Munitions Empire-Chapter 948 - 871 Familiar Otherworld

Chapter 948: 871 Familiar Otherworld Chapter 948: 871 Familiar Otherworld Poplar Empire, as the first and likely the only country on the Eastern Continent to procure the Butcher Fighter Jet from the Great Tang Empire, received quite an honorable treatment.

First, when the two parties signed the contract, the Great Tang Empire acquiesced to some requests from the Poplar Empire: the most important being that, after Poplar Empire continuously purchased 500 Butcher Fighter Jets, Tang Country would sell the production line of the Butcher Fighter Jet to Poplar Empire for 30 million.

After the sale of the production line, the Great Tang Empire would permit Poplar Empire to continue manufacturing the Butcher Fighter Jets, with only a patent use fee of 50 Gold Coins per aircraft.

With this contract, Poplar Empire almost overnight became the country with the most powerful aerial fighter jet troops on the Eastern Continent.

In the future, they were very likely to form an air force troop of over 1500 Butcher Fighter Jets, which was clearly a terrifying prospect.

Obviously, the Poplar Empire had its own ambitions, and would not be in such a rush to build such a massive air force otherwise.

After signing the mammoth contract for purchasing the Butcher Fighter Jets, Duke Leibart purchased a bomber production line from the Great Tang Group as well.

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The Great Tang Empire packaged and sold the designs and production line of the HE-111 to the Poplar Empire, which cost them an additional 70 million Gold Coins.

This was a flat rate, meaning it was basically a package purchase of a solution from Tang Country. Poplar Empire was very satisfied, as they suddenly possessed very advanced air-to-ground strike capabilities.

As a result, both Poplar Empire’s northern neighbor, the Ice Cold Empire, and its southern neighbor, the Suthers Empire, began to worry about their ground troops.

The Suthers Empire procured the blueprints and production line of the French 451 model bomber, with assembly assistance from personnel of the Great Tang Empire, and production carried out by Suthers Empire’s own workers and engineers.

The whole set of equipment cost 40 million Gold Coins, and the price was still reasonable. Although the Suthers Empire ultimately paid a premium for the 406 model fighter, they remained at a disadvantage in the aerial arms race against Poplar Empire.

The Ice Cold Empire also reluctantly spent money to purchase the SB2 bomber from the Great Tang Empire, but this type of bomber actually performed not so well, and was inferior to the HE-111 bomber, so the price was very cheap.

The entire production line and blueprints were sold by Tang Country for only about 20 million Gold Coins, which indeed made the Ice Cold Empire very happy.

Naturally, the Laines Empire would not be outdone. Seeing the three northern countries all massively procuring planes from the Great Tang Group and expanding their air forces, they also abandoned their plans to develop new aircraft types.

It couldn’t be helped; developing new planes was too slow, risky, and there was no hope for immediate returns. To quickly enhance the strength of their air force, they could only spend money to buy.

Fortunately, with the shipping subsidies of Brunnis Port, the economic situation was still not too bad, and the Laines Empire bit the bullet and purchased two types of aircraft designed by the Great Tang Group: the Hurricane Fighter and the Hampton Bomber.

From here, it was apparent that all the bombers sold by the Great Tang Group were of medium and small size, with a small bombing radius and low payload.

Therefore, even though they were more powerful than bombers like the Stuka, the level of bomber technology sold to the countries by the Great Tang Group was indeed not high. Relying on these planes to penetrate the aerial defense lines of the Great Tang Empire was still tantamount to committing suicide.

In fact, apart from the sorehead Poplar Empire, who bit the bullet and purchased the current Butcher Fighter Jets from the Great Tang Group, the level of the air force fighter jets of the other countries was not very good either.

The Dorne Empire joined in the procurement later, and the Gobur Kingdom also sent its own delegation to visit and inspect the Great Tang Empire.

While these countries were desperately purchasing various models of fighter jets manufactured by the Great Tang Group and building new production lines domestically, what nobody knew was that the Great Tang Empire had already formed a brand new air force fighter jet troop.

The first batch of ‘Xia Ye’ was delivered for use at the end of the third year in the Great Tang, and at the same time, the Datang Empire Air Force’s single-seat fighters began to have around-the-clock combat capabilities.

