In the current world, almost all countries are avoiding landing plans with no retreat as much as possible in terms of strategy and tactics.

Because of the plane.

The combat radius of the aircraft is really too large, not only the combat radius, but also their firepower.

Coupled with the fortifications on the shore, landing operations are a nightmare for any country!

The beach will become a meat grinder, and artillery fire and bullets can tear all weak human beings to pieces!

Just because aircraft are used in warfare, the form of warfare has changed.

Aircraft, whether it is for the army or the navy, are too important!

When the Federation, Gefra, and Penteo people were all researching air-dropped torpedoes against ships, the decisive factor that could determine the final outcome of naval battles had shifted from battleships to aircraft.

What to do with the Penteos when their sea-fortresses in great numbers come into service, when they meet Gefra's Armada?

This question caused everyone, including Secretary of the Navy Geoffrey, to fall into silence, because he really... didn't know how to answer this question!

There is no way!

He would love to say so!

Judging from the information they received from Penteo, Penteo's navy has stopped all battleship construction plans and is fully committed to producing destroyers and sea fortresses.

And they have built a large number of assembly lines for the production of aircraft. Every day, many aircraft complete assembly and test flights, and enter a state of combat readiness.

It is said that the Penteo Empire has trained no less than 5,000 pilots so far. According to their plan, before the war begins, they must train no less than 25,000 pilots.

In the middle of the war, the number of pilots in service was maintained at any time and anywhere to ensure that their attack end would not be broken due to lack of pilots...

They have put all their heavy bets on the plane!

It is conceivable that this huge empire may become the country with the most aircraft and pilots next, not to mention not only Penteo, but also its allies?

Perhaps in the sky over the ocean in the future, the sunlight will be blocked by swarms of planes, and their shadows will be everywhere!

Everyone is also an "empire", but empires and empires are different!

The prime minister took off his glasses and sighed heavily. He closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose, feeling exhausted.

The nobles in the country have not yet completely calmed down. The seemingly docile new emperor is also making small moves with the Privy Council behind his back. The governor of Ameria often selectively ignores the orders of the island. Does the new generation of nobles have any interest in the empire? what a sense of belonging...

But now, their enemies are getting stronger and stronger, which makes him feel at a loss as to where the future lies.

Why can the Penteo people unite together?

Why can they have a vast land and population?

Why is it so easy for them to do anything, but Gafla is harder than eating shit?

Why…

Too many whys!

It's not fair at all!

In the past, Gefra could still find a little advantage in naval battles. At least the Pengjieao people had to pay a heavy price if they wanted to cross the sea to fight!

The Armada can block their coastline at any time, and naturally they can sink all those landing ships to the bottom of the water, bringing those people with them!

But now, the aircraft has changed this situation, and it is clear to everyone that the impact of aircraft on warfare is increasing.

It costs very little.

Hundreds of thousands of one.

The cost of training a pilot is not high, as long as you have enough planes and enough fuel for them to fly continuously.

Even a not-so-intelligent person can master proficient flying skills!

In this era where some fighter combat tactics have not yet been extended, the requirements of fighter pilots are actually not as high as anyone imagined.

You just need to be able to get the plane off the runway, know how to hover in the air, how to dive and attack, how to pull up and finally how to land.

For example, the training cost of pilots of some non-dive bombers is lower. They only need to let the plane fly, then maintain a certain altitude, let the bombardier drop the bomb, and then return to the flight!

But it is these cheap war weapons that can pose a terrible threat to the only navy that Gefra can afford.

Sometimes the Prime Minister will also lament how unfair fate is and how unreasonable God is!

The boring meeting did not discuss any results in the end. The only thing the Prime Minister can ask is to study some anti-aircraft weapons faster, at least to ensure that these aircraft cannot easily cause too much damage to their fleet.

In addition, they also began to reconsider the plan of the sea fortress. If the Penteo people can build it, they may not be able to build it.

When it comes to shipbuilding, Gefra is an expert!

Of course, by the way, the Prime Minister also requested that these news, together with some information they had obtained themselves, be sent to the federal people.

