Chapter 842 – No Hard Business

“Oh!” Alan Wilson meaningful inexplicable oh, emphasized, “then is not still have to sell to Portugal a, to know Goa is still in the hands of the Portuguese, in fact, if Pakistan’s financial strength is enough, sell to Pakistan a balance can also.”

Now East Pakistan can not be independent, in East Pakistan did not become independent of this time, simply put Pakistan’s economy is summarized, West Pakistan spend money, East Pakistan earn foreign exchange, so a model.

From this point can be seen, why this country sooner or later to split up, the two places that do not border each other are still not financially balanced, no wonder East Pakistan will make trouble.

This is no one’s business, Alan Wilson’s eyes of Mountbatten, at first warned Jinnah, once the partition of India and Pakistan, Pakistan will sooner or later split.

Words have been said, Ali Jinnah does not listen to anyone can not help. But on the current economic level, although India in the Nehru period a serious toward a reputable power.

But Pakistanis are generally richer than India, and this trend is also widening, Indians are richer than Pakistan, that is the twenty-first century.

“That sort of thing will come later!” Mountbatten obviously does not care about what India Pakistan, India Vice King that is a thing of the past, he is now Britain’s Secretary of State for the Sea, directly pick up the phone to call the Ministry of the Navy, so that the Ministry of the Navy to send the CVA-01 program documents.

Cabinet will not pass the budget to support the Navy to build a ship first do not say, the Ministry of the Navy to plan the design of the new aircraft carrier is a matter of business. If it is not done, it can only show that Mountbatten, the Navy’s hand, has failed in his duties.

Half an hour later, an officer of the Ministry of the Navy in uniform arrived at Mountbatten’s home, at the same time brought the CVA-01 program documents and sketches, Mountbatten let the officer go back, he is the Ministry of the Navy’s Minister of the sea, in front of his son-in-law to introduce the CVA-01 program or do not have to pretend that other people’s hands.

“This is it.” Mountbatten took out the sketch and introduced it, “The estimated cost is thirty million pounds.”

Alan Wilson took a look and sucked in a breath of cold air, he didn’t know what the sketches of aircraft carriers had to say, but the numerical units labeled next to them were still understandable, “It’s a bit bigger than the American Forrestal class carriers?”

“There’s no mistake, it was envisioned that way.” Mountbatten didn’t feel radical in the least, after all he was a sea minister who had proposed ice carriers, “British shipbuilding has never been about innovation, it’s always been the design philosophy.”

Alan Wilson was using his basic math knowledge at this point, and after doing some arithmetic it was easy to come to a conclusion. The tonnage should be in the same class as the Kitty Hawk class, an improved version of the Forrestal class carriers.

The problem was that the Kitty Hawk class was all one drawing now, and the construction sequence for the Forrestal class carriers hadn’t been completed yet? It was also after the Forrestal class carriers were commissioned and the US improved them that the Kitty Hawk class was born.

Now the Kitty Hawk class is certainly a concept, likewise the CVA-01 program in the hands of Mountbatten.

Mountbatten told Allen Wilson what it means to be an old-fashioned imperialist and opened his mouth, “Although it is not certain, but from the post-war period to the present ten years, we have been able to determine that the U.S. Navy’s concept is to carry out rapid step-by-step improvements.”

“Small steps!” Alan Wilson described in a more apt term.

“Small steps? Pretty much the same, but in larger batches.” Mountbatten nodded and continued, “But from what we’ve seen of U.S. carriers, the combat effectiveness of the carrier itself is then largely determined by its air control capability, which in turn is largely dependent on its deck design. On the Forrestal-class carriers, the Americans pioneered the practice of trying to stretch the deck area by adding outboard drifts to both sides of the carrier.”

“The excessive angle of inclination of the carrier’s angled deck means that the carrier’s aircraft, when landing on approach, cannot come in from directly behind the carrier, but have to turn to the right to fly onto the carrier’s angled deck extension first at a distance of about five kilometers from the carrier, and then turn to the left to align themselves with the angled deck itself, and thereafter have to give their full attention to controlling the aircraft in order to land on the deck which is constantly panning to the right. If the above process is not done properly, the landing carrier aircraft may hit the aircraft in the aft port side of the carrier and the forward starboard side of the carrier. The whole landing process was very treacherous.”

“The over-angled beveled deck also naturally divided the flight deck into two mutually independent areas, starboard forward and port aft. Such a messy division cannot help but lead to poor traffic between the preparation areas and affect the efficiency of the preparation, takeoff and landing of the carrier’s aircraft. It will further lead to awkwardness on the left aft and right aft decks of the carrier.”

Alan Wilson didn’t understand a word of it, but nodded his head with a furrowed brow thoughtfully, and really asked as if that was the case, “So how do we fix it? The Americans should have found out too.”

“Whether or not they find out won’t be seen until after this batch is built and the next batch is improved.”

