"Arc de Raidel called and asked the head of state the two newly commissioned aircraft carriers." The officer expressed his purpose after reporting the news that the two aircraft carriers were launched. The naming of the German aircraft carriers was always done by Akado alone. He just took the names of some battleships that appeared in German history and took pictures of them, and he has been fooling around until today.

The experiment of taking off two-engine fighter bombers in the Navy has been almost done, which has also given the German Navy aviation the ability to take off and land aircraft at night to conduct combat. Although this kind of combat can only be considered a supplementary method that is better than nothing, it has become a leapfrog development in this era.

Germany's naval twin-engine fighter bomber is a multi-purpose aircraft developed based on German twin-engine night fighter jets. In fact, it is an aircraft transformed from the Ju-88. This aircraft lost to the active German medium-range bomber Do-217 in the bid for German medium-range bomber, and was eventually given a multi-purpose aircraft for limited production.

At the beginning of design, the performance of this aircraft was completely surpassed that of the do-217, and was eventually abandoned by the German army due to the ammunition load problem. However, the head of state was optimistic about the future of this aircraft and allowed it to continue to produce. In the end, the Air Force ordered a batch as a high-speed reconnaissance aircraft, and then the Navy ordered a batch as a medium-range patrol aircraft.

After the war started, British bombers frequently attempted to bomb important German resurrection targets, and even at some point attempted to bomb Berlin. This put pressure on the Luftwaffe air defense, especially when it was unable to take off the plane to intercept opponents at night, and made Catherine and Dick, who were responsible for local airspace security, unable to sleep or eat. They urgently needed a flying weapon that could fight at night to solve the problems caused by the enemy's night bombing.

Although the Battle of Britain was quickly concluded, the collapse of the British navy made it possible for the Germans to land in Britain, and the battle for the British mainland came to an end. The pressure of the German local air defense disappeared instantly, and the shortcomings of the night air combat that the Air Force had been stuck in its throat became less obvious.

However, the rigorous Germans did not give up their plans to strengthen national air defense. They were still looking for ways to carry out the mission of expelling the opponent's bomber troops at night. In the end, an improvement in equipment allowed them to find a suitable weapon.

With the continuous development of German radar, a miniaturized radar was finally born at Siemens, Germany. This small radar was originally designed for air alert for U-type submarines. After some improvement, this smaller radar system can be fully installed on weapons such as aircraft with limited load.

To install this radar system that is not small in size, traditional single-engine single-person fighter jets will definitely not work. In order to move the position of the radar antenna for the nose and to arrange the radar operators, the Luftwaffe finally chose to use a twin-engine medium aircraft to carry the radar system and make a night fighter jet.

Because the do-217 aircraft has reached the limit of a twin-engine bomber, its flight performance is not as fast and better as the ju-88. Finally, in the experiment, the improved ju-88 completed the flight test well and it was more in line with the requirements of the navy in volume.

So a ju-88 twin-engine aircraft, which was originally used as a multi-purpose aircraft, became a German night fighter. The production was required to be expanded by 100 times overnight. The Luftwaffe and the Navy ordered 1,100 and 780 nightly improved models of such aircraft from Juncker. Of course, this was just the order at that time, and more were added later. Due to the air combat in the Romanian oil-producing zone, Germany expanded the demand for night fighters.

It is precisely because night fighters and night fighter bombers have begun to enter service in large quantities that the German Navy began to experiment with the improved naval models of this aircraft on aircraft carriers. In order to take off on the deck of the aircraft carrier, Juncker Company reduced the aircraft's landing gear, and installed a large landing hook. The wings were shortened and better engines were used, and the wings were even converted into foldable structures. In the end, this aircraft had been modified, which can be regarded as another aircraft.

After a series of modifications, the ju-88's naval improved ju-88y finally took off and landed successfully on the aircraft carrier. The German Navy had the ability to fight at night for the first time. Although this combat capability was very limited, it still had the possibility of night battles attacking the enemy fleet.

Unfortunately, the ju-88 is not a custom-made aircraft for aircraft carriers. Although the improved ju-88y has changed a lot in appearance, it is still not a perfect choice for sea aircraft. Therefore, the German Navy's aircraft carrier carrying ju-88y has plummeted, and it can only serve as a protective umbrella and a reassurance for the fleet at night, and can hardly participate in daytime operations.

Due to the size and load-bearing design of the aircraft carrier, these naval night fighter bombers can only be parked on the deck of the aircraft carrier. If they are parked at the rear, they cannot take off such aircraft if they exceed the remaining length of the decks of ten. Therefore, if they are equipped with such aircraft, the aircraft carrier can only store a small number of fw-190 fighters in the internal hangar, and these aircraft cannot take off for combat in a short period of time.

In addition, although the ju-88y has good performance, it is too wasteful to participate in air combat and bombing during the day, and it is easy to be shot down by opponents because of its performance. Therefore, the aircraft carriers carrying this type of aircraft are not involved in daytime operations. The German Navy, which ultimately gained night combat capabilities, but did not change completely. The advancement of technology is often not as beautiful as imagined at the beginning. This is a bump that cannot be overcome in real life.

When Nokia was the first to launch a touch screen phone, due to the limitations of science and technology, it was just a little bit less than that of using a capacitive screen. The consequence of the helpless use of resistive screen was a failure in user experience. Not long after, Apple launched a capacitive screen phone, overthrowing the Nokia telephone dynasty. The current German Navy is at such an awkward critical point. The size of the radar is getting smaller and smaller, and it can eventually be used as a component for missile guidance. The aircraft carrier fleet will only rely on missile destroyers to truly gain night combat capabilities in the future. After the jet fighter equipped with radars enters the aircraft carrier, the aircraft carrier itself has night combat capabilities, and these are impossible to achieve in early 1939.

Now the German Navy has launched two more aircraft carriers, expanding the number of aircraft carriers to 7, which is undoubtedly bad news for the UK and the United States. In the Atlantic Ocean, the British and American navies only have the main aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal, which is obviously a bit difficult to deal with the German Navy. Although the German Navy seems to be huddling in the port recently, there is no intention to make trouble, but who can guarantee that this important force will not suddenly hurt people in the next second?

Germany's plan to form a Mediterranean fleet touched the fundamental interests of the Italian navy, and Turkey was not willing to deploy a powerful fleet at their doorstep. Because of this, Mussolini has always been negative about Germany's Mediterranean fleet, so the aircraft carrier that Germany had just repaired has been on standby near the Strait of Gibraltar and has not entered the Mediterranean to participate in the war.

The current German Mediterranean fleet has only two cruisers and five destroyers. Apart from catching a few mines laid by the British, he has no independent combat capabilities. Because Akado is even a little angry about this, he has been a little upset by the current situation of pulling each other in the Axis, so that he is increasingly inclined to kill an ally to warn him.

Therefore, these two aircraft carriers of the German Navy cannot be put into the Mediterranean for the time being, and there is no fuel to let them hunt on the Atlantic Ocean. The only possibility is to be stationed in the British Port and serve as another deterrent force to deter the British Royal Navy, which will not take any action in a short period of time.

To put it simply, these two aircraft carriers are actually two ships that have no effect in a short period of time. Akado's helplessness is that even if he knows that the United States will not come for the time being, the United Kingdom will not have the ability to counterattack, but he still has to continue to operate the Atlantic barrier to prevent the embarrassing situation of fighting on both sides again.

"Does the navy have any suggestions?" Akado thought of these helpless things and finally sighed and asked, "Didn't Raider give a few candidate ship names?"

"Uh..." The naval officer was stunned by Akado's question for a moment. Didn't the naming of the naval aircraft carrier be personally chosen by the head of state? Who dares to make suggestions easily at this time? Looking for death is not the way to seek death. You just take the power of the head of state. What do you want to do? How do you answer this question when the SS asks?

"Okay! Wait, I think about it. Since there is no suggestion, I will just think of one... called... called Blüchel!" said Akado. "I hope this new aircraft carrier can bring glory and victory to the great Germanic just like Marshal Blüchel!"

"This is such a good name, my head of state!" The naval officer's eyes lit up after hearing the name, nodding and saying, "Where is the other warship? What's the name?"

Akado thought about it, and then slowly spoke again: "I named the second aircraft carrier, the Euro... Dragon, I hope this warship will destroy our opponents like a huge dragon and maintain the safety of the empire's seas!" He originally wanted to call Prince Eugen, but considering Turkey's emotions, he gave up this name and temporarily thought of such a strange name.

So in the entire German naval fleet, the most unconventional aircraft carrier was born. Its name was completely incompatible with other sister ships of the Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier, and became an interesting entry point for later generations to study the German navy-
Chapter completed!