parties bankers are very facetious, the capital market capital is the largest, although the two sisters is through the tobacco started, but in any case, the Heilmann two sisters has been Germany is now the strength of the most powerful enterprises.

Here is one more thing to say, from the post-war period to the present, Germany is not its own wholly-owned tobacco group, has been importing tobacco to meet the needs of German smokers, Germany’s tobacco is still subject to a great deal of influence by the United Kingdom.

United France or United Kingdom, support the devaluation of the dollar to continue the gold peg, or to enjoy the Last Supper, will have a result in the middle of this manor, there is a point of consensus just at the beginning of the Deutsche Bank Group now in the hands of seven or eight hundred billion U.S. dollars in cash, absolutely can not be in the Bretton Woods system shaky time to sit on the sidelines.

“With the current import and export figures, there is still pressure for the mark to appreciate now, up to next year, or it will lead to inflation, but it has only been a year since the last time the mark appreciated. If the mark is allowed to appreciate again next year, the interval is only two years, and this is not a long-term solution.”

Nonetheless, the appreciation of the mark has not had the slightest dampening effect on Germany’s balance-of-payments surplus, which was also completely unexpected. Germany depends on foreign trade for about a quarter of its national income, and when this trade goes wrong, it can breed a terrible economic crisis.

“Support France or support Britain? It’s all about avoiding the economic risks that drastic fluctuations would bring to Germany, and it mainly depends on who is more favorable to Germany, so let’s talk more about our opinions.” Bogina faced a group of banking industry representatives to see which option was more supported.

Southampton Harbor, the large hooded skins that were wrapped around them drew a lot of attention, soon these onlookers were dispersed and could only be made out by the silhouettes that these were two large fighter jets.

Soon these two unheard of fighters became the most sought after rarities by British military enthusiasts.

There is no way, the British mainland environment is limited, it is difficult to find a hidden place for test flights, not to mention that the new fighter test flights in Australia is not flawless, the development of so many years, there will always be a trace of leakage, by the enemy or suspicious allies noticed.

Because of this, so in the work of transporting back to the confidentiality of the country, can only say that we can do our best, can be confidential on confidentiality, really difficult to carry out test flights in a generous manner.

After years of input from the female president, the supreme authority to provide only a shell, the rest of their own slowly groping f15 eagle, finally came to the time to take out the results.

This is also related to the current British air power renewal, the Vietnam War has proved that the second generation of fighters of high altitude and high speed, is not an essential indicator, on the contrary, everything relies on missiles, just take the fighter as a launching platform for the U.S. Air Force suffered a huge loss.

Compared to the f105 and f4 fighters, MiG fighters have a very obvious advantage is the small size and flexibility, the ability to hover in the air is very strong, in close combat advantage. Due to its small size, the MiG was difficult to be detected by American pilots.

Once the MiGs suddenly flew at the F4s from behind the U.S. F4s, the F4s would be caught in the middle of a fight with the MiGs. This was the last thing the USAF wanted to see. In an air battle, the MiGs would lure U.S. planes into low to medium altitude airspace that limited their own performance, and fire their guns at the U.S. planes.

The second generation of fighters took part in the Vietnam War and were tested in real combat, only to find that they were not up to the demands of real combat because the way of fighting had changed so much from what had previously been anticipated.

High altitude and high speed is not the main range of air combat, so the second generation of aircraft performance advantages is not a decisive factor in determining the victory or defeat in air combat.

This kind of ineptitude Allen Wilson is very familiar, like the colonial era Britain encountered in all aspects of the opponent is a little weaker than their own, often unbeatable, really encountered even more backward army, but will be at a disadvantage. Because the more backward army was out of the comfort zone of the British army.

In order to replace the UK’s obviously not in line with the old models of modern combat, the Ministry of Defense has begun to care about the pre-development of a new generation of fighters, and now has taken out the finished product of the richest woman, it was decided to let the years of development of the fine products to a technical surprise.

Of course, Pamela Mountbatten also listened to her husband’s advice, will be officially named Typhoon, as this time the British Air Force’s new generation of fighters in the bidding model.

Pamela Mountbatten was confident, “I believe that this time the British Air Force will once again shock the world.”

“I don’t doubt this in the slightest!” Alan Wilson nodded, it is estimated that now McDonnell Douglas is still far away from test flights, the f15 and the Rafale were test flown in the same year, as for the Typhoon? It first flew in the nineties, and it’s well into the twenty-first century in service.

You can see from this how unreliable multinational joint development is. If you really want to harmonize standards, the best way is actually the f35 route, where other countries just get the money, the US develops it, and then unifies the contracts.

“I’ll let Makins represent the Ministry of Defense to participate in the test flight performance, as for the defense minister’s side, as long as the performance is outstanding I believe there is not much of a problem. Of course, I’ll talk to the Prime Minister about it. The key has to be a good airplane.”

Pamela Mountbatten said with a look of anticipation that it was all up to you, “Darling, you have to give me your word on this, I’ve gone to a lot of trouble and it’s all for you.”

“No problem, absolutely epoch-making.” Alan Wilson was full of confidence, there wasn’t even a shadow of the Raging Wind, the new Typhoon fighter would definitely blow everyone away.

The fighter power is taken care of by the turbofan engine provided by Rollo, Rollo can be trusted in the field of engines, because the world’s first turbofan engine is the work of Rollo.

In the field of turbofan engines, Rollo has been developing for almost two decades and is definitely the national treasure company of the UK.

It can be said that almost anything that can fly in Britain has a place in Rollo’s company, and the orders on the plus side have kept Rollo’s company advancing in engines.

A few days later, the Secretary of State for Defense, Denis Healey, saw the much-rumored test flight of the new fighter, and Makins undertook the introductory duties as permanent undersecretary, saying three times what was transgressive, what was ahead of the curve, and what was beautiful.

“Indeed!” Dennis Healy admitted that the Managing Undersecretary’s compliments were justified, and that the fighter, codenamed Typhoon, was indeed quite graceful.