The area near Dragon Island had been designated as a military restricted zone for over half a year now, prohibiting entry to ships from other countries in the nearby waters and completely sealing off the airspace.

The Great Tang Empire was testing their carrier fleet in this sea area, and at the same time, training new fighter pilots.

Every day one could hear the thunderous roar here, as military airfields were launching “Sixth Master” fighter jets almost every hour. Great Tang Group was frantically training fighter pilots, and the Great Tang Empire was also slowly reducing the number of Butcher Fighter Jets in its arsenal.

During this period, nations around the globe were rapidly developing, and history refers to this time as the second surge in world industrial development.

In the military realm alone, the weapon systems of various countries had become dizzyingly diverse in recent years. Not even mentioning main battle equipment, the variety of vehicles alone equipped by different nations exceeded one hundred types.

Six-wheeled ones, four-wheeled ones, those capable of off-roading and those that were not, wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicles, half-track armored vehicles, they came in all shapes and sizes.

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Some countries even had different models of vehicles for their own equipment, with the early and mid-batch procurement models varying.

Due to being in an exploratory stage and with Great Tang Group fanning the flames from the sidelines, coupled with truly diverse needs among countries, it was not surprising that there were so many different models.

Take the half-track vehicle as an example: Tang Country itself would not equip such vehicles, because the drawbacks and advantages were just too clear, and Tang Mo was very clear that this type of military equipment would be completely phased out in the future.

But other nations did not know this, and after seeing the advantages of these vehicles, they decisively began mass equipment.

As a result, a somewhat laughable scene unfolded: after purchasing Butcher FW-190 Fighter Jets, equipping HE-111 Bombers and developing something akin to the sd.kfz.251 half-track armored vehicle… the Poplar Empire seemed even more like a San Dezi than the Great Tang Empire.

In fact, while the salespeople of the Great Tang Group were vigorously giving kickbacks, promoting weapon designs disdained by the Great Tang Empire, Tang Mo found the world before him becoming more and more fantastical.

The Susack Empire, which bought a bunch of French planes, looks a lot like France; the Laines Empire, which bought a bunch of British planes, was brimming with British flair.

As for the Ice Cold Empire, which he had flippantly given the “Ura” slogan, it was simply the Otherworld version of the Soviet Union. And looking at the Goblins… well, even people from a certain well-off country seemed to have it all!

To make these goblins seem even more detestable, Tang Mo had the urge to give away Zero Fighter Jets for free.

By the time he cultivated giant mushrooms and picked a couple of choice ones to send over to these waifs, it felt like he could even reduce his guilt by -5, wouldn’t that be splendid?

It was an era of tremendous technological development, with countries churning out experimental products, and the armed forces becoming a giant testing ground.

As radio equipment began to lose its mystique, nations aspired to establish their own tactical level radio communication networks.

Thus specialized radio armored vehicles, radio command vehicles, and generators and such began to appear in large numbers—similar equipment already phased out by the Great Tang Empire was sold to these countries like treasured artifacts.

Commanders from various countries were exploring and experimenting with new tactics and strategies: they emulated the Great Tang Empire by forming mixed units and imagined themselves on the training fields as the Great Tang Empire had been three years prior.

At this moment, they finally understood how overwhelming the Great Tang Empire had been in its war against the Dahua Empire three years ago and witnessed the true power of tactical communications.

It was damn useful! Once radio sets became widespread down to the battalion level combat units, their entire troops’ reaction speed immediately rose a notch!

Of course, many of the radio devices imported from the Great Tang Empire, which had questionable origins, clearly did not permit deployment down to battalion level units.

So the nations had to make do with their own crude imitation devices: their own bulky and unsightly products could only address the availability issue, and in the end, they still had to be transported by vehicles.

Given such large volumes and weights, it was clearly impossible for soldiers to carry them. Therefore, the optimal approach was to first equip the higher echelon units, then gradually trickle down.

Thus, the goal for many nations was to proliferate radios within regimental units, hoping to raise their combat effectiveness to the level of the Great Tang Empire from three years ago, before the next war arrived.

But in the blink of an eye, it was already the fourth year of Great Tang, and the nations preparing for war were thrilled to find: the war had not yet erupted.