"I'm thinking of a suitable reason." Slim smiled wryly, "Well, I'll draw up a battle plan to prove it."

"That couldn't be better." Pamela Mountbatten expressed his thanks, explaining the benefits of the partition of New Guinea from the military field, it can be said to be a heavyweight evidence, especially the British Marshal himself, will definitely be able to Persuade the Australian government.

The formulation of a military plan does not necessarily have to be implemented. War is always the last option. The military advantage of separating the New Britain Island, a subsidiary island of New Guinea, is that it can be checked and balanced after New Guinea becomes independent one day.

The current Governor of Australia is a genuine British Field Marshal. Slim's journey to the army has been full of twists and turns, and he has had conflicts with almost all his superiors, except Mountbatten, the commander of the Allied Forces in Southeast Asia.

With such a relationship, Pamela Mountbatten's door-to-door request this time, Marshal Slim, who is about to be the outgoing Governor of Australia, has no reason to refuse.

Because of World War II, the British Empire has become a thing of the past, but the current remaining strength is still a behemoth to Australia. At least part of Australia's security still depends on Britain, especially considering the importance of the existence of the Malayan colony.

During World War II, New Britain Island was once an important base for the Japanese army going south and an important springboard for threatening Australia's security. Therefore, a war broke out. The competition for New Britain Island lasted for two years until Japan officially surrendered.

Australians must still have fresh memories of the battle at that time. This plan is to explain the benefits of dividing New Guinea and New Britain from a military perspective.

Pamela Mountbatten is going to do other things. She has contributed a lot to Australia's insecurity towards Asia. She frequently mentions the history of the Japanese army going south, which is almost a compulsory course every year.

The gathering to commemorate the outbreak of the war and the time of important battles cost the Mountbatten Group a lot of public relations funds.

However, these public relations expenses are worthwhile. Pamela Mountbatten easily convened a group of MPs and opened the revolving door for these MPs.

Australians are not the only ones who can open the revolving door to Australian MPs. Britain can do the same. Pamela Mountbatten doesn’t know about the 21st century. There is also the example of the Australian Prime Minister going to the UK to become a senior civil servant after resigning, but the revolving door has already been opened. The destination is different but the reason is the same.

Holding up her hands waving the pound, Pamela Mountbatten has conquered these congressmen with her wealth and billions, and is willing to provide support for this, "The heavy aircraft carrier has been completed, and the second ship belonging to Australia is also under construction in an orderly manner. If If all goes well, the gentlemen will be able to meet it in no time."

"The quality of British construction is unquestionable." Six or seven Australian MPs immediately scrambled to express their favor.

"The same is true for strategic vision." Pamela Mountbatten said with a gentle smile that she was not exaggerating.

At the Cabinet Office meeting, Alan Wilson, who was getting thinner because his wife left London, was listening to the Ministry of Defense’s fighter procurement plan and requirements. Because the US F104 fighter jet was officially put into service last year, the Ministry of Defense was discussing whether to compare the performance data of the F104 fighter jet. Make demands on suppliers.

F104 fighter? This type of fighter cheered up Alan Wilson. He was actually not very familiar with the various fighters of the early Cold War, especially the first and second generation fighters. This one, however, is an exception.

Who doesn't know the great name of the coffin in the air? The crash rates of F104 fighter jets are: 32% in the Federal Republic of Germany, 31% in the Netherlands, 37% in Belgium, 37% in Italy, 45% in Canada, and 100% in Japan. 15/10, US Unpublished.

Not to mention this typical failure, even the Phantom fighter, the leader of the second generation fighter, is not very advanced.

The Phantom's design is based on the expectation that future aerial combat will be a duel of long-range missiles, with both sides unable to see each other. So why do fighter jets need air-to-air artillery and dogfighting capabilities?

Unfortunately, technical limitations of early missiles such as the Sparrow radar-guided missile and restrictive rules of engagement meant that the Phantom had to engage in hand-to-hand combat with smaller, lighter MiG fighters.

The entire second-generation fighter jets, because of advanced concepts, have various design arrangements, resulting in strange shapes of this generation of fighter jets. In actual combat, it turned out that they could not meet the requirements of actual combat, because the combat methods and previous expectations have already A lot has changed.

High altitude and high speed are not the main scope of air combat, so the performance advantages of second-generation aircraft are not the decisive factor in determining the outcome of air combat.

"Frank, the development of new fighter jets must have put a lot of pressure on the Ministry of Finance, right?" Alan Wilson, who had returned from his soul, said suddenly. He had just wandered out of the sky, and before he had a specific idea, he kicked the ball to the Ministry of Finance.

"Oh, Alan, of course." Frank smiled, not knowing what Alan Wilson meant.

"After all, it's not easy to spit out the money from the Ministry of Finance." As soon as Alan Wilson said, colleagues in Whitehall laughed out loud, and the heated discussion just now turned into a relaxed one.

"It's all taxpayers' money." Frank coughed softly, sticking to his duty as a humble social organ.

"There is such a saying, but I believe the Ministry of Finance does not think so." Alan Wilson frowned, "We all know that the application of new technologies costs money, and it costs a lot of money. The current situation It’s not clear, we may face a new minister this year, so it’s too early to talk about it, of course we’re not turning a blind eye to the innovation of new technology, but we need to make more careful considerations. Money should be spent in important places, right?”

Alan Wilson, who hadn't thought of how to use this flying coffin for the time being, tried to postpone the matter, and began to operate when his thinking was clear.

There is nothing wrong with thinking this way. Although he is not the executive deputy secretary of the Ministry of Defense, the chief of staff of the British armed forces is Field Marshal Mountbatten. If he thinks about it, he can discuss it with his father-in-law.

After the meeting, Alan Wilson greeted Frank and said that he did not intend to trouble the Ministry of Finance. Frank agreed with this explanation, because the real permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance was concurrently served by the cabinet secretary.

Without misunderstanding Frank, Alan Wilson considered analyzing the value of the flying coffin, and even the entire second-generation fighter. What countermeasures can be taken so that the United Kingdom can obtain the greatest benefits.

It's not easy, because each attitude pays off differently, but it's almost impossible to get them all.

For example, it is easy for the UK to refuse to fly coffins, but the UK will develop its own second-generation fighter jets because of this. The second-generation fighter jets as a whole are a generation of failures. It is just a failure from one failure to another.

Looking at the United States on the other side of the ocean, Allen Wilson not only does not want to reduce the number of second-generation fighter jets, but also hopes that there will be as many as possible.

Can you skip the second-generation fighter? There must be a sufficient reason. Who will fill the vacant position? The UK is second to none in the field of engines. I think it is not a big problem, but can it keep up in other aspects?

"Use large transport aircraft and carrier-based aircraft to squeeze the military expenditure of the Air Force? Sell a loophole to the United States?" Alan Wilson touched his chin, thinking hard in the office of the permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He had to say that he thought of the old road of military struggle.

This is of course harmful to a country, and the United States' ICBM project is not just that.

But I have to admit that if you want to squeeze the funds for the second-generation fighter jets, this trick is not impossible when you have no choice.

Once Britain's share of second-generation fighter jets is squeezed, the alternative is to buy American fighter jets. However, this is a diplomatic work. As the permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alan Wilson has a hundred reasons why this deal cannot be negotiated.

From the perspective of the United States ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ the lack of second-generation fighter jets in the United Kingdom is undoubtedly a big flaw. The United States can use this to coerce Britain to make concessions on some issues of interest.

But only Alan Wilson himself knows that this is not a flaw in the UK, but a flaw in the United States. If the United States threatens Britain in this way, the future will be quite wonderful.

What he thought was beautiful, but Alan Wilson was not sure that he could do it, when he was thinking hard. At this time, in Canberra, the capital of Australia, Australian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies was holding the military combat plan formulated by Governor-General Marshal Slim, "Governor Slim's military plan is indeed quite reasonable."

"As the ruling party, we have to think in the long term. Today New Guinea is managed by Australia, but what if one day we have to become independent and become an enemy of Australia? We must learn from the United Kingdom and leave some weight in our hands. Code to prevent this future from happening."

Hearing what the prime minister said, the ministers of the Menzies government, who had been opened the revolving door by Pamela Mountbatten, immediately agreed, "We have always admired London's keenness on strategic issues and its long-term vision of being prepared for danger in times of peace, which is worth learning from. "

The island of New Britain was separated from New Guinea and served as a British forward base for the security of Australia. The passage of this resolution is a certainty.

A passionate telegram arrived in London from Canberra. Alan Wilson, who was holding his wife's telegram, listened to the report from Wick, the permanent secretary secretary, nodded and said, "Let the East Malaysia Commissioner of Colonial Malaya, Edel, come back for a while." Come on, I want to speak to him about the appointment of the High Commissioner for the British Oceanian Territory."

"Does Sir Norman have time?" Alan Wilson picked up the phone and said, "There is a problem with the personnel arrangement in the Oceania Territory. I want to hear Sir's opinion. Okay, I will go there right away."