Chapter 910 The Nuclear Submarine Intrepid

The facts were now clear, the Soviet Union was the leader in the field of intercontinental missiles, and the United States was a chaser.

This was already very hard for the United States to accept, and what was even more unacceptable was that Britain was even ahead of the United States as well.

Although Britain’s Blue Light missile has a range of only 5,500 kilometers and is not considered a true ICBM.

But the Cosmic God strategic missile test-fired successfully in order to say ahead of the United Kingdom, directly in the launch pad on the bomb, what is leading?

Behind the position of the United Kingdom is the United States can not tolerate, the United States even in the field of intercontinental missiles accumulated in the less, but also absolutely in the United Kingdom above, the United Kingdom is completely from scratch. Although the United States did not catch the von Braun team, but also much more information than the United Kingdom got.

As a result, there was a contrast between the success of the Blue Light Missile and the failure of the Cosmic God Strategic Missile, so how could the Pentagon accept it?

“Oh ho, what great news.” Across the Atlantic Ocean in Lagos, the capital of Nigeria, Alan Wilson was reading internal Whitehall documents with an excited look on his face, cheering at the news that the Cosmonaut Strategic Missile had exploded on the launch pad.

In terms of intercontinental missile research, the early United States is utterly backward, if he remembers correctly, the Cosmos strategic missile launch test should be a total of eight times, six failures, two successes. Either airborne explosion or launch pad explosion.

However, failure is the mother of success, he still believes that the United States force big brick flying power, can be in a large number of inputs to overcome the temporary difficulties, white borrowed from the world war to save the family?

“Ticket, the development of the Niger Delta, oil exploration and the four major construction, alone these Nigeria without a twenty or thirty years can not handle, you put all the things to start, even if it is Nigeria’s independence, long time also need our help.”

Alan Wilson called Roberts over, can not be considered face to face, the basic reason to the colonial commissioner this position, should know the reasoning understand, there is this framework down the implementation of the line.

“Deputy Secretary General, without you personally come to a trip, things have not been so good.” Roberts expressed his gratitude, these projects could never have been done with Nigeria’s own strength.

In fact, they can’t be done now either, these projects are completed requiring long term investment, and it’s clear that the British capital won’t be able to help in any other way except in the oil sector.

“The economic crisis is only one or two years at the longest, wait until the world-wide environment becomes better, Britain is even through this crisis, I do not believe that other countries are prosperous, alone Britain will be economic crisis to find the door.”

Alan Wilson raised his eyebrows, getting through the cycle of economic crisis peacefully was considered a victory, he wasn’t prepared to build Nigeria into a beacon in Africa, he couldn’t do it if he stayed in Lagos all his life and didn’t leave.

Anyway, in a few years Nigeria will be officially independent, what will happen then will have nothing to do with Britain anymore.

Anyway, with Nigeria’s status as the number one country in Africa in terms of population, as well as its oil resources and the agricultural conditions of the Niger Delta, it certainly won’t have a low status in Africa, after all, it’s Africa, where vegetables and chickens peck at each other’s throats.

“That’s true, which is like Europe, competition is so fierce.” Roberts said thoughtfully.

“Huh!” Alan Wilson snorted, this colleague’s exclamatory words reminded him of the East Asian monster room saying. It was nothing more than a bitter-sweet optimism.

Who would want to feed such a huge army, in a state of confrontation at all times, it would be a relief for the Europeans to be able to get out of it, but of course he himself didn’t like it, the Cold War was best if it lasted, it was best to be in a state of stasis where the enemy couldn’t win.

“In that case, you’ve been working hard for the last few years, the Nigerian Autonomous Territories are in the middle of a siege of French colonies, and we certainly don’t want him to be too weak, and it’s a good thing that none of the French colonies are any good either. The difficulty is not too high or too low, I guess. I’m going back to London. Remember to telegraph if there are any difficulties.”

Before leaving, Alan Wilson still tried to make sure that his colleague was able to put his mind at ease, “Maybe the change in Africa will come soon.”

Grace remained in Lagos, Northern Rhodesia was a landlocked colony, the extraction of manpower depended on flights from the Northern Rhodesia colony, the whole of Northern Rhodesia depended on copper mining, which was the reason why Grace was eyeing the prominence of the Belgian Congo.

The copper belt of Northern Rhodesia was shared with the southeastern Belgian Congo, and the local area nearly split Northern Rhodesia into eastern and western halves, no one else could suppress greed.

“Wait for your chance and remain patient.” Allen Wilson asked a question at this Chetnik, “If we really get it, you Chetniks and Ustasha won’t fight.”

“Ethnic discord is already kind of going to take a back seat compared to different races.” Grace spoke with conviction, “In this part of Africa there are only white and black people, our several races combined only have so many people, so what’s the point of fighting?”

“That makes sense. That’s reassuring.” Alan Wilson breathed a sigh of relief, “It’s okay not to stay inland all the time, the world is still big, a lot of things may not need your help. And grow less poppies, although it’s your freedom and I’m not at liberty to interfere, it’s not a worthwhile industry after all.”

The income from drug production seemed a lot, but at what level to view the problem, at best it could feed a warlord at best.

Not to mention that geographically, Northern Rhodesia had high transportation costs, and couldn’t necessarily compete with a few other drug production sites.

Places that made drug production their mainstay industry were undoubtedly poor enough that the ceiling on the stuff was too low.

“We’d like to purchase a number of helicopter gunships.” Grace made a request, “I’ve heard that there’s a Tiger helicopter gunship coming into service in the UK that we can purchase.”

“The cost seems to be one hundred and fifty thousand pounds a piece, I’ll help you over.” Allen Wilson agreed and gave Grace a piece of information that was absolutely accurate, knowing that the cost of a Blue Light Missile missile was only half a million pounds a piece.

Then Alan Wilson boarded the flight to Paris, in a foreign country, still do not forget to contribute to the cause of rocketry, arrived in London has been overworked.

But even so, convinced that failure is the mother of success of the United States, the second launch explosion in the air, the news still let Allen Wilson spirit, fatigue is gone, restored the spirit of a hundred times the state.

“The Tiger armed grits-making machine will first have to fulfill its own orders, but from a military sales point of view, the sale should not be a problem.” Mountbatten saw his son-in-law’s door, answered his son-in-law’s question, and then expressed his appreciation for Allen Wilson’s work, and turned his words around and said, “You’re back rather coincidentally, and there’s a good news to share with you.”

“The good news that the Admiral complained about must have something to do with the Navy.” Alan Wilson took a look at Mountbatten’s demeanor, he knew that his guess was not far off, otherwise Mountbatten would not be so happy, unless the old man is strong and his mother-in-law is happy, but it should be unlikely.

“The nuclear submarine has been completed and the Queen is ready to personally preside over the launching ceremony. My heart can drop.” Mountbatten opened his mouth to confirm Allen Wilson’s suspicion that it was indeed related to the navy.

Allen Wilson was also happy about this, the nuclear submarine was after all a national weapon, the aircraft carrier that thing was somehow for the maintenance of interests, the nuclear submarine was different, this was the life-saving mace.

After the United States is willing to provide nuclear reactor technology, the United Kingdom has successfully overcome the nuclear power difficulties. As for the other aspects of the nuclear submarine, there is no difficulty for Britain, a shipbuilding powerhouse.

The launching ceremony was held just recently, and the name of the nuclear submarine has been set as HMS Intrepid. The nuclear submarine combines the Royal Navy’s requirements for structural strength and hydrodynamics of nuclear submarines, etc. Although the United States provided the United Kingdom with experience in the appearance and construction of nuclear submarines, the United Kingdom ended up designing its own hull and combat systems.

The British company Rowe-Rowe, in cooperation with the British Atomic Energy Authority, developed an entirely new nuclear-powered propulsion system.

The Dreadnought nuclear submarine was powered by a 1.5 million horsepower cycle steam turbine supplied by Rolls-Royce. It could maintain a speed of twenty-eight knots underwater, with a tonnage of 3,600 tons above water and 4,000 tons underwater. Compared to the big guys of the late Cold War, who were often 10,000 tons, it seemed very small, but it was definitely enough for the time being.

Alan Wilson is very relieved, with the British shipbuilding capacity, as long as the nuclear reactor is digested, there will be no such thing as being necked, which is derived from the world’s number one shipbuilding country’s self-confidence.

Promising his father-in-law to rub a hot spot, Alan Wilson then hoofed it to Whitehall to report, expounding on a number of issues regarding the construction aspects of Nigeria.

“You’re right, it’s actually just a matter of topping up the economic crisis cycle.” Norman Brooke blandly affirmed Allen Wilson’s hard work, “Attracting funds into Nigeria with the wind rating of the Mountbatten Group won’t be a problem, will it.”

“Not much of a problem.” Allen Wilson borrowed his wife’s industry as a windfall, it could not be hidden from the head of Whitehall. When Norman Brooke asked, he immediately admitted it.

“That’s good.” Norman Brooke nodded, “If the Gulf of Guinea really has rich oil reserves, it would be a good thing for Britain, we can’t rely too much on the Persian Gulf. Well, I have another meeting to attend. Come back to me if you have any difficulties ……”

On July 12, the launching ceremony of the nuclear submarine HMS Intrepid, a year ahead of schedule, was presided over by Queen Elizabeth, in the collective presence of the Secretary of State for Defense, Earl Alexander, and the Navy’s top brass.

Armstrong Shipyard, which has been established for more than a hundred years, officially launched the Dreadnought nuclear submarine in the presence of the Queen herself, marking a solid step forward in the development of Britain’s underwater forces.

After Queen Elizabeth’s speech, the shipyard’s military generals applauded in unison, chanting God Save the Queen ……