Although the prime minister and ministers are unwilling to admit this, they have to admit that now the World Development Council, half of the world, is revolving around the federation.

Since they want to occupy a more important position and have more influence in the international community, let them take on heavier responsibilities!

After these news were collected to the Federal Ministry of Defense, the Federal Ministry of Defense also attached great importance to it, and immediately held a high-level meeting.

However, the atmosphere of this meeting was much more relaxed than that of Gefla.

"These don't pose a threat to us!"

It's the senior officers at Strategic Command who are talking, the generals are sometimes...just the ones who make the choices and the decisions, and it's the officers who actually do the work.

You can't ask an old general in his fifties or sixties to know everything well. They can be responsible enough to make enough correct judgments in the war.

So when the officer stood up to answer Mr. President's question, everyone was looking at him to see how he explained it.

The senior young military officer walked to a projection, he took a projection card and inserted it into the projector, and some photos and pictures appeared on the screen behind him.

"First of all, the Ministry of National Defense's 'Midway Island' plan has basically been completed. We have controlled fifty-seven important islands in the Eastern Ocean and built fortifications on them."

"These islands were built as 'nails' inserted in the Eastern Ocean. If the Penteo people don't care about these nails going deeper, then they will become a 'beehive'."

"Each island has an airport, which can provide aircraft takeoff and landing. Once trapped in these islands, any fleet will only end in destruction."

"But it is not an easy task to remove these nails. We also have enough aircraft for defense, and there will be a lot of shore artillery on the island to provide fire support..."

While introducing, he kept switching projection cards, and islands with strange shapes appeared in front of people.

To say that those islands are small islands is better to say that they are concrete fortifications standing on the Eastern Ocean!

Concrete with a thickness of several meters and deeper underground bunkers are enough to ensure the attack and survivability of each island.

Mr. President and the generals nodded, especially Mr. President. He pointed to the projected screen, "I remember Lynch proposed this project?"

The officer nodded and said yes, "Mr. Lynch proposed the Midway Island plan. He connected the islands in the entire Eastern Ocean into one piece. Our fleet can find supply points at any time, and we can also use at least two to three fixed islands as defenses at any time." Fortifications, defensive counterattacks, or attacks on enemy fleets."

Mr. President nodded repeatedly. He remembered this because Congress didn't like the plan very much at the time. They felt that Lynch was cheating money.

But the military thought it was valuable, and held two more hearings. In the end, the military persuaded the masters in Congress. For this reason, Lynch took an extra sum of money to buy a leather bag company

The cost of the acquisition flowed into the accounts of those senators in the form of dividends through the original holding fund of the leather bag company.

You got a big project, this is the face given to you by the congressman, you have to be grateful.

Those who know how to be grateful can have a good life!

The officer continued to introduce.

"In addition to this, the current parameters and performance of Blackstone Aviation's fighter jets are at least based on the data we have obtained."

"To put it simply, if we send out one fighter jet, we can at least contain or even destroy two or more of the opponent's. The only thing we lack now may be quantity."

"Not long ago we gave Lynch a big order..."

He was talking about the aircraft orders worth two billion, and these aircrafts are coming off the assembly line in a steady stream, and then put into service.

At this time, Mr. President frowned, "But from the information I have in hand, the Penteo people plan to keep at least 20,000 aircraft that can enter combat at any time during the war~lightnovelpub.net ~ But we only have a few thousand..."

The comparison of these numbers is really too big.

At this point the officer was going to say something, for example, it was a "false intelligence" or something.

He didn't believe that the Pengjieao people could have so many aircraft in service at the same time. You must know that although the cost of this thing is cheap, it may not be able to support a large number.

According to the current quotation provided by Lynch, 2,000 planes already cost 2 billion.

If this figure is increased tenfold, it will be 20 billion.

You also have to take into account the tens of thousands of pilots you need to deploy, as well as various other extension costs. The whole plan can't even support the Federation. This is obviously false information.

According to the analysis of the Strategic Command, this is likely to be a smoke bomb released by the Peng Jieao people, the purpose is to increase pressure on countries!

But before he could speak out, he was stopped by a lieutenant general...