Mountbatten explained, “But when we met at the Admiralty, we thought we could improve efficiency by consolidating the landing decks and changing the angle as a way to maximize the use of tonnage. The takeoff and landing efficiency of a carrier mother ship of the same tonnage will be improved, but there is also the installation of steam catapults to consider, and if the United States continues to expand its tonnage approach, it is possible that we will only be able to ensure that we can do 80,000 tons with a 60,000 ton carrier, and that optimizing the design won’t solve all problems.”

“That’ll do!” Alan Wilson said to himself that this will save tons and 20,000 tons, what more do you want? Use a forty thousand ton carrier to do what a hundred thousand ton carrier can do? Just change the Eagle class carrier directly, why bother building a new one?

The CVA-01 program deck layout can be divided into three main parts: the takeoff deck forward in the middle of the flight deck, the landing deck on the left side, and the ready deck that extends from the starboard side of the bow all the way to the middle of the stern.

Alan Wilson thought for half a day and asked the question in his mind, “It can’t be without a bit of shackle, can it?”

“You’ve asked the key question, for this design to be realized, the standard displacement would have to be at least 60,000 tons to start with.” Mountbatten said this with a bitter smile and shook his head, “Both of the current queens look smaller.”

“No wonder this sketch is a bit bigger than a Forrestal class carrier.” Alan Wilson sort of understood that this design must have enough space, even the two current Queen-classes were not quite enough.

“Therein lies the problem.” Mountbatten shrugged, “At a military cost of one and a half billion pounds a year, and with the current size of the army to maintain, we’re nowhere near as rich as the Americans, who can build an aircraft carrier for two hundred million dollars.”

Alan Wilson acknowledged that although the exchange rate between the pound and the dollar is stable at one to two point eight, the CVA-01 program’s thirty million pounds can be compared to the cost of nearly two hundred million dollars of the Forrestal class aircraft carriers, it is really considered to be incomparably conscientious.

According to the principle of doubling military spending, selling 60 million pounds a ship to Australia should not be too much. Western Australian iron ore was discovered so many years ago, and sold for several years, now Australia’s financial health is beyond compare.

A thought of the latter days of Australia, buy submarines in one breath out of 90 billion bold, simply do not put the sound and color of the big country in the eye, even if it is in the blood thicker than water part of the reduction of 10 million pounds, the United Kingdom themselves squeezed everywhere to make two of their own to stay one, no problem at all ah.

Besides, it is not already thought of buy one get one free, charge a Giant-class conversion fee. This calculation theoretically the United Kingdom can start construction of three ships at the same time, using Australia’s money to do Australia’s business, not to mention that it is also ready to scavenge from India.

Alan Wilson’s face was cloudy and he was figuring out how to make the world a place where there was no hard business when General Mountbatten frowned slightly, “What are you thinking about?”

“I’m thinking about how to make Australia feel like it’s picking up a great bargain.” Alan Wilson said quietly, “Father, the current information is not enough, the critical moment still needs the support of Whitehall and the Cabinet, the Admiralty must come up with evidence of the imminent start of construction, so that I can sell Britain’s most advanced aircraft carriers to Australia, and things aren’t easy, the Giant class and the Indian government are talking, once the arms sale with Australia is leaked then, there is no chance that the Indians will backtrack, I know the Indians best, always wanting to do things for a pound for a rupee, secrecy must be maintained.”

The Indian has never known what modesty means, and has always been full of confidence that he is right. But we must not let India find out, or the Giant class will not be sold.

At this moment, Allen Wilson felt a heavy imperial responsibility on his shoulders, you say he was a colonial commissioner, how did he start working for the Navy?

Mountbatten of course hoped that the CVA-01 program, which was almost impossible to be recognized by the Cabinet, would take a turn for the better, but there were still some misgivings, “Is the Australian heart really rich now?”

“Australia’s minerals are amazing, and that includes gold.” Alan Wilson replied with blissful disinterest. This era gold is money, do not need to explore ranked first, because this era South Africa is still at its peak, second and tenth is not much difference.

A few decades later was the peak of gold mining in Australia, and the gold mines in South Africa had long since ceased to flourish. Instead, large gold mines were discovered in Australia and mined at a rate of four hundred tons of gold per year.

It would be awesome if Australia’s gold had been fully discovered in this era of the gold standard.

Why else would the exploration teams of the Mountbatten Group, to this day, still be like ghosts wandering the Australian landscape?

The Ministry of the Navy already has no problem, with the weng son-in-law relationship and Mountbatten s obsession with the Royal Navy. It was better than nothing to have the CVA-01 program come to fruition. Mountbatten doesn t care who it is manufactured to be sold to.

Alan Wilson put the CVA-01 program away and headed to Whitehall Seventy, this matter will definitely have a much higher success rate if there is help from the honorable Sir Norman Brooke.