Mediterranean Hegemony Road

On January 13, 1921, the day after the League of Nations announced its military intervention against the United States, the League of Nations was formed.

Since there are too many countries involved, it is naturally impossible to gather all of them together and attack the Americans!

The countries of the two oceans are the advantage of the United States, and it is also their disadvantage. This time they are attacked by enemies from both directions at the same time, and their life will not be easy.

The British Royal Navy is divided into two parts. The Indian Ocean Fleet, the Far East Fleet, and the Pacific Fleet, together with Japan, Austria-Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and other countries, form a coalition to march towards the United States from the Pacific Ocean.

The Mediterranean Fleet, the Home Fleet, and the Atlantic Fleet, together with Bulgaria, France, Russia, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and other countries, launched an attack on the Americans from the Atlantic Ocean.

Don't see that Nicholas II is busy with the civil war, but they still have to participate in such international activities. Anyway, the civil war has nothing to do with the navy, and the Baltic Sea Fleet of Maoxiong is also the top ten navy in the world. OK.

As a price, the three countries of Britain, France, and Paul each provided Nicholas II with a batch of free arms, and they also had to pay for their navy to send troops.

Nicholas II would not admit that he could no longer afford the navy, but in fact it was the case. Before the Russian navy sent troops, he sent the Russian warships to the French shipyard for a walk. Upgrading maintenance.

This was strongly requested by the governments of the three countries. Obviously, it was not only Ferdinand who knew that the Maoxiong navy had problems, but Britain and France were also clear about it. Unqualified and inferior warships were kicked out in advance.

Well, the warships of other small countries were also taken care of at the same time. This time, the three bosses were generous and carried out an overhaul for them for free, and the outdated warships were simply not used.

To be on the safe side, this time everyone was able to fight hard enough. The main Bulgarian navy ships came out in full force. Basically, within 20 years, all the warships with a tonnage of more than 5,000 were sent out by Ferdinand.

The French are also the main force,

Because of the large number of ships, the British also left some old-fashioned warships responsible for fighting pirates.

The three countries of Britain, France, and Baoding have all made their main force, and other countries can't let it go, either by coercion or inducement. Anyway, the main fleets of all countries have been pulled over, including the Republic of China Navy.

Therefore, the total size of the navy of the final coalition forces also forced historical records.

Pacific Fleet: 32 capital ships (dreadnoughts or super-dreadnoughts), 13 battlecruisers, 16 former dreadnoughts, 38 cruisers, 92 destroyers, and more than 200 other warships.

The battleships included: 19 for the British, 10 for the Japanese, and 3 for the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Atlantic Fleet: 33 capital ships, 8 battlecruisers, 21 former dreadnoughts, 51 cruisers, 86 destroyers, and more than 200 other warships.

The capital ships include: 15 British, 8 Bulgarian (5 self-built, one Italian captured, one semi-finished product on the Italian slipway, and one divided after the war), 6 French, 4 Russian .

Of course, the U.S. Navy was not weak during this period. They had 28 capital ships, 8 battlecruisers, 38 cruisers, and 68 destroyers.

In March 1916, President Wilson delivered a speech in St. Louis, calling for the establishment of a navy that would ensure U.S. maritime supremacy. Accordingly, the U.S. government has proposed several shipbuilding plans.

On August 29, 1916, the U.S. Congress passed the first three-year shipbuilding plan, stipulating the construction of 147 warships, including 16 capital ships, 8 battle cruisers, and 50 destroyers; after the plan was completed, the U.S. Navy It's on par with the British.

Of course, the American shipbuilding plan has not yet been completed, but these warships are already on the slipway, which is why the British are eager to promote this decisive battle.

If we don't wait until 1924, the U.S. Navy will stand on a par with the British, and it will be difficult to suppress them at that time.

Don't look at the display, the US Navy seems to have the power to fight, and it can only fight when facing a fleet, but the actual situation is that unless the US Navy can double, they will be at an absolute disadvantage in this battle!

The reason is that the gap between ships is not so easy to make up. The American shipbuilding industry is developed, only in terms of scale, but not in terms of quality.

So their dreadnoughts, especially the first few generations, of course, by 1921, the American shipbuilding technology had caught up, not much worse than European countries.

4 South Carolina-class battleships

Displacement: standard 16,000 tons, full load 17,746 tons

Captain/Breadth/Draft (ft): 452.9'/80.25'/27.1'(max).

Power: 12 boilers;

Main engine output power: 16,500 horsepower;

Speed: 18.5 knots;

Endurance: 5,000 nautical miles/10 knots

Armament: Four double 305mm/45

Double caliber main gun; 22 76mm caliber secondary guns

Armor (inches): 11"-9" at waterline;

Deck 1.5"-3";

12" front turret, 12" conning tower

Crew: 863 people

2 South Carolina-class battleships

Main engine output power: 16,500 horsepower;

Speed: 18.5 knots;

Endurance: 5,000 nautical miles/10 knots

Armament: 8 double 305mm/45

Double caliber main gun; 22 76mm caliber secondary guns

Armor (inches): 11"-9" waterline; 1.5"-3" deck;

12" front turret, 12" conning tower

Crew: 863 people

Delaware-class battleship

Captain/Breadth/Draft (ft): 518.9'/85.23'/27.65'

14 boilers for power plant;

Main engine output power: 31635 horsepower;

Speed: 21 knots;

Endurance (nautical miles/knot): 6,560/10

Main guns: 10 double-mounted 305mm/45 caliber main guns;

Secondary guns: 14 127mm guns, 6 76mm guns

Armor (inches): 11"-9" at waterline;

Deck 1.5"-3";

turret front 12\

,"Command Tower 11.5"

Crew: 933 people

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Historically, these early service warships were decommissioned after the Washington Conference, and in 1924, one of them was forced to retire early in 1921 due to quality problems.

It can be said that the batch of "dumplings" that the Americans served in 1910 were mostly inferior products used to recharge. Accumulating technology and training designers may be the real purpose of the Americans.

Therefore, Ferdinand is very optimistic about this war. The worst outcome is that the Americans concentrate their forces on the Allied Atlantic Fleet, and the Bulgarian Navy suffers heavy losses.

The Pacific Fleet made great progress, directly completing the blockade of the US coast, covering the landing of the army, and then winning the war and dismembering the United States.

As for whether it is possible for the Americans to open the door, such as using the air force to sneak into the fleet and severely damage the coalition to win the war, as the first modern air force power, Bulgaria can clearly say: it does not exist!

The main reason is that the flight speed of the aircraft in this era is difficult to control, the hit rate of bombs is too low, and the prepared fleet is also equipped with anti-aircraft firepower, unless the Americans can come up with a "Kamikaze Commando" in advance.

The Americans only needed a few thousand death squads to presumably batter the coalition fleet and get a decent chance of ending the war.

It's not that Ferdinand underestimated the Americans. Death squads may be easy to find, but if you want to find thousands of death squad pilots, a country like Japan or Bulgaria with nationalism and fanaticism may still be able to come together, so don't think about a free country.

The success rate of this type of suicide attack is not as high as ordinary people guess. The Japanese hit rate was only 5%, and the first attack was the best.

It is equivalent to exchanging twenty aircraft for one warship, and it is only hit, not sunk! Usually this kind of attack is also picked up by destroyers and cruisers, and the chances of the main ship being recruited are not high!

In this war, Ferdinand also made a lot of money. In addition to the navy that came out, Bulgaria also dispatched 30,000 air forces and 350,000 army forces. With the navy, the total force has reached 460,000!

The total military strength is only that of Japan, which has the largest number of troops, and the British Commonwealth, and slightly more than the French!

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