Chapter 487: The Naval Arms Race Begins
Rumor of Japan’s desires to press forward with claims in the Pacific against German interests in the region had climaxed following Bruno’s departure from the small Island Nature. But in the end, nothing manifested of them.
The lingering Empire where the sun rose with the dawn had ultimately decided to lie in wait, and see what came of the coming years. Perhaps it was Bruno’s refusal to kneel and the confidence on his face as he did so that terrified the Empire into behaving itself.
Or maybe Sakura helped calm the wrath of her relative, providing one final gift to Bruno knowing they would likely never see or speak to one another again. Regardless, silence followed this meaning, and it gave Bruno time to invest in naval technology.
For years, Bruno’s shipyards, which he built in Danzig had focused on producing submarines and destroyers, and to an extent they continued to do so. But Germany’s other major shipyard, including those gained in the Adriatic Littoral as a result of annexing the Archduchy of Austria had begun focusing on other projects.
Standing in front of Bruno was a small model, built to a miniature scale of the current mock up design of the next generation Kaiser Liche Marine and the projects they were working on. The union of German and Russian scientists had completely changed the landscape of technological development in the world.
And when Bruno used his future knowledge of where these ideas should lead, sort of like a streamlined tech tree designed for optimized results, technology progressed rapidly. Far Moreso than his past life.
They had over a decade to prepare for the next war, and perhaps even longer, at the rate France was currently dealing with its internal turmoil. Because of this, Bruno had set forth a very clear and definitive goal, with milestones along the way to achieve.
Sitting in front of him were models of the next generation fleet, the first of which were two submarine models. One was already introduced to service and was currently built in a rather sizeable fleet.
They had played a significant role in the German Naval Domination during the Great War, and would remain cutting edge until the 1950s if technology had progressed naturally. But could Bruno simply let his Type XXI U-Boats continue to serve without retrofit or modernization?
Not at all, and his engineers shared the same opinion as the first hunter-killer submarine model was equipped with a new weapons module. Built into the hull and could pop out at a moment’s notice were wire guided anti-ship defense missiles.