African Entrepreneurship Record

So the development of submarine technology in East Africa has been relatively independent from the beginning, while the development of surface ships is just the opposite. East Africa has always been the catching-up party.

In recent years, the shipbuilding industry framework of East Africa has initially gotten rid of its dependence on Europe, which is mainly due to the focus of East Africa on the shipbuilding industry in the 1990s.

In the 1990s, after the South African War, East Africa acquired some important ports in the Angola region on the west coast, which completely formed the two-ocean pattern of East Africa. Correspondingly, the central government of East Africa built a large number of shipbuilding enterprises on the west and east coasts at the same time, forming an independent shipbuilding pattern. Coupled with the accumulation of more than 20 years in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the shipbuilding industry in East Africa can develop relatively maturely.

However, in the field of shipbuilding, East Africa can only be regarded as a big country, not a strong country. The country leading the development of the world's shipbuilding industry is still the United Kingdom. At present, the development speed of the German shipbuilding industry is also relatively fast, and because the German Navy focuses on different aspects, it has formed competitiveness with the United Kingdom in the field of military shipbuilding.

As for other countries, including East Africa, the shipbuilding industry is developing rapidly, especially in terms of warships, but it will take a long time to reach the level of Britain and Germany.

Kain Mas: "Now our navy can only seek technological breakthroughs, unlike other countries, which have expanded their naval strength by building or introducing a large number of warships. The Bagamoyo proves that our navy's warship manufacturing has completely gotten rid of its dependence on European technology, and its surface ship manufacturing technology is also at the forefront of the world." Han Tangnio said.

"Among them, including Japan in the Far East, in the late 1990s, it proposed the so-called Six-Six Fleet Plan. Now this country has a tendency to surpass our East Africa in terms of navy, so the national defense pressure of our navy has increased unprecedentedly, especially the defense in the Pacific region, which is almost unsustainable."

Japan's Six-Six Fleet, with six main battleships of more than 10,000 tons and six armored cruisers as the core, makes the tonnage of the main battleships of the Japanese Navy reach 130,000 tons.

Together with auxiliary ships, the strength of the Japanese Navy will exceed the sum of the naval forces of other countries in the Far East. In addition to the twelve main battleships, the Six-Six Fleet Plan also includes ten light cruisers, more than thirty torpedo boats and torpedo boats and many auxiliary ships. The total number of newly built and purchased warships in the entire plan is 103, with a total displacement of 153,000 tons.

The current main battleships in East Africa, plus the newly launched Bagamoyo, are only four, so in recent years, the Japanese Navy has surpassed the East African Navy in size.

"In recent years, the development of naval ships is incomprehensible. It has been changing almost every year, and the technology has been updated and iterated very quickly, making the naval competition increasingly fierce."

"This kind of technology update and iteration has not actually changed fundamentally. Countries continue to increase their stakes in warship technology, resulting in a relatively serious waste of resources. I don't know how a poor country like Japan has accomplished it."

Don't think that the construction speed of East African surface military ships seems to be slower than that of other countries, but East Africa's technological breakthroughs have been growing steadily, and with the vigorous development of East Africa's science and technology every year, it has achieved a strong boost to East Africa's military shipbuilding industry.

The three battleships before Bagamoyo seem to have no fundamental changes, but the adjustments in details are relatively large, which also accumulated rich experience for the birth of Bagamoyo.

The reason why Kain Mas took the Japanese Navy as an example is that the Japanese Navy has developed to the extent that East Africa has to pay attention to it.

Before the Far East Naval War, the gap between the Japanese Navy and East Africa was relatively large. Now it has become a naval power at the same level as East Africa, or even slightly stronger.

Of course, this does not mean that the East African Navy has declined, but that the development paths of the two countries' navies are different. Take the current main battleships of the Japanese Navy as an example. They are basically ordered from abroad. The first four were introduced from the United Kingdom, and the last two were introduced from Germany and France.

On the other hand, the four battleships of East Africa were designed and built by the country, and Japan's Six-Six Fleet Plan has not yet been completely completed.

East Africa will also continue to build one or two experimental battleships during the First Five-Year Plan. Under normal circumstances, by 1905, the number of main battleships in East Africa should be on par with Japan.

However, in the past, due to the Russian Empire's gift of food, Japan captured a large number of Russian warships, so after 1905, the Japanese Navy may have obtained a batch of new equipment, such as the Russian battleship "Victory" captured by the Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War in the past and renamed it Suho.

Of course, East Africa will never be outdone by Japan. Even during the First Five-Year Plan, East Africa's main focus was on industrial construction, and the military development was relatively slow, but it was not bad in the world.

From the perspective of naval expenditure alone, East Africa's naval expenditure is still in an upward stage, and East Africa has not participated in the naval competition, so most of these funds are used to improve military equipment technology.

And for Japan's "Six-Six Fleet Plan", the naval expenditure alone accounts for about 50% of the national development budget, and this does not include the army's expenditure.

So Japan is more militaristic than in history, and the high proportion of military expenditure has a significant impact on the Japanese economy.

Of course, Japan's approach is in line with its special national conditions, because the current Japanese government's idea is to make up for the fiscal deficit and obtain resources for its own industrial development through foreign aggression and expansion.

The premise of all this is that Japan has a large fleet that can meet Japan's invasion needs to achieve its strategic goals.

This is also a "gamble". After all, relying on war to achieve one's ambitions is extremely uncertain, and any war may interrupt Japan's national destiny.

For example, in the Russo-Japanese War in the previous life, some people estimated that this war caused the development of both Japan and Russia to be seriously dragged down. The Russian navy lost nearly half of its fleet, and its national self-esteem was seriously frustrated. The Tsarist government eventually collapsed, and Japan did not receive war reparations from Russia. The war expenditure was very huge, at least causing the Japanese economy to not catch its breath for nearly 20 years.

Of course, Japan has gains and losses. The Russo-Japanese War established its status as a great power, and the Japanese economy was seriously dragged down. It depends on who it is compared with. If it is compared with European countries, then Japan has lost an era of development opportunities, but Japan's geographical location is the Far East. After the Russo-Japanese War, Japan has almost no opponents in the Far East.

Of course, these have nothing to do with the current East African Navy. The development path of the East African Navy is relatively independent, especially after the 1990s, it has completely turned to the tide of local development.

Although East Africa has several colonies in the Pacific, the economic value of the current era is not great, so there is no need for a strong navy to maintain them for the time being. Even if they are temporarily lost, it will not have much impact on East Africa, and the local navy of East Africa does not need strong paper data to maintain deterrence for the time being.

In addition, in the military field, in addition to current strength, the military industry potential must also be considered. Before the two world wars, the military data of the United States was not impressive, but with strong industrial potential, it could expand rapidly to the point where the enemy was desperate.

The same is true for East Africa at present. The East African Navy can be expanded on a large scale at any time, but this will affect the development of the East African economy, so it is better to develop its own industry first.

Different focuses do not represent differences in strength. If there is an external threat, according to the current East African industry and population, a large army can be organized at any time.