"Teacher, an emergency telegram forwarded in China." Earl Lukner walked to Earl Spey with a telegram in his hand, and then sent it to his old boss and teacher.

"The Americans are going to get involved, too." Earl Spee said meaningfully. "You can see too, we will have a new partner in the future." After saying that, Earl Spee sent the telegram to Earl Lukner.

"Americans want to participate? If they really wanted to consolidate the traditional friendship with the empire as mentioned in the telegram, they should have joined the war long ago. If the Americans stood on our side, the war might have ended a year ago." Earl Lukner scoffed at the Americans' remarks in the telegram.

"The reason is not important. It is a matter between politicians and kings, and it has no direct relationship with us. What is important is that we have to consider what Americans can bring to us." Earl Spee said.

"On the surface, they will bring us an aircraft carrier called Independence and 12 1,000-ton destroyers, plus a supply fleet of 4 to 5 supply ships and a large amount of supplies on it," said Earl Lukner. "But to be honest, their help does make up for the insufficient number of destroyers and the insufficient air defense reconnaissance capabilities."

Although the Americans did not send battleships to the market this time, both aircraft carriers and destroyers were also medium-sized in the US Navy. What? Why did the US Navy not send light cruisers? The reason is very simple. As in history, the Americans were working hard to produce battleships, destroyers, and cruiser-level warships in the early stages were almost all pre-war armored cruisers, and the new generation of light cruisers were still on the ship!

Take the Independence aircraft carrier as an example. It is an aircraft carrier with a displacement of 17,000 tons. It has a single-layer open hangar that can accommodate 72 various aircrafts. At the same time, there is also a 4-inch inch inclined armor protection at the waterline. The ammunition depot and power compartment have 2-inch horizontal armor. The maximum speed is 26 knots and is fully fuel-powered. Unlike the newly-in-American New Mexico-class battleships that use electric propulsion, the Independence is relatively conservative and still adopts the same propulsion method as the German battleships.

Overall, it is slightly smaller than the aircraft carriers of the Vettelsbach class and has a worse performance. However, it is definitely much higher than the British aircraft carriers in the current intelligence. After all, where is the number of carrier-based aircraft? Because the number of carrier-based aircraft of the British aircraft carrier is limited by the number of aircraft, as well as the hull and usage habits, the capacity of aircraft is estimated to be only about 40.

"With this aircraft carrier, our seaplane aircraft carriers and carrier-based seaplanes can be fully invested in reconnaissance, agile and anti-submarine missions. When necessary, this aircraft carrier can even provide us with certain output." Earl Spee said.

"I hope these American pilots have better skills than American artillery." Earl Lukner said jokingly. His words were obviously full of distrust of the combat effectiveness of the US Navy. This is actually not a sarcastic word for the count, because since the beginning of the pre-fair era, the US Navy has not performed well in previous battles and conflicts. If some of the tactical performances are quite good, (for example, in the Battle of the Philippines, Majiffen led the remnants of the US fleet to avoid the pursuit of Japanese armored cruisers.) Then the skill and tactical level is very poor. The British Navy in history once mocked the US Navy's artillery. In this plane, the German gunner who performed better in actual combat is naturally very disdainful of the American artillery, which is not that the American fire control is poor, but that it is not that the Americans are not good at shooting!

"Can we replace some American pilots with Germans? You know, our navy has sufficient pilots for preparation," said Earl Lukner.

"I'm afraid this is not very good, right? But I can talk about this with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." After hesitating for a while, Earl Spey still felt that whether his air defense net was firmer than the so-called diplomatic face.

The importance of aircraft carriers to the Spee fleet is beyond doubt, and destroyers are also of great importance. What surprised the Germans was that this American destroyer, which was nicknamed flat-panel destroyer by the German Navy, had firepower far exceeding that of the same class of British and German destroyers. In addition, the production volume of hundreds of ships gives people a simple and crude feeling!

Taking the Waikis destroyer with the largest number of US Navy as an example, this destroyer has a displacement of only about 1,100 tons, a maximum output power of 24,000 horsepower, and a maximum speed of 35 knots. This performance is average. However, such a small destroyer has 4 4-inch guns, 1 3-inch gun, 2 1-pound rapid-fire guns, and up to 12 533MM torpedo tubes! Moreover, this ship has a good range, with a range of 2,500 nautical miles at a speed of 20 knots.

What is this concept? Taking the British destroyer with the same tonnage at the same time as an example, the British S-type destroyer only has 3 4-inch guns, 1 2-pound gun and 4 533MM torpedo tubes. The German Navy H166 destroyer is also not as good as the American flatbed destroyer. The latter only has 3 105MM cannons and 6 500MM torpedo tubes. The only thing that can save some of the face is that it can carry 24 mines. However, in terms of power and speed performance, the Germans can only reach a high speed of 34 knots with an output of 26,000 horsepower, and when sailing at a speed of 20 knots, the range is only 1,650 nautical miles.

The better performance is one aspect, and what the two German naval commanders valued even more was the number of destroyers that could be described as a massive amount! From the information they had, it can be seen that the production cycle and cost of this kind of destroyer were simply terrible! In the words of Earl Spee, the Americans almost used the method of producing sausages to produce destroyers!

"To a certain extent, the naval system established by Crown Prince Ruprecht is more suitable for the war that took more than ten years or even decades to prepare before the war, while the American production system is more suitable for wartime. There is no disrespect for the Crown Prince or questioning the ability of His Highness. I am just stating a fact." Earl Spee said to his students.

"The Americans have a very good idea. They don't design a large number of different types of destroyers from 500 tons to 2,500 tons like we and the British. They use unified standards to choose performance, and then take into account all aspects of performance to the greatest extent, reach a balance, and then produce several types of warships with very few types, which is very good in terms of cost and industry." Earl Lukner nodded and said.
Chapter